Calling The Old Man Out / Fan Works

People Calling the Old Man Out in Fan Works.

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Crossovers

• The Dragon That Will Pierce the Heavens has this happen in Chapter 44, Part 7 of the Heartfilia Arc with the main character Hikari. After an entire arc revealing the various abuses she was subjected to by her biological father Jomei Heartfilia, on top of the misplaced guilt from watching her brother and mother die as a child, she finally stands up to him and ends up letting Aquarius kill him.
  Hikari: You don't get to talk about my mother. You don't get to talk about my crew. You got to talk for the last eighteen years. It's my turn, SO SHUT YOUR F***ING MOUTH. (...) I'm not a little girl anymore. I'm a dragon. I'm a key-holder. I'm a first-mate of the future Pirate King. I'm all of that in spite of you. You have no power over me.
• Averted in DC Nation. Connor Hawke discovers the pictures and birth announcement that proved Ollie knew about him. He's not exactly pleased about the knowledge that Ollie had never made an effort to find him, and while Ollie braces for the chewing out...
  Connor: If I'd found this when I was a boy at the ashram, I would never have partnered up with you. If I had found this when I was the only Green Arrow, then I would have been VERY angry. But, now? ... Because of those things, I've had a chance to know you, to follow in your footsteps, to be the son of a good man. Because I didn't know, and because of those things I didn't trust, I have what I always wanted.
• The Dragon and the Bow: Fishlegs stands up to his father Fishguts for the first time after he insults Hiccup and Merida. Hiccup also makes it clear in chapter 8 that he doesn't appreciate Gobber's unsupportive attitude. Gobber does apologize for it.
• The Dragon and the Butterfly: Mirabel, upon meeting Stoick for the first time, is furious at the Viking for the years he's spent neglecting and emotionally abusing Hiccup. She absolutely lets him have it, ending with a Spanish swear that, if translated, is not family friendly.
• In A Different Set of Keys, the day before Lucy ran away to become a mage, Jimbe and her other Oceanus Spirits appear before Jude, letting him know that spending years focus on his work and business following Layla's death had made him negligent and ignorant of Lucy's life, not even knowing what her interests are or how the spirits are the closest she had to true friends and family. It ends with Jimbe telling him that Lucy will be running away to find her own life and freedom, and with the immense power of the assembled spirits, Jude is forced to comply and allow his daughter to leave.
• The Equestrian Wind Mage: When Daring Do reveals herself as Rainbow Dash's mother, who abandoned her as a newborn, Dash chews her out for it. However, when she sees Daring break down in tears of shame, her anger quickly burns itself out, and the two reconcile.
• A Gem in the Rough: Priyanka Maheswaran cannot comprehend why Pearl would think letting Connie duel Zoro and Tashigi would be a great idea and lets her know it.
• Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters: When reunited with his long-thought-dead father, Caleb's first reaction is to break his nose. When Julian recovers from that, Caleb then chews him out for the Black-and-White Morality he forced the Rebellion to run on and that he impressed on the younger generation, nearly driving Caleb to become a Knight Templar and succeeding in doing so to Aldarn. Additionally, he also brings up how disgusted he was to learn about how Julian let monsters like Rhouglar and Tharquin into the Rebellion, and about what he did at Carhaiz, ultimately making it clear that he no longer respects his father and will no longer let him have any authority in the Rebellion.
• If Wishes Were Ponies: Twilight Sparkle, after seeing how Hogwarts is run, is not impressed by Dumbledore's teaching methods. She gives him calling out after calling out, making him eat a few pieces of Humble Pie before he finally starts to change Hogwarts' policies to better help the students and accept other perspectives. He also receives one about the Wizarding World's backwards beliefs about Muggles from Squib-turned-pegasus Castor Searle, who gives him a reality check about just how screwed the Wizarding World is if they ever try to cross the Muggles (something Dumbridge and Fudge-for-Brains learn the hard way).
• Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail: Professor Cerise praises his daughter for battling Ash... while completely ignoring her humiliation at being Curb-Stomped and remarking on how she shouldn't have used a Normal-type move on a Ghost-type opponent. This seemingly confirms her belief that her father only cares about her in terms of how she relates to Pokémon. When he then sides with Goh after she angrily tosses his Rotomphone into the curry, not wanting Goh to spread around the video of her loss, she snaps and screams at him, wondering why he couldn't have been something other than a professor.
• Justice League of Equestria:
  • Mare of Steel: When Thunderlane's father Steel Wing tries to convince him of his paranoid delusions about Supermare (Thunderlane's Love Interest), Thunderlane brings up how he's always been a lousy father, then throws him out of the house.
  • Princess of Themyscira: Diana gives a more subdued one of these to her mother Hippolyta for putting her personal feelings over the will of the gods.
• I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC's version of Harry Osborn seems to be less angsty and more bitter than in most incarnations; he's only ever heard when arguing with his father from off-screen.
• Mia Fey: Ace Attorney – The Fool's Turnabout: Makoto Niijima does this to her older sister and guardian, Sae. After Sae shows concern about Makoto getting arrested and after she gets the charges dropped, she says that she's not going to spend any time with the attorney trying to save her friend from a false murder charge and is going home to study since she has to think of her future. Makoto vehemently cuts through her argument and stands up for herself and says she doesn't give a shit about that. Makoto notes that Sae considered her a burden since their father died and all Makoto is doing now is trying to stop her from going down the path of an Amoral Attorney by convicting an innocent person. It thankfully gets through to her since she pulls a Heel–Face Turn in the end.
• White Devil of the Moon:
  • Nanoha, who in this story is the reincarnation of Princess Serenity, calls out Queen Serenity for her lax attention in raising Princess Serenity, both as a mother and as a queen, saying that if she had prepared her for her duties better and not let her sneak away to Earth so much, Serenity might not have committed suicide upon Endymion's death. She also points out that there were several other possible negative outcomes to Serenity and Endymion's relationship, which Serenity did not foresee due to not being raised well.
  • Fate gives this to Precia immediately before killing her, denouncing her mistreatment in the first season, and declaring that she is a Harlaown, not a Testarossa.

Amphibia

• In That's the Thing About Friends, Sprig tears into Hop Pop for betraying Anne's trust again, which caused her to become a villain Drunk on the Dark Side.
  Sprig: Like you had your reasons for burying the music box and lying to Anne?
  Hop Pop: I told you before, I read that the box was dangerous so I buried it to protect you and Polly! Yes, it was a mistake, but why bring that up now?!
  Sprig: Because you didn't learn from that mistake! Anne trusted you, but you betrayed her again by not even telling her she wasn't coming to Amphibia with us! It's your fault she's not here with us! It's your fault she's the way she is now! It’s your fault that I lost my best friend!

Arrowverse

• In Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home, Thea’s criticism of Oliver’s apparent lack of interest in finding Laurel hurt him, but when she tried to contact the Arrow to ask him to interrogate Oliver for information about Laurel’s disappearance, Oliver acknowledged that he had to tell his sister the truth about his activities.
• moral of the story (Nyame): After Laurel is Driven to Suicide, then brought Back from the Dead by Sara trading herself back to the League in exchange for access to the Lazurus Pit, Quentin attempts to make up for his past treatment of Laurel by making her his new favorite while treating Sara as his scapegoat. Lauren calls him out on refusing to love his daughters equally and ignoring Sara's self-sacrifice.
• Wrong Road to the Right Place features a few of these, although in all cases the characters are calling out mothers rather than fathers (and sometimes not even their own parents);
  • When Oliver learns that Dinah Lance knew that Sara was going to join him on the Gambit, while he appreciates that she couldn't have known what was going to happen, he tells Dinah that she should have recognised he was just using Sara even if Sara was in love with him, and thus betrayed Laurel's trust by not telling her the truth sooner.
  • Later, Laurel delivers one to Moira about her going to all this trouble to 'protect' Oliver and Thea without thinking about how they will feel about her actions.
  • After learning about the Undertaking, Oliver informs Moira that he's going to stop Malcolm and expose her role in the Undertaking unless she admits it first.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

• DAUGHTER has a simple but effective calling-out scene between Kuvira and her foster/adopted mother Suyin. Kuvira calls out Suyin for not treating her enough like a daughter, which strengthened her abandonment issues:
  Suyin: I treated you like a daughter. I-I-I...
  Kuvira: No, you didn't.
  Suyin: Yes, I did.
  Kuvira: Then why didn't you love me like a daughter?
• Embers (Vathara):
  • Langxue does this to Iroh, in proxy for Zuko, over how Iroh's well-intentioned but ultimately misinformed actions are just causing more and more problems for Zuko. Unfortunately for Iroh, he doesn't take it to heart, and the results are an implicit disowning by Zuko in chapter 85.
  • In chapter 88, Aang does this to the whole White Lotus, calling them out on various inefficiencies of theirs — Bumi's stupid tests that accomplished nothing when he could have directly helped Aang by being straightforward, Pakku over his refusal to train Katara (something that came back to bite them both in the fanfic), Iroh refusing to trust that his nephew's trust of Iroh could have led to Zuko making a Heel–Face Turn if Iroh had just been honest about why Zuko's loyalty to Ozai is misplaced...
• In Restraint, Azula calls out her father Ozai for years of abuse and rape, before she burns half of his face.

Batman

• Stephanie Brown's argument with Batman in Angel of the Bat deconstructing his claim that he "thought she was alive" after the events of War Games just reeks of this, though she does bitterly point out that he can't be her old man, since no matter how hard she tried, he never let her into his family.

The DCU

• Kara of Rokyn: During a heated argument, Kara finally tells her cousin exactly how she feels about having been dumped into an orphanage when she was fifteen by her only living relative and then forced to hide her powers for months. Kal fires back that she is editing facts out to make his actions look worse than they were. At the end, Kal admits he was also afraid of her getting hurt by his enemies when her existence became public, and Kara forgives him.
• Indirectly features in Multiversal Constants, when Jon Kent and Damian Wayne arrive in the universe of Young Justice (2010), as Jon is quick to criticise the alternate Superman for his attitude towards Conner/Superboy, thus encouraging Superman to open up more to his clone to the extent that he introduces Conner and Jon to his parents.

Disney Animated Canon

• Disney Villain Songs (Lydia the Bard):
  • Moana's father was so determined to prevent her from risking her life searching for the heart of Te Fiti that he burned all of their ancestral boats before locking her away. While she eventually managed to escape, her mother and most of the other islanders had already died by then, and Moana makes clear that she holds him personally responsible for all their deaths.
  • Mirabel calls out Alma and her parents, along with the rest of her family, for treating her as The Unfavorite and acting as though her very existence was an ill omen just because she wasn't granted a Gift, declaring that she's finally freeing herself from chasing fruitlessly after their approval.
    • Isabela similarly takes Alma to task for how she forced her ideas of perfection upon Isabela, to the point where she refused to let her grow anything than "pretty flowers" and punished her for daring to play in the mud or do anything that didn't fit the idealized image she'd crafted in her head, as well as pushing her towards Mariano so she could live vicariously through their marriage.
  • After Merida missed the Celestial Deadline to restore her mother and brothers' humanity, her father King Fergus had all four bears slain, added the pelts and heads of her brothers to his own cloak, and tried forcing her into an Arranged Marriage. Merida escapes and goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge that culminates in confronting her father.
• In the 101 Dalmatian Street fanfic I AM A DE VIL, Dylan calls his stepfather Doug out after overhearing Doug saying harsh words about Dylan. Dylan is very upset and decides to run away from home.

Dragon Ball

• Dragon Ball Z Abridged has been building up one from Gohan to Goku for years and it has boiled to the surface a few times, like when Gohan flips out after he finds out Goku got bodyswapped with Ginyu and lets out his pent rage on Ginyu while the latter's in his father's body. The Abridged Movie of Super Android 13 also brings this up. But it all finally comes to a head in part two of the finale for the Cell Saga, when Gohan decides to make Cell suffer instead of just annihilating him while he has the chance, Goku tries to tell him to stop messing around with the villain and just end it. Unfortunately, Gohan really should have listened to Goku this time around.
  Goku: Uh... kiddo? I understand you're angry but—
  Gohan: But what? You're gonna give me advice now? Let me guess: I should let him go so he'll be an even BETTER fight later! Or maybe I should let him power up to 100% so I can teach him humility! Wait! I know! I should throw him a god damn senzu bean and let you fight him!
  Goku: Ah... Uh... I... see what you're getting at Gohan...
  Gohan: Then shut up and put on your poncho. you're in the splash zone.
• No More Forgiveness has Gohan call out his father for constantly leaving.

Encanto

• The entirety of Chapter 10 of Extended Family is Still Family is the whole family ripping into Alma over how miserable her expectations make all of them, any attempt she makes to justify her actions immediately shot down by someone else, segueing into their own hang-ups.
• Mirabel in Guiding Light (AuroraRose2081) is able to stand up against Alma much easier than in the movie since she doesn't have the same psychological dependency seeking her approval as the rest of the family, as well as having bad experiences with elderly women with authority.
• Alma gets a few throughout A little dinner scandal:
  • The first time is when Mirabel offers to wash dishes from breakfast, only for Alma to try and keep her out of the way, assuming she isn't capable of anything without a gift.
    Mirabel: I didn't know a gift was now required to wash the plates and scrub the pans. Then I was planning on sweeping the kitchen and the courtyard, but if you have someone around the house with a gift for that, I will obviously hand over the broom to that highly qualified and probably more worthy person. Oh! I forgot. I am the only one doing cleaning chores. Because I have no gift. Unless you wish me to ask Tonio's jaguar friend to lick the plates clean for us, it's still the useless little Mirabel washing them.
    Alma: You are forgetting yourself, child.
    Mirabel: You mean, I'm forgetting I'm the useless giftless hopeless Mirabel, as you so kindly remind me daily? No, I'm not. And you trying to accuse me of some... I even don't know what it is that you wanted. But hey, if I'm not supposed to help Mama, by washing the dishes, I suppose she will have to spend time doing that, instead of cooking and baking all the gift-filled food, but it will be good, because the useless grandchild will not be touching anything important, right...?
  • When Alma tries excluding her from family lunch because she was dirty from her chores, Camilo defends her.
    Camilo: Mirabel doesn't have a room. You can't order her to 'go to her room' if she never had one.
    Alma: Stop prattling, Camilo. She does have a perfectly good room!
    Camilo: Actually, she's stuck in our old nursery, and it isn't 'her room', by any means[.] Does she have privacy there, does the door lock? No. Does she have her own wardrobe, the size for grownups clothing? No. I have more space for my clothes than she does, and I need like one shelf, maybe two. Her bed is too short for her, she has one stupid bedside table, the same as we had when we were babies. And she has had to share with a toddler for the last two years. How fair is it?
• In May I have this dance?, when Alma dismisses the idea of throwing Mirabel a birthday party because she "doesn't deserve" one, Mirabel loses it on her.

Final Fantasy

• Us and Them: When President Shinra comes to "rescue" his son from AVALANCHE, Rufus gives him a scathing rebuke and appraisal of his deficiencies and refusal to face facts, saying he'd rather work with AVALANCHE, which has people who are actually competent.

Fire Emblem

• A Brighter Dark: Camilla does this after Corrin returns, accusing Garon of essentially turning her into a suicide bomber. Garon reacts pretty calmly, stating that 1) that is pretty much exactly what he did. 2) It was indeed a pretty dickish thing to do. And 3) He's not particularly sorry, since he wasn't given a lot of other options.

Frozen

• In the second chapter of Darkness Burning, which is set in an Alternate Universe where her parents came back safely, Anna berates her parents after learning about "Conceal, don't feel". She tells them they're responsible for Elsa's depression and attempted suicide.
• In The Royal Reunion, Anna calls out her parents after being reunited with them after three years. She vents out all her rage at the isolation she and her sister felt due to their parents separating them for over a decade. Anna gets equally mad about how her parents' words caused Elsa to doubt herself growing up.
• In the fifteenth chapter of Stranded, when Anna and Elsa reunite with their parents on the same island they're trapped on, Anna's first response after meeting them is to call them out for ruining both her and Elsa's childhood, especially the latter and also accusing them of causing the events of Frozen to have happened in the first place. Anna goes as far as to say that she preferred her sister over her parents, although they took it too literally and assumed that Anna didn't love them anymore, causing them to run away in tears, which made Anna realize she took it a bit too far.

Fruits Basket

• In Unshakable, Tohru tearfully calls Ren out for her callousness towards Akito, unable to understand how Ren could hate someone she gave birth to. Ren appears genuinely moved for a second before brushing it off.
  Tohru: You speak of your child... as if she were a stranger. How can you... hate someone... that you bore from your womb? That person should be special to you. Even more so that... your husband is dead...

Girls und Panzer

• In Boys und Sensha-dō!, Shiho gets this twice.
  • The first comes in Chapter 7, from Miho's Love Interest Akio, (whose family despises Shiho), after Shiho visits Miho in the hospital and disowns her.
    Akio: The only one here that’s a disgrace here is you, Nishizumi. Victory or nothing? If that was true, wouldn’t Maho’s defeat have been enough for you to give her a chance? Miho is twice the tank commander you ever were Shiho.
    Shiho: I will not be spoken to in such a fashion!
    Akio: It’s the only fashion you deserve to be spoken to. Sensha-do isn’t just about victory. It’s about camaraderie and friendship. Miho faced your team outnumbered more than two to one and she won. With her leadership a team made up of inferior tanks bested yours with their King Tigers, Maus, and Panthers. She beat Maho herself in a singular duel with a Panzer IV. Why are you punishing her for doing well?
    Shiho: That is not what Sensha-do is about, little boy!
    Akio: Get Out!! If you’re not claiming her as your daughter you have no right to be here.
  • In Chapter 8, Miho's older sister Maho does this to Shiho.
    Maho: Mother, when you considered this, did you even think about Miho's feelings?
    Shiho: Sentimentality is a grave extravagance for a soldier, Maho. Miho has blossomed outside our family... could you see her taking a post in the Self Defense forces? Becoming an officer? By disinheriting her, I have done the best for her...She will no doubt find her own way forward.
    Maho: But what about her happiness, mother? She loves you and you cast her out... don't you see how much that has hurt her. She wants to make you proud... why do you think she persisted in sensha-do as a freshman? You have hurt her mother.

The Goblin Emperor

• Crown Prince Nemoris Drazhar from A Nuisance Though Thou Art reads the riot act to his father and Emperor Varenechibel IV regarding the criminal neglect of said Emperor towards his youngest son, Archduke Maia Drazhar, whom Varenechibel let be raised in poverty and ignorance, by a physically abusive man, and is currently trying to label a halfwit. Nemolis outright threatens to rewrite history books in order to make Varenechibel's less-than-stellar parenting known to the future generations if the Emperor won't stop being a dick to Maia.

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Untamed

• In The Beast Of Gusu, Lan Xichen delivers a good three to his uncle throughout the series, usually when Qiren is meddling in Xichen or Wangji's love life.

Happy Feet

• In An Outcast's Acrimony, Mumble lashes out at his father, Memphis, for feeling so different from the rest of the colony and having to suffer from their ostracization. This happened after Memphis announced to the whole colony that when Mumble was an egg, he accidentally dropped him, thus the reason why Mumble looked and acted different from the others.

Harry Potter

• In the "Regulus Lives AU" fic, Black Mask, Sirius repeatedly calls out Orion for his numerous flaws (often unfairly), but it is most poignant during their explosive argument that follows Sirius's botched attempt at infiltrating the Malfoy Manor as a part of his Order mission. He berates his father, among other things, for being wilfully ignorant about the ongoing war against Voldemort, for neglecting Regulus and indirectly pushing him into the ranks of the Death Eaters in a desperate attempt to win his parents' attention, and for trying to force the family's bigoted and narrow-minded ideals on Sirius. Although Sirius himself is not portrayed as being completely in the right during that instance (even Dumbledore thinks that he needs to apologize to Orion for some of the things he said), Orion took his son's words to heart and puts more effort into being more understanding towards his family (and the rest of the world) from then on.
• In Faery Heroes Neville yells at his grandmother for trying to turn him into a clone of his father.
  Neville: This greenhouse, Mossy told me Dad had it built for Mum because she loved Herbology. Professor Flitwick said that she was the head of the Charms Club when she was a student. Every Boxing Day when we go to St. Mungo's, she gives me a few bubblegum wrappers, but the nurses say that she won't let anyone else even come near them. These are the only things I have left of my mother; why do you want to take them away from me so much?
• In The Family that Chooses You, the other members of the Gryffindor Quidditch team yell at Dumbledore for refusing to do anything about Harry's abusive home life, challenging him to tell Harry's mother that all of his suffering for the "Greater Good" was worth it.
• After taking his own measures to be more proactive following his canonical 5th year, Harry gives one to Dumbledore in The Power of Time, when the latter still tries to meddle in his life for his "own good." Harry then proceeds to go on a royal rant, pointing out Dumbledore knew how the Dursleys treated him, but did nothing, robbing Harry of his childhood, only to still send him back to the same environment year after year (made worse after the psychologically damaging deaths of Cedric and Sirius), kept information about Harry's family from him (Harry's own classmates knew more than he did and no faculty members were forthcoming), not standing up to Fudge in regards to Voldemort's resurrection (which could have prevented a lot of their current problems), as well as excusing Snape's hatred of him and abuse of other students. He finishes by asking why Dumbledore expects him to trust him after all that?

Hey Arnold!

• Oh Rhonda! has Tucker confront his father for being incredibly overcompetitive, pointing out how this already ruined his marriage.

Homestuck

• A fan contribution to Hivefled has Feferi calling out her Abusive Parents in song.
• TheMightyOz's Nine Lives One Love gives a view of human Meulin and her painful relationship with her parents. In a few chapters, she inwardly states how awful her parents are for leaving her and her little sister (in this case Nepeta) alone for years without a word. Seeing as they are now both dead for unknown reasons, Meulin never got the chance to actually say anything to their face.

The Hunger Games

• In The Victors Project, Katniss does this to Haymitch when he attacks Boudicca, the Victor who runs District 2' Career tribute school.
  Haymitch: She trained kids to die! To kill! She lied to them! She lied and sent them to die.
  Katniss: Like you did? …You trained us to fight. You trained us to die. You lied to us, moved us like pieces in your Games. Don’t look at me like that, Haymitch. I have forgiven you. But you have to face what you did.

Jackie Chan Adventures

• Queen of All Oni: Jade has her father abducted so that she can chew him out for all the years of Parental Neglect she suffered. And then she disowns him.

KaBlam!

• In Goodbye, June, her father reveals that he's been fired from his new job for stealing money. She snaps and chews him out for moving them to New York just to wind up losing his job and making it All for Nothing.

Katawa Shoujo

• In Lilly Epilogue Family Matters, Akira reminds her father that he had left her and Lilly to fend for themselves in Japan when he and their mother had moved to Scotland, in response to him trying to persuade Lilly to return to Scotland, resulting in an argument. After a little while, even Lilly gets in on it, as she is infuriated by her father insulting Hisao and Hanako, and at the peak of her anger, yells "YOU HARDLY RAISED ME AT ALL, YOU BASTARD!!" before ordering him out of her apartment. She later reconciles with him, though.

Kill la Kill

• In Cellar Secrets, Satsuki does this to a mentally ill and interned Ragyou.
  Satsuki: "You destroyed lives beyond any real repair and, fittingly, you've destroyed your own life. You destroyed Rei's with your abuse and a child you wanted to keep hidden. You also destroyed Ryuuko's, the child you never named and kept hidden, by keeping her locked away in a cage in a cellar, allowing her development and growth to become stunted. You didn't just destroy her life, you destroyed ours with your secrets and abuse. You hurt us and you're going to be living with that for the rest of your life."
• From Kill la Kill AU, Ragyo does this to her abusive mother, Youko, on her deathbed, calling her out for how she's treated her when she was a child and for what she's done to their family in speech near reminiscent to Meg's speech to Lois.
  Ragyou: [...] In that vein, you say how I had hurt you, yet you never think about how you had hurt me. I was never to blame for your problems, instead, I had the misfortune of being born. I had needed you to guide, protect, hold, and love me, yet after I had grown teeth and started to walk, you left me to fend for myself, doing none of those things. [...] You're a monster, we will not deny that. I can tell you are curious as to why I even came to see you. Of course, I came just to show what you've failed to destroy.

Kingdom Hearts

• Brutality: When Xemnas wants to know how Roxas' training has been going, he asks Larxene... right in front of Roxas, with both completely ignoring his presence as they talk about him. Roxas snaps at them that "I'm sitting right here, you know. Don't talk about me like I'm not present!"

The Legend of Zelda

• Subverted in The Legend of Link: Lucky Number 13. Link's father killed Link's mother and nearly Link himself, just for being born, thus causing Link to grow up as a Hylian instead of a god. The reason it's subverted is because Link doesn't take it personally; he's never known either of his parents, so to him, his father's just another monster that needs killing.
• The Myth of Link & Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a fanmade adaptation of the game of the same name, and it faithfully adapts the various memories while simultaneously expanding them. This includes the "Father and Daughter" memory, famous in canon for being the one scene King Rhoam shares with his daughter Zelda where he admonishes her for ostensibly shirking her duties. She responds by calling him out on his distant parenting style, and how he never really was a father to her after the death of her mother. Instead of trying to help Zelda, he only pushed her into trying to unlock her powers. She also calls him out on how he constantly makes her feel like she's nothing more than a prop to further the image of a family. Zelda isn't that happy with this, because she still loves her dad, and she wishes to make some amends with him, but the Calamity strikes before that happens.

Love Hina

• An Alternate Keitaro Urashima: Granny Hina is called out for her Manipulative Bitch tendencies several times, particularly by her grandson Keitaro. His parents chew her out for this as well.
• For His Own Sake: Hina finds herself on the receiving end of this several times. One of the most notable comes when she explains to Marumi why she turned the Hinata Inn into a dormitory for "troubled girls" in the first place: she was trying to atone for how she'd turned away her daughter Yoko when she needed her mother's support the most, something she considers her greatest failure. Marumi points out that she hasn't actually been helping the Hinata Girls, only enabling them by letting their issues and Fatal Flaws go unchallenged while she manipulates and abuses others.
• Love Hina: Like It Could Have Been: Once Hina learns from Haruka how her schemes got derailed by Naru and Mokoto refusing to accept Keitaro as the new manager and driving him away, she angrily blames Haruka for not keeping things on track. Haruka turns this right around on her, calling her out for being such a Control Freak and trying to trap her grandson in a toxic environment, not caring what happened to him so long as she got what she wanted.

Miraculous Ladybug

• After the Fall has Adrien confronting and calling out his father during the climax, pointing out that he was responsible for Adrien's Plot-Triggering Death at the hands of Weredad.
• Consequences:
  • In RUNNING AMOK, Adrien learns that his father is Hawk Moth after the supervillain tries to mold Lila into a replacement for the ailing Nathalie. While Gabriel defends himself by claiming his love for Emilie overrides all else, Adrien calls out just how self-centered his motive actually is. He doesn't care about what Emilie would want, how many innocents are hurt, or what might get sacrificed so long as HE gets what he wants in the end.
  • WORLD BEYOND has Adrien refer to his father solely as "Gabriel" after learning his Secret Identity. He also outright calls his father the C-word while shutting down his attempts to justify himself.
  • CAGED continues the trend. Adrien tears into Gabriel for all of his abuse, for trying to mold Adrien's life into one that makes himself look better, and for his complete refusal to accept responsibility.
• The fanfic comic Down features Adrien having a Love Confession to Ladybug go wrong, with Marinette avoiding him and Alya throwing him a Death Glare every chance she gets. When Gabriel scolds him, claiming he made him look bad, Adrien snaps and delivers a blistering speech that includes declaring that his Missing Mom was right to call Gabriel "a selfish bastard who doesn't need a family". Gabriel slaps Adrien to shut him up and while he immediately regrets it and tries to apologize, Adrien is broken and no longer has any energy to stand up for himself, though he pointedly reframes their relationship as employer and employee rather than father and son.
• In heartstrings, after Gabriel tries to interfere with his son's growing relationship with Marinette by having photographs of her and Chat Noir taken (not knowing that Adrien is Chat Noir) and leaking them to the media.
  Adrien: You can do whatever you want to me. You can take me out of school! You can book me for whatever events you want, I don't care! Just - Just leave Marinette out of it!
  Gabriel: Why do you care about her so much? She's clearly not interested in you.
  Adrien: What do you want from me? I've done everything you’ve ever asked of me. I do it without resisting. I'm perfect. What else do you want from me?
  Gabriel: As your father, what I ask of you is -
  Adrien: You don’t treat me like your son. You treat me like your property. You're doing this because you think you can use this to make me sit and stay. You thought you could use Marinette to hurt me. You thought that would make me come back to you, right? That I could be your puppet again? I will not disrespect you or your name in public, and I'll follow your schedules, but you don't pull my strings anymore. Who I spend my time with, that's up to me.
• Notably Averted in The Karma of Lies; while Adrien is initially horrified to learn that his father was Hawkmoth all along, he's quick to rationalize it away using the same "logic" he used to justify not doing anything about Lila conning his classmates. Namely convincing himself that his father's reign of terror had no lasting consequences due to the Miraculous Cure. This spurs him to defend Gabriel's actions, destroying his own reputation in the process.
  • In the Recursive Fanfiction Tales of Karmic Lies Aftermath, Adrien does confront and call out Gabriel for how he blames his son for being Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense, pointing out that Gabriel intentionally raised him that way in order to keep Adrien firmly under his thumb. If Gabriel had not gone out of his way to avoid letting Adrien have any control over his own finances, or had taught him anything about money management, he might have had a better sense of the actual value of money, or been more cautious about how he handled the Agreste's emergency account — the only account he could actually access after his father's arrest.
• Lady Luck: When Audrey offers Marinette a potential internship in New York, Chloé realizes that she'll never be able to earn her mother's love and rips into her for her blatant neglience.
• Miraculous City:
  • Chapter 22 has Adrien calling out his father of his Control Freak tendencies, particularly in trying to get Adrien to break up with Marinette so he can get him engaged with Kagami along with his lack of communications of why he has to be separated from his cousin Felix and his aunt Amelie. He also calls him out of his Hypocritical disapproval of Marinette from being of "lower class" when Gabriel started as a fry-cook and separated himself from his parents.
  • After surviving the attack from Mizuchi in chapter 23, Kagami would confront her mother Tomoe about her own controlling tendency, namely how the security system she set up to keep Kagami from escaping nearly got her killed by Mizuichi, who turned out to have been her childhood friend Tatsuya that was forced to the street after Tomoe stole shared control of her company from his father.
• In Penumbra, Gabriel is such an Abusive Parent that he covered up the fact his son was sexually assaulted, refusing to let him attend therapy and telling him to "get over it". Adrien eventually snaps at him that Emilie was the only one who actually raised him, wondering if his mother left due to Gabriel being such a controlling Jerkass.
  • Later, Gabriel tries to assert further control over his son by forcing him to face the woman who raped him and forgive her. Adrien resists, then catches his father's fist when he attempts to strike him and storms out, telling him to "make a fucking appointment when [Gabriel] feels up to having an actual conversation."
• Scarlet Lady: Near the end of "Queen Wasp", Zoé calls out her mother for being abusive and neglectful to both of her daughters:
  Zoé: Why don't you love us, Mom?
  Audrey: Buh! Of course I l-love you! I just... show it in different ways.
  Zoé: Like, not remembering our names?
  Audrey: I-I remember exceptional—
  Zoé: Oh, what does being "exceptional" even mean, Mom? Having talent? Or just being an ass? Chloé's ruined her whole life by imitating your "exceptional" example, and for what? You don't even care! Well, I'm done following your example! I'm not leaving Chloé alone just because it's be more convienent. But go ahead and fly off like the "exceptional" parent you've always been.

Mr. Men

• Dillydale-Less: In One Calamitous Date, Mr. Toil calls out his parents for their toxicity and cruel treatment not just of him, but their employees and everyone else around them. He declares outright that he refuses to acknowledge either of them as his parents, as neither has proven even remotely worthy of the title.

My Hero Academia

• In Forgiveness is the Attribute of the Strong, Izuku calls out his father All for One on their first reunion.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

• Subverted in The Basalt City Chronicles. In Daniel Clydesdale's backstory, he was utterly different from his father and ran away from home at 13 because Theodore (the father) wanted Dan to be part of the Clydesdale political legacy, while Dan was always itching for a fight. When they meet up again, Daniel's in Juvie. When he hears his father has come to visit, the kid's ready to let loose—but Theodore unwittingly yanks the rug out from under Daniel by begging for forgiveness and calling himself out.
• The Flash Sentry Chronicles: When Flash and Scootaloo finally meet their birth parents, Flash calls them both out for abandoning them at orphanages and never once trying to find or meet them when they were growing up. Flash turns out to be more angry at them than Scootaloo mainly because of how much he struggled as a kid after the orphanage he was in caught fire and he had to live on the streets until he met Twilight and her family. Flash eventually forgives his parents after he cools down by talking to Twilight and sees them put themselves in danger to protect him and Scootaloo.
• The Immortal Game: When Rarity is finally confronted by her father, Esteem, he offers her a chance to join him and live like royalty in the new Social Darwinist society he and Titan are creating. Rarity not only refuses, she calls him out on all the terrible things he's done — including but not limited to putting her through Training from Hell as a child, killing her mother, and being the one who let Titan out of his prison in the first place. She tops this with completely disowning him and swearing to defeat him and his master.
• In fancomic Perfect Harmoneigh, Octavia brings her girlfriend to a party her overbearing mother is throwing in order to find her a husband. Things are going badly, and then mum demands to know "Why don't you want to be happy?!" and it. Is. ON.
• The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: In its sequel Picking Up the Pieces, Night Blade, upon meeting his parents for the first time since before their adventure began, absolutely flips out at them, feeling that they've only developed an interest after his role in helping to save Equestria.
• In Rites of Ascension, just before banishing her to Ponyville, Twilight calls her mother out on never being there for her and using her as a stepping stone for social climbing, including making it perfectly clear she would rather have had Celestia as her mother.
• A Taste of the Good Life has this exchange after Ebby, a recovering alcoholic, has her runaway daughter taken away from Main Course by Foal Protective Services, in hopes of regaining custody of her.
  Ebby: I just want to start by saying that I'm sorry for everything I did to you, back then and now bringing you back here to Canterlot. I made a lot of mistakes.
  Scootaloo: No, you didn't. A mistake is something you do because you don't know any better, or you don't understand a situation. That's what Main Course and Rainbow Dash both told me, and they're each ten times the pony you are. When you keep doing the same bad thing over and over again, you don't get to keep calling it a mistake.
• Happens in the sixth flashback chapter (forty-sixth overall) of The Twilight Child, when the main character finally snaps at her mother. Neither of them were on a good basis with each other anyway, but from there on out neither speaks to each other until the very end of the story. Even worse since the mother is actually trying to get on with her daughter. The name of this person? Twilight Sparkle.
  Twilight Twinkle: Or what? What can you do to me? What will you do to me that Discord and Star-Swirl the Idiot haven't already done, hmm? Or Princess Celestia for that matter? Do you think you're going to wave some magic about and hope you're going to get "your little girl" back? Do you think there's something wrong with me, that I'm making up all these things about dad for attention? Do you think I want to look at you? Do you think I want to spend any time with you now, when you seemed barely bothered to teach me about magic? When you only ever showed up to lecture me about the fact that I was picked on for being your daughter? No wonder Discord went for dad. Heck, if he'd erased you, I'd probably have cheered with JOY!

Naruto

• A common plotline in fanworks is calling out Naruto's father for sealing the Kyuubi into him, his mother, and his mentor Jiraiya, who was meant to be his godfather but neglected his duties for twelve years. Results vary from heartfelt reunions to permanent shattering of familial bonds depending on the author's inclination.
  • Much of this was based on speculation about the surrounding circumstances; after the manga eventually revealed what happened, the brunt of the blame fell upon Minato, as Kushina would not have survived the tenth of October regardless of his actions. Even then, the fact that the sealing was not planned, but a desperate attempt to keep Kurama from rampaging further helps lessen the blame, as it's clear that they had little choice in the matter.
• A Growing Affection: Hinata to Hiashi, after he tries to come between her and Naruto.
  Hinata: Lord Hiashi. Your actions today were shameful. To go to the Hokage with a personal matter, and attack a fellow ninja... You are fortunate Naruto is not holding you accountable for the assault. Please do not disgrace our family in this manner again. Do not make me choose between you and Naruto. You will not like the results.
• Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox: Minato gets called out three different times by three different people over how he effectively abandoned both Naruto and Kushina in the wake of the 365-day rampage by the Kyuushingai, resulting in Naruto having to carry a burden of guilt over his participation in that group without getting effective parental support, for the two years following the devastation. To his credit, Minato doesn't try to defend his actions.
• Naruto: Asunder has both parents survive the Nine-Tails assault (via the Fourth putting himself in a form of stasis until his spirit is returned to his body, while Kushina was sent back to Whirlpool to set it up as a Plan B safe haven). Naruto acknowledges why they sealed the Kyuubi into him, but rejects their attempts to justify their actions, stating that they left him to have a miserable life in the village, ultimately stating that "It doesn't matter if you're back. I made it fine without you and still don't need you. Don't bother me again.". Even at the end of the story, Naruto never forgives them but extends an "I don't completely hate your guts" gesture.
• In OrangeLemon's Sannin Swap, Neji confronts his Uncle Hiashi over how he's not only upheld the divide between the Main and Branch Houses of the Hyuuga but exploited that to rule his daughters through fear. Rather than loving his own children unconditionally, he forced them to fight over his fickle favor, knowing that whichever one didn't become the heiress would be branded with the Caged Seal and shunted into the Branch to be abused and mistreated alongside their cousin Neji and all the rest. While Hiashi expressed remorse over how the system cost him the life of his own twin brother, he has done nothing to set things right; his 'regret' wasn't enough to spur him to even try changing anything, too comfortable in his current position and too willing to torture his own daughters to uphold it.
  Neji: I know my father called choosing death freedom. But I think you understand, uncle, that the pain you allowed to happen meant he couldn't see a different way out.
• Son of the Sannin:
  • During the Fourth Ninja War, the Uchiha brothers encounter Edo Tensei!Fugaku on the battlefield. Sasuke lets him have it because his stupidity in goading the Uchihas into a coup d'etat led to the clan's near extinction. Fugaku calmly accepts it, having realized how much of a folly it was.
  • A milder example occurs between Kakashi and Edo Tensei!Sakumo. While Kakashi had more or less come to terms with his father's suicide and why he did it, deep down he was still bitter at the fact his father had left him to fend for himself when he was still a child. However, telling him that is enough for Kakashi to forgive him, which gives Sakumo the closure to be released from the Edo Tensei.
• War of the Biju: After learning the truth about Yashamaru and his mother, Gaara is much harder on his father than he was in canon, chiding Rasa for his terrible leadership in relation to his downright atrocious parenting abilities. While he still ends up forgiving him as he did in canon, his forgiveness is treated more as something he can't deny his father in spite of everything that has happened between them. To Rasa's credit, he admits that Gaara is right, and hopes they can start over when Gaara eventually joins the pure world permanently himself.

NCIS

• In Shards To a Whole, Tim McGee, now head of NCIS's Cybercrime division, wound up performing a security test of the computer systems of the USS Stennis, commanded by his estranged father Admiral John McGee. When the Stennis failed the test, Admiral McGee secretly arranged to have some of his men beat Tim savagely. Since Lt. Mane, the lead assailant then committed suicide and the others said they were following Mane's orders, there was no direct connection to the Admiral, who looked like he was getting off scot free. Later, when Tim's sister Sarah saw what had happened to her brother, she contacted the Admiral by phone and confronted him. Realizing that her father really did try to have Tim killed, Sarah announced her intention to publicly accuse him of abusing her as a child (he never beat anyone but she was more than prepared to lie about it, knowing that Abby would happily manufacture any evidence she needed to prove abuse), unless he immediately resigned his commission, the only thing that he truly valued in the world. She concluded by effectively banishing him from her life for good.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

• In The Child of Love, Shinji calls Gendo out on lying about destroying all Yui's pictures. When Gendo implies that he still needs to ask his permission to marry Asuka, Shinji makes clear that his 'father' is no longer part of his family.
  Shinji: You lied to me, you bastard, [...] that picture of mother, you had it all along. [...] You just wanted to keep it to yourself, [...] you selfish bastard.
  Gendo: Is that all?
  Shinji: I hope they keep you in here forever, [...] even that'll be too good for you, after all that you have done.
  Gendo: You mean like bringing you and the Second Child together?
  Shinji: I didn't need you for that! [...] we never needed you to fall in love! You were only using me, using Asuka, using Teri! [...] HOW COULD YOU?!
  Gendo: Because I needed to.
  (Shinji turns to leave)
  Gendo: Aren't you forgetting something?
  Shinji: ...
  Gendo: I was thinking, I know that Colonel Katsuragi is now your legal guardian, [...] but shouldn't you ask me for permission to marry the Second Child, even if it's merely for formality?
  Shinji: ...
  Gendo: You are planning to marry her, aren't you? You are the father of her child.
  Shinji: We don't need anything from you. We want nothing to do with you. This will be our last meeting, as far as I am concerned. [...] I'm finished here.
• In A Crown of Stars, Shinji skips the talking part and straight up decks Gendo upon their reunion. Afterwards, Shinji refuses to have anything to do with his father, even though Gendo's had time to think about what he's done and is making a genuine effort to become a better person.
• Doing It Right This Time: After being sent to the past, Rei -of all people- calls Gendo out on having abused Shinji and her emotionally before informing him all would be for nothing.
• Evangelion 303: In chapter 10, Gendo meets his son for the first time after ten years... and he starts lecturing him about his neglected duties and being more worried about a comatose, pretty girl than about everyone else in the world. Naturally, Shinji was less than impressed:
  Gendo: You disappoint me [...]
  Shinji: YOU disappoint me! You think that duty is the ability to deny your own feelings? To pretend that you were never vulnerable to love? You know what I’m feeling… You were in love once in your life!
• In Futures Freak Me Out, Asuka calls her father out on never caring for her.
  Asuka: Was there a single day in your entire god damn life that you loved me? You're my father! I haven't seen you in ten years, and we're— What are we even talking about here?! This is just polite nice-to-meet-you bullshit! You haven't been listening to single word I've been saying! You want to know about my life, huh?! Why, so you have some interesting trivia to tell your pals over drinks?! 'My darling daughter this' and 'my beautiful girl that'. You don't mean any of it! You don't care! If you cared it wouldn't have taken us ten fucking years to have this conversation!
• Ghosts of Evangelion:
  • Shinji averts this. He is in his thirties when his father comes back from Instrumentality, and he stopped caring for Gendo and his abusive behavior long ago, so he doesn't bother to call him out.
  • Asuka called Misato out on neglecting her completely and abandoning her right when she needed her the most. Misato agreed she screwed up with her and Shinji.
    Misato: Did something happen?
    Asuka: ...
    Misato: If it did, you should talk to me about it.
    Asuka: Why? It's not like you care anyway. You just want to find a way to get me out of your hair, same as always.
    Misato: Now Asuka, that's not really fair—
    Asuka: Don't talk to me about fair, you bitch! You never wanted to deal with me in Germany, and when I came here you watched me fall to pieces in front of your eyes without doing a damn thing about it.
    Misato: Hold on now—
    Asuka: And then you let the commander hang me out to dry, before you threw me out like garbage when I was no longer useful—
    Misato: Asuka, wait a minute—
    Asuka: —and then when Kaji died you completely forgot about me until I crawled into a hole somewhere to slit my wrists and die! And after Third Impact, when you finally found us, you sent me to another damn city so that fucking piece of shit could… Don't act like you're concerned. I know better.
    Misato: Are you finished now?
    Asuka: Tch.
    Misato: It might surprise you to learn I agree with you. Everything you said is true. I did a terrible job with the both of you, and there's no excuse for it. Nothing about the circumstances changes what happened to you. It was criminal, and it was wrong, and I'll regret it until the day I die. But even so, you have to think about your situation here: you aren't equipped to live on your own, and neither is Shinji. You both need a lot of help and support, and there aren't exactly a lot of candidates banging on the door for the job. For better or worse I'm the closest thing to family either of you has.
  • Several years later Asuka called her father out when he tried to reconcile with her, although much like Shinji, she no longer cares.
  • Ryuko tells her mother that childhood traumas don't excuse bitchiness when you're in your forties. Asuka's retort was... hugging her.
    Ryuko: You know, I don't get you. Sometimes you're really cool like this, and others you're a total bitch. What's up with that?
    Asuka: Be glad you get bits of nice on occasion. Ask your father what it's like when I'm mean 24/7. You don't know how lucky you are.
    Ryuko: Sure I do. You love me more than anything, and you love dad just as much. But that doesn't stop you from treating us both like dogshit on occasion.
    Asuka: Shut up, you idiot! I'm doing the best I can. I—
    Ryuko: Bullshit! 'The best you can,' you say? Whatever. Today you were fine. I felt like you were an actual parent for a change, and that was nice. But last night? Fuck that noise. Back in the day I guess you could get away with it, since things were really rough for you back then. But now, not so much. We deserve better, father and I, and so do you!
    Asuka: You little brat. Not even your father talks to me that way.
    Ryuko: Tch. He calls you out on your bullshit all the time. Misato does, too. I'm not an idiot, mom; I see what's going on around me. How the hell would I have the nerve to speak up otherwise?
    Asuka: (laughing and hugging her) You stupid little brat! I'm glad to see you take after your father in ways other than musical talent!
    Ryuko: Cut it out, mom! Jeez, you're embarrassing me!
    Asuka: I'm proud of you, little girl. I truly am.
    Ryuko: You're missing the point! Gah! Where is dad when I need him?
• In the Alternate Universe Fic Going Another Way, Shinji (who's a bit more strong-willed here due to growing up with a caring and supportive uncle instead of an apathetic guardian) calls Gendo out, but none of them really faze the older Ikari much... until Shinji is able to pull his mother Yui's soul from Unit 01 out enough for her to be able to contact the outside world. And Yui is not at all happy to learn what her husband has done since her disappearance, all in the name of getting her back no less. She chews him out so thoroughly that Gendo, guilt-stricken, drinks enough alcohol to necessitate him getting his stomach pumped. Afterwards, he begins making an honest effort at redeeming himself.
• Once More With Feeling (Crazy-88): Shinji does this twice:
  • The first time happened in the Eva cages, before his first battle. When Gendo said "It's been a long while", Shinji replied "Not long enough". That was only the beginning.
  • The second time happened after the battle when Shinji wanted to discuss the terms of his job:
    Gendo:: You are not indispensable. If you will not pilot the Evangelion, Rei will do so instead.
    Shinji: You know, on some level I should be surprised that you would threaten to have a fourteen-year-old girl sent to her death if I didn't do exactly what you said... but I'm not.
    Fuyutsuki: Now Shinji, that's not what he-
    Shinji: Oh of course it is. You don't have any need to defend this man in front of me. Yesterday he paraded Rei out as the consequence of me defying him, putting her through hell just to blackmail me into Unit One. Every one of us knows she wouldn't have lasted five seconds in combat, but he didn't give a damn.
• In The One I Love Is..., Shinji called his father out twice:
  • In chapter 5 Shinji gets mad because his father has manipulated Asuka and Rei. So that he marches to his office and warns Gendo against interfering with their lives again, pointing out he is more expendable than a pilot.
    Gendo: You think you can threaten me?
    Shinji: Of course I can. I am the only pilot of Unit-01. You need me to save your life. You know as well as I do that you don't have any spare pilots. And you also know that Rei and Asuka won't be able to fight alone for long. That is, if I don't convince them to stop fighting for you at all. In this whole scenario... you are the only one who is useless.
  • In chapter 11 Shinji explodes in public:
    Shinji: Damn you! You hurt Touji! You let Asuka suffer! You took Rei from me! And now you want me to kill Kaoru? You heartless son of a bitch! If it wasn't my mother's name, I'd be ashamed of being called Ikari!
• Scar Tissue: During an accidental meeting in an elevator Shinji finally calls his father out. When Gendo starts lecturing him about his health, his language, or his relationship with Asuka, Shinji says it is none of his business, especially after how he has treated him. When Gendo presses the Asuka's issue Shinji finally explodes, punches him, and tells Gendo will speak about Asuka respectfully, using her name... or else.
• The Second Try gives us several examples. Even more awesome because Shinji is a great father in his own right.
  Shinji: You know, [...] I thought I might be able to understand you better by now. But actually I understand you even less than before. How... [...] How can anyone really want to send his own child away?
  Gendo: I have no reason to explain myself if you are already aware that you cannot understand.
  Shinji: No, maybe not. You'd just blame everything on the pain of losing her anyway. Do you really think you're the only one who ever felt like that? You're not the only one who lost a loved one! [...] But unlike most, you didn't hold dear what was left of her. Instead of using it to remember the love she gave, you just saw it as reminder of her loss. So you just threw it all away, because the very existence hurt you.
• When She Smiles (Fresh C): Misato tries to dissuade Shinji from looking for Asuka when the younger girl escapes from the hospital. Infuriated, Shinji calls his guardian out on never caring about Asuka and wanting him around only because it made her feel good.

The Octonauts

• Margaret does this in her spotlight chapter of Junior Officers, where she shouts at her father for making her miserable with his sexism and racism.

Persona

• Hours 'Verse: Akira blows up at his parents after they call him in the aftermath of Shido's Palace, accusing them of never worrying about him during his tumultuous year.

Pokémon

• In Clash of the Ketchums, after Ash's father tries to argue that Ash has wasted his life with his career as a Pokémon trainer, Ash counters most of his father's arguments and observes that his real issue (although he won't admit it) is that he just resents that Ash was so much better at being a trainer than he was.
• In Common Sense, Ash calls Character of the Day Anthony out for being obsessed with winning the P1 Grand Prix fighting tournament to the point where he neglected his family for months. When he grows indignant and suspicious of a trick to psyche him out before the match, Ash points out that he himself never knew his father since he left on a journey to become the number one Pokémon Master. After explaining his plan to find him on the way to the top and drag him home if need be, he smiles and says that he just wanted to make sure Anthony wouldn't put Rebecca through the same thing.
• Downplayed in For as Long as We Have. Ash isn't particularly thrilled to see his father after a twenty-year absence from his life and only agrees to do so at Delia's request. However, when Ash's father reveals he left because he learned he had a terminal disease and feared Ash may have inherited it, Ash finds himself more sympathetic and only gets mad because his father just came to clear his loose ends, as if resigning himself to die, rather than trying to live whatever time he has left and be his father.

Power Rangers

• In Crimson Rising, original Red Ranger Jason eventually confronts Andrew Hartford, the mentor of the Operation Overdrive team for his poor choice of Power Rangers for his team, observing that the Overdrive Rangers were always too willing to quit when their feelings were hurt or over some perceived slight. Forcing Hartford to face the fact that Dax and Will have betrayed the other Rangers to join the anti-Ranger government organisation Sector Nine, on top of Mack's current identity crisis after he learned about his android nature, Jason declares that the Overdrive Rangers are now off-duty until Andrew and Mack can sort out their current relationship issues.

Rise of the Guardians

• In Guardian of Light, the main character, Helen, does this rather epically to Pitch, her biological father.
  Helen: Whoa! Who are you to tell me what to do?
  Pitch: I'm your father!
  Helen: Oh, that makes perfect sense! Yes, you're my father! Who, for the last couple of centuries, has been parading across the planet scaring the pants off little kiddies and trying to plunge the world into darkness! And when you finally realize that you have a daughter, you not only kidnap me and try and turn me into a creature of darkness, but you also think you have the right to tell me who I can and can't date! Actually, just who I can't date!
  Pitch: It is a parent's job to make sure their child does exactly as they say!
  Helen: (punches him) What kind of father tries to turn his own daughter into some kind of shadow being? If you really cared about me you would do what was best for me, instead of what's best for yourself. I can't be forced to be someone I don't want to be.

RWBY

• RWBY: Scars:
  • After having not seen her biological mother Raven since infancy, Yang is disgusted by her coldness and Social Darwinist viewpoint. After Raven calls Yang's team unworthy of living and misgenders her transgender sister Ruby, Yang rants Raven out. She ends her rant by saying that not only is Raven dead to her but she'll also kill her if Raven goes near her family or team again.
  • Yang calls out her father Taiyang for having neglected her and Ruby after Summer died, leaving Yang to have to take care of her sister despite barely being a teenager (if even that).
  • Weiss is forced to sing for a charity concert and, like in canon, she sings "This Life Is Mine" (which is a song version of this trope aimed at her abusive father). Unlike in canon, she sings the rock version of the song from the soundtrack, complete with guitarists and lots of angry screaming, and even points accusingly at her father during the song. Her mother and brother are the first to clap. The audience is confused about the song but they politely clap as well.

Spyro the Dragon

• Ember does this to Terrador in the Spyro Madness Saga. After Terrador completely destroys her life, up to and including kidnapping her before she even sees her children, Ember has a chance to kill him, which everyone says she should. Instead, Ember gives him a brutal "The Reason You Suck" Speech and allows the authorities to deal with him.

Star vs. the Forces of Evil

• In Right Choice, Eclipsa tears into her mother Solaria not just for her extreme hatred and slaughtering of innocent monsters, but for letting that hatred encompass her whole life to the point that killing is seemingly more important to her than Eclipsa is.
  Eclipsa: If you really think so high of me, how come you have the need for me to be some helpless idiot, who can’t tell a difference between a lie and a truth? Why do you believe that I would let someone blackmail me instead of disposing of them with my wand?
  Solaria: I... Well-
  Eclipsa: Let me tell you why, mother: because you hate monsters more than you care about your own child. You LOVE war far more than you ever LOVED ME! I always knew that! B-But when you decided to sell me to that fucker, just so you could continue on killing, I realized that MY happiness NEVER really mattered to you!

Steven Universe

• Change My Mind has Steven lashing out at Greg and the Crystal Gems for their unintentional Parental Neglect during his childhood. He tells Greg outright that he wishes he'd never let him live with the Gems in the first place, and that he'd been a bigger part of his life growing up.

Sword Art Online

• I Will Not Bow: In its sequel Blazing Generations, Akane's Stage Mom only ever thinks about how to promote her career as the Idol Singer Akimi, to the extent that she leaks information on where Akane's attending school to the paparazzi, and is determined to turn the singing competition at school into a publicity stunt for Akane and force her to resume her career at the end of the school year whether Akane likes it or not. In chapter 66, when she furiously chews Akane out for dropping out of the competition in favor of Lilly, calling her a "loser girl with no reputation," Akane has finally had enough; she gives her mother a slap, furiously calls her out over her attitude and actions, and fires her as her manager, declaring that the idol business has turned her into a different person and she wants her mom back. This, combined with Akane subsequently singing the song her late father used to sing and explaining that she wants to be the idol she herself envisions, reaches her mother, who breaks down in Tears of Remorse.
• SAO: Mother's Reconciliation: Both Asuna and Kouichirou call Kyouko out more than once for her Control Freak tendencies.

Tolkien's Legendarium

• A Boy, a Girl and a Dog: The Leithian Script: In this The Silmarillion fanfic:
  • Celebrimbor continuously called his father out on everything that he did -genocide, kidnapping, conspiring against his own relatives, helping his brother force a woman into marriage (that according to elvish laws is a form of rape)-, but Curufin never listened. Finally Celebrimbor got fed up with it and disowned his own father.
  • Subverted with Finrod and Finarfin. Before parting ways, they had a very long, heated argument during which they got mad with each other and both started to fling insults and accusations. Later Finrod regretted it because his father had done nothing to deserve that treatment (and Finarfin also rued his own words). Their relationship got uneasy for a while until they finally talked about it and apologized to each other.
• In Lessons from the Mountain, Maedhros finally calls his father out when he becomes fed up with Feanor's verbal abuse.
  Feanor: Your disapproval has been clear from the first. And yet you return, knowing that I alone of all elves here cannot abandon you. Your mother, your brothers, they have left you one by one. I remain, and so you cling to me. That is what those mortal elflings are to you – not sons, but security.
  Maedhros: How dare you? I come because I love you. Have you forgotten your life so completely? You loved us once. You loved each of us... and our Mother. I came to you because she asked it of me. She knew she would never see you again, and so she asked me to look after you when she was reborn. She did not abandon any of us, least of all me. The Maiar here are right – the one thing you cannot teach an elf is that which he already knows, or thinks he does. You cannot love with just a fëa, Father. That is why everyone else is re-embodied. They miss...being able to love someone. Hunger? Thirst? Cold? It is not those hroafelmë that wear on the spirit!

Treasure Planet

• Picking Up the Pieces: Jim pulls an excellent one of these on his Disappeared Dad, with whom he briefly and bitterly reunites through a chance encounter. Summing it up, he says "I wanted your love but you never did a thing for Mom and I; and I found out I didn't need it to be awesome, and it's because of that I'm graduating from the most high-class academy in the galaxy. And it's after all this when you want to be my father again. We don't need you anymore, so screw you, in-name-only Dad." Wow.

Victorious

• "Double Trouble" features a very unconventional version of this when Jade swaps places with an alternate version of herself. In the other reality, Jade's mother died when she was an infant and her father remarried, with Jade being abused by her father, stepmother and half-sister. At one point the displaced Jade basically calls her alternate father out on his treatment of her other self while using her acting experience to basically imitate her mother, guessing that this will throw her father further off-balance as there's obviously no way for "this" Jade to so precisely imitate a woman she would barely remember.

Warrior Cats

• A Different Outcome: Jayfeather tells his adoptive mother Squirrelflight that "it's kind of messed up" that she led her biological son Lionblaze to believe he was also adopted for the past two moons. Squirrelflight defends herself by saying that taking the time to explain the subtleties of the situation during the initial reveal would've gotten them all killed by Ashfur.

X-Men

• In X-Men 1970, Cyclops calls Professor Xavier out on letting them believe he was dead and, on top of it, being completely unapologetic about their pain.

Young Justice

• In With This Ring, OL does this on Artemis and Jade's behalf to Sportsmaster during the New Years Breakout.

Yu-Gi-Oh!

• Yu-Gi-Oh! Forever, which is set several years after the canon series, has this happen with Zane Truesdale, who by this time has two children of his own but has failed to be a proper parent to either of them, leading to his son becoming The Resenter and his daughter being a Shrinking Violet. Zane gets two callings-out for it—one by Alexis for his failure to set a better example for the two children, and the other by his son for making him keep quiet for several years about the fact that their mother died while pregnant with the daughter and burying his own grief for the sake of his sister, who he hates because of that incident.

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