History PlayingWith / BigScrewedUpFamily

* '''Plotted a Good Waste''': The Tropers are all [[AntiRoleModel Anti-Role Models]], never intend screwed-up families to be bad at first sight.

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* '''Subverted''': DysfunctionalFamily.
* '''Double Subverted''': What at first seemed like a mere dysfunctional family or perfectly normal one is revealed to have some skeletons in the closet (literally or figuratively).

** On a meta level, the Tropers are ''meant'' to be a messed up family because their ongoing drama and shenanigans makes them [[BlackComedy darkly entertaining]], as opposed to if [[JustEatGilligan they were a perfect or normal family]].

** The Tropers are the quintessential [[TastesLikeDiabetes "perfect" family]].

** On a meta level, the ongoing drama and shenanigans among the Tropers is [[BlackComedy darkly entertaining]], as things would be boring if [[JustEatGilligan they were a perfect or even normal family]].

* '''Reconstructed''': The Tropers stop marrying within their family line, which reduces genetic problems and aggression over time. They also learn to resolve problems constructively and peacefully. The next generations are better adjusted, and their legacy lives on.

** The Tropers are members of a DeadlyDecadentCourt.

* '''Straight''': The Tropers, a well-known {{Blueblood}} family revolving around parents Amy and Ben and their [[MassiveNumberedSiblings many children]], have all sorts of issues, including (but not limited to) incest, patricide, fratricide, alcoholism, and drug abuse.

'''Basic Trope''': The DysfunctionalFamily. Turned UpToEleven.

'''Basic Trope''': The DysfunctionalFamily, TurnedUpToEleven.
* '''Straight''': The Tropers, a well-known {{Blueblood}} family have all sorts of issues, including (but not limited to) incest, patricide, fratricide, alcoholism, and drug abuse.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Some royal/noble families are like this, others are very well-adjusted.
* '''Averted''': The Tropers are a perfectly normal family. Sure they have problems, but nothing serious, and they really care about each other.

* '''Conversed''': "How is that family going to survive all those issues?" "The same way they always have. It's a ViciousCycle living in a family like that."

* '''Played For Laughs''': The Tropers literally have skeletons in the closet, but the "skeletons" are just realistic {{Halloween|Episode}} decorations.

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'''Basic Trope''': The DysfunctionalFamily, TurnedUpToEleven

** ThickerThanWater
* '''Subverted''': DysfunctionalFamily

** DarkerAndEdgier

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* '''Downplayed''': The Tropers don't always see eye to eye, but that doesn't mean they completely hate each other.

* '''Played For Laughs''': The Tropers literally have skeletons in the closet, but the "skeletons" are just realistic {{Halloween|Episode}} decorations.

** Also, this ''is'' the logical extreme of the DysfunctionalFamily

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Discussed''': "How is that family going to survive all those issues?"
* '''Conversed''': "The same way they always have. It's a ViciousCycle living in a family like that."
* '''Deconstructed''': The Tropers develop serious FreudianExcuse and MommyIssues, possibly leading to a {{Start of Darkness}} (and if they are inbred, that doesn't help any; see Justified). They will eventually [[TooDumbToLive kill themselves off]] this way.

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** The Tropers are members of a DeadlyDecadentCourt

** The Tropers are a perfectly normal family, or at worst a QuirkyHousehold

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Played Straight''': The Tropers, a well-known {{Blueblood}} family have all sorts of issues, including (but not limited to) incest, patricide, fratricide, alcoholism, and drug abuse.
* '''Exaggerated''': The Tropers have a TangledFamilyTree, and are always {{feuding|Families}} with each other. A member of this family is lucky to survive past puberty.

* '''Deconstructed''': The Tropers develop serious FreudianExcuse and MommyIssues, possibly leading to a {{Start of Darkness}} (and if they are inbred, that doesn't help any; see Justified). They will eventually [[TooDumbToLive kill themselves off]] this way.
* '''Reconstructed''': The Tropers stop marrying within their family line, which reduces genetic problems and aggression over time. They also learn to resolve problems constructively and peacefully. The next generations are better adjusted, and their legacy lives on.

* '''Lampshaded''': "You guys have a lot of problems..."

* '''Played For Laughs''': DeadBabyComedy
* '''Played For Drama''': Almost always is.

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* '''Justified''': Because of their status, there was a lot of internal power struggle within the family (it also doesn't help if there was a long history of inbreeding; inbred lines have been known to show increased aggression).

* '''Inverted''': The Tropers are a perfectly normal family, or at worst a QuirkyHousehold

* '''Enforced''': DarkerAndEdgier

* '''Exaggerated''': The Tropers have a TangledFamilyTree, and are always {{feuding|Families}} with each other. A member of this family is [[YourMileageMayVary lucky]] to survive past puberty.

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* '''Basic Trope''': The DysfunctionalFamily, TurnedUpToEleven

* '''Exaggerated''': The Tropers have a TangledFamilyTree, and are always [[FeudingFamilies feuding]] with each other. A member of this family is [[YourMileageMayVary lucky]] to survive past puberty.
* '''Justified''': Because of their status, there was a lot of internal power struggle within the family. (It also doesn't help if there was a long history of inbreeding; inbred lines have been known to show increased aggression.)
** The Tropers are [[LawfulStupid part of]] a ProudWarriorRace that places HonorBeforeReason

** The Tropers are the quintessential "perfect" [[TastesLikeDiabetes family]].

* '''Double Subverted''': What at first seemed like a mere dysfunctional family or perfectly normal one is revealed to have some skeletons in the closet. (Literally or figuratively.)
* '''Deconstructed''': The Tropers develop serious FreudianExcuse and MommyIssues, possibly leading to a StartOfDarkness. (And if they are inbred, that doesn't help any; see Justified.) They will eventually [[TooDumbToLive kill themselves off]] this way.

* '''Parodied''': The Tropers celebrate the birth of a new Troper by killing a relative.

* '''Defied''': The Tropers resolve power issues fairly, without bloodshed. And they don't promote or condone things like incest, drug use, etc.

* '''Played For Drama''': Almost always is.

* '''Double Subverted''': But when one of the daughters becomes pregnant outside of marriage, she is [[HonorRelatedAbuse killed brutally for it]]...and all hell breaks loose. ([[BlueAndOrangeMorality Bonus points]] if she became pregnant after being molested by her uncle or something.)