History AbusiveParents / LiveActionTV

** Tywin Lannister is not physically abusive but dominates and demeans each of his children to horrific levels. There's no positive reinforcement and constant DisappointedInYou speeches all around. He's especially vindictive to [[MaternalDeathBlameTheChild Tyrion]], going out of his way to make his life a living hell, despite Tyrion being well into his adulthood. It's safe to say that his poor parenting is his most prominent negative quality, especially since fucking his cousin was indirectly responsible for Tyrion's birth defects.

* ''Series/GothamKnights2023'':
** Harper and Cullen ran away from home to escape their abusive father, an alcoholic who beat them.
** Harvey Dent it turns out also had an abusive father with mental illness giving him totally different personalities, with one beating him for even the slightest thing and the other a perfect, loving man who'd been totally unaware of this.
** As per canon, Stephanie Brown's father, and to a somewhat lesser extent her mother, are emotionally abusive. Later her mother slaps her as well.
* In ''Series/GreysAnatomy'', Alex Karev's father was physically abusive to his mother and perhaps to Alex and his siblings as well, until Alex grew strong enough to beat him up and kick him out of the house. Because of this, Alex is extremely emotionally involved with cases involving abuse.

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}''
** [[ManipulativeBastard Lex's]] dad, [[MagnificentBastard Lionel]], withholds affection and approval from his son in the warped belief that it will make him stronger. Their tortured relationship is one of the keystones of the series and ends very badly when [[spoiler:Lex kills his dad]]. It is revealed in Season 3 that Lionel himself suffered physical abuse from his drunken, [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] parents, who sought to keep him down in the gutter with them, and prevent him from succeeding at anything; this is one of the reasons he's so oblivious to his abuse of Lex, as he thinks he has a firm grasp of what abuse looks like. And then there's [[BrokenBird Tess Mercer]], whose real parents [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned her]] and whose foster father broke her eardrums and arm through physical violence.
** In Season 4, we meet Jason Teague, whose parents were also less than loving. His father, Edward, subjects him to FinancialAbuse, disinheriting him when he sets off on his own. His mother, EvilMatriarch Genevieve is even worse, being more or less Lionel's DistaffCounterpart. She's emotionally manipulative of Jason and his girlfriend, whom she plans to murder in order to fulfill a prophecy; her control of Jason is so extreme that by the end of the season, he's unwilling to do ''anything'' without seeking her permission first.
** Then in Season 10, we meet [[AlternateUniverse Earth-2 Lionel]], who is far worse than his Earth-1 counterpart, encouraging his kids to plot against one another for the privilege of being his BastardUnderstudy, and eventually tries to have them all killed off at one point or another. ArchnemesisDad indeed.

* ''Series/Titans2018'':
** [[GodOfEvil Trigon]] and Slade, probably DC's most infamous examples, though none of them touch the epic-scale manipulations of their comic counterparts.
** Angela Azarath manipulated her daughter and her friends into freeing Trigon.
** Lionel Luthor is no slouch in this department, he was shown being physically abusive toward Lex Luthor, in his younger years.

** Rania a volatile and physically abusive alcoholic father. He even gives her a black eye at one point, and Layan comforts her the next day at school and tries to apply makeup to hide it.

* ''Series/LAsFinest'': Nancy and Nico's mom physically abused them both, including hitting or burning them using cigarettes.

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*** Fin's ex-wife was raped by her own father as a child, resulting in her becoming pregnant. She blamed the child, Darius Parker, for what his father did to her, and beat him; Finn eventually supports her past actions, once he discovers them, and makes it clear that Darius is neither wanted nor considered a family member (which later comes back to bite them). Fin himself was neglectful in a sense, due to being gone all the time when he use to work Vice, and he eventually was divorced from his wife and estranged from his son, although they do eventually reconcile and are able to form a strong positive relationship.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'':
** In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder...]]", Lestat de Lioncourt recounts how his father had beaten and starved him simply because he had studied religion at a monastery and wanted to become a priest.
** Claudia mentions in her journal that her "mean old auntie" (who was her [[{{Nephewism}} legal guardian]] because Claudia's mother had [[DeathByChildbirth died in childbirth]] and her father had [[DisappearedDad abandoned her]]) had beaten her.
** Although Lestat seems fond of his vampire daughter Claudia at first, it becomes clear that he mainly sees her as [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter a means to an end to keep his boyfriend Louis de Pointe du Lac by his side]], and when she no longer fulfills this purpose, he doesn't feel much responsibility towards her. After the incident with Charlie in "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E4TheRuthlessPursuitOfBloodWithAllA ...The Ruthless Pursuit of Blood with All a Child's Demanding]]", he's through playing "Uncle Les" and doesn't hide his disdain for her, being physically rough with her and outright calling her "[[AMistakeIsBorn a mistake]]" in "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart]]". In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod Like Angels Put in Hell by God]]", he threatens to kill her if she runs away from home again, and in "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill The Thing Lay Still]]", he plans to [[OffingTheOffspring murder her]] so that [[JealousParent Lestat has no more competition for Louis' affection]].
** Louis doesn't harm Claudia for the most part, but there is one notable exception: in [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill the Season 1 finale]], he slams her against the armoire while tightly grasping her neck -- which is identical to what Lestat did to her in [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart the fifth episode]].

** Lestat de Lioncourt's father had beaten and starved him simply because he had studied religion at a monastery and wanted to become a priest.
** Claudia mentions in her journal that her "mean old auntie" (who was her [[ParentalSubstitute legal guardian]] because Claudia's mother had [[DeathByChildbirth died in childbirth]] and her father had [[DisappearedDad abandoned her]]) had beaten her.

*** Even though Ziyal is largely a MoralityPet for her father Dukat, he has his share of moments where he makes it clear that his love is conditional; at one point, when she won't unquestioningly obey him, he decides to leave her to her fate rather than, say, explain that her life is in danger. He was also initially prepared to kill her to save his own reputation, though he ultimately couldn't go through with it.

** Dr. House's father started out as just a harsh bastard who didn't see eye to eye with his son, but then, as is so often the case, more than a few nasty things popped up about him. He doesn't believe in unconditional love; he apparently never told his son that he was right or did the right thing; he [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment forbade Greg to eat if he was even a minute late for a meal]]; he made him sleep outside and take ice baths when he was a child (trust the writers to go for things that are considered torture in some places); and after a 12-year-old Greg told him (truthfully, though on an educated guess) that he wasn't his real father, he refused to speak to Greg for two months. But, even after all this and in the last fifteen minutes of "Birthmarks", House (in his own guarded way) admits that his father's death has affected him more than he would care to admit. Greg House hated his dad so much, he convinced himself that he wasn't his biological son. Not only [[spoiler:was he right, but he made the deduction based on red flags spotted when he was fourteen]], something that impresses even Wilson. He even [[spoiler:deduced his actual father, or so we're led to believe until Season 8]]. Whatever kind of [[AnAesop lesson]] this gives is rather [[GreyAndGreyMorality ambiguous]].

** Chase was abandoned by his father -- a brilliant but seriously unstable doctor -- at age 15 and left to take care of his sister and alcoholic mother for the next few years. Flash forward to Season 2, when [[spoiler:his father dies of lung cancer without even mentioning he was sick and cuts Chase out of his will.]] He became a doctor because he had frequently read the medical texts in his father's study... where his mother would lock him for hours on end whenever she couldn't deal with him.

* ''Series/{{House}}'': Dr. House's father started out as just a harsh bastard who didn't see eye to eye with his son, but then, as is so often the case, more than a few nasty things popped up about him. He doesn't believe in unconditional love, he apparently never told his son that he was right or did the right thing, he made him sleep outside and take ice baths when he was a child (trust the writers to go for things that are considered torture in some places), refused to speak to him for two months when a 12-years-old Greg told him (truthfully) that Papa House wasn't his real father, and let him go without food if he was ever a tiny bit late for a meal. But, even after all this and in the last fifteen minutes of "Birthmarks", House (in his own guarded way) admits that his father's death has affected him more than he would care to admit. Greg House hated his dad so much, he convinced himself that he wasn't his biological son. Not only [[spoiler:was he right, but he made the deduction based on red flags spotted when he was fourteen]], something that impresses even Wilson. He even [[spoiler:deduced his actual father, or so we're led to believe until Season 8]]. Whatever kind of [[AnAesop lesson]] this gives is rather [[GreyAndGreyMorality ambiguous]].

* On ''Series/{{The 100}}'', both Raven and Murphy had abusive, alcoholic mothers. Raven's mom regularly traded her daughter's food rations for liquor, while Murphy's mom would emotionally abuse him, blaming him for his father's death. Raven responds by devoting herself to her mechanic's training so she can get away from her mom and lead a better life, while Murphy is made bitter and cynical by his upbringing and becomes a criminal.

* American dark-comedy sitcom TV show ''Series/{{Titus}}'' has Ken "Papa" Titus, who was emotionally abusive toward his sons.
** One of the quotes from the show:
--->"Why abuse a child physically when emotional abuse is far more permanent?"

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E106HesAlive He's Alive]]", Peter Vollmer's [[AlcoholicParent alcoholic father]] frequently slammed him against the wall when he was a child while his mother suffered from some sort of mental disease that left her emotionally absent to him.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E126LivingDoll Living Doll]]", Eric Streator is cold, distant, and verbally abusive towards his stepdaughter Christie, reducing her to tears on several occasions. The FreudianExcuse for his behavior is that he is infertile. Erich later snatches Talky Tina, who repeatedly threatens to kill him, from Christie. When she calls him "Daddy" and pleads with him to return the doll, he angrily tells her that he isn't her daddy. His wife Annabelle comes to believe that Erich hates both her and Christie but he genuinely wants to do right by them.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E143QueenOfTheNile Queen of the Nile]]", Pamela Morris not only refuses to share the gift of eternal life with her elderly daughter Viola Draper but threatens to kill her at one point.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E156TheBewitchinPool The Bewitchin' Pool]]", Gil and Gloria Sharewood are emotionally abusive towards their children Jeb and Sport. They continually chide them for making noise with Gloria complaining that she finds it difficult to put up with their whining 24 hours a day. When Gil and Gloria tell Jeb and Sport that they are going to get a divorce, they demand to know which of them the children want to live with. They don't give their children any time to process this unpleasant news, which shows how self-obsessed they are.

** In "Children's Zoo", the 4-year-old Debbie Cunningham's parents Sheila and Martin are frequently verbally and emotionally abusive towards her. Her mother yells at her without the slightest provocation, her father ignores her and the two of them spend most of their time arguing with each other with no regard for the effect that it is having on Debbie. This leads Debbie to trade her parents in for a new pair at the [[PeopleZoo Children's Zoo]].
** In "The Toys of Caliban", Miss Kemp investigates Ernest and Mary Ross because she believes that they are abusing their intellectually impaired son Toby. From interviewing relatives and neighbors, she learns that Toby is not allowed to go outside, play with other children or even watch television. She accuses Ernest of keeping him as a virtual prisoner. She learns the truth when Ernest shows her Toby's [[YourMindMakesItReal ability to manifest anything after seeing its picture]]: Toby is kept isolated in order to protect others from his powers. Miss Kemp apologizes, having realized that Toby's parents were the prisoners.
** In "Song of the Younger World", Amy Hawkline's father Mordecai slaps her after finding her in a passionate embrace with Tanner Smith, one of the inmates of the House of Refuge Reformatory for Wayward Boys. He is also emotionally abusive towards her as he is a [[TheFundamentalist religious zealot]] who is determined to turn her into a proper young woman, using [[Literature/TheBible Scripture]] as a guide, no matter what the cost.
** In "Our Selena is Dying", Martha Brockman [[LifeDrinker drains]] her daughter Diane's LifeEnergy in order to restore her own youth. Diane [[RapidAging ages rapidly]] as a result and Martha assumes her identity.