History AbusiveParents / ComicBooks

* ''[[{{ComicBook/Amulet}} Amulet]]'' has the Elf King, who treats his son, Trellis, [[spoiler:and other son, Luger]] abominably. [[spoiler: He had both of their memories repeatedly wiped to the point where the two ''didn’t even know they were brothers'']], ordered his soldiers to abuse Trellis whilst he was in their custody, and to top it all off, [[spoiler:gave Trellis his distinctive scar when the latter fought back against being possessed by a [[PeoplePuppets Dark Shadow]], ''which the King himself orchestrated''. This is possibly because he isn't their father at all, [[DeadAllAlong but the Stone using his body.]]]] Then there’s Max’s father, who was emotionally abusive towards his son, pressuring him to follow in his footsteps, and to top it all off, when Max was sent to jail, his father didn’t even protest or offer any sort of emotional support.
* In ''ComicBook/TheInternship'', Cooper grew up with an abusive father who was a heavy drinker and strongly homophobic. Needless to say, it left him pretty broken, [[spoiler: even after his father's death.]]

** There's also Mystique's treatment of ''ComicBook/{{Rogue}}'' her surrogate daughter, and if you though Nightcrawler got the worst from her boy you'd be wrong. Raised from a young age with the worst anti-human teaching, Rogue [[DaddysLittleVillain took after]] Mystique and also received abuse from her and was abandoned (she really has a knack for it) leading to Rogue finding the X-Men and raised in [[RaiseHimRightThisTime a better fashion]]. Like with Nightcrawler the writers bounce back and forth with Mystique's care for Rogue sometimes she be a MamaBear and willingly to sacrifice anything to protect her and other times she [[https://uncannyxmen.net/sites/default/files/images/spotlight/mystique38.jpg slapped her daughter]], [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/99/76/f2/9976f290fa8b4936694705681164bfe7--parental-advisory-xmen.jpg stabbed her in the gut]] and [[https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/0/4226/161134-48307-rogue.jpg shot her]]. If that weren't bad enough, there's Mystique "attempts" to look after Rogue like turning into her to seduce her boyfriend ''ComicBook/{{Gambit}}'' to see if he'd be faithful to her daughter and even kept up her record of terrible baby handling as she tried to use Hope Summers to try revive Rogue from Strain 88 virus and receives a TheReasonYouSuck speech from Gambit. When Rogue wakes up and learns from overjoyed Mystique what she tried to do, Rogue wastes no time giving her a [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge beatdown]].

* Many fans forget but ''ComicBook/{{Mystique}}'' is a terrible, terrible '''downright awful mother''', let's start with her biological son Kurt Wagner aka ''ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}'' when he's born she was cast out by the village and her lover. At first she [[BaittheDog seems]] like a MamaBear protecting her baby from harm until she realizes she use [[VoluntaryShapeShifting her powers]] to make a new life and there only one thing that's holding her back and tosses little baby Kurt [[https://marswillsendnomore.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/uncanny-x-men-428-nightcrawler-023.jpg off a cliff]]. Mystique says she doesn't regret it when confronted by her son and even flashes him [[SlasherSmile a grin]] as she says so.
** Despite tossing him as a baby and frequently fighting him, [[DependingOnTheWriter numerous writers]] have ''tried'' to make amends between the blue mother and son. Mystique has hesitated when given a chance to stab him, begged him forgiveness, sacrificed herself for him and grabbed a hold of him saying she loves him while he tries desperately to teleport away from her. But the rest of the times she just manipulating him to gain advantage or taking out her rage for Azazel (Kurt's dad) on him. The fact that Nightcrawler is willingly to be kind to her, protect her and even reluctantly accept her into X-Men speaks more about Kurt's [[NiceGuy compassion]] then it does about her.

* Many fans forget but ''ComicBook/{{Mystique}}'' is a terrible, terrible '''downright awful mother''', let's start with her biological son Kurt Wagner aka ''ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}'' when he's born she was cast out by the village and her lover. At first she [[BaittheDog seems]] like a MamaBear protecting her baby from harm until she realizes she use [[VoluntaryShapeShifting her powers]] to make a new life and there only one thing that's holding her back and tosses little baby Kurt [[https://marswillsendnomore.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/uncanny-x-men-428-nightcrawler-023.jpg off a cliff]]. Oh and baby Nightcrawler teleporting while he's falling was a {{Retcon}} in the [[https://ifanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/xmen_unlimited_04_p44.jpg original deception]] of Kurt's past there's no suggestion that he bamfed to safety and only survived the fall because he's mutant which is even worse. Mystique says she doesn't regret it when confronted by her son and even flashes him [[SlasherSmile a grin]] as she says so.
** Despite tossing him as a baby and frequently fighting him brotherhood of mutants, [[DependingOnTheWriter numerous writers]] have ''tried'' to make amends between the blue mother and son. Mystique has hesitated when given a chance to stab him, begged him forgiveness, sacrificed herself for him and Rogue and grabbed a hold of him saying she loves him while he tries desperately to teleport away from her. But the rest of the times she just manipulating him to gain advantage or taking out her rage for Azazel (Kurt's dad) on him. The fact that Nightcrawler is willingly to be kind to her, protect her and even reluctantly accept her into X-Me speaks more about Kurt's [[NiceGuy compassion]] then it does about her.
*** It gets even worse when we learn that Mystique also doesn't like being around Kurt as he [[VanityIsFeminine reminds her]] how old [[OlderThanTheyLook she is]].

*** Wolverine lampshades it when he's listing how bad Mystique is, as he calls her a "piss poor mother" and this coming from a dude who has dozens of illegitimate children is very telling.

*** Captain Cold and Golden Glider grew up with a physically abusive father.

* Comicbook/TheFlash villains Captain Cold and his sister, the Golden Glider, were abused by their father. Years later, Cold had the chance to kill his dad, but couldn't bring himself to do it and let Heat Wave do the honors.

*** Captain Cold and Golden Glider grew up with a physical abusive father.

* [[Comicbook/TheFlash Wally West]] didn't exactly have the best parents. His father demanded to be given the love that he never got as a child from his family to the point where he (Rudolph West) became the abuser. However, this was actually a retcon, and early comics portrayed Wally and both of his parents as rather close.

* When [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog Knuckles]] was born, his parents soon begin arguing about the proper way to raise him. It eventually got so bad that his father Locke divorced his wife and took sole custody of the boy so he could raise him to be a guardian. Locke essentially abandoned his son when he was ten years old, forcing him to fend for himself for years with little or no contact with other people. Locke insists that all of this was done to build character and make Knuckles a better guardian by forcing him to do things himself. In truth, he had Knuckles under close observation the entire time he was "abandoned" and often expresses regret at causing his son so much grief, but he still insists he was only [[IDidWhatIHadToDo doing his job.]] However, Locke did get a considerable comeuppance, as his actions regarding Knuckles led to an echidna scientist going rogue and getting a considerable number of their race slaughtered.
** It may run in the family. In an early issue of Knuckles' spin off series, Knuckles talks to his mom about why the family broke apart. In the ensuing flashback, she talks to her mother in law about how she felt when Locke was taken away for guardian training. Said in law paused and only said that she'd be lost without her husband.

** Gary Richards. It's no wonder Reed turned out so mentally unstable with a dad [[BlatantLies as loving and supportive as this guy]]. Gary is from the first issue shown to be verbally and emotionally (if not physically) abusive toward Reed, having no interest or tolerance for Reed's tinkering, yelling at him from turning the phone into a device, then throwing it at Reed's dinner. A later issue suggests Gary was physically abusive as well. Thanos manages to torture Reed by conjuring an image of Gary prepared to beat him.

* The version of Professor Xavier in ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'' was a negligent father, leaving his family after meeting Magneto. This came back to bite him when his son became the Ultimate version of Proetus.

* Franchise/{{Batman}} [[WhatTheHellHero sometimes dips into this]], depending on the writer. ''ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder'' is the worst offender (the goddamm Batman forces 12-years-old Dick Grayson, age twelve, to live in the cave and eat ''rats''), but it's sometimes seen in the regular universe as well. Bruce can go from the world's best father to the cruelest monster imaginable within 3 issues.

* [[{{ComicBook/Batgirl 2000}} Cassandra Cain]] is an odd case. She received plenty of emotional support and positive reinforcement from the man who raised her from birth to around age eight (who was also eventually revealed to be her biological father), however [[TrainingFromHell shooting her until she learned to get out of the way]] and preventing her from learning language so that segment of her brain would [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower read bodies instead]] qualify as abuse under any definition imaginable.

* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker has made claims of having one or more abusive parents to his various psychiatrists before in pre-ComicBook/{{New 52}} continuity, most notably when he corrupted Harley Quinn, but even he isn't sure if he's telling the truth or not when he does. In ComicBook/{{New 52}} continuity, it's been implied he genuinely did have one, in the form of a highly abusive aunt (she starved him, beat him, and washed his face with bleach regularly)... who knows if that will or won't remain canon, though.

* MarvelComics' Tabitha Smith/Boom-Boom was abused by her father until she ran away from home. This is a pretty commonplace trope for their [[ComicBook/XMen mutant]] characters.

* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': The man who Wis' mother was betrothed to never forgave her for bearing a child that wasn't his, and took it out on Wis once she died. [[spoiler:Wis eventually kills him by hacking off his fingers and throwing him off a castle tower.]]

** Mr. Pantuflo, in the later Escobar strips (the ones which are mostly avaliable), is a saint in comparison with his incarnation in the older, black and white ones, in which he punished his sons with incredibly brutal and sadistic penalties, such as crushing them with a huge steamroller, tying them to a bed of spikes with a large and scary boulder over their head or abandoning them in the middle of the sea. By far, the most disturbing of all is one strip in which Mr. Pantuflo puts them on a guillotine ''with a basket at the bottom to collect their severed heads''.

* ''ComicBook/ZipiYZape'': Don Pantuflo has no trouble in brutally beating the twins or locking them in a mice-infested room with no food or water. Even worse is the fact that this is seen as normal. Don Pantuflo, in the later Escobar strips (the ones which are mostly available), is a saint in comparison with his incarnation in the older, black and white ones, in which he punished his sons with incredibly brutal and sadistic penalties, such as crushing them with a huge steamroller, tying them to a bed of spikes with a large and scary boulder over their head or abandoning them in the middle of the sea. By far, the most disturbing of all is one strip in which Don Pantuflo puts them on a guillotine ''with a basket at the bottom to collect their severed heads''.

** Gary Richards. It's no wonder Reed turned out so mentally stable with a dad [[BlatantLies as loving and supportive as this guy]]. Gary is from the first issue shown to be verbally and emotionally (if not physically) abusive toward Reed, having no interest or tolerance for Reed's tinkering, yelling at him from turning the phone into a device, then throwing it at Reed's dinner. A later issue suggests Gary was physically abusive as well. Thanos manages to torture Reed by conjuring an image of Gary prepared to beat him.

* Then there's [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk Bruce Banner's]] father, Brian. He'd been abused by his father, leading Brian to believe his father was a monster, that he had inherited the 'monster gene', and that any children he had [[InTheBlood would be monsters too]]. Brian initially chose to ignore Bruce, believing him to be a monster in the making. When it became apparent Bruce was a child genius, Brian saw his worst fears confirmed, and started beating both Bruce and his mother, Rebecca. After several years of abuse, Rebecca attempted to escape with Bruce, but Brian killed her and intimidated Bruce into saying Brian hadn't done anything to them. The truth only came out when Brian got drunk and boasted about what he'd done. Brian was locked up in a mental institution, dying shortly after release. End result? Bruce developed [[SplitPersonality multiple personality syndrome]] - and after a certain accident with a gamma bomb, [[SelfFulfillingProphecy his personalities became the various Hulks]]. [[spoiler: And Bruce (accidentally) killed him. In a recent story, Banner himself admits it might not have been accidental. He's back from the dead and in Devil Hulk form in the ComicBook/ChaosWar tie-in.]]

* Lian Harper's mother [[TeenTitans Cheshire]] is an emotionally abusive kind. She initially had Lian for the sake of tormenting Roy Harper after he walked out on her, intending to taunt him with the fact that he wouldn't know what his child looked like, her name, or her gender. When Roy gained custody of Lian, this started a trend of Jade consistently disrupting their lives and using her position as Lian's mom to exert some control on Roy. It finally reached a point when, during her stint in the ComicBook/SecretSix, Jade conceived a replacement child when Lian's well-being was exploited to make her stay on the team.

* In ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfClarkKent, [[ForgottenFriendNewFoe Conduit]]'s father [[WhyAreYouNotMySon emotionally abused him]] for coming in second to Clark.
* ComicBook/StanleyAndHisMonster's appearance in the ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' arc "Quiver'' sees Stanley's grandfathter and namesake as this as he was a [[Main/ReligionOfEvil Satanist]] who wanted to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] his first born infant to a demon to gain {{immortality}} and he wasn't any better to his grandson and began to strave and torture Stanley. [[spoiler: This culminated in Spot, the "Monster" of the duo, giving Stanley Sr. [[KarmicDeath a well-deserved death]] and mindwiping Stanley to save his sanity.]]

** His later parents, the Hartigan's put him through TrainingFromHell, which, all-in-all, wasn't that abusive, however [[spoiler:they teach Tony to never use his powers for the benefit of himself or his family, to the extent that he was never allowed to fight back against those who bullied him. When Tony off-handedly mentions that he saw a brain tumor in his mother's head, the Hartigan's anger reveals their hypocrisy and, in an event that scarred Tony for the rest of his life, committed suicide hours after finding out.]]

* Meet Devin Irons, the father of four children, whom he severely abused and then offered as souls in a pact to a Plague Bringer Demon for the power to control human minds, turning all but one of them into soulless, vicious monstrosities intent on bringing death and destruction to the Old West. He killed Silas Irons only father figure after he came to confront him for tying his son onto a statue, bloody and beaten, and painting "sinner" onto his chest. His crowning moment of assholeness comes when he brings his own wife, now a mindless flesh-eating ghoul, back to life as a lure to bring his adult children back to complete a ritual that will make him immortal.

* MarvelComics' Tabitha Smith/Boom-Boom was abused by her father until she ran away from home. This is a pretty commonplace trope for their [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} mutant]] characters.