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* ''Series/GothamKnights'':

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* ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'':

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** Haluk Güçlü is portrayed as an OverprotectiveDad to Derin and Demir. However, midway through the first season, it's revealed that he fathered a son with another woman and that he refused to recognize him. This illegitimate son is a deeply unstable individual who then comes back to stir trouble for Haluk's family.

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** Haluk Güçlü is portrayed as an OverprotectiveDad a {{Helicopter Parent|s}} to Derin and Demir. However, midway through the first season, it's revealed that he fathered a son with another woman and that he refused to recognize him.acknowledge. This illegitimate son is a deeply unstable individual who then comes back to stir trouble for Haluk's family.
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* ''Series/{{Sadakatsiz}}'': It's a major theme in the story, either by death (read suicide), neglect, or refusing to take care of one's children. Parents who {{avert|ed}} this are often portrayed in a more sympathetic light, if only by a bit.
** Asya's mother killed herself and Asya's father in a car accident, which caused Asya to fear abandonment and the attachment that comes with love of any kind. When pushed to the edge, Asya ponders whether to just let Volkan have full custody of their son but her own familial experience gives her the strength to {{def|ied}}y this trope and fight to stay in her son's life.
** Volkan's father is long disappeared from his family's lives by the time the series starts. Though never explicit, he was abusive toward his wife Saliha and son. Because of that, it's treated as a good thing that he left.
** Haluk Güçlü is portrayed as an OverprotectiveDad to Derin and Demir. However, midway through the first season, it's revealed that he fathered a son with another woman and that he refused to recognize him. This illegitimate son is a deeply unstable individual who then comes back to stir trouble for Haluk's family.
** Nil Tetik never mentions nor visits her parents. During one [[DiscussedTrope conversation]] with her LoveInterest, she tells him that they are both alone in this world, implying that her parents are out of the picture, possibly due to abandonment as well.
** Hicran DaÄŸcı abandons her son Selçuk to another woman's care when he's a young kid. In flashbacks, she's implied to be a sex worker, and her reasoning for leaving her son is that she didn't feel ready to be a mother. She also wanted to spare him the ugly details of her work. Unfortunately, Selçuk is abused in his new home, prompting him to run away. He becomes an aggressive, resentful young man who wants nothing to do with his mother. And neither with the father who rejected him.

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* ''Series/TheShannaraChronicles'': Eretria's mother died in her childhood, klled by a demon, and her father is unknown. She was adopted by Cephalo after that, who's a terribly abusive father to her.

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Eretria's mother died in her childhood, klled by a demon, and her father is unknown. She was adopted by Cephalo after that, who's a terribly abusive father to her.her.
** Lyria's father [[AmbiguouslyAbsentParent isn't mentioned or seen]], while her mother [[spoiler:kills herself [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled rather than be killed by Riga]]]].
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* ''Series/TheCompanyYouKeep'': Daphne tells Connor she never met their father until at her mother's funeral while she was an adult. She joined his criminal enterprises after this as his lieutenant and they grew close.
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** Harper and Cullen Row have fled their abusive father to fend for themselves, while they don't mention their mother (she's dead in other media).

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** Harper and Cullen Row have fled their abusive father to fend for themselves, while they don't mention themselves. Harper mentions that their mother (she's dead in other media).left, so he started beating on them instead of on her.
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* ''Series/GothamKnights'':
** Turner was an orphan whom Bruce Wayne had adopted, before being murdered himself.
** Duela and her mother were abandoned in Arkham Asylum by her father, the Joker, who escaped with his new lady friend Harley Quinn.
** Harper and Cullen Row have fled their abusive father to fend for themselves, while they don't mention their mother (she's dead in other media).
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* ''Series/TheLastOfUs2023'': Ellie's mother Anna died just a few hours after giving birth to her. Meanwhile, what became of her father hasn't been revealed.
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* ''Series/MohawkGirls'': Caitlin's mom is dead and had left her as a baby, while her dad's very negligent to her. His mother says it comes from being abused in one of the residential schools the native kids pf his generation were sent to and that he can't show normal love after this.
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* ''Series/MayfairWitches'': Patrick, birth father of Rowan, died prior to her birth. Her adoptive mom Elena had brought up Rowan as a single mother after this. Elena then dies after her cancer relapses, and Rowan initially doesn't know about her birth mother Deirdre, who's alive.

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* ''Series/MayfairWitches'': Patrick, birth father of Rowan, died prior to her birth. [[spoiler:It turns out her birth father was Cortland however, as [[ChildByRape a result of rape]].]] Her adoptive mom Elena had brought up Rowan as a single mother after this. Elena then dies after her cancer relapses, and Rowan initially doesn't know about her birth mother Deirdre, who's alive.
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* ''Series/{{Astrid}}'': Astrid's mother left when she was an infant, indicated to be because of autistic burnout of her own. Her father did his best to raise her properly by himself, but died at some point prior to the series.
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* ''Series/MayfairWitches'': Patrick, birth father of Rowan, died prior to her birth. Her adopted mom Elena had brought up Rowan as a single mother after this. Elena dies when she's grown of cancer, without Rowan knowing about her birth mother Deirdre at first, who's alive.

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* ''Series/MayfairWitches'': Patrick, birth father of Rowan, died prior to her birth. Her adopted adoptive mom Elena had brought up Rowan as a single mother after this. Elena then dies when she's grown of cancer, without after her cancer relapses, and Rowan knowing initially doesn't know about her birth mother Deirdre at first, Deirdre, who's alive.
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* ''Series/MayfairWitches'': Patrick, birth father of Rowan, died prior to her birth. Her adopted mom Elena had brought up Rowan as a single mother after this. Elena dies when she's grown of cancer, without Rowan knowing about her birth mother Deirdre at first, who's alive.
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* ''Series/{{Andor}}'': By the time Kassa was abducted by Maarva and Clem to save his life the eldest members of his village were teenagers. It's unclear where all the adults were but supplemental materials give his biological father's date of death as years later.

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* ''Series/{{Willow}}'': Elora Danan's mother was murdered shortly after she's born, while her father wasn't even mentioned.

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Elora Danan's mother was murdered shortly after she's born, while her father wasn't even mentioned.mentioned.
** Jade not only had to kill Ballantine, her adopted father, but had lost her birth father and mother before (however, they [[DeceptiveLegacy were different people than she'd been told during her early life)]].
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* ''Series/{{Belgravia}}'': Charles Pope; his mother suffered DeathByChildbirth and his father was killed in the Battle of Waterloo, so he was adopted by the Reverend Pope and his wife. His maternal grandparents the Trenchards gave him up to the Popes to protect his mother's reputation and his paternal grandparents the Earl and Countess of Brockenhurst had no idea he existed until his grandmother admits the truth to his other grandmother out of guilt.
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* ''Series/{{Willow}}'': Elora Danan's mother was murdered shortly after she's born, where her father wasn't even mentioned.

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* ''Series/{{Willow}}'': Elora Danan's mother was murdered shortly after she's born, where while her father wasn't even mentioned.
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* ''Series/{{Willow}}'': Elora Danan's mother was murdered shortly after she's born, where her father wasn't even mentioned.
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* ''Series/{{DerryGirls}}'': James's mother abandons him in the first episode of the series, leaving him to live with his aunt and cousin. This is initially played for laughs/black comedy, but is played much more seriously when [[spoiler:his mother returns and tries to bring him back to England with her]].

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* ''Series/{{DerryGirls}}'': ''Series/{{Derry Girls}}'': James's mother abandons him in the first episode of the series, leaving him to live with his aunt and cousin. This is initially played for laughs/black comedy, but is played much more seriously when [[spoiler:his mother returns and tries to bring him back to England with her]].
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* ''Series/{{DerryGirls}}'': James's mother abandons him in the first episode of the series, leaving him to live with his aunt and cousin. This is initially played for laughs/black comedy, but is played much more seriously when [[spoiler:his mother returns and tries to bring him back to England with her]].
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* ''Series/LazyTown'': None of the characters except Stingy are said to have parents, and seem to live completely alone.
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** Uther's father died in the past, and [[spoiler:he kills his mother after learning they are not his parents by blood. She took him from his birth mother, a peasant, murdering her to cover it up. His birth father is not mentioned, though he was also possibly dead or absent already since there's no indication that he was another "complication" which she had to be dealt with. It's possibly implied he was born out of wedlock.]]

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** Uther's father died in the past, and [[spoiler:he kills his mother after learning they are not his parents by blood. She took him from his birth mother, a peasant, murdering her to cover it up. His birth father is not mentioned, though he was also possibly dead or absent already since there's no indication that he was another "complication" which she had to be also dealt with. It's possibly implied he was born out of wedlock.]]
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* ''Series/TidelandsNetflix'': Tidelanders are half human/half siren hybrids. Born from human men mating with sirens who drown during the act, they are left on shore by their mothers once born and have no further contact with them. Most of them long to see their siren mothers. Adrielle promising she will call them keeps many loyal to her.
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* ''Series/TheOrder'': Jack's story is kicked off by his and his grandfather's desire to get {{Revenge}} on the man they believe is responsible for Jack's mother committing suicide. He'd sired Jack without knowing it [[ChildByRape via]] [[LovePotion love spell]].
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* ''Series/AshitaMamaGaInai'': Post was left in a baby hatch by her parents, while Donki's mother chose her boyfriend over her.
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* In ''Series/Lucifer2016'', this is revealed to be the cause of [[spoiler:Jimmy Barnes']] [[NotGoodWithRejection rejection issues]] in the Season 6 episode "Yabba Dabba Do Me". [[spoiler:When Jimmy was a child, his mother abandoned him in a motel room for her music career, with him left there watching cartoons on TV until CPS came to take him in.]]
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* ''Series/{{Quantico}}'': [[spoiler:Shlby Wyatt's parents, long believed to have died on 9/11, actually ended up in hiding, as a result of finding out that some shady contacts that they had made in Afghanistan were connected to the terrorist attacks.]]

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* ''Series/{{Quantico}}'': [[spoiler:Shlby [[spoiler:Shelby Wyatt's parents, long believed to have died on 9/11, actually ended up in hiding, as a result of finding out that some shady contacts that they had made in Afghanistan were connected to the terrorist attacks.]]
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** Regarding her mother, it's played with. As a consequence of Ginny's father's constant push for Ginny to play baseball, her mother felt increasingly left out of Ginny's life despite all her attempts to be a part of it. Sadly, her mom's reaction to this only worsened the problem as Ginny discovering her mom with another man resulted in Ginny distancing herself even more from her mom and throw herself more fully into baseball.

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** Regarding her mother, it's played with. As a consequence of Ginny's father's constant push for Ginny to play baseball, her mother felt increasingly left out of Ginny's life despite all her attempts to be a part of it. Sadly, her mom's reaction to this only worsened the problem as Ginny discovering her mom with another man resulted in Ginny distancing herself even more from her mom and throw throwing herself more fully into baseball.
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* ''Series/PaperGirls'': Erin's dad died when she was nine. After going into her future of 2019, she finds that her mom's died from a disease as well.
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* ''Series/KeepBreathing'': By the present, Liv's mom has left years ago, while her dad's dead.

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