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"There's only one truth here! You, my own parents, you abandoned us!"
Lelouch vi Britannia to Charles zi Britannia and Marianne vi Britannia, Code Geass

"Have you never cried for longing? Why did you do such a thing to Jeremy? Lilia, whom you loved, Lilia, who hanged herself in front of you- How could you laugh while she killed herself?"

"All this time that I was locked away in that dark room, I was looking forward to the day we'd meet. You'd say, 'come out,' and there you'd be with Mommy, waiting to take me home so we could be a real family. You and Mommy would tell me, 'Mariko, we love you so much.' And now, we meet, just like in my dreams. How could you do this to me? How could you?! You were supposed to take care of me!"
Mariko to Kurama, Elfen Lied

You're her mother and she's your daughter, right? She tries so hard for you! She works herself half to death for you! How can you do such horrible things to her?!

"You are not the Messiah, Grandpa!"
Kio Asuno, Mobile Suit Gundam AGE

Sun: All right, Dad! Admit it! This is your doing, isn't it?! [points to Shark Fujishiro] Now apologize to Nagasumi!
Gozaburo: What?! I can't do that! No way, Sun!
Sun: Apologize! I can't respect a father who won't even act like a man!

"Why would you ever want to seal the Nine-Tails inside of your own son?! Do you have any idea what I went through because you did that?! All of the grownups just looked at me with contempt, or with fear, and I couldn't make any friends! I just wanted people to accept me, or at least not hate me, so I trained really hard to become as strong as I could! Then I met Iruka-sensei, Kakashi-sensei, and Pervy Sage, and I was happy 'cause they helped make me stronger! And just when things were looking up, a group called the Akatsuki came after me, so I had to train even harder than I did before! I got stronger, but I couldn't stop the Akatsuki from killing my friends!! And I just... I mean... I don't know what I'm saying anymore! Damn it! Am I supposed to be happy or mad?! I don't even know!"
Naruto Uzumaki to Minato Namikaze, Naruto Shippuden

Nanako: Daddy, remember my school thing?
Dojima: (tired and disinterested) Yeah, what about it?
Nanako: Well, um, where’s the paper?
Yu: The one I gave you to sign yesterday.
Dojima: (pulling the sheet out of his pocket) Oh, this thing.
Nanako: You sure any time is okay?
Dojima: (sighing) Yeah, fine. But you should know, chances are, I won’t make it.
(Nanako gasps.)
Dojima: Sorry, but I’m so busy I can’t afford to take the time off right now.
(Nanako starts to tear up.)
Yu: But you told her you would!
Nanako: It’s okay. You don’t have to come. You’ll have to work on a case. You have to find the bad guy. (She starts sobbing.) You care about those bad guys more than you care about me, don’t you?! Just forget it! (She then runs away crying.)
Dojima: Nanako, wait-! ... Perfect. What has gotten into her lately?
Yu: She was really hoping you’d go to this. Now you’ve gone and disappointed her.
Dojima: (sighing) I can’t help it, I gotta work.
Yu: That may be, but I really think you need to spend more time with your daughter.
Dojima: Watch it.
Yu: Tell her about the hit-and-run! Tell her about what actually happened!
Dojima: I told you to mind your own business!
(He stops when he sees that Nanako has been listening the whole time.)
Dojima: Nanako...
Nanako: There was... a hit-and-run?
Dojima: It’s not something you need to know about.
Nanako: Why not?
Dojima: Because you don’t!
Nanako: (voice breaking as she starts to cry again) Daddy... why are you mad at me? Why me? How come you never listen to anything I say? Never! You’re stupid, Daddy! Stupid stupid stupid!
Dojima: Don’t you talk to your father like that!
Nanako: Why shouldn’t I?! It’s not like you care about what happens to me anyway! I don’t know what I did, but it’s clear you hate me! You aren’t real! It doesn’t matter, ‘cause you aren’t my real dad!

Shinji Suzuki: Shiori… I’m really sorry… as your father, I’m really sorry… that I didn’t notice you were being bullied! Even though you reached out for my help… I’ll make sure that both bullies and the school who tried to cover it all up… will suffer the proper repercussions! As your father… I will be the one to protect you, Shiori!
Shiori Suzuki: I don’t want anything to do with you.
Shinji Suzuki: What do you mea-
[[Shiori shows him videos of what the bullies put her through]]
Shiori Suzuki: The one who actually protected me… was the homeroom teacher who kindly collected all this evidence. Even though he himself is a victim, he went out of his way to protect me. And what did you even do for me? Oh right, you straight up told me: “The one being bullied is at fault!
Shiori Suzuki: Even the most insignificant thing, huh? What kind of thing do you think it was, huh?
[[Her maternal grandfather calls to her]]
Yeah, I’m fine. I’m done talking to that guy.

"I tried to gain favor from you, but nothing was ever good enough. No matter how many battles I fought, you always found fault. Then I saw how Optimus treated his men, and I realized he was a leader of integrity... unlike you."
Starscream to Galvatron, Transformers: Armada, "Cramp"

Sanji: Thirteen years ago, Vinsmoke Sanji escaped from the kingdom of Germa and died at sea. You got exactly what you wanted. After this, we're done! You're not my father, Vinsmoke Judge! And don't you forget that! After this, I don't ever want to see your face again!
Judge: I understand. You have my word. This is the last you'll see of me... and I'll stay away from the East Blue as well.

     Comic Books 
Cory: Congratulations. You must be so happy to have everything you want.
Alice: Excuse me?
Cory: You finally have your perfect son...who gets good grades...always comes home right on time because he doesn't dance...and doesn't have any friends!!
Alice: If you were a perfect son, you wouldn't be yelling at your parents! We raised you to be respectful! We raised you to get these results, and this is how you thank us?!
Cory: I never asked for that! I've been miserable and all you care about is a bunch of stupid numbers! But I guess you've been too focused on results to notice!
Philip: Cory, that's enough.
Cory: Then why don't you ground me again? It's not like I have anywhere to go.

Darkseid: It seems I erred in restoring you to life, my son.
Orion: Restoring—? You mean desecrating me, do you not, father? You stole those cells from me in life— and warped them to make a shambling mockery of me in death. No more, father... Your cursed voice will be still!
Darkseid: But, youth, I merely—
Orion: Still, I say... Your tongue could seduce a planet of priests, Darkseid... But not your own son.

WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME I WAS ADOPTED? Don't tell me you didn't remember! I won't stand for the men in my life keeping secrets from me anymore. Do you understand that? Do you?

Tim Drake: Who is the son you know, Dad? You don’t know me, you never bothered. You shipped me from one boarding school to another and nobody paid any attention as long as my grades stayed high. You and mom were too involved running around the world. Your careers-
Jack: Don’t think you can talk to me like that just because I’m in this chair. Just because I’m not like Bruce Wayne…
Tim: At least Bruce cares about me. Not just how I reflect on him! You don’t know me! You don’t know a thing about me!
Robin

My people control Iacon, and more Cybertronians will come home and join us. We'll enter a new golden age. A real golden age. Not the corrupt lines of Primes, not... not you. Because you were just as bad as them. At least they knew they were oppressing us. Might doesn't make right, Megatron. Not anymore.

Cable: I got the invitation to the wedding. So tell me— what'd you have in mind? You were maybe expecting me to carry the rings? I came to say if you're so eager to make amends for dumping your only son some two thousand years into the future you're going to have to start small. Maybe a baseball game? Stroll in the park?
Cyclops: I hardly "dumped" you, Nathan! Letting go of you was the most difficult decision I'd ever made in my life! I was your father...and that meant doing anything to save you from the techno-organic virus that was destroying you! Anything, up to and including, losing you to Askani who apparently kept her word.
Cable: Save it, "Dad"— we both saw the holographic simulation. You made the choice as dispassionately as every other command you've ever given in your life! You're the consummate leader— always going with your first, best instinct and never looking back...
Uncanny X-Men #310 (1994)

Kara: "Watch out for your mother." That's what father said to me as he died. "Watch out for your mother." I thought that meant I should... I don't know, make sure you didn't get hurt after he was gone or something. But that's not what father meant at all, was it?
Alura: Kara, I—
Kara: He wasn't warning me to look out for you... He was warning me about you.
Alura: Don't you dare judge me, Kara. Reactron is a prisoner of the state, and he has information necessary for the protection of our people—
Kara: "Our people"? Have you lost your freaking mind? You've been torturing someone down here, mom! Someone you sent me to Earth to bring back to New Krypton. That makes me responsible for him. Just as it makes me complicit in a war crime.
Alura: If I have to go to extreme measures to get information out of him— information that will keep our planet safe— it's worth it.
Kara: That's how you justify this? You think the safety of New Krypton is so important we have to beat information out of someone—
Alura: How naive can you be, Kara? Or have you forgotten that this... monster... murdered your father in our streets—
Kara: I know he did, mom. I was there. Dad died saving my life. In fact, where were you when he died?

     Fan Works 
"You made him watch, you bitch! He has nightmares about losing you to this day that I have to hold him through, and when he finally finds you're still 'alive' in here, you tell him you were part of a plot to kill the whole world?! How could you do that to him?! He's one of the sweetest, most self-sacrificing people I've ever known, despite what you all did to him! He deserved to have a mother as good as him love him, not... you."
Asuka, Advice and Trust

Karin: You are no longer my daughter.
Louise: You were never my mother.
An Acolyte of Zero, chapter 19

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 Children 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 Children, 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.
The Child of Love 2, chapter 7

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 shit 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 shit 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?

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.

Sae Niijima: That's it. I'm you're not spending any more time with any of these people [Mia Fey and Ryuji Sakamoto]. I'm taking you straight home and you're focusing on only your studies!
Makoto Niijima: No, I'm not... I'm going to Ms. Fey's office to discuss the case.
Sae: Like hell you are! You're going home! Getting charged for assault would have ruined your chances for good colleges!
Makoto: I don't give a shit about that anymore! You've always put pressure on me to do good in school as if that's all I'm worth! Don't stand there and act like you care about me now!
Sae: How... how could you say that?
Makoto: Because you've changed. The reason I've been doing all of this was for your good.
Sae: How could you know what's best for me?! You're just a child!
Makoto: Stop saying that! You're trying to have an innocent person sent to jail. The only way to show you the error of your ways is to prove that Ren is innocent. You have to see the truth.
Mia Fey: Ace Attorney – The Fool's Turnabout, Chapter 6 "Investigation Day 3"

"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!"
Shinji, The One I Love Is..., chapter 11

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.

Lucas Visser/HyPN0se: NO! STOP IT! GET OUT OF MY MIND! I never wanted to do any of this! I never wanted to be a killing machine! I never wanted to disbelieve in hypnosis! And yet you... you sorry excuse for a mother... you made me do it! I’m not the true evil hypnotist, Mother! You are!
Lucas/HyPN0se’s Mother: Jij onbeschaande jongen! Spreek niet zo tegen mij! Ik ben je Moeder! Ik heb nooit verkeerd! note 
Lucas Visser/HyPN0se: No, you claim you’re never wrong. But you’ve been wrong in so many ways. You abused me, forbade me from doing the things I loved, forbade me from having friends... You made me pretend to be someone I’m not! So, you are wrong. And you’ve said a lot of things you’re going to regret. Maar, moeder... Ik denk dat we onze verschillen opzij kunnen schuiven. Voor de wetenschap. U gedrocht. note 
HyPN0se, Play the Game

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.

Nein...NEIN—! NEIN, NEIN, NEIN, NEIN, NEIN! Es tut mir leid, Mutter, aber diesmal bist du viel zu weit gegangen! Verstehst du nicht? Ja, ich habe 5 4s auf meiner Zeugniskarte, aber ich habe mein Bestes gegeben! Ich habe seit Jahren mein Bestes gegeben, aber Sie beschimpfen einfach für jede schlechte Note, die ich bekomme! Es ist nicht fair! Keiner von uns hält das für fair! Du bist meine Mutter! Solltest du mir nicht helfen, wenn ich das Material nicht verstehe?! note 
HP, giving her strict mother a well-deserved one of these- in German- in a moment of O.O.C. Is Serious Business; from the semi-autobiographical Slice of Life “linguistic travel” series SOSchip

Shadow Weaver: I raised you better than this, Catra!
Catra: You didn't fucking raise me at all! You hurt me, you put me down, you made damn sure I knew Adora was the favourite. You treated me like shit, like an inconvenience. You did everything you could to try to break me. And you know what? Every second of your life you put into trying to make me give up was a fucking waste of time. I'm still here, bitch.

Adora: You think you can just break into Bright Moon and I'll let you steal whatever power you want?
Shadow Weaver: Not at all. And I'm so proud that you won't, it speaks to how much you have matured.
Adora: Oh, you wanna talk about being mature? Because I've been told that my whole fucking life. I matured the first time I had to comfort Catra after you hurt her. I matured the first time I pretended not to be hurt in training so you wouldn't think I was a failure. I matured every. Single. Fucking. Time that I had to be the responsible adult when I was a kid. So shove the 'you're so mature' comments up your asshole and tell me why you're really here.

Akane: I am so sick and tired of this! Ever since I became an idol and started to gain popularity, you've stopped caring about me! All you ever think about is how to promote me! Is that really all I am to you?! Some idol that exists just to make you look good?!
Akane's mother: Akane, I...
Akane: I love singing, but that's not the only thing about me! I like reading! I like hanging out with my friends! Heck, I've even come to love VR gaming! There's more to me than just Akimi!
Akane's mother: Akane dear, I'm just trying to help you further your career. I'm your manager, after all.
Akane: Not anymore.
Akane's mother: What?
Akane: I'm firing you as my manager. This whole idol business has turned you into a different person! I don't want you to be my manager if it means you stop being my mother! I want my mom back!

"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!"

"Shut up! You don't even like Asuka! You wouldn't tell me anything about what was happening or how she was doing! You don't care about anything I ever told you about her. You just wanted me there for yourself. You never cared about her and you never cared about me. So just leave me the Hell alone!"

Gabriel: You ungrateful, selfish wretch!
Adrien: I'm selfish?! This from the man who was willing to cause the literal end of the world to get what he wanted? Who's taken advantage of emotionally compromised people to turn them into insane superpowered villains that have destroyed this city more times than you can count and launched a freaking nuclear missile in an attempt to force our surrender? I hardly think you are in any position to call anyone selfish right now!
Gabriel: Your mother literally gave her life to create you!
Adrien: I know! I know, I've seen the videos that she left and the letters she wrote. She knew the risks, the potential consequences and what her eventual fate would be and she accepted it. You didn't. No, you refused to respect her last wishes that you stop chasing the Miraculous and focus on family and instead abused the powers of the Butterfly Miraculous, powers you had no right to, to get your way!
Gabriel: Who deserves what is irrelevant! I took what was owed, what I earned, and I used it for a righteous—
Adrien: YOU EARNED NOTHING! Don't you dare try and pretend that you were anything but a villain in this narrative! And you didn't earn your powers, you just stumbled across them! You weren't forced into villainy, you chose it! You chose to misuse Nooroo's Miraculous to hurt people, to spread fear and terror where there should have been courage and hope!
Gabriel: Your mother was gone, Adrien! I was desperate to get her back, to do anything to get her back!
Adrien: Exactly! You were desperate, you were willing to do anything! Because it's always about YOU! All the stuff you made me do — Chinese and Japanese lessons, fencing, piano, the modelling, it was stuff I grew to like but ultimately it was about you, so I could make you look good by having this marvelously talented son! All the behavioral conditioning so I wouldn't make you look bad, or tarnish the image of the brand with your name! Even using the Butterfly Miraculous — one that's explicitly for empowering others — was about you in the end!
Gabriel: I had to use it that way! It was the only way to lure out the heroes who wielded the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses!
Adrien: And once you had done that, why did you not think of some other method to get our attention? You didn't need to keep attacking the city and hurting innocent people, you could have just approached us, explained your problem and asked for our help. Did you never consider that?
Gabriel: There…… there was no other way to bring your mother back—
Adrien: No, you never considered any other method is what you mean! Of course you would never think to ask; you never ask for anything, you just issue demands and expect everyone else to go along with them. The fact that Ladybug and I refused to kowtow to you is probably what spurred you on to ramping up the akuma attacks for daring to reject your commands. Even your plan involved literally forcing the universe to destroy and recreate itself around your whims.
Gabriel: I wasn’t aware of that particular cost when I started this!
Adrien: But you didn't stop even after learning about it! Did you also know that in order for Mother to be brought back from her coma, someone else would have to take her place? Some poor, completely innocent person would lose their life in exchange?
Gabriel: I…… I did know. But I deemed it a sufficient cost to restore your mother to us.
Adrien: You disgust me. You don't care, then, about what innocent person gets their life destroyed, their family left with a gaping hole in it from the loss of a loved one. Their suffering is perfectly acceptable, so long as you get what you want in the end? (beat) Well, it hasn't gone that way at all, has it? Rather than gain back what you lost, you've lost everything that you still had. Your precious fashion brand, your wealth, your status, your reputation……… and me.

     Film — Animated 
Abby: We are under attack! Will you two stop messing around and deal with the problem? -
Chicken Little (Panting, then shouting): You're never there for me!
Buck Cluck: What?
Abby: OK, that's not what I had in mind, but...
Chicken Little: You're never there for me. I mean, you were when I won the game, but not when I thought the sky fell. And not at the ball field and certainly not now! -
Abby: This is good! Keep going, keep going!
Chicken Little: You've been ashamed of me ever since the acorn thing. And we have to talk about it because Modern Mallard says avoiding closure can lead to molting. I'm already small and I don't think I could handle being bald!

Frollo: Now - now - l-listen to me, Quasimodo -
Quasimodo: No, YOU listen! All my life you've told me the world is a dark, cruel place! But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!

Tai Lung: I rotted in jail for twenty years because of your weakness!
Shifu: Obeying your master is not weakness!
Tai Lung: You knew I was the Dragon Warrior! You always knew. But, when Oogway said otherwise, what did you do? What did you do?! Nothing!
Shifu: You were never meant to be the Dragon Warrior! That was not my fault!
Tai Lung: Not your fault? Who filled my head with dreams? Who drove me to train until my bones cracked? Who denied me my destiny?!
[...]
Tai Lung: All I ever did, I did to make you proud! Tell me how proud you are, Shifu! Tell me! TELL ME!

Kiara: Father, please reconsider!
Simba: You will not go anywhere without an escort from now on.
Kiara: No! That's not —
Simba: He used you to get to me!
Kiara: No! He loves me, for me!
Simba: Because you are my daughter! You will not leave Pride Rock. You will stay where I can keep an eye on you...away from ''him''.
Kiara: You don't know him!
Simba: I know he's following in Scar's pawprints, and I must follow in my father's.
Kiara: You will never be Mufasa!

Rapunzel: I've spent my entire life, hiding from people who would use me for my power...
Gothel: Rapunzel!
Rapunzel:...when I should have hiding...from you!
Gothel: Where will you go? He won't be there for you.
Rapunzel: What did you do to him?
Gothel: That criminal is to be hanged for his crimes. Now, now, dear. It's alright. Everything is as it should be... (starts to pat her head)
Rapunzel: (grabbing her wrist) No! You were wrong about the world, and you were wrong about me! And I will never let you use my hair again!

Topps: Cera, I'm your father. I want what's best for you.
Cera: No, you don't! You just don't want me to have any fun! (runs off in anger)
Topps: Cera, please! I'm just trying to... As a parent, I... Ohhh!

"That is NOT what magic does! That's just your fear! Fear is what can't be trusted!"
Elsa to a statue of her late grandfather Runeard, Frozen II

Mirabel: I will never be good enough for you, will I? No matter how hard I try... (looks at her family) no matter how hard any of us try. Luisa will never be strong enough. Isabela won't be perfect enough. Bruno left our family because you only saw the worst in him!
Alma: Bruno didn't even care about this family!
Mirabel: He loves this family. I love this family. We all love this family! You're the one that doesn't care! You're the one who's breaking our home!
Alma: Don't you EVER...!
Mirabel: The miracle is dying... because of you!

Mei: I'm not your little "Mei-Mei" anymore! I lied, Mom!
Ming: What?!
Mei: It was my idea to hustle the panda! My idea to go to Tyler's party! It was ALL ME!!! I like boys! I like loud music! I like gyrating! I'M THIRTEEN! DEAL WITH IT!!!!

Harold: So, I suppose any grandchildren I can expect from you will be...
Shrek: Ogres. Yes.
Lillian: Not that there's anything wrong with that! Right, Harold?
Harold: Oh, no! No, of course not. That is assuming you don't eat your own young!
Fiona: Dad!
Shrek: Oh, no! We usually prefer the ones who've been locked away in a tower!
Fiona: Shrek, please!
Harold: I only did that because I love her!
Shrek: Oh, aye! Daycare or dragon-guarded castle?
Harold: You wouldn't understand! You're not her father!

     Film — Live-Action 
"You know, it all makes sense now, why you favored Thor all these years. Because no matter how much you claim to love me, you could never have a Frost Giant sitting on the throne of Asgard!"
Loki to Odin, Thor

Yondu: When I picked you up, these boys wanted to eat you! They ain’t never tasted Terran before! I saved your life!
Quill: Oh, will you shut up about that?! God! Twenty years you’ve been throwing that in my face! Like it’s some great thing, “not eating me”! Normal people don’t even THINK about eating someone else! Much less, that person having to be grateful for it!

T'Challa: You were wrong to abandon [Erik].
T'Chaka: I chose my people. I chose Wakanda. Our future depended...
T'Challa: You were wrong! ALL OF YOU WERE WRONG! To turn your backs on the rest of the world! We let the fear of discovery stop us from doing what is right! No more! I cannot stay here with you. I cannot rest while he sits on the throne. He is a monster of our own making. I must take back the mantle! I must right this wrong.

Boromir: You give him [Faramir] no credit, and yet he tries to do your will! He loves you, Father.
Ruth DeWitt Bukater: Will the lifeboats be seated according to class? I hope they're not too crowded.
Rose: ...oh Mother, SHUT UP! Don't you understand?! The water is freezing, and there aren't enough boats! Not enough by half! Half the people on the ship are going to die!

Helen Boucher: You gonna lose all your fancy foosball game, and you're gonna fail your big exam, because school is...
Bobby: The devil?! EVERYTHING IS THE DEVIL TO YOU, MAMA! Well, I like school! And I like football! And I'm going to keep doing them both because they make me feel good! And by the way, Mama, alligators are ornery because of the medulla oblongata! And I like Vicky and she likes me back! And she showed me her boobies and I like them too!

Ingrid: I could have left you there but I didn't. Don't you understand, for once I did the right thing! When I came back you knew me. You were sitting by the door and you looked up and you reached for me. It was as if you'd been waiting for me all along.
Astrid: I was always waiting for you, Mother, that's the constant in my life; waiting for you! Will you come back, will you forget that you tied me up in front of a store or left me on a bus?
Ingrid: Are you still waiting?
Astrid: No. I stopped when Claire showed me what it felt like to be loved. What did you think? That I would amuse you? That's what babies are like, Mother! What, did you think we'd exchange thoughts on Joseph Brodsky?
Ingrid: I thought Klaus and I would live happily ever after, that's what I thought. Adam and Eve in a vine-covered shack, I must have been out of my mind.
Astrid: You were in love with him!
Ingrid: Yes I was in love with him, all right?! I was in love with him and 'baby makes three' and all that crap!
Astrid: Then why did you leave him? Why did you leave him!?
Ingrid: I didn't leave him, he left me! You want to know about your father? He left us when you were six months old for another woman, and I never saw him again until he showed up looking for you when you were eight years old.
Astrid: He came to see me?
Ingrid: Yes he came to see you but it was a little late, wasn't it? Why should I let him see you after what he did to me?
Astrid: Because it wasn't about you! It was about me and I wanted to see him!! My whole life I've wanted to see him! That decision was mine, not yours! Everything's always been about you, never about me! ...I knew you were gonna kill Barry but you didn't even care. You didn't give a damn about what that would do to me.

William: Christ can unwitch us if you will but speak the truth to me. As I love thee, speak truth!
Thomasin: You ask me to speak truth?
William: I beg thee!
Thomasin: You and Mother are planned to rid the farm of me. Aye. I heard you speak of it. Is that truth? You took of Mother's cup and let her rail at me. You confessed not till it was too late. Is that truth?
William: Peace thee.
Thomasin: I will not.
William: I am thy father!
Thomasin: You are a hypocrite!
William: Hold thy tongue, daughter mine!
Thomasin: You took Caleb to The Wood and let me take the blame of that, too. Is that truth? You let Mother be as thy master! You cannot bring the crops to yield! You cannot hunt! Is that truth enough?
William: Enough!
Thomasin: Thou canst do nothing save cut wood!
William: Bitch!
Thomasin: And you will not hear me!

Homer Hickam: Listen, I'm sorry about what's going on around here, but it isn't my fault! What do you want from me, anyway?!
John Hickam: You better watch yourself, Homer.
Homer Hickam: If I go on to win at Indianapolis, maybe I can go to college! Maybe even get a job at Cape Canaveral! There's nothing here for me! The town is dying! The mine is dying! EVERYBODY knows that here but you!
John Hickam: You want to get outta here so bad, then go! GO!
Homer Hickam: Yeah, I'll go! YEAH, I'LL GO!
John Hickam: GO! GO!
Homer Hickam: And I'll be gone forever! I won't even look back!

"Great. The good ol' "Raped While Dying" route home. Cause if there was two seconds in a day when I didn't think about her, and wasn't thinking about how she died... "There ya go, Robbie. Think about it some more, why don’t ya?" It’s good, too. That as much as a person might've tried to avoid the details of what happened— cause he didn’t think it'd do any good, and he didn't think he could bear it— it’s also good to be informed, in twenty-foot-high lettering and a real nice font, the precise details of her last moments, y’know? That it wasn’t enough that she was RAPED. And it wasn’t enough that she DIED. No. "Raped WHILE Dying". Thank you, Mom."

Coach Riley: You got something to say to me, Bombay?
Gordon Bombay: To think I wasted all those years, worrying about what you thought. You're going down, Riley.

"You spilled an ocean of blood. You showed no mercy, no pity. We too are children of this age... weaned on strife and chaos. We are your sons, yet you count on our fidelity. In my eyes, that makes you a fool. A senile old fool!"
Saburo Naotara Ichimonji, Ran

Shilo Wallace: Didn't you say that you were different? Didn't you?
Nathan Wallace: I am. I am.
Shilo: Say you aren't that person. Say it.
Nathan: I am. I am.
Shilo: Then tell me how to act, Dad. What to say, Dad. Tell me why all you've ever told every word is a lie! Didn't you say that you'd protect me, didn't you?
Nathan: I tried. I tried.
Shilo: Is this how you'd help me? Is it?
Nathan: I tried! I tried!
Shilo: Don't help me anymore, Dad! You are dead, Dad, in my eyes! Someone has replaced you, Dad, I hate you! Go and die!

"Dad, you only care about yourself. That's why Mommy left."
Soo-an, Train to Busan

Fiona: All right. Well, I'm going off to get some more lipo. Come on, girls. Sam, we need you to clean the pool tonight.
Sam: No!
Fiona: Excuse me?
Sam: You heard me. I quit. I quit this job, I quit your family, and I'm moving out!
Fiona: Oh, and, um, where are you gonna live?
Rhonda: With me.
Fiona: You can't just walk out on me.
Sam: You know what, Fiona? You can mess with your hair and your nose and your face, and can even mess with my Dad's diner, but you're through messing with me!

"She was gone, and we needed you! But you chose those damn Rings over us! You trained your son to be a killer! Is this what you wanted?! Even if you could bring her back, what makes you think she'd want anything to do with you?"
Xu Shang-Chi to Xu Wenwu, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Henry Jones, Sr.: Did I ever tell you to eat up, go to bed, wash your ears, or do your homework? No. I respected your privacy, and I taught you self-reliance.
Indiana Jones: What you taught me is that I was less important to you than people who've been dead for 500 years in another country. And I learned it so well, that we've hardly spoken for 20 years.

"Because I am NOT one of your FANS!"
Christina Crawford to Joan Crawford, Mommie Dearest

Frank: This is ridiculous!
Danny: No it's not, Dad! It's very unridiculous. It's only now I'm starting to realise how unridiculous it all is!
Frank: SILENCE, DANNY! Think of your mother!
Danny: Mum is dead, Dad! For the first time in my life... You know, I'm glad! If she could see what you've become... I think she'd probably... kill herself all over again!

     Literature 
"I'm sorry I can't make you proud of me. But I haven't finished yet. I'll do everything I can to make you glad I'm your son. You'll never make me ashamed of who I am or what I look like."
Crookedstar to Rainflower, Warrior Cats: Crookedstar's Promise

"And if there's one thing we can agree on, it's that you were a TERRIBLE father."
Hades to Kronos, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian

Oh Jesus. You have no idea how hard I pray not to turn out like you two. My every nightmare, every one, is about turning into a complacent failure like you both. You don't even remember the dreams you threw away to sink into this hole.
Laurence to his underachieving parents, All the Birds in the Sky

There was a time when I wanted to know you. I wrote you a letter once, telling you about the horrors I'd seen, the sins I'd committed, the pain I was in. I needed a stranger who cared, someone who was obliged by the bond of blood between us to understand but not judge. I thought perhaps you could still be my father. You replied as one soldier to another, but I realize now I've never really been a son to you. An heir, perhaps, a bastard heir, a sign of shame, a reminder of your failings, a retribution in human form, but never really a son. I don't think you've ever had it in you to be what a father should.

     Live-Action TV 
"I'm sorry, Dad. I never would have tried to save River's life if I knew there was a dinner party at stake!"
Simon Tam, Firefly

Phil: You know, Will was doing just fine till you showed up. But now that you're back, you have responsibilities to him.
Lou: Hey look, we're still gonna take the trip.
Phil: Oh, bull! Bull! Will is not a coat that you hang in the closet, then pick it up when you're ready to wear it. His life goes on. He's not supposed to be here for you, you're supposed to be here for him!
Lou: Will you get off my back!? You think I want this!? It just happened! Now, when Will was a baby, I was scared-
Phil: Cut the crap, alright!? Cut it! Because I've been there! But I didn't run out on my family. I was there every day for them, because that's what a man does.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, "Papa's Got a Brand New Excuse"

George: Why did you leave?
Manny: Look, the past is the past. What's important is I can help you now.
George: I don't need your help now. I needed a father. I mean, how could you leave a family? You had a responsibility.
Manny: I wasn't getting along with your mom. It wasn't much of a life. But things have turned out for the best; you came out okay! And look how well I've done for myself!
George: You think you're a success? Look, I don't care how many checks you write or how big your company is. You're a failure. And you can't buy me.
Manny: Hey, you know what - you got this cockiness from me -
George: Man, I didn't get anything from you but a letter full of excuses. Even without a father, I'm more of a man than you'll ever be!
Manny: Alright, that's enough!
George: You left a woman sitting in her living room with a kid and no way to make ends meet! YOU TURNED YOUR BACK ON US!
Manny: Are you done?!
George: No, I'm not done!
Manny: The only mistake I made was leaving you with the crazy CABRONA!
George: [punches Manny in the face] That's for my mother! [pause] Now I'm done.
The George Lopez Show, "Long Time, No See"

Jerome: Barney, what is going on?
Barney: This [the basketball hoop] is mine.
Jerome: I don't understand—
Barney: J.J. gets a childhood, a dad, a real family, AND a basketball hoop? No, no, I at least get the hoop, I'm taking it with me.
Jerome: Please, just come down and talk to me.
Barney: Why? Why should I? You're lame, okay? You're just some lame suburban dad.
Jerome: Why does that make you so mad?
Barney: Because if you were gonna be some lame suburban dad, why couldn't you have been that for me?

Lori: Ash is adorable, it's just... I have chronic wanderlust. I mean, classic Sagittarius, am I right?
Sophie: Mom. All those times we had to pick up our lives and start over, was it the guys or was it you?
Lori: It was me not settling. I won't be made to feel bad for wanting fireworks.
Sophie: Fireworks? We had to move thirteen times. I never had any real friends, I never had a place to call home. I don't have any childhood photos because every time we moved, we packed lighter and lighter.
Lori: [...] I haven't done a lot of things right with my life, Sophie. But I look at that photo and I see the best thing I ever did. I see you. Do you think maybe we could go someplace quiet, have a glass of wine and talk about this Ash stuff?
Sophie: No. We can't.
Lori: ...Oh.
Sophie: I love you, Mom. But I have plans of my own tonight.

"[I'm a] really cool person. And you know, you had twenty-nine years to find that out, but you didn't even try! You know what? You walked out on me, I'm just gonna do the same to you."
Phoebe to her birth mother, Friends

Mike: (About Nathan's half-brother) It's complicated.
Nathan: Try me.
Mike: I didn't see the point in telling you about him; it would have just upset your mother.
Nathan: Oh, more than you cheating on her, or walking out on us, and generally being a complete twat? And you never even tried to contact him? Brilliant. Yeah, first-class parenting there, dad, well done!
Mike: I thought about seeing him. The longer it went on, it just... got harder.
Nathan: And you wonder why he hit you in the head with a toaster and put you in the boot of his car?
Mike: He just turned up out of the blue! I didn't know what to say to him.
Nathan: Even for you, that is just unbelievably shit.
Mike: Like you never got anything wrong? We're not so different, you know.
Nathan: We are completely different! I'm gracefully tall, you're freakishly short!
Mike: Where do you get this stuff?
Nathan: I dunno, it just comes to me, I have a gift. So, what're you gonna do about him?
Mike: What am I supposed to do?
Nathan: You're supposed to be a dad to him!
Mike: Well, I don't even know him.
Nathan: Yeah, what's your excuse with me?
Mike: (Through gritted teeth) Everytime I try to work things out with you, you just throw it back in my face!
Nathan: (Voice beginning to crack) Don't change the subject now! We're talking about your other son!
Mike: The little shit should be grateful I am not pressing charges!
Nathan: You know what? He's better off not knowing you! I wish, I wish I was him!
(Mike gets to his feet, thinks for a moment, and then leaves)
Nathan: Where're you going? That's right Dad, walk away with your tiny little legs, you fuckin' midget!

Richard Bashir: We have a serious problem here. We have to stop the whining and concentrate on coming up with a new plan.
Julian Bashir: A new plan. Yes! Let's come up with a new plan! That's the way we do things in this family, isn't it? We don't face our problems, we come up with new plans! Don't like your job? Well, move along to the next one! Don't like the law? Well, find a way to get around it - but whatever you do, do not accept responsibility!
Richard Bashir: All those gifts, all those accomplishments, and you still want to behave like a spoiled child. Well, you'd better grow up right now, or you're gonna lose everything!
Julian Bashir: You mean you're going to lose everything. You're going to lose your only real accomplishment in this life: me. You said before: I'm your legacy, your proud gift to the world. Well, Father, your gift is about to be revealed as a fraud. Just like you.
Julian Bashir: (bitterly) No. You used to be my father. Now... you're my architect : the man who designed a better son to replace the defective one he was given. Well, your design has a built-in flaw: it's illegal.
Richard Bashir: You're so smart, you know so much, you can sit there and judge us...but you're still not smart enough to see that we saved you from a life of remedial education and underachievement!
Julian Bashir: You didn't know that. You never gave me a chance.
Richard Bashir: You were falling behind.
Julian Bashir: I was six years old. You decided I was a failure in the first grade.
Richard Bashir: You don't understand, Jules, you never did!
Julian Bashir: No, you don't understand! I stopped calling myself "Jules" when I was fifteen and I found out what you'd done to me, I'M "JULIAN"!
Richard Bashir: What difference does that make?!
Julian Bashir: It makes EVERY difference, because I'M DIFFERENT, CAN'T YOU SEE?! "Jules Bashir" died in that hospital, because YOU COULDN'T LIVE WITH THE SHAME OF A SON WHO DIDN'T MEASURE UP!

Worf: Alexander, I don't want to hurt you. I want to help you.
Alexander: By getting rid of me?! All you've ever done my whole life is send me away!
Worf: I am a Klingon warrior, I lead a warrior's life! This is not the path for you! You told me this yourself, and I have come to accept it.
Alexander: You call yourself my father, but you haven't tried to see me or talk to me in five years. I wasn't the kind of son you wanted, so you pretended you had no son. You never accepted me. You abandoned me.

"I've been making excuses for you my whole life, but you're a pretty crappy father. And until you're ready to be a good one...don't call me."
Det. Jake Peralta, Brooklyn Nine-Nine

John Witter: You'll have to excuse my son, boys. His girlfriend moves away and all of a sudden it's his time of the month.
Pacey: Screw you, okay? [Mr. Witter grabs his arm and Pacey quickly removes it]
Pacey: Get your hands off me! You don't touch me again! Ever!
John Witter: Finally, my boy gets a pair and all it took was getting his heart broke by some girl with a few screws loose.
Pacey: [Pacey punches him] Andie did more for my life in six months than you did in 16 years, you rotten son of a bitch! So if you want to make fun of me, if you want to bust on me, that's fine. But if you so much as make one more even slightly disparaging comment about the woman I love, and i swear to god you're going to policing this town from a hospital bed, you understand me? And one more thing, even if Mr. Potter was involved in all this, he's still 10 times the father you ever were!

Fiona: You don't get to abandon your kids and then show up one day to take your pick of the litter!
Frank: Oh, now that's not fair. Your mother's made mistakes, but she's here now. That's got to count for something-
Fiona: Shut up, Frank! This isn't about you! [turns to Monica] This is about you. This is about what you didn't do. It's about what I did. And you know what? I did a fucking great job. Debbie is class president. She's on the debate team, going to nationals. And Lip, he's top of his class. He set the curve. Ian was promoted in ROTC and he tested out of English. And Carl made something blow up for his science fair. And you know what, they did it all, no thanks to you! Because you! Weren't! Here!
Monica: And I appreciate that, Fiona. But I'm here now. And Liam belongs with me.
Fiona: He doesn't even know who you are!
Monica: I'm his mother!
Fiona: You were my mother, too!

Jeff: All due respect, sir, I have zero respect for you.
Cornelius: Typical Welsh nonsense.
Pierce: But Father, I-
Jeff: Pierce, you really wanna be like this guy? He's wearing elephant bones on his head.
Cornelius: He will be what I tell him to be because I am his father!
Jeff: Listen up, Colonel Crypt-Keeper. I could live a million years and I could spend every minute of it doing important things. But at the end of it all, I would have only lived half a life if I had not raised a son. This was a gift that was handed to you. You squandered it. And the reason you have so much hatred in your heart is because you're trying to fill a hole where your kid was supposed to go. And now it's too late. Now you're just stomping around trying to prove you exist. Well, mission accomplished. But here's a question I'd like to pass on to you from every son of every crap dad that ever lived. So what? I'm done with you. He's done with you. The world is done with you.
Community, "Advanced Gay"

Thea: How could you make me kill a friend?
Malcolm: He should not have told you that.
Thea: I trusted you. I let you into my life. How could you have done this to me?
Malcolm: Because you are my daughter, Thea, and I care about you.
Thea: Oh, God, that's sick. And not even remotely true!
Malcolm: You do not understand the danger we face from Ra's al Ghul!
Thea: Just stop! Stop using him as an excuse. The only person that I'm afraid of right now is you.
Malcolm: Please, do not do this—
Thea: Oh, just stop. I will work with you to stop Ra’s. Because that's what my brother says we need to do. So I will be your student. I'll be your partner. Even if I have to, I will be your soldier. But never again will I be your daughter.
Arrow, "The Return"

Brooke: Someone died last week. And I wasn't close to him, but my friends were, and yet, in the midst of all their grief, I felt nothing. I just felt cold. And I realized I'm turning into the one person I do not want to become. I'm turning into you.
Victoria: What do you want me to say, Brooke? That I was a failure as a mother? You got everything you wanted.
Brooke: Except your love.
One Tree Hill, "Bridge Over Troubled Water"

     Music 
Because of you, I never stray too far from the sidewalk
Because of you, I learned to play on the safe side so I don't get hurt
Because of you, I find it hard to trust not only me, but everyone around me
Because of you... I am afraid
— "Because Of You", Kelly Clarkson

I tried your four bill therapy
I tried to make amends
But nothing could lure you out of your
Selfish shell again.
Expecting everyone
To bow and kiss your feet
Don't you see respect is not a one-way street?
Blaming everyone
For all that you've done wrong
I'll get my peace of mind when you hear this song.
— "Honor Thy Father", Dream Theater

We grew up scared, bruised and battered
Youth torn and tattered
As long as you were sky high nothing fucking mattered!
Hotel homes in the Cross under the bridge and lost
With your heads in the clouds above
YOU CALL THIS LOVE?!
— "Bloodline", Northlane

     Theatre 
Mr. Heere: Look, if you're not gonna take this seriously—
Jeremy: And why should I?
Mr. Heere: Excuse me?
Jeremy: I'm supposed to believe you care? Look in the mirror! Ever since Mom left, you sit around like you’re waiting for her to come back! If she did, you know what she'd find? A loser who's so afraid to have a life, he can’t even put pants on!
(Beat)
Mr: Heere: I could ground you.
Jeremy: I don't think you could.

Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague! See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! And I, for winking at your discords too, have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished. ALL ARE PUNISHED!!!
Prince Escalus, Romeo and Juliet

     Video Games 
Achilles Davenport: Don't do this, Connor!
Connor: Then what would you propose we do? Sit and watch while the Templars take control? We are sworn to stop them, or have you forgotten?
Achilles: Assassins are meant to be quiet, precise. We do not go announcing conspiracies from the rooftops to all who pass by!
Connor: Who are you to lecture anyone? You locked yourself away in this crumbling heap and gave up on the Brotherhood entirely! Since the day I arrived, you've done nothing but discourage me, and on the rare occasions you've chosen to help, you've done so little you may as well have done nothing at all!
Achilles: How dare you!
Connor: Then tell me - on whose watch did the Brotherhood falter? Whose inaction allowed the Templar Order to grow so large that it now controls an entire nation?
Achilles: If I sought to dissuade you, it was because you knew nothing. If I was reluctant to contribute, it was because you were naive! A thousand times you would have died, and taken God knows how many with you! Let me tell you something, Connor: life is not a fairytale, and there are no happy endings!
Connor: No. Not when men like you are left in charge.
Achilles: In your haste to save the world, boy...take care you don't destroy it.

"Dad...I have to tell you something. You're an asshole."
Angel, to Handsome Jack, Borderlands 2

Alighiero: Go on, use me as an excuse! Blame me for everything!
Dante: You're so full of greed and hate. Is that all you had to offer me?
Alighiero: I'm not responsible for the man you are!
Dante: And I will not be damned like you!

Lord Harkon: You disappoint me, Serana. You've taken everything I have provided for you and thrown it all away for this... pathetic being.
Serana: "Provided for me"? Are you insane? You've destroyed our family. You've killed other vampires. All over some prophecy that we barely understand. No more. I'm done with you. You will not touch him/her.

Joseph Seed: Ethan. What have you done?
Ethan Seed: I did what I had to do. I freed myself, I freed us all, from you. From your rules. (reaches up to grab the apple of Eden)
Joseph: Ethan, don't.
Ethan: (glares at his father and pulls the apple down) I will have what you denied me. You gave it to an OUTSIDER! But you wouldn't give it to me! I am your flesh and blood!
Joseph: That was God's will.
Ethan: You don't KNOW God's will!
Joseph: I was trying to protect YOU, son!

My dear aunt, don't do anything to the house I half own. Don't put no classes there, don't do no pelvic floor exercises there, don't do nothing. And don't say nothing disrespectful about my mother. She only ever did one bad thing in her life, and that was giving you a home. Good luck with that pelvic floor. People always did say you were real big down there on account of the number of guys tried you out when you was younger and kept running me off. Stay well and away from me.
Franklin Clinton, Grand Theft Auto V

"What was that moment? I want to know that there was an actual reason! (...) That's it? You created a harem and played king? Ten years in a juvenile fantasy! [to Shepard] What happened here, I should vent his head! But he's not worth the pull of a trigger. [to Ronald] I don't know who you are. Because you're not any father I remember."
Jacob Taylor, to his father Ronald Taylor, Mass Effect 2

Silver: You told me… you were the number one in the world! Are you gonna quit? What are you going to do now?
Giovanni: .................. One must acknowledge one's defeat before he can move on... I will go solo...for now... So that one day I will form a stronger organization!
Silver: What aspect of you was number one? Gathering so many only to be defeated by a mere child!
Giovanni: Putting together the potential of many is how you produce a huge power... That's what an organization is... That's the strength of an organization! I failed...to make the best use of my subordinates' potential...! But you shall witness one day the revival of me and my Team Rocket!
Silver: I don't understand you! You don't make any sense!
Giovanni: .................. One day, you will understand.
(He leaves.)
Silver: I don't want to understand you! I will never become someone like you. A coward when you're alone and acting like a tyrant when you're in front of other cowards! I will become strong! I will become a stronger man all by myself! All by myself!

I am the one who is sick of you, Mother! Children... Children are not just THINGS that belong to their parents! Pokémon are not just THINGS that a Trainer can do whatever they want to! I am alive! Cosmog is alive! We are not things for you to collect! We're not made for you to just discard when you get bored with us! That is terrible, Mother! You are terrible!
Lillie to Lusamine, Pokémon Sun and Moon

Ryoma: Shiro, you have disobeyed me for the last time. And you will show me respect—or I will show you how I deal with utter fools.
Shiro: How can you call me that!?
Ryoma: I didn't raise you to be this irresponsible.
Shiro: Dad, want a reality check? You didn't raise me at all.

Vergil: This has nothing to do with you. Stand down.
Nero: Nothing to do with me? It has EVERYTHING to do with me!
Vergil: Nero...
Nero (goes Devil Trigger): FUCK YOU!

Nero: Feeling accepting yet?
Vergil: Of what? Your strength, or your existence?
Nero: Both, you fuckin' asshole!

Hades: It should not have come to this. For all your antics with me and around the house, I always kept my temper, have I not? Unlike you.
Zagreus: Well, let's see. You've berated me repeatedly and often. You've lied to me. Mustered your wretched forces to kill me over and over. But sure, I'll grant you that you've always kept most of your anger bottled up.
Hades

"...I wanted you to treat me like I mattered. Like I wasn't some...piece of dog shit got stuck on your shoe."
B.J. Blazkowics to Rip Blazkowics, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Atreus: (in a comically deep voice) Boy, read this! Boy, what's that say? (normal voice) Only time you want to talk to me is when you need someth-
Atreus: I said the only time you care to talk to me is when you need me to translate for you!

Kitana: You helped Shao Kahn kill father?
Sindel: And traded a weak husband for a strong one.
Kitana: How could you, Mother?!

     Web Original 
Nyle: Oh you're not the one but that's the age you're acting
Middle child, in case you forgot, thought I'd save you from asking
Oh I'm lazy? Must be in the genes you passed me
Feels like Christmas to me how you had nothing good in your wrapping
Even with my grocery shoes on, you're the only trippin'
Got food and forgot about me,
Mom: Aye, that's family tradition!
Nyle: Listen to the last tear bender, always got something to tell
You pop off like you lounge on couches, can't get control-a yourself
I'm really done, second born? uh huh but put last every time
Crossed the line when you started giving cards with no cash inside
You see the signs, stress the whole house out without good reason why
Made Dad's hairline market McDonald's doing the toosie slide
If I clean up nobody notices it, I'm Nanny Phantom
Grandma'd never let me leave hungry, 's why I got Granny fandom
Your blame's more contagious than Covid, always catch it, why bother?
All my bros are really just quarters how they change for a dollar
...
Treated worse, they all got dessert all I got was deserted
Half the time you're more dead wrong than how your emojis are worded
Grades you hid from Grandma explains why you don't know Caring from Karen
Rule 1 of avoided whoopings: Mama's still got 'em some parents!"''
The Mom vs. Middle Child Rap Battle

     Web Animation 
"Stop mocking me! You never did anything but look down upon me for having my powers, powers that, YOU, yourself, also had! You NEVER defended me when Russ and the others tormented me for it! But now, my powers have been recognized by my NEW lord. And he has boosted me TENFOLD! Now that I am in full control, I shall have my vengeance and KILL you!"..."Well maybe if you had told us of the powers of Chaos before we were enlightened by it, maybe we wouldn't have turned against you like this! This is STILL all your fault, you damnable lich!"

Jacques: Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable. Do you have any idea what your stunt cost us?
Weiss: I—
Jacques: And don't think I'm just talking about Lien here! Our reputation! Our... our... [sighs angrily]
Weiss: I want to leave.
Jacques: I beg your pardon?
Weiss: I said I want to leave. I don't want to stay here anymore. I don't want to stay in Atlas anymore!
Jacques: Young lady, I don't give a damn about what you want! This isn't about you! This is about the Schnee family name, and your apparent insistence on dragging it through the mud!
Weiss: I have done nothing but fight to uphold the honor of my family name, a name that you married into!
RWBY

I'm not your pet
Not another thing you own
I was not born guilty of your crimes
Your riches and your influence
Can't hold me anymore
I won't be possessed
Burdened by your royal test
I will not surrender
This life is mine!
Weiss Schnee, "This Life is Mine", RWBY

Crimson: Whatcha lookin' so glum for, kid? It's your wedding day! Best day of your life!
Moxxie: I'm not doing it.
Crimson: What was that? I couldn't make it out over the sound of you being a whiny bitch. (Moxxie smacks his hands down on the table)
Moxxie: I said I'm not doing it, sir. I've spent my whole life being afraid of you, but I'm not giving up the only good thing I've ever had just so you can keep your fragile little sense of control over everything. Millie's a good woman, a better woman than I deserve. And there's nothing that scares me more than hurting her. Not even you. I'm leaving, Dad. And if you or Herpes the Clown over here-
Chaz: Hey!
Moxxie: -try to stop me, you'll learn firsthand just how good I've gotten at my job.

     Webcomics 

I realized something while I was dead. My entire life I've been obsessed with proving you wrong. Proving that I'm not garbage, that I can be the best in spite of all my recessive genes. But I've figured you out, old man. I know why you always told me I was worthless. Why you destroyed my self-confidence, made me think I had to do everything the hard way to earn any respect. I'm better than you, and you know it. If you hadn't turned me into such an insecure showoff, history would remember you only as Liquid Snake's father.
Liquid Snake to his father, Big Boss, The Last Days of FOXHOUND

Why didn't you tell me all this from the beginning? If I'd known what kind of scum you were fighting against, of course I would have helped you! Instead, you jerked me around my whole life, manipulating me just like they do! And you think you're better than them?
Liquid Snake to his Father, Big Boss, again, The Last Days Of FOXHOUND

Eugene: In short, I'm done with you. Go back up the mountain and cry to your mother, little boy.
Roy: (furious) You pathetic old— (cuts himself off, calms down) No, you know what? Fine. You do what you've got to do. I mean, normally, I would launch into a huge sarcastic rant, but obviously that isn't the way to solve my problems, or I wouldn't be dead at age 28.Roy's Archon  You're not worth the trouble. I'll find someone else to help me.
Eugene: Wait, so you're just going to take it?
Roy: Looks like.
Eugene: Don't you want to get a few shots in at me first?
Roy: Not really.
Eugene: Hey! Get back here, you moron!
Roy: No. Why should I? I'm not going to change who you are as a person by shouting a few insults at you, no matter how clever they may be. I used to think that I could: that if I could just deliver the perfect retort, it would open your eyes a little. But if everything you've been through with Mom and Eric and Grandpa and the literal forces of the cosmos hasn't made you want to be a better man, I doubt a one-liner from me is going to do the trick now. You are who you are, and every time I stoop to the level of engaging you with another angry tirade, I'm a little more like you and a little less like Mom. So, see you around, I guess.

Nale: I don't want your hand-outs!
Tarquin: You rather I stand aside and let Malack hunt you down?
Nale: Yes! Malack was my problem, not yours! And I solved it my own way, without your help!
Tarquin: That makes no— I swear, Nale, I don't even know what you want from me anymore.
Nale: NOTHING! I want NOTHING from you! I am my own man, not some cog in your latest oh-so-clever scheme! I don't want your nepotism or your charity or your pity! I want NOTHING!
Tarquin:...Is that really how you feel?
Nale: YES!
Tarquin: [sigh] As you wish, son. [kills him]

I thought you were being your usual out-of-touch self. "She's inconsiderate, but her heart's in the right place," I thought. "She's just trying to help, in her own misguided way." But this wasn't about helping me at all. It was just a means to an end for you. You exploited me, and duped an innocent person, because it was convenient. Because it gave you an advantage. You absolute pig. From now on you will not make any form of contact with me unless I initiate it. I don't know if you're capable of feeling shame, but you ought to.
Hannelore, Questionable Content

Lucrezia (aka the Other): Daughter! Wait! Let me stay! I can teach you!
Agatha: You've taught me plenty, mother- and I'm not very happy about that!

Dajun’s father: [Gives Dajun a Bitch Slap] Dajun, you little punk… You should’ve come back home! Where have you been! You embarrass me so much that I can’t go around the neighborhood! Don’t embarrass me anymore, and come back home! You worthless brat. Follow me. Let’s talk at home.
Dajun’s father: What did you just say?
Dajun: Should I be thankful? You never cared about meyou abandoned menow that I embarrass you, you want me to come back? Just leave me alone if you’re going to abandon me! DON’T ACT LIKE MY DAD NOW!

     Western Animation 
Marty: Hey, how about I get a new mode?
Finn: Are you seriously trying to bail out again?
Marty: What? His deal sounds pretty good.
Finn: Dad...
Marty: Uh-oh, I know that look.
Finn: When you fled the scene like a ding-dong ditcher in the night...
Marty: Listen, Finn. No answer I give you will be satisfying. Besides, it was like forty years ago.
Finn: I'm sixteen!
Marty: I don't have a star to revolve around to track time.
Finn: But why do you always run from everything?
Marty: You burn enough bridges, the only direction to move is forward.
Finn: Hmm. Well, there ain't no changing you, I guess.

Patrick: ...You've turned my daughter into a MONSTER!
Gumball: TRUCK! Of... prettiness?
Penny: [turns into dragon] Well, tell my father that this monster's going to live in the forest, with all the other beasts! [flies off]
Gumball: [glares at Patrick]
Patrick: What?
Gumball: [mocking voice] "Ooh, I wonder why my daughter is upset because I called her a freaky pig monster?" [jumps onto Patrick's car] Now with all due respect, I'm going to have to ask you to SHUT UP! Look at what you've done! Do you realize you were wrong?!
[Patrick nods]
Gumball: Good, but don't beat yourself up about it! Parenting is hard! Now pop the hood.

"Hey! When's the last time either of you were the American Dragon? Well, as the little troll girl currently filling the position, let me tell you it's stinkin' hard! I can't imagine doing it two more days let alone two more years. And to think about everything Jake's gone through; he's had to save magical creatures on a daily basis, lie to his own dad about who he is, say good-bye to the girl he loved, all to protect a mystical world that nobody knows about. He may be the American Dragon, but he is also a 14 year old kid who just wanted a couple days off. If that makes him immature, fine, but self-serving? With all due respect to both of you, STEP OFF!"

Fire Lord Ozai: GET OUT! Get out of my sight right now if you know what's good for you!
Prince Zuko: That's another thing. I'm not taking orders from you anymore.
Ozai: You will obey me, or this defiant breath will be your last! [steps towards Zuko]
Zuko: [draws swords] Think again! I am going to speak my mind... and you are going to listen.

Bill: Don't you wanna make a precious memory?
Cricket: Oh, I'm always gonna remember this day of... LIES! You wanna know what rhymes with "lies"?! TRAUMATIZED!! I've never been to a food court before! I've thought it was gonna be cool, and fun, and wild, but YOU TRIED TO TAKE THAT AWAY!!! WELL, NOT TODAY!!!!!
Big City Greens, "Photo Op"

"You know the shittiest thing about all of this? Is when that stranger behind the counter gave me that free churro, that small act of kindness showed more compassion than my mother gave me her entire goddamn life. Like, how hard is it to do something nice for a person? This woman at the Jack in the Box didn't even know me. I'm your son. All I had was you!"

"Naw, that's okay! Keep talkin'! Keep talkin', daddy! That's the eulogy this old woman deserves! Oh she did this ta you, and now you doing this ta me! You've been doin' it our whole lives! And it's gettin' old, it's gettin' REAL old, old man! So get it out yo system, and sit down, AND SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
Uncle Ruckus, The Boondocks, "The Color Ruckus"

Now that I'm a dad, I know what it means to be a bad dad. For instance, I've left a knife in my son for weeks now. It's still in there. That's crazy. I have regrets, but I'm still not as bad a parent as you guys.
Durpleton to his parents, Centaurworld

"Give me a break! What do you know about them? Nothing! You don't know me either actually! We haven't talked for a year!"
Ulrich to his father, Code Lyoko

Helen: All you have to do is just get off your tuchus and do it! When Quinn has a challenge—
Daria: Quinn? All her challenges involve coordinating her shoes with the color of her date's eyes.
Helen: Daria, what I mean is—
Daria: How can you talk to me about Quinn? She'll never have this kind of problem, it involves thinking. You make me tell you what's wrong in between calls and then you bring up Quinn? Don't you know me at all?

Saul: Ugh, I don't get it. We accepted you.
Barney: That is what parents are supposed to do. That's the bare minimum. What about that dinner?
(Roxie and Saul both look away nervously)
Roxie: What— what dinner?
Barney: You know what dinner. You just let Grammy-Gram say all that stuff to me right to my face.
Roxie: Oh, honeybuns. We all know Grammy-Grams is difficult. Does it matter what she says?
Barney: Uh, yeah! And what's worse, you didn't even stand up for me!
Roxie: Oh, she wouldn't understand.
Barney: You don't understand!
Dead End: Paranormal Park, "Norma Khan: Paranormal Detective"

"Hey! Let's something straight! I'm not bright! Big words confuse me! I have the attention span of a rodent! But Wanda loves me anyway. She makes me happy, AND THAT SHOULD BE ENOUGH FOR YOU!"
Cosmo to his mother, The Fairly OddParents!

"Now, wait a minute! I may not be perfect, but at least I love my kids enough not to spend every minute of the day workin'. I'm a damn good father and that's more than anyone can say about you!"
Peter Griffin, Family Guy

Sheryl: [impaled through the shoulder] Ugh, you little bastard!
Gary: Yep, it's me. It's the little bastard. And you're my mom. Let that sink in for a second. Have you got it? All right? Parent-teacher conferences? Baking cookies? Not crazed rampages on your boy!
Sheryl: You caught me on an off-day.
Gary: An "off-day"? I've never seen an on-day! I'm done being the excuse for all your mistakes! Things went the way they did with Dad because of you! You did that! And you're gonna have to live with it! [jumping] Yes! I've always wanted to say that. That is... gah! All right, let's, uh... [he looks back at Sheryl, who has tears in her eyes, and after a moment of consideration, starts tugging on the blade in her shoulder] Oh, that is in there...

Angela: You knew the whole time!?
Demona: I had to make you understand!
Angela: I understand perfectly! All this was a charade staged to turn me against my father! To trap and destroy my clan! You are capable of anything. I HATE you.

Omni-Man: I do love your mother, but she's more like a...a pet to me.
Mark: A pet?!
Omni-Man: This is the only way, Mark. (tries to reassuringly place a hand on Mark's shoulder)
Mark: (smacks Omni-Man's hand way) Don't touch me!
Omni-Man: Calm down-
Mark: I will not calm down! This is insane! What do you think is gonna happen, that I'm gonna go enslave my friends for a bunch of aliens I've never met?! This is MY LIFE! These are MY PEOPLE!
Omni-Man: We have a responsibility to Viltrum!
Mark: I don't give a SHIT about Viltrum! I don't care if I live a fucking million years! This is my home, and I won't let you destroy it!

"You want to die alone? Fine. You want to keep coming back and never die? That's fine too. In fact, I hope you go on living as the unhappy person you are in the hell you've created for yourself. I hope you live forever. I really do."
Peggy Hill, King of the Hill

Hank: Look, dad, I'm sorry about Fatty and your shins, but I'm not a kid anymore. Bobby is my boy and I won't let him grow up to be a woman-hating old fool. No wonder Mom left you. She was a strong lady, classy and smart like Peg. Maybe you couldn't handle that, but I can. My marriage is a partnership of equals. Peggy might do all the housework, but there are a lot of other things I'm supposed to do, but I'm not going to say what they are, because I'm a gentleman.
Cotton: Oh, I get it. She's making you say this. You're just her puppet.
Hank: No, dad, I'm saying all of this because I mean it. Now Didi's out in the car, I had her pack up, it's time for you to head home.
Hank to Cotton, King of the Hill

"You really are a horrible father."
Asami Sato, The Legend of Korra

Kevdak: Never pick a fight you can't win. History won't remember a blood-smear on anyone's axe.
Grog: You think history will remember you? I'm told the dragon made the mighty Kevdak, wielder of the Titanstone Knuckles, bend the knee. So tell me, uncle, do you still have your shriveled nutsack, or did you give that to the dragon, too?

"Children expect their parents to protect them, the only thing I've ever been to you was a science experiment! Your own son!"

Shin Mao: I'll straighten this little guy out like that! Besides, I wouldn't want you to embarrass yourself.
Mao Mao: Embarrass... myself...? You're worried that I might... embarrass... MYSEEEEELF!? You know, sometimes, when you're not around, I actually kinda like myself! I think you're more worried that I'll embarrass YOU!

Molly: Pickles, you need to quit this realtor bullshit and get back to making a new record so we can all make money again!
Pickles: Wait a minute. You don't even care that I'm the best regular jackoff realtor in the world?!
Molly: Fuck that realtor crap! I want you to go back to playing drums with your stupid band and fix the fucking economy!
Skwisgaar: You shoulds gos tells your mothers to goes fucks herselfs.
Nathan: You should tell your mother to go fuck herself.
Offdensen: You should go tell your mother to go fuck herself.
Pickles: Hey Mom… Go fuck yourself!

Odalia: Amity! Get away from the human!
Amity: No! YOU'RE gonna listen to ME for once! Luz, Gus and Willow are my friends! They're nice to each other, they listen to each other! They make me think about the kind of person I really want to be!
Odalia: Ugh! What do you want?!
Amity: Let my friends back into Hexside, or else your precious investors will watch me rip this thing apart, bit. By. Bit.
The Owl House, "Escaping Expulsion"

"You know what I'd like, Belos? I'd like to leave the Emperor's Coven, and never step foot in that throne room again. I'd like to study wild magic, and learn how to to carve Palismen. I'd like to attend Hexside as a regular student, and play Flyer Derby with my friends! But most of all, I'd like to make sure you NEVER hurt ANYONE AGAIN!"
Hunter, The Owl House, "Thanks to Them"

"Why would you want this to happen? All you had to do was go away! Stop standing in the driveway talking about custody! And either tell her you want to stay married or get on with your life, but whatever you do, stop being a baby and ACT LIKE A MAN!"

"Don't 'Morty!' me! I tricked Rick into taking Dad on an adventure because I thought I could get a break from this kind of shit, but no! Like father, like goddamned daughter! You wanna be like Rick? Congratulations! You're just as arrogant and just as irresponsible!"

High Priestess: How could you betray your family?! He [Jack] killed your sisters, and you let him live!
Ashi: No, you killed them! We were made for one purpose: to kill! Our fate was sealed the day we were born!

Adora: You snuck into Bright Moon. Why? That's the only reason we're speaking.
Shadow Weaver: To see you. You are the only one I can trust. I've missed you, my child.
Adora: We're past that. Try again.
Shadow Weaver: Clever. You always were. From the moment I laid eyes on you, I knew you were different. You were—
Adora: "Special"? No. What you always told me was that I didn't matter. I was special only as long as I obeyed you. Why are you here?

Shadow Weaver: Adora, you made the right choice. Don't let Catra convince you otherwise. She's never understood.
Adora: STOP! I will never forgive you. You ruin people. You ruin any chance they could ever be happy. Haven't you done enough?
Shadow Weaver: I did what I had to do.
Adora: Keep telling yourself that. I'm going to take the Failsafe to the Heart, and I'm going to save Etheria. But I am not doing it for you. I'll do everything I can to make sure you never get your hands on the magic.

Moon: Star, let's just take a seat and talk about this.
Star: What is there to talk about, exactly? We can't go back to Mewni because we'll DIE from a situation that you caused! So just stay far away from me or, better yet, stand over there, where you don't exist!

Sadie: Please Mom, don't make me do this.
Barb: 'Make you?' You said you wanted to sing!
Sadie: Yeah, I did! I did, I did, I did! Just like I say lots of things, like 'Hey Mom, swimming looks fun!' Then bam! Suddenly I'm anchoring a 400-meter relay for the Beach City Seals! 'Hey Mom, I thought signing up for softball would be nice!' Six birthdays later, I am still getting nothing but knee pads and batting helmets! 'Hey Mom, I wanna sing in this years Beachapalooza!' And what do I get? This! I just thought for once I'd get do things my way, but you came in and took over everything like you always do!
Barb: I just wanted everyone to know how talented my daughter is!
Sadie: This is not your daughter!

Steven: You're not my mom.
Imaginary Rose: I'm not?
Steven: This is how I want you to be, but I don't know if this is who you really are. I've learned things about you, things you wanted to keep secret. You locked Bismuth away inside Lion because she wanted to shatter Gems, and you never told Garnet or Pearl. But then you shattered Pink Diamond. Now all of Homeworld has it out for Earth, and the Crystal Gems, and me! You put us all in danger and you just— disappeared! [...] I finally know the truth! I know what you are! You're a liar! I thought you never wanted to hurt anyone, but you hurt everyone! How could you just leave Garnet, and Amethyst, and Pearl, a-and Dad... they don't know what to do without you! Maybe they didn't matter to you as much as hiding from the mess you made! And that's why I'm here, isn't it? Did you make me just so you wouldn't have to deal with all your mistakes? Is that all I'm here for?
Rose: Steven, you know that isn't true. In the tape I left you I told you how much I wanted to have you and let you exist. Do you think what I said to you in the tape was a lie?
Steven: ...No. I'm sure... I'm sure you meant it. [they hug] I get it. I know you didn't want me to deal with your problems. But you're a part of me now, and I have to deal with what you left behind. [Rose vanishes]

Steven: I don't need this song! I need what you had! [...] I wish I could've grown up at a house like that.
Greg: No you don't!
Steven: Maybe your parents weren't so bad. Maybe they gave you curfews and chaperones and meatloaf for a reason!
Greg: Steven, you don't know what they were like!
Steven: They can't be worse than Mom's family. I went halfway across the galaxy for them, and this was right here?!
Greg: Steven, I couldn't do anything growing up. Everything I liked, or wore, or wanted was always wrong! Trust me, you're better off then I was.
Steven: I can't believe I never realized, you're... you're just like Mom!
Greg: You grew up with actual freedom!
Steven: I grew up in a van! I never went to school! I've never been to the doctor until two days ago!
Greg: Steven! You're a gem! You're not like other kids!
Steven: I could have done all that stuff! My problem isn't that I'm a gem, my problem is that I'm a UNIVERSE!

"Give Bob-omb to own kids? Glad you not my dad!"
Oogtar to King Koopa, Super Mario World

"You may have created me, but you were never my father! Fathers are kind! Fathers protect you! Fathers raise you! I was protected by the monks of Azarath. I was raised by my friends! They are my family. This is my home. And you are not welcome here!"
Raven to Trigon, Teen Titans (2003)

SpongeBob: Sorry to interrupt your gloating, sir. I just thought it would be pertinent for you to know that Plankton is laying on the street, forlorn.
Mr. Krabs: Really? He's a mess! [laughs]
SpongeBob: Mr. Krabs, I know you and Plankton are sworn enemies and all, but putting on a dress to frighten him? Isn't that taking it a little too far?
Mr. Krabs: Need I remind you of the fact that you've disclosed the location of me safe, where I keep the secret formula?
SpongeBob: No need to remind me, sir. I broke Rule #2 of the Krusty Krab Rule Book: Never disclose the location of the secret formula! Don't worry, sir. I can fix this.
SpongeBob SquarePants, "One Coarse Meal"

SpongeBob: MR. KRABS! For shame!
Mr. Krabs: What do you mean? I'm just showing Rory off.
SpongeBob: Don't you lie to me! I know all about you using Gary to steal money!
Mr. Krabs: I am doing nothing of the sort! I would never steal... You have to quit making up stories, boyo!
SpongeBob: I'm NOT making up ANYTHING! I know all about your little scheme! You're the one making up stories!
Mr. Krabs: Don't you have work you should be doing?
SpongeBob: Oh, that's rich!
Mr. Krabs: No, if I was rich, I wouldn't have to hire the likes of you!
SpongeBob: That's hurtful, Mr. Krabs, and you know it!
Mr. Krabs: Why you little yella...! Well, I never...
SpongeBob: You never what? Learned to use decent language?
SpongeBob SquarePants, "The Cent of Money"


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