Tropescilloscope: Parental Neglect

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

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