History Main / StrictParentsMakeSneakyKids

* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallylReallyLoveYou'': After catching a brief glimpse of a ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' film to the disapproval of her parents, Rin secretly indulged herself in violent movies on her phone at night.

** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseFamilies Madison]]'s mother Emma tries to limit Madison's security violations at Monarch, [[spoiler:and she's even outright emotionally manipulative to the girl [[EcoTerrorist in a horrible way]]]]. Madison in turn is skilled enough to steal the ORCA, sneak out through a ventilation shaft, and walk a few miles on foot without being detected by her mother [[spoiler:or by the murderous mercenaries her mother has been working with]] until she's far away.

* Little Willie Connolly in J.R. Lowell's occult thriller ''Literature/DaughterOfDarkness'' is a [[DeliberatelyCuteChild Deliberately Cute]] ChildProdigy who obeys all her parents' rules, carefully maintaining her "facade of docility" so that there's no need to supervise her. Her privacy is extremely important, as is her [[TheDollEpisode doll collection]], which everyone assumes is connected with her anthropological studies. [[RitualMagic They're partly right]].

* Much of why the plot of ''Fanfic/TheOutside'' happens, though, it's not Ryuuko's parents but, her agoraphobic IllGirl overprotective older sister, Satsuki, who forbids the former from going outside, so, to experience what she calls the "Outside", she has to sneak because Satsuki would have told her "No." if she asked (and she did when Ryuuko tried).

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* Little Willie Connolly in J.R. Lowell's occult thriller ''Literature/DaughterOfDarkness'' is a [[DeliberatelyCuteChild Deliberately Cute]] ChildProdigy who obeys all her parents' rules, carefully maintaining her "facade of docility" so that there's no need to supervise her. Her privacy is extremely important, as is her [[TheDollEpisode doll collection]], which everyone assumes is connected with her anthropological studies. [[RitualMagic They're partly right]].

-->'''Dharma:''' Greg, that's ridiculous.
-->'''Greg:''' No, it's darwinian. The smartest ones get to breed.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': {{Inverted|Trope}} by Toph Beifong, who wanted her kids to have the freedom she never had. [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished As a result]], one of her daughters falls in with a criminal gang and the other becomes a ByTheBookCop, Ironically, the first daughter manages to get a good life, but the second one greatly resents Toph and accuses her of ParentalAbandonment. Even worse, Toph's grandchild becomes a villain still resentful of his mother, so it seems that for the entire maternal Beifong's lineage, the FreudianExcuse is a running theme.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''

** In season 5, [[spoiler: we discover Pink Diamond had a similar relationship with her fellow Diamonds. Despite being much more assertive than Connie, Pink was still undermined by Yellow and Blue, considered to be her main parental figures. As a result, she is forced to keep her alter-ego as Rose Quartz and her visits to Earth, which is strictly forbidden by the Diamonds, a secret. When they refuse to let her give up her colony and end up taking control of the planet away from her because she won't complete it, Pink ends up secretly betraying them and faked her death with Pearl's help. Ultimately, the Diamonds are still unaware of Pink's true fate for thousands of years until the end of "Reunited".]]
* WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries: Cassandra is the adoptive daughter of the Captain of the guard and so she is a MilitaryBrat. The standards Cassandra's father sets for her are higher then for everyone else and he prefers Cassandra works as a LadyInWaiting rather than let her join the Royal Guard. Cassandra wants to have adventures and sneaks princess Rapunzel out of the castle to see some strange rocks, kicking off the plot. The first season shows Cassandra helping Rapunzel getting into adventures, the King finds out and sends Cassandra to a convent. In the third season of the series, this backfires spectacularly: Cassandra discovers she is the daughter of Mother Gothel, who kidnapped princess Rapunzel when she was a child and committed ParentalAbandonment to Cassandra; Cassandra becomes the last season ArcVillain and is considered the biggest threat the Kingdom has ever faced.

* Little Willie Connolly in J.R. Lowell's occult thriller ''Daughter of Darkness'' is a [[DeliberatelyCuteChild Deliberately Cute]] ChildProdigy who obeys all her parents' rules, carefully maintaining her "facade of docility" so that there's no need to supervise her. Her privacy is extremely important, as is her [[TheDollEpisode doll collection]], which everyone assumes is connected with her anthropological studies. [[RitualMagic They're partly right]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': Part of Mei's [[ComingOfAgeStory growth]] throughout the film has her skirting around her normally strict schedule and expectations placed by her [[MyBelovedSmother mother]]. Even before the panda pushed her to be more daring, she attempts to hide away her romantic drawings of Devon. After getting the panda, Mei lies about her afterschool whereabouts, her diminishing school performance, and sneaking off to Tyler's party.

Most parents will do anything to protect their kids. Naturally, this means setting some restrictions. Sometimes however, they can become [[ParentsAsPeople too over-protective, albeit well-intentioned,]] to the point of giving them almost no freedom. In these scenarios, the child might obey their parent's every rule. Other times, they just become better at hiding things from their parents. This can go to even higher extremes in fiction, where a child may very well have a secret other life DemonSlaying or as a magical warrior, though their secrets could also be much more mundane. In any case, the child is keeping secrets from their over-protective parent.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': {{Inverted|Trope}} by Toph Beifong, who wanted her kids to have the freedom she never had. [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished As a result]], one of her daughters falls in with a criminal gang and the other becomes a ByTheBookCop, Ironically, the first daughter manages to get a good life, but the second one greatly resents Toph and accuses her of ParentalAbandonment. Even worse, Toph's grandchild becomes a villain still resentful of his mother, so it seems that for the entire maternal Beifong's lineage, the FreudianExcuse is InTheBlood.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Toph's parents were over-protective and strict with their "helpless little blind girl"...which resulted in her becoming the reigning champion of an underground earthbending arena behind their backs, and ultimately running away to teach Aang earthbending. It takes her saving her father and his employees from a cave-in and an iron mine for him to recognize her worth (note that this is ''after'' she invents metalbending and helps take down the Fire Nation).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': {{Inverted|Trope}} by Toph, who wanted her kids to have the freedom she never had. [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished As a result]], one of her daughters falls in with a criminal gang and the other becomes a ByTheBookCop, Ironically, the first daughter manages to get a good life, but the second one greatly resents Toph and accuses her of ParentalAbandonment. Even worse, Toph grandchild becomes a villain still resentful of her mother, so it seems that for the entire Thop's lineage, the FreudianExcuse is InTheBlood.

* WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries: Cassandra is the adoptive daughter of the Captain of the guard and so she is a MilitaryBrat. The standards Cassandra's father sets for her are higher then for everyone else and he prefers Cassandra works as a LadyInWaiting rather than let her join the Royal Guard. Cassandra wants to have adventures and sneaks princess Rapunzel out of the castle to see some strange rocks, kicking off the plot. In the third season of the series, this backfires spectacularly: Cassandra discovers she is the daughter of Mother Gothel, who kidnapped princess Rapunzel when she was a child and committed ParentalAbandonment to Cassandra; Cassandra becomes the last season ArcVillain and is considered the biggest threat the Kingdom has ever faced.

* WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries: Cassandra is the adoptive daughter of the Captain of the guard and so she is a MilitaryBrat. The standars of her father for Cassandra are higher than for everyone else and he prefers Cassandra works as a LadyInWaiting that let her join the Royal Guard. Cassandra wants to have adventures and sneaks princess Rapunzel out of the castle to see some strange rocks, kicking off the plot. At the third season, this backfires spectacularly: Cassandra discovers she is the daughter of Mother Gothel, who kidnapped princess Rapunzel when she was child and commited ParentalAbandonment with Cassandra, and becomes the last season ArcVillain and is considered the biggest threat the Kingdom has ever faced.

* WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries: Cassandra is the adoptive daughter of the Captain of the guard and so she is a MilitaryBrat. The standars of her father for Cassandra are higher than for everyone else and he prefers Cassandra works as a LadyInWaiting that let her join the Royal Guard. Cassandra wants to have adventures and sneaks princess Rapunzel out of the castle to see some strange rocks, kicking off the plot. At the third season, this backfires spectacularly: Cassandra discovers she is the daughter of Mother Gothel, who kidnapped princess Rapunzel when she was child and commited ParentalAbandonment with Cassandra, and becomes the last season ArcVillain and is considered the biggest threat the Kingdom has ever faced.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': {{Inverted|Trope}} by Toph, who wanted her kids to have the freedom she never had. [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished As a result]], one of her daughters falls in with a criminal gang and the other becomes a ByTheBookCop, Ironically, the first daughter manages to get a good life, but the second one greatly resents Toph and accuses her of ParentalAbandonment.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': {{Inverted|Trope}} by Toph, who wanted her kids to have the freedom she never had. [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished As a result]], one of her daughters falls in with a criminal gang and the other a ByTheBookCop.

* Implied in ''Disney/{{Tangled}}''. Rapunzel actively hides Pascal from Mother Gothel, likely for fear that if discovered he would be taken away from her.

* [[Comicbook/MsMarvel2014 The Kamela Khan Ms. Marvel]] of course had to do this as a {{Superhero}}, but Kamela Khan's parents are very strict in all aspects of her life. However, when Kamela finally told her mother about her secret identity, she revealed that she already knew and was pleased that her daughter's darkest secret was sneaking out to help others.

* In ''Series/TheNanny'', Maxwell is adamant in not letting Maggie, his teenage daughter date thinking boys will just mistreat her. However, he ends up loosening up on this thanks to Fran's influence, who thinks that dating is a part of growing up. As Fran says, "If you don't let them (boys) in thought the front door, then they'll (the daughter's) just sneak out the back window."
* Discussed in ''Series/DharmaAndGreg'', when they find themselves taking care of a friend's teenage daughter. Greg and Dharma argue about keeping her away from her boyfriend. When Dharma claims that they'll find a way to get together anyway, Greg agrees, but insists that it's their job as guardians to lay down the rules, and force kids to sneak around in order to date.
-->'''Dharma:''' Greg, that's ridiculous.
-->'''Greg:''' No, it's darwinian. The smartest ones get to breed.

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