History Main / ParentalBetrayal

** [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/235391.html#cutid1 Jason Todd]], as you know, had horrible luck with his mom too. After finding out that his mother who raised him was not his biological mother, Jason sets out across the globe searching for his birth mother. Eventually Jason is reunited with her; however Jason's mother is evil. There is really no other way to describe a woman who would so willingly and suddenly [[http://i30.tinypic.com/2nr1xy1.jpg betray her fifteen year old son]] to [[http://i26.tinypic.com/dlsveo.jpg the Joker]] and [[http://i27.tinypic.com/2vwzd76.jpg actually stand there watching him be beaten brutally to near death with a crow bar]], all the while looking none too fazed. After all this happens, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder the Joker betrays her]], ties her up and leaves her and Jason in a room with a bomb. Jason, injured though he is, tries to save the mother who just betrayed him. He cuts the ropes binding her and together they make it to the door. [[http://i25.tinypic.com/28jzewg.jpg Naturally the door is locked.]] The bomb explodes, Jason and his mother die. He got better.

* Played straight and then inverted in [[{{Angel}} Angel's final season]] episode 'Lineage'. Roger Wyndam-Pryce, Wesley's father. It turns out he intends to steal Angel's free will. Then it turns out he was a robot (which was shot by Wesley BEFORE the revelation).

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''. Carl Clover, a young boy who's innocent and cheery, was deeply traumatized when it turns out his father Relius nonchalantly turned his sister Ada into a Nox Nyctores, a mechanical doll known as Nirvana... and it was incomplete, and he just left the incomplete Nirvana for Carl to finish. This event caused Carl to become extremely bitter to both the world and adults in general. Making matters worse, the next time he met Relius, he found out that Relius did the same to Carl's mom, Relius' wife, Ignis, and ''still'' with the same nonchalant attitude of ForScience Yeah, [[CompleteMonster he's beyond douche]].

See also ParentalAbandonment. OffingTheOffspring can either ensue after this, or be the way this trope is revealed.

* [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Depending on who you ask]], this may be present in ''{{Firefly}}'' in the form of River and Simon Tam's parents, whose callous disregard for River's plight at the [[SchoolForScheming Academy]] may have been due to foreknowledge of what the Academy was [[MindRape doing to her.]]

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Not the same as LukeIAmYourFather, which is basically the inverse - the villain (who was previously shown) is suddenly revealed to be the parent, rather than the other way around.

* In the ''GreyGriffins'' books, Max's father turns out to be evil and wishes to use Max to gain access to a world-destroying artifact. He has no qualms about killing his own son and his son's friends - genuinely shocking to Max, since he doesn't get along with his mom, and had always preferred his dad.

* ''TwentyFour'': [[spoiler:Jack's father]] was a Big Bad, the Man behind the Man ([[spoiler:Graem]]) behind the Man ([[spoiler:President Logan]]) behind the Man (attempted assassination of the Russian President). [More behind the Mans possible, I can't keep track.] Attempted to kill his son.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' it turns out that [[spoiler: Hiroshi Sato]] is an Equalist. The traditional "WeCanRuleTogether" spiel is given, but the child violently refuses.

** In ''Silent Hill Homecoming'', [[spoiler:the descendants of the town founders all killed their kids as a sacrifice, except for Alex's parents. They were intended to kill Alex, but complications arose, and Alex's dad went back on his "duty".]]
* In ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' [[spoiler:Leah's mother Adria reveals herself to be Diablo's high priestess and shoves the Black Soulstone into Leah's chest, turning her into Diablo's new host.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra]] it turns out that [[spoiler: Hiroshi Sato]] is an Equalist. The traditional "WeCanRuleTogether" spiel is given, but the child violently refuses.

** [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/235391.html#cutid1 Jason Todd]], as you know, had horrible luck with his mom too. After finding out that his mother who raised him was not his biological mother, Jason sets out across the globe searching for his birth mother. Eventually Jason is reunited with her; however Jason's mother is evil. There is really no other way to describe a woman who would so willingly and suddenly [[http://i30.tinypic.com/2nr1xy1.jpg betray her fifteen year old son]] to [[http://i26.tinypic.com/dlsveo.jpg the Joker]] and [[http://i27.tinypic.com/2vwzd76.jpg actually stand there watching him be beaten brutally to near death with a crow bar]], all the while looking none too fazed. After all this happens, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder the Joker betrays her]], ties her up and leaves her and Jason in a room with a bomb. Jason, injured though he is, tries to save the mother who just betrayed him. He cuts the ropes binding her and together they make it to the door. [[http://i25.tinypic.com/28jzewg.jpg Naturally the door is locked.]] The bomb explodes, Jason and his mother die. [[IGotBetter He got better.]]

* The ''SilentHill'' series does this several times:
** In the original ''SilentHill'', Dahlia Gillespie set her own daughter on fire, but magically kept her alive, to force the girl to use her magic powers for Dahlia's own sinister purposes. This is referenced in ''Silent Hill 3'' and ''Silent Hill Origins''.
** In ''Silent Hill Homecoming'', [[spoiler:the descendants of the town founders all killed their kids as a sacrifice, except for Alex's parents. They were intended to kill Alex, but complications arose, and Alex's dad went back on his "duty".]]
* ''TwentyFour'': [[spoiler:Jack's father]] was a Big Bad, the Man behind the Man ([[spoiler:Graem]]) behind the Man ([[spoiler:President Logan]]) behind the Man (attempted assassination of the Russian President). [More behind the Mans possible, I can't keep track.] Attempted to kill his son.
* Played straight and then inverted in [[{{Angel}} Angel's final season]] episode 'Lineage'. Roger Wyndam-Pryce, Wesley's father. It turns out he intends to steal Angel's free will. Then it turns out he was a robot (which was shot by Wesley BEFORE the revelation).
* In the ''GreyGriffins'' books, Max's father turns out to be evil and wishes to use Max to gain access to a world-destroying artifact. He has no qualms about killing his own son and his son's friends - genuinely shocking to Max, since he doesn't get along with his mom, and had always preferred his dad.
* This is the premise of Marvel's ''{{Runaways}}''. Children learn that their parents are supervillains, and run away from home, fearing they would otherwise grow up to be like them.
* [[spoiler:Sarah]]'s dad and [[spoiler:Bree]]'s mom in ''{{lonelygirl15}}'' are both examples.

** [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/235391.html#cutid1 Jason Todd]], as you know, had horrible luck with his mom too. After finding out that his mother who raised him was not his biological mother, Jason sets out across the globe searching for his birth mother. Eventually Jason is reunited with her, however Jason's mother is evil. There is really no other way to describe a woman who would so willingly and suddenly [[http://i30.tinypic.com/2nr1xy1.jpg betray her fifteen year old son]] to [[http://i26.tinypic.com/dlsveo.jpg the Joker]] and [[http://i27.tinypic.com/2vwzd76.jpg actually stand there watching him be beaten brutally to near death with a crow bar]], all the while looking none too fazed. After all this happens, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder the Joker betrays her]], ties her up and leaves her and Jason in a room with a bomb. Jason, injured though he is, tries to save the mother who just betrayed him. He cuts the ropes binding her and together they make it to the door. [[http://i25.tinypic.com/28jzewg.jpg Naturally the door is locked.]] The bomb explodes, Jason and his mother die. [[IGotBetter He got better.]]

* While on the extremely low end of this trope, {{Beyblade}} has Judy Tate, who sandbags her visiting son Max mizuhara and his friends into being test subjects for the corporation she works at, mostly so they can obtain data to beat the Bladebreakers. Later in the series, she does aid them, and is not truly a big bad. Also, when her son's victory [[spoiler: causes a power surge that wipes out all her research]] she smiles and simply starts over, and wishes her boy well. But she sees no conflict in using her son this way, openly mocks his philosophy (while half-allowing for the possibility of it)until beaten, and even chides his teammates for not seeing the deceptive methods she used as 'a friendly match', and the only ones who call her out are the other people at her corporation, who wonder if her loyalty to Max will affect their research.

* There would be no Far Side routes if this wasn't the case for Shiki/Akiha in {{Tsukihime}}. [[spoiler:Foster father, sure, but considered to be his father more than Kiri Nanaya is except by his doctor.]]
* In ''MassEffect'', Wrex eventually explains that he was a leader of his people back on his homeworld following the Krogan Rebellions. He was advocating peace so that the krogan could rebuild, but his father, Jarrod, was a rival warlord pushing for war. Wrex and Jarrod agreed to meet at neutral ground to discuss their differences. Being [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy krogan]], though, it could only end [[BlastOut one way]]. Jarrod's troops managed to wipe out Wrex's followers, forcing him to leave the planet both for his own survival and because he was disgusted with his own species' self-destructive nature, but not before Wrex managed to kill his father for the betrayal.

* The ''{{Batman}} R.I.P.'' comics storyline toys with the possibility that the villain responsible for the defining tragedy in Bruce Wayne's life was [[spoiler: Thomas Wayne, who had his wife Martha killed while faking his own death]].
** The conclusion of the story kinda seems to confirm that someone was just messing with him in the end.

* While on the extremely low end of this trope, {{Beyblade}} has Judy Tate, who sandbags her visiting son Max and his friends into being test subjects for the corporation she works at, mostly so they can obtain data to beat the Bladebreakers. Later in the series, she does aid them, and is not truly a big bad. Also, when her son's victory [[spoiler: causes a power surge that wipes out all her research]] she smiles and simply starts over, and wishes her boy well. But she sees no conflict in using her son this way, openly mocks his philosophy (while half-allowing for the possibility of it)until beaten, and even chides his teammates for not seeing the deceptive methods she used as 'a friendly match', and the only ones who call her out are the other people at her corporation, who wonder if her loyalty to Max will affect their research. This troper imagines there must be more than a little FanFic addressing this.

* [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/235391.html#cutid1 Jason Todd]] of ''{{Batman}}''. After finding out that his mother who raised him was not his biological mother, Jason sets out across the globe searching for his birth mother. Eventually Jason is reunited with her, however Jason's mother is evil. There is really no other way to describe a woman who would so willingly and suddenly [[http://i30.tinypic.com/2nr1xy1.jpg betray her fifteen year old son]] to [[http://i26.tinypic.com/dlsveo.jpg the Joker]] and [[http://i27.tinypic.com/2vwzd76.jpg actually stand there watching him be beaten brutally to near death with a crow bar]], all the while looking none too fazed. After all this happens, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder the Joker betrays her]], ties her up and leaves her and Jason in a room with a bomb. Jason, injured though he is, tries to save the mother who just betrayed him. He cuts the ropes binding her and together they make it to the door. [[http://i25.tinypic.com/28jzewg.jpg Naturally the door is locked.]] The bomb explodes, Jason and his mother die. [[IGotBetter He got better.]]

* [[{{Batman}} Damian Wayne]] wasn't pleased at all when his mother willingly allowed Slade to control his body by means of implanting a device in his spine. And when he supported Dick and his father's ideals rather than his mother's, [[spoiler: he found out that Talia had actually created another clone of Damian because he wasn't "perfect enough". Then she kicked him out from the house of Al Ghul and told him not to come back, while all Damian wanted was some of his mother's love.]] JerkAssWoobie indeed.

* ''TwentyFour'': [[spoiler:Jack's father]] was a Big Bad, the Man behind the Man ([[spoiler:Graem]]) behind the Man ([[spoiler:President Logan]]) behind the Man (attemped assassination of the Russian President). [More behind the Mans possible, I can't keep track.] Attempted to kill his son.

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* Played straight and then inverted in [[{{ANgel}} Angel's final season]] episode 'Lineage'. Roger Wyndam-Pryce, Wesley's father. It turns out he intends to steal Angel's free will. Then it turns out he was a robot (which was shot by Wesley BEFORE the revelation).

* Played straight and then inverted in Angel's final season episode 'Lineage'. Roger Wyndam-Pryce, Wesley's father.
It turns out he intends to steal Angel's free will. Then it turns out he was a robot (which was shot by Wesley BEFORE the revelation).

* [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/235391.html#cutid1 Jason Todd]] of ''{{Batman}}''. After finding out that his mother who raised him was not his biological mother, Jason sets out across the globe searching for his birth mother. Eventually Jason is reunited with her, however Jason's mother is evil. There is really no other way to describe a woman who would so willingly and suddenly [[http://i30.tinypic.com/2nr1xy1.jpg betray her fifteen year old son]] to [[http://i26.tinypic.com/dlsveo.jpg the Joker]] and [[http://i27.tinypic.com/2vwzd76.jpg actually stand there watching him be beaten brutally to near death with a crow bar]], all the while looking none too fazed. After all this happens, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder the Joker betrays her]], ties her up and leaves her and Jason in a room with a bomb. Jason, injured though he is, tries to save the mother who just betrayed him. He cuts the ropes binding her and together they make it to the door. [[http://i25.tinypic.com/28jzewg.jpg Naturally the door is locked.]] The bomb explodes, Jason and his mother die and yeah...
** [[IGotBetter He got better...]]

* While on the extremely low end of this trope, Beyblade has Judy Tate, who sandbags her visiting son Max and his friends into being test subjects for the corporation she works at, mostly so they can obtain data to beat the Bladebreakers. Later in the series, she does aid them, and is not truly a big bad. Also, when her son's victory [[spoiler: causes a power surge that wipes out all her research]] she smiles and simply starts over, and wishes her boy well. But she sees no conflict in using her son this way, openly mocks his philosophy (while half-allowing for the possibility of it)until beaten, and even chides his teammates for not seeing the deceptive methods she used as 'a friendly match', and the only ones who call her out are the other people at her corporation, who wonder if her loyalty to Max will affect their research. This troper imagines there must be more than a little FanFic addressing this.