Tropescilloscope: Parental Neglect

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

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