Tropescilloscope: Parental Neglect

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

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