History Main / IHaveNoSon

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/44607043/chapters/121613383 A Price to Pay]]'' uses this as part of Adrien's LaserGuidedKarma. After learning that Hawkmoth [[ArchnemesisDad is his father]], he [[FaceHeelTurn switches sides]] and [[TheBadGuyWins helps Gabriel win]], not caring about how the Wish will [[RealityWarpingIsNotAToy warp reality]] or [[BalancingDeathsBooks claim the life of another]] in order to bring back his mother Emilie. After all, it's not like anybody will ''know'' they were responsible for the death, [[TemptingFate right]]...? But the Wish collects its price by having Gabriel cause a fatal car accident, and when he brazenly uses his wealth to [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney ensure the trial goes his way through bribery]], Emilie is so outraged that she divorces him. And since Adrien tries to defend his father's flagrant disregard for human life, Emilie disavows her son, wanting nothing to do with either of them.

See also: ChangelingFantasy, {{Unperson}}, AcquaintanceDenial, and WhereDidWeGoWrong. JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith ThatThingIsNotMyChild or with HeirClubForMen, where ''literally'' not having a son is the source of the problem. Contrast the inverse trope, DisownedParent (where a child disowns their parent), YoureNotMyFather, which is the opposite and is more often aimed at a ParentalSubstitute, and HatesTheirParent, the more general trope for when it's the kid with the issue, not the parent. Related to DisownedSibling, where a sibling disowns another.

* ''Fanfic/ArcCorp'': An interesting variant. When Blake finally breeches the topic with Raven about the bandit being Yang's mother, the latter denies it. When Blake attempts to push the issue, Raven all but calls herself a [[GlorifiedSpermDonor Glorified Egg Donor]] when stating that the title of "mother" should only go to a woman who actually raises a child, [[MissingMom which she obviously didn't do]], and to lay claim to it would be an insult to her late friend (and Yang's stepmother) Summer.

* In [[http://percyjacksonfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Nine_Months Nine Months]], [[spoiler:April's father disowns her after he finds out that she's [[TeenPregnancy pregnant]]]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Unlinked}}'': {{Downplayed}}. Amelia cares deeply about Hazel's wellbeing and enjoys having her in her life despite her general distaste for children. However, she dislikes thinking of the girl as her daughter and hates when Hazel calls her "mom".

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* "Jesse Younger" by country musician Creator/KrisKristofferson deals with a man named Jessie Younger who is in all but name disowned by his parents after he starts refusing to live his life the way they want him too and insists on speaking his own mind. As a result, his younger brother is treated by his parents as if he is their only son.

'''Robin:''' My good sir, [[InsaneTrollLogic if I can't disinherit my own unborn son, whose unborn son can I disinherit?]]

*** During the main scenario quest in Patch 5.55, [[spoiler:Fourchenault Leveilleur, a powerful member of the Forum, the governing body of the isolationist nation of Sharlayan, arrives to Gridania to deliver a callous refusal from Sharlayan to intervene in the growing conflict between Eorzea and the Telophoroi. When his children, twins Alphinaud and Alisaie, protest the decision, a furious Fourchenault, perceiving the opposing as a sign of his children GoingNative against Sharlayan's isolationist philosophy, disowns both of them in public. One can tell the twins do not take this well.]]

-->'''White Falcon:''' So from the clues and context, you deduced and readily embraced the notion that to avenge means to suck your own father, [[TooDumbToLive you idiot?!]]\\

* A key element of Stan Pines' backstory in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': [[spoiler: after accidentally ruining his brother Ford's science project and wrecking his dream college enrollment, he is disowned by his family and kicked out of the house. At the end of the same episode, Stan and Ford pull this on each other, thirty years after the initial breakdown of their relationship: Ford is angry that Stan risked a possible [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt End of the World as We Know It]] scenario by saving him from the portal; Stan is angry that Ford isn't interested in thanking him for the thirty years he sacrificed to save him, and even angrier when he discovers that Ford wants him out of the Mystery Shack. For good measure, he says that Dipper and Mabel are the only family he has left. By the finale, they do patch things up, especially when Stan nearly sacrifices his memory to defeat Bill, ''finally'' making Ford realize how foolish he's been.]]

** Played tragically straight in "The Perfect Pear", when the secret wedding of Pear Butter and Bright Mac (the parents of the Apple Siblings) is discovered by bitter rivals Grand Pear and Granny Smith. The former forces his daughter to choose which family she wants to be a part of, and when she declares the Apples as her new family, Grand Pear angrily disowns her before leaving for Vanhoover, only to be comforted by [[MamaBear Granny Smith, who immediately drops her bigotry and accepts Pear Butter as one of her own.]] [[spoiler: It wouldn't be until years later until Grand Pear finally came around when visiting Ponyville and seeing his grandkids for the first time. Of course by then, Pear and Bright have...passed on. Something he does regret but doesn't want to make the same mistake with her daughter's family, even finally making peace with Granny Smith.]]
* Said word-for-word by [[spoiler: the recently CameBackWrong Lord Garmadon to his son Lloyd]] in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' episode "True Potential" when [[spoiler: Lloyd tries and fails to [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight find the good in him]].]]

---> '''Homer:''' If he makes it, that's my son!

-->''' Geneviève:''' ''"Father-"''
-->'''Léon''': ''"Do not call me that."'' (to his crying wife) ''"Marie, do not be upset. The Geneviève we know is dead. Our only children are now Andréa and Isabelle."''
** He does this again to [[spoiler: Andréa after his actions inadvertedly cause Marie's death.]]

* In ''ComicBook/XStatix'':
** Vivisector's father insists that the fact that Myles is his son is "a matter of opinion". Why? Simple - Vivisector is a gay mutant. Joining the X-Force was evidently the last straw, because by becoming a celebrity daddy couldn't pretend he didn't exist anymore.
** PlayedForLaughs by supporting character Lacuna, who ''actively tries'' to get this reaction from her parents after discovering she's a mutant. When they accept her mutation with open arms, she tries to join the X-Force... and they're supportive of that, as well. Finally, she becomes a talk show host, squandering her incredible gift by chatting up celebrities. All she ever wanted was for her parents to be disappointed in her. Because how else do you know you're doing the right thing?
* ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}'': Eddie Brock's father Carl [[MaternalDeathBlameTheChild blamed him for his beloved wife's death in childbirth]]. While Eddie did his best to impress his father by becoming a successful journalist, Carl seized upon the Sin Eater incident as an excuse to disown him.

* This is a large concern for many young mutants, but a particular standout would be Surge from ''ComicBook/NewXMen''. When her father finds out that she's a mutant, he disowns her, because he "doesn't believe in mutants." When she tries to get back in contact with her family, [[CoolBigSis in particular her little brother]], [[JerkAss he basically says that she's not his daughter.]] It should be noted that this is entirely on his part, as her mother is just relieved that she's safe and learning to control her abilities.
* Renee Montoya's parents disowned her when Two-Face outed her as a lesbian and she admitted it to them in the ''ComicBook/GothamCentral'' arc "Half A Life." Her father appears in a later arc; from the look on his face when he sees her, he clearly regrets what he did, but by that point Renee is understandably unwilling to have anything to do with him. [[spoiler:They're able to make up before he passes away in ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'': ''ComicBook/TheQuestion'' #2]]

* In ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'', Valerie brings her girlfriend and tells her parents she's a lesbian. The parents were furious and scream at their daughter to leave the house. Then, the mother, in tears, grabs a picture of her daughter when she was young and throws it in the trash.
* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': Tony Stark's [[AbusiveParent verbally and emotionally abusive father]], Howard Stark, is brought back in spirit while Tony is trapped in Mephisto's Realm in the ''Iron Man: Legacy of Doom'' run. After cruelly and viciously castigating Tony, Howard sneers, "You're no son of mine."
** Made worse when Tony's inner monologue includes the thought "I'd heard it before." Yes. Even ''hell'' couldn't conjure up a father more emotionally cruel than Tony's actual father. And Tony ''still'' [[{{Tearjerker}} couldn't bring himself]] to attack his own father. [[spoiler:Until "Howard" [[NiceJobFixingItVillain tells Tony]] [[BerserkButton that he was a disappointment to his mother as well]].]]
* ComicBook/GreenArrow threw out his ward Roy Harper when he discovered Roy was a heroin addict and called him a no-good punk, then later acted proud as if ''he'' was responsible for Roy going cold turkey and beating his addiction, when it was really because of ComicBook/BlackCanary and ComicBook/GreenLantern. Much later, after Roy's arm was cut off and his daughter was killed, Roy angrily lapsed into being a drug-addicted anti-hero before he was found and knocked out by [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]]. When he awoke, Roy discovered he had been strapped to a bed in St. Virgil's, a center for supervillains with substance abuse problems. Dick had done this with Black Canary's consent, who later flat out said that Roy was beyond help and washed her hands of him. In a later issue of ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'', it's shown that Canary very much realizes this was a mistake when she's subjected to MindRape involving an image of Roy asking how she could let him become "this thing" he is now.
* After Klara Prast began talking to the plants on her farm (and they started ''responding''), her religious asshole parents not only disowned her, they sold her to an alcoholic creep who took her off to America to be his wife... at 11 years old. All manner of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse ensued. Thankfully, she later befriended the ComicBook/{{Runaways}}, who took her off to the future, where her asshole parents and abusive husband were both long dead.

* Parodied in ''ComicBook/TheBojeffriesSaga'' in which Reth Bojeffries was disowned by his entire family after achieving literary fame with a memoir all about how much he hated them. When they're brought together again, they aren't reconciled. Instead his Uncle Festus kicks him to death, with the others' reactions ranging from apathy to AndThereWasMuchRejoicing.
* In ''ComicBook/BoosterGold'''s origin story, his mother disowned him when she realized that he was gambling, much like his father was. In one account, he took up gambling in order to pay for an expensive medical procedure to save his mother's life, which made the disownment much more heartbreaking, with his mother saying she would rather have died than live to see her son take up gambling for any reason.
* In the origin story for ''ComicBook/CaptainKlutz'', Captain-to-be Ringo Fonebone's father says this of his useless comic-book obsessed offspring.

* ''ComicBook/{{Three}}'': When Nestos returns home after he's denounced as a 'Trembler' (an outcast of Spartan society who showed cowardice) for failing to kill the Helots who killed his father, his widowed mother declares that her son never returned home and considers the man standing in front of her lower than her racing horses.

* ''ComicBook/{{Copperhead}}'': After his selfish actions result in his family being murdered [[spoiler:Floyd Sewell]] is exiled by his mother with this line.
* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'': Orpheus and Morpheus go through a mutual one. Orpheus refuses his father after Eurydice dies and Morpheus tries -- [[LackOfEmpathy in his own way]] -- to encourage him to live on. This wounds Morpheus' pride, so he ends up reciprocating. [[spoiler:It takes the two roughly two millennia to so much as talk with each other again, at which point both have matured considerably and are able to reconcile.]]
* In the ''ComicBook/XMen'' storyline "Grey's End", Elaine Grey, ComicBook/JeanGrey's mother, curses both Jean and Rachel with this before she is struck down by a Shi'ar Extermination Squad after the group murdered every last Grey.
* ''ComicBook/BlueIsTheWarmestColor'': Clémentine is disowned by her parents when they find her and Emma nude together.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Chassis}}'', Sabotage was initially banished to America by his wealthy, traditional father: essentially becoming a RemittanceMan. However. Sabotage's antics eventually become so extreme that his father disowns him altogether. Sabotage doesn't care.

* ''ComicBook/TheBestWeCouldDo'': Bích was disowned by the family for living with her then-boyfriend, though that she and her husband eventually come to live "two towns away" means they eventually reconciled.
* ''ComicBook/JonathanHickmansAvengers:'' When T'Challa refuses to blow up an alternate Earth to save his, the ghost of T'Chaka disowns him.
* ''ComicBook/NewMutants:'' After realizing his father had tried to have his mother killed, Roberto da Costa goes to confront him about it. After a tense standoff, Old Man da Costa disinherits Roberto, who shoots back with his own usage of the trope, declaring he is now half an orphan.
* In the ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' story "Enemy of the Empire", Ziriza the Zirr is shunned by her parents after she failed to defeat the First Family in combat and is ReassignedToAntarctica by the Zirr Empire.

* In ''FanFic/OriginStory'', which takes place in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, Louise Fulford reveals to her girlfriend, Alex Harris, that her parents threw her out of the house and told her not to come back not because she (Louise) was a lesbian, but rather because she was a mutant.

* Parental version in ''[[Fanfic/BlackbirdArrow Blackbird]]''. By the end Laurel has implicitly disowned her mother, made clear when she refers to Dinah as "[her and Sara's] birth mother". Even in her thoughts, she addresses Dinah by her first name.

* In ''Fanfic/ThreeCanKeepASecret'', Dipper inverts this. When Mabel asks Dipper how he could leave their parents behind in Piedmont, Dipper flatly tells her that life in Piedmont was terrible for him, that he's surprised if their parents ever noticed he was gone, and that it's always been obvious that they [[ParentalFavoritism loved Mabel more than him.]] As far as Dipper's concerned, Stan and Ford are his parents.

* When Ping comes back to home, after living twelve years as a soldier, in ''Fanfic/MakeAManOutOfYou'', his mother rejects him for being UsefulNotes/{{transgender}}. She doesn't see her child in Ping, just someone wearing their face. She grieves her "daughter Mulan" just like she grieves her actually dead husband. Ping ultimately decides that [[YoureNotMyFather he doesn't need anyone from his old life anymore]].

** Downplayed with Lazuli herself, who ''acted'' like she agreed with him in public. Privately though, she refused to forget her eldest and only destroyed extras of the photos to fool her husband, having always kept the originals and a set or two of duplicates in a safe place; when Celestia comes to the family with proof that Slice n' Dice is not a criminal like they thought, Lazuli is the first to openly ask for more information in the hopes that she was right to continue believing in her daughter.

** Variant in chapter 27. [[spoiler: After discovering he was behind the storming of Canterlot Castle and the attack on her personally, Celestia disowns Blueblood, declaring angrily that "''You are no nephew of mine!''"]]
* An interesting variant of this trope happens in the ''Blog/ReadingRainbowverse'' when Spitfire disowns Lightning Dust. At first it seems the usual "disappointed mother" route, [[spoiler:but then Spitfire is relieved of duty and forced into therapy; she admits she's actually very sure that Lightning Dust hates her and that she deserves a better mother.]]
* ''Fanfic/HowILostMyMother'' has this as part of Cozy Glows' StartOfDarkness, being not only abandoned by her mother, but also ''[[UnPerson Un-Person'd]]'' through Celestia casting LaserGuidedAmnesia to erase all traces of her ever having a child in the first place and using both Cozys' aunt Luna and Twilight Sparkle [[ReplacementGoldfish to fill in the void afterwards.]] Made all the worse when Cozy discovers her mothers' personal diary to find out why this happened in the first place: Celestia essentially experienced a prophetic vision of Cozy Glow ''potentially'' becoming a threat to Equestria, but that hours after committing the deed; she found out that it was actually a SelfFulfillingProphecy. But instead of trying to track down her estranged daughter, Celestia doubled-down hoping that Cozy would just stay away and live out her life alone that way [[ItsAllAboutMe Celestias' reputation as an infallible ruler isn't threatened.]] Needless to say, [[AntagonisticOffspring Cozy Glow is completely unamused by this revelation.]]

!!Examples:

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* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'': Orpheus and Morpheus go through a mutual one. Orpheus refuses his father after Eurydice dies and Morpheus tries -- [[LackOfEmpathy in his own way]] -- to encourage him to live on. This wounds Morpheus' pride, so he ends up reciprocating. [[spoiler:It takes the two roughly two millennia to so much as talk with each other again, at which point both have matured considerably and are able to reconcile.]]

* ''Fanfic/ArcCorp'': An interesting variant. When Blake finally breeches the topic with Raven about being Yang's mother, the latter denies it. When Blake attempts to push the issue, Raven all but calls herself a [[GlorifiedSpermDonor Glorified Egg Donor]] when stating that the title of "mother" should only go to a woman who actually raises a child, [[MissingMom which she obviously didn't do]], and to lay claim to it would be an insult to her late friend (and Yang's stepmother) Summer.

* ''Webcomic/{{Unlinked}}'': {{Downplayed}}. Amelia cares deeply about Hazel's wellbeing and enjoys having her in her life despite her general distaste for children. However, she dislikes thinking of the girl as her daughter and hates when Hazel calls her "mom".

* ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' did a series of strips where Mark Slackmeyer's father used this phrase when he came to the conclusion that what he really had was "...a parasitic offspring who year after year just barely manages to pass his classes in time for me to shell out another four thousand bucks".

* ''Anime/CrossAnge'':
** This is expected of parents in the Society of Mana who conceive a Norma, [[AntiMagic a child who can't use the Light of Mana]]. In the world of ''Cross Ange'', [[FantasticRacism Norma are seen as violent, depraved monsters that must be separated from this peaceful society]].

* ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'': Flat Escardos's parents were so utterly unnerved by and outright terrified of their son that they conclude that he's not their son at all and instead must be some changeling or HumanoidAbomination.

* ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'':
** Baron Shelley disowned Anne after she was scarred in a fire, viewing her as unmarriageable because of that.
** More like "I Have No Brother" - Thomas and his other siblings didn't consider Keith their brother, even calling him "whoreson". Thomas himself later ends up on the receiving end of this, due to being disowned by his own father for his haughty attitude and poor performance.

* ''Manga/{{Saki}}'': Teru constantly denies that she has a sister, Saki, due to an implied tragedy in the past, and the last time Saki saw Teru, Teru refused to speak with her at all. When Saki learned from Mihoko that Teru told this to a reporter, she became depressed and wondered whether there was any hope of reconciling with her. In Chapter 129, Awai asks Teru if Saki is her sister. Teru starts to say no but then says that Saki ''[[SubvertedTrope is]]'' her sister.

Cue the sad violin music -- it looks like the kid is going to have to learn to make his own way in this harsh, harsh world all alone.

Can result in DisinheritedChild.

* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'': Ataru's mother's CatchPhrase is that she wishes that she never had him.

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* IHaveNoSon/AnimeAndManga
* IHaveNoSon/ComicBooks
* IHaveNoSon/FanWorks

* IHaveNoSon/WesternAnimation

!!Work subpages:
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!!Other examples:

[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* ''Bitterman'', a recurrent strip of MAD magazine, had one issue of the titular character visiting his father in the old folks home, so the attendant knocks on the door.
-->'''Attendant''': Mr. Bitterman! Your son has come to visit you!\\
'''Father''': Son? I don't have a son!\\
'''Attendant''': It's okay, at this age, the memory of the residents tend to fail.\\
'''Bitterman''': Oh, his memory is all right. We just hate each other.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' did a series of strips where Mark Slackmeyer's father used this phrase when he came to the conclusion that what he really had was "...a parasitic offspring who year after year just barely manages to pass his classes in time for me to shell out another four thousand bucks".

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'', after Manolo refuses to kill the bull, Carlos disappointingly tells him he is "not a real Sanchez."
* In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2010'', Hiccup is told this by his father Stoick. Fairly predictable though, given Stoick's personality and Hiccup's actions. Unlike many other examples of this trope, ''Stoick'' is hurt by his words as badly as Hiccup is -- he physically staggers when he leaves the room and realizes what he's said.
* ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'':
** ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'', the first movie: When Tai Lung, who was all but a son to Master Shifu, confronts Shifu at the temple with "I'm home, Master." With barely restrained grief, Shifu retorts to his "son" with "This is no longer your home. And I am no longer your master."
** ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'': Lord Shen was also essentially disowned by his parents when they banished him from his ancestral home. It's rather hard to blame the parents in this case as this was in response to Shen ''committing genocide''. Despite this, it's later revealed that Shen's parents truly did care about him as the pain of having to do this to their son [[DeathByDespair literally killed them.]]
* In ''Literature/TheSissyDuckling'', during an argument Elmer's father tells his mother that he doesn't have a son. He considers Elmer a weakling and a sissy for being so flamboyant.
* ''WesternAnimation/WonderWomanBloodLines'': When Diana chooses to help ComicBook/{{Steve|Trevor}} escape Themyscira, she briefly battles with Hippolyta over aiding a prisoner and running off with the sacred armor. In response, Hippolyta proclaims she's not her daughter and essentially kicks her off the island. When Diana returns home and saves it from Medusa, Hippolyta welcomes her home and even proudly accepts her Man's World title of Franchise/WonderWoman. This is a huge departure from Hippolyta's usual characterization, where she wants to protect her daughter from the outside world.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Saleh from ''Film/TheAirUpThere'' wasn't always an only son. His older brother Halawi made a deal with TyrannicalTownTycoon Nyaga behind his father Urudu's back. When Urudu found out, he banished Halawi from Winabi. Now Halawi works for Nyaga while his parents pretend he doesn't exist. [[spoiler:He is accepted back into the family after he turns on Nyaga and joins the Winabi basketball team.]]
* ''Film/AmericanHistoryX'': After the Neo-Nazi Derek attacks his own sister during a family dinner and drives his mother's Jewish boyfriend away, she realizes how lost her son is to her and disowns him. When she later visits him in prison she tells Derek that Danny worships him and is starting to follow in his path, but she doesn't want to give up both her sons. After Derek gets out of prison and becomes TheAtoner, his relationship with his mother has improved a lot.
* ''Film/TheAngelLevine'': Morris is Jewish, and ever since his daughter Ruth married an Italian, he has refused to acknowledge her as his daughter.
* In the 1994 version of ''Film/AngelsInTheOutfield'', Roger asked his biological father when they could become a family again. His father sarcastically replied "When the Angels win the pennant," spurring his son to WishUponAStar for that very thing to happen, [[InnocentInaccurate not realizing]] his father was being sarcastic. Later, when his father officially gives up custody of Roger to the state of California, Roger is excited to be called in, as the Angels are rocketing up the standings and on the verge of winning the American League... only for his father to pat his shoulder one last time, quietly apologizing before walking out of his life. As the movie is focused entirely on Roger's perspective, the only insight offered as to ''why'' his father gave up custody is him remarking to the judge that he's not proud of it, leaving it open as to whether [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation he was just selfish and didn't want to deal with raising a kid, or if he gave him up to give him a chance at a better life than he could provide]].
* In the ''Film/{{Apocalypse}}'' film series movie ''Tribulation'', Tom Canboro's brother Calvin disavows any knowledge of their sister Eileen and has his family pictures photoshopped to remove any evidence of her, at the time of the Tribulation when Eileen was CaughtUpInTheRapture and Calvin had taken the MarkOfTheBeast.
* A common trope in UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} movies and ''Film/{{Baghban}}'' is no different. Raj disowns his four sons after the misery they put him and Pooja through. A bit of an {{Inver|tedTrope}}sion with Alok, though. He is not biological, but the adopted son of Raj and Pooja. However, in the end, Raj sees him as his only son.
* ''Film/BonnieAndBonnie'': Yara's older sister Leyla was disowned for marrying someone whom her father didn't approve of (implied to be a non-Muslim) and moved away. Her sister resents her "abandoning" them though Yara comes to understand after doing much the same thing over her forbidden love for Kiki.
* While the exact words are not used in ''Film/BooneTheBountyHunter'', Cole abandons Ryan as dead weight at the end of the film.
* ''Film/CarmenYLola'': Lola's father angrily declares she's no longer his daughter publicly after learning about her dating Carmen and being a lesbian.
* In the 2000s film version of ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', this is used as part of Willy Wonka's backstory, which was made up just for this movie.[[note]]It was done in order to explain why he acts the way he does. He wasn't given any kind of back story in the book, or the [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory previous film version.]][[/note]] Wilbur, his father and a dentist, did not want his son to be a chocolatier, so Willy tells him that he will run away from home. Wilbur angrily responds, "I won't be here when you get back." Becomes an ExaggeratedTrope when Willy returns to find ''the entire house'' missing from the street. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that he had saved every newspaper article about his son.]]
* The Hong Kong film ''Film/ColdWar2012''. [[spoiler:Deputy Commissioner Lee discovers his own son Constable Joe Lee -- a talented police constable -- is behind the conspiracy to abduct five Hong Kong police officers (to discredit Lee's rival for promotion, whom his son thinks is a desk man not suited to the job). Joe refuses to believe his father will arrest his only son, only for Lee to draw his pistol on him...then offer it butt first. Joe smirks and takes the pistol, only to be immediately shot by a police sniper. Lee says afterwards that offering Joe the pistol was a test, and that by failing it he is no longer his son.]]
* ''Film/DieAnotherDay'': [[spoiler:Colonel Tan-Sun Moon]]/Gustav Graves attempts to explain his EvilPlan to [[spoiler:his father General Moon, telling how the KillSat he obtained could be used to destroy the Korean Demilitarized Zone, allowing renegade North Korean soldiers to invade and occupy South Korea. But his father, who had hopes of having a peaceful reunion between the two Koreas and hoped his son would act as a bridge between North Korea and the West, simply disowns him by telling that his son died the day he plunged into the waterfall, having realized and ashamed the cold-blooded monster his son has now become. [[VillainousBreakdown This causes Graves/Moon to kill him out of anger]], only for 007 to kill him in rage.]]
* In ''Film/TheHandsOfOrlac'', Orlac's father despises his son for reasons that are never established. When Orlac's wife Yvonne goes to him to beg for help because they are on the verge of financial ruin because of Orlac's CareerEndingInjury, the father refuses because he wishes to see his son suffer.
* ''Film/HeadOffice'': Senator Issel's reaction to his son being honest about how his employer's and the senator's bribe-givers are {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s is to say "[n]o he isn't" when a reporter asks if Jack is his son.
* ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008'': After Banner is captured in New York, Betty Ross deploys this on her father, the general who's been hounding him for the entire movie.
-->'''Betty:''' Don't ever speak to me as your daughter again.
* Famously done in the 1980 version of ''Film/TheJazzSinger'', with that very line delivered by Creator/LaurenceOlivier in full-on LargeHam mode. Slightly more underplayed in the 1927 version, with the TropeNamer title card "My son was to stand at my side and sing tonight -- but now I have no son."
* After Dr. Lanyon hears that his daughter Sara has been once again seen together with Dr. Jekyll in ''Jekyll & Hyde'' (1990) tv-movie, he disowns her and has her thrown out of his house, because he believes that she is cheating on her husband with Dr. Jekyll, bringing shame to her family.
* Happens in any number of UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} films. ''Film/KabhiKushiKabhieGham'' is a good example that adds an extra twist since [[spoiler:the disowned son is actually adopted and states that if his father had not specifically said "You're not my son", he may have actually tried to mend bridges sooner]].
* In ''Film/TheKarateKidPartII'', Chozen refuses to help Daniel rescue the bell ringer girl during a hurricane, and when his uncle Sato helps Daniel instead, Sato declares that he is "dead" to Chozen...thus setting up the final climactic battle between Chozen, Daniel, and uncle issues[[note]]When Sato tries to talk him out of it, he throws his words back in his face: "I cannot hear you, Uncle. 'I am dead to you', remember?"[[/note]].
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'': In a marvelously hammy yet tragic scene, Denethor tells this to Faramir.
* ''Film/LordOfWar'': An unusual example, in that it happens towards the end and isn't reconciled. The main character's brother is killed after being dragged back into an illicit business for [[RetIrony "One last time,"]] and the main character is arrested. He calls his parents from jail to tell them what happened to him and his brother, to which the mother's only response is "Both my sons are dead."
* In the Creator/AllySheedy comedy ''Film/MaidToOrder1987'', she plays the daughter of a wealthy philanthropist (played by Tom Skerritt) who has been magically {{unperson}}ed from her father's life when her carefree hard-partying lifestyle wears thin on his patience with her, and thus she has to seek employment as a maid in order to regain any respect.
* ''Film/ANewYorkChristmasWedding'': Gabby's parents disowned her when she got pregnant out of wedlock. Twenty years later in the new timeline, they still haven't reconciled, and only her brother goes to her wedding.
* ''Film/NocturnalAnimals'': Susan says that her parents have disowned her brother because he's openly gay.
* In ''Film/PeachBlossomWeepsTearsOfBlood'', Mrs. King refuses to let her son Teh-en marry peasant girl Lim. But after Teh-en receives word that Lim is dying, he rejects his mother, saying "Consider that you have never had me as your son."
* In ''Film/PleaseTurnOver'', Edward declares this about Jo after he and his family are made a mockery in her book, ''Naked Revolt'':
-->'''Gladys''': I have some digestive biscuits in my room, Edward. They will suffice until I finish reading your ''daughter's'' book.
-->'''Edward''': What's all this "your daughter's" stuff, may I ask? She's your niece, you know! And there aren't any writers in ''my'' family!
* ''Film/APrincessForChristmas'': Edward had disowned Charles in the past for marrying a commoner. His butler invites Charles' children and their aunt to Edward's home for Christmas, which kicks off the plot. Edward admits doing this was wrong, regretting it after Charles died along with his wife.
* In the American version of ''Film/TheRing'', after Rachel Keller asks former horse breeder Richard Morgan about where his daughter would be, he coldly responds with, "I don't have a daughter." This doesn't stop her or her ex-husband Noah from digging deeper into the family's history.
* ''Film/TheRobe'': When Marcellus Gallio helps his former slave, Demetrius of Corinth, escape from Caligula, Marcellus' father, Senator Gallio, says this to Marcellus and accuses him of "making himself an enemy of Rome" when doing this for Demetrius.
* In ''Film/ShanghaiKnights'', Chon Wang's father has disowned him for staying in America and abandoning his family. [[spoiler: The ending may or may not be a subversion due to the puzzle box message.]]
* ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'': Sybok was exiled from Vulcan for his heretical beliefs and lifestyle. He was cut off from his family officially and so completely that Starfleet had no record of Spock having an older brother until circumstances forced a confrontation between Sybok and the ''Enterprise''. Although Sybok and Spock reconciled, Sybok's outcast status did not (especially since [[spoiler:Sybok was killed shortly thereafter]]).
* In ''Film/TheStoningOfSorayaM'', right before throwing his stone at Soraya, the father proclaims that he doesn't have a daughter anymore.
* In ''Film/AStudyInTerror'', the Duke of Shires disowned his eldest son Michael for daring to study medicine against his wishes. As he puts it, no Osborne should ever sink so low as to pursue 'a trade'.
* ''Film/{{Tevya}}'': "Khave is no more! She is dead!", says Tevye after his daughter goes through with converting to Christianity and marrying a Gentile.
* Justified in ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'': As it turns out, the father in this case has a very valid reason to make such a claim.
-->"[[ChangelingFantasy You're a bastard in a basket!]]"
* ''Film/{{The Viking|1928}}'': When Leif reveals himself as a Christian, his father Eric makes his disapproval known by hurling an axe at him, and when Leif reproaches him for attacking his own son, Eric asserts that "[w]hen you turned from the gods of our fathers, you ceased to be a son of mine."
* A brotherly version happens in the ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' movie, when Scowler callously kicks Patchi out of the herd and leaves him to die. When Juniper tries to get him to help because they're brothers, he coldly tells her "I don't have a brother". But immediately afterwards Gorgon attacks and mauls Scowler to near death, causing Scowler to take back disowning Patchi and [[BigBrotherInstinct warn him to stay away from Gorgon and head to safety]].
* Exaggerated and definitely not played for laughs in ''Film/WhenDarknessFalls'', after [[spoiler:Nina is [[OffingTheOffspring honor-killed by her family]] and her non-participant sister Leyla asks her father where her sister's body is]]:
-->'''Leyla:''' Where is Nina?\\
'''Father:''' You've never had a sister who is called "Nina".
* ''Film/ToWongFooThanksForEverythingJulieNewmar'': It's implied that Vida Boheme got disowned by "her" family, or at least her mother, for becoming a DragQueen. When she drives by her old home, her mother steps outside, though scowls before walking back. This prompts a minor HeroicBSOD in Vida.
* PlayedWith in ''Film/X2XMenUnited''. When Xavier asks William Stryker how he could think of lobotomizing his son, he replies "my son is dead", but before he orders him to launch his attack against all mutants, he says "Make me proud, son."
* ''Film/YoungAndWild'': Daniela's older sister was disowned for having had extramarital sex with her boyfriend then marrying him against her mother's wishes. She won't let Daniela see her, though their aunt still arranged a secret reunion. [[spoiler:When her mother catches on that she's been having sex with Tomás, it's later implied that she'd been disowned for this since she just stays off to the side with her sister at their aunt's funeral, her mother giving them dirty looks.]]
* Derek Film/{{Zoolander}}'s estranged father feels and acts this way when the remaining family members are in the "Mining Shaft" bar in rural "Mine Country" and a somewhat embarrassing advertising spot comes on TV that shows Derek as a Mermaid uttering nonsensical phrases about water and being wet.
-->'''Derek's father:''' You're dead to me, son. You're even more dead to me than your dead mother. I just thank the Lord she didn't live to see her son as a mermaid!\\
'''Derek:''' Mer''man''! Mer''man''!!!

[[folder:Music]]
* The Courtyard Hounds' song "Ain't No Son", which deals with a father disowning his son, directly references this trope.
-->''He said "You ain't no son to me\\
You ain't no son to me\\
Eight-pound baby boy I bounced on my knee\\
No, you ain't no son of mine"''
* "The Last Song" by Music/EltonJohn actually averts this. The song is about a young gay man who is dying of AIDS, and his estranged father returns to care for him at his end, leading to them coming to an understanding with each other.
* The Music/{{Genesis|Band}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f2Pt1aqDMo song]] "No Son of Mine" is about an abused son and his abusive father. After having enough of the torment, the unnamed boy runs away. However, he cannot escape the emotional scars his father left him with and some untold time later he returns to his family. When he returns his father sits him down and tells him, "You're no son, you're no son of mine / You're no son, you're no son of mine / You walked out, you left us behind / And you're no son, you're no son of mine". The boy, still trapped in this abusive relationship, states he will live to regret being told these words.
** Also, band member Mike Rutherford's solo hit "The Living Years".
* The lines of Music/GeorgeMichael's "Praying For Time" implies this on a cosmic scale with God:
-->''And you cling to the things they sold you.\\
Did you cover your eyes when they told you\\
That He can't come back\\
'cause He has no children to come back for?''
* "Jesse Younger" by country musician Creator/KrisKristofferson deals with a man named Jessie Younger who is in all but name disowned by his parents after he starts refusing to live his life the way they want him too and insists on speaking his own mind. As a result, his younger brother is treated by his parents as if he is their only son.
* Victor Lundberg's [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]]-era spoken-word hit "Open Letter to My Teenage Son" ends with the narrator-father telling his kid, "If you decide to burn your draft card, then burn your birth certificate at the same time; from that moment on, I have no son!"
* In [[Music/WASPBand W.A.S.P.'s]] 1992 concept album ''Music/TheCrimsonIdol'', the protagonist Jonathan calls his estranged parents one last time after realizing how unfulfilling his life as a rock star is. The conversation ends with "we have no son." Jonathan then [[spoiler:kills himself on stage during the concert later that night]].

[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
* In ''Literature/TheBible'', according to some students of it, Cain's murder of his brother Abel caused him to be disowned by his parents, as they started over with their third son Seth and numerous other sons and daughters.
* In the Literature/BookOfHosea, Hosea marries a prostitute who bears three children. Two of them God tells him to name "Lo-Ruhama" and "Lo-Ammi", which literally mean "not loved" and "not mine".
* In Literature/TheFourGospels, Jesus treats His mother Mary and His relatives as if they weren't biologically related to each other, with Jesus Himself saying, "Whoever does the will of My Father in heaven, the same is My brother, My sister, and My mother," emphasizing the spiritual birth of becoming believers over the natural birth of fleshly beings. Not that Jesus treats His biological relatives with any ill-will, as on the cross before His death He does give His mother's care over to His disciple John, "the disciple that He loved".

[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
* This is played with quite often in the Wrestling/{{WWE}} dynamic between Wrestling/TheUndertaker, Wrestling/{{Kane}}, and Wrestling/PaulBearer. As it turned out, Wrestling/PaulBearer was Wrestling/{{Kane}}'s biological father, but at various times, he favored either one. At Wrestling/WrestleMania XX, he told Wrestling/{{Kane}} before introducing an again-reanimated Undertaker, "You're no son of mine!"
* [[Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} Saraya Knight]] infamously did this to [[Wrestling/{{Paige}} her daughter, Britani Knight]], after [[KickTheDog the latter]] [[DisproportionateRetribution lost a match,]] and then [[AbusiveParents slapped her]]. [[TheDogBitesBack Britani snapped and attacked Saraya]], and in the middle of the fight, invoked the trope right back at her by declaring that 'If you want to beat up a daughter, then you are no mother of mine either!'

[[folder:Roleplay]]
* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', [[RebelliousSpirit Sumrah]], [[ManipulativeBastard Belial's]] older son, begins to rebel against his father's methods and refuses to follow the path he has set him on. Their arguments escalate over the years until both become so frustrated with one another that Sumrah leaves his home and enlists in the Maar Sulais military and Belial disowns him.
* Used as part of the KarmicTwistEnding in the third iteration of ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'': [[spoiler:[[TheBadGuyWins J.R. Rizzolo]]]] emerges as the game's winner, only to find after he gets home that his family, in response to him actively playing the DeadlyGame and him [[NearRapeExperience nearly going ahead with raping another student]] before deciding to instead [[EyeScream cut her eye out]], had packed up and abandoned him.

[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/Space1889'': In the adventure Mission to Shaptash in Challenge 76, a wealthy American has the player characters inform his son that unless he stops fighting the British as a privateer he will be disowned and disinherited.

* Wild child Gau in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' was abandoned at birth by his father because the mother died during childbirth and he went mad from it. This leads to Gau being [[RaisedByWolves raised by monsters]] and while Gau isn't fully capable of meshing with society, he considers the main characters his friends and he helps them out to save the world. A year later after the world is ruined, the party finds Gau's father and they go to great lengths to dress up Gau and teach him how to speak properly so that the reunion would be a happy one. However, the man is still insane and claims that he has no son, but briefly mentions that he once had a nightmare of the birth of a "demon child" that he abandoned. He actually believes that it was only a dream and that he really never had a son, but he compliments Gau on being a fine young man. Gau chooses not to tell him the truth but is happy that he was able to see him again.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'':
** The Level 50-60 Dark Knight missions deal with this: [[spoiler:the PlayerCharacter aids a Dark Knight named Sidurgu protect a young girl named Rielle, who is being hunted by Ishgard's Temple Knights. As you take down the knights and protect the girl, you're ultimately confronted by Ystride, who is revealed to be the girl's mother, who keeps referring to Rielle as an "it" and refuses to do anything with her. As Sidurgu reveals to you at the start of the Level 58 mission after piecing together all the clues, Rielle was the daughter of Ystride and a man later revealed to be a Heretic spy who had apparently drank dragon's blood for ''decades''. Ystride, a fervently religious woman snapped at the revelation and locked away her daughter, declaring her a monster and attempts to murder her.]]
** During the main scenario quest in Patch 5.55, [[spoiler:Fourchenault Leveilleur, a powerful member of the Forum, the governing body of the isolationist nation of Sharlayan, arrives to Gridania to deliver a callous refusal from Sharlayan to intervene in the growing conflict between Eorzea and the Telophoroi. When his children, twins Alphinaud and Alisaie, protest the decision, a furious Fourchenault, perceiving the opposing as a sign of his children GoingNative against Sharlayan's isolationist philosophy, disowns both of them in public. One can tell the twins do not take this well.]]
** [[spoiler:Though ultimately a more positive example, Fourchenault always loved his children deeply and worked only to make sure they, and as many people as they could take with them, survived a prophesized apocalypse.]]

* In ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'', we find out that the Nightwing in the Regime universe is [[spoiler:actually Damian Wayne and that, prior to the story, he ''killed'' Dick Grayson. When Insurgency!Batman and Regime!Nightwing fight and Batman wins, he tells Damian "You're ''dead'' to me."]] ... Except the tie-in prequel comic revealed that [[spoiler: Damian killed Dick ''by accident'' and was devastated at [[WhatHaveIDone what he did]], but Batman still ignored his pleas and took Dick's body away, leaving Superman to take Damian in.]]

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See also: ChangelingFantasy, {{Unperson}}, AcquaintanceDenial, and WhereDidWeGoWrong. JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith ThatThingIsNotMyChild or with HeirClubForMen, where ''literally'' not having a son is the source of the problem. Contrast the inverse trope, DisownedParent (where a child disowns their parent), YoureNotMyFather, which is the opposite and is more often aimed at a ParentalSubstitute, and HatesTheirParent, the more general trope for when it's the kid with the issue, not the parent.