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  • The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: The Doctor's (ninja) parents have been putting their children through Training from Hell and endless tests that could kill them since they were little and up to the present day. They might justify this by saying a ninja has to stay extremely sharp and practiced if they're not to die. So what's their response to one of their children wanting some other profession than ninja? Dogmatic, stereotypical parental intolerance that itself counts as Black Comedy. It's hard to say which has been more psychologically damaging to their sons, the violence training or the intolerance.
  • Aisopos: Yadmon's father, the former tyrant of Samos. He sold his wife, never cared for his son and only saw him as his throne's thief and never let him decide for anything (with the only exception being the woman he would marry). No wonder Yadmon chose to kill him…
  • Chloe's previous foster parent's in Angel Down blinded her by pouring cleaning fluids in her eyes.
  • Ball and Chain: Silver's adoptive father forced her to compete in to-the-death gladiator matches from a fairly young age.
  • Bastard (2014): It almost goes without saying when the main character's father is a serial killer who forces his son to help him with his kills. Jin's dad is also very manipulative, and forces him to remain weak so that he can't fight back.
  • In Megan Kearney's Beauty and the Beast, we eventually learn that the Beast's mother abused him verbally, psychologically and sometimes physically throughout his human years. When he finally stood up to her as a young man, she attacked him with a dagger, driving him to the suicide attempt that caused his transformation.
  • As revealed in The Bedfellows strip "Parents", Sheen's parents booed at him during a School Play along with other parents.
  • Dani from Between the Lines (2006) had previous abuse from her parents but after her mom found her out wearing girl's clothes it got worse.
  • In Bridges, Quinn's parents force her to portray a certain image to enhance her dad's political career, and they are insensitive to what she wants.
  • Bronze Skin Inc..: The patriarch of the Marvires family, Raymond, treats his son Otto with disdain and rudeness.
  • There are a number of them in Charby the Vampirate:
    • Charby was a slave from infancy aboard Captain Robert Black's ship and was regularly beaten, tortured for entertainment and had to fight with dogs for scraps of food. The man thought teaching him to read was enough to constitute parenting.
    • Menu was told he was left in the trash.
    • Zeno's parents ignored and shamed him before abandoning him in the woods.
    • Victor’s parents don’t believe him about the supernatural things constantly attacking him and think he is constantly acting up and trying to get attention so they ignore him and tell him to cut it out. His mother eventually kicks him out using the excuse that he’s going to corrupt her “only good son”.
    • Daray’s parents noticeably preferred his older brother and sent Daray on his dragon hunt intending that he never return. They eventually disown him and put a kill on sight bounty on him.
    • There are also a surprising number of unsupervised children who make their way into the forest, which is known to be overflowing with things which eat and attack humans even if the general populace thinks those things are bears, wolves and snakes.
  • Bianca from Clinic of Horrors is The Stoic due to her mother being very emotionally abusive.
  • Darcy's mother in Copper eyes, seems neglectful at best, completely blind to her troubled son even as it becomes clear that he is ill. Considering she is first seen trying to get her daughter to taker her Loveless, this could be because she takes it as well.
  • Cucumber Quest: Cabbage, Cucumber's father, sort of toes the line with this trope. While he does have a few kinder moments and helps the gang out on occasion, Cabbage does things to Cucumber that a good father wouldn't do, such as putting a drab cucumber flower on Cucumber in Chapter 3 just to watch the beauty pageants (including his own younger daughter, Almond) beat him up, snidely dismissing Cucumber's wishes to go to magic school and pressuring him to go on a quest he doesn't want, and generally putting Cucumber down for not being the heroic son he wanted, while favoring Almond.
  • DICE: The Cube That Changes Everything begins with a young boy getting beaten by his drunken father. It's implied he was Dongtae in his previous life.
  • Distortion Nuzlocke has Johnny's dad, who's imagined as Giovanni. He outright tries to kill him at one point.
  • Luna Travoria from Dominic Deegan was emotionally abused by her mother in hopes that she would commit suicide while a knight was visiting, ensuring a hefty payout from the government.
  • Dreamkeepers: there's 2 variations going on: one is physically abusive (Grunn), the other shuts his daughter in and isolates her from the outside world (Viscount Calah).
  • Drowtales: So many exist that readers have called it "Abusive Parents: The Comic".
    • Quain'tana does not have a good track record with children, let's just say. To list the ways she screwed up her kids:
      • Syphile: Physically beat her, verbally berated her and handed her over to Sil'lice for "tutoring".
      • Mel'arnach: Imprisoned her and had her beaten for disobeying, and it's also implied that she had her men rape her in an attempt to conceive an heir. She also took Mel's child, Ariel, to raise as her own daughter.
      • Ariel: Took her away from Mel, her mother and handed her over to Syphile to raise (unsurprisingly Syphile did a terrible job and gave Ariel much the same treatment she herself had received). Didn't even see her for 10 years, and rejected her as a suitable heir until she killed a boy who had tried to kill her in a Sadistic Choice between him and one of her few allies. That said, Ariel seems to have grown into a much more well-adjusted person than her sisters and has a rather obvious case of hero worship for her mother, although the fact that she didn't spend anywhere near as much time in her care as Mel or Syphile did likely didn't hurt.
      • Her other children seem to have fared pretty well, considering, likely due Laele having been essentially Quain writ small and Kiel'noz being an indispensable voice of reason in the clan — and even he admitted that Quain was a horrible mother.
    • Snadhya'rune impressively manages to top Quain'tana in this regard. She never saw her daughter Kalki as anything but a tool. When she decided Kalki had become a liability, she used a summon to tear Kalki to shreds without batting an eyelash.
  • Frankly, it'd be easier to list who in Dumbing of Age isn't an Abusive Parent.
    • Blaine, Amber's dad: Constantly talked down to Amber, berated Amber for not stopping a robber with a knife, bullies his stepson Faz, tries to drive Amber into dropping out because he doesn't want to pay her tuition, to the point that he kidnaps others into blackmailing her into it, and murders her best friend.
    • Linda, Walky and Sal's mother: Blatantly makes Sal The Unfavorite because she's darker skinned than Walky, stole Sal's money and told her she could have it back when she stops seeing her best friend Marcie (whom it's implied Linda doesn't like because she's an illegal immigrant), ignored Sal when she visited them in favor of wanting to talk about Walky's girlfriend, and plans on pushing Walky into changing his major to medicine instead of telecommunications.
    • Ross, Becky's dad: pulled his daughter out of school when she was outed as a lesbian and fully intended to take her away until she started being 'obedient' again, literally kidnapped her at gunpoint, and teamed up with Blaine to kidnap the others to lure Becky back into his clutches. It's also been somewhat implied he drove her mother to suicide.
    • Carol, Joyce's mom: sided with Ross, wanted to pull Joyce out of school because she was getting too worldly (Hank overrode her), implicitly told Joyce to make her peace with losing Becky when Ross made bail, and scares her older daughter so much she stays in the closet about being trans. Eventually her abuse gets to be too much and Hank divorces her.
    • Clint, Ruth's grandfather: hated Ruth's father and took it out on her, berated Ruth when she didn't show enough emotion about her parents dying, forced Ruth into staying at a job she hates and keeps her toeing the line by threatening to take it out on her younger brother Howard.
    • Naomi, Ethan's mother: hates that her son is gay, and encouraged him to literally fuck the gay out of him when she found out he was dating Joyce.
    • It's also mentioned that Leslie's parents disowned her when they found out she was a lesbian.
  • El Goonish Shive: Damien ended up making himself a sort of twisted father figure to Grace and her brothers, but there is nothing "fatherly" about him at all. He is an abuser pure and simple, able to control his "children" through fear and constantly hitting them whenever they displease him. And like any parent whose children are young enough, he's too powerful for them to do anything about it.
    • Also, he intended to use Grace for breeding so he would have been a sexual abuser as well.
  • Ennui GO!: Izzy and Adelie's mother was a drug addict and possibly bipolar, and made their lives a living hell. Reflecting on their mother brings back flashback of death and horror, and it's all but said out loud several times that a lot of Izzy's depressive fugues are PTSD-induced flashbacks to their childhood.
    Kirsty (Izzy's Clone): So what are our parents like?
    Izzy: We don't have parents. They're dead. In fact we NEVER had parents. We were formed from clay and brought to life by Zeus. FUCK OFF.
  • Existential Comics: David Hume is portrayed as a rather cruel father to his son (Hume didn't actually have any known children, along with never marrying) as part of demonstrating his philosophy.
  • The Fantasy Book Club:
    • Fiona's father physically abused Fiona and her mother to the point where Fiona tried to kill him in middle school.
    • Eremis' parents died in a car crash when she was very young, and she was put into the foster care system as she had no living relatives left. She was abused by several families and developed mental health issues that she still has to work through as an adult.
  • Forestdale: Jake Noel's mother was a drug addict who, based on what little glimpses we've gotten from her through Jake's flashbacks, was neglectful at best and psychologically abusive at worst right up until she died from an overdose. Luckily Jake was adopted by a kind family of lizards afterwards and has since left behind his dark past...for the most part.
  • Benni's father from Forest Hill was not only physically abusive and neglectful to Benni but as went so far as to force Benni to have sex with men for money on a regular basis, to the point that Benni believed that it was normal for children to have sex with adults for money.
  • Freaking Romance: Zylith’s dad ripped up her art and forced her to give up her books and sketchbooks whenever she got a bad grade. Plus, she gets kicked out at the age of 18 when she plans to become an artist. And even then he doesn't leave her alone: her dad tracks her down, and financially abuses her into applying to colleges he wants her to go to and to make her dependent on him.
  • Girl Genius:
    • Tarvek's father sees his children as tools at best and ended up killing his daughter when he tried to overwrite her mind with that of the woman he lusted after. The fact that someone as carefully manipulative as Tarvek was terrified of getting caught doing anything his father could interpret as rebelling against him and the implication that he had Tarvek modified as an infant are also telling.
    • Lucrezia seems to have conceived Agatha with the intent of having her raised by loyalists who saw her as nothing but a tool of their master so that she could destroy Agatha's mind and use her as a spare body.
  • Grey is...: Black got severely beaten by someone in his home right up until he graduated from high school and moved away with White. We are not told directly but it is implied that the one abusing him was his dad.
  • Anthony Carver of Gunnerkrigg Court is of the emotionally abusive type. While it appears that he does care about his daughter Antimony in some way namely coming back to the Court in exchange for keeping her from getting expelled for cheating, it's only when he's drunk in front of his best friend that he admits the choices he made in abandoning her, nearly killing her in a misguided attempt to bring her mother back from the dead, and humiliating Annie in front of her class, were horrible choices. While he is a deeply flawed and neurotic man and regrets his choices, he also realizes he's a horrible parent and thinks that it's better to let everyone think the worst of him and keep his daughter at arm's length.
  • Veser's father in Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name has been revealed to have beaten him from a young age.
  • Ryotaro Dojima in the Hiimdaisy comics comes off as one, in a type we cannot peg yet... but he's an amusing raging psychopath of a father/uncle
    Hey, no need to be so formal. I've seen you NAKED
  • Homestuck has a few variations on this theme; the most extreme is probably Vriska Serket's guardian, which forces her to capture hundreds of other children to feed it, but others include Dave's Bro (regularly beats the crap out of him and fills the apartment with creepy puppet porn, though it's mostly played for laughs) and Gamzee's lusus (just never there). It's unclear whether Rose's mom is actually the master of Passive-Aggressive Kombat that Rose makes her out to be or if she's honestly trying to connect with her, but either way she's perpetually drunk and on the negligent side. The introduction of Roxy, a teenage version of Rose's mom, and the revelation that her interests are all genuine instead of her trying to mock Rose, seem to heavily indicate the latter.
    • Later, someone managed to beat Vriska's lusus to the "Worst Parent of the Year" award: Doc Scratch, in caring for Aradia's ancestor the Handmaid. He keeps her locked in a tiny room, and when she gets out of line, he teleports her to outer space.
  • Housepets!: Sasha's owner, who she thinks of as a father (and only refers to as 'Daddy') is shown as being horribly abusive to her. She plays it off when asked about it, but hearing his habit of beating her when she doesn't work as an Animal Chick Magnet disgusts King, and her Stepford Smiler act fails in a christmas comic where she's seen interacting with him clearly miserable. She's eventually liberated from him, but continues to be plagued with Delusions of Parental Love afterwards.
  • Connie from How to be a Werewolf was intentionally designed to be a true to life abuser in an Urban Fantasy setting. She's contrasted by Malaya's Good Parents.
  • I Belong To House Castiello: Estelle's prostitute mother frequently beat her daughter and locked her in a box while having sex with clients, before eventually selling Estelle to the Duke of Castiello.
  • I Love Yoo: Yui serves as an abusive parental figure to both Nol and Kousuke. Additionally, it is revealed that Meg and Alyssa's father is verbally (and possibly physically) abusive.
  • Although the imp in Imp has no biological parents, Celina fits the role of abusive guardian. She's physically violent towards him, and has beaten him severely on several occasions. She's also verbally abusive, and constantly calls him an idiot and threatens to kill him.
  • In Iron Violet: The Shy Titan, this is implied to be the reason behind the main character's severe self-doubt and Shrinking Violet nature.
  • In It Hurts!! and Please Forgive Me!!!, there's Pasqualo's dad Obtusangelo, who is always no less than insulting to his child, though Pasqualo never seems to mind his abusive language. In It Hurts!!, there's also Pasqualo's mom Jennifer, who, despite appearing friendlier to and sharing more interests and personality traits with her child than Obtusangelo, still tries on multiple occasions to kill Pasqualo.
  • In Jared, the titular character's father, and possibly his mother as well beat him throughout his life. All pictures of him as a child show him with bruises and scars all over his face. He ended up as a Self-Made Orphan.
  • In Kagerou, Kano's father was this. Though only a few details have been given, it's been revealed that Kano's father shoved him into a morgue box with a dead body in it, which is likely the cause for a large part of Kano's mental trauma.
  • Marena from Keychain of Creation had a mother with... interesting ideas on parenting. Marena has a long list of things to forgive her for.
  • Jamie's mom in Khaos Komix, who belittles him constantly and on multiple occasions beats him or physically harms him in other ways. She is also so selfish that she values her own reputation over bringing the man who raped her son to justice. At one point someone threatened to call social services on her, though that never went anywhere.
  • Last Res0rt: Jason's mother is revealed in this flashback as a rather vicious (and at least physically abusive) Djinn. The fact that Jason has held onto his Mother's jacket so tightly ever since indicates some serious Parental Issues...
  • Mitch and Jonas from Long Exposure both struggle or have struggled with emotionally and physically abusive parents. Mitch had a physically abusive stepdad who he stabbed after seeing him punch his mother, which left him with a juvie sentence, PTSD, and rumors that turned him into The Bully. Meanwhile, Jonas has emotionally distant foster parents and one over controlling foster dad making him the meek, needy nerd he is today.
  • Jethro Pelsman's father in Lost Cause is a drunk who physically and mentally abuses his poor son, leading to Jethro's inability to socialize, connect with others and a fear of falling in love.
  • In Modest Medusa, the titular character's mother turns out to have dozens of daughters. So she feels no remorse about eating them alive whenever she feels peckish.
  • Mom, I'm Sorry: Olivia ends up raising three kids who came from abusive backgrounds.
    • Olivia ran away from her abusive husband, Jaebom, with her son Henry in tow. About twenty years later, Jaebom finds them while he's trouble with the mob. While Olivia won't have anything to do with him, Henry helps him out, and he eventually lands an honest job.
    • Henry and Kisung happen upon an isolated house where a kid, Ijun, is clearly being abused but the parents deny it. They do whatever they can to collect evidence of abuse, also getting Olivia and Sarah involved. Once they get solid proof and get Ijun away from his parents, Olivia adopts him.
    • After Henry dies, he is reborn to an abusive mother who nearly kills him. With the help of his former lifespan dealer, Ijun, and Sarah, he is rescued and adopted by Olivia.
  • Muted's Athalie is neglectful and emotionally abusive to her daughter and is very emotionally cruel to her niece whom she's raising after said niece lost the rest of her family. She even branches out to physical abuse when she tortures her daughter's familiar, which her daughter can feel. And then it gets worse when the question of why Avaline is an only child in a family noted for twins is finally answered: Athalie sacrificed the soul of Avaline's older sister before they were even born to a demon so it would eventually murder her sister and nieces, a plot years in the making. When Avaline finally asks her mother if she ever loved her, Athalie coldly admits that she has hated Avaline since she was born.
    • Apparently it runs in the family, seeing as Athalie's mother Alette encouraged her daughters to fight each other to try hard/be ambitious, and believes that one of her kids is an angel and the other is a devil. In fact, she'd almost make her daughter Athalie look innocent compared to her if Athalie didn't later murder her family and start taking souls.
  • My Mama's a Weeaboo by Stefano Collavini has the titular character. The comic starts with her dressing her daughter in ridiculous outfits and ends with her having the doctors put her on so much medication that she's a doll. Just like Mama wanted. The comic subtly implies that Mama's abuse goes back for years to keep her daughter under her thumb.
  • Although Master Rothart of Never Satisfied isn't related to Lucy by blood, he neglects them at best and belittles them at worst.note 
    • Sylas' dad also fits under this. When Sylas quit the representative competition, his dad proceeded to give him the cold shoulder, even after an incident where he very well could have died.
      Sylas: Do you know what my dad said to me when he came home? NOTHING. He didn't say anything! He wouldn't even look at me! I already know he'll never be proud of me but he acted like I don't exist. Ugh! It'd be better if I didn't exist!
  • In No Rest for the Wicked, Claire broadly implies that the parents of a village are this -- their children are lost because they don't deserve to keep them. Under circumstances where this is taken as a confession of serial child killing.
  • The Order of the Stick: The only way in which Roy's father seems to care at all for either of his children is the extent to which they follow in his footsteps as a wizard. He has nothing but scorn for his eldest son Roy, who elected to take up the family Ancestral Weapon as a Fighter, and favors his spoiled Libby of a daughter instead (and almost never uses the words "crushing disappointment" when talking about her), yet even nowadays just views her as a means to get into heaven due to a blood oath that he failed to uphold. Oh, and his second son? The fact that he ignored Roy's pleading led to his death.
    • So much so that when Roy dies, he offers his father a bargain: Roy will only cooperate if his father agrees to go away and leave the entire family alone for eternity. For double points, Daddy jumps on the bargain and scoffs that Roy made his price so low.
    Roy Greenhilt: I don't know what's more depressing: That you agreed to that so easily, or that I knew that you would when I proposed it.
    • Haley's father seems to have crippled her ability to interact with others honestly due to the paranoia that came as a result of living as a member of the Thieves' Guild. Ian meant well, but had different, rather family unfriendly values he tried to teach to his daughter. When he finally appears, it seems he still loves Haley very much (although the feeling isn't entirely mutual). To his credit, unlike the other examples here, he realizes he screwed up and makes amends with Haley, encouraging her to live her life how she chooses. The two part on good terms.
    • Elan's father General Tarquin is a double subversion. While he's very clearly evil, he also seems to care about his son to at least some genuine extent. Later played straight when we get to see why Nale turned out the way he did. Then Tarquin reveals he's such a control freak he's prepared to murder all of Elan's friends to force him into the protagonist seat. As Elan continues to defy him, he gets so pissed off that he attempts to murder Haley and chop off Elan's hand.
  • Norbert Olsen in The Overture physically and verbally abuses his son, Richard. Later, Norbert abandons his son in the wilderness and threatens to kill him if he returns home.
  • Penny and Aggie:
    • Charlotte's mother is shown to beat her daughter when she does or seems to do things wrong, and it is very heavily implied that one of Charlotte's parents sexually abused her as a child too.
    • Helen's parents treat her as The Unfavorite in their household and give her a conditional love response when she is unable to complete an age-inappropriate task. No wonder she's turned into an Extreme Doormat.
    • Marshall's mother, Charisma, is usually just neglectful, but she has gone into emotional abuse too on occasion, telling her son to his face that he was put on earth to slow her down. When Aggie's father, Nick told her to look him in the eye and tell him that she wouldn't be happier if both their children didn't exist, she couldn't do it.
  • Puffer and Clarissa has Sharon White as the verbally abusive kind, often putting down her daughter and mocking her. This hasn't done wonders for her self-confidence.
  • PvP gives us Jade's mother. Her first appearance has her cancelling Jade's wedding, being openly emotionally abusive, and generally insulting everyone. When Jade told her she was pregnant, she tried to force her to move back home.
  • Several in Rain (2010):
    • Emily's mother leaves her alone for months at a time and has made her feel unwanted her whole life.
    • Rain's father is heavily implied to have been physically and emotionally abusive, and abandoned his 12 year old child one day without a word.
    • Maria and Rudy's parents are cold towards them in general for being gay, but their father officially crosses this line when he begins doing research on camps for "curing" homosexuality and trying to isolate them from their friends after Maria comes out and Rudy breaks up with Rain. And then there's Chapter 34... It gets to a point where even his wife realizes he is out of control and kicks him out after threatening Rudy to send him into camp, and even after her expulsion is reversed, Maria doesn't come back home.
  • Kenta Fujiwara in Red String is a domineering force in his son's life, he has called Kazuo useless on more that one occasion, which has let deep scars on Kazuo's pschye. He has also hit Kazuo at least twice. Kazuo has been shown taking some sort of medication in some comics, which are widely believed to be self proscribed anti-depressents and Kazuo uses them to attempt suicide at the end of Chapter 43.
  • REVEAL OUT!: The main character is a closeted lesbian whose homophobic dad instilled deep self-loathing in her. When she is mysteriously sent back in time to her college years, she immediately comes out of the closet and vows to stand up to him and cut him out of her life.
  • Token Mini-Moe Jacquline from Samurai Princess has some family issues that mix abuse and abandonment.
    • Jacquline's father.
  • The webcomic SHELTER by wufargia focuses on the emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of the main character, Ruka, by his uncle/stepfather. The uncle also controls the family finances and constantly threatens to hurt Ruka's mother.
  • Sleipnir: Equine Invader from Jupiter: According to Clint, his parents viewed his interest in science as a waste of time and would beat him if they caught him slacking on chores. When he came home with an almost-broken arm from being bullied, his father slapped him and called him a sissy. Clint finally Calling the Old Man Out leads his dad to have a Heel Realization, later morosely asking Jess if he's a bad father... though Jess reveals that Clint was misremembering and over-exaggerating things.
  • Kieri Suizahn from Slightly Damned, is a rather surprising example of this. Even angels can be abusive parents it seems.
  • Oasis' (adoptive) father in Sluggy Freelance uses mind control technology to turn her into his slave and personal assassin, who he plans to use to fulfill various fantasies.
    • To a lesser extent, it's heavily implied that Riff's mom, Dr. Lorna, deeply screwed him up when he was a kid. If she treated him anything like how she treats every other human being on the planet, then it's amazing he's not an even madder scientist than he is now. One confirmed instance is, well... She has a tazer that she uses on people on those occasions when she actually loses an argument. Riff won an argument about him getting a pony back in kindergarten. His memory immediately after that is a haze.
  • In The Soulless Duchess, just about every on-screen parental figure shown via flashbacks is abusive, dead, or driven out of the home for fear of their lives, or some combination of the set. Which is especially true for the two main characters, Yvona and Claude. Yvona's father is a hedonistic gambling addict who not only beat her mother to the point the poor woman had to flee in the middle of the night in fear for her life, unable to take Yvona with her, but beats up the girl too, since she was a child and sold her to an equally abusive fiance Baron Gaspar to cover his debts. Claude's mother was a Troubled Abuser who was tortured into thinking her only reason for living was to sire a Master Swordsman, and she was forced into an Awful Wedded Life with a nasty violent abuser too. Even after her death, Claude remains traumatized and suspicious of women, Yvona the one exception.
  • Schtein's mother from String Theory (2009), both mentally and physically. She believed showing your children affection gave them unrealistic expectations of the adult world. Might not be so far from the truth considering what kind of world they live in.
  • Leeza's father, Admiral Blake, in Terinu is implied to have merely been an Absent Parent when she was growing up. Now that she's an adult he's rebounded into a Manipulative Bastard, getting her fired when she thwarted his plans for Teri, sticking her with the boy's guardianship so he could still keep an eye on them both, culminating in arresting her and sending her to prison when she threatened to go public with the news that humanity wiped out Terinu's race.
  • Endorsi Jahad from Tower of God and her adopted sisters were forced to fight each other by their father on a daily basis to decide which one would become a Princess of Jahad.
    • This is a rather common occurrence in the 10 Great Families.
      • The children of Hendrock Bloodmadder are cursed with short lives because that is the condition he must fulfill to be immortal.
      • Khun's mother drove him to excel and be as ruthless and manipulative as she was. Until he'd had enough and used everything he'd learned to run away from home and steal a lot of expensive items on his way out that is...
      • Khun Eduan is infamous for being callous towards his children, making them participate in bloody battles for the right to be recognised as his children. The rest are either killed or kicked out of the family.
      • The Po Bidau family members are required to join a prestigious and highly selective research group or else they are kicked out.
  • Maximillian in Under the Oak Tree was subject to almost constant abuse by her father when she was a child. He regarded his daughters as tools for strategic arranged marriages, and believed her perpetual stutter meant nobody worth allying with would want her. He tried to beat the stutter out of her at first, then just started abusing her for being damaged and a waste of his resources.
  • unOrdinary:
    • John's ability, Aura Manipulation, allows him to a) sense active abilities within his vicinity, allowing him to find you even if you're invisible, b) copy your power at what appears to be a higher power level than your own, and c) combine the powers he has access to, such as Blow You Away and Wolverine Claws to get Razor Wind as well. There are limits because it's possible for people to be stronger than him and he can't copy abilities that are purely mental or which aren't activated near him.
    • EMBER's agents are able to use the abilities of others. The means of this are yet mysterious but it's implied to be through a drug developed through experimentation on John's missing mother, who has the Aura Manipulation ability, same as the ability amp drug they've been selling.
  • Unsounded: Nary knocks Sette around enough that her cousin thinks it might be why she's so small for her age. In flashbacks to her time with him she's always bruised and at least one flashback shows him starting to strangle her for her abnormalities before deciding to let her live and chucking her to the floor.
  • Voldemort's Children: Dumbledore leaving Harry with the Dursleys may not have been the best idea. Similarly, Lucius Malfoy being friends with a Dark Lord seems to have lead to some fallout in Draco's upbringing...
  • In Voodoo Walrus, it's been suggested that Creep Knight's father has disowned him and refused to respect his choice to become a writer over being part of the Liechtensteiner royal family. Yet his father regularly sends mercenaries to test his son's mental and physical mettle and attempts to drag him back home.
  • Mool Byhung from Welcome to Room #305 was beaten by his father and kicked out of his house after he came out as a trans man. As an adult he lives with his brother, who was also abused.
  • What Birds Know: Dores' parents are both pretty bad, but her mother is an outright Jerkass who shows absolutely No Sympathy for her daughter. As far as she's concerned, Dores is an utterly worthless waste of space while Ian is her pride and joy. While the other parents are concerned by the girls' prolonged absence, Dores' mother just harps on about how she's going to punish her once she gets back and tries to shoot down everyone else's attempts to put together a search party.
  • Parental abuse is a focal point of When Heaven Spits You Out, where the main character, Ryan, is violently beaten and berated by his alcoholic father, Simon.
  • Yellow Brick Ramble: This is a comic-slash-graphic-novel adaptation of the second novel of the Oz series: The Marvelous Land of Oz, and the adaptation changes quite a bit. In the original source, the main character did not even have parents who were ever mentioned, merely a guardian he lived with. In this comic, by contrast, the main character has a father who has been so absent and neglectful that he's only visited three times in fifteen years, and an emotionally abusive mother who treats her horribly because she is a trans-girl. That being said, the comic diverges so much from the original novel that it's not yet known for sure how or even if the main character really is related to her parents.
  • Averted in Rotting Johnny's of Zokusho Comics case. He apparently came from a fairly normal family.


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