Tropescilloscope: Parental Neglect

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

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