Tropescilloscope: Parental Neglect

Parents who don't seem to care about their kids. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Adaptation Expansion Those Two Guys Male Frontal Nudity Victoria's Secret Compartment Major Injury Underreaction The Hero Dies Sci-Fi Horror German Films The Vamp The End... Or Is It? Madness Mantra Older Than They Look BFG Department of Redundancy Department Pay Evil unto Evil Only in It for the Money Boom, Headshot! Male Gaze A.I. Is a Crapshoot Shoot the Shaggy Dog Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Intergenerational Friendship Mr. Fanservice Obstructive Bureaucrat Translation Convention Missing Mom Kick the Son of a Bitch Stepford Smiler "The Reason You Suck" Speech Deal with the Devil Wham Shot Take That! Face Death with Dignity Ripped from the Headlines Call-Back Mr. Exposition Batman Gambit Would Hit a Girl Abusive Parents Deconstruction Adaptational Villainy Coming-of-Age Story For Want of a Nail Double-Meaning Title Fanservice Extra Deliberate Values Dissonance The Ditz Cat Scare Funny Background Event Novelization Neck Lift Badass Longcoat Re-Cut Does This Remind You of Anything? Break the Haughty Put on a Bus Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Killed Mid-Sentence Defiant to the End Asshole Victim Big "NO!" Black Comedy Rape Abhorrent Admirer Tempting Fate The Great Depression Peek-a-Boo Corpse Dumb Blonde Dogged Nice Guy Suspiciously Specific Denial Fate Worse than Death Drives Like Crazy Wretched Hive Fanservice Pyrrhic Victory No Celebrities Were Harmed Works Set in World War II Antagonist Title Historical-Domain Character Love at First Sight The Voiceless Death Seeker Same Language Dub Depraved Bisexual Decoy Protagonist Adaptation Distillation Handicapped Badass Parental Neglect Artistic License – Military The Oner Bowdlerise Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Expy Tranquil Fury Early Installment Weirdness Accidental Murder Karma Houdini Extremely Short Timespan Hope Spot Fire-Forged Friends Our Vampires Are Different Based on a True Story Authority Equals Asskicking Black Comedy Double Entendre Daylight Horror Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Getting Crap Past the Radar Playing Gertrude Police are Useless Mind Screw Aside Glance Ascended Extra The Hero Adults Are Useless Suddenly SHOUTING! Bar Brawl Babies Ever After Becoming the Mask Bolivian Army Ending Daddy's Girl Product Placement Australian Movies A Date with Rosie Palms Guns Akimbo Jerk Jock Greater-Scope Villain Arc Words No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Stuff Blowing Up I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Dwindling Party Mythology Gag Gainax Ending You Have Failed Me Straight Gay The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Freeze-Frame Bonus Betty and Veronica Fingore Fourth Date Marriage Vitriolic Best Buds Actor Allusion Curb-Stomp Battle Death of a Child Hero of Another Story Morality Pet Impaled with Extreme Prejudice No Name Given Insane Troll Logic Enemy Mine Does Not Like Shoes Outrun the Fireball She's Got Legs In Medias Res He Who Fights Monsters Hooker with a Heart of Gold The Reveal Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Adaptation Name Change Whole Plot Reference Evil Counterpart Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Bi the Way Bloodier and Gorier Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Time Skip Foregone Conclusion Naïve Newcomer Soft Glass Wicked Cultured Yandere Guile Hero Deliberately Monochrome Non-Indicative Name Animal Motifs Destination Defenestration Bond Villain Stupidity Word of God Reality Has No Subtitles Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Big Damn Heroes Big Eater Those Two Bad Guys The Dog Bites Back Green-Eyed Monster Armor-Piercing Question Here We Go Again! My Beloved Smother The Un-Reveal Adapted Out Thriller Earn Your Happy Ending Be Careful What You Wish For Dropped a Bridge on Him Meaningful Echo Nice Hat Sacrificial Lion The Cameo Mad Scientist Butt-Monkey Rule of Symbolism Covers Always Lie Knight Templar Random Events Plot Calling the Old Man Out Half the Man He Used to Be Call-Forward Big Bad Duumvirate Spell My Name with an "S" Reality Ensues Disney Death I'm a Humanitarian I Want My Beloved to Be Happy "Awesome McCool" Name Ax-Crazy The Atoner folderlabel Red Right Hand Hollywood Darkness Lampshade Hanging It's All About Me Meaningful Background Event Overprotective Dad Woman Scorned Brainless Beauty Film Series Your Head A-Splode Our Zombies Are Different Public Domain Feature Films Video Credits Mexican Standoff Trailers Always Spoil Smug Snake Annoying Younger Sibling Arch-Enemy True Companions Left the Background Music On Diabolus ex Machina Rule of Funny Knife Nut The Load Character Development Retirony Cloudcuckoolander Names to Run Away from Really Fast The Dreaded Fish out of Water Pretty in Mink Adult Fear Let's Get Dangerous! A Minor Kidroduction Together in Death Hypocritical Humor Historical Villain Upgrade Martial Arts Movie Gory Discretion Shot Closed Circle Psycho for Hire Sanity Slippage Suspiciously Similar Substitute Jitter Cam Badass in a Nice Suit O.O.C. Is Serious Business Big-Bad Ensemble Eiffel Tower Effect Driven to Suicide Danny Peary Cult Movies List Bury Your Gays Anti-Villain Pimped-Out Dress Imagine Spot War Is Hell Japanese Films Demoted to Extra Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other All There in the Script Science Fiction Films Funny Foreigner Badass Bookworm Bald of Evil Moment Killer Epic Fail Mugging the Monster Evil Is Petty Hero Antagonist Plucky Comic Relief Alliterative Name Rewatch Bonus Cold-Blooded Torture Only Known by Their Nickname Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Black and Gray Morality Film Noir Eureka Moment How We Got Here Psychological Thriller Pre-Mortem One-Liner Red Herring No Ending Historical In-Joke Kick the Dog Black Dude Dies First Dying Moment of Awesome Bavarian Fire Drill Married to the Job All for Nothing Broken Bird Dark Reprise Extreme Doormat Interrupted Suicide Chekhov's Gun Grievous Bottley Harm Alpha Bitch Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Gold Digger Aluminum Christmas Trees Disproportionate Retribution For the Evulz Only Sane Man Not So Different Scary Black Man I Have Your Wife Genre Savvy Not So Stoic Match Cut Humans Are Bastards Back from the Dead Everyone Has Standards Biopic Flipping the Bird The Lancer Dissonant Serenity Drowning My Sorrows Evil-Detecting Dog Award-Bait Song The Remake Action Girl You Killed My Father Brother–Sister Incest Camera Abuse Ass Shove Light Is Not Good Improbable Aiming Skills Punny Name Shower Scene The Alleged Car Leave the Camera Running Men Are the Expendable Gender Loads and Loads of Characters Good Is Not Nice More Dakka Politically Incorrect Villain Retcon Off-into-the-Distance Ending Throwing Your Sword Always Works Blood Knight French Films Take a Third Option Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Central Theme Horror Films Logo Joke Heroic Sacrifice From Bad to Worse This Is Gonna Suck My God, What Have I Done? Blackmail Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Laser-Guided Karma Unresolved Sexual Tension Blatant Lies Henpecked Husband Heel–Face Turn Motor Mouth Gone Horribly Right Not Even Bothering with the Accent Loophole Abuse Military and Warfare Films Show Within a Show Eagleland Hair-Trigger Temper Advertised Extra Red Oni, Blue Oni Token Minority Sealed Evil in a Can Up to Eleven Cassandra Truth One-Man Army The Stoic Awesome, but Impractical She Cleans Up Nicely Hong Kong Films Mercy Kill Make It Look Like an Accident Anguished Declaration of Love "Shaggy Dog" Story Artistic License – Geography Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Narrator Rich Bitch Stealth Hi/Bye Roaring Rampage of Revenge The Cavalry Kids Are Cruel Chewing the Scenery Cluster F-Bomb Better to Die than Be Killed Villain Song Genre Shift As the Good Book Says... Flashback Super Strength The Place Stylistic Suck Dutch Angle Neck Snap Needs Wiki Magic Love Zombie Stories Historical Hero Upgrade Anti-Hero Damsel in Distress The Big Guy And the Adventure Continues Rule of Three Beard of Evil Continuity Nod Bullying a Dragon Every Car Is a Pinto Exactly What It Says on the Tin Overly Long Gag Training Montage It Can Think Due to the Dead Insult Backfire Spared by the Adaptation All Men Are Perverts Hell Is That Noise Demonic Possession Heel Realization Parental Substitute Wham Line Sassy Black Woman Stealth Pun Psychopathic Manchild Television Movie Index Scare Chord Manipulative Bastard Evil Brit He Knows Too Much Exact Words One-Word Title Domestic Abuse Even Evil Has Loved Ones Conspicuous CG Establishing Character Moment Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Soundtrack Dissonance Canadian Movies Homage Hoist by His Own Petard Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Catch-Phrase Setting Update There Is No Kill Like Overkill Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Never My Fault Took a Level in Jerkass All There in the Manual Ungrateful Bastard Death by Adaptation No Antagonist The Stoner Affectionate Parody Off with His Head! Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Cowboy Cop Captain Ersatz Visual Pun Improvised Weapon Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Did Not Get the Girl Rasputinian Death The '60s It Will Never Catch On Your Cheating Heart Animated Credits Opening Affably Evil Failed a Spot Check The Ghost Fantasy Films Children Are Innocent Manchild Determinator Worthy Opponent The '90s And Starring The '80s Face–Heel Turn Rousing Speech The '70s Parental Abandonment Kill 'em All Action Prologue Shout-Out Dramatic Irony Villainous Breakdown Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Sexy Discretion Shot Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Smart Guy Karmic Death Rule of Cool Corpsing Vampire Fiction You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Bond One-Liner Parental Incest The Alcoholic Silence Is Golden Fun with Acronyms Attempted Rape Police Brutality Femme Fatale Poor Communication Kills Beta Couple Air-Vent Passageway Belligerent Sexual Tension Composite Character "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue N-Word Privileges Apocalypse How Not Quite Dead Camp Gay Dirty Cop Dies Wide Open Unspoken Plan Guarantee Ironic Echo Horror Comedy Chekhov's Gunman Dramatic Gun Cock Race Lift Final Girl Scenery Gorn Gorn The Sociopath Idiot Ball Cat Fight Manly Tears Serial Killer Line-of-Sight Name Foil Card-Carrying Villain Downer Ending Refuge in Audacity Bunny-Ears Lawyer Not So Above It All Smoking Is Cool Bland-Name Product Fake Shemp Never Trust a Trailer Oh, Crap! Jerkass Has a Point Unwitting Instigator of Doom Determinator aka: The Determinator What Happened to the Mouse? Villain Opening Scene Jump Scare Mood Whiplash Costume Porn Action Survivor Woman in White Manic Pixie Dream Girl Car Fu Crazy Jealous Guy Meaningful Name Evil Sounds Deep Book-Ends Spiteful Spit Ominous Latin Chanting Villain Ball Girl-on-Girl Is Hot As Long as It Sounds Foreign Epic Movie Offscreen Moment of Awesome B-Movie Brutal Honesty Not What It Looks Like Author Appeal Bring My Brown Pants Ambiguous Ending Rated M for Manly Didn't Think This Through The Bully Darkest Hour Dirty Old Man Unreliable Narrator Defrosting Ice Queen Small Name, Big Ego Genre Throwback Heroes Want Redheads All Girls Want Bad Boys Stock Footage No-Sell Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping The Power of Love After the End A God Am I Love Triangle Paper-Thin Disguise Scenery Porn Sequel Hook Groin Attack Chekhov's Skill Film Noir Index Pet the Dog Punch-Clock Villain Christmas Movies Index Bloodless Carnage Auto Erotica Action Genre It's Personal Gilligan Cut Unusual Euphemism Combat Pragmatist Red Eyes, Take Warning Adaptation Dye-Job Body Horror Hidden Depths Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Get Out! Chiaroscuro Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Spanner in the Works Last-Name Basis An Axe to Grind Immune to Bullets Curse Cut Short Undying Loyalty The Ace Laughing Mad I Did What I Had to Do Lock and Load Montage Kill It with Fire Happily Married No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Bottomless Magazines As You Know Dual Wielding Early-Bird Cameo Vomit Discretion Shot Reality Is Unrealistic Fantastic Racism Blood from the Mouth Cruel and Unusual Death Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Posthumous Character Berserk Button Death by Sex Retired Badass Drugs Are Bad Crucified Hero Shot Naked People Are Funny Irony Beauty Is Never Tarnished The Chessmaster Real Life Writes the Plot Celebrity Paradox The Mole Villain with Good Publicity Bait-and-Switch Eyepatch of Power Jerkass Evil Is Hammy Death Glare Fatal Flaw 20 Minutes into the Future Have a Gay Old Time An Arm and a Leg Serious Business Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality '80s Hair Adorkable Hollywood Law No OSHA Compliance Monumental Damage Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Dressing as the Enemy Improbable Weapon User Kubrick Stare Dark and Troubled Past Plot Hole Badass Normal Dark Is Not Evil Bittersweet Ending Anachronism Stew Big Applesauce Bound and Gagged British Films timeperiod Gender Flip Humiliation Conga Slashed Throat Meet Cute Properly Paranoid Cool Shades Mystery and Detective Films Foreshadowing Obfuscating Stupidity Shirtless Scene Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Self-Deprecation Shut Up, Hannibal! Protagonist Title Big Fancy House Artistic License – Gun Safety Wrong Genre Savvy Man on Fire Grey and Gray Morality Creepy Child Ms. Fanservice The Casanova Deus ex Machina La Résistance Market-Based Title Stalker with a Crush Romantic Comedy Really Gets Around World of Ham MacGuffin Vacation Films Rape as Drama In Name Only Cool Guns Creative Closing Credits The Brute Empathic Environment Slasher Smile Ghost Fiction From Nobody to Nightmare Frame-Up Faux Affably Evil As Himself An Aesop The Mafia Taking You with Me Arranged Marriage Evil Plan Never Found the Body Room Full of Crazy Brick Joke Nothing Is Scarier A Father to His Men The Lost Lenore Bitch in Sheep's Clothing NO INDOOR VOICE Would Hurt a Child Nice Guy Despair Event Horizon Only One Name Villain Protagonist Anachronic Order The Stinger Animal Title Index Mighty Whitey Say My Name Sadistic Choice Vomit Indiscretion Shot Age Lift Redshirt Army The Starscream The Quiet One Pretty Little Headshots Broken Pedestal Well-Intentioned Extremist Cool Old Guy Once More, with Clarity! Amoral Attorney Hypocrite Adaptational Heroism Totally Radical Taking the Bullet Agony of the Feet Star-Crossed Lovers Freudian Excuse Red Shirt Contrived Coincidence Gratuitous English Crazy-Prepared The Faceless Redemption Equals Death Bare Your Midriff Dramedy Heroic BSoD Adaptational Badass Romantic False Lead The Bad Guy Wins Disappeared Dad Chase Scene Amusing Injuries "Well Done, Son!" Guy Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Superhero Twist Ending Comically Missing the Point Mooks Recycled IN SPACE! Disguised in Drag Maybe Ever After Obviously Evil Friend to All Children Adaptational Attractiveness Five-Man Band What the Hell, Hero? Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Dull Surprise Bloody Hilarious You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Bad Boss Corrupt Corporate Executive Wounded Gazelle Gambit Mistaken for Gay Reasonable Authority Figure Insistent Terminology Shown Their Work Sinister Minister The Dragon Even Evil Has Standards Big Brother Instinct Artistic License – Law Artistic License – History Expository Hairstyle Change Italian Films Implacable Man The Film of the Book Famous Last Words Spiritual Successor Captain Obvious Anyone Can Die Fat Bastard Slasher Movie Heterosexual Life-Partners Riddle for the Ages Deadpan Snarker Index of Film Westerns Dark Action Girl Made of Explodium Crapsack World Almost Kiss Precision F-Strike Mundane Made Awesome Break the Cutie Actually Pretty Funny Cool Car Distracted by the Sexy Disney Villain Death Badass Grandpa Creator Cameo My Greatest Failure Facial Horror Leitmotif Author Avatar Running Gag Fiery Redhead Leaning on the Fourth Wall Ambiguous Disorder And I Must Scream Broken Aesop Toplessness from the Back The X of Y Offscreen Teleportation Important Haircut Unusually Uninteresting Sight Documentary Hate Sink Eye Scream Breaking the Fourth Wall Artistic License – Physics Shipper on Deck Sports Stories Black Best Friend Instant Death Bullet Alas, Poor Villain Informed Ability Intrepid Reporter Race Against the Clock All Just a Dream Took a Level in Badass Mama Bear Bad "Bad Acting" Only a Flesh Wound Jerk with a Heart of Gold Storming the Castle Evil Laugh Death by Irony Big Bad I Need a Freaking Drink The Chick What You Are in the Dark Catapult Nightmare Eldritch Abomination Credits Gag Not Using the "Z" Word Dirty Coward Beware the Nice Ones The Smurfette Principle Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Evil vs. Evil Papa Wolf Country Matters Reckless Gun Usage Lighter and Softer Four-Temperament Ensemble Sir Swears-a-Lot Sequel Escalation Truth in Television Framing Device Accidental Misnaming Very Loosely Based on a True Story Canon Foreigner Bilingual Bonus Fainting May–December Romance Skewed Priorities Those Wacky Nazis Darker and Edgier Made of Iron Artistic License – Biology Ship Tease Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Honor Before Reason Russian Films Fan Disservice Drill Sergeant Nasty Casting Gag Music Stories Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer One Steve Limit Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Malevolent Masked Men Sole Survivor Cool Old Lady Ambiguously Gay Developing Doomed Characters Too Dumb to Live Easily Forgiven Badass Boast Revenge Slap-Slap-Kiss Faking the Dead Title Drop Silent Movie Pragmatic Villainy Shell-Shocked Veteran Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism The Musical Pragmatic Adaptation Tagline Real Life Fatal Family Photo Large Ham Noodle Incident Cain and Abel In the Back The '50s Tap on the Head