Line #12 AbusiveParents/AnimatedFilms


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8	* ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInAChristmasCarol'': Eden's aunt. Not severely and seemed to have never hurt her physically, though she forbade Eden from having fun or celebrating.
9	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'':
10	** General Posada shows little respect for his daughter and views her as a bargaining chip for most of the story. Most apparent when [[spoiler:he coerces her into accepting Joaquin's proposal just after she learns of Manolo's death, despite Joaquin's attempt to stop him.]] However, he seems to understand that his daughter did love Manolo, he just wants Joaquin to be there when Chakal arrives. He was also very upset when it seemed like Maria had died.
11	** Implied with Luis Sanchez, but it's PlayedForLaughs. An early conversation between Manolo and Carlos reveals that Luis began teaching Carlos how to bullfight when he was nine... and apparently did so by putting nine year old Carlos in the ring with an actual bull, which ended with Carlos in a coma. A coma that lasted three years, according to WordOfGod.
12	* In ''WesternAnimation/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime'', Lady Tremaine is this to her own daughters as well as to Cinderella. It's revealed in an early scene that once Cinderella is out of the house, it's the daughters who are stuck with the slave-labor.
13	* The Beldam from ''{{WesternAnimation/Coraline}}'' is a stranger-danger predator crossed with an abusive parent. Posing as Coraline's magical "other mother", she is only loving in the shallowest of ways, and it turns out that she's more like a witch, who uses her idealized world to trick children into signing away their lives, only for her to eat their souls. Her behavior calls abusive patterns to mind.
14	** At the beginning, she's very shallowly doting, providing Coraline with endless wonders and gifts, but no real emotional attention. She gets trust from children in the shallowest of ways so she can feed on their souls more quickly, and she has no real love for her targets.
15	** The Beldam's Other World is carefree and seemingly with no negativity, but once Coraline resists, it all turns into a nightmare where everything is trying to hurt her. This is much like the dramatic shift in abusive parents when they get angry with their children and start to lose control.
16	** She blames the children if they are resistant, roughly manhandles them, and guilts them for failing to meet unrealistic expectations. When Coraline, wise to her plans, demands to be sent home again, she is thrown into a room behind the hall mirror with the ultimatum "You may come out when you've learned to be a loving daughter".
17	** At the very end, when she has lost control, she begins using verbally abusive language, and ceases pretending to love Coraline.
18	* The Disney short film, ''WesternAnimation/FarFromTheTree'' gives us a raccoon named Papa. He's presented as a frustrated father trying to keep his ever curious daughter, Marie safe from a dangerous world. The problem is that every time she steps out of line, instead of explaining why she needs to be careful, he constantly scolds and berates her, especially after she ends up being attacked and scarred by a coyote. And even before then, he destroys a seashell Marie found by slapping it out of her hands, and even scolded her [[DisproportionateRetribution just for trying to copy him when he's digging for clams.]] Marie almost ends up following his example as an adult with her own child, but fortunately she catches herself and decides to [[BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting break the cycle]].
19	* We have Stoick the Vast from ''WesternAnimation/{{How to Train Your Dragon\|2010}}''. Completely ashamed of his son when his son embarrasses him, is completely blunt in expressing his dislike of Hiccup's unique habits, disowns Hiccup when the boy finds an alternate way to solve the conflict, and is only proud of Hiccup when he pulls off a BigDamnHeroes moment and rescues his life and that of the tribe full of jerks. By the end, he has apologized to Hiccup for how he treated him and has completely lost this trope come the [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2 sequel]]. It should be noted Stoick did genuinely care about Hiccup and was just trying to do what he thought was best for him... not that it was.
20	* ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney'' has this in the form of Judge Claude Frollo's relationship with Quasimodo. Frollo is only taking care of Quasi because he sees it as doing penance for killing Quasi's mother on the steps of Notre Dame, and actually tried to drown Quasimodo right after this, even though he was just a baby. He's verbally abusive and makes Quasimodo emotionally dependent on him, conditioning him to think of himself as a monster solely due to his appearance. It escalates into physical assault and eventually [[spoiler:[[OffingTheOffspring attempted murder]].]]
21	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameBurbankAnimation'', it's implied that Claude Frollo is abusive towards Quasimodo, because of the fear Quasimodo shows towards him.
22	* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid\|1989}}'': King Triton presents himself as this during one of his weaker moments. When he finds out about Ariel's collection of human things, as well as the fact she's fallen in love with a human, he loses his temper and uses his trident to destroy Ariel's grotto right in front of her in an effort to "get through" to her. When Ariel is subsequently driven to tears, Triton immediately realizes [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he's gone too far]] and leaves the grotto in shame, albeit silently, still firmly believing [[IDidWhatIHadToDo what he did]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist was the best]] for Ariel's [[KnightTemplarParent safety]]. However, Ariel later swims away from home after making [[DealWithTheDevil a deal with Ursula]] much to Triton's utter despair.
23	* ''Franchise/TheLionKing'':
24	** Fans of [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 the first film]] love to use this as their FreudianExcuse to [[DracoInLeatherPants sympathize with the bad guys]]. To justify Scar's actions, many fans give him an abusive or at least [[ParentalNeglect neglectful father]]. Considering that Scar's parents literally named him "trash" according to ''Literature/TheLionKingSixNewAdventures'', they may have a point.
25	** With Zira from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'', it’s even worse, varying from an [[ParentalAbandonment absent father]] to one who [[OffingtheOffspring purposefully tries to kill her]]. At the extreme opposite, the mothers tend to be extremely loving and devoted, yet powerless to end their child's suffering. In canon, Zira does this to Nuka, abusing him verbally and physically, the effects of which visibly terrify Kovu and Vitani.
26	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'':
27	** Chief Tui is mainly the protective chief of Motunui, but disagrees with his daughter's way of catching fish, gave her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, and tried to burn every boat [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint after hearing Moana's speech about their ancestry]]. [[TookALevelInKindness He gets better]].
28	--->'''Tui:''' Every time, I think you're past this.
29	** Maui also had abusive parents when he was a child. They tried to [[OffingTheOffspring drown him]] [[DrowningUnwantedPets after deciding they don't want him]]. The gods found him, gave him his hook, and made him who he is now.
30	* The incarnation of the Mouse Queen from ''WesternAnimation/TheNutcrackerPrince'' is implied to be this around her son. Though she only has one son at the time, she still treats him like he is worthless as well as the fact she belittles his thoughts and slaps him with her glove when he doubts her spells would work.
31	* In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'' Artie opens up to Shrek about his abusive father who abandoned him at his school and he never heard from him again. Shrek understands this as his father was abusive as well. He had tried to eat him but Shrek says he should have seen it coming because he gave him a bath in barbeque sauce and put him to bed with an apple in his mouth. This also explains why Shrek was so afraid of becoming an abusive father when he learns Fiona is pregnant with his children.
32	* Not in the film itself, but heavily implied in the prequel novel to ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', ''Fairest of All'', that Queen Grimhilde's father caused her to be extremely insecure of her beauty by refusing to acknowledge it, which ultimately drove her insane especially after her sisters created a magic mirror by fusing her father's spirit with it and become the vain maniac that she was in the film.
33	* Mother Gothel in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' delights in piling on the fear and doubt to keep Rapunzel locked in her tower; she excuses her cruel words with assurances that she's "just teasing", criticizes and diminishes everything Rapunzel does, and casts herself as a victim whenever there's a confrontation between them. This is disturbingly similar to how emotionally abusive mothers behave in real life.
34	** In the song "Mother Knows Best", notice how she trips Rapunzel, then tells her she's clumsy (along with the other {{Jerkass}} things she says), only for Rapunzel to run into her arms for comfort at the end of the song. What makes it worse is that Mother Gothel has been doing this to Rapunzel for the ''past eighteen years''.
35	** And this is all while Rapunzel is submissive to her. [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, when Rapunzel realizes that her beloved "mother" has actually been her jailer for eighteen years, Mother Gothel resorts to ''chaining Rapunzel up'' to keep her in line. Then she ''kills Eugene and blames Rapunzel for his death''.]]
36	* Lotso from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' serves as a father figure to Big Baby. However, his treatment of him is downright child abuse as he forces the toddler to do his dirty work, lies that his former owner Daisy never loved him at all in the first place, and screams at and [[WouldHurtAChild hits Big Baby]] when he remembers his previous owner through his TragicKeepsake (combined with breaking it in front of him). The last one [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrifies all of his henchmen]] and causes them to pull a HeelFaceTurn.
37	* ''WesternAnimation/TheWilloughbys'': It's outright said that the Willoughby parents give so much love to each other that they have no love left for their children. The father's reaction to Tim's birth is to scold him for "insulting" the mother with his birth, and they don't get better as he gets older: they regularly starve and neglect their other children unless they feel like the kids are inconveniencing them in some way, regularly punish Tim for the smallest of infractions by locking him in a coal bin, they sell the house while on vacation while the kids are still home, and during the climax [[spoiler:they ''willingly abandon the kids on a freezing mountaintop so they can continue their child-free adventures'']]. Is it any wonder the kids want to [[SelfMadeOrphan orphan themselves?]]

Context AbusiveParents / AnimatedFilms