Line #59 PlayingWith/SelfMadeOrphan


1	'''Basic Trope:''' A child kills their parents.
2	* '''Straight:''' Carl shoots his parents, Alice and Bob, [[BoomHeadshot in their faces]].
3	* '''Exaggerated:'''
4	** Several characters kill their parents, leading to a TeenageWasteland if these characters are children.
5	** Carl, along with his siblings, kill their parents.
6	** Carl also kills his extended family.
7	** Carl goes back in time to shortly before he was born. In addition to killing Bob, he also somehow arranges for [[DeathByChildbirth Alice to not survive giving birth to him]].
8	** Carl commits GenocideFromTheInside.
9	** Carl [[KarmicRape rapes his sexually abusive mother, Alice]] to death after torturing his physically abusive father, Bob into pleading for his life.
10	* '''Downplayed:'''
11	** Carl hires a hitman to murder Alice and Bob.
12	** Carl severely wounds Alice and Bob but does not kill them.
13	** Carl only kills [[{{Patricide}} one of]] [[{{Matricide}} his parents.]]
14	** Carl has the opportunity to prevent Alice and Bob's death, but [[MurderByInaction deliberately avoids doing it.]]
15	** Carl plans to kill Alice and Bob, ''eventually'', [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness but not while he's still dependent on them.]]
16	* '''Justified:'''
17	** Alice and Bob were AbusiveParents.
18	** Alice and Bob were [[EvilMatriarch vill]][[ArchnemesisDad ains]].
19	** Alice and Bob never gave [[SpoiledBrat Carl]] what he wants and Carl does this [[EvilIsPetty out of revenge]].
20	** Carl is [[AntagonisticOffspring inherently]] [[EnfantTerrible evil]].
21	** Alice and Bob were about to kill him and he did it in self-defense.
22	** Alice and Bob were about to turn into zombies and asked their son to kill them before they turned completely.
23	** Carl kills Alice and Bob to save innocent bystanders who were about to be harmed by Alice and Bob.
24	** Carl wants his inheritance money sooner rather than later.
25	** Alice and Bob were crippled to the point of near-death by someone else and were unable to recover from their condition, and so poor Carl [[MercyKill had no other choice but to put them out of their misery]].
26	** Carl is {{rebellious\|Spirit}} and hates Alice and Bob telling him what to do.
27	** Carl was BrainwashedAndCrazy or suffering from DemonicPossession. He was ''forced'' to kill his parents.
28	** [[TheEvilPrince Prince Carl]] wants to immediately rule a kingdom, so he kills his parents to seize the throne for himself.
29	* '''Inverted:'''
30	** [[OffingTheOffspring Alice and Bob kill Carl.]]
31	** Carl saves Alice and Bob from a murderer.
32	** Carl [[DisneyDeath resurrects Alice and Bob]] from the dead.
33	* '''Subverted:'''
34	** The murder of Alice and Bob was an [[AccidentalMurder accident.]]
35	** It appears that Carl was framed for killing Alice and Bob.
36	* '''Double Subverted''':
37	** [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident This is one of Carl's lies to evade responsibility for his actions.]]
38	** It turns out that Carl did kill Alice and Bob.
39	* '''Parodied:'''
40	** Carl kills Alice and Bob because they [[GroundedForever grounded him for 20 years]] [[DisproportionateRetribution for accidentally spilling milk]].
41	** [[TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}} In court,]] [[RefugeInAudacity Carl pleads for clemency on account that he's an orphan.]]
42	** Carl goes back in time and spits in the primordial soup of the first prokaryotes to alter his family tree to rid Alice and Bob, [[Main/ButterflyOfDoom not realizing he's drastically changing the timeline]] [[Main/CrapsackWorld into a hellhole run by]] [[CatFolk anthropomorphic cats]] where humanity is a SlaveRace.
43	* '''Zig-Zagged:''' It looks like Carl killed his parents, but then it turns out Bob did it. Of course, [[TheManBehindTheMan this is because Alice payed him to]], but [[TheChessmaster Alice is bankrolled by Carl...]] Or rather, Carl's SplitPersonality, Steven. It then turns it was [[BitchInSheepsClothing the 'good' side]], Carl, that ordered the hit after a SplitPersonalityMerge.
44	* '''Averted:''' Carl never kills Alice and Bob.
45	* '''Enforced:'''
46	** "Okay, so [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]] gets defeated. We want [[SequelHook an early sign]] that Carl will grow up to be the new BigBad." "Let's have him kill Alice and Bob."
47	** "We want an AntiHero with a DarkAndTroubledPast, let's have him as the son of Emperor Evulz and have him killed his evil parents!"
48	* '''Lampshaded''': "[[WhatTheHellHero What have you done, Carl!?]] They were your parents!"
49	* '''Invoked:'''
50	** Alice and Bob deliberately raise him to be a murderer.
51	** Alice and Bob abuse him in the hope that he kills them.
52	* '''Exploited:'''
53	** In his adulthood, Carl works as a hitman.
54	** Carl kills Alice and Bob to get his inheritance early.
55	* '''Defied:'''
56	** Carl refuses to kill Alice and Bob, no matter what they do to him.
57	** Worried that Carl might be murderous, Alice and Bob give him what he wants so he doesn't kill them.
58	** After Carl attempts to murder Alice and Bob, they give him up for adoption in another city.
59	* '''Discussed:'''
60	** "Mom and dad are so evil. I would kill them, but that would be wrong."
61	** "The term "orphaned" implies someone ''else'' made me an orphan... Not so much as it turns out."
62	* '''Conversed''': "Carl killed Alice and Bob at the end of the story? About time! [[TheScrappy I never liked them anyway.]]"
63	* '''Implied:''' Carl walks into his Alice and Bob's house carrying a knife. The next time we see him, he's [[RaisedByGrandparents living with his grandparents Gary and Hannah]].
64	* '''Deconstructed:'''
65	** Carl is soon exposed for the murder of Alice and Bob and is tried as an adult. As he becomes an adult, he is sentenced to 25 years in prison.
66	** Diane and Ethan, Alice and Bob's other children, team up to avenge their parents' deaths by killing Carl.
67	** Carl [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes too late that this was a terrible idea]], and he now misses Alice and Bob. He becomes a pariah to the rest of the world, and his siblings shun him.
68	* '''Reconstructed:'''
69	** Although this didn't stop him from being satisfied with Alice and Bob. Also, he breaks out at the first opportunity.
70	** Of course, Diane and Ethan were abusive siblings towards Carl, so Carl kills them successfully.
71	** Carl is enrolled in an institution that is focused on helping children to earn back their places in society.
72	* '''Played for Laughs:''' Carl's parents ground him. When he kills them as revenge, his friend Frank says "It's good to have you back, Carl!"
73	* '''Played for Drama:'''
74	** Carl has killed Alice and Bob while [[ForcedToWatch making Diane and Ethan watch.]]
75	** Carl has a nasty argument with his parents. Carl yells at the both of them, telling them that he wished they were dead, which earns him a slap from Bob. Carl then punches Bob in return, earning the rage of Alice who scolds him for doing that to his own father. Carl pushes Alice down, which then leads to a fight between him and Bob. Losing the fight, Carl grabs a gun out of desperation and shoots Bob, killing him in the process. Carl turns to Alice, who is shocked that Carl would kill his own father, and to her horror, she gets shot and killed too. A few minutes have passed and Carl [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes what he has done]] and leaves the house with no idea what to do next.
76	* '''Played for Horror:''' Carl hangs Alice and Bob upside down above a pit of spinning circular saws and leaves them there. He also blocks all the possible escape points and kidnaps his entire extended family, places them in front of a huge fireplace, and [[ForcedToWatch forces them]] to watch Alice and Bob scream and plead for mercy as they slowly get lowered into the spinning circular saws. Gary and Hannah begin to cry at witnessing their children getting killed painfully as their blood splashes on their faces as [[EvilLaugh Carl begins to maniacally laugh.]] Carl then activates a conveyor that straps his family's feet to the ground, which sends them into the huge fireplace to burn them alive. Gary manages to escape, but he gets shot by Carl. Carl begins [[MoralEventHorizon to maniacally laugh again as his family slowly gets burned alive.]]
77	* '''Plot Foundation:''' Carl averting ChildrenAreInnocent makes it that much easier to believe he's a CompleteMonster later in the story.
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