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11	[[caption-width-right:350:'''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E20ChildrenOfALesserClod I'LL MACE YOU GOOD!]]''']]
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13	->''"It all began on the day of my actual birth. Both of my parents failed to show up. By the age of 5, I had to throw myself my own surprise party."''
14	-->-- '''Dr. Doofenshmirtz''', ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''
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16	When AbusiveParents are PlayedForLaughs.
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18	In [[RealLife the real world]], child abuse is never hilarious, or even remotely funny. It's a traumatic event that can warp a child's psyche, causing them extensive physical and psychological problems, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as they develop into adulthood. Sometimes, [[TheChainOfHarm abused children will go on]] to [[TroubledAbuser abuse children themselves]]. It's a horror that takes years of intensive therapy and anger management to recover from, and, worst-case scenario, it can stay with you for life. Another possible [[FateWorseThanDeath unfortunate outcome]] is the abused child [[DrivenToSuicide putting an end to their own life.]] Therefore, '''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease'''
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20	In the media, on the other hand, a fair amount of BlackComedy can come from a character's horrible childhood. Notably, such comedy seldom includes [[BlackComedyRape sexual abuse]] (unless you're a writer for ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' or ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''), which tends to take things into DudeNotFunny territory if it's molestation or rape. It's usually ParentalNeglect, physical abuse (though, due to changing values, that's falling a bit out of favor), exaggerated takes on ParentalFavoritism and SiblingRivalry, witnessing events and things that are HarmfulToMinors, or abuse so over the top that it's [[CrossesTheLineTwice exaggerated to the point of comedy.]]
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22	This can be played for laughs and seriousness alternately, especially if the characters are [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist comically screwed up]] already and their parents are shown to be equally or (often) more messed up.
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24	In the case of anime and manga, there's VERY heavy ValuesDissonance in this regard. A smack to the head does not get the same reaction in Japanese culture as it would in America.
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26	Contrast DoubleStandardViolenceChildOnAdult, where children abusing adults is PlayedForLaughs.
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28	Related to DysfunctionJunction, BadlyBatteredBabysitter, BabysitterFromHell, and PovertyForComedy. A BoardingSchoolOfHorrors can also cause this, although it’s more often PlayedForDrama.
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30	!!Example Subpages:
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32	* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood/LiveActionTV
33	* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood/WesternAnimation
34	[[/index]]
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36	!!Other Examples:
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41	* Subverted in the [[PublicServiceAnnouncement PIF]] "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YybCbjnWKg The Child Abuse Show: Uncut]]". A cartoon boy is abused by his live-action father in goofy, over-the-top ways such as being burnt with a lit cigarette and thrown at the wall, complete with silly music in the background and a laugh track. But when the father throws his son down the stairs, the music abruptly stops and the camera shows him as a real child lying on the ground, either unconscious or dead, while text on the screen reads "Real children don't bounce back."
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44	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
45	* ''{{Manga/Bakuon}}'': Rin's father, who did wheelies and got involved often in accidents with his daughter, although she was always fine physically, and her father was in the hospital many times on intensive care, so poor Rin had to stay alone in the house many times as a kid. [[ScarsAreForever She even got a Suzuki mark from an accident on her left ass cheek]].
46	* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Ichigo has grown up being constantly attacked by his father, usually by being ambushed, especially when entering or leaving a house or being woken up in the morning by an ambush attack. It's always PlayedForLaughs and tends to degenerate into a silly catfighting between the two. On one occasion, however, it's played for drama. Isshin is shocked when his ambush succeeds, flooring Ichigo, who doesn't fight back. It's designed to emphasise how depressed and unhappy Ichigo is at the time. Isshin seems to have a more serious reason for having raised Ichigo this way, as implied when he and Ryuuken discuss what terrible fathers they both are.
47	* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'':
48	** Denji's horridly impoverished childhood is sometimes played for dark humor. One omake is about him enjoying and carefully rationing "cake", which is just uncooked flour and water.
49	** It's implied [[ButtMonkey Kobeni]] [[FinancialAbuse being exploited and endangered by her parents as an adult]] was proceeded by a similarly-unpleasant childhood. She mentions she only ever got to try soft-serve ice cream once, and then dropped it after one taste. Later, it's shown a guy [[AmbiguouslyRelated who may be her younger brother]] is getting pushed by into [[DemonSlaying devil hunting]] by her parents while ''still in high school''.
50	* ''Webcomic/ChaosAttack'': After Doah Lee lost his parents at the age of ten, his overprotective, violent older sisters decided to take care of him, and he'd often wind up caught in the crossfire of his sisters' assaults on his bullies. To the point that he ''warns'' a pair of bullies taking his money and says to get away as soon as possible before she comes and beats the ever-loving daylights out of them. [[spoiler:He was too late.]]
51	* In ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', Edward's father was apparently loving but incredibly [[ParentalNeglect neglectful]] and abandoned her at age six after forgetting that he left her at a daycare. When they reunite when Ed is thirteen, he can't even remember whether she's a boy or a girl. He offers to take her with him on his travels, but abandons her ''again'' before she can even respond. Later that episode, [[spoiler:Ed leaves the ''Bebop'' with [[TeamPet Ein]], but it's unclear whether she intends to join her father or continue [[WalkTheEarth wandering the Earth]]]].
52	* Penny's abusive father in the GagDub of ''Manga/CrayonShinChan''. Her mom even hatched a plan to escape and become a BDSM prostitute. "At least they pay for ouchie-sex."
53	* ''Anime/CyberTeamInAkihabara'' Tsugumi has some way off parents, her dad is a martial arts teacher and her mother is a pro wrestler who routinely tackle each other and their daughter! But they do at least love and care about her.
54	* Zigzagged with Allen Walker's childhood in ''Manga/DGrayMan''. On one hand, his abuse and psychological trauma at the hands of his [[TricksterMentor master]] General Cross is [[ComedicSociopathy played entirely for laughs]]. Whenever he hears the word "debt," it's shown as a thousand-pound rock crushing his chest, and he gets ''very'' depressed. This was caused by Cross being an alcoholic gambler that left young Allen with all his debt... along with hitting Allen, all done in a funny (or sometimes DudeNotFunny) light, of course. However, the other parts of his horribly traumatizing childhood [[DarkAndTroubledPast are played completely straight]].
55	* Played with: Ed and Al's [[TrainingFromHell training]] with [[BadassTeacher Izumi]] in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is shown like this, to the point that hearing her name is enough to turn them into pathetic wrecks. But then they ''asked'' her to train them. They even ''insisted'', because they were desperate for power, and Izumi actually ''went easy on them'' and what they were put through was child's play compared to the training Izumi went through herself. Of course, her idea of going easy on them during their training was to strand them on a deserted island for a month, then get her store assistant to dress up as a monster, steal their food, and beat the crap out of them every day until they toughened up. At least he was around to make sure they didn't die, which was more than she got. (She was supposed to train under a skilled alchemist, but instead under his martial arts twin brother. During the harsh lessons, she did form her alchemy philosophy from it.)
56	* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' is a prime example of this. Even the fact that his parents sold him to [[TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily the "very nice people"]] for organ harvesting is played for laughs. InUniverse, when he talks about his childhood, most of the listeners burst into tears. The further the story goes, however, the less this trope is played straight, as we see not only the depths his parents would go but how non-humorously ''messed up'' it left [[StepfordSmiler Hayate]].
57	* Kinjiro's childhood in ''Literature/MayoChiki'' was being TheChewToy for his wrestling mother and sister.
58	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
59	** Monkey D. Luffy's childhood is clearly this, to the point that it dips into RefugeInAudacity.
60	--->'''Luffy''': Yeah! So don't attack him!!! He'll ''kill'' you...!!! Grandpa's nearly killed ''me'', often enough!\
61	'''Garp''': Hey! Have a little consideration. So what if I dropped you off a few cliffs, tossed you into the midnight jungle, and [[CrossesTheLineTwice tied you to a balloon and set you to fly away]]...!! '''[[TrainingFromHell It was to make you a stronger man!!!]]'''
62	** If Luffy's childhood was anything to go by, his older brother Portgas D. Ace likely had a similar (if not ''worse'') childhood -- which was confirmed during the flashback to Luffy and Ace's past together after Marineford. Note that Ace is every bit as scared of Garp as Luffy is; he only went against him when defending his younger brother.
63	** [[spoiler:Ditto for Sabo. He spent only a fraction of the amount of time Luffy and Ace did with Garp, but by the end of his first meeting with the old man, he was every bit as terrified of him as they were]].
64	** "Black Leg" [[spoiler:Vinsmoke]] Sanji also had one under "Red Leg" Zeff. [[spoiler:However, while Zeff ultimately cared about Sanji's wellbeing, his childhood under his birth family was a horrible aversion, as his brothers and his father only saw him as a weak waste of space.]]
65	* Being a DeconstructiveParody of FightingSeries, ''Manga/RamenFighterMiki'' plays with this trope using Nishiyama Kankuro, [[BullyHunter who at age 24 has come back from a local university to his hometown]] to [[BrokenAesop stand up for himself]] against Miki, his former bully (he was 14 and she was ten when she bullied him): Here he explains what happened while we see a PhotoMontage of those scenes:
66	-->She tied me up and forced me to eat crayfish, She threw a beehive into my back. She rolled me up in a carpet and tossed me into a river.
67	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
68	** Most of Ranma Saotome's life spent training with his dad, most infamously when his dad "taught" him the Cat Fist technique by wrapping him in sausage and throwing him in a pit of hungry cats.
69	** Kuno didn't have the world's greatest father either. Getting his head forcibly shaved was just the tip of the iceberg.
70	* Kenshin's actual childhood in ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' isn't funny at all, and is [[TearJerker rather tragic]]. But the days he spent with Seijuro Hiko consisted of him learning sword techniques, which were always learned by Kenshin being hit with the move first and depicted in chibi form.
71	* A scene cut from TheNineties English dub of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' had Usagi have an ImagineSpot where her mother strangled her for having bad grades. It retained when she locked her out of her house when she saw her bad test score, though it des change to her mother forcing her to study at the library.
72	* ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'':
73	** Kafuka Fuura. Though she doesn't [[BewareTheNiceOnes seem]] like she notices it. To list some of the things that has happened to her: Her mother was possessed by the devil, and in order to cure her, she was forced to repeatedly strike her with a cross, her father became redundant, and repeatedly tried to kill himself, even if he was described as a caring and loving father, the teacher who she's in love with is also trying to kill himself all the time. And to top it off, [[spoiler:She died at a young age, and is really just a mirage or some kind of body hopper, that the main characters are seeing.]] And yet she's the class's {{genki\|Girl}}, [[ThePollyanna optimist]], [[TheDitz lovable idiot]], and local alien enthusiast.
74	** Nozomu as well, albeit in a different way. The audience doesn't see his upbringing but given (as part of family tradition), his family tries to force him to marry the first person he locks eyes with during a ceremony, it's unlikely to have been that normal. Whatever it involved, Nozomu turned out to be a hilariously neurotic guy. And then there's Nozumu's nephew Majiru, whose ParentalAbandonment is somewhat PlayedForLaughs, as is Nozomu's HandsOffParenting of him after taking him in.
75	* In ''Manga/SgtFrog'', Dororo was not only quite sickly as a lad, but suffered [[AmusingInjuries all sorts of cartoony pain and abuse]] during the games he would play with Keroro and Giroro.
76	* ''Manga/SorcererHunters''. Marron's Dad is shown being creepily affectionate to him because he looks just like his absent mother. The disturbing implications of this and Marron's obvious discomfort are played for laughs.
77	* ''Manga/{{Wagnaria}}'' have two examples:
78	** Inami's BoyfriendBlockingDad didn't want any boy to ever come anywhere near his daughter, so he arranged since her younger age to make her [[DoesNotLikeMen scared of men]] via BehavioralConditioning, and secretly put weights in her school bag to make her develop physical strength. The result is that as a teenager, she is [[SuperStrength strong enough]] to put cracks in a stone wall, and can't help but punch any guy who comes too close to her. Needless to say, Takanashi, who very often ends up on the receiving end of those punches, was not pleased to learn about this [[CallingTheOldManOut and gave Inami's Dad]] a ReasonYouSuckSpeech.
79	** Season 3 introduces Shizuka Takanashi, who traumatized her children so much they wear [[WidowsWeeds mourning clothes]] when they learn she is coming home to see them.
80	*** She constantly criticized, mocked, and looked down on her elder daughter Kazue's choices and deemed everything she did not good enough. For example, she criticize her for getting married to Minegishi, for divorcing him, and she mocks her again when she [[spoiler:get back together with him]].
81	*** She forces her ill second daughter Izumi (who is weak enough to get exhausted from a kitten standing in her head) to push herself physically.
82	*** Her third daughter Kozue probably has it the worst, as her mother doesn't even remember her name and most of the time forgets to include her when talking about her children no matter how hard Kozue tries to attract her attention. It is shown to be the reason why Kozue DesperatelyCravesAffection.
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85	[[folder:Comic Books]]
86	* ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'': Though [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2000}} Cassandra Cain's]] background is [[TrainingFromHell legitimately]] [[{{Tykebomb}} horrible]], she has learned to joke about its more fanciful moments.
87	-->'''[[ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2009}} Stephanie Brown:]]''' When my dad was mad at me, he'd lock me in the closet -- what did yours do?\
88	'''Cassandra Cain:''' Shot me.\
89	'''Stephanie Brown:''' Oh, man. I can't beat you at anything.
90	* Classic British comics like ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' and ''ComicBook/TheDandy'' began in the very early part of the 20th Century, and, in the case of The Beano, is still here today in 2020. Much of the humour in the serial strips arose from the inevitable parental retribution meted out to misbehaving child characters, often involving the flat of the hand applied with percussive force to sensitive parts of the body. Belts, straps, slippers, and canes also figured as corrective devices. This persisted in the pages of these comics even after corporal punishment fell out of favour in the latter part of the 20th century -- the anachronistic nature of a punishment that fewer and fewer children had seen or experienced added to the laughs. The death knell for this approach to comic humour came about when in TheNineties, Scotland made it illegal to slap or cane a child, redefining corporal punishment and physical chastisement as child abuse. As these comics were published out of Dundee, [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope the Hilariously Abusive Childhood]] was retired as a source of humour.
91	* In many ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'' comics (OK, DependingOnTheWriter), his nephews have this. Donald beats them with the carpet beater, forces them to do all the housework, robs their piggy banks, etc. The physical discipline is mostly present in comics from the time it was considered normal in RealLife. Huey, Dewey, and Louie were also far bigger brats at the time, often fully deserving Donald's ire. CharacterizationMarchesOn.
92	* From ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'', Squee. When it has [[AxCrazy Johnny]] himself being the [[BigBrotherInstinct closest thing to a big brother]] the kid has and Squee saying [[BlatantLies "I am full of guilt"]] when his parents are abducted by aliens, you know it is this trope.
93	* The eighth issue of the ''ComicBook/{{Madballs}}'' comic book by Creator/StarComics (a now-defunct subsidiary of Creator/MarvelComics) had Dr. Frankenbeans' assistant Snivelitch warmly reminisce on how his father used to give him the pet name of "Get lost".
94	* ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'''s Elsa Bloodstone was trained from birth to hunt monsters. "Trained" here equals [[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/4459465.html "thrown into a monster's pit as an infant armed with her feeding spoon."]] Then told to do it again when she emerged victorious. And then there's the flash-card training robot that uses its ''built-in iron maiden'' when she gets an answer wrong. You ''have'' to laugh.
95	* ''The Prehistory of ComicStrip/TheFarSide''
96	** The book features a hysterical extended sequence where the author, Gary Larson, "explains" the bizarre and often extremely dark nature of his humor with a series of supposed drawings from his childhood, where it's revealed, among other things, peeked out from beyond bars in his bedroom window, that his parents tried to murder him by hiding his cookies in the middle of the highway, his father liked to amuse other children by holding him over an alligator pit, his brother once tied him to a tree and set it on fire, during family dinner time he sat under the table with a rabid dog, and that he was forced to ride in the trunk of the car. A substantial part of the humor comes from the fact that while the ''reader'' realizes how grotesque this is, the ''author'' himself does not, and reminisces fondly of his family life as a kid.
97	** And more mildly (and truthful) is Gary's dedication to his brother, where he explains that it was due to his brother that he learned to appreciate "the wonder and beauty of a jellyfish. And it was he who taught me the wonder and beauty of smacking your sibling upside the head with said jellyfish". Followed by a strip of what he imagines ''The Far Side'' would be like [[WhatCouldHaveBeen without his brother's influence.]]
98	--->'''Cat''': I'm sure glad we're friends!\
99	'''Dog''': You can ''[[{{Pun}} meow]]'' that again, Fluffy!\
100	'''Both''': [[EverybodyLaughsEnding Ha ha ha ha!]]\
101	'''Larson''': [[DeadpanSnarker Saved by a jellyfish to the head.]]
102	* In ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Zor-El's]] parents are peculiar even if you disregard Kara's fib wherein Zor-El and Alura tied her to a rocket and banished her to Earth because she asked her mother to pass the salt (her "last display of insolence!").
103	-->'''Kara:''' Fine! I guess I don't need a life. Right? I guess locking me away in a dungeon is next?\
104	'''Alura:''' I don't know. We really don't have room for a dungeon, sweetie.
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107	[[folder:Fan Works]]
108	* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fandom seems to love inflicting this on Scootaloo. She is not infrequently portrayed in {{fanon}} as an orphan (often a homeless orphan) who no one notices. Casual abuse of Scootaloo, particularly by Rainbow Dash (though occasionally by the other Cutie Mark Crusaders, or random townsfolk) is common enough that the term "Scootabuse" has been coined to describe it.
109	* FanFic/ChristianPotterChandler depicts the Chandler family as basically a 24/7 three-way melee:
110	** Bob tries to get Chris (and Barb) kidnapped or taken away by CPS (some methods being honest but also trying crazy plans like calling male strippers and blaming it on Barb), calls Chris a dumbass on an hourly basis, swears at Barb in front of Chris, threatens to lock Chris in a cupboard for ten months, swears at Chris because Barb claimed he was talking to a snake and gets drunk and challenges Chris to a fight.
111	** Barb routinely beats up Chris, usually ''to get Bob to buy her things'' (e.g. kicking Chris in the balls to get Bob to take her to the thrift store when she can't convince Bob that he's heartbroken that Bob won't take them and getting it past CPS by passing off Tic Tacs as Bob's dementia pills, throwing Chris through a plate of glass and getting free wine, ''trying to get Chris's penis bitten by a crocodile so they can sue the zoo'') and screams at Chris for talking when it doesn't get her anything.
112	* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' parody fic ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheSomethingSomething'', Lily and James aren't actually dead, but rather straight-up [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned]] Harry in favor of his twin brother Daniel. The Dursleys are even worse. Vernon's abuse extends to constant starvation, at least four beatings a day, killing Harry's owl and forcing him to cook her for dinner, and ''pouring toxic waste on him''. At one point, Vernon approaches Harry for inspiration, having run out of ideas for ways to further torture him. Harry says that he doesn't know how his life could be any more miserable, then Vernon gets a stroke of inspiration and suggests that he could violate Harry sexually, to which Harry admits that that ''would'' do the trick.
113	* ''Fanfic/OniGaShikuSeries'': The main plot of the fic is Goro Majima aka the Mad Dog of Shimano putting four-year-old Izuku through TrainingFromHell so he can become a Hero. Needless to say, neither Majima nor any of Majima's acquaintances have any real idea of what a normal training routine is, so poor little Izuku is subjected to things like being forced to learn how to dance on and off rollerskates, being chased around by Majima who's screeching like a banshee, and being shot with rubber bullets by ''several'' different people to learn how to dodge them. The only adult in the group who acknowledges that there's something wrong with the whole situation is Kiryu, who instantly justifies it by saying that [[HadToBeSharp it's pressure that makes diamonds]]. Izuku when he grows into his teens is rather nonchalant about it.
114	-->''It occurred to [Izuku] that maybe the male role models in his left a little something to be desired when it came to regard for his immediate safety and mental health.''
115	* ''Fanfic/TheUnfantasticAdventuresOfBizarroNo1'': In order to prove to his son that he didn't mean to hit his wife (he actually didn't. Long story), Bizarro bops Junior on his head, effectively reassuring him. Needless to say, Bizarros are weird.
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118	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
119	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'': Gets one mention and is entirely played for laughs, but Luis apparently put his son Carlos in a ring with a bull when he was ''nine years old''. This ended predictably.
120	* ''Franchise/DespicableMe'': Downplayed. Gru's mother was more neglectful than abusive, but her constant "eh" reaction to young Gru's moon interests, even when he '''builds an actual rocket by himself''', achieve the same effect as most examples of this trope.
121	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Storks}}'': Offscreen but heavily implied. Tulip is raised as a baby by a company of storks, who view her as an accident and want to fire her the moment she turns 18. She's obviously not considered one of the storks, given that they call her "Orphan Tulip" and her friends are all [[FantasticRacism non-stork employees]]. It's mostly played for BlackComedy.
122	-->'''Tulip''': Tulip is just fine, Orphan hurts my heart!
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125	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
126	* ''Film/AustinPowersInternationalManOfMystery''. One of Dr. Evil's best moments is during a group therapy session, casually dismissing his deranged childhood as "typical."
127	-->'''Dr. Evil:''' The details of my life are quite inconsequential. Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with a low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloë with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds -- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve, I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Wilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum. It's breathtaking -- I suggest you try it.
128	* ''Film/{{Bananas}}'' -- Creator/WoodyAllen recalls his parents to his psychiatrist:
129	-->"I think they hit me once, actually, in my whole childhood. They, they, uh, started beating me on the 23rd of December in 1942, and stopped beating me in the late Spring of '44."
130	** Allen used similar jokes in his stand-up acts: "When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room."
131	** And similarly in his film ''Film/{{Zelig}}'':
132	--->"My brother beat me. My sister beat my brother. My father beat my sister and my brother and me. My mother beat my father and my sister and me and my brother. The neighbors beat our family. The people down the block beat the neighbors and our family."
133	* John Cusack's character in ''Film/BetterOffDead'' had a somewhat off home-life coupled with bizarre neighbors and general lucklessness, spurring him into several [[SuicideAsComedy bungled suicide attempts played for laughs]].
134	* In ''Film/BladesOfGlory'', Jimmy [=McElroy's=] "pretty normal childhood" consisted of constant training and various injections to make him a superb skater.
135	* In ''Film/{{Deadpool\|2016}}'', Wade/Deadpool and his love interest Vanessa compare [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood Hilariously Abusive Childhoods]] when they meet. The whole thing is played for comedy and CrossesTheLineTwice, as can be expected.
136	* ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'': Andy Malloy is a young neighbor of the Brodys who suffers horrific facial injuries every time he appears. His father treats him nicely because of it, but that still doesn't stop the horrible things that happen to that boy, which are out of their control.
137	* ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'': In the first film, Phoebe Cates's character, who hates Christmas, tells the sad story of her dad dying on Christmas Day, having broken his neck whilst climbing down the chimney to surprise for her and her mom. In the sequel, she starts going on about some other awful thing that happened to her on Lincoln's Birthday, involving a guy dressed as Lincoln (the fact that a Gremlin [[BarbieDollAnatomy wannabe]] flasher was her BerserkButton in the first movie may shed some light on that), at which point her husband says something like 'Not now, honey.'
138	* Cusack's film ''Film/GrossePointeBlank'' seems to reference the earlier film in the backstory of protagonist Martin Blank, which appears to have been similarly hilariously abusive. By the time of the movie, Martin's mother has gone completely over the bend and is in an asylum and doesn't recognize him, and his father is implied to have been an abusive drunk (Martin does a LibationForTheDead at his grave and ultimately dumps the entire bottle out and leaves it there). In Martin's case, this unhinged him enough to become a professional assassin.
139	* Combined with BreadEggsMilkSquick in ''Film/MirrorMask''.
140	-->'''Valentine''': I'll never forget what my mother told me. 'It's a dog-eat-dog world, son. Get them before they get you. Eat your greens. Stop doing that. Don't embarrass me in front of the neighbors. [[SuddenlyShouting I THINK IT WOULD BE BETTER IF YOU LEFT HOME AND I NEVER HEARD FROM YOU AGAIN!]]'... She wasn't even my real mother. She bought me from a man...
141	* ''Film/Movie43'': In one of the film's sketches, two parents (played by real-life husband and wife Creator/LievSchreiber and Creator/NaomiWatts) are concerned their home-schooled son is missing out on things experienced in regular schools. They decide to put their son through experiences a teenage boy may undergo. They verbally bully the son, calling him "faggot" and "fuck face". In one scene, the boy shares an awkward first kiss with his own mother. The father tries to give the son an experience in gay relations, and also kisses him. Of course, the entire sketch is PlayedForLaughs.
142	* Hinted at with Charlie in ''Film/MysteryTeam''. Two throwaway gags imply that his dad is abusive/pedophilic and an alcoholic.
143	* {{Deconstructed\|Trope}} in ''Film/NaturalBornKillers'' with the flashbacks to Mallory's childhood. They consist of scenes of Mallory's father being deeply abusive, both physically and sexually, to his wife and daughter... on a {{sitcom}} set, complete with a highly uncomfortable LaughTrack that pushes it into the BlackComedy[=/=]DudeNotFunny zone. It really doesn't help that the father was played by [[PlayingAgainstType Rodney Dangerfield]]. The dissonance between character and actor is ''staggering''.
144	* [[MadScientist Dr. Godwin Baxter]] in ''Film/PoorThings'' is highly disfigured and would often recall the cruel physical experiments his father - a mad scientist himself - would put him through just ForScience. While Baxter himself tells that stories like normal childhood memories, his apprentice Max [=McCandle=] would understandbly react in shock.
145	* ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'': The Ghost of Christmas Past reveals that TV executive Frank Cross had some very disappointing childhood Christmases. Apparently, the greatest gift he ever got was five pounds of veal from his father, who is implied to be a butcher. When little Frankie points out that all he wanted was a choo-choo, his old man rudely tells him to get a job. Frankie was ''four''!
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148	[[folder:Literature]]
149	* ''Literature/{{Borgel}}'': Borgel's relationship with his father involves a humorous level of abuse and neglect. In TheOldCountry, people are too poor for things like food or affection and have to scrape by on squashed skunks and blows to the head.
150	* ''Literature/TheLockedTomb: Literature/GideonTheNinth'': Gideon did ''not'' have a good time growing up in the Ninth House as a universally reviled indentured servant. She's mostly blase about it, treating instances like having the heat turned off in her cell until she's so cold she's left screaming in a hallway as comically mundane, but it gets PlayedForDrama later, especially when it comes to her twisted and entangled history with Harrow.
151	* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': Downplayed. Rodrick is constantly bullying Greg, and his antics are mostly portrayed as funny, but it is not abuse ''per se''.
152	* ''Literature/GreatExpectations''. Pip is treated horribly by the sister who "brought him up by hand" and her series of friends, all of whom treat him as a burden and give him a terrible time, ''especially'' on Christmas. The narration treats the whole scenario very comically, probably because ''Pip's'' the one narrating the story and hindsight has given him a sense of humor.
153	* Banjo and Medium Dave from ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}''. They fondly remember their mother as "tough but fair." By the end, the comedy is cut away and the real effect of Ma Lilywhite on Dave in particular is shown... and [[HarsherInHindsight it's not funny anymore]].
154	** Members of the Fools' Guild have this collectively; the Guild school is a BoardingSchoolOfHorrors, and most of the Fools' fathers were Fools, so they know that and still decide to send their sons there. When you spent your childhood wishing you could be next door learning to be an Assassin (even if there were slightly fewer of them at the end of the year), it's hilariously abusive in a uniquely Discworld fashion.
155	* ''Literature/{{Matilda}}''. Her parents aren't physically abusive, but neglect her in favor of her brother and insult her. The school headmistress, however, is a ChildHater whose punishments take RefugeInAudacity. She once flung a girl across the schoolyard by her hair simply because that hair was in pigtails. Subverted in the movie, which treats her parents and Miss Trunchbull's abuse as ''much'' more disturbing than how it's portrayed in the book.
156	* Sunny [=McCreary=] from ''My Godawful Life'', a parody of MiseryLit. He was kept in a pigeon coop, bullied by the pigeons, had to spend his days moving his paraplegic mother's limbs for the benefit of her "clients" (she was a prostitute), all the family's money was spent on nails for his stepfather to hammer into Sunny's flesh, and he was then pimped out to truckers when it cost too much for his mother and stepfather to keep him.
157	* Used in spoof self-help book ''Oh the Humanity''. The narrator's father started carving height notches at six feet to convince the kid he was shrinking, and coming second in a spelling bee led to several years of his mother working the word "psittacosis" into every sentence. Then came school, where his main encounter with "empathy" was when a bully smashed his science fair project and said "That must suck for you, dorkhole."
158	* ''Literature/TheTimeOfTheGhost'', which is based on the [[Creator/DianaWynneJones author's]] real childhood growing up with parents more focused on teaching than on parenting. Diana Wynne Jones actually toned down some of the more absurd moments, and people ''still'' didn't believe [[RealityIsUnrealistic parents would be like that]].
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161	[[folder:Manhua]]
162	* ''Manhua/{{Ezi}}'': In one strip where ezi explicitly wishes that he dies and have his body donated to science so he could be relieved from caring his dad, the latter starts chasing him and whacks him with a dead chicken.
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164
165	[[folder:Music]]
166	* Music/WeirdAlYankovic:
167	** The song [[Music/OffTheDeepEnd "When I Was Your Age"]] features horrible incidents from the narrator's childhood. However, given how outrageously over the top (i.e. physically impossible) all of them are, it's not likely there's any truth in them: "Then he'd chop me into pieces and play Frisbee with my brain/ And let me tell you, Junior, you never heard me complain!"
168	** [[Music/RunningWithScissors "Albuquerque"]] fits, too, given the bizarre conditions of the narrator's childhood, though that's not the only subject of the song. His mother made him live in a box under the stairs in the basement and force-fed him nothing but sauerkraut until he was 26. (And a half.) He didn't get out of there until he won a plane ticket to the eponymous city in a radio contest. It kind of explains why he's [[ComedicSociopathy so]] [[SarcasmBlind messed]] [[LaughingMad up]].
169	* Speaking of Weird Al, he did guest accordion for a BarnesAndBarnes track called "Gumbyjaws Lament". While the jokes are less obvious than many of their songs, hearing Art discuss his mentally ill mother in a croaky monotone while the accordion saws jauntily away in the background is morbidly humorous.
170	* Music/EvelynEvelyn has such an over-the-top dark backstory that it CrossesTheLineTwice into BlackComedy. They're ConjoinedTwins whose mother [[DeathByChildbirth died giving birth to them]]. Their heavily religious doctor tried to separate them in cold blood with a chainsaw, but a sheriff saw him before he could do anything and shot him. Their father was killed when the chainsaw flew out of the doctor's arms and hit him in the neck. When the sheriff was driving the girls someplace, a truck full of chickens struck him. The owner of the truck stole the twins, while he leaves the sheriff and his chickens to die. Evelyn Evelyn (who weren't even named at the time) were kept in a cage and fed chicken food for the first six years of their lives. The man ended up dying and the girls escaped after several days of living around dying, dehydrated chickens. They end up kidnapped by a man and are forced into a child sex ring. Evelyn Evelyn were finally named, "Eva" and "Lynn", though no one could remember which was which so [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname they were renamed "Evelyn Evelyn"]]. Once Evelyn Evelyn hit thirteen they're sent off to work at a freak show, where they were regularly overworked and abused. Their {{Only Friend}}s, a set of conjoined elephants named Bimba and Kimba, end up developing early-onset Alzheimer's and die of malnutrition. Two radical religious protest groups, one that believes all Siamese twins should be separated while the other thinks twins should stay conjoined because they'll play a role in the second coming of Christ, end up developing an interest in them and threaten to harm and kidnap them respectively. Fearing their safety, they run away at age seventeen. Their adult lives are not exactly perfect but they're far better than their childhood was.
171	* The narrator of Music/JohnnyCash's "A Boy Named Sue".
172	* Music/{{Eminem}} likes to do this. A number of his [[BlackComedy darkly comical]] songs feature his mother as an emotionally abusive drug addict...and then [[RapeAsBackstory there's]] ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice Insane]]''...
173	* The whole "Steven" arc of Music/AliceCooper's ''Welcome To My Nightmare" is about child abuse culminating in murder.
174	* Music/{{Nomeansno}}'s song "Dad" recounts an evening of absolutely horrific domestic abuse against the teenaged narrator, his mother, and his sister; the lyrics don't feature any explicit jokes, but the mood of the song and the spoken line at the end, "I'm seriously considering leaving home", lighten the mood somewhat.
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177	[[folder:Newspapers]]
178	* In ''Website/TheOnion'', this article: [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/abusive-father-cant-wait-to-see-the-art-hes-inspir,27192/ "Abusive Father Can't Wait To See The Art He's Inspiring His Kids To Create,"]] is this trope embodied:
179	-->"The 37-year-old father said he could only imagine how his son and daughter's unstable upbringing might manifest itself in future writings, paintings, or music, given the way he routinely ridicules their achievements, yells at their mother in drunken fits of rage, and threatens the family with physical violence."
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182	[[folder:Podcasts]]
183	* ''Podcast/MomCantCook'': The RunningGag of fathers from Disney Channel Original Movies being awful often leads to depictions of this. They are often portrayed as beating their children, pushing them to ludicrous extremes, denying them any joy, and being very keen on gender conformity, among other such behaviour. Most of the time, this isn't too far from the actual character.
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186	[[folder:TabletopGames]]
187	* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Goblins'' casts its [=PCs=] as members of a race of hilariously sordid goblins, who are extremely malleable in childhood. It features a table of random abuses to be suffered by each character during their upbringing, each of which grants some mixture of advantages and disadvantages. (Being left out in a snowdrift grants white fur, being run through a mangle gives longer limbs, and so on.)
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189
190	[[folder:Theatre]]
191	* In ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'', Draco harbor an unhealthy need to get his father's approval, which is usually played for laughs. Lucius abuses the boy verbally and sometimes even physically. It turns out that the reason for this is [[spoiler:Draco is not truly his son, but rather the product of an affair between his wife Narcissa and ''Dobby'' (seriously).]]
192	* Spoofed in-universe in ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' in the song officer ''Gee Officer Krupke!'' as an "explanation" for why they're gang members and punks.
193	-->'''Riff''': Our mothers all are junkies, our fathers all are drunks. Gol-ly Mo-ses, naturally we're punks!\
194	'''Riff''': Deeeeeear kindly judge your honor, my parents treat me rough. With all their marijuana, they won't give me a puff. They didn't want to have me, but somehow I was had. Lea-ping li-zards, ''that's'' why I'm so bad!\
195	'''Riff''': Myyyyyyyy daddy beats my mommy, my mommy clobbers me. My grandpa is a commie, my grandma pushes tea. My sister wears a moustache, my brother wears a dress. Goooodness graaacious, that's why I'm a mess!
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198	[[folder:Video Games]]
199	* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' is all about surviving bad childhoods, with ReligiousHorror tropes and some DungeonCrawling thrown in.
200	* Alistair had one of these in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''. He's [[spoiler:the bastard son of King Maric]], and he was given over to the guardianship of Arl Eamon, whose sister had been Alistair's father's wife years earlier. Eamon's idea of raising this child involved making him sleep in the stables with the hounds, where he accidentally locked himself in a cage at least once and nobody found him for hours. When Alistair was ten, Eamon got married, and his new wife was convinced that Alistair was Eamon's own bastard. Rather than treat him with any kindness, she talked her husband into sending the boy away; he was handed off to the church to be raised and forced into life as a Templar. He's about twenty years old by the time of the game and only escaped his old life because he was recruited to the Grey Wardens, a military outfit that guarantees a relatively early death, but which at least enabled him to make friends and feel like he was part of a family for the first time in his life. He's a bit of a SadClown because of all this.
201	* Given the [[EverythingTryingToKillYou brutal nature of the game]], [[TheManyDeathsOfYou the many potential ways to die]], and the [[ArtificialStupidity hilarious stupidity of its title characters]], it should be no surprise that these pop up occasionally in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''.
202	** Probably the most well-known cause of death among Dwarven babies is [[BlackComedy "used as shield in self-defence"]].
203	** Behold, [[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=91093.0 the finest in Dwarven childcare.]] It's like normal childcare, except with more dogs and less care.
204	* [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential You can give one]] to a child you adopt in the second DLC of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''. You cannot kill children in this game, but this makes beating them up with a daedric maul and shouting ''Fus Ro Dah'' at them even funnier.
205	* ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy'': Lance had an abusive father, which is often just left to throwaway lines when he's hit by an attack. (Along the lines of "My dad hit me harder when I was a baby!") ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy5'' takes his abuse ''slightly'' more seriously, but it still has BlackComedy sprinkled in, such as when he tries to use it to excuse his actions prior to his defeat before [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse Natalie brushes it off,]] or when the party reaches a noose in Redpine and Lance says his father hung him from it [[BlatantLies "to try to make him taller."]]
206	* Dave, a guy you meet during ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'', had a fun childhood.
207	--> "When I was one, I was dropped on the porch. When I was two, I had pneumonia. When I was three, I got the chicken pox. When I was four, I fell down the stairs and broke six ribs. When I was five, my uncle was decapitated by a watermelon. When I was six, my parents hit me in the head with a shovel. When I was seven, I lost my index finger to me pet rat. When I was eight, my dog Spike got hit by a tractor. When I was nine, my mother lost her arm to a rabid Brahmin. When I was ten, my sister was torn to bits by a pack of dogs. When I was eleven, my grandfather killed himself because I was ugly. When I was twelve, my grandmother killed herself because I was ugly. When I was thirteen, my father poked out his eyes with a pitchfork in a drunken stupor. When I was fourteen, my brother lost his hand to a wallaby. When I was fifteen, my aunt choked to death on a chicken bone. When I was sixteen, I lost my cousin to a badger. When I was seventeen, I cut off my left big toe with a hoe. When I was eighteen, my father lost his right leg to the same tractor that killed my dog. When I was nineteen..."
208	* In ''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas'' one of the ways to deal with Phillipe (a cannibal chef) is to psychoanalyze him with a sufficient Medicine skill, at which point he angrily rambles on about how his father left him, his mother constantly brought back strange men and his sisters locked him inside crates for laughs. This eventually [[MadeMyselfSad gets him depressed]] and leaves the kitchen (as well as his recipes) to you so he can run off and cry.
209	* Baku, the leader of the Tantalus gang in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' gives beatings to any of his children who leave the band or disobey him. It's played for laughs. The band is mostly composed of 16-year-old teenagers. It's also played for drama and a little bit of laughs in Zidane's flashback.
210	* ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'': In his attempt to borrow a metal detector from Carla, the security guard at the airship dock in Rubacava, Manny ends up getting pulled into her office for a "strip search" that leads to Carla rambling to Manny about her childhood. Needless to say, her ranting about her distant father, her alcoholic mother, and her awkwardness around boys [[OverlyLongGag goes on for so long]] it becomes hilarious, even when she [[InelegantBlubbering starts sobbing uncontrollably]].
211	* Lampshaded in ''VideoGame/RegaliaOfMenAndMonarchs'' the first conversation in [[BountyHunter Grenn's]] personal bond story has him relate the horrific details of his upbringing. He immediately reveals that he was just making stuff up to troll Kay since he figured that was the sort of story he'd expect to hear.
212	* The Russian female voice in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' reveals that when she was a child, her father would make her fight the dogs for food. It made her what she is today.
213	* Ernie Eaglebeak is still enduring his at the beginning of ''VideoGame/TheSpellcastingSeries'', although he escapes soon after.
214	* In ''VideoGame/SushiStrikerTheWayOfSushido'', Emperor Octavius became a psychotic wreck in his childhood due to his father, the previous emperor, constantly taking sushi meant for Octavius and eating it in front of Octavius's face under the school of thought the former emperor called "What's Yours Is Mine." As sushi is SeriousBusiness in this game, by the time Octavius reached adulthood, [[spoiler:this traumatic upbringing had somehow manifested into an actual power to warp sushi out of other people's hands and into his own.]]
215	* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''
216	** The Demoman was given up for adoption at birth, accidentally killed his adoptive parents, sent to an orphanage, and only contacted by his real parents when his bitterness and lack of depth perception had honed his demolition skills.
217	** Apparently averted at first with the Sniper, who still speaks with his parents. The only hiccup seems to be his father's disapproval with his [[ProfessionalKiller line of work]]. Later on, he discovers that his family has been killed by assailants unknown... and they turn out to not be his real family. The truth is that he was accidentally launched out of the sunken island of New Zealand as a child by his idiotic pseudoexpert father, who flooded all of New Zealand in the process. Whether that specifically is abuse is up for debate, but judging by what we see of him, Sniper's dad isn't exactly playing with a full deck, and his mother is shrewish and prone to drinking -- he probably was better off being launched out of the ocean and onto Australia.
218	** Gray Mann also had a comically abusive childhood, which started with his father literally trying to strangle him out of the womb. Being raised by Eagles didn't help either, since he apparently ate his "adoptive mother" and "brothers" the moment he came of age.
219	* The thing the dad does in ''[[VideoGame/WhosYourDaddy Who's Your Daddy]]'' to prevent his baby from [[BlackComedy killing themselves]] tend to be pretty mild such as locking cabinets and keeping cleaning supplies and sharp objects out of reach. In Alpha V0.6.0 however, Dad can use a taser to prevent the baby from going anywhere. Of course, the fact that the baby can slash his ankles with a steak knife, this a bit more justified, if not needlessly extreme, in comparison.
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222	[[folder:Webcomics]]
223	* [[https://candacencompany.thecomicseries.com/comics/695#content-start In]] Candace ‘n’ Company, while Candace and Megan are escorting two kids in the car, Megan insists Candace would be a better parent than her own mom.
224	-->“She used to just reach around the back and start smackin’ us silly.” “But you’re an only child.” “I’m talking about me and my dad.”
225	* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'':
226	** Onion Kid turns out to become a lot more than just funny, though -- he grows up to become [[spoiler:[[PhysicalGod Sarda]]. His whole ''raison d'etre'' is to screw over the Light Warriors that made his life horrible, by cutting them down in their most awesome state to signify their insignificance to what he's become, instead of just killing them all before they could repeatedly destroy his parents, his foster parents and the orphanages that have adopted him. When you take a good look past his creativity, omnipotence, and amazing capacity for spite, you see a godlike entity whose only purpose is to horribly abuse a handful of people and will screw over countless innocents to do so, one of whom being [[StableTimeLoop himself during his childhood]]]].
227	** Not to mention what he did to Ranger, oh, [[KickTheDog poor ranger and Ranger's Wife...]]
228	* ''Webcomic/{{Achewood}}'''s Roast Beef, who "comes from circumstances."
229	* In ''Webcomic/BatmanWayneFamilyAdventures'', Tim, Damian and Cass are very casual about being trained as assassins as children, which Duke comments is a bit concerning.
230	* ''Webcomic/BecauseImDepressed'': Diego's father found Diego's attachment to an ImaginaryFriend so annoying that he pretended to take it outside and shoot it [[ForcedToWatch while Diego watched.]]
231	* ''Webcomic/BeyondTheCanopy''. Greliz asks Glenn how he got to be such an agile, scrappy fighter. Glenn explains that his grandpa throws things at him a lot.
232	* ''Webcomic/FriendlyHostility'''s Padma Maharassa was inflicted with a GenderBlenderName in memory of his deceased mother and describes his father as too busy to pay much attention to him.
233	--> "When my father finds out I'm usingy trust fund to become a comedian instead of a doctor, he will fly out here to disown me forever. Which would bring the total number of times he has spoken to me up to... four. But I think he mistook me for a delivery boy once."
234	* ''WebComic/{{Hiimdaisy}}'': The ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' comics exaggerate Dojima's ParentalNeglect to levels of ComedicSociopathy, like indulging in ConvenienceStoreGiftShopping while getting his daughter Nanako a Children's Day present.
235	* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Confirmed by WordOfGod and [[http://hs.hiveswap.com/paradoxspace/index.php?comic=47 this]] LooseCanon ''Webcomic/ParadoxSpace'' story. Dave Strider was raised by his [[McNinja rapping hipster ninja]] brother, known only as "Bro," who decorates their apartment with pornographic puppets and swords, kicks Dave's ass regularly ''[[MarionetteMaster with a puppet]]'' to "toughen him up", and once threw infant Dave off a roof to [[DieOrFly teach him how to]] FlashStep. If there was any question as to how badly this has messed with Dave's head, [[spoiler:Bro's favorite puppet, [[DemonicDummy Lil' Cal]], is, due to [[StableTimeLoop Weird Time Shit]] and some meddling by [[MonsterClown Gamzee]], a ''manifestation of Dave's nightmares from living with Lil' Cal'']]. It gets even worse when Dirk (the [[ResetButton Post-Scratch]] incarnation of Bro) is adamantly against ever having kids. Partly because he's [[StraightGay not into girls]], and partly because [[LampshadeHanging he thinks he'd be a terrible parent]].
236	* Yuki of ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' wasn't deliberately abused, but her father was a manga artist working on tentacle porn who was prone to leaving his artwork lying around where the young Yuki could see it, later named one of his female characters after her, and took her on set during the shooting of a live-action version of one of his works. His wife divorced him to get Yuki away, but she still grew up with a severe phobia (she hallucinates tentacles whenever she sees a penis) and in denial about her attraction to men (she's a bisexual who thinks she's a lesbian) -- all of which is used for comedy.
237	* The central theme of the ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' alternate universe fancomic [[http://zarla.deviantart.com/gallery/#Les-Enfants-Terribles "Les Enfants Terribles"]] is Big Boss's absolutely dreadful parenting of his clone children, and of [[TheUnfavourite Liquid Snake]] in particular.
238	--> [[http://zarla.deviantart.com/art/Les-Enfants-Terribles-38063076 "I'm BUSY, Liquid. GOD, why do you have to be so inferior?"]]
239	* ''Webcomic/TheParkingLotIsFull'': [[http://its.goofyti.me/NO/DAD/NO/goofy.jpg IT'S GOOFY TIME!]]
240	* Tycho from ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'', shown [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/01/13 here,]] [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/01/17/ here]], [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/06/30 here,]] [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/06/23 here,]] [[OverlyLongGag and]] [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/07/04 here.]] Yikes.
241	* This [[https://winick-lim.deviantart.com/gallery/48431152/Meowstic-And-Espurr series]] of ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' fanart involving a female Meowstic abusing her Espurr child (and Meowstic husband) in over-the-top-ways.
242	* ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'':
243	** Monette discussing her DisappearedDad: "He spent the first six months of my life battling my mother for custody of all of us, and when he got it, he took my sisters and dumped me on my grandma's doorstep. And she wasn't even there! She was on vacation. And she raised pitbulls at her house [...] He had tied raw, bloody steaks to my head." Her grandmother wasn't much better, [[https://somethingpositive.net/comic/christmas-memories/ as we see in her recounting of childhood Christmases.]] Meanwhile, Jason's father is a psychiatrist who "used his field of study to bully children" and abandoned the family when he got bored with them. Before that, he was emotionally abusive towards them in a number of ways, including "giving me invoices for how much love I owed him per week. That wasn't so bad, but the man did the audits suck." Davan's father was usually fine, but had his interesting moments;
244	--->"You're such a sweetie! When Davan talked about you he always made you sound like this big scary ogre. He even said that when he was six you sat him down and tried to mathematically prove to him that the Vietnam War was his fault! Isn't that nuts?"\
245	"Ahem. Yeah, that's just ... crazy talk. Yep. Hey, I've got an idea! Let's never bring that up around his mama."
246	** Inverted with Ollie, whose implied history of sexually servicing his psychopathic uncle Avagadro was apparently an ''improvement'' over life with his own violent, two-faced father.
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249	[[folder:Web Original]]
250	* ''Website/ChannelAwesome'':
251	** WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic once showed a drawing he drew as a kid, featuring his parents as two dinosaurs ripping him apart, played for BlackComedy. What makes it more tangible, however, is that the character has become something of a PapaWolf who can't stand it when non-bratty children get abused.
252	--->"[[{{Understatement}} I had issues.]]"
253	** WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick too, perhaps [[DistaffCounterpart fittingly]]. Her mother made her feel inadequate, her dad never loved her, and her uncle was sexually abusive. In her case, this is also a FreudianExcuse, as she herself abuses Nella, doesn't like to show weak emotion, and makes a lot of off-color sex jokes.
254	** WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses also apparently had a pretty crappy childhood, what with being raped by a doctor and his parents saying he ought to "go back to the dumpster where they found him". Of course, this refers to the [[AlterEgoActing characters]], not Creator/DougWalker and Lindsay Ellis.
255	** Another Doug character, [[WebVideo/BumReviews Chester A. Bum]], has a vaguer past than Critic or Ask That Guy due to his brain being scattered by drugs, but has also made references to family abuse. Even logically, ''something'' had to happen to make him homeless and keep him that way for so long.
256	* Ron Stampler from ''Podcast/DungeonsAndDaddies'' is a CloudCuckooLander with NoSocialSkills to say the ''least''. But much of his oddness becomes at least a little more understandable the more you hear about his father, Willy, who was incredibly cruel and neglectful to him. Not that Ron realises that any of that wasn't normal, and his total obliviousness to how awful his childhood was is often played for DarkHumour. For example, in the Christmas episode he reveals that Christmas presents from his dad were always tubes of wrapping paper, so he could use them to wrap up presents for Willy. While the other dads are appropriately disgusted by that, Ron himself is perfectly happy about it all -- which is why he cheerfully gifts the other dads wrapping paper for their presents, too.
257	* The pilot of :DRYVRS [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation interprets]] [[Film/HomeAlone Kevin MacCalister's life]] as this, complete with a RoleReprise from Macaulay Culkin.
258	* ''Website/GaiaOnline'':
259	** The Christmas 2007 event had users fostering adorable shabby orphans, who would hang out by the user's avatar. Their lives at the orphanage were a clear Dickens parody -- "imitation" gruel for food, ''whiskey'' to keep warm, scraps of carpet for toys... many users [[VideoGameCaringPotential tried to keep their orphans]], which led to a later Chance Item being adoption forms.
260	** Brennevin's wizard father once turned him into a set of silverware for trying to celebrate Halloween.
261	** Let's not forget Gino Gambino, whose father tried to toughen him up by [[EvilutionaryBiologist doping him with prototype zombie serums]]. [[spoiler:Nor Labtech X, who apparently got ''disowned'' when Gino came along.]]
262	* The ''Platform/GoAnimate'' "fandom" readily enjoy abusing WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} and [[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer Dora]]. While the videos portray the two kids as nasty brats, their punishments are so over the top that it practically CrossesTheLineTwice.
263	* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'':
264	** Strong Sad suffered all sorts of over-the-top abuse from {{Big Brother Bull\|y}}ies Strong Bad and Strong Mad over the years, like being stuck to the ceiling with Bubble Tape or getting locked in the bath-tub every [[YouMeanXmas Decemberween]]. There's also the time in "The House That Gave Sucky Treats" where giving Strong Sad a pack of Necco Wafers remind him of his childhood... namely, the time where he was "sick for a year and nearly died" after eating colored chalk.
265	** A remark Strong Bad makes in the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "specially marked", [[BreathlessNonSequitur while going on a rant about cereal box prizes that require sending in box tops or UPC barcodes]], implies his mother was a compulsive gambler who was always taking trips to Las Vegas.
266	--->'''Strong Bad:''' This means not only are they gonna make you buy several more boxes that you have to cut the bar codes off of, but you're also gonna have to involve your mom to write a check for the shipping and handling if she's back from Vegas! The nerve of those cereals! Leave my mom out of this!
267	** The 2006 Halloween fan costume compilation had Strong Bad mistaking a woman for "The Cheat's hot mom", who was "always in and out of prison" for, at the very least, giving alcohol to minors ("Is she giving out frozen margara-Cheat-as again?").
268	* A rare sibling-abuse variant in ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool''; Rachel is often verbally and physically abused by her older sister Bridget, but the former always stupidly sets off the latter's wrath.
269	* ''Creator/SamAndMickey'': This trope applies to Barbie's "little sisters", and Barbie herself.
270	-->'''Barbie:''' ''Mom'', [[HypocriticalHumor you can't just throw babies]]!\
271	'''Margaret:''' Yes, you can! I used to throw you all the time, and you turned out fine-OnSecondThought, perhaps you're right.
272	* Website/SFDebris' AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager's'' Captain Janeway had one, probably giving her a FreudianExcuse for being, in SF Debris' characterization of her, an insane, AxCrazy, genocidal tyrant.
273	-->'''Janeway:''' This is where you, armed with a gun, hunt defenseless lil' ol' me down throughout the ship. Y'know what we called this growing up? Father's Day.
274	* In the Creator/DavidFirth cartoon ''A Short Cartoon About Time'', an abusive, alcholic mother forces her son to sell all of his time to fund her habit, turning him into a decrepit old man.
275	-->'''Son:''' But moooom! I don't want to sell more of my time!\
276	'''Mother:''' You'll do as I FOKKING tell you!
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280	* Humza's mother from ''WebVideo/DiaryOfABadman'' stabs him for throwing a snowball at her, beats him until he needs to be hospitalized, and [[ChainedToARailway ties him up and throws him in the road]] so she can run him over whenever he interrupts her [[SeriousBusiness favourite TV show]].
281	* ''WebVideo/DrGlaucomflecken'': The Psychiatrist's parents really [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX3YcfQ4i6s pushed]] him into becoming a psychiatrist.
282	* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': Piccolo's training of Gohan summed up in one word: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6npO-NoOPOg "DODGE!"]] and yet everyone, including Piccolo, Gohan and Goku, considers Piccolo a better dad than Goku.
283	* WebVideo/{{Fred}}'s mother was an alcoholic prostitute who would often leave Fred alone, not feed him (sometimes as punishment, sometimes she would forget), have him play in the parking lot of the bar while she was inside, and even left him alone with the psychopath Claudio.
284	* ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft'' is full of BlackComedy and this trope appears frequently:
285	** Fluttershy's distant father did everything from not going to her softball games to creating extremely elaborate attempts to kill her. She's terrified of him but overcame those fears [[spoiler:and killed him]]. It's [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation also possible]] Fluttershy was an UnreliableNarrator due to her AdaptationalVillainy.
286	** Spike is the ButtMonkey of the entire town who no one seems to [[TheFriendNobodyLikes like]]. He's treated like a servant and is constantly poked fun of. Twilight (who is essentially his [[AbusiveParents adopted mom]]) outright made him hold up a lightning rod during a storm, which caused him to break his legs.
287	** Pinkie Pie had one by her own admission. She lost her parents in a fire and was sent into an OrphanageOfFear that emotionally abused her and [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer ostracized]] her for being Romani and [[FantasticRacism being an Earth pony]]. Into adulthood, this has caused her deep mental trauma and self-confidence issues that she [[StepfordSmiler hides]] behind [[LyricalDissonance deceptively happy-sounding songs]].
288	--->''Didn't you already have a childhood?''\
289	''...No.''
290	** Scootaloo is [[spoiler:Dash's]] daughter whom she [[ParentalNeglect pays no attention to]].
291	* ''WebVideo/TheFunniestMinecraftVideosEver'': In the "Natural Disaster" video, Wilbur locks Tubbo in his basement, then forces him kill to mules to stock Wilbur's Mule Bits shop, all while Tubbo cries hysterically. By the time Tommy and Jack decide to become CPS and raid Wilbur's house, Tubbo is practically despondent, and spends the entire time Tommy was there hiding under the stairs. Then, when Tommy gives Tubbo a whip (fishing rod) to defend himself with, Tubbo immediately starts whipping ''himself''.
292	-->'''Wilbur:''' I'm gonna be serving quite a long time in prison over the next following months...
293	* ''WebVideo/GodsOfFood'':
294	** Blynn was part of an unlawful experiment to whether compassionate parenting affected adolescent development, and was raised by a wire monkey covered in cloth. They got shut down, but they did learn the answer. [[CaptainObvious It does.]]
295	** Giuseppe Grecco and his family were constantly verbally abused by previous generations to hammer home the importance of sticking tradition and always baking the exact same thing with the same, incredibly laborious methods. They spat on his great-grandmother for suggesting they take advantage of advancements in cooking. With Guiseppe as the last Grecco the cycle will end, which he takes some comfort in, but he's still trapped by family obligation and the furious reactions of his customers if he makes any kind of innovation.
296	* In ''WebVideo/JakeAndAmir'', Amir frequently relays horrifying stories of his childhood to Jake. For instance, in the episode "Driving Lesson", we learn that his parents forced him to take driving lessons when he was four, threw knives at him, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking called him 'Queen Dweeb']]. Furthermore, their abuse towards him continues to this day; when Amir came to visit them during vacation, his father greeted him by throwing a cast iron skillet at [[MindScrew the back of his face]].
297	* ''WebVideo/MyLittlePonyTheMentallyAdvancedSeries'' has Twilight's hilarious abuse under the care of Celestia.
298	* When playing ''[[VideoGame/CookingMama Babysitting Mama]]'', [=RTGame=] [[https://youtu.be/-PQT94aSTm8 goes out of his way]] to abuse the included baby doll as much as possible. This includes ''starting'' by slamming the baby's head onto the desk, using various cooking implements on him (including trying to stick him in a blender), sticking pins in his hands and feet, and -- since the game involves sticking the Wii Mote into the baby doll -- using him to play ''Wii Sports''.
299	-->'''[=RTGame=]:''' No, this is just called "taking care of my son"! I'm just taking care of him in the sense that a mafia would [[DeadlyEuphemism take care]] of a problem in the office!
300	* While playing "Patently Stupid" from ''VideoGame/TheJackboxPartyPack'', WebVideo/{{Technoblade}} is given a prompt to somehow teach a baby to understand theoretical physics. His solution is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV35TwX_xps threatening the baby with a gun,]] because according to him, "Fear is the greatest motivator."
301	-->'''Techno:''' That baby better learn! He better learn ''right this instant'' or I don't know what I'm gonna do to that baby! I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M GONNA DO TO THAT BABY IF HE DOESN'T [...] COMPREHEND THEORETICAL PHYSICS '''''RIGHT THIS INSTANT! I SWEAR TO GOD! YOU BETTER LEARN THOSE EQUATIONS!''''' That is all.
302	* In ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'', Rainbow Dash is the one with the abusive past. Her parents died when she was a few hours old, and she's never stayed with a single foster family for longer than a week. In the present, when her parasprite pets turn violent, Dash's only reaction is "My new family's trying to kill me [[OhNoNotAgain again]]!"
303	* ''[[Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical A Very Potter Sequel]]'' has both Harry and Draco.
304	-->''"I was in the car with my parents when we crashed. Into a crocodile. My parents got eaten but then the crocodile took out a knife and gave me this scar."''
305	%%* Chonny, from ''WebVideo/{{yourchonny}}'' portrays his childhood/home life this way in his videos.
306	* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'':
307	** Turns Seto Kaiba's childhood into an example of this.
308	--->'''Gozaburo:''' [[Series/Roots1977 Whip him 'til his name's Toby]]!
309	** And unlike the source material, Gozaburo apparently treated his biological son Noah even worse:
310	--->'''Gozaburo:''' Ah, Good. You must be the new man servant I ordered.\
311	'''Noah:''' No, father, it's me! Your biological son!\
312	'''Gozaburo:''' IHaveNoSon Oh wait, yes I do! ''(shows a picture of Seto)'' Look! I just adopted him. Isn't he adorable?\
313	'''Noah:''' But I'm your real son. You've raised me for ten years!\
314	'''Gozaburo:''' I'm pretty sure I'd remember something like that. Now get back to swabbing the floors.\
315	'''Noah:''' But I–\
316	'''Gozaburo:''' SWAB IT, I SAY!
317	** And there's, of course, Marik's father, Hank Ishtar, who did things like beat up Odion for killing the snake that attacked Marik (it was his pet cobra, Cornelious) or making Marik a tombkeeper with the painful ritual of carving symbols in his back with a red-hot knife... and then forcing him to watch ''Film/BeverlyHillsChihuahua''. (Marik is more horrified by the second part.) He also bought a Playstation and an Xbox for his kids, but he not only forbids them from going outside to buy games, he also keeps pouring beer on them.
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