Line #16 AbusiveParents/ComicBooks


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9	* AbusiveParents/TheDCU
10	* AbusiveParents/MarvelUniverse
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13	!!Other Comics
14	* ''ComicBook/{{Amulet}}'' has the Elf King, who treats his son, Trellis, [[spoiler:and other son, Luger]] abominably. [[spoiler:He had both of their memories repeatedly wiped to the point where the two ''didn’t even know they were brothers'']], ordered his soldiers to abuse Trellis whilst he was in their custody, and to top it all off, [[spoiler:gave Trellis his distinctive scar when the latter fought back against being possessed by a [[PeoplePuppets Dark Shadow]], ''which the King himself orchestrated''. This is possibly because he isn't their father at all, [[DeadAllAlong but the Stone using his body.]]]] Then there’s Max’s father, who was emotionally abusive towards his son, pressuring him to follow in his footsteps, and to top it all off, when Max was sent to jail, his father didn’t even protest or offer any sort of emotional support.
15	* Norbert Sykes, alias ComicBook/TheBadger, was beaten, saw his dog shot and was eventually raped by his stepfather Larry. This left him with multiple personality disorder, a violent streak a mile wide and an obsession with the name ''Larry''.
16	* ''ComicBook/BeastsOfBurden'':
17	** Abusive Owners, in this case. Rex's owner is a drunk who beats him. Potentially accounts for him being such a Cowardly Lion.
18	** Implied for the boy from "A Dog and His Boy" -- he ran away from home, says he'd rather die than go back, and the story of his childhood and family is mostly "unpleasant and cruel."
19	** Ace's previous home is implied to have been abusive; he sympathizes with the boy, saying he wouldn't want to be sent back to his old home.
20	* ''ComicBook/BerrybrookMiddleSchool'': Mari's old man constantly pressures her daughter into being the best there is while belittling his own wife as a do-nothing. It culminates in him being left in the dust by both of them.
21	* ''ComicBook/TheBestWeCouldDo'':
22	** Bố's father beat his mother and eventually him after announcing his departure.
23	** Má's mother was an imperious socialite who was emotionally withholding and physically abusive towards her children.
24	* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'':
25	** The man who Wis' mother was betrothed to never forgave her for bearing a child that wasn't his, and took it out on Wis once she died. [[spoiler:Wis eventually kills him by hacking off his fingers and throwing him off a castle tower.]]
26	** Ghorghor Bey's stepfather wasn't any kinder to him, largely because Ghorghor was the result of [[ChildByRape an ogre raping the woman he was in love with]] during an attack on their mountain village. He stayed his hand from killing Ghorghor at birth because of his mother's pleading, but after she died he threw out Ghorghor for good. Ghorghor, finally fed up with the years of abuse, kills the man before leaving the town.
27	* In ''ComicBook/{{Cavewoman}}'', it's Gramps' efforts at getting Meriem away from her drug-addicted mother (his daughter) that starts the whole thing. Meriem's mother comes back in time with the rest of Marshville, has an encounter with Meriem and asks for forgiveness.
28	* ''ComicBook/DeadIrons'': Meet Devin Irons, the father of four children, whom he severely abused and then offered as souls in a pact to a Plague Bringer Demon for the power to control human minds, turning all but one of them into soulless, vicious monstrosities intent on bringing death and destruction to the Old West. He killed Silas Irons only father figure after he came to confront him for tying his son onto a statue, bloody and beaten, and painting "sinner" onto his chest. His crowning moment of assholeness comes when he brings his own wife, now a mindless flesh-eating ghoul, back to life as a lure to bring his adult children back to complete a ritual that will make him immortal.
29	* In the ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'', in older comics, WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck can often look like this, either due to [[DependingOnTheWriter the author deciding to make him the villain opposing his nephews]], or because [[ValuesDissonance what were intended to be acts of Donald punishing his naughty nephews look much worse to modern eyes]].
30	* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' has Winnowill, a powerful healer who imprisoned her son in a cage and used her abilities to torment him, eventually splitting his mind in two and driving him mad. [[spoiler:He gets better, mostly. She refuses to.]]
31	* Ninjette's alcoholic father in ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}''. Physical violence, check. Constantly verbally abusive towards his talented daughter, check. Wanted to marry her off as a virgin bride to have lots of ninja babies, check. Murdering the prince of the allied clan that Ninjette actually lost her virginity to (starting a war in the process), then displaying the prince's dripping head to his wayward daughter as an example... uh, check.
32	* Prior to becoming ComicBook/EvilErnie, Ernest Fairchild was abused by both his alcoholic father and his psychotic mother. [[SelfMadeOrphan They became his first two victims.]]
33	* ''ComicStrip/FunkyWinkerbean'':
34	** In a BackStory, Bull Bushka (the former school bully turned physical education teacher) reveals that his father physically beat him... hence, the reason why he tormented the strip's main protagonist Les Moore all these years.
35	** Other storylines have seen Susan Smith (the girl who had a crush on her teacher, Les, and maintained it as she became his colleague) being beaten by her boyfriend while in high school; and Lisa Moore (who was beaten by her one-time boyfriend, the one that got her pregnant as a teenager).
36	* In ''ComicBook/TheInternship'', Cooper grew up with an abusive father who was a heavy drinker and strongly homophobic. Needless to say, it left him pretty broken, [[spoiler:even after his father's death.]]
37	* ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'': Daniel Hartigan, aka The Plutonian, suffered these throughout his upbringing, which played a significant role in his [[FallenHero fall to villainy]].
38	** Towards the end of the comic, Plutonian finds out that he was [[spoiler:originally a probe created by a pair of multiverse traveling BenevolentAbomination aliens meant to observe humans, and the probe took on the shape of a human baby after responding to the powerful emotions of a severely ill woman who snapped and killed her own baby]]. She tried to do the same to little Daniel, only to fail as Daniel was basically a SupermanSubstitute with the same NighInvulnerability. Ultimately, she couldn't stand it anymore and tried to commit murder-suicide with him.
39	** After that, Daniel was tossed around one different foster home after the next, where he was shunned and feared for his immense superpowers by both his foster parents and by [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer other children]].
40	** The one pair of decent foster parents he had, the Hartigans, especially the father Bill, zigzagged this. On one hand, Bill was never outright cruel or malicious towards Daniel, whom he loved like his own flesh and blood, accepted his powers unconditionally and without fear, and sincerely wanted to instill good morals and a sense of responsibility to use his powers to help others. On the other hand, his MiseryBuildsCharacter mentality, harsh teaching methods, and unyielding approach, [[ParentsAsPeople as well as his failure to understand the severity of Daniel's emotional issues]] and what the boy really needed was to just be a regular kid rather than a hero in the making, left Daniel even more psychologically scarred than before and added on to the already long list of problems plaguing him.
41	* In a flashback in ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable,'' it's heavily implied that [[RulesLawyer Brian's]] father was verbally (and probably physically) abusive to him. The scene consists of poor 12-year-old Brian cowering against the wall in his room, surrounded by toys, games, and assorted geek paraphernalia, while his dad shouts at him for his poor grades, and "living in a dream world." All Brian can do is feebly mumble, "Y-yes, sir," causing his father the shout "ARE YOU LOOKING FOR THE BACK OF MY HAND?" No wonder he prefers fantasy to reality.
42	* Sam Lesser of ''ComicBook/LockeAndKey'' is shown to have a physically abusive father and an uncaring mother, as well as having no friends and being a year younger than kids he was in school with; it's easy to understand why he was a target for Dodge. Similarly, Ellie, the school's track coach, had a physically and emotionally abusive mother.
43	* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyGenerations'' reveals that Draggle and Reeka, the witches from [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends generation 1]], have become this. They belittle and emotionally abuse their daughters, Grackle and Dyre, for their supposed ineptitude at every opportunity. [[spoiler:When the ponies show Grackle and Dyre kindness despite what they've done, the two realize they want to be nothing like their mothers, break the CycleOfRevenge, and never return home.]]
44	* In ''ComicBook/{{Plutona}}'', Ray's father is a neglectful unemployed alcoholic.
45	* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'':
46	** When Knuckles was born, his parents soon begin arguing about the proper way to raise him. It eventually got so bad that his mother Lara-Le divorced her husband Locke with the intention of giving her son some kind of actual childhood. Instead, Locke took the toddler ''out of the city zone entirely'' so he could raise him to be a guardian by his definition of what was correct. This included lying to Knuckles that they were the last of their kind and letting him believe by implication that his mother was dead. Then Locke essentially abandoned his son when he was ten years old by ''faking his own death'', forcing him to fend for himself for years with little or no contact with other people. Locke insists that all of this was done to build character and make Knuckles a better guardian by forcing him to do things himself. In truth, he had Knuckles under close observation the entire time he was "abandoned" and often expresses regret at causing his son so much grief, but he still insists he was only [[IDidWhatIHadToDo doing his job.]] However, Locke did get a considerable comeuppance, as his actions regarding Knuckles led to an echidna scientist going rogue and getting a considerable number of their race slaughtered.
47	*** It may run in the family. In an early issue of Knuckles' spin off series, Knuckles talks to his mom about why the family broke apart. In the ensuing flashback, she talks to her mother in law about how she felt when Locke was taken away for guardian training. Said in law paused and only said that she'd be lost without her husband.
48	** Sally Acorn's parents aren't sterling examples of familial love either. King Max is a controlling, callous manipulator to ''both'' of his children, trying to forcibly mold them into what ''he'' thinks are ideal royals, and Queen Alicia just goes along with it. Fans cheered when the ContinuityReboot replaced Max with Nigel, a much better person and father.
49	** However, in the ContinuityReboot universe, the abusive parent here is now Rotor's father, who seemingly hated Rotor's amazing genius and inventions. It got to the point where Rotor ran away to Mobotropolis (arriving just after Eggman took over) and [[spoiler:Rotor's father became an Egg Boss]].
50	* ComicBook/{{Squee}}[='s=] dad openly despises him and often talks about how Squee's birth ruined his life, Squee's mom is too drugged out to remember she has a son half the time (the other half she believes he's already grown up and moved out.) The series ends with them signing him over to a mental hospital for experimentation.
51	* In ''ComicBook/StrangersInParadise'', Katchoo's step-father [[ParentalIncest raped her on her fifteenth birthday]] (Later dialogue would imply he actually considered this a ''gift'') and would repeatedly beat her in the time following. Her mother, meanwhile, [[ParentalNeglect refused to accept the truth and told Katchoo to stop making up these vicious lies about the sweet man who cares for them]]. The physical abuse was bad enough, but the complete lack of any support from her mother was what finally drove Katchoo to run away, where she eventually wound up in Los Angeles and under the sway of Darcy Parker. Believe it or not, things actually went FromBadToWorse from there.
52	* In the IDW incarnation of the [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIDW Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]], Casey Jones' father is one of these. In fact, it is the very first thing the reader finds out about him.
53	* ''ComicBook/{{Titeuf}}'':
54	** Hugo's father hits Hugo's big brother just for saying "meh" then hits his wife for defending her son. In the back cover of one comic, Titeuf even says that Hugo gets his ass kicked by his father when he gets bad grades.
55	** Marco once says that his father will kick his ass if he come home late.
56	** Titeuf's father can be this especially in early comics where he tended to slap or punish Titeuf for asking an inapropriate question even tough he's just a child and is not aware that he shouldn't ask things like this. He's way less violent in laters books though.
57	** Discussed when Titeuf and Hugo see girl with a blacked eye and Hugo believe that her father beats her, though there is no indication that it is true and the girl gets angry at Titeuf for insulting her father so it's likely false. Later Manu and François think Titeuf's father beats him because he have a blaked eye now but it's actually the girl who did it to him.
58	* Reginald Hargreeves from ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy''. He would chide his adopted sons and daughters if they called him 'Dad'. In one story, he sicced a murderous supervillain on The Rumor when she lied about sneaking out for the night to see a boy. {{Jerkass}} doesn't begin to cover it.
59	--> '''Vanya:''' "Dad.. ? I mean, Mr. Monocle, sir? Why can't I play with the others?"\
60	'''Reginald:''' "Well number seven... there's just nothing special about you."\
61	'''Vanya:''' "Oh."
62	* In ''ComicBook/AVoiceInTheDark'', "Heather"'s parents are over-controlling and pressuring, but also blame her when she was raped by a musician [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney her father wanted to sign as a client]]. This treatment leads to [[spoiler: her killing both of them while calling in to Zoey's radio show]].
63	* ''ComicBook/ZipiYZape'': PlayedForLaughs. Mr. Pantuflo has no trouble in brutally beating the twins or locking them in a mice infested room with no food or water. Even worse is the fact that this is seen as normal.
64	** Mr. Pantuflo, in the later Escobar strips (the ones which are mostly available), is a saint in comparison with his incarnation in the older, black and white ones, in which he punished his sons with incredibly brutal and sadistic penalties, such as crushing them with a huge steamroller, tying them to a bed of spikes with a large and scary boulder over their head or abandoning them in the middle of the sea. By far, the most disturbing of all is one strip in which Mr. Pantuflo puts them on a guillotine ''with a basket at the bottom to collect their severed heads''.
65	** The same happened in the first color ones. Punishments included throwing them into a ''lion-infested room'', sending them packed into a satellite to the stratosphere, or [[FusionDance fusing both brothers into one]], so Pantuflo would always know who did all mischiefs.
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Context AbusiveParents / ComicBooks