History AbusiveParents / Videogames

*** By default he seems to really get along well with his son, always teasing him in a manner that is clearly affectionate and sometimes even making comments that lead Edgeworth to think he is a [[DotingParent doting dad]]. [[spoiler:Once Yumihiko messes up with his plans, however, he is willing to call him every name to get him to follow his orders. This repressive attitude towards his son, combined with how he has been deceiving him (about his real grades and his father’s crimes) for the entirety of his life make Bansai not so conventionally "abusive", but more accurately too uncaringly ''controlling''.]]

** And now in Miles Edgeworth Investigations 2 we have [[spoiler: Yumihiko's father Bansai who throws down the mental abuse on him. Now it's subverted at first in which Yumiko is unaffected by the words because he's used to it, but then later double subverted when [[BreaktheCutie his father outright tells him that everything he worked for from his grades to his awards was because his father had made personal connections to allow his son to make it to the top.]]

** And now in Miles Edgeworth Investigations 2 we have [[spoiler: Yumihiko's father Bansai who throws down the mental abuse on him. Now it's subverted at first in which Yumiko is unaffected by the words because he's used to it, but then later double subverted when [[BreaktheCutie his father outright tells him that everything he worked for from his grades to his awards was because his father had made personal connections to allow his son to make it to the top.]] His father later orders his subordinates to kidnap him (to be fair, they were aiming for someone else) and eventually announces that Yumihiko is [[IHaveNoSon no longer his son.]]]]

* In ''VdeoGame/TheWay'', the parents of two characters are revealed to be abusive late in the game. [[spoiler: They are Traziun's dad, and Slade's mom.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'', both [[ThoseTwoGuys Todd and Archie]] have issues with women that stem from abusive parents: [[spoiler: Todd's dad was a successful businessman, but also a shameless womanizer who constantly belittled Todd, and even ''attacked him with an axe'' at one point. Archie, on the other hand, spent most of his childhood ''locked naked in a basement'' and was regularly sexually abused by his mother until the day he managed to escape and run away from home.]]

* Cyrus, the BigBad of the ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' games, is revealed in the postgame to have been under severe parental pressure as a child. Specifics are never given, but it was apparently bad enough to make his grandfather consider taking him away from his parents. And, you know, bad enough to make him snap and want to [[InTheirOwnImage take control the only way he could think of]]...

*** [[spoiler: Even moreso if you take a cold eye to Ghetsis's Pokemon lineup when he battles you. It's blatantly designed to counter everything N has, including Zoroark (by baiting for uncharacteristic Dark attacks with Cofagrigus) and his legendary Dragon (via [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard his hacked Hydreigon]]). N wasn't just a tool, he was a ''[[OffingTheOffspring disposable]]'' tool.]]
**** [[spoiler: To be somewhat fair, Ghetsis more or less admits this during his [[VillainousBreakdown big revelation]], when he says his plan included using a compliant N as a more palatable ruling figure for the public with himself continuing to pull strings behind the scenes, but since N wasn't compliant, he was prepared to dispose of him to keep him from interfering with his grand plan.]]
** Pokémon is full of terrible, terrible parents, isn't it? VideoGame/PokemonRanger gives us Gordor, who forced his four kids into joining his criminal gang and brainwashing Pokémon. When they finally wise up and leave to embark on their music careers, he just scoffs and goes about his merry evil way. He doesn't give two craps about them and saw them as just more goons.

**** [[spoiler: To be somewhat fair, Ghetsis more or less admits this during his [[Villainous Breakdown big revelation]], when he says his plan included using a compliant N as a more palatable ruling figure for the public with himself continuing to pull strings behind the scenes, but since N wasn't compliant, he was prepared to dispose of him to keep him from interfering with his grand plan.]]

**** [[spoiler: To be somewhat fair, Ghetsis more or less admits this during his [[Villainous Breakdown]], when he says his plan included using a compliant N as a more palatable ruling figure for the public with himself continuing to pull strings behind the scenes, but since N wasn't compliant, he was prepared to dispose of him to keep him from interfering with his grand plan.]]

** Morton's grandfather felt this was the way to instill character in his grandson in VideoGame/TheDreamMachine.

* [[BigBad Lucien]] from ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'' was already notorious for being cruel, but the newest Fremminik Saga has confirmed rumors of him having a daughter. Specifically, a half human, half Mahjarrat daughter whom he abuses severely. Every time he speaks to her, he calls her a failure, finally declaring that when he next sees her, he will strangle her. And she just takes it.

* In ''MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', Emma was stated to have been sexually assaulted by her second stepfather, to which she injured him in self defense shortly before graduating from High School. The game itself doesn't specify what kind of assault it was, but the script included in the Document of Metal Gear Solid 2 had in brackets "sexual" right before "assault."

* In ''MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'', Paz Ortega Andrade, real name Pacifica Ocean, according to her diary tapes, was an orphan, and was apparently adopted by Cipher (in other words, the Patriots faction run by Zero after the split), and she intends to obey Cipher's command, not simply due to her loyalty to the organization, but because she feels as though she has to obey them even if she doesn't agree with their goals because she'll otherwise suffer a fate worse than death if she doesn't.

** And now in Miles Edgeworth Investigations 2 we have [[spoiler: Yumihiko's father Bansai who throws down the mental abuse on him. Now it's subverted at first in which Yumiko is unaffected by the words because he's used to it, but then later double subverted when [[BreaktheCutie his father outright tells him that everything he worked for from his grades to his awards was because his father had made personal connections to allow his son to make it to the top.]] His father later orders his subordinates to kidnap him (to be fair, they were aiming for someone else) and eventually announces that Yumihiko is [[IHaveNoSon no longer his son.]]]]

** Braska comes off as a close second. Before he set off on his pilgrimage he apparantly hadn't arranged any kind of carer for his 7 year old daughter. We know this because during her video will (the sphere that Tidus stole) she explains that whilst coming to terms with the fact she was now orphaned; she just kind of wandered off until Kimarhi found her and took her to Besaid. Firstly, if Braska had arranged for a carer they were oblivious to her walking off and apparantly couldn't care less that she was commandeered by a hulking 6ft Ronso. Secondly, this situation proves exactly why Yuna needed a babysitter; shes the most trusting girl in the world - replace Kimahri with paedophile and Braska's stole the Dad of the Year Award from Jecht.

* Becomes a recurring theme in ''GrandTheftAutoIV'', as the main character, Niko Bellic, and his cousin, Roman's, fathers were violent alcoholics who would regularly beat up both their children and their wifes. Dwayne Forge and Packie [=McReary=] had similar childhoods, and while the first comments how he felt "nothing" when his father was murdered, the second will at one point open up to Niko and tell that his violent father at one point even attempted and would have succeeded at molesting him, if his older brother, Gerry, had not intervened at the last minute.

** Then again though; this happens so early in the game people can easily assume it's not supposed to be a "word attack".

*** Insofar as a minor is capable of giving consent and legitimately being "willing" when an adult authority figure makes a sexual advance. [[SarcasmMode But it's not like sexual abuse victims are ever so fucked up by the experience that they]] ''[[SarcasmMode have]]'' [[SarcasmMode to rationalize it]] [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization by claiming they wanted it]] or that [[LoveMartyr it was a relationship]].

** Hojo actually did come to "regret" his actions near the end of his life, but not in the way one would expect. When he confronts the party at the Sister Ray, he acknowledges that he's "even beginning to hate himself" for his actions. He also explicitly states that he's helping Sephiroth because he's his son, not to see his experiment come to fruition. In the end, he's become something of a PapaWolf, if only because Sephiroth, in his eyes, has surpassed science.

* EmbricOfWulfhammersCastle. He's the Duchess' uncle, not her father, and the gory details aren't given, but [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bad King Greyghast]] was not above imprisoning, drugging, killing animals, spying on, and sexually abusing his favorite niece to control her.

* In ''MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'', Paz Ortega Andrade, real name Pacifica Ocean, according to her diary tapes, was an orphan, and was apparently adopted by Cipher (in other words, the Patriots faction run by Zero after the split), and she intends to obey Cipher's command, not simply due to her loyalty to the organization, but because she feels as though she has to obey them even if she doesn't agree with their goals because she'll otherwise suffer a fate worse than death if she doesn't.

* Adam Malkovich's treatment of Samus Aran in [[MetroidOtherM Metroid: Other M]] has been construed by some reviewers as [[http://moonbase.rydia.net/mental/blog/gaming/metroid-other-m-the-elephant/article.html romanticizing an abusive relationship]] between an otherwise capable bounty hunter and her surrogate father figure.

*** Insofar as a minor is capable of giving consent and legitimately being "willing" when an adult authority figure makes a sexual advance. [[SarcasmMode But it's not like sexual abuse victims are ever so fucked up by the experience that they]] ''[[SarcasmMode have]]'' [[SarcasmMode to rationalize it]] [[ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt by claiming they wanted it]] or that [[LoveMartyr it was a relationship]].

** And now in Miles Edgeworth Investigations 2 we have [[spoiler: Yumihiko's father Bansai who throws down the mental abuse on him. Now it's subverted at first in which Yumiko is unaffected by the words because he's use to it, but then later double subverted when [[BreaktheCutie his father outright tells him that everything he worked for from his grades to his awards was because his father had made personal connections to allow his son to make it to the top.]] His father later orders his subordinates to kidnap him (to be fair, they were aiming for someone else) and eventually announces that Yumihiko is [[IHaveNoSon no longer his son.]]]]

* ''Bioshock'' has Sofia Lamb. An incredible list of abuse, mostly of the mental variety-though a degree of neglect etc. Attempting to condition your child in to the 'Peoples Daughter' (an individual who knows everything, or more accurately a conduit for everything), using a serum that reduced a fellow researcher to a sentient tumour, does not a good parent make.

* King Desmond in ''FireEmblem: Rekka no Ken'' makes no bones about the fact that he loathes his son Zephiel and even tries to kill him ''twice''. Is it any wonder this wise, gentle boy grows up to be such a bastard in ''Fuuin no Tsurugi''?

** [[SerialEscalation And the cycle continued]]. In [[Manga/PokemonDiamondAndPearlAdventure one of the spin-off series]], Cyrus is, for all intents and purposes, father figure to an orphan girl. Who he raised as a war machine, constantly telling her that everyone is alone in the world. It's implied later that she didn't realize that kindness ''existed'', basically because ''he didn't either''. Fortunately for her, she got better, and [[spoiler: later, so did he]].

** Pokémon is full of terrible, terrible parents, isn't it? VideoGame/PokemonRanger gives us Gordor, who forced his four kids into joining his criminal gang and brainwashing Pokémon. When they finally wise up and leave to embark on their music careers, he basically just scoffs and goes about his merry evil way. He doesn't give two craps about them and saw them as just more goons.
* In {{ZHP}}, [[spoiler:it's eventually revealed that the Main Character's parents constantly insulted and belittled him ever since he let himself and his sister get kidnapped 8 years ago. However, soon after this is learned it is revealed that the kidnapping was ''not'' Main Character's fault (he actually tried to stop it, but his sister was unable to vouch for him due to TraumaInducedAmnesia). Once this is learned, the parents quickly clean up their act.]]
** [[spoiler:Hell, not just the Main Character was abused, in fact. The trauma of the incident caused the mother and father to constantly argue with each other when they're not busy insulting the Main Character, while his sister lashed out all ''everyone else'' because, due to her amnesia, she has no idea why everyone in her family was made at each other.]]

* In ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear X'', Sol Badguy takes part in bounty hunting after Dizzy. He finds her and beats the hell out of her. And it's possible not only that he is her father, but also that he already knew it, when he went after her.

*** Insofar as a minor is capable of giving consent and legitimately being "willing" when an adult authority figure makes a sexual advance. [[SarcasmMode But, of course, it's not like sexual abuse victims are ever so fucked up by the experience that they]] ''[[SarcasmMode have]]'' [[SarcasmMode to rationalize it]] [[ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt by claiming they wanted it]] or that [[LoveMartyr it was a relationship]].

* '''[[BlazBlue RELIUS CLOVER]]'''. This is the guy who [[spoiler: [[MadScientist experimented the hell]] [[MoralEventHorizon out of his daughter]], Ada, ForScience, turning her into a weaponized doll, Nirvana. However, he lost interest in the project about halfway through and happily turned to his ''wife'' instead, turning her into a much better and accomplished puppet, Ignis, after which he left his family's home and never came back. Meanwhile, his son, [[CuteShotaroBoy Carl]], had been forced to finish the experiments he was conducting on Ada, leaving the poor little boy completely traumatized, having to show a lack of compassion and fend for himself as a Vigilante at such a young age. That's an abuse on mental, emotional and financial levles... and he went straight to physical (as in, ''[[OffingTheOffspring attempted homicide]]'') when Carl [[CallingTheOldManOut tried to get an explanation]].]]

** Lucrecia at least harbored some regret for her part in the genetic experiments, even causing her to nearly commit suicide. Hojo, on the other hand, had absolutely no regret for what he did. In fact, he enjoyed every single moment of it even afterwards, and was heavily implied to have manipulated all of Sephiroth's actions and pretty much everything in Sephiroth's life/lives.

** Although not technically her parents, the Gestahlian Empire from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' was the closest that Terra Branford could call her parents due to [[spoiler:Gestahl murdering her birthmother and then kidnapping her child, not to mention subjecting her father to various experiments.]] And, sure enough, their raising her was very much abusive in terms of emotional and possibly other forms of abuse. She was raised in a loveless environment for most of her life, Kefka placed the Slave Crown on Terra to manipulate all of her actions, including burning fifty of their finest soldiers alive, and even the one person who was even relatively decent to her, General Leo Cristolph, nonetheless placed the mind control device back on her when they finish training.

* [[BigBad Lucien]] from ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'' was already notorious for being cruel, but the newest Fremminik Saga has confirmed rumors of him having a daughter. Specifically, a half human, half Mahjarrat daughter whom he abuses severely. Literally every time he speaks to her, he calls her a failure, finally declaring that when he next sees her, he will strangle her. And she just takes it.

*** Insofar as a minor is capable of giving consent and legitimately being "willing" when an adult authority figure makes a sexual advance. [[SarcasmMode But, of course, it's not like sexual abuse victims are ever so fucked up by the experience that they ''have'' to rationalize it]] [[ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt by claiming they wanted it]] or that [[LoveMartyr it was a relationship]].

* Adam Malkovich's treatment of Samus Aran in [[MetroidOtherM Metroid: Other M]] has been construed by some reviewers as [[http://moonbase.rydia.net/mental/blog/gaming/metroid-other-m-the-elephant/article.html romanticizing an abusive relationship]] between an otherwise capable bounty hunter and her surrogate father figure.

* '''[[BlazBlue RELIUS CLOVER]]'''. This is the guy who [[spoiler:experiments the hell out of his wife, turning her into his personal doll Ignis; and then turned to his daughter Ada; killed, and turned her into an incomplete doll, Nirvanna, so his son Carl Clover can clean up the mess he left behind while he goes jittering and crossing over MoralEventHorizon happily; leaving the poor little boy completely traumatized, having to show a lack of compassion and fend for himself as a Vigilante at such a young age. That's an abuse of mental, emotional and financial... and he went straight to physical (as in, ''attempted homicide'') when Carl [[CallingTheOldManOut tried to get an explanation]].]]
--> "You've been a very naughty boy... spare the crook, spoil the child."

* Pachacamac from SonicAdventure was this to Tikal.

* Cyrus, the BigBad of the ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' games, is revealed in the postgame to have been under severe parental pressure as a child. Specifics are never given, but it was apparently bad enough to make his grandfather consider taking him away from his parents. And, you know, bad enough to make him snap and want to [[OmnicidalManiac take control]] [[AGodAmI the only way he could think of]]...

* Where to even start with Fei from ''{{Xenogears}}''? After she got possessed by [[spoiler: Miang]], Fei's mother started experimenting on him, thus creating his [[spoiler: SuperpoweredEvilSide Id]], who then was used by his father possesed by [[spoiler: the personality of one of Fei's former Incarnations]] as a PersonOfMassDestruction, and that's not even all of it.

** Also in Sons of Liberty, there's Otacon, who was sexually abused by his stepmother. The fact that this was only now added is a lovely demonstration of the DoubleStandard surrounding rape victims: when a man in a position of power makes sexual advances on a female minor, it's sexual assault, but when a ''woman'' in a position of power makes sexual advances on a ''male'' minor, it's a relationship.