Basic Trope: An adult wants to offer monetary support to their parents.
- Straight: Mary's mother is sick, so she puts aside a portion of her paycheck to go towards paying for her medical bills and treatments.
- Exaggerated: Mary's mother is deathly ill, and Mary spends a majority of her time and money trying to make sure she gets better.
- Downplayed: Mary sometimes gives her parents money as a thank-you gift for having been Good Parents.
- Justified: Mary and her mother are very close, and Mary's supportive of her family.
- Inverted:
- Mary is sick, so her mother gives her money to help her get treatment.
- Mary's mother is sick. Mary actively pays the hospital to prevent her recovery.
- Subverted: Mary asks for a raise to be able to give some money to her sick mother. It turned out she was lying; she never liked her mother that much.
- Double Subverted: But her dad wants to move from the countryside to the big city, and she does give him money.
- Parodied: Mary's mother has a slight cold. Mary immediately gives all her emergency funds to her and spends all day waiting at her bedside until she gets better.
- Zig-Zagged: Whether or not Mary is willing to help out her family depends on whether it's her mom or dad, and what the situation is.
- Averted: Mary's parents don't appear in the story.
- Enforced: "What are Mary's interactions with her parents like? What if she had to raise money for them?"
- Lampshaded: Mary asks her boss for a raise, saying that she wants to be able to support her sick mother.
- Invoked: Mary's friends suggest that she find a way to get money for her mother.
- Exploited: Mary's Sitcom Arch-Nemesis is secretly intercepting the funds for himself along the way.
- Defied: Mary had Abusive Parents and cuts contact with them once she's an adult.
- Discussed: "Doesn't Mary have a sick mother she's trying to get money for?"
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