Tropescilloscope: Abusive Parents

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

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