Tropescilloscope: Parental Neglect

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

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