History Main / WhereDidWeGoWrong

* In ''AxisPowersHetalia'', the American Revolution is pretty much portrayed this way. [[spoiler:PlayedForDrama, the scene with the rainy battlefield where a desperate England, with his army lost, attacks, disarms but still can't shoot America, before breaking down in tears, is a famous TearJerker.]] To quote America's thoughts... "You used to be... so big..."

* In ''WebComic/SabrinaOnline'', the same concept used in the DeviantArt comic is applied to one of the main characters - Sabrina's boyfriend. His parents are ultra-liberal flower-child hippies, and extremely open-minded -- and he rebelled by becoming a perfectly straight-laced IT graduate, working tech-support for Microsoft.
* Played with in [[http://joshnickerson.deviantart.com/art/Tattoo-Rebel-168895732 this]] comic on DeviantArt.

"Where did we go wrong...? This trope was supposed to be like me, the SelfDemonstratingArticle!"

* ''FamilyTies'': Alex P. Keaton was a business suit wearing Republican teenager born to hippy parents.
* ''[[SeventhHeaven 7th Heaven]]'': The Kamdens have to deal with their rebellious, eldest daughter.

* It's quite common for children raised in highly conservative families to grow up with the opposite viewpoints of their parents. This can happen to children raised in decidedly socialist or liberal families too.

* In AxisPowersHetalia, the American Revolution is pretty much portrayed this way. [[spoiler:PlayedForDrama, the scene with the rainy battlefield where a desperate England, with his army lost, attacks, disarmes but still can't shoot America, before breaking down in tears, is a famous TearJerker.]] To quote America's thoughts... "You used to be... so big..."

* Both versions of ''FreakyFriday'' or its many rip-offs utilize this trope but also subvert it in that in the end, it's shown that the teenagers and parents weren't quite as different as initially believed.
* Gus of MyBigFatGreekWedding agonizes over his daughter [[BlackSheep Toula]] wanting to go to college, work with computers, and date and marry a non-Greek man instead of wanting to StayInTheKitchen and become a Greek BabyFactory like all the other women in the family.

* It's quite common for children raised in highly conservative families to grow up with the opposite viewpoints of their parents. This can happen to children raised in highly liberal families too.

* It's quite common for children raised in highly conservative families to grow up with the opposite viewpoints of their parents.
* This can happen to children raised in highly liberal families too.
** A joke my father used to tell me was that kids in our very liberal town would rebel as teenagers by combing their hair and voting Republican.

* Much of the focus of WeNeedToTalkAboutKevin (and the FilmOfTheBook) is Eva trying to work out whether she ''did'' do anything wrong during her school-shooter son's upbringing. While Eva seems to think that there was something wrong with Kevin from the moment he was born (he seemed to spurn contact and affection from the moment he left the womb), she is also well aware that she was a bad mother, and that this may have contributed to his apparent sociopathy. [[spoiler: The question is not answered; Eva comes to no conclusion one way or the other, and the fact that she's an UnreliableNarrator means any thoughts she does have are suspect anyway.]]

* The Pinkmans (Jesse's parents) spend pretty much all of their time embodying this trope in BreakingBad. As Jesse's mom says to him at one point (while throwing him out of his house): "Why are you like this?".

* The Pinkmans (Jesse's parents) spend pretty much all of their time embodying this trope in BreakingBad.

** It's eventually revealed that Francine's parenting alone would turn Steve into a lazy, slovenly, spoiled brat, whereas Stan's parenting alone would turn Steve into a cat-killing sociopath.

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* ''AustinPowers'': Dr. Evil asks where he went wrong out loud in response to Scott Evil not living up to his father's expectations in the first two movies. They reconcile in the third movie [[spoiler: although Dr. Evil does a HeelFaceTurn, leaving Scott as the lone BigBad.]]

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"Where did we go wrong...? This trope was supposed to be like me, the SelfDemonstratingArticle!"

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* Disturbingly, the parents of the Columbine Killers had no idea what their boys were up to and were at a loss about what they did.
* [[http://www.amazon.com/Fathers-Story-Mans-Anguish-Confronting/dp/0751513105/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1288839789&sr=8-4 Lionel Dahmer]] was certainly at a loss for [[SerialKiller his son Jeffrey's]] horrifying urges.
* It's quite common for children raised in highly conservative families to grow up with the opposite viewpoints of their parents.
* This can happen to children raised in highly liberal families too.
** A joke my father used to tell me was that kids in our very liberal town would rebel as teenagers by combing their hair and voting Republican.

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-->She's (What did we do that was wrong?)

* PlayedForDrama in ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', where Taylor's father Danny-an honest man from a working-class family who did his best to raise her alone after her mother's death-wonder's what he did wrong to make his only daughter turn into a [[VillainProtagonist ruthless supervillain with an iron grip on the city's underworld.]]

''These'' kids ended up having their own views of how the world works. For better or worse, they don't share their parents interests, they don't want to enter the same careers, or worst of all, they may not share their parents' [[BerserkButton political or religious views.]] This leads the parents to wonder, "Where did we go wrong?".

* TheBeatles' ''She's Leaving Home,'' on the third refrain:

* Subverted in an episode of {{Beetlejuice}} where B.J. and Lydia are involved in a road race with their car Doomie. Scuzzo and Fuzzo set a booby trap along a short cut, but Doomie refuses to take it in spite of B.J.'s wishes. "Where did I go right?" B.J. asks.

* Dick Dastardly asks this in the ''WackyRaces'' episode "Race To Racine" after Muttley sabotages him instead of the intended victims the Ant Hill Mob.

* TheBeatles' ''She's Leaving Home,'' on the third refrain"

* ''MoralOrel'': Played straight on the AdultSwim show with a heavy case of CerebusSyndrome. This is also a case in which it's seen as a very good thing that the kid will not end up like his parents.

* In ''NerfNow'', a father is horrified to discover his son is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a casual gamer!]] He's later relieved when he sees him playing a game with a ''{{Touhou}}'' character.