Basic Trope: A character who openly hates their parent(s).
- Straight: Alex openly hates his parents, Bob and Carol.
- Exaggerated:
- Antagonistic Offspring.
- Self-Made Orphan.
- Alex hates his parents to the point he abuses them.
- Downplayed:
- Alex plainly dislikes both his parents, but doesn't outright hate them.
- Alex dislikes his parents, but he still worries about them when they're in danger.
- Justified:
- Bob and Carol treat Alex cruelly and horribly or are dangerous levels of neglectful towards him.
- Bob and Carol tried to murder Alex.
- Bob cheated on Carol, which made Alex despise him.
- Alex is rebellious who doesn't like them enforcing their rules on him.
- Alex is The Un-Favourite and Bob and Carol treat his brother, Danny, more favorably than him.
- Bob and Carol are a Screw the Rules, I Have Money! kind of Idle Rich royals whom Alex loathes and is ashamed of.
- Inverted: Bob and Carol hate their son Alex.
- Subverted:
- Alex often speaks badly to his parents, but they're just engaging in Insult of Endearment.
- It turns out that Alex's parents were actually his adopted parents. He loves his biological parents.
- Alex has some form of respect for his parents underneath his sour attitude towards them.
- Double Subverted: ...That's what he says to his friends, who are from one or more cultures that value family relationships highly. Alex genuinely thinks ill of his parents.
- Parodied:
- People confront Alex about exactly why he hates his parents. Alex's answer? His parents bought him a blue truck for Christmas instead of a red one.
- Alex is the typical rebellious teenager with wild dark hair, leather pants, tattoos, and a shirt that says, "Fuck Mom and Dad".
- Zig-Zagged: Alex flip-flops between hating his parents and loving them, depending on his mood.
- Averted:
- Alex loves both his parents.
- Honor Thy Parent.
- Enforced: The authors make the Rebel Prince Alex hate his royal parents for added drama.
- Lampshaded: "How could you hate the very two people who brought you into this world and took care of you until you became an adult?!"
- Invoked: After catching Bob cheating on her, Carol tells their son Alex about it knowing he'll hate Bob for it.
- Exploited: Bob and Carol's rivals reveal Alex's negative statements to the public to discredit the couple.
- Defied: Alex admits that his parents have flaws, but refuses to let his resentment fester and seeks therapy.
- Discussed: "You think kids would grow up to love and appreciate their parents for what they've done for them."
- "Just because parents mean well doesn't mean that they can't hurt their kids. Kids are people too, and they have a right to feel resentful if their guardians hurt them."
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: When Charlie, Alex's friend, talks about how Bob and Carol were decent people, Alex only scoffs at his remark.
- Deconstructed:
- Because society puts parents on a high pedestal, it's one thing for a person to hate one person, or a group of people, but a person hating their own parents is treated with more shame and contempt than anything else. For this, Alex's dislike for his parents gets him alienated and ostracized by his friends, family and society as a whole.
- Alex's parents (and by extension, his family) grow sick of his lack of respect and gratitude towards them and disown him for good measure.
- Alex's parents realize that they've done horrible things to their child, and desperately want to make amends, but Alex's hatred of them is so ingrained, his distrust and disbelief in their change of heart leads to a heartbreaking moment where he makes it clear that he will never forgive them, never stop hating them, and that he views any change of heart they have as nothing more than their deceptions and attempts to pretend they didn't do anything wrong. The additional tragedy is that Alex deep down knows this isn't true, but is so hurt and broken that he cannot bring himself to think otherwise, instead aiming to hurt his parents as much as possible in retaliation for the pain they inflicted on them.
- Reconstructed: While he still remains cold around them, Alex grows to respect what they've done for him, but not because he's "supposed" to.
- Played for Laughs:
- Alex's dislike of his parents manifests in expressions that they treat as narmy and/or as Insult Backfires.
- The implausible excuses Alex makes to avoid seeing Bob and Carol become a Running Gag.
- Played for Drama: The story focuses on the deterioration of Alex's relationship with his parents and how it ends very badly for all concerned.
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