History Main / TroubledAbuser

** "Bull-E" implies that [[MyBelovedSmother Agnes Skinner]]'s mother never once told her she loved here, which is why she became an utterly unpleasable parent herself. When a therapist digs this up by taking a wild guess, she bursts into tears.

* Light example from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer Simpson frequently physically abuses Bart, it is often revealed in flashbacks that his own father Abe was rather aloof and emotionally abusive to him as well. Abe was in some cases even seen strangling Homer in the same manner the latter does to Bart today.
-->'''Homer:''' He said I was an accident, he didn't wanna have me.\\

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy"

* In ''FanFic/CrimsonAndEmerald'', Endeavor is eventually revealed to be this. [[spoiler: His own father, Ryu Todoroki, was abusive to his wife and young Enji, to the point that Enji grew up to believe that such treatment of one's family was ''normal'']]. This, combined with his issues over being AlwaysSecondBest, turned someone who UsedToBeASweetKid into the {{Jerkass}} AbusiveParent of the current day.

* ''FanFic/WithPearlAndRubyGlowing'' has a few abused characters repeating their own abuse on others, mostly [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior kids too young to grasp what happened to them properly]]; Myrtle Edmonds repeated her aunt's assault on her on Lilo, and Lock, Shock, and Barrel performed sex acts on a sleeping Victor Van Dort because Oogie Boogie had previously trained them to do so with him. Fan-written segment "Campfire Stories" has been approved by the main fic's authors, and depicts Randal similarly as a survivor and drug addict, re-enacting his own abuse on Boo.
* Discussed ''Fanfic/ThePeaceNotPromised''. The main reason why Lily's father starts off being against her relationship with Severus is because he grew up in an abusive household and would be at risk for turning abusive himself (not helped by the fact that he had already called her a highly offensive slur the prior year).

** Severus Snape is notable for his being a SadistTeacher who favors Slytherins over those from other Houses and dishing out cruelty, insults, and strictness to the latter. However, starting from ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'', the reader discovers that he is one of these. He was bullied throughout his school years by the Marauders (though it's unclear whether he or they instigated their antagonistic relationship), hinted to have had an abusive or at least neglectful father and neglectful mother, and [[spoiler:lost any chance of being with his one true love, Lily Evans, when he called her a FantasticSlur and joined a hate group. Then he had to watch her date and marry one of his bullies (who, unlike Snape, has learned his lessons and ''[[ReformedBully stopped]]'' being a {{Jerkass}}) and have a child with him. Finally, she ended up dying for that child, despite his attempts to make a deal with Voldemort to save her life.]] He then spends the next sixteen years trying to make up for what he's done [[spoiler:and playing a vital role as Dumbledore's double agent]]...while in a parallel bullying Neville to the point of traumatizing him, psychologically abusing Harry due to his heritage, verbally abusing Hermione when she's crying over having been humiliated by Draco, (note that these are all ''children''), etc.
** Sirius subjects his house-elf, Kreacher, to a barrage of verbal and physical abuse in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' because he goes out of his way to be a reminder of Sirius' rotten childhood caused by his status as TheUnfavourite [[ParentalFavoritism in the eyes of his parents, who unsubtly liked his brother Regulus better than him]] while they are stuck in the same house for a year due to Sirius being under a Dumbledore imposed house arrest. Even after he left his AbusiveParents, he couldn't catch a break. His best friends were betrayed by someone they thought was their friend, resulting in the deaths of two of them orphaning their son, Sirius' godson. To top it all off, ''he'' was blamed for every crime that said false friend committed and sent to [[FateWorseThanDeath Azkaban]], where he was subjected to enough MindRape to make him YoungerThanTheyLook. Kreacher in turn ''hates'' him and does everything he can to annoy Sirius. Dumbledore notes that Sirius was [[NiceToTheWaiter nice to house-elves]] for the most part, but Kreacher was a living reminder of the home and family he hated, and Sirius took his frustrations out on the house-elf. [[spoiler: Harry, who is NiceToTheWaiter and doesn't have Sirius' past with Kreacher, quickly gains the elf's loyalty.]]

** Harry's Aunt Petunia is notorious for being one of Harry Potter's {{Abusive|Parents}} MuggleFosterParents, but then we find out that she was jealous of her sister Lily's turning out to be a witch. She not only begged to be able to go to Hogwarts, but she felt overshadowed by her sister in the eyes of their parents (which wasn't exactly Lily's fault, though, and does NOT justify her horrible treatment of Harry).
* So many works by Creator/StephenKing feature at least one of these

** The novel ''Literature/Rage1977'' focuses on a school shooting in which Charlie Decker, the VillainProtagonist, kills multiple people and holds several students hostage. The narration reveals that Charlie Decker [[AbusiveParents has suffered multiple incidents of physical abuse at the hands of his father]], including one where Charlie Decker was hit so hard with a belt that it required a trip to the emergency room, where Charlie gave a CutHimselfShaving excuse to explain his injuries.
** In another Creator/StephenKing novel, ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'', the eponymous character is regularly subjected to loads of abuse by her widowed Christian fundamentalist mother, Margaret White. We later find out that Carrie is a ChildByRape. At one point, Carrie's parents were so hard-line fundamentalist that they were remaining celibate and then Mr. White changed his mind and forced himself on Margaret in a combination of NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization and MaritalRapeLicense. [[DefiledForever She is so ashamed of having "sinned"]] and so unwilling to think of her experience as rape that she refuses to believe that she's pregnant when she is, calling it "a cancer of the womanly parts."
*** Chris Hargensen also counts, being one of Carrie's ''many'' bullies, one of the key players in [[spoiler:the infamous "pig's blood" prank that ends up being Carrie's DespairEventHorizon]], and a victim of DomesticAbuse by her boyfriend, Billy.

* In the novel ''[[Literature/RiftersTrilogy Starfish]]'', one of the characters is a pedophile named Gerry. At some points, the narration follows his [[SwitchingPOV point-of-view]], and it's revealed that he himself was molested as a child.
* Edward Cullen in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' was orphaned by UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu as a teenager and [[TheAtoner is trying to make up for]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone a period of time in which he killed humans and drank their blood]]. Also, from how his family describes his behavior just before he met Bella, he seems to have met the criteria for clinical depression. Despite being Bella's love interest, that hasn't stopped the multitude of pieces published on the Internet [[http://pamgutz.livejournal.com/6499.html on]] [[http://outoftheashes.xanga.com/719688148/domestic-abuse-in-twilight/ why]] [[http://vampirely.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/extra-credit-the-twilight-saga-and-domestic-abuse/ he]] [[http://impishidea.com/criticism/538/twilight-abridged-and-annotated-chapter-10 is]] [[http://twimedia.blogspot.com/2010/04/watching-you-sleep-control-and-abuse-in.html a]] [[http://www.squidoo.com/cullenabuse domestic abuser]]. For one thing, he sabotaged Bella's truck when she was about to go out to see her friend Jacob. Controlling where a partner can or can't go or who they can or can't have contact with, as well as damaging their personal property, is abusive behavior and is noted as such in resources on dealing with abuse.
* In ''Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'', Warren, one of the ScaryBlackMan attendants who are downright abusive toward the patients of the mental hospital they work in, is said to have [[HarmfulToMinors seen his mother being raped by a white man as a child]].
* [[Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream AM's]] sole female victim, Ellen, is subjected to abuse by Gorrister and (At the very least an emotional level, although it may have gone further seeing his status as an UnreliableNarrator) Ted, who AM has also been torturing nonstop for 109 years. The other two victims are either too insane to possibly do anything or apathetic to the whole thing.
** Though far more and extreme and far less understandable, AM itself. It was built as a war machine, but was hated and feared by its creators for ''doing its job'' -- originally named "Allied Mastercomputer", they quickly started bemoaning it as "Aggressive Machine". 109 years after it takes over the world, AM is just as trapped as its victims, with complete control over its captives but unable to better itself in any way, howling in rage at its own powerlessness.

* ''The End of Alice'' by A.M. Homes features a pedophile who was sexually abused by his mother as a child. Both the sexual abuse he inflicted on a young girl [[spoiler:before killing her]] as well as that he received are described in graphic detail that certainly qualifies as High Octane Nightmare Fuel.

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* [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=Time+heals+no+wounds#/d4z3yme Toki]]. She starts out like this and abuses her friends and then Frailine. Her reasons for any of this: She's mentally ill and cannot always discern right from wrong, and another is that she was abused and almost died of leukemia as a result of her caregiver's neglect (something she can't let go and that drove her insane, thus making her ticking time bomb all through high school, in which she was borderline insane) and now wanted to be the one in control and the one to hurt. Her reasons for abusing Frailine is because its more like revenge and a slap to the face to her deceased adopted (technically foster) mother for abusing her after Frailine was born, IrrationalHatred, and MisplacedRetribution. Sad thing about that, she wasn't always like this and was once very sweet, making her sort of a JerkassWoobie and her past a BreakTheCutie.

->'''Homer''': He said I was an accident... he didn't wanna have me.\\
'''Marge''': You didn't want to have Bart.\\
'''Homer''': I know, but you're not supposed to ''tell'' the child. \\
'''Marge''': You tell Bart all the time! You told him this morning!\\
'''Homer''': ''[flustered]'' But when ''I'' do it, it's cute!

--> '''Shiro''': I have never been loved, so I don't know how to love.

--> '''Sirius''': You've never once stood up to that man. You've bowed and scraped and let your father bully you your entire life, and you can't stand that I refuse to let you do the same to me.

-->'''Trishien''': You always did hide behind your anger, Ganth. When you couldn't have what you wanted, you tried to tear down everything, at whatever cost to anyone else. You were hurt, by your brother, by your father, by life, so you hurt others.

-->'''God''': Look Bob... okay, picture this long line of fathers and sons stretching from Adam all the way down to Andy. Now, [[TheChainOfHarm they're all passing down this punch]], from one generation to the next, [[SinsOfOurFathers father to son]], and the trick is to pass on a softer punch. Your father passed on a softer punch.

-->'''Homer''': He said I was an accident, he didn't wanna have me.\\
'''Marge''': You didn't want to have Bart.\\
'''Homer''': Yeah but you're not supposed to tell the child.\\
'''Marge''': You tell Bart all the time, you told him this morning.\\
'''Homer''': *flustered* [[MoralMyopia But when I do it, it's cute]]!

->'''Homer:''' He said I was an accident... he didn't wanna have me.\\
'''Marge:''' You didn't want to have Bart.\\
'''Homer:''' I know, but you're not supposed to ''tell'' the child. \\
'''Marge:''' You tell Bart all the time! You told him this morning!\\
'''Homer:''' ''[flustered]'' But when ''I'' do it, it's cute!

--> '''Shiro:''' I have never been loved, so I don't know how to love.

--> '''Sirius:''' You've never once stood up to that man. You've bowed and scraped and let your father bully you your entire life, and you can't stand that I refuse to let you do the same to me.

* Takumi Ichinose, Hachi's abusive boyfriend, from ''Manga/{{NANA}}'' has [[spoiler:had an alcoholic father and an IllGirl mother, so he and his sister were forced to raise themselves.]]

* ''Fanfic/TheGreatAceAttorney'' has Barok's brother Klint gaslighting him and making him doubt his perceptions [[spoiler:so that he can get away with murder,]] something which has a clear negative effect on Barok. This is because [[spoiler:Klint knows if Barok finds out about his crimes--which he's being blackmailed into doing--he will turn him in in a heartbeat, and the resultant public backlash could ruin not only Barok, but Klint's daughter as well by association.]] Barok still calls him out on it when the whole truth is revealed.

* Cain from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', [[CainAndAbel as the first murderer]], [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality has to live out his part of the story he's part of]] by repeatedly murdering his brother Abel. As both brothers are immortal (being stories), Abel keeps coming back, and Cain keeps murdering him in extremely painful ways on the flimsiest of pretexts. What makes Cain troubled is that he tries to genuinely love Abel as a brother, is partially aware that it's the story that made them both that compels him to keep murdering him, and even tries resisting it. Nevertheless, he can't resist his own nature for long. [[spoiler:When the Eumenedes destroy Abel during their attack on the Dreaming, Cain is devastated and the first thing he does upon Dream's transmigration is to demand Abel be restored, as the two of them are ''supposed'' to be duo.}}

* Cain from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', [[CainAndAbel as the first murderer]], [[TheTheoryOfNarrativeCausality has to live out his part of the story he's part of]] by repeatedly murdering his brother Abel. As both brothers are immortal (being stories), Abel keeps coming back, and Cain keeps murdering him in extremely painful ways on the flimsiest of pretexts. What makes Cain troubled is that he tries to genuinely love Abel as a brother, is partially aware that it's the story that made them both that compels him to keep murdering him, and even tries resisting it. Nevertheless, he can't resist his own nature for long. [[spoiler:When the Eumenedes destroy Abel during their attack on the Dreaming, Cain is devastated and the first thing he does upon Dream's transmigration is to demand Abel be restored, as the two of them are ''supposed'' to be duo.}}

* Popopoka's Blind Girl comics features a recurring bully girl who stops at nothing to pick on the heroine, even encouraging other people to do the same (not like that's hard, since [[SadistShow nearly everyone is an asshole to her anyway]]). One selection of comics shows that this bully actually has severe self esteem issues of her own, to the point where she's cutting herself, but the reason for it has yet to be revealed. She also seems to secretly crave the Blind Girl's attention, but her insecurities combined with her own self-loathing make her lash out at the girl instead.

** The abused child in question, [[spoiler:Logan Echolls]] torments Veronica, provides the drugs that are used in her rape, and arranges such deranged activities as "bum fights." Despite being one of her biggest tormenters, he eventually became Veronica's boyfriend. He became woobified, as large portions of the audience chose to excuse his actions on the basis of the abuse he suffered at the hands of his father.

* Kousei's [[ParentalAbuse mother]] in ''Manga/YourLieInApril'' is eventually revealed to be this - [[spoiler: the reason she was such a stickler for [[TechnicianVsPerformer playing the music as-written]] was due to her illness giving her only so much time to spend with him, and wanting to make sure he could provide for himself when she was gone]].

* In the ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'', Bruce Banner's father, Brian, beat his son out of envy for his wife Rebecca's attention, and the fear that his son was a monster (simply because Bruce was highly intelligent from an early age, potentially even more than Brian, who was a nuclear physicist). He later directs this abuse [[DomesticAbuse to his wife]] and eventually kills her, which leads to him being institutionalized. He later is released under his son's custody, and reveals that his own father abused him, and considers him a "monster". He later tries to kill Bruce to put an end to the "monster gene". [[SelfMadeOrphan It worked about as well as you'd expect]]. The later run of ''Comicbook/TheImmortalHulk'' dives deeper into this further, and explains the extent of psychological damage this causes Bruce Banner for the rest of his life, leaving him unable to comprehend there can be love without pain. [[spoiler:Brian's abuses led to Bruce creating the Devil Hulk as a father figure, who is himself quite unpleasant and rude.]]

* In the ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'', Bruce Banner's father, Brian, beat his son out of envy for his wife Rebecca's attention, and the fear that his son was a monster (simply because Bruce was highly intelligent from an early age, potentially even more than Brian, who was a nuclear physicist). He later directs this abuse [[DomesticAbuse to his wife]] and eventually kills her, which leads to him being institutionalized. He later is released under his son's custody, and reveals that his own father abused him, and considers him a "monster". He later tries to kill Bruce to put an end to the "monster gene". [[SelfMadeOrphan It worked about as well as you'd expect]]. The later run of ''Comicbook/TheImmortalHulk'' dives deeper into this further, and explains the extent of psychological damage this causes Bruce Banner for the rest of his life.

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' eventually reveals Kotaro Shimura, Nana's child, to be one of these. His mother gave him up for adoption so she could continue her hero work (and so the villain with a personal vendetta against her wouldn't target her family to get to her, but Kotaro either doesn't know or doesn't acknowledge this). His feelings of abandonment resulted in him forbidding even the mention of heroism or Nana in his house, with harsh punishments if anyone ever broke the rule, like locking his young son Tenko outside and beating him for seeing a photograph of Nana. This still wound up ending really badly for him when [[spoiler: Tenko activated his disintegration quirk after another episode of abuse, and while in a fragile emotional state, murdered Kotaro.]]

* Takumi Ichinose, Hachi's FetishizedAbuser, from ''Manga/{{NANA}}'' has [[spoiler:had an alcoholic father and an IllGirl mother, so he and his sister were forced to raise themselves.]]

* Kyouichi Saionji from ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', in spades. He's a wannabe FetishizedAbuser who treats Anthy like absolute shit, scoffs at Wakaba's love letter, and is pretty much the ButtMonkey of the Student Council -- and also a dude [[UsedToBeASweetKid who wasn't THAT bad as a pre-teen]], but now has intense self-loathing and issues towards his best friend Touga, who exploits it for his own purposes.

* Takumi Ichinose, Hachi's BastardBoyfriend, from ''Manga/{{NANA}}'' has [[spoiler:had an alcoholic father and an IllGirl mother, so he and his sister were forced to raise themselves.]]

* Kyouichi Saionji from ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', in spades. He's a wannabe BastardBoyfriend who treats Anthy like absolute shit, scoffs at Wakaba's love letter, and is pretty much the ButtMonkey of the Student Council -- and also a dude [[UsedToBeASweetKid who wasn't THAT bad as a pre-teen]], but now has intense self-loathing and issues towards his best friend Touga, who exploits it for his own purposes.

* ''[[Manga/TakopisOriginalSin Takopi's Original Sin]]'' has the eponymous Tako-pi befriend Shizuka, a 4th grader who is horribly bullied by her classmate, Marina. But Marina targeted Shizuka because [[spoiler:her dad had an affair with Shizuka's mother, and her own mother became abusive towards her, and Marina blames Shizuka for her horrible home life.]]

* In the ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'', Bruce Banner's father, Brian, beat his son out of envy for his wife Rebecca's attention, and the fear that his son was a monster (simply because Bruce was highly intelligent from an early age, potentially even more than Brian, who was a nuclear physicist). He later directs this abuse [[DomesticAbuse to his wife]] and eventually kills her, which leads to him being institutionalized. He later is released under his son's custody, and reveals that his own father abused him, and considers him a "monster". He later tries to kill Bruce to put an end to the "monster gene". [[SelfMadeOrphan It worked about as well as you'd expect]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'': [[BigBad Spinel]] is revealed to be this: [[spoiler: she was made to be Pink Diamond's goofy, childlike playmate, but when Pink Diamond got her own colony, she left Spinel behind in their private garden under the pretense of playing the "standing still game" until she returned. Spinel stood still in the garden for 6000 years, and it wasn't until Steven's broadcast that she learned the truth: Pink is DeaderThanDead, she made new friends and had a son, and even if she was still around, she never intended to come back for Spinel anyway. It was specifically the trauma of being discarded and abandoned by someone she loved and trusted that drove her to try and destroy Steven and Earth out of revenge. One of the movie's Aesops is to refute this trope: being abused doesn't give you the right to deliberately hurt other people, especially if they had nothing to do with your trauma]].

* In most incarnations of ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'', the title character heavily abuses Baldrick, often in frustration at his mistreatment at the hands of his own higher power (often a monarch). His lampshading of this "Dog Kicks Littler Dog" scenario in the third installment is the page quote.

* "Family Tree" by Music/{{Megadeth}} is about familial abuse, heavily implied to be [[IncestIsRelative sexual abuse]]. This line in the song suggests that the abuser was also abused by their family:

* ''Tako-pi's Original Sin'' has the eponymous Tako-pi befriend Shizuka, a 4th grader who is horribly bullied by her classmate, Marina. But Marina targeted Shizuka because [[spoiler:her dad had an affair with Shizuka's mother, and her own mother became abusive towards her, and Marina blames Shizuka for her horrible home life.]]

** The novel ''Literature/{{Rage}}'' focuses on a school shooting in which Charlie Decker, the VillainProtagonist, kills multiple people and holds several students hostage. The narration reveals that Charlie Decker [[AbusiveParents has suffered multiple incidents of physical abuse at the hands of his father]], including one where Charlie Decker was hit so hard with a belt that it required a trip to the emergency room, where Charlie gave a CutHimselfShaving excuse to explain his injuries.