Tropescilloscope: Abusive Parents

Their parents were/are not good to them. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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