Tropescilloscope: Parental Neglect

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

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