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* ''Series/GothamKnights2023''
** Harper and Cullen ran away from home to escape their abusive father, an alcoholic who beat them.
** Harvey Dent it turns out also had an abusive father with mental illness giving him totally different personalities, with one beating him for even the slightest thing and the other a perfect, loving man who'd been totally unaware of this.
** As per canon, Stephanie Brown's father, and to a somewhat lesser extent her mother, are emotionally abusive. Later her mother slaps her as well.
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* ''ComicBook/TeenTitansGo'': In the tie-in comics of the show, his daughter, Rose, appears. Questioned why does she have to follow her father's footsteps, she implies [[Characters/TeenTitans2003Slade Slade]] had been anything but a kind father, raising her to become Deathstroke the Junior. And knowing already how Slade treats his apprentices, he probably didn't bother to spare her at least.
-->'''Rose about Slade''': [[FollowInMyFootsteps I was]] ''[[FollowInMyFootsteps groomed]]'' [[FollowInMyFootsteps to be like him...]] [[TykeBomb trained]] to grow up to be ''just'' like him. ''This'' is who I am.
-->'''Jinx''': No, you have a ''choice''... It doesn't have to be this way. You can choose to ''fight'' the Titans or fight on the ''same'' side.
-->'''Rose''': Choice? What choice? Even since I was a child, I was taught to hurt, to destroy... To fulfill my father's legacy...

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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''
** "Hidden Agenda" featured a student whose mother had unbelievably high standards for him. When he got a [[TheBGrade 2391 out of 2400]] on the annual exam, 2nd best in the school, she told him flat out he was a horrendous failure ("That just makes you the winning loser") who would never get ahead in life. Any sympathy is lost, however, when he's revealed to be a rather psychotic leader of a gang of Jokerz. Then again, his mother may have caused his psychosis, as evidenced by the fact that many of his acts as gang leader are to try and get rid of the one person who is academically better than him.
** Willie Watt consistently suffers ridicule from his father for being a "wimp" who can't physically stand up to the bullies at school. Then, Willie gets a hold of his father's construction {{golem}}, develops a psychic link to it, and uses it to trash a party after one more humiliation causes him to snap. When his father, tracking the golem's disappearance, finds Willy and berates him once again, Willy proceeds to turn the golem on ''him''. Batman saves the day, but the end result shows that the father is still a major JerkAss.

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* ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse''
** In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', before he became Robin, Tim Drake's father worked for Two-Face and often left his son (who was under 13 years old) alone to fend for himself for long periods of time. When he double-crossed Two-Face, he abandoned his son to run away, only to be found killed outside of Gotham.
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''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''
** *** "Hidden Agenda" featured a student whose mother had unbelievably high standards for him. When he got a [[TheBGrade 2391 out of 2400]] on the annual exam, 2nd best in the school, she told him flat out he was a horrendous failure ("That just makes you the winning loser") who would never get ahead in life. Any sympathy is lost, however, when he's revealed to be a rather psychotic leader of a gang of Jokerz. Then again, his mother may have caused his psychosis, as evidenced by the fact that many of his acts as gang leader are to try and get rid of the one person who is academically better than him.
** *** Willie Watt consistently suffers ridicule from his father for being a "wimp" who can't physically stand up to the bullies at school. Then, Willie gets a hold of his father's construction {{golem}}, develops a psychic link to it, and uses it to trash a party after one more humiliation causes him to snap. When his father, tracking the golem's disappearance, finds Willy and berates him once again, Willy proceeds to turn the golem on ''him''. Batman saves the day, but the end result shows that the father is still a major JerkAss.



** In the next episode featuring Willie, it's shown that Willie is detained in a high security juvenile center and is in fact [[PrisonsAreGymnasiums very muscular and aggressive]] (what his father always wanted him to be). The guard who escorts Terry tells him that many in fact fear Willie and says that not even his father has visited him and that Terry is his first visitor.
** The King and Queen of the Royal Flush Gang also fit the bill. They're clearly more concerned about Ten pulling her weight in the gang above everything else, with King outright berating her and Queen emotionally manipulating her into staying. In their second appearance, they faked their own kidnapping just to see how far Melanie would go to prove her loyalty. To be fair to Queen though, she at least is willing to speak to Melanie using her real name, and in their third appearance, she's still upset about Melanie leaving for good. But King isn't any better towards Jack, backhanding Jack in their debut and final appearances for a smart-alack remark and mentioning Ten respectively. Their final appearance also has him leave Jack behind and prevent Queen from rescuing Jack.
** Derek Powers exiled his own son Paxton to do his grunt work and taught him to care about nothing but seizing power. The episode in which Paxton is introduced demonstrate the consequences of raising a son this way.
** The computer program based on Robert Vance's brainwaves is unconcerned with the death of Vance's son and tries to pull a GrandTheftMe on his grandson. It's possible that the program went rogue or failed to get Vance's humanity, but otherwise Vance would qualify.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', before he became Robin, Tim Drake's father worked for Two-Face and often left his son (who was under 13 years old) alone to fend for himself for long periods of time. When he double-crossed Two-Face, he abandoned his son to run away, only to be found killed outside of Gotham.

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** *** In the next episode featuring Willie, it's shown that Willie is detained in a high security juvenile center and is in fact [[PrisonsAreGymnasiums very muscular and aggressive]] (what his father always wanted him to be). The guard who escorts Terry tells him that many in fact fear Willie and says that not even his father has visited him and that Terry is his first visitor.
** *** The King and Queen of the Royal Flush Gang also fit the bill. They're clearly more concerned about Ten pulling her weight in the gang above everything else, with King outright berating her and Queen emotionally manipulating her into staying. In their second appearance, they faked their own kidnapping just to see how far Melanie would go to prove her loyalty. To be fair to Queen though, she at least is willing to speak to Melanie using her real name, and in their third appearance, she's still upset about Melanie leaving for good. But King isn't any better towards Jack, backhanding Jack in their debut and final appearances for a smart-alack remark and mentioning Ten respectively. Their final appearance also has him leave Jack behind and prevent Queen from rescuing Jack.
** *** Derek Powers exiled his own son Paxton to do his grunt work and taught him to care about nothing but seizing power. The episode in which Paxton is introduced demonstrate the consequences of raising a son this way.
** *** The computer program based on Robert Vance's brainwaves is unconcerned with the death of Vance's son and tries to pull a GrandTheftMe on his grandson. It's possible that the program went rogue or failed to get Vance's humanity, but otherwise Vance would qualify.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', before he became Robin, Tim Drake's father worked for Two-Face and often left his son (who was under 13 years old) alone to fend for himself for long periods of time. When he double-crossed Two-Face, he abandoned his son to run away, only to be found killed outside of Gotham.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': Rorschach is subjected to this to quite some degree. In a flashback, we see his mother openly providing her services (she's a prostitute) in front of him, and when he wanders in by mistake, driving off her client, she slaps him across the face and says she should have had an abortion. Scarring stuff, indeed.
** What he ended up seeing as a kid returns throughout the comic as a pattern on walls, in his childhood drawings, in various shapes (including [[spoiler:the shape of his mask]] at times), and actually is echoed at the very end when [[spoiler:Dan and Laurie make the same shadow in a far more peaceful situation. Additionally, Ozymandias ends up alone, casting a singular shadow on the wall in contrast to the double ones shown throughout the book]].

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is subjected to this to quite some degree. In a flashback, we see his mother openly providing her services (she's a prostitute) in front of him, and when he wanders in by mistake, driving off her client, she slaps him across the face and says she should have had an abortion. Scarring stuff, indeed.
** *** What he ended up seeing as a kid returns throughout the comic as a pattern on walls, in his childhood drawings, in various shapes (including [[spoiler:the shape of his mask]] at times), and actually is echoed at the very end when [[spoiler:Dan and Laurie make the same shadow in a far more peaceful situation. Additionally, Ozymandias ends up alone, casting a singular shadow on the wall in contrast to the double ones shown throughout the book]].
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* ''Film/Joker2019'': In a flashback, it is shown that Penny Fleck's boyfriend used to severely beat her son Arthur, all the while she did nothing about it. Realizing this brings Arthur further into madness and it becomes a key factor of him becoming [[Characters/Joker2019ArthurFleckJoker The Joker]]

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* ''Film/Joker2019'': In a flashback, it is shown that Penny Fleck's boyfriend used to severely beat her son Arthur, all the while she did nothing about it. Realizing this brings Arthur further into madness and it becomes a key factor of him becoming [[Characters/Joker2019ArthurFleckJoker The Joker]]Joker.
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* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'':
** Dorothy Spinner's parents kept their daughter isolated on their farm because of her ape-like appearance, plus Mrs. Spinner once told her daughter after she was [[PeriodShaming mocked by other children for menstruating in front of them]] that she should've been aborted, which became a lot worse in retrospect after John Arcudi's run retroactively established that the Spinners were Dorothy's ''adoptive'' parents.
** Rachel Pollack's run shows that Niles Caulder's mother constantly belittled him and insulted his GeekPhysique

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* Creator/MilestoneComics
** ComicBook/BloodSyndicate: [[spoiler:The Jade Emperor is this to both Kwai and the Demon Fox, and not only the worst abusive parent in the Milestone universe but possibly one of the worst in all fiction. The Jade Emperor has condemned both his daughters to seventy-seven cycles--77 full lifespans--of eternal torture, death and misery for literally no other reason than to have a cheap game for him and his immortal buddies to gamble on. When Kwai manages to reach her father and beg him to break the cycle, the Jade Emperor opts to ''[[OffingTheOffspring murder]]'' her instead.]]
* [[Characters/{{Deathstroke}} Slade Wilson]]. Even putting aside how [[spoiler:he was heavily involved in the deaths of both of his sons]], you could make a case for this solely for Slade's youngest child. Rose Wilson has spent most of her life since her dad discovered her existence trying to deal with his epic-scale emotional manipulations. [[spoiler:After rejecting her at first, he stormed back into her life by having her foster family killed and her kidnapped. Then he lured her into being his apprentice and injected her with the same super-soldier serum that gave him his meta-human fighting abilities (crossing over into Physical Abuse as such). Rose eventually had a psychotic break and carved out [[EyeScream her own eye]] to prove her loyalty to him.]]

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* Creator/MilestoneComics
** ComicBook/BloodSyndicate:
''ComicBook/AmethystPrincessOfGemworld'': While not his biological father, the treatment Carnelian receives from Opal is nothing shy of abusive.
* ''ComicBook/BloodSyndicate'':
[[spoiler:The Jade Emperor is this to both Kwai and the Demon Fox, and not only the worst abusive parent in the Milestone universe but possibly one of the worst in all fiction. The Jade Emperor has condemned both his daughters to seventy-seven cycles--77 full lifespans--of eternal torture, death and misery for literally no other reason than to have a cheap game for him and his immortal buddies to gamble on. When Kwai manages to reach her father and beg him to break the cycle, the Jade Emperor opts to ''[[OffingTheOffspring murder]]'' her instead.]]
* [[Characters/{{Deathstroke}} ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'': Brenda from the Jaime Reyes run. Her father reportedly knocked her around on a regular basis [[spoiler:at first, but then upped the ante and put her in the hospital when the police questioned her about Jaime's disappearance, causing Brenda's crime boss aunt to have him killed.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}'':
Slade Wilson]].Wilson. Even putting aside how [[spoiler:he was heavily involved in the deaths of both of his sons]], you could make a case for this solely for Slade's youngest child. Rose Wilson has spent most of her life since her dad discovered her existence trying to deal with his epic-scale emotional manipulations. [[spoiler:After rejecting her at first, he stormed back into her life by having her foster family killed and her kidnapped. Then he lured her into being his apprentice and injected her with the same super-soldier serum that gave him his meta-human fighting abilities (crossing over into Physical Abuse as such). Rose eventually had a psychotic break and carved out [[EyeScream her own eye]] to prove her loyalty to him.]]



** the ComicBook/DCRebirth series shows he was verbally and physically abusive to (at least) his eldest son Grant. His relationship with his surviving children is also bad, with nearly every interaction he has with Rose and Joseph brimming with insults and scorn. His ally Wintergreen suggests that he ''does'' genuinely love them, he just has no capacity to express it in a healthy way. [[spoiler: As demonstrated by ''putting out a hit'' on Rose so he could foil it and spend time with her trying to solve it, his attempts to help Joseph when he accepts a deal from the Legion of Doom, and his actions in the ''Lazarus Contract'' arc, where he risks time itself in an attempt to save Grant. He cannot express affection in any normal way.]]
* Rorschach is subjected to this in ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' to quite some degree. In a flashback, we see his mother openly providing her services (she's a prostitute) in front of him, and when he wanders in by mistake, driving off her client, she slaps him across the face and says she should have had an abortion. Scarring stuff, indeed.
** What he ended up seeing as a kid returns throughout the comic as a pattern on walls, in his childhood drawings, in various shapes (including [[spoiler:the shape of his mask]] at times), and actually is echoed at the very end when [[spoiler:Dan and Laurie make the same shadow in a far more peaceful situation. Additionally, Ozymandias ends up alone, casting a singular shadow on the wall in contrast to the double ones shown throughout the book]].
** Speaking of Laurie, her parents -- [[spoiler:all three of them]] -- are... not very good at it either. That said, at least [[spoiler: two biological]] ones ''try.'' Sally Jupiter does regret their relationship and hopes Laurie will look past the more selfish aspects of her being a superhero stage mom, and the comic ends with her coming to grips with her bizarre parentage, [[spoiler: and happily discussing wearing a costume like her father's.]]
* ''Franchise/TheFlash''
** ComicBook/WallyWest didn't exactly have the best parents. His father Rudy demanded to be given the love that he never got as a child from his family and his mother was too worried about appearances than being a mother. In addition, both of them frequently told him that he'd never amount to anything, and to give up on any dreams he might have had. Rudy was also physically abusive, hitting Wally when he got angry. This continued into Wally's adulthood, with both of them only contacting Wally to guilt and manipulate him into doing what they wanted, with Rudy even striking him physically at one point. This led to Wally basically breaking off all contact with them after his mother's wedding to her second husband. This abuse was actually a retcon due to ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths, and early comics portrayed Wally and both of his parents as rather close.
*** Rudy, along with Iris and Daniel, was also a victim of a physically abusive father in ''{{Comicbook/New 52}}''.

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** the ComicBook/DCRebirth series ''ComicBook/DeathstrokeRebirth'' shows he was verbally and physically abusive to (at least) his eldest son Grant. His relationship with his surviving children is also bad, with nearly every interaction he has with Rose and Joseph brimming with insults and scorn. His ally Wintergreen suggests that he ''does'' genuinely love them, he just has no capacity to express it in a healthy way. [[spoiler: As demonstrated by ''putting out a hit'' on Rose so he could foil it and spend time with her trying to solve it, his attempts to help Joseph when he accepts a deal from the Legion of Doom, and his actions in the ''Lazarus Contract'' arc, where he risks time itself in an attempt to save Grant. He cannot express affection in any normal way.]]
* Rorschach is subjected to this in ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' to quite some degree. In a flashback, we see ''ComicBook/{{Firestorm|DCComics}}'': Jason Rusch was physically abused by his mother openly providing her services (she's a prostitute) in front of him, and when he wanders in by mistake, driving off her client, she slaps him across the face and says she should have had an abortion. Scarring stuff, indeed.
father.
* ''ComicBook/TheFlash''
** What he ended up seeing as a kid returns throughout the comic as a pattern on walls, in his childhood drawings, in various shapes (including [[spoiler:the shape of his mask]] at times), and actually is echoed at the very end when [[spoiler:Dan and Laurie make the same shadow in a far more peaceful situation. Additionally, Ozymandias ends up alone, casting a singular shadow on the wall in contrast to the double ones shown throughout the book]].
** Speaking of Laurie, her parents -- [[spoiler:all three of them]] -- are... not very good at it either. That said, at least [[spoiler: two biological]] ones ''try.'' Sally Jupiter does regret their relationship and hopes Laurie will look past the more selfish aspects of her being a superhero stage mom, and the comic ends with her coming to grips with her bizarre parentage, [[spoiler: and happily discussing wearing a costume like her father's.]]
* ''Franchise/TheFlash''
** ComicBook/WallyWest
[[Characters/TheFlashWallyWest Wally West]] didn't exactly have the best parents. His father Rudy demanded to be given the love that he never got as a child from his family and his mother was too worried about appearances than being a mother. In addition, both of them frequently told him that he'd never amount to anything, and to give up on any dreams he might have had. Rudy was also physically abusive, hitting Wally when he got angry. This continued into Wally's adulthood, with both of them only contacting Wally to guilt and manipulate him into doing what they wanted, with Rudy even striking him physically at one point. This led to Wally basically breaking off all contact with them after his mother's wedding to her second husband. This abuse was actually a retcon due to ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths, ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', and early comics portrayed Wally and both of his parents as rather close.
*** Rudy, along with Iris and Daniel, was also a victim of a physically abusive father in ''{{Comicbook/New 52}}''.''ComicBook/New52''.



** ComicBook/EobardThawne, on the other hand, had abusive parents who conceived him merely for research, favor his brother, and treat him with cold disdain. This is all emotional neglect, but it crosses the line to abuse when they slap him for getting angry at his younger brother's tantrums.
* Jason Rusch's ComicBook/{{Firestorm|DCComics}} (pre-reboot) was physically abused by his father.
* Brenda from the Jaime Reyes ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'' comics. Her father reportedly knocked her around on a regular basis [[spoiler:at first, but then upped the ante and put her in the hospital when the police questioned her about Jaime's disappearance, causing Brenda's crime boss aunt to have him killed.]]
* Obsidian's adoptive father was physically abusive when he was drunk. Unfortunately, he was drunk all the time. During [[FaceHeelTurn his time as a villain]], Obsidian [[SelfMadeOrphan killed said adoptive father]].
* The DCU's Damage was sexually abused by his foster father.
* {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} is all over this trope. He has 3 known sons, all of whom he treats badly to various degrees. He feels nothing but contempt for Kalibak, ignoring, mocking, and blasting him with Omega Beams whenever it suits him. His other son Grayven is an outcast. He treats his daughter Grail almost as poorly, abusing her in order to use her as a weapon. Oddly enough, the son Darkseid favors most is Orion, the one he sent away to be raised by his enemies. This didn't stop Darkseid from [[spoiler:[[OffingTheOffspring killing Orion]] in the opening of ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'']].

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** ComicBook/EobardThawne, [[Characters/TheFlashEobardThawne Eobard Thawne]], on the other hand, had abusive parents who conceived him merely for research, favor his brother, and treat him with cold disdain. This is all emotional neglect, but it crosses the line to abuse when they slap him for getting angry at his younger brother's tantrums.
* Jason Rusch's ComicBook/{{Firestorm|DCComics}} (pre-reboot) was physically abused by ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'':
** Lian Harper's mother [[ComicBook/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 father.
* Brenda from the Jaime Reyes ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'' comics. Her father reportedly knocked
child looked like, her around on name, or her gender. When Roy gained custody of Lian, this started a regular basis [[spoiler:at first, but then upped the ante trend of Jade consistently disrupting their lives and put using her position as Lian's mom to exert some control on Roy. It finally reached a point when, during her stint in the hospital ComicBook/SecretSix, Jade conceived a replacement child when Lian's well-being was exploited to make her stay on the police questioned her team.
*** How much Jade truly cares
about Jaime's disappearance, causing Brenda's crime boss aunt Lian and Roy is DependingOnTheWriter. She did try to have him killed.resurrect Lian after her death and has asked Nightwing to take care of Lian. She also did leave Lian with Roy to genuinely protect her.
** ComicBook/StanleyAndHisMonster's appearance in the story arc ''ComicBook/{{Quiver}}'' sees Stanley's grandfather and namesake as this as he was a [[ReligionOfEvil Satanist]] who wanted to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] his first born infant to a demon to gain {{immortality}}, and wasn't any better to his grandson, starving and torturing 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.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}'': The villainess Hummingbird had one of these in the form of a super-fanatical GranolaGirl. The most well-known thing about Hummingbird's mom is that she stabbed Hummingbird's father ''47 times'', killing him in the process, for the "crime" of cooking pancakes for himself and Hummingbird. Hummingbird's eventual response was to tie mom up in bed and then [[SelfMadeOrphan burn her to death]]. It's unclear if she was awake or not at the time, though.
* ''ComicBook/JonahHex'': Jonah's father Woodson Hex abused his son both emotionally and physically and ultimately sold him as a slave to the Apaches.
* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': Felix Faust manages to be the worst father in comics with one act: ''selling his infant son's soul to a demon for power''. Luckily (well, sorta), the demon Nebiros decided to screw over Felix and gave the ''kid'' the power instead -- after taking the soul. Turning your own son into a soulless abomination of the universe in a selfish bid for more power takes abuse to a whole new level.
* ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'':
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Obsidian's adoptive father was physically abusive when he was drunk. Unfortunately, he was drunk all the time. During [[FaceHeelTurn his time as a villain]], Obsidian [[SelfMadeOrphan killed said adoptive father]].
* The DCU's ** Damage has something of an emotional breakdown in ''ComicBook/Titans1999'' when he reveals to Roy and Lian that he was sexually abused by his foster father.
dad (alongside physical and emotional abuse).
* {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} ''ComicBook/NewGods'': [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darksied]] is all over this trope. He has 3 known sons, all of whom he treats badly to various degrees. He feels nothing but contempt for Kalibak, ignoring, mocking, and blasting him with Omega Beams whenever it suits him. His other son Grayven is an outcast. He treats his daughter Grail almost as poorly, abusing her in order to use her as a weapon. Oddly enough, the son Darkseid favors most is Orion, the one he sent away to be raised by his enemies. This didn't stop Darkseid from [[spoiler:[[OffingTheOffspring killing Orion]] in the opening of ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'']].



* Felix Faust manages to be the worst father in comics with one act: ''selling his infant son's soul to a demon for power''. Luckily (well, sorta), the demon Nebiros decided to screw over Felix and gave the ''kid'' the power instead -- after taking the soul. Turning your own son into a soulless abomination of the universe in a selfish bid for more power takes abuse to a whole new level.
* ComicBook/JonahHex's father Woodson Hex abused his son both emotionally and physically and ultimately sold him as a slave to the Apaches.
* Hummingbird, a she-villain from ''ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}'', had one of these in the form of a super-fanatical GranolaGirl. The most well-known thing about Hummingbird's mom is that she stabbed Hummingbird's father ''47 times'', killing him in the process, for the "crime" of cooking pancakes for himself and Hummingbird. Hummingbird's eventual response was to tie mom up in bed and then [[SelfMadeOrphan burn her to death]]. It's unclear if she was awake or not at the time, though.
* Lian Harper's mother [[ComicBook/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.
** How much Jade truly cares about Lian and Roy is DependingOnTheWriter. She did try to resurrect Lian after her death and has asked Nightwing to take care of Lian. She also did leave Lian with Roy to genuinely protect her.
* ''ComicBook/Titans1999''
** Wally is the only character whose relationship with his parents in the LotusEaterMachine isn’t relatively positive.
** Damage has something of an emotional breakdown when he reveals to Roy and Lian that he was sexually abused by his foster dad (alongside physical and emotional abuse).
* ComicBook/StanleyAndHisMonster's appearance in the ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' arc "Quiver'' sees Stanley's grandfather and namesake as this as he was a [[ReligionOfEvil Satanist]] who wanted to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] his first born infant to a demon to gain {{immortality}}, and wasn't any better to his grandson, starving and torturing 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.]]
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': Astarte put her daughter, Theana, through Training from Hell—forcing her to murder one hundred other children or starve—then kept her caged like an animal. When Diana starts getting through to Theana with her message of love Astarte orders her daughter executed.
* In ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'', Arrowette's mother is a former superheroine-turned-StageMom who tries to force Cissie into taking up her old mantle so that she can vicariously relive her "glory days". While Cissie eventually forgives her, she also makes a point of not living under her mother's roof.
* In ''ComicBook/ShazamTheNewBeginning'', Dr. Thaddeus Sivana is this toward his two children Beautia and Magnificus, and also to his nephew Billy Batson, whom he was given custody of so that he could inherit the boy's life insurance from his parents in order to fund his research.
* ''ComicBook/AmethystPrincessOfGemworld'': While not his biological father, the treatment Carnelian receives from Opal is nothing shy of abusive.

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* Felix Faust manages to be the worst father in comics with one act: ''selling his infant son's soul to a demon for power''. Luckily (well, sorta), the demon Nebiros decided to screw over Felix and gave the ''kid'' the power instead -- after taking the soul. Turning your own son into a soulless abomination of the universe in a selfish bid for more power takes abuse to a whole new level.
* ComicBook/JonahHex's father Woodson Hex abused his son both emotionally and physically and ultimately sold him as a slave to the Apaches.
* Hummingbird, a she-villain from ''ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}'', had one of these in the form of a super-fanatical GranolaGirl. The most well-known thing about Hummingbird's mom is that she stabbed Hummingbird's father ''47 times'', killing him in the process, for the "crime" of cooking pancakes for himself and Hummingbird. Hummingbird's eventual response was to tie mom up in bed and then [[SelfMadeOrphan burn her to death]]. It's unclear if she was awake or not at the time, though.
* Lian Harper's mother [[ComicBook/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.
** How much Jade truly cares about Lian and Roy is DependingOnTheWriter. She did try to resurrect Lian after her death and has asked Nightwing to take care of Lian. She also did leave Lian with Roy to genuinely protect her.
* ''ComicBook/Titans1999''
** Wally is the only character whose relationship with his parents in the LotusEaterMachine isn’t relatively positive.
** Damage has something of an emotional breakdown when he reveals to Roy and Lian that he was sexually abused by his foster dad (alongside physical and emotional abuse).
* ComicBook/StanleyAndHisMonster's appearance in the ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' arc "Quiver'' sees Stanley's grandfather and namesake as this as he was a [[ReligionOfEvil Satanist]] who wanted to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] his first born infant to a demon to gain {{immortality}}, and wasn't any better to his grandson, starving and torturing 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.]]
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': Astarte put her daughter, Theana, through Training from Hell—forcing her to murder one hundred other children or starve—then kept her caged like an animal. When Diana starts getting through to Theana with her message of love Astarte orders her daughter executed.
* In ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'', Arrowette's mother is a former superheroine-turned-StageMom who tries to force Cissie into taking up her old mantle so that she can vicariously relive her "glory days". While Cissie eventually forgives her, she also makes a point of not living under her mother's roof.
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''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'': In ''ComicBook/ShazamTheNewBeginning'', Dr. Thaddeus Sivana is this toward his two children Beautia and Magnificus, and also to his nephew Billy Batson, whom he was given custody of so that he could inherit the boy's life insurance from his parents in order to fund his research.
* ''ComicBook/AmethystPrincessOfGemworld'': ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': Rorschach is subjected to this to quite some degree. In a flashback, we see his mother openly providing her services (she's a prostitute) in front of him, and when he wanders in by mistake, driving off her client, she slaps him across the face and says she should have had an abortion. Scarring stuff, indeed.
** What he ended up seeing as a kid returns throughout the comic as a pattern on walls, in his childhood drawings, in various shapes (including [[spoiler:the shape of his mask]] at times), and actually is echoed at the very end when [[spoiler:Dan and Laurie make the same shadow in a far more peaceful situation. Additionally, Ozymandias ends up alone, casting a singular shadow on the wall in contrast to the double ones shown throughout the book]].
** Speaking of Laurie, her parents -- [[spoiler:all three of them]] -- are... not very good at it either. That said, at least [[spoiler: two biological]] ones ''try.'' Sally Jupiter does regret their relationship and hopes Laurie will look past the more selfish aspects of her being a superhero stage mom, and the comic ends with her coming to grips with her bizarre parentage, [[spoiler: and happily discussing wearing a costume like her father's.]]
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2006 Vol. 3]]: Astarte put her daughter, Theana, through Training from Hell—forcing her to murder one hundred other children or starve—then kept her caged like an animal. When Diana starts getting through to Theana with her message of love Astarte orders her daughter executed.
* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': In ''ComicBook/Titans1999'', Wally is the only character whose relationship with his parents in the LotusEaterMachine isn’t relatively positive.
* ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'': Arrowette's mother is a former superheroine-turned-StageMom who tries to force Cissie into taking up her old mantle so that she can vicariously relive her "glory days".
While Cissie eventually forgives her, she also makes a point of not his biological father, the treatment Carnelian receives from Opal is nothing shy of abusive.living under her mother's roof.
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* One of the Joker's "[[MultipleChoicePast scar stories]]" in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' has Joker claiming that he got at least one of the GlasgowGrin scars from his drunken father as a child, after said father stabbed his mother to death [[ForcedToWatch right in front of him]]. He later implies that this particular story is his actual origin ("You know, you remind me of my father. I ''hated'' my father!")

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* One of the Joker's [[Characters/TheDarkKnightTrilogyTheJoker The Joker's]] "[[MultipleChoicePast scar stories]]" in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' has Joker claiming that he got at least one of the GlasgowGrin scars from his drunken father as a child, after said father stabbed his mother to death [[ForcedToWatch right in front of him]]. He later implies that this particular story is his actual origin ("You know, you remind me of my father. I ''hated'' my father!")



** ''Film/Shazam2019'': Thaddeus Sivana's father used to belittle him along with his brother and told him he shouldn't ask for help when being tormented. Even worse, after they get into an accident, he further disowns Thaddeus. This eventually sets off Thaddeus' StartOfDarkness.
** ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'': According the opening narratation, [[ComicBook/HarleyQuinn Harley Quinn]] had an abusive father who traded her for a six pack of beer and when she kept coming back, he sent her to [[SternNun the Sisters of St. Bernadette]].

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** ''Film/Shazam2019'': [[Characters/DCEUDoctorSivana Thaddeus Sivana's Sivana's]] father used to belittle him along with his brother and told him he shouldn't ask for help when being tormented. Even worse, after they get into an accident, he further disowns Thaddeus. This eventually sets off Thaddeus' StartOfDarkness.
** ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'': According the opening narratation, [[ComicBook/HarleyQuinn [[Characters/DCEUHarleyQuinn Harley Quinn]] had an abusive father who traded her for a six pack of beer and when she kept coming back, he sent her to [[SternNun the Sisters of St. Bernadette]].



* ''Film/Joker2019'': In a flashback, it is shown that Penny Fleck's boyfriend used to severely beat her son Arthur, all the while she did nothing about it. Realizing this brings Arthur further into madness and it becomes a key factor of him becoming ComicBook/TheJoker.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'' movie, an adaptation of the Death Of Superman arc, ComicBook/LexLuthor makes a clone of Superman that quickly gets into BewareTheSuperman territory. However, he keeps doing whatever Lex tells him, as he was programmed to do--including, in one of his early scenes, just standing there and taking it when Luthor has him walk into a red-sun chamber and then whales on him mercilessly with kryptonite-knuckled gauntlets while screaming out his frustration with Superman for dying and leaving him. Later he has the classic AbusiveParents line "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out of it."

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* ''Film/Joker2019'': In a flashback, it is shown that Penny Fleck's boyfriend used to severely beat her son Arthur, all the while she did nothing about it. Realizing this brings Arthur further into madness and it becomes a key factor of him becoming ComicBook/TheJoker.
[[Characters/Joker2019ArthurFleckJoker The Joker]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'' movie, an adaptation of the Death Of Superman arc, ComicBook/LexLuthor Lex Luthor makes a clone of Superman that quickly gets into BewareTheSuperman territory. However, he keeps doing whatever Lex tells him, as he was programmed to do--including, in one of his early scenes, just standing there and taking it when Luthor has him walk into a red-sun chamber and then whales on him mercilessly with kryptonite-knuckled gauntlets while screaming out his frustration with Superman for dying and leaving him. Later he has the classic AbusiveParents line "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out of it."



* ''Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}'': Lewis Snart in ''Series/TheFlash2014'' and ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', a former corrupt cop and a thief. After going to jail for attempting to steal an emerald (or attempting to sell it to an undercover cop in the altered timeline), he comes out bitter and abusive to his kids. He starts to use his son Leo in jobs, beginning Leonard's own criminal career. Lewis clearly has no particular love for his children, perfectly willing to implant a bomb in his daughter's head in order to force his son to participate in his latest job. [[spoiler:As soon as Cisco extracts the bomb from Lisa's head, Leo pays his father back by (literally) icing him with his cold gun]]. Later, when Leonard travels back to his childhood, he only holds back from shooting his old man because his sister hasn't been conceived yet.
* ''Series/Peacemaker2022'': Auggie Smith, the father of Christopher Smith/Peacemaker, raised his son as an assassin and constantly abuses him both emotionally and verbally, and it's implied he may have been physical with him as a child. This reaches a point where [[spoiler: he takes the mantle of the White Dragon and [[OffingTheOffspring tries to kill his son]]. Even worse is that he forced his two sons to fight for entertainment when they were kids, and [[NeverMyFault blamed Peacemaker for accidentally killing his brother]], something he held over him for years.]]

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* ''Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}'': [[Characters/ArrowverseLeonardSnart Lewis Snart Snart]] in ''Series/TheFlash2014'' and ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', a former corrupt cop and a thief. After going to jail for attempting to steal an emerald (or attempting to sell it to an undercover cop in the altered timeline), he comes out bitter and abusive to his kids. He starts to use his son Leo in jobs, beginning Leonard's own criminal career. Lewis clearly has no particular love for his children, perfectly willing to implant a bomb in his daughter's head in order to force his son to participate in his latest job. [[spoiler:As soon as Cisco extracts the bomb from Lisa's head, Leo pays his father back by (literally) icing him with his cold gun]]. Later, when Leonard travels back to his childhood, he only holds back from shooting his old man because his sister hasn't been conceived yet.
* ''Series/Peacemaker2022'': Auggie Smith, the father of [[Characters/DCEUPeacemaker Christopher Smith/Peacemaker, Smith / Peacemaker]], raised his son as an assassin and constantly abuses him both emotionally and verbally, and it's implied he may have been physical with him as a child. This reaches a point where [[spoiler: he takes the mantle of the White Dragon and [[OffingTheOffspring tries to kill his son]]. Even worse is that he forced his two sons to fight for entertainment when they were kids, and [[NeverMyFault blamed Peacemaker for accidentally killing his brother]], something he held over him for years.]]



** Harley's parents were emotionally abusive throughout her younger years, [[spoiler: and [[OffingTheOffspring try to kill her in the present day]] [[ParentalBetrayal for a bounty]].]]

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** Harley's [[Characters/HarleyQuinn2019TheCharacter Harley Quinn's]] parents were emotionally abusive throughout her younger years, [[spoiler: and [[OffingTheOffspring try to kill her in the present day]] [[ParentalBetrayal for a bounty]].]]
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* ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}/Slade Wilson. Even putting aside how [[spoiler:he was heavily involved in the deaths of both of his sons]], you could make a case for this solely for Slade's youngest child. Rose Wilson has spent most of her life since her dad discovered her existence trying to deal with his epic-scale emotional manipulations. [[spoiler:After rejecting her at first, he stormed back into her life by having her foster family killed and her kidnapped. Then he lured her into being his apprentice and injected her with the same super-soldier serum that gave him his meta-human fighting abilities (crossing over into Physical Abuse as such). Rose eventually had a psychotic break and carved out [[EyeScream her own eye]] to prove her loyalty to him.]]

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* ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}/Slade Wilson.[[Characters/{{Deathstroke}} Slade Wilson]]. Even putting aside how [[spoiler:he was heavily involved in the deaths of both of his sons]], you could make a case for this solely for Slade's youngest child. Rose Wilson has spent most of her life since her dad discovered her existence trying to deal with his epic-scale emotional manipulations. [[spoiler:After rejecting her at first, he stormed back into her life by having her foster family killed and her kidnapped. Then he lured her into being his apprentice and injected her with the same super-soldier serum that gave him his meta-human fighting abilities (crossing over into Physical Abuse as such). Rose eventually had a psychotic break and carved out [[EyeScream her own eye]] to prove her loyalty to him.]]



** In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', [[PosthumousCharacter Alexander Luthor, Snr.]], who used to beat his son, [[Comicbook/LexLuthor Lex]] (at the very least -- Lex does mention "daddy's fists and ''abominations''") while [[VillainWithGoodPublicity presenting himself to the public]] as a loving father.

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** In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', [[PosthumousCharacter Alexander Luthor, Snr.]], who used to beat his son, [[Comicbook/LexLuthor [[Characters/DCEULexLuthor Lex]] (at the very least -- Lex does mention "daddy's fists and ''abominations''") while [[VillainWithGoodPublicity presenting himself to the public]] as a loving father.
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* ''Series/Peacemaker2022'': Auggie Smith, the father of Christopher Smith/Peacemaker, raised his son as an assassin and constantly abuses him both emotionally and verbally, and it's implied he may have been physical with him as a child. This reaches a point where [[spoiler: he takes the mantle of the White Dragon and [[OffingTheOffspring tries to kill his son]]. Even worse is that he forced his two sons to fight for entertainment when they were kids, and [[NeverMyFault blamed Peacemaker for accidentally killing his brother]], something he held over him for years.]]

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'' movie, an adaptation of the Death Of Superman arc, ComicBook/LexLuthor makes a clone of Superman that quickly gets into BewareTheSuperman territory. However, he keeps doing whatever Lex tells him, as he was programmed to do--including, in one of his early scenes, just standing there and taking it when Luthor has him walk into a red-sun chamber and then whales on him mercilessly with kryptonite-knuckled gauntlets while screaming out his frustration with Superman for dying and leaving him. Later he has the classic AbusiveParents line "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out of it."
** This is all especially chilling because it's presumably what would have happened to the comics character Kon-El, Conner Kent, Post-Crisis Superboy, if Luthor's experiments had run a little more smoothly.
-->'''Lex:''' WHO'S YOUR DADDY?
** The clone is all KnightTemplar, so he goes rogue from Lex [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal after that]], and the first thing he does is dig the kryptonite bomb out of his skull with laser vision (incidentally, apparently the hemispheres of his brain aren't linked?), and then he saves Lois and Jimmy from Lex...and then rather horribly slaughters [[SendInTheClones Lex's incipient clone army]], ranging from oversized fetuses to nearly-mature specimens, with the ironic comment "Evil Supermen? Not on my watch!" The line of clones at the stage of development Conner was when he entered the scene were especially nasty to see die, although it was obvious as soon as they were introduced that they'd all have to be massacred somehow.
* ''WesternAnimation/WonderWomanBloodlines'': In a rather direct contrast to the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 source material]] "Mothers are Bad" appears to be a consistent motif in the film. Hippolyta banished Diana after she decided to help Steve Trevor, Julia was immensely strict and negligent with Vanessa to the point that watching her treat Diana differently drove her mad with jealousy, Pasiphae made her own son the Minotaur into an eternal brainwashed guardian of her shrine, and Veronica Cale describes her own mother as an alcoholic with an "icy glare".
* In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', [[PosthumousCharacter Alexander Luthor, Snr.]], who used to beat his son, [[Comicbook/LexLuthor Lex]] (at the very least -- Lex does mention "daddy's fists and ''abominations''") while [[VillainWithGoodPublicity presenting himself to the public]] as a loving father.



* ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse'':
** In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', [[PosthumousCharacter Alexander Luthor, Snr.]], who used to beat his son, [[Comicbook/LexLuthor Lex]] (at the very least -- Lex does mention "daddy's fists and ''abominations''") while [[VillainWithGoodPublicity presenting himself to the public]] as a loving father.
** ''Film/Shazam2019'': Thaddeus Sivana's father used to belittle him along with his brother and told him he shouldn't ask for help when being tormented. Even worse, after they get into an accident, he further disowns Thaddeus. This eventually sets off Thaddeus' StartOfDarkness.
** ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'': According the opening narratation, [[ComicBook/HarleyQuinn Harley Quinn]] had an abusive father who traded her for a six pack of beer and when she kept coming back, he sent her to [[SternNun the Sisters of St. Bernadette]].
** ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'':
*** Robert Dubois/Bloodsport's father used to cruelly [[AndIMustScream trap him in a barrel full of starving rats]] every time he didn't do a task right, causing his fear of rats. His father's cruelty [[FridgeHorror could also be why]] [[BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting Bloodsport didn't want his daughter going to prison.]]
*** Polka-Dot-Man's MadScientist of a mother was so obsessed with turning her children into superheroes that she infected them with an interdimensional virus, [[OffingTheOffspring even killing some of his siblings.]] In fact, Polka-Dot-Man [[HatesTheirParent hates his mother so much]] he imagines everyone as her to make it easier for him to kill them.



* ''Film/Shazam2019'': Thaddeus Sivana's father used to belittle him along with his brother and told him he shouldn't ask for help when being tormented. Even worse, after they get into an accident, he further disowns Thaddeus. This eventually sets off Thaddeus' StartOfDarkness.

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* ''Film/Shazam2019'': Thaddeus Sivana's father used In the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'' movie, an adaptation of the Death Of Superman arc, ComicBook/LexLuthor makes a clone of Superman that quickly gets into BewareTheSuperman territory. However, he keeps doing whatever Lex tells him, as he was programmed to belittle do--including, in one of his early scenes, just standing there and taking it when Luthor has him along walk into a red-sun chamber and then whales on him mercilessly with kryptonite-knuckled gauntlets while screaming out his brother frustration with Superman for dying and told him leaving him. Later he shouldn't ask for help when being tormented. Even worse, has the classic AbusiveParents line "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out of it."
** This is all especially chilling because it's presumably what would have happened to the comics character Kon-El, Conner Kent, Post-Crisis Superboy, if Luthor's experiments had run a little more smoothly.
-->'''Lex:''' WHO'S YOUR DADDY?
** The clone is all KnightTemplar, so he goes rogue from Lex [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal
after that]], and the first thing he does is dig the kryptonite bomb out of his skull with laser vision (incidentally, apparently the hemispheres of his brain aren't linked?), and then he saves Lois and Jimmy from Lex...and then rather horribly slaughters [[SendInTheClones Lex's incipient clone army]], ranging from oversized fetuses to nearly-mature specimens, with the ironic comment "Evil Supermen? Not on my watch!" The line of clones at the stage of development Conner was when he entered the scene were especially nasty to see die, although it was obvious as soon as they get were introduced that they'd all have to be massacred somehow.
* ''WesternAnimation/WonderWomanBloodlines'': In a rather direct contrast to the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 source material]] "Mothers are Bad" appears to be a consistent motif in the film. Hippolyta banished Diana after she decided to help Steve Trevor, Julia was immensely strict and negligent with Vanessa to the point that watching her treat Diana differently drove her mad with jealousy, Pasiphae made her own son the Minotaur
into an accident, he further disowns Thaddeus. This eventually sets off Thaddeus' StartOfDarkness. eternal brainwashed guardian of her shrine, and Veronica Cale describes her own mother as an alcoholic with an "icy glare".

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