History Main / ResentfulGuardian

* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': Rosa Ushiromiya. [[MemeticMutation BEST MOM EVER]].
** Well, sometimes she's [[ResentfulGuardian this]] -- and sometimes she actually ''is'' the [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome BEST]] [[MamaBear MOM]] [[LastStand EVER]].

'''Beatrice:''' I'm punishing you for ''being alive''.

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At an extreme end, the resentment may build up to loathsome levels. They may or may not go the full hog into AbusiveParents but it will be obvious to those around them that it will lead to some level of neglect. Here then, the focus is more on the child trying to get some happiness away from their parent. Compare MaternalDeathBlameTheChild, when they (usually a father) resent the child because the mother died giving birth to the child.

At an extreme end, the resentment may build up to loathsome levels. They may or may not go the full hog into AbusiveParents but it will be obvious to those around them that it will lead to some level of neglect. Here then, the focus is more on the child trying to get some happiness away from their parent.

* ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'': Rosa Ushiromiya. [[MemeticMutation BEST MOM EVER]].

-->-- '''Ollie''', one of the ''least'' resentful examples, ''Film/JerseyGirl''

-->'''Young [=BoJack=]:''' Are you punishing me [[RadishCure for smoking]] or for stealing?
-->'''Beatrice:''' I'm punishing you for ''being alive''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', Pearl is this to Steven (but don't worry, it's {{Downplayed}} most of the time); his mom, Rose Quartz, who was also Pearl's ''LoveInterest'', [[DeathByChildbirth died giving birth to him.]]

-->'''Beatrice:''' I'm punishing you for ''being alive''.

* ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'': Rosa Ushiromiya. [[MemeticMutation BEST]] [[AbusiveParents MOM]] [[SarcasmMode EVER]].

* ''Film/RaisingHelen'' is about a woman named Helen who receives guardianship of her recently deceased sister's three kids but as it turns out she's the one who ends up growing up in the end hence the [[SarcasmMode hilarious (!)]] inversion in the title. She's got a high flying job at a modeling agency, a cool pad in Manhattan and is contractually obliged to party at 3 am in the morning. Next thing we know, she's moved to Queens, is handling school runs and is sleeping with a Lutheran minister to get them into a good school (note, cause and effect may not be as stated).

At an extreme end, the resent may build up to loathsome levels. They may or may not go the full hog into AbusiveParents but it will be obvious to those around them that it will lead to some level of neglect. Here then, the focus is more on the child trying to get some happiness away from their parent.

* ''Manga/ElfenLied'' has [[TheWoobie Mayu]]. Her own mother slaps her in the face when Mayu tells her about her stepfather [[spoiler:molesting her.]] Her own mother only sees her as competition.

* Squee's father in ''JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'' and ''ComicBook/{{Squee}}''. Probably his mom, too, though it's implied her neglectful parenting is more because she's a drunk and a drug addict than anything.

* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' has many examples, mostly pertaining to [[TheChewToy Sato]][[CheerfulChild ko]] When her parents die, she's forced into her aunt and uncle's household, which causes them both to resent her and abuse her. The aunt loves to whip her and call her names while the uncle forces her to be his slave and go out and buy alcohol for his buddies.

->''I hate you right back you little shit! You and your mom took my life away from me. I just want it back!''

->''Who leaves a kid with someone like me? No way in hell!''
-->-- '''Otto Heckel''', ''{{Anime/Monster}}''

* ''Film/TheBabadook'' contains shades of this, as [[spoiler: her husband died en route to the hospital, leaving her to raise a troubled young son on her own]].

* ''Film/TheBabadook'' contains shades of this, and even includes a shouted WhyCantYouBeNormal

* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'''s parents hold this view of their son - his father was the victim of a ShotgunWedding, while his mother hates Bojack for saddling her with his father.

--->'''Young [=BoJack=]:''' Are you punishing me [[RadishCure for smoking]] or for stealing?
--->'''Beatrice:''' I'm punishing you for ''being alive''.

--->'''Abe''': If I hadn't taken that stupid tonic 38 years ago, you'd have never been born and I'd have been happy. '''You were an accident'''!\\

** Abe Simpson also can swing in and out of it as well.

* Ollie from KevinSmith's ''Film/JerseyGirl'' ended up as a single father when his wife died in childbirth, he then lost his job when screwing up at work from the overloaded stress soon after. He then spends seven years working as a manual laborer, living at his dad's place, raising his daughter pretty damn well in fact but then he gets to thinking he wants his old public relations job back. Cue struggle to convince his family, cue arguments with daughter who doesn't want to move, cue page quote (wow!), cue moment where, after meeting with incidental stranger (who in this case is WillSmith, not played by, ''is'' WillSmith) realizes he should run back and attend his daughter's musical performance instead of going to his job interview.