Tropescilloscope: Parental Neglect

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

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