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* We have Stoick the Vast from ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon''. Completely ashamed of his son when his son embarrasses him, is completely blunt in expressing his dislike of Hiccup's unique habits, disowns Hiccup when the boy finds an alternate way to solve the conflict, and is only proud of Hiccup when he pulls off a BigDamnHeroes moment and rescues his life and that of the tribe full of jerks. By the end, he has apologized to Hiccup for how he treated him and has completely lost this trope come the sequel. It should be noted Stoick did genuinely care about Hiccup and was just trying to do what he thought was best for him... not that it was.

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* We have Stoick the Vast from ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon''.''WesternAnimation/{{How to Train Your Dragon|2010}}''. Completely ashamed of his son when his son embarrasses him, is completely blunt in expressing his dislike of Hiccup's unique habits, disowns Hiccup when the boy finds an alternate way to solve the conflict, and is only proud of Hiccup when he pulls off a BigDamnHeroes moment and rescues his life and that of the tribe full of jerks. By the end, he has apologized to Hiccup for how he treated him and has completely lost this trope come the sequel.[[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2 sequel]]. It should be noted Stoick did genuinely care about Hiccup and was just trying to do what he thought was best for him... not that it was.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'' movie, an adaptation of the Death Of Superman arc, ComicBook/LexLuthor makes a clone of Superman that quickly gets into BewareTheSuperman territory. However, he keeps doing whatever Lex tells him, as he was programmed to do -- including, in one of his early scenes, just standing there and taking it when Luthor has him walk into a red-sun chamber and then whales on him mercilessly with kryptonite-knuckled gauntlets while screaming out his frustration with Superman for dying and leaving him. Later he has the classic AbusiveParents line "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out of it."
** This is all especially chilling because it's presumably what would have happened to the comics character Kon-El, Conner Kent, Post-Crisis Superboy, if Luthor's experiments had run a little more smoothly.
--->'''Lex:''' WHO'S YOUR DADDY?
** The clone is all KnightTemplar, so he goes rogue from Lex [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal after that]], and the first thing he does is dig the kryptonite bomb out of his skull with laser vision (incidentally, apparently the hemispheres of his brain aren't linked?), and then he saves Lois and Jimmy from Lex... and then rather horribly slaughters [[SendInTheClones Lex's incipient clone army]], ranging from oversized fetuses to nearly-mature specimens, with the ironic comment "Evil Supermen? Not on my watch!" The line of clones at the stage of development Conner was when he entered the scene were especially nasty to see die, although it was obvious as soon as they were introduced that they'd all have to be massacred somehow.



* ''WesternAnimation/WonderWomanBloodlines'': In a rather direct contrast to the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 source material]] "Mothers are Bad" appears to be a consistent motif in the film. Hippolyta banished Diana after she decided to help Steve Trevor, Julia was immensely strict and negligent with Vanessa to the point that watching her treat Diana differently drove her mad with jealousy, Pasiphae made her own son the Minotaur into an eternal brainwashed guardian of her shrine, and Veronica Cale describes her own mother as an alcoholic with an "icy glare".
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* In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'' Artie opens up to Shrek about his abusive father who abandoned him at his school and he never heard from him again. Shrek understands this as his father was abusive as well. He had tried to eat him but Shrek says should have seen it coming because he gave him a bath in barbeque sauce and put him to bed with an apple in his mouth. This also explains why Shrek was so afraid of becoming an abusive father when he learns Fiona is pregnant with his children.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'' Artie opens up to Shrek about his abusive father who abandoned him at his school and he never heard from him again. Shrek understands this as his father was abusive as well. He had tried to eat him but Shrek says he should have seen it coming because he gave him a bath in barbeque sauce and put him to bed with an apple in his mouth. This also explains why Shrek was so afraid of becoming an abusive father when he learns Fiona is pregnant with his children.

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