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| 11 | * ''Manga/PlusAnima'': Nana reveals that [[AlcoholicParent her father]] used to beat her and her mother. A flashback shows that during one beating Nana tried to stop him which accidentally led to her impaling his hand with her sewing scissors. In a rage he chased her into the dark woods with a cleaver, where she first turned into her bat +Anima to save her life. |
| 12 | * ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': |
| 13 | ** Despite only appearing in three chapters so far, Shizuka's mother definitely qualifies as this trope, as her first appearance shows her yelling at Shizuka for being a CuteMute and Shizuka cowering before her in tears. She later confiscates her phone after discovering that her boyfriend transcribed her books into a text-to-speech app, which leads said boyfriend to confront her about it. |
| 14 | ** [[{{Meido}} Mei's]] parents weren't much better, having abandoned her after destroying her self-esteem to the point where she no longer felt her life was worth anything. It's because of them that Mei now obeys ''any'' order given to her by her masters, no matter how stupid or life-threatening it may be. |
| 15 | ** Neither were [[spoiler:Naddy's parents, who locked her in the family storehouse for failing to learn the koto as a proper YamatoNadeshiko, and later on kicked her out of the house and [[IHaveNoSon forbade her from ever coming back]] because they were ashamed that she'd started adopting a more American-style look, dying her hair blonde and wearing an "I Love America" T-shirt]]. |
| 16 | ** Hahari started out as this, locking up Hakari to prevent her from seeing Rentarou and the other girls again, and even planning to have Rentarou killed. However, she quickly underwent a HeelFaceTurn when she fell in love with Rentarou herself, and her personality in all following chapters is much different to the one she started out with. |
| 17 | * ''Manga/AliceAndZoroku'' anime and manga both feature this trope: |
| 18 | ** The Hinagiri twins were abused by their father when they were younger. This eventually reached the point that [[spoiler:Yonaga [[SelfMadeOrphan killed their father]] with her bow in self-defense.]] |
| 19 | ** Hatori Shikishima's mother becomes this when Hatori fails to get into a prominent [[EducationMama school]] that her mother pushed for. It grows to the point Hatori's mother becomes emotionally abusive towards her daughter and added stress worsens when her parents begin fighting constantly. Hatori considers [[TheRunAway running away from home]] at first until [[spoiler:she discovers her magic can manipulate her parents]]. For Hatori though things do turn around, it was clear her mother was worried sick when [[spoiler:Hatori vanished into wonderland for ten days, plus she frantically searched for Hatori in that time.]] |
| 20 | * ''Manga/AliceInBorderland'': |
| 21 | ** Arisu's father, a superintendent in the education department, intensely dislikes Arisu because he considers him a really stupid person and always compares him to his more competent younger brother, who is a honor student. As a result, his father often neglects him. He also meddles with Arisu's life, such as moving the teacher to another school in order to stop Arisu's new hobby even though said teacher influenced him to become an aspiring guitarist. |
| 22 | ** [[spoiler:Kuina's father is a strict Dojo master as he trains her harshly and, at one point, he always scolds Kuina because she doesn't deliver a final blow against her opponent in training and sometimes beats her up to the point she ends up changing her sex in a sex reassignment surgery to become a girl. It was also revealed that Kuina's father also divorced her mother when the latter was sick.]] |
| 23 | ** Aguni's father is an alcoholic who repeatedly abuses his son and wife when he is returning home carrying another drink, to the point that his mother ran away from home. This resulted in Aguni being motivated to beat his father when he got stronger. However, his father died of alcohol poisoning. |
| 24 | * In ''Manga/AngelDensetsu'', Ikuno's father subjects her to TrainingFromHell and views her more as a project than as a daughter. He never praises her or acknowledges her effort, and pretty much gives up on her after her initial loss to Kitano. |
| 25 | * ''Literature/ArifuretaFromCommonplaceToWorldsStrongest'': Eri's mother blamed her for her father's death, and her stepfather repeatedly raped her until he was discovered and incarcerated, which lead Eri's mother to [[BlamingTheVictim blame Eri further for "seducing her second husband"]] and nearly beat her to death. It's this treatment that lead to Eri becoming a BitchInSheepsClothing. |
| 26 | * ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'': |
| 27 | ** The entire reason Nagisa is capable of reading people so easily with a single glance is because [[spoiler:he had to in order to survive his mentally unhinged mother Hiromi, who can go from zero to psycho in the blink of an eye. She also constantly tells him she wishes he was born a girl and makes him grow his hair long, despite the fact that he hates it, which could cast all previous jokes about his androgyny in a harsher light. His father isn't much better, but his is more of the ParentalNeglect variant, because despite knowing how violent Hiromi can be, he just pretty much left Nagisa to deal with it alone, only showing up once in a while (though [[AllThereInTheManual the Graduation Book Time reveals]] that Nagisa living with his mother is entirely of his own free will).]] |
| 28 | ** Principal Asano is one of the emotional variety to his son Gakushuu, needing little prompting to rattle about how all of his son's plans ended up in failures. Gakushuu usually [[LikeFatherLikeSon responds in kind]] but it's clear his father terrifies him sometimes (just look at Gakushuu's face when his father beats up the [[spoiler:foreign students who were defending him.]]). Also, Gakushuu's been slapped by his father at least once (by pointing out [[spoiler:how his plans ended in failure, [[SoreLoser ironically enough]]]]). |
| 29 | * Dr. Tenma from ''Manga/AstroBoy'' is an early {{manga}} example. After he lost his son in a traffic accident, he built Astroboy to be a ReplacementGoldfish. Shortly after, he realized a ReplacementGoldfish is not a substitute for the original thing, and he began to berate and scorn Astroboy constantly, yelling him for such "nefarious" crimes like being unable to grow up. Finally he got fed up with Astroboy, and sold him into slavery. Thank God Astroboy was programmed to be a "good boy", and he was taken in by Dr. Ochanomizu, who was an altruistic, kind man who instilled and nurtured those traits in Astroboy, or he could have become a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds. Later adaptations tend to mellow Tenma out a bit. |
| 30 | * ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': |
| 31 | ** [[spoiler:Historia Reiss]] was born to the mistress of a nobleman, who ''hated'' her child. She avoided the child, leaving her parents to raise the kid and only spoke to the child ''twice'' during her life. The first time involving hitting the poor kid and cursing her inability to simply kill [[ItIsDehumanizing it]] and the second time was a DyingDeclarationOfHate. |
| 32 | ** [[spoiler:Grisha Yeager]]'s greatest regret was the mistreatment of his firstborn son, Zeke. Though he loved his son, his WellIntentionedExtremist ideals drove him to attempt to indoctrinate his son and use him as a tool for LaResistance. Zeke ended up turning on him, making him realize too late how badly he'd failed as a parent. [[spoiler:He ''tried'' to avoid repeating these mistakes with Eren, encouraging him to form his own ideas and pursue his own dreams]]. |
| 33 | ** Annie's father subjected her to brutal TrainingFromHell from her earliest memories, forcing her to train to the point of exhaustion and physical injury. |
| 34 | ** [[spoiler:Reiner's mother is shown to be emotionally manipulative and controlling, as opposed to physically cruel. A lifetime of indoctrination and lies convinced him becoming a Warrior would make him a hero, and allow them to reunite with his Marleyan father. In reality, his father wanted nothing to do with them and even suggests she's a WomanScorned using her son to get petty revenge. She's perfectly willing to sacrifice both her son ''and'' niece to achieve her personal goals.]] |
| 35 | ** Gabi's parents are very neglectful. On multiple occasions they've ignored her claims about the dangers of her missions. [[spoiler:In the end, their only regret was that Gabi was safe and wouldn't die with them.]] |
| 36 | * ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'': |
| 37 | ** In the {{Bonus Episode}}s, Huey's conversation with Elmer reveals that he's spent quite a good deal of time emotionally manipulating his daughter, [[CuteMute Chane]], for that wonderfully vague and questionable goal of ''[[ForScience Science]]!'' While he does show her something resembling affection, it's very clear that he sees and treats her more like a well trained guinea pig than a human being. He doesn't even consider her ''human''. |
| 38 | --->'''Huey:''' Chane, my animal experiment... Guinea pigs often behave in ways you don't expect. |
| 39 | ** Then there is Fermet. While not [[TheWoobie Czeslaw Meyer's]] blood relative, he was the guardian for the 10-year-old when they all became immortal. This spawns [[spoiler:200 years of so of OffingTheOffspring ForScience.]] Most of this abuse is [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill physical]] but then you have to consider he made Czes believe for some time that this was NECESSARY and leading the kid to have some serious [[ValuesDissonance fucking]] [[CrazySurvivalist mental]] [[JerkassWoobie issues]]. This has led Fermet to being considered by many in the fandom of being the most evil character in a show full of TheMafia, TortureTechnician and PsychoForHire types. |
| 40 | * In ''Manga/BakiTheGrappler'', the titular hero had an ArchnemesisDad who abandoned him and a lunatic EvilMatriarch who was cold, distant, and uncaring towards him for the entirety of their time together as a family [[spoiler:[[RedemptionEqualsDeath but ultimately dies trying to save his life]]]]. |
| 41 | * ''Anime/{{Bakugan}}'' has Shun being abused by his grandfather. Said grandfather is adamant that he will become a ninja just seconds after his mother's death, he brutally isolates Shun from his friends, and is incredibly hostile to anyone not named Shun. You can hardly blame Shun for having such a hard time trying to come back into Bakugan. He has, though rarely, shown a more compassionate side to him, such as when he forced Shun to show him around town and spent time with his grandson. Generally, though he rarely shows it, he cares for the well-being of his grandson perhaps more than him becoming a ninja champion. |
| 42 | * ''Literature/BalancingMySupportMagicAndSummoningMagicInADifferentWorld'' has both Arisu and Tamaki. They are both adopted out of the Japanese orphanage system, well and good, right? '''Wrong'''. Arisu's foster parents were cold and aloof, only interacting with her to "discipline" her in ways that remain unstated, but were so horrific that ''impending rape by an orc threatening to take away her virginity'' doesn't even faze her. On the other hand, Tamaki got a major inferiority complex, and she drives herself way, way too hard because her foster parents have a HairTriggerTemper and would scream and shout emotional abuse at her for the slightest failure, real or imagined. Both girls grew up believing nothing they ever did would be good enough. |
| 43 | * ''Manga/BeautyAndTheBeastOfParadiseLost'': Evance never believed that Belle was his daughter because of her violet hair. He pretended to love Belle because of his wife, but bodyshamed the poor girl making her hide her hair with bonnets and hoods. After Laetitia saved Belle through a HeroicSacrifice, [[MadwomanInTheAttic he locked her up for five years]], insisting that she was too ugly to go out in public, forced her to work as a seamstress and drank all the money she earned. Fortunately, Belle escapes, gets a job at Beast's castle and a chance to discover what really happened to her mother. And Evance...[[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath he gets what he deserves]]. |
| 44 | * ''Literature/BeingAbleToEditSkillsInAnotherWorldIGainedOpWaifus'': Nagi's parents gave birth to him, but that's the ''only'' good thing they ever did for him. They constantly criticised and insulted him before abandoning him to his own devices. |
| 45 | * ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'''s CrapsackWorld has quite a number of these: |
| 46 | ** Gambino berated his adoptive son, Guts, on a daily basis, attempted to murder him while blaming him for the death of his lover, Shisu, told him that he's a demon child and that he should've died, put him through TrainingFromHell, sold him to a stranger for one night who rapes him, and put him out on the battlefield at a young age. |
| 47 | ** Casca was sold to a noble who needed a new servant. Unfortunately, the noble wanted her as a SexSlave rather than for cooking or cleaning. Saved by Griffith, she joined him as a mercenary in his band [[spoiler:until the Eclipse when in a supreme act of tragic irony, he, in his very first act upon becoming Femto, raped her in front of Guts]]. |
| 48 | ** Princess Charlotte suffered an out-and-out rape attempt by her own father after [[spoiler:a confrontation with the still human Griffith forced the King to confront how he really felt toward her in addition to the emotional abuse from her stepmother]]. |
| 49 | ** Jill is explicitly and publicly abused by her drunk father, Zepek, who also doesn’t care about his drinking buddies molesting her. This is the reason why Jill attaches herself to Guts and why she begs him to take her away from her life. |
| 50 | ** Rosine was driven to become an apostle by her horrible home life and her even more horrible father. |
| 51 | ** [[spoiler:Farnese]] had to suffer quite a bit of the emotional abuse from her father. |
| 52 | ** In the Conviction Arc, when Isidro fails to protect Casca, Guts grabs Isidro aggressively by the neck as the kid winces as though about to be struck. However, thankfully unlike his father, Guts refrains from hurting his protege over his lover. [[spoiler: Guts also dislikes his own child that he had with Casca and actually tried [[OffingTheOffspring to kill it before Casca stopped him]], though to be fair the child being a corrupted FetusTerrible as a result of what Femto did to Casca during the Eclipse might have something do with it. When the child comes back later (in a much more appealing form) Guts is much nicer to it]]. |
| 53 | * ''Manga/BitterVirgin'': Hinako is revealed to have been a victim of sexual abuse from her stepfather, made worse by the fact her mother refused to believe it was happening until this abuse got Hinako pregnant for ''the second time''. The experience is the reason she DoesNotLikeMen. |
| 54 | * ''Manga/BlackClover'': A good portion of the Black Bulls had it ''rough.'' |
| 55 | ** In Noelle's backstory, her father notes the irony that the last thing Acier gave to the world was someone as useless at her. |
| 56 | ** Finral's father denounced him for being inferior to his younger brother Langris and disowned him. |
| 57 | ** Henry's father disowned him for his illness and abandoned him in an isolated mansion. |
| 58 | ** Luck's mother mistreated him for his inability to stop smiling, with a flashback showing her calling him a "defective freak" and slapping him at one point. She only began to show him affection when he beat a noble with magic, which began his pathological desire to win fights. |
| 59 | ** Grey was mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, who made her do all the housework which left her covered in ash. After she used her magic to look like her stepsisters, they attacked her and she was forced to leave her home. |
| 60 | ** Vanessa's mother, the Witch Queen, gives her daughter an ImpossibleTask, locks her in a cage until she accomplishes it and often calls her imperfect. Then she tricks Asta into nearly killing Vanessa's friends, eventually forcing her to unleash her [[WindsOfDestinyChange Red Thread of Fate magic]] and defeat her. |
| 61 | * Creed from ''Manga/BlackCat'' was physically and emotionally abused by his mother when he was young. |
| 62 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': |
| 63 | ** By Sora Inoue's own words: "Our mother was a whore, our father a demon. If a child cried, they beat her until she stopped crying. That's the kind of people they were." It's why he ran away upon turning eighteen, with his sister, Orihime, in tow. After his death, he's unable to let go of her so he returns as a Hollow and tries to kill her. |
| 64 | ** In their first major appearance, Mayuri Kurotsuchi is willing to sacrifice Nemu's life just to pin Uryuu long enough to kill him and when she lets go in reflex rather than die, he beats her to within an inch of her life. The closest he's ever come to truly acknowledging her as his own [[spoiler:is when she unleashes the full extent of her power in fighting Sternritter C, Pernida Parnkgjas, and then [[LudicrousGibs gets exploded]], which causes Mayuri to have a minor VillainousBreakdown at the fact his "perfect" creation was capable of dying, though he does save her brain and implies he'll remake her again. He fills his promise: the second-to-last manga chapter has a new incarnation of Nemu, a little girl named Nemuri Hachigou, and Mayuri treats her ''much'' better than he ever treated the original Nemu]]. |
| 65 | * ''Anime/BlueReflectionRay'': |
| 66 | ** Niina's mother regularly hit her, forced her to stand under the shower, didn't feed her properly, and constantly degraded her whenever she did something wrong. Niina wasn't even allowed to leave their apartment when she was young, and when she was older she got kicked out whenever her mother was servicing a customer. |
| 67 | ** Shino's mother forced Shino to be the spokesperson for her toxic religion. Shino was the saint while her twin sister Kano was the martyr, meaning that whenever Shino messed up Kano was beaten. Kano was forbidden from doing anything outside except to fill in for Shino. The two of them sneaked out once to get away from it all, only for Kano to be beaten so bad she could no longer be Shino's double. Their mother never saw them as anything but tools. [[spoiler:Eventually it culminated in their mother murdering Kano in a ritual sacrifice, then making Shino drink her sister's blood.]] |
| 68 | * ''Manga/BoysAbyss'' has a serious case of AdultsAreUseless with every adult in the series being actively harmful and toxic, especially the parents. |
| 69 | ** The protagonist Reiji had a physically abusive father and an emotionally abusive mother, with the latter grooming him to be passive and dependent while emotionally blackmailing him every time he tries to leave. His older brother outright snapped from all this and became a {{hikikomori}} after failing his college entrance exams. |
| 70 | ** Reiji's ChildhoodFriendRomance Chako had a physically abusive father and an ExtremeDoormat mother who didn't care enough to stick up for her. |
| 71 | * ''Manga/BoysOverFlowers'': |
| 72 | ** Tsukasa's violent and often sociopathic behavior is explained to be a result of his parents never being at home and leaving him to be raised mainly by his older sister Tsubaki, a {{Tsundere}} who despite her good heart, had a tendency to correct his arrogant behavior with violence. His mother Kaede is not above humiliating and threatening his girlfriend Tsukushi in order to get the both of them to do what she wants, and in the live-action drama she's even worse: [[spoiler:while he's in New York studying to take over the family business, Tsukasa makes a remark that causes the company's stock to plummet, and many workers are laid off as a result. To keep her son in line, Kaede pays a man working for the company with, whom Tsukasa has become friends, to get laid off, pretend to become homeless, and commit suicide in front of Tsukasa. This affects Tsukasa so badly that for months he wakes up with nightmares about the man and is constantly wracked with guilt, which keeps him from breaking off an ArrangedMarriage that he doesn't want. It does NOT help that Kaede is constantly making comments referring to the "dead" man to manipulate him.]] |
| 73 | ** Some mention should go to Tsukushi's parents. While they're generally flighty but loving, one chapter has her coming home from school to find them and her brother packing their things: they were moving out to the city, ''not'' taking Tsukushi, or planning to tell her until that very day. Tsukushi's is in school and has no job...Her parents promise to send money for her, but when she finally gets a letter from them, it says that they don't have money to send her yet, so here, have some strips of seaweed. Tsukushi honestly thought she'd starve, and probably would have if not for Tsukasa. |
| 74 | * In the action/horror manga ''Can You Just Die My Darling?'', there is Sonoha's unnamed father. He beats her viciously over her grades and expects her to take her mother's place. Yes, ''[[ParentalIncest that]]'' way. In fact it's on one of the nights he intends to rape her that her ID plague symptoms kick in and kill him, and she's more shocked by the emergence of her PoisonousPerson state than his death. Even if she ''hadn't'' contracted ID and its subsequent psychosis, she would have been a mess. |
| 75 | * In ''Manga/ChainsawMan'', ButtMonkey Kobeni had a HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood in which her parents force her to enter workforces that are either life-threatening or straight-up abusive, including the DemonSlaying Public Safety Devil Hunters Bureau with an absurdly HighTurnoverRate. [[spoiler:She even considers being on the run and in hiding from [[TheAntichrist Makima]] to be a blessing because it means she has the perfect excuse to finally cut ties with them. Unfortunately, this just meant her [[HereWeGoAgain younger brother had to take her place]].]] |
| 76 | * ''Anime/CodeGeass'': |
| 77 | ** Emperor Charles zi Britannia is an extreme SocialDarwinist who pushes his children to take dangerous jobs... and subtly encourages them to war with and kill one another to secure their position in the line of succession. Lelouch gets the worst of it, getting disowned, publicly humiliated, and used as a political hostage when he gets angry at Charles for not giving a damn about the assassination of Lelouch's mother or the crippling of his little sister in the same incident. [[spoiler:Late in the series, we learn that Charles actually ''did'' love Lelouch's mother Marianne and considered her children to be his favorites; his abusive attitude, which Marianne supported and went along with, was intended to make Lelouch and Nunnally stronger people. The pair even wanted to get the two kids in on their AssimilationPlot, but Lelouch, having recently crossed over the DespairEventHorizon and having before spent ''the entire series'' fighting against Britannia rejecting such beliefs, was in no mood to hear that all the crap he'd been put through in the last decade was "because Mommy and Daddy love you very much".]] [[spoiler:Nunnally's blindness was not the result of traumatic stress, but because Charles inflicted it upon her with his Geass, ostensibly to protect her by making people think she wasn't a threat (her paraplegia, however, was authentic and deliberately caused as a cover up by their EvilUncle). You better believe Lelouch wasn't happy about that.]] |
| 78 | ** Kallen's stepmother mistreats her and neglects her on a daily basis and her father seems to be completely absent most of the time. Her stepmother yells at her mother (now the household maid) all the time, too. |
| 79 | * Misae Nohara from ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' strikes his son, Shinnosuke, on his head most of the time he misbehaves or pokes fun at her. There are even times when she spanks him whenever he crosses the line. While most of the time it's PlayedForLaughs, some other times can be DisproportionateRetribution. |
| 80 | * Jeremy from ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns'' was constantly abused by his stepfather Greg, [[spoiler:including being raped and sexually abused]]. So much so that [[spoiler:it drove him to kill Greg via VehicularSabotage, which also resulted in the death of his mother Sandra.]] Throughout the series, Jeremy is haunted by images of Greg talking to him. |
| 81 | * ''Manga/{{Debusen}}'': |
| 82 | ** Akira's father physically abuses her, and is the reason she lost her hand -- when she was younger, he poured boiling water over it, making it necessary to have it amputated, all because [[DisproportionateRetribution she ate some meat he was saving]]. |
| 83 | ** Kokomi's mother constantly insulted her daughter over her plain face, and even forced her to jump in front of a car so that Kokomi could get plastic surgery to fix her face (it didn't work), before losing all interest in her daughter when the accident left Kokomi unable to do gymnastics anymore. |
| 84 | %%* Hisoka Kurosaki of ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness'' got this as a result of his parents's fear of his [[TheEmpath ability]] and being a ReplacementGoldfish for his dead sister. Not really helped by how [[spoiler:his family was associated with a certain demon, which rapes his father and forcibly impregnates his mother.]] |
| 85 | * In ''Manga/DestinyOfTheShrineMaiden'', Souma and Tsubasa were often beaten by their father, one flashback showing him holding a baseball bat. This drives Tsubasa to murder him, and is the main reason for Tsubasa joining {{Orochi}}. |
| 86 | ** Also, it's strongly implied that Himeko's adoptive parents were abusive. |
| 87 | * ''Manga/DearS'': After a near lifetime of parental neglect towards his oldest child, Takeya's father reenters the boy's life to try to take his primary love interest away without explanation. When he fails to convince Takeya with words, he has him arrested on false charges and knocked out with a cudgel, drags Ren away, and calls Takeya "unreasonable," and Takeya insits that this isn't the first time the bastard's done something like this. |
| 88 | * The theme of Episode 4 of ''Anime/DeathParade'', where the deceased Misaki and Yousuke were either the abusive parent or the victim of one. Misaki was neglectful, while Yousuke's biological mother was verbally abusive as shown in his flashback where she told him she wish he was never born. |
| 89 | * ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' presents a very tragic example with Kanao Tsuyuri's parents. Her family lived in extreme poverty and her parents constantly beat their children for any and all reasons, to the point that some of Kanao’s siblings were actually killed through such abuse. Little Kanao completely [[EmotionlessGirl shut off her emotions]] as a coping mechanism to endure her terrible life, and eventually her parents sold her into slavery for money. Even after Kanao was rescued and adopted by the Kocho sisters, Kanao still kept her emotions buried deep within her; only until later in the series does she start to open up thanks to Tanjiro's kindness. |
| 90 | * In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02TheBeginning'', [[spoiler:Lui's mother is not only verbally and emotionally abusive, but is also indicated to be physically abusive, seeing as how young Lui is covered in bruises]]. |
| 91 | * Pops up in gruesome fashion in two chapters of ''Manga/DissolvingClassroom'': |
| 92 | ** In "Dissolving Classroom", Yuuma says that his parents were cruelly strict with him when he was young, and that he relieved the stress from this by killing small animals. Later on, [[spoiler:Chizumi shows Keiko their severed heads and reveals that Yuuma killed them as a sacrifice to the devil.]] |
| 93 | ** In "Dissolving Apartment", Yuuma's parents (who seem to have come back to life somehow) are heard by the neighbors cursing and beating the kids. Eventually Chizumi reveals that [[spoiler:Yuuma drags their parents' souls back from hell and reanimates their bodies, but they inevitably melt again.]] |
| 94 | * ''Anime/ADogOfFlanders1975'': Baas constantly argues with Alois and tries to control her, forbids her from seeing Nello, sends her to a boarding school against her wishes and loses his temper very easily. In Alois' birthday episode, when the kids accidentally break the vase, Baas is so angry his shoulders start shaking as Alois cowers from him. It's also implied Alois' DelicateAndSickly illness was a result of the stress he brought on to her. |
| 95 | * ''Franchise/DragonBall'': |
| 96 | ** In the Namek Saga of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', it is implied (specifically Goku and Frieza's fight) that Frieza's father, King Cold, resorts to physical abuse on Frieza, as he mentions when fighting Goku that, besides Goku, the only people who ever managed to hurt him were "his loving parents". In the Trunks Saga, after Frieza is killed, King Cold shows virtually no reaction and instead offers to make Trunks his new son. On top of it all, in the NonSerialMovie's, Cooler, Frieza's [[StrongerSibling older brother]], reflects that Frieza was a "little brat" who Cold [[SpoiledBrat spoiled rotten]], implying that Frieza still got the better end of the deal compared to him. |
| 97 | ** Frieza himself was Vegeta's main parental figure for most of his life. He made Vegeta one of his men, and for years, took every possible opportunity to demean and insult him. During their fight on Namek, Frieza brutally tortured Vegeta to death, partially to punish him for his treachery, and partially just ForTheEvulz. Needless to say, Vegeta has every reason to hate Frieza and want him dead, and that was ''before'' he found out Frieza destroyed Planet Vegeta. |
| 98 | ** Vegeta spends most of the Android / Cell arc being a condescending ass to Future Trunks -- it's not too hard to find clips of him hitting his own son. He seems to wise up a bit with present!Trunks, in that he's actually willing to spend time with him and take him to the park (in exchange for Trunks landing a hit in a sparring match). He's heavily mellowed out by the time ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' hits. |
| 99 | ** ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'' plays this up for Paragus, Broly's father. While putting a MindControl crown on his son in the original movies wasn't exactly a Dad of the Year move, it was still mostly portrayed as an attempt to do something about Broly's galaxy-destroying berserker rages. In the newer movie, Paragus is so fixated on getting {{Revenge}} on Vegeta that he tried to weaponize his son's incredible power without a single trace of remorse. Rather than a mind control device, he instead fitted Broly with a ShockCollar and uses it with callous abandon; it says something that a person capable of ''blowing up planets'' is practically cowering in terror every time he sees a simple remote control. |
| 100 | * ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'': |
| 101 | ** Some conversations imply that [[spoiler:Masaomi Kida]]'s parents are neglectful and uncaring towards him, and don't seem the least bit concerned about him, whether he [[spoiler:ends up in the hospital due to gang activity]] or [[spoiler:drops out of school and disappears almost entirely.]] |
| 102 | ** [[spoiler:Anri Sonohara]]'s father started physically lashing out at her when his antique shop business started going sour. [[spoiler:During one of these beatings, Anri's mother Sayaka went MamaBear and grabbed an antique sword they recently came into possession of to protect her. [[FromBadToWorse Too bad it was an]] EvilWeapon named "Saika"...]] |
| 103 | ** [[spoiler:Aoba]] was beaten regularly by his older brother, [[spoiler:Izumi]], just because his [[TheUnfavorite brother thought that he wasn't getting as much love as him]], and the poor kid wouldn't fight back. His brother then stated that he went too far with something [[spoiler:that is assumed not to be a physical beating but a sexual one]] and it finally caused [[spoiler:Aoba]] to retaliate and set his room on fire. Even though they live separately now, [[spoiler:Izumi (who has gotten out of jail because of the fight with Yellow Scarves)]] tells Izaya that he plans on [[CainAndAbel killing his]] [[OffingTheOffspring brother for making him suffer.]] Oh, and after all the abuse, [[DeliberatelyCuteChild his brother]] [[CuteAndPsycho didn't really turn out]] [[StepfordSmiler that sane.]] |
| 104 | * ''Manga/TheElderSisterLikeOne'' gives us emotionally abusive guardians for Yuu. Creeped out by the boy seeing and speaking with supernatural {{Youkai}}, they pass him from house to house. The worst talk about him behind his back but within earshot, while his uncle simply ignores him. |
| 105 | * ''Manga/ElfenLied'' has a few examples: |
| 106 | ** Mayu was raped by her stepfather, this being the reason why she ran away from home. To add extreme insult to injury, her already-distant mother, when Mayu told of this abuse, did not disbelieve her or ask her to not say anything... she slapped and berated her out of jealousy, treating her violated daughter as a sexual competitor. While in the anime, she refers to Kouta and Yuka as the mother and father of the group, in the manga, she is understandably still phobic towards guys, and while she respects, admires, and is grateful to the pair, any overt parental associations are kind of shut out. Ironically, she bonds the most with Bandou who generally treats her like crap (mostly verbally). Then again, EvenEvilHasStandards in Bandou's case ([[{{Jerkass}} Though he's still one of the series' biggest assholes]]). |
| 107 | ** Another example would be manga-only character Nozomi, who play the more traditional scenario of an abusive father who abuses his daughter to keep her from pursuing her dream (in her case, singing, like her mother before her). Interestingly enough, this case turns out to be an act of [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned extremism]] on the father's part, for he didn't want her to end up losing her voice and killing herself like her mother did (turns out both suffer from a condition known as "Soprano Dramatico"). This however, has the nasty consequence of having Nozomi almost devoid of self-esteem and with urinary incontinence that makes her wet herself upon slightly stressful situations. |
| 108 | ** Another character who has these is Aiko Takada, another manga-only character (Though the OVA briefly shows her in Lucy/Nyuu/[[spoiler:Kaede]]'s flashback) whose father, just like Nozomi's, beat her up on a regular basis to keep her from pursuing her dreams (in this case, painting, again, just like her mother). However unlike with Nozomi's, he does this purely out of hatred and scorn. Therefore, despite being said it was an accident, Aiko killing her father could very well be the result of her snapping under his abuse. |
| 109 | * Kayo Hinazuki in ''Manga/{{Erased}}'' suffers some pretty horrific abuse at the hands of her mother. The issue comes to light when we briefly see a bruise on her leg, adding to a fairly disturbing essay of how she would want to be all alone on a desert island. Later we see Kayo being kicked and stomped on by her mother; then Satoru discovers a badly beaten Kayo, half-naked outside in a shed in the middle of winter. Following this her mother attempts to quickly remedy the bumps and bruises on her daughter's body by forcing her into an ice bath to the point of nearly drowning her. |
| 110 | * ''Literature/FailureFrame'': This is the reason Mimori starts the story with no self-confidence. His parents repeatedly beat him up for no explained reason and have the gall to boast "perhaps this is the beating that will finally kill him." |
| 111 | * ''Manga/FairyTail'': |
| 112 | ** Lucy's father is shown to have been distant, cold, and at times verbally abusive to the young Lucy as she was growing up, leading her to run away at sixteen to join the titular wizard guild. It's heavily implied however that he was once a very loving father, but the death of his wife and Lucy's mother Layla hardened his heart, [[spoiler:and the two do reconcile...albeit only after he dies during the seven-year TimeSkip that Lucy spent trapped in time, causing her to [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye burst into tears after reading his final letter to her and tearfully saying she loves him too]].]] |
| 113 | ** The also applies to [[spoiler:[[{{Jerkass}} Minerva]]]], whose father brought her up to believe that crying was weak and punished her by doing exactly what he did to poor [[spoiler:Yukino]], and the anime goes even further by showing that he forced her to fight other [[spoiler:Saber Tooth]] members and [[ChildrenForcedToKill ordered her to kill them on at least one occasion]] before doing it himself when she refused while bawling her eyes out. No wonder the girl's such a bitch. |
| 114 | * ''Anime/FutureRobotDaltanious'': Kloppen's father Dolmen. He speaks to him in a way that encourages his most violent aspects, while threatening him with consequences if he disregards them. Whenever Kloppen loses to Daltanious, Dolmen subjects him to a tirade of insults. [[spoiler:He also deliberately hid the fact that he's a clone from him.]] |
| 115 | * ''Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose'': [[spoiler: Jean-Jacques Courtot a.k.a. Alfred Strasser's adoptive mother, Louise, treated him like a surrogate husband and it's implied she sexually abused him, as their relationship was more akin to siblings/lovers rather than mother and son. Louise was also heavily mentally unstable and treated him badly until her eventual suicide]]. This becomes even worse when it's revealed that he's not the Strasser's child, but at the hospital he was born in, Louise swapped him with her child because he was a stillborn. |
| 116 | * ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' {{exaggerate|dtrope}}s it, with abusive parents virtually being the norm. The only characters who don't have abusive parents grow up to hate themselves. In the case of the Sohma clan, it's justified: dealing with a HereditaryCurse that locks a whole clan in a cycle of abuse that's lasted for generations doesn't make anyone good parent material. If you want a full list, we've got: |
| 117 | ** Yuki and Ayame, whose parents [[spoiler:kicked Ayame out at a very young age and used Yuki's existence purely for self-gain, since the Rat is considered "special" by the Sohma family, worth a lot of money and prestige for the parents]]. |
| 118 | ** Kyo, whose dad [[spoiler: blames him for his mom to committing suicide, despite how it was ''his'' abusing her for giving birth to the cat that drove her to it. She in turn kept Kyo from going outside and pretended to love his true form when she didn't, until she couldn't pretend anymore and killed herself]]. |
| 119 | ** Momiji, whose mother [[spoiler:went insane over the fact that her son could turn into a rabbit, and chose to have all her memories of him erased, to the point where only his father is left to care for him, which he fails to do by abandoning Momiji to live a peaceful life with his wife and new daughter]]. |
| 120 | ** Rin, whose parents were actually fun and nurturing until she asked them a simple question, then [[spoiler: they flipped out, stopped pretending to love her, and physically and mentally abused her so badly that her health deteriorated (including stress-induced ulcers!), and eventually abandoned her after their abuse left her hospitalized]]. |
| 121 | ** Kyoko Honda, whose parents emotionally neglected her because they were more focused on what neighbors thought than what their daughter wanted, then kicked her out when she got hospitalized trying to leave the gang. |
| 122 | ** Arisa Uotani, whose father was an alcoholic and whose mother left him for another man. [[spoiler: Though a quick scene in the present shows that her relationship with her father is better now.]] |
| 123 | ** Kakeru Manabe and Machi Kuragi, whose father is filthy rich and as a result, their respective mothers (one in marriage, one a mistress) forced them to be the best at everything to compete with each other for his money and influence. (At least until Kakeru finally told his mom to back off.) |
| 124 | ** Machi got the worst of it. While her mother gave up pushing her when she no longer had to compete with the mistress's son, she is still very critical and dismissive of her daughter, and blames her for being "dull" when the whole reason Machi became so was to live up to her mother's ridiculously high expectations. [[spoiler: Machi's parents also kicked her out the second she tried to interact with her baby brother, because they assumed she had "always been jealous" of him and wanted to murder him, when all she wanted to do was cover him with a blanket so he wouldn't be cold.]] |
| 125 | ** While Kagura isn't hit with as much abuse as the others, her parents are always fighting. They fought so much that she spent a large portion of her childhood hating herself, believing that they fought because she was one of the Zodiac. |
| 126 | ** [[spoiler:Akito]] is actually one of the characters who received the worst abuse. [[spoiler:Ren, her mother,]] hated her for getting attention from [[spoiler:Akira, her father,]] and thus proceeded to mistreat and belittle her at every turn, one of the worst examples being [[spoiler: forcing her to live as a man so that she could be the only woman Akira loved]]. |
| 127 | ** For a very short while, [[spoiler:Kyoko]] was this to [[spoiler:Tohru]], in the form of neglect. [[spoiler: After Katsuya's death, Kyoko fell into a state of despair in which she did nothing but lie on the floor all day, not feeding or looking after her daughter. Katsuya's father often came to their home to take care of Tohru, and for days he was not around, Tohru took care of both herself and her mother.]] She gets better when she [[spoiler:travels to the sea to commit suicide, and hears a child crying for her mother. This reminds her of her daughter, alone at home, and she rushes back to Tohru, vowing to never abandon her again]]. |
| 128 | * ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'': |
| 129 | ** [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Original manga]] and ''Brotherhood'': |
| 130 | *** Shou Tucker is so desperate to achieve fame and fortune through spectacular alchemical skill that he turns his own daughter and her dog into a chimera, something which the author herself considered so vile that he is the one and only dead character who is shown in the "In Memoriam" omake cartoons as going to Hell, whereas other characters who committed utterly atrocious crimes are still shown flying up to Heaven. |
| 131 | *** What little we see of their relationship indicates that Berthold neglected Riza in favor of his alchemy research and he used her as the HumanNotepad for his research on flame alchemy when she was younger than eighteen. Given Riza is okay with Roy permanently disfiguring her back to hide the tattoo, it's doubtful she was all that willing a participant. She also tells Roy in a flashback that her father was "a terrifying man" when consumed by his research. For his part, Berthold acknowledges this; his dying words are an apology for not taking better care of her and pleading with Roy to look after her in his stead. |
| 132 | ** [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 2003 anime]]: All three of Hohenheim's kids. [[spoiler:Envy]] definitely takes the cake, as while Ed and Al had Hohenheim merely pull a ParentalAbandonment and were left with a very loving mother [[spoiler:since Hohenheim realized his huge fuck up and didn't want them to be in danger]], [[spoiler:Envy was stuck with his mother [[BigBad Dante]], who only cared about herself and treated Envy as a tool.]] |
| 133 | * In ''Manga/FutureDiary'' Yuno Gasai had a ControlFreak mother who measured everything she did from how many hours she got to sleep to how many calories she had a day. She also kept her in a cage and starved her in an effort to raise her to be a model person and ignored her whenever she begged them to let her out. She eventually [[spoiler:trapped both her parents in the cage and starved them to the point that they died]]. If you want to know why Yuno is so [[{{Yandere}} messed up in the head]], look no further. |
| 134 | * Miyu's mother in ''Manga/{{Gals}}'' indicates her utter distaste for her daughter. With the exception of providing her with the bare necessities, she fails to provide any love and compassion. When [[spoiler:Miyu dramatically demands her mother's attention in the first season, the latter continues to give her the cold shoulder with a harsh response of "I see the man who left me in you"]]. |
| 135 | * Although Baron Julian Danglars from ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'' maintains that he only wants his daughter Eugenie to be happy and that everything he does is for her sake, he clearly [[{{Greed}} cares more about money]] than his own family. He is the most powerful banker in France and he seeks wealth above everything else, disregarding the feelings of those closest to him in the process. He sees the marriage of Eugénie (first to Albert and later to Andrea) as a way to enhance his family's wealth and prestige. The problem is his pushing Eugenie into marrying Andrea (against her wishes even) turns out bad because Andrea is actually insane, and is revealed to be her half-brother. Andrea routinely sexually harasses Eugenie and eventually tries to rape her as well. Eugenie had started to warm up to the idea of marrying Albert and had fallen in love with him. Her father cancelled the engagement to Albert because of a bad rumor surrounding his family and gave Andrea permission to marry her, ''without even asking his daughter if she wanted to first or even informing her of his plans.'' And later refuses to let her out of the house, and slaps her when she attempts to go see Albert. |
| 136 | * In ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', Miho's mother, Shiho, is verbally abusive to her on a few occasions. In the prequel manga, she belittles her for asking whether Maho was expected to [[spoiler:shoot the enemy flag tank when it was trying to save one of her own team's tanks]]. In the main series, after Miho [[spoiler:causes her team's defeat by saving one of her own tanks from drowning]], her mother again berates her, leading her to transfer to another school and give up tankery. Later in the series, [[spoiler:Shiho even plans on disowning Miho after hearing of her commanding Oarai's team, but has not done so as of the end of the first season]]. |
| 137 | * Thankfully, no character in ''Anime/GlassFleet'' suffers all four forms of abuse, but together the three main characters manage to combine all four. Vetti, the main antagonist, suffers extreme emotional and sexual abuse at the hands of his stepparents. Cleo suffers mildly from physical abuse, and Racine's father's neglect of her is minimized by her older brother's involvement in her life. As it turns out, Vetti and Cleo's abuse was for the sake of a [[BecauseDestinySaysSo prophecy]]. |
| 138 | * ''Manga/GoldenKamuy'': |
| 139 | ** Yasaku Edogai's mother apparently castrated him at one point. His father was not abusive, but he was murdered by Edogai's mother. |
| 140 | ** Zigzagged. While Wilk is shown to have been a loving father to his daughter, [[TrainingFromHell his methods for raising her into the huntress she became were extremely harsh for her young age,]] making her hunt bears on her own when she was no older than 7. While Asirpa succeeded, he put her under extreme danger and stress without properly informing her of it. [[spoiler: His true goal by doing this and all the hunting and survivalism knowledge he imparted into her, was to raise Asirpa to be the leader of the Ainu revolt against the Japanese government.]] He was otherwise supportive of her, and genuinely trusting of daughter's skill and talent as a hunter. |
| 141 | * Aiko's mom from ''Manga/GoodnightPunpun'' is emotionally and physically abusive. [[spoiler:She tries to kill Aiko after Aiko mentions that she wants to move out and live with her boyfriend Punpun. In the end, [[SelfMadeOrphan Aiko kills her instead]].]] |
| 142 | * ''Manga/GoodNightWorld'': |
| 143 | ** Kojiro is shown to get physically violent with his children when he considers they deserve punishment in flashbacks. The shown causes of punishment are ''almost''' accidentally spilling a drink on a computer keyboard and the breaking of a coffee mug that is implied to also be accidental. |
| 144 | ** The mother of Hinako, Pico's player[[spoiler:, more accurately the real person whose memories served as her AI template]], is shown to be the controlling variant. She asks her to be home as soon as she's done with her classes for the day while holding her arm and not letting go before she agrees. |
| 145 | * ''Manga/GreenBox'': Sena calls his mom for help as he's been kidnapped, but she instead yells at him for skipping school. |
| 146 | * Gregory, of ''Anime/GregoryHorrorShow'', has Gregory Mama, the only character that Gregory actually ''fears,'' and is a bigger villain than he is! Gregory Mama frequently shouts at her son, insults him, and can't seem to go a single conversation without striking him on the head with her staff. She's also a witch, and is most probably immortal...meaning Gregory will have to put up with her abuse for all eternity. The guy hates her so much that when a shelf falls on her and crushes her, he actually considers letting her die, or finishing her off himself. (She threw the shelf off of her, screaming at him for not helping, and Gregory broke down the door in his haste to get away.) |
| 147 | * PlayedForLaughs in ''Literature/GroundControlToPsychoelectricGirl''. Makoto's aunt never told him she had a daughter. It turns out [[ParentalNeglect she was ignoring Erio]]. She soon gets better but [[ParentsAsPeople still isn't the best mother ever]]. Meme does care for Erio though. |
| 148 | * ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' has a number of examples: |
| 149 | ** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' has Amuro's father and mother. His father Tem Ray actively neglects Amuro growing up due to his work as a military engineer and scientist, to the point that Amuro's next door neighbor friend whom is the same age as him is more like his actual parent. Meanwhile, years ago his mother refused to move to space with her husband and son. When Amuro meets her again she ends up chewing him out and disowning him when he kills an enemy soldier in self-defense. |
| 150 | *** ''[[Manga/MobileSuitGundamTheOrigin Gundam: The Origin]]'' slightly tones down Amuro's mother's behaviour, and even has them briefly reconciling. |
| 151 | ** ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'' has Kamille's parents who are both incredibly neglectful. His mother is a workaholic who seems to care nothing about Kamille until he causes trouble. Then his father turns out to be not just neglectful but also physical abusive. When Kamille criticizes his father for cheating on his mother he is brutally backhanded for his troubles. It's notable that after [[spoiler: both parents [[KilledOffForReal die]]]] that Kamille gradually matures into a much better and more well adjusted person. |
| 152 | ** Al Da Flaga from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Gundam SEED]]'' was a narcissistic bastard who viewed his son, Mu La Flaga, as nothing more than a vehicle for his own ego. When Mu refused to nothing more than an extension of his father and his StrongFamilyResemblance to his mother became more pronounced, Al cut him out of his life, locked him and his mother up in a BigFancyHouse, and had himself cloned. He then proceeded to treat said clone as though he were a replacement for Al himself rather than a real person (his first words on seeing the clone were "This is me, right?"). Said clone eventually rebelled, murdered Al by burned down his house, and became [[spoiler:[[OmnicidalManiac Rau Le Creuset]]]], whereas Mu stayed firmly at the side of good [[BrokenAce but later explained to his girlfriend Murrue how badly his father's emotional abuse fucked him up]]. |
| 153 | ** Lady Prospera Mercury from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury'' was an EvilMatriarch and CharClone who deliberately alternates between [[ParentalNeglect isolating her daughter]] Suletta [[MyBelovedSmother and praising her]] in order to make Suletta unwaveringly obedient to her, to the point of reverence. As a result of this, Suletta is incredibly easy to manipulate if Prospera is the one that says the word, resulting in Prospera turning her own daughter into her personal attack dog. [[spoiler:Both of them if we count the one [[PoweredByAForsakenChild she turned into a Gundam]]. And that was the one she actually ''liked''.]] |
| 154 | * Common plot element in ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''. Angelica in particular, since [[spoiler:her father ''ran her over with his car'' to collect her insurance. She survived, but barely.]]. |
| 155 | * ''Anime/HelloSandybell'': |
| 156 | ** Sandybell's father constantly slaps her, but the show portrays this as something normal. |
| 157 | ** Alec. His father was addicted to drugs. On bad days, when the drugs were driving him crazy, he would frequently assault Alec, his mother and his sister. As a result, he has a burning hatred for drugs and those who deal them. |
| 158 | * Honor Longwood hates Sandybell because she's not her child (and only agreed to take her in because she's the child of her husband's best friend). She treats her poorly, such as serving her food on a broken plate. |
| 159 | * ''Anime/DotHackSign'': Tsukasa's real-life father [[spoiler:apparently despised the fact that [[WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent she was a girl]], slapped her at a police station when she was caught trying to steal a bra, and killed a kitten that she was trying to raise in a box in an alley. WordOfGod says that he's also the man who tried to turn off her life support system in the real world.]] |
| 160 | * Hayate from ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' suffered this in spades. Not only did they run away from home and slap their son with their debts, they even ''sold his organs to the Yakuza to pay it off''!!! |
| 161 | ** Hinagiku and Yukiji's real parents did this to her and her sister, albeit not as severely. |
| 162 | ** Hinagiku tells us that her parents simply dropped the debt on the children and disappeared. She still loves them, and loves her foster parents, it's implied that the love is the same for both, and the Katsura parents are implied to be very loving, so abuse is unlikely from the unknown parents. |
| 163 | * In ''Literature/TheHeroWhoReturnedRemainsTheStrongestInTheModernWorld'', Kaguya's parents are crack dealers to fund their lavish lifestyle and are happy to sacrifice Kaguya to the fox and actively sabotage her efforts to avoid being sacrificed because her older sister scored a lucrative political marriage to a member of the main Abeno family. Their only "sympathy" for her consists of handing her a bottle of heroin to dull her sense of pain for when she's Eaten Alive. |
| 164 | * A recurring theme in the semi-autobiographical stories by horror manga author Hideshi Hino. Dad is an abusive alcoholic pig slaughterer while mom went violently insane the day the AuthorAvatar was born with a smile on his face and a blood clot/his ''dead twin's head'' in his hands -- [[CreepyChild "Demon child!"]]. Mom enjoys tying up lil' Hideshi and torturing him while Dad has to tie up mom in order to control her. Incidentally, Grandpa is a ''yakuza'' and/or a gambler while Grandma believes she's a chicken/is violently raped, murdered, and stuffed down a well, depending on what story you're reading. |
| 165 | * ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'': |
| 166 | ** This trope is constant in the series, especially in regards to Satoko Hojo. Her own mother told her she wished she wasn't born and her numerous step-fathers abused her when she refused to call them father, and her aunt and uncle considered her a curse and beat her up and made her buy them alcohol. |
| 167 | ** Shion, whose family disowned her, forbid her from going anywhere near her own hometown and sent her to live in an oppressive school. Not because of anything she did, but only because of the village's tradition of looking down upon younger twins [[spoiler:even though she's actually the older one.]] |
| 168 | * Soichiro Arima from ''Manga/HisAndHerCircumstances'' had a mother who beat him badly on an almost daily basis and if she wasn't, it was because she left him alone for days on end as he slowly starved, locked in a house with barely any food. He never received any sort of affection and if he wasn't being beaten or neglected he was being verbally abused. [[spoiler:When he was still three his mother eventually decided that is was enough and left him alone completely. When he was so sick and malnourished he could barely move and was close to death, she returned just to check if he had died yet, ''kicked'' him across the room when he begged for help and left once again, intending to leave him to die a slow and painful death.]] He was luckily adopted by his aunt and uncle who raised him as a son [[spoiler:by request of his biological father Reiji, who found baby Soichirou right before he died]]. |
| 169 | * ''Manga/HowToTreatALadyKnightRight'': Leo Cornelia is the only daughter of a family of knights. When her past is shown or discussed, it's consistently shown that she was made to endure TrainingFromHell, focus only on things that helped her training as a warrior, and forego any of the staples of a normal childhood. In the present, Leo is essentially the WorldsStrongestWoman, but has zero experience with day to day things like Houli's declaration of love for her, and his celebrating her birthday or going out to eat cake with his sister are first-time, milestone events for her. |
| 170 | * In ''Manga/IGotMyWishAndReincarnatedAsTheVillainessLastBoss'', due to the FantasticRacism in the universe, Elizabeth's parents [[MadwomanInTheAttic banish her to the annex of their manor]] and don't let her go near the main residence, even [[GildedCage putting iron bars on her windows]], not that it stops the Elizabeth from the current timeline from going out. |
| 171 | * In the ''Manga/IkkiTousen'' manga/anime, LittleMissBadass Ten'i (Dian Wei) is raped by her father [[spoiler:and she ''[[{{Patricide}} kills]]'' him in [[RapeAndRevenge revenge]]]]. |
| 172 | * ''Manga/{{Innocent}}'': |
| 173 | ** Anne-Marthe is physically abusive to her grandchildren, punishing them with a spiky wheel, and psychologically manipulates both her sons into being her willing puppets (through praises and cuddles), even as adults. |
| 174 | ** Jean-Baptiste tortures Charles with the brodequin. |
| 175 | ** The conte de Chartois sexually abuses his son and pimps him out to other aristocrats. |
| 176 | * [[spoiler:Mari's mother]] in ''Manga/InsideMari'' is revealed to have been emotionally abusive in the past. She even accidentally [[spoiler:caused Mari psychological damage by forcing her to change her name from "Fumiko" to "Mari", in order to disassociate her with her deceased grandmother]]. There are also implications she was a {{Domestic Abuse}}r towards her husband. |
| 177 | * ''Anime/IsabelleOfParis'': |
| 178 | ** Léon Laustin would have slapped Geneviève for saying she wanted to live with Jules had Andréa not stopped him. [[spoiler: He then tells her he will no longer stop her from marrying him, because she is no longer part of his family. He also leaves her in Paris while the rest of the family goes to Versailles to escape from the oncoming Prussians. However, when she's out of earshot, he hands Gaston a wad of cash and tells him to look after her nonetheless.]] |
| 179 | ** [[spoiler: After the death of Andréa, he tells Isabelle that she is the only child of the Laustin family left and regardless of how she feels about Jean, she should consider marrying him as he is a noble, repeating the same pattern of ArrangedMarriage he did with Geneviève that drove her away.]] |
| 180 | * ''Manga/ISwearIWontBotherYouAgain'': Violette's mother, Bellerose, mistreated her daughter after her husband left her. She forced Violette to dress and act like Auld. Auld on the other hand left Violette in the hands of her abusive mother and never bothered to keep her safe. |
| 181 | * Zigzagged with Big Bang/Taiki Amanogawa from ''Anime/JinzoKonchuKabutoBorgVXV''. He put Ginga through TrainingFromHell, where the child was forced to carry heavy things, to stand under the weight of a waterfall and to practice the borg machine at night. When planning to send Ryūsei many lookalikes, he horrifies even his NumberTwo with the idea that if one of them wins, then he will replace the real one. In episode 33, when posing as a girl, he falsely accuses Ryūsei of stalking and calls the angry mob to punish the boy alongside him by stoning. That said, he does care about both his sons, as demonstrated when he expresses genuine pride in their growth. |
| 182 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': |
| 183 | ** Dario Brando from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'' is a deadbeat [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] who emotionally abused his wife and son, [[BigBad Dio]], along with implied physical abuse. It's safe to say that, had he not treated them this way, [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Dio probably wouldn't have become the way he is]]. |
| 184 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'': |
| 185 | *** The Nijimura Family Patriarch, prior to becoming a [[BodyHorror deformed]] HumanoidAbomination, would beat his two sons whenever he was stressed. |
| 186 | *** Yoshihiro Kira is a strange variant of this. He's shown to very much love his son, Yoshikage, and [[PapaWolf will go to any extent to protect him]]. However, in doing so, he encouraged Yoshikage's arrogant attitude and indirectly caused him to become a SerialKiller. |
| 187 | *** Yoshikage himself isn't ''technically'' this, seeing as he's not actually Hayato's father, rather just [[DeadPersonImpersonation posing as him]]. However, during his time under this identity, he ''[[WouldHurtAChild murders Hayato]]'' in order to protect his identity (though his death is quickly undone), and later [[WhyAmITicking turns him into the host for Bites the Dust]]. |
| 188 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'': |
| 189 | *** Giorno Giovanna grew up having to fend for himself due to his extremely neglectful mother, and while his stepfather seemed nice ''at first'', he later turned out to be physically abusive to Giorno. Luckily, the latter would come to an end after a gangster Giorno saved the life of payed the stepfather a visit. According to the ''[[Literature/JoJosBizarreAdventureOverHeaven Over Heaven]]'' spin-off novel, this was the intention of Giorno's actual father, DIO, who only had children with women he knew would be abusive so that his children would become self-dependent and strong willed. |
| 190 | *** Narancia Ghirga's father became very emotionally distant after the death of Narancia's mother, not even willing to acknowledge the poor boy after he had been released from juvie. |
| 191 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'': |
| 192 | *** While the original George Joestar could be strict at times, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he always had the best intentions for Jonathan]]. His AlternateUniverse Counterpart, on the other hand, would berate Johnny for even the most minor of mistakes, unfavorably compare him to his older brother, Nicholas, and even demands that Johnny ''personally drown his own pet mouse''. [[spoiler:Luckily, during the Part's climax, he publicly apologizes to Johnny for the way he treated him, and the two end up reconciling]]. |
| 193 | *** Benjamin Boom Boom of the [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether Boom Boom Family]] constantly badmouths his sons, especially L.A., as well as his wife. And then there's the fact that he's willing to ''lethally injure his own son'' to get the advantage on the heroes. |
| 194 | *** While the original Dario Brando was bad, his AlternateUniverse Counterpart is '''''even worse'''''. Unlike the original Dario, this version tries to [[OffingTheOffspring outright murder Diego]]. |
| 195 | %%* Creator/KaoriYuki: |
| 196 | %%** Rin's mother and Ian's father in ''Manga/FairyCube''. |
| 197 | %%** Alexis, Cain and Jizabel's father, in ''Manga/CountCain'' a.k.a. ''Godchild''. Physical, emotional, strongly implied sexual abuse... |
| 198 | %%** Adrian's mother in ''Manga/BoysNextDoor''. |
| 199 | * ''Anime/KazeNoShojoEmily'': Aunt Elizabeth. |
| 200 | ** Even though she's well aware Emily just lost her father, she speaks badly of him to her. She also offers little to no emotional support and criticizing almost every aspect of Emily. It's Laura who acts more of a benevolent mother figure to her. |
| 201 | ** When Emily arrives in New Moon, Aunt Elizabeth tells her that she must cut off her pigtails to be a ProperLady. Emily refuses, because her pigtails were her father Douglas's favourite hairstyle. Aunt Elizabeth then forbily cuts them off and locks her in the guest room as punishment. |
| 202 | ** She frequently berates Emily for wanting to be a writer and tears up her manuscript for the play to convince her not to do it. Emily, however, is undeterred. |
| 203 | ** Worth noting that while [[CharacterDevelopment she is initially]] very traditional and scolds Emily for being different, she later comes to meet her halfway and warm up to her. Hell, post-time skip, [[spoiler: she even willingly listens to Emily's stories and encourages her]]. |
| 204 | * ''Manga/KazeToKiNoUta'': |
| 205 | ** Gilbert has suffered emotional, physical and sexual abuse by his father (who poses as his uncle) Auguste. He first uses Gilbert to be "his pet" and later turns him to a "pure and artistic" individual by the way of neglect and manipulating his love for him. |
| 206 | ** Gilbert's mother [[spoiler:went a little crazy and she tried to [[OffingTheOffspring kill him]], while he was ''still an infant''.]] |
| 207 | ** Auguste himself suffered both physical and sexual abuse at the hands of [[spoiler:his much-older stepbrother]] and at one point [[spoiler:he tried to kill Auguste by burning him after discovering that he was sleeping with his wife, but it left him with [[GoodScarsEvilScars a rather nasty scar]].]] And it's also revealed that [[spoiler:that his stepbrother raped him when he was younger.]] |
| 208 | * Ragyo Kiryuin in ''Anime/KillLaKill'' is quite possibly one of the worst parents in anime and manga. She's quite emotionally abusive, but that's not the most horrible part about her -- she has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace when it comes to her daughter, Satsuki. As in, she ''[[ParentalIncest molests her repeatedly]]'', probably since she was 5-years-old, [[spoiler:up to and including groping her and "purifying" her while she was naked and in a bath, and removing her ThongOfShielding (ItMakesSenseInContext) by touching her crotch. She also has no qualms about using physical abuse as well, delivering a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Satsuki that was probably the first bit of FamilyUnfriendlyViolence in the series. She saw her newborn daughter, Ryuko Matoi, as little more than a guinea pig, and simply dropped her down the garbage chute when the experiments seemingly failed. The girl actually survived, only to [[BeatStillMyHeart literally]] have her heart ripped out when they met for the first time. After that, she throws the battered Satsuki into a cage in a torture chamber and repeatedly spanks her in the worst way possible so that Satsuki can be a better LivingBattery for her planned superweapon. After that, she ''brainwashes'' her other daughter with false memories, ''sews'' the superpowered uniform Satsuki wore onto her (ItMakesSenseInContext) and has a ''threesome'' with her to round it off, before sending her to fight and kill Satsuki and her companions. When Ragyo realizes she's subconsciously hesitating to kill Ryuko due to still having some infinitesimal bit of humanity left within her, she immediately resolves to rid herself of it and goes for the kill.]] |
| 209 | * [[spoiler:Katherine]] in ''Manga/KingOfThorn'', who was an alcoholic and would physically abuse [[spoiler:her son Michael]], to the point where social services stepped in and removed him from [[spoiler:her]] care. Throughout the series [[spoiler:Katherine]] deeply regrets her actions. |
| 210 | * ''Kodomo no Jikan'': |
| 211 | ** Reiji had an alcoholic father and a mother who refused to do anything about it. His hatred for them was so great that he didn't even cry when they died. To make thing worse, Reiji himself perpetuates the cycle of abuse when he becomes an abusive ''stepfather'', with WifeHusbandry intent towards the daughter of his deceased cousin and wife Aki, Rin. |
| 212 | ** Both Mimi and Kuro's mothers are implied to be neglectful, and after Mimi has a run-in with a [[TheChikan Chikan]], her mother actually scolded her for dressing the way she did even though her clothes weren't risqué at all. |
| 213 | * Kumiko Kotoura in ''Manga/KotouraSan'' is the emotional kind. Not only does she [[IHaveNoSon disown]] Haruka, but also verbally abuses her. |
| 214 | * ''Manga/KyojinNoHoshi'': Ittetsu Hoshi was once a 3rd baseman until he was injured in World War II and was forced to retire. He became totally consumed with the idea of bringing up his son, Hyuuma, to be a first-class player using TrainingFromHell (the most iconic part of the training was a special spring-loaded harness Hyuuma wore beneath his) and is always cold and rigid towards his son. When he believes that fame is hurting the career of Hyuuma, he becomes the coach of son's rival to cause his defeat. Ironically, Creator/IkkiKajiwara seems to have intended him to be more a case of ToughLove, but he ran into some severe ValuesDissonance. |
| 215 | * Niki from ''Legend of the Overfiend'' had abusive alcoholic parents who beat him on a regular basis. This eventually drives him to kill them. |
| 216 | * ''Manga/{{Loveless}}'': |
| 217 | ** Misaki Aoyagi, Ritsuka's mentally unstable mother, abuses her remaining son after the eldest one, Seimei, dies in very odd circumstances. While the anime mostly implies the abuse, showing her screaming and throwing things and one brief silhouette of her strangling him, the manga goes into almost graphic detail with the maddened Misaki hitting, biting, stabbing (with a fork), and trying to drown her 12-year-old son, all the while screaming about how he's not her real child, how she wants the "true Ritsuka" to come back, and how she should have had him aborted. And it's eventually revealed that Misaki actually starts beating Ritsuka ''before'' Seimei died. The reason Misaki started beating Ritsuka was because, at age 10, Ritsuka's personality changed completely, causing Misaki to claim that he wasn't her son. When he was alive ([[spoiler:or rather, before he was thought to be dead]]), Seimei would protect Ritsuka from Misaki when she went into a rage, and would tend to his wounds when he wasn't there to protect him. And as far as their father goes, there's a shot of his father standing by the door ''while she's beating Ritsuka'' at one point, and very early in the manga there is an occasion where Ritsuka's father grabs Misaki and instructs Ritsuka to run while he holds her back. The implication is that the father spent all his time at work, probably because his home life was so unpleasant. |
| 218 | ** Soubi suffered sexual abuse by Ritsu, who raised him after he was orphaned. |
| 219 | * In ''Manga/LuckyStar'' this seemed to be the case for Akira Kogami, who works in the Lucky Channel segment. It's even implied in the first episode that [[spoiler:her mother took all of her salary that she got from her job]]. |
| 220 | * In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', Fate's mother Precia Testarossa [[spoiler:regularly flogs Fate with the whip form of her Intelligent Device for any and all mistakes, and ''despises'' Fate because Fate, who she created as a clone and ReplacementGoldfish for her first daughter Alicia, had her own personality and wasn't a perfect duplicate of Alicia]]. Her TV incarnation in particular is by far the cruellest villain of the entire Nanoha series. |
| 221 | * In ''Manga/MahounoIroha'', Future Naoki either ignores and neglects his children, or he acts like the world's biggest {{Jerkass}} towards them. [[spoiler: Subverted when it turns out that most of it is an extreme façade.]] |
| 222 | * [[ArchnemesisDad Genzo]] [[EvilutionaryBiologist Kuruma]] from ''Majuu Sensen'' is basically what happens when you take [[Manga/ElfenLied Director Kakuzawa]] and [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Shou Tucker]] and then fuse the two into one psychotic madman. In addition to being a mad scientist who wants to create a new super-race of half-human, half-animal hybrids, he is a horrible father to his own son, [[TheHero Shinichi]], seeing him as nothing [[GuineaPigFamily but a guinea pig to be experimented on]], and fuses him with several other animals, turning him into a mutant, as part of his project. He does the same thing to his own wife, then has her killed when she tries to attack him, causing Shinichi to seek revenge on him and his fellow group of scientists. |
| 223 | * [[spoiler:Kira]] from the manga ''Manga/Mars1996'' [[spoiler:was raped by her stepfather, causing her to gain a fear and dislike for men in general. It gets worse when her mother, who is unable to support the two of them anymore and still technically married to her stepfather because he never agreed to a divorce, has the two ''move back in'' with the stepfather, well aware of what he did to her daughter.]] |
| 224 | * Kenzo Kabuto from ''Anime/MazingerZ'' and ''Anime/GreatMazinger''. He almost died cause a laboratory experiment gone wrong, but his father saved his life. However both of them thought it would be better not telling Kouji and Shiro -- Kenzo's sons -- he had survived. For YEARS Kouji and Shiro grew up mostly alone, thinking their father died alongside their mother [[spoiler:while he was building a HumongousMecha to defend humankind]]. When Kenzo revealed the truth to them, Kouji was too glad to hold a grudge, but Shiro took a long while until he could forgive him. Also, Kenzo had no troubles slapping his adoptive son when he thought Tetsuya was crossing the line. All of it finally bit everyone's butts at the end of the series. |
| 225 | ** Another ''Anime/MazingerZ'' character who suffered due to AbusiveParents was... BigBad Dr. Hell himself. Like it was seen in the manga continuity penned by GosakuOta (that gave a backstory to most of the villains), since he was a child his mother abused him physically and emotionally (insulting him, stating openly she did not want getting kids and she would be better off if he would have never been born...) as his father shrugged indifferently. The physical and psychological mistreatment he suffered back then is one of the reasons he [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy grew to hate people.]] |
| 226 | * ''Manga/{{Metamorphosis}}'': Saki's father, on top of [[ParentalIncest raping his own daughter]], blames Saki for seducing him once he's caught by Saki's mother, and refuses to want to do anything with her after that. By extension, Saki's mother qualifies as well, given that she disowned, kicked out, and abandoned her daughter without second thought, despite there being evidence that Saki's father had raped her and that it wasn't consensual. |
| 227 | * ''Manga/MissionYozakuraFamily'': |
| 228 | ** Ai was constantly beaten by her biological mother until said mother was murdered by Mizuki. |
| 229 | ** Kenji's parents disapprove of Kenji's preference for online work and video games so much that they lock him in a room until he agrees to give up video games forever. |
| 230 | * ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid'' has main character [[ActionSurvivor Nagasumi Michisio]]'s parents. It's a lucky thing he's an IronButtMonkey, considering all the abuse he gets from everyone around him including his own parents, who regularly beat him up for all the trouble that's happened. They also explicitly say, even when Nagasumi's around, that he's a worthless disgrace to the family and they'd rather have his girlfriend [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Sun]] for a daughter instead, to the point that they ''move him to the attic and move Sun to his room.'' And then when Sun leaves, they beg her to ''stay with them'' and forget about her boyfriend. |
| 231 | * ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': |
| 232 | ** Endeavor only sees Shoto as a tool to surpass All Might and nothing more, as shown by the way he doesn't even refer to Shoto as a person, but "it". In a flashback, he put Shoto through TrainingFromHell, which caused the child to vomit, and isolated him from his other children. Ironically, Shoto's burn mark isn't his fault, but his wife Rei's, though Shoto still pins the blame on him for [[DomesticAbuse driving his mother to that level of mental instability]]. |
| 233 | *** His oldest son, [[spoiler:Toya, who was his original successor, was cast aside when his weak constitution he inherited from his mother prevented him from being taught Endeavor's DangerousForbiddenTechniques. It's later revealed that Toya is believed to be dead by his family.]] |
| 234 | *** [[spoiler:Endeavor's past comes to haunt him once again in the form of the villain Dabi -- who reveals himself to be his long lost son Toya Todoroki. Toya gleefully circulates a video across Japan, exposing Endeavor's past abuse and smearing his image.]] |
| 235 | *** [[spoiler:Subverted after All Might retires, however, as he realizes how badly he's treated his family and is trying to make amends. Fuyumi and Rei accept his attempts to change, although Rei's still nervous about seeing him in person again, but Shoto and Natsuo initially refuse to forgive him.]] |
| 236 | ** Subverted with Rei Todoroki. She was a kind woman who encouraged Shoto to pursue his own dreams but snapped due to a combination of her frustration for being used and the fact her children were beginning to look like Endeavor, which resulted in her dumping boiling water on Shoto's face in a MomentOfWeakness. She immediately attempted to soothe her son's burns using her ice Quirk, while hysterically apologizing to him and asking herself why she did it. She gets better later on after being hospitalized and Shoto reconciles with her after the Sports Festival. |
| 237 | ** PlayedForLaughs as [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood Hilariously Abusive]] with Mitsuki, Katsuki Bakugo's mother. She gives Katsuki a hard DopeSlap in her first panel, blaming him for being weak enough to [[spoiler:be kidnapped by villains]] and insisting he apologize for being a burden on his teachers. [[spoiler:The parallels between Mitsuki's behavior and Katsuki’s massive InferioritySuperiorityComplex and tendency towards violence suggest [[TheChainOfHarm that most if not all of these he learned from dealing with his mother.]]]] |
| 238 | ** Chisaki [[spoiler: pretends to be Eri's father]] just for the sake of corralling her more easily. He makes her think she's a weapon being used to and born to destroy people. [[spoiler:He drains her blood to use its properties to make Quirk-nullifying darts. When she runs out of blood to give, he uses his Quirk to break her down and reset her back to normal. Given what's seen of people who have been broken down, it cannot have been a nice experience at all]]. Mirio is completely horrified when he learns about it. |
| 239 | *** Eri's real mother didn't want anything to do with her after [[spoiler:her husband was erased from existence by the girl's Quirk. This led Eri's mother to disown her and leave her with the former Boss of the Shie Hassaikai (Eri's maternal grandfather), after telling him that her own daughter is cursed.]] |
| 240 | ** Toga Himiko's parents were disgusted with her Quirk and tried to suppress it from a young age, putting immense pressure on her to be "normal" and calling her a "creepy demon child". |
| 241 | ** This contributed to [[BigBad Tomura Shigaraki]]'s StartOfDarkness. [[spoiler: The rest of his family was kind and loving but his father was cold and controlling, punishing him for expressing his desire to be a superhero due to his bitterness over losing his mother Nana to her heroics. When Tomura finds a picture of Nana in her hero outfit he beats him, but later realizes the error of his ways and planned to apologize. Tragically, at the exact same time, Tomura's Quirk manifested and he [[PowerIncontinence accidentally kills the rest of the family]] before snapping and intentionally killing his father.]] |
| 242 | * In ''Anime/MyLittleGoat'', [[spoiler:Natsuki's father]] is revealed to be this. [[spoiler:While at first he seems like a normal father who was worried about his son's disappearance and is relieved to have found him, it's quickly revealed that he intends to molest Natsuki, even [[RuleOfSymbolism turning into a wolf]] as he gives in to his darkest urges. It's implied that he's molested Natsuki before.]] |
| 243 | * ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': |
| 244 | ** Hiashi Hyuga was abusive to his eldest daughter, [[ShrinkingViolet Hinata]], for most of her childhood. It's a wonder that it hasn't affected her more, considering he has been sparring against her ''since she was only 3-years-old''. The abuse that she suffered -- being so constantly berated for [[NiceGirl her kind and gentle nature]] and [[LightIsGood natural compassion]] -- led her to develop a severe inferiority complex, and she was [[ParentalAbandonment veritably disowned]] by her father and their entire clan, forcing her to live with [[ParentalSubstitute Kurenai]] for a while. However, thanks to Naruto beating Neji for Hinata at the Chunin Exams finals in Part I, Hiashi mellows out, becomes supportive of her, and ends her renouncement, to which she finally returns to the Hyuga clan and household. By Part II, [[TookALevelInKindness Hiashi]] openly applauds Hinata for trying to fight Pain, acknowledges her growing strength, gives her a personal bodyguard, and allows her to participate in the Fourth Shinobi World War. By the time Hinata becomes an adult, Hiashi happily supports her marrying someone outside of the Hyuga clan, and by the time of ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'', he's become a DotingGrandparent to her two children. |
| 245 | ** Gaara's parents: First, he was only conceived to imprison the [[SealedEvilInACan daemonic incarnation of sand]] in order to serve the expressed purpose of being a mindless tool. Hated and feared by all of the villagers, he grew up lonely, confused, and suicidal -- his only loved one and confidant being his maternal uncle, Yashamaru. Then, when he was 6-years-old, [[spoiler:Yashamaru attempts to kill him on orders from the Kazekage, Gaara's father.]] This is not, however, a matter of duty, as Yashamaru tells Gaara he could have refused the Kazekage. THEN, to pour salt in the poor kid's wounds, [[spoiler:Yashamaru tells Gaara that he has always hated him, and is unable to think of him as his nephew, that Gaara killed his mother/Yashamaru's older sister Karura due to DeathByChildbirth and that he is nothing more than a monster that should carry out the ambitions of Karura's hatred for her village. Oh, and that Karura never loved him.]] And evidently since then, the Kazekage has been sending assassins for his own son's head for seven years, from the time Gaara was six. And we all know how Gaara [[AxCrazy turns out]]. [[spoiler:The parts about Karura and Yashamaru turn out to be a lie though, with Yashamaru ordered by the Kazekage to say all those things to his nephew, whom he really did love.]] |
| 246 | * After his parents' death, Takashi Natsume of ''Manga/NatsumesBookOfFriends'' was passed around from foster family to foster family. While most of the time they just tolerated him until they could push the responsibility on to someone else, chapter 31 confirms that some of them were physically or emotionally abusive. |
| 247 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is quite fond of this trope. [[DysfunctionJunction Every parental figure in Eva]] is abusive, [[ParentalAbandonment dead]], or both: |
| 248 | ** Gendo Ikari is cold, dismissive, and occasionally insulting toward his son, Shinji, who, for the most part, desperately craves his father's approval. This also overlaps with neglect over his treatment of Rei, who is, more or less, his adoptive daughter. Ironically it's revealed Gendo avoids his son ''because'' he thinks he'd be a horrible parent. |
| 249 | ** It is implied that the reason why Gendo is the way he is, is because [[TheChainOfHarm he himself had problems with his parents]]. |
| 250 | ** Asuka's parents and stepparents. Her mother Kyouko's neglect was a result of her going completely insane as a consequence of a "certain" experiment and, from then on, simply being unable to see Asuka as her daughter at all. But her father and future stepmother (who just happened to be the mother's treating doctor) really should have made sure that Asuka had some help to deal with being ignored rather than allowing unsupervised visits, which led to Asuka discovering her suicide alone and subsequently deciding to be emotionally self-sufficient at age six. And they ''really'' should have made sure she was out of earshot when they started having their affair. |
| 251 | ** It's not clear what kind of relationship Misato had with her father, but there ''was'' lots of emotional neglect. He ''did'' save her life during the Second Impact, but she was still emotionally scarred enough for the rest of her life. |
| 252 | * ''Manga/NijigaharaHolograph'': |
| 253 | ** Arié's father either is raping her or is about to, based on the one time that they're seen together. |
| 254 | ** One of Sakaki's children has bruises on their shoulder, as if they were gripped painfully tightly. |
| 255 | * Yato's "father" in ''Manga/{{Noragami}}''. He refuses to see Yato as anything else but a God of Calamity, using him as a pawn to his many plots. He puts Yato down anytime Yato tries to do good and in general, Yato is terrified of him. |
| 256 | * Ian's parents in ''Manga/NotSimple'' run the full gamut of this trope, from Ian's distant and verbally abusive father who also sexually abuses Ian's then teenaged sister, to his alcoholic mother who not only beats him, but even sells a young Ian's body to a pimp in order to fund her addiction. |
| 257 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 258 | ** PlayedForLaughs with [[spoiler:Monkey D. Garp]] and Luffy. The former used many tricks to strengthen his grandson, including tossing him into a bottomless ravine, leaving him in the jungle at night and tying balloons to him to make him fly. It's also clear that [[spoiler:Garp]] sincerely cared for Luffy and [[ToughLove wanted to]] [[TrainingFromHell toughen him up]], rather than abusing him for the kicks. |
| 259 | ** Vinsmoke Judge, on the other hand, is NOT in the least played for laughs in regards of his horrible treatment of his third son, [[spoiler:Sanji]]. [[spoiler: Having [[EmotionSuppression genetically modified his children]] and removed their humantity, Judge couldn't stand his third son -- the "failure" who somehow retained empathy and normal human physique. Judge shows no love for his son, bans him from cooking and visiting his mother, forces him into a harsh training regime that was meant for soldiers. When he fails to keep up, Judge encourages his other superhuman children to beat him down. Eventually Judge announces him dead and locks him up, forcing him to wear an iron mask so that no one could see his face. Years after his son's escape, Judge kidnaps him from his new life to use him as nothing more than a bargaining chip for his schemes of power with Big Mom]]. [[spoiler: Sanji emphatically tells Judge he utterly hates him and does not consider him to be his father, the feeling of which is mutual]]. |
| 260 | ** Charlotte Linlin aka Big Mom has ''many'' children, but not only she encourages their worst traits, recruits them in their crew and/or forces them into {{arranged marriage}}s (even if some of them [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage have worked well]]), if they ever try defying her she will treat them as absolute crap. i.e. she ripped 50 years out of her son Moscato’s life when he tried to stop one of her hunger-induced {{Unstoppable Rage}}s, [[spoiler:beat the hell outta her daughter Chiffon for looking too much like her sister Lola aka the only of her kids who openly defied her]], and [[spoiler:psychologically abused her [[ParentalFavoritism "favorite child"]] Pudding ever since she was a little girl, only valuing her for the power inside her ThirdEye and helping shape her into the AxCrazy BitchInSheepsClothing [[UsedToBeASweetKid she'd become]].]] |
| 261 | ** Kaido isn’t any better when it comes to his son[[spoiler:/daughter Yamato whom idolises Kozuki Oden and received violent abuse from him for it and considering Kaido is one of the [[WorldsStrongestMan strongest]] characters in ''One Piece'', Yamato has had it very rough. Although Kaido surprisingly has no issue with his [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} daughter identifying as a man]] and even refers to Yamato as his “son” which is uncharacteristically accepting and progressive for a brutal EvilOverlord]]. Kaido also states [[spoiler: after killing Shogun Orochi]] that he wants Yamato to be Shogun of Wano, not that makes up for his terrible treatment of his only child, especially since it is unclear if he does this out of love or if he is making his child a puppet leader. |
| 262 | * The backstory of Sugishita from ''Manga/OokuTheInnerChambers'', a senior page in the titular Inner Chambers of the Shogun's palace, hits both the sexual and financial versions of this trope hard. The setting and situation (Tokeguwa Japan after generations of an endemic [[{{Gendercide}} man-killing plague]]) generates enough DeliberateValuesDissonance for the reader to swallow the idea of poor families with a healthy son collecting the occasional stud fee without choking (too much) but... Every. Single. Bloody. Night. ''From the age of'' '''fourteen!?!?!''' |
| 263 | ** And then you have Sakyo, who had approximately the same experience, except it was with one woman. His mother. |
| 264 | * In the anime adaption of ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', Kyouya's father Yoshio is introduced -- via a flashback -- as someone who has very high expectations of him. What stands the most is Yoshio [[spoiler:slapping Kyouya in front of the host club, their customers, and the customers' parents. This causes quite a stir, especially as it was hard enough to knock Kyouya to his knees, after his glasses. It's also heavily implied that it isn't the first time Yoshio has hit Kyouya -- Yoshio's brief interaction with Tamaki's father Yuzuru, as well as how Kyouya brushed away the concerns of the host club, is pretty strong evidence of that fact.]] |
| 265 | * Several examples from ''Manga/PandoraHearts'': |
| 266 | ** [[LittleMissBadass Lily Baskerville]] is one of the Baskervilles, but her life was less than pleasant before she arrived at the Baskervilles. Her family was poor and she had many siblings and they thought of her as useless and a curse because bad things happened around her and told her to drop dead, and wished she'd disappear and then they brand her and send her out of the village. |
| 267 | ** Duke Nightray counts, considering [[spoiler:he allowed a chain who killed his own sons to continue tormenting his one son who became an illegal contractor and allowed the abuse of his wife at the hands of a cult leader to continue because of this and didn't even care if they were being hurt or not. Even [[ManipulativeBastard Vincent]] was so disgusted, he [[CallingTheOldManOut killed him]].]] |
| 268 | ** [[StepfordSmiler Oz Vessalius]] is a LonelyRichKid whose father barely ever saw him at all, [[spoiler:called him a vile creature when he tries to prevent his own SERVANT from being taken away from him after the latter [[CallingtheOldManOut called him out]] and says that "Whatever becomes of [[ItIsDehumanizing it]] is none of my concern". Not only that, he sent Oz to the Abyss.]] [[spoiler:There's the fact that Oz used to be responsible for the Tragedy of Sablier, and Jack, who's the real owner of Oz's body, practically rubbed the salt on his wounds when he suggested he replace his stillborn child with Jack once he de-ages to an infant.]] |
| 269 | ** Vincent and Gilbert Nightray were constantly mistreated by people, including their own parents, in their childhood all thanks to Vincent's [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eye]], and were regarded as a curse as a result. Their mother eventually sold them to a freak show, and when they escaped, they met [[spoiler:Jack Vessalius, then the Baskervilles... and while their lives did improve a bit, things got complicated from that time on, in the form of the Tragedy of Sablier and the events that followed. The two would even have to suffer Lacie and Oswald's fate below if not for said complications. Also, the aforementioned Duke Nightray, their adoptive father, apparently didn't get along so well with them either.]] |
| 270 | ** [[spoiler:ApocalypseMaiden Lacie Baskerville]] would probably fall under this as well, considering her entire family considered her to be a curse and [[spoiler:dropped her into the abyss, causing Jack to snap and cause the Tragedy of Sablier.]] The fact that [[spoiler:her own brother, Oswald]] was pretty much forced to do this just because [[spoiler:it was his duty as Glen Baskerville]] doesn't really help either of them. |
| 271 | ** Oh, and Lacie and Oswald don't have any parents. It's implied that they were abandoned. Moreover, Lacie is told by the one person she considers a father figure that she will be dropped down into the Abyss when she is older, [[BrutalHonesty and she will]] [[ScareEmStraight die]] DeaderThanDead. He tells her this when she's only SIX and SMILES. His relationship with her eventually [[WifeHusbandry went from a father-daughter sort to that of a lovers sort]], partly just ForScience, which, while not really outright abusive, is still rather unnerving. |
| 272 | * ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}'': |
| 273 | ** [[spoiler:Yuri Tokikago's father]], as revealed in Episode 15. A famous sculptor, [[spoiler:He told Yuri that she's ugly and he ''carves her body with his chisels'' to make her look "more beautiful" and be worthy of his love.]] It is also heavily implied [[spoiler:that he sexually abused Yuri as well.]] So it's no wonder [[spoiler:Yuri]] is so utterly ''screwed up''. |
| 274 | ** There's also [[spoiler:Tabuki's mother.]] Since she loved the piano, [[spoiler:she pressured him to study music and Tabuki intentionally harmed his left fingers in a misguided attempt to get his mother's attention after it's found out that his brother was a better pianist than him. It didn't work.]] |
| 275 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': |
| 276 | ** Chimchar and Charmander were treated [[TrainingFromHell this way]] by their former trainers before Ash came to the rescue. Chimchar even had a bit of character development an episode after being adopted by its new trainer to get used to the drastic change. |
| 277 | ** James's parents treated him pretty well up to a certain point, at least according to flashbacks. However, they eventually became overly controlling, forcing James to act "properly" in every area of his life. When they tried to force him into an ArrangedMarriage with a clear {{yandere}}, he ran away. The fact that he wasn't the least bit surprised that they would fake their deaths to lure him back likely means they were emotionally manipulative as well. |
| 278 | ** Giovanni's mother, the then Team Rocket leader [[NoNameGiven only referred to as]] "Madame Boss", is implied to have been this way. She refers to him dismissively and calls him a "brat". Despite this he remembers her quite fondly. |
| 279 | ** While downplayed compared to the games, Lillie got a fair dose of ParentalNeglect from her and Gladion's mother Lusamine. Her workaholic tendencies indirectly led to [[spoiler:Lillie's TraumaInducedAmnesia and fear of Pokemon]], and being a {{womanchild}} adds to Lillie thinking she doesn't truly care about her during the Nebby arc. Thankfully, they manage to patch things up and become a closer family at the end of the arc. |
| 280 | ** Funnily enough, [[TopGod Arceus]] could be seen as this in ''Anime/PokemonArceusAndTheJewelOfLife'', as it doesn't hesitate to give its children, [[FantasyPantheon the Creation Trio]], a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown for daring to stand in the way of its attempt to KillAllHumans. Poor [[DarkIsNotEvil Giratina]] got the worst of it, taking about four Flamethrowers and a Blizzard to the face. |
| 281 | * The DarkMagicalGirl in ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' suffers from this -- her father constantly tells her that she is "hideous" and that "no one could ever love you enough to die for you". He even tries to [[spoiler:[[HeartTrauma take her heart]] to feed his powers at one point. However, near the end, it's revealed that he isn't her true father at all, and kidnapped her as a baby -- which frees her up to help the main characters kill him.]] |
| 282 | * ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': |
| 283 | ** Kyouko Sakura counts. [[spoiler:Her father started as a good guy, but went crazy enough to kill the whole family after he learned that his followers to his church were only coming because Kyuubey compelled them to by Kyouko's wish, and not from actual interest. The only reason she lived was because as a Magical Girl, she was technically already ''dead'' and could not be killed in normal fashion.]] |
| 284 | ** The spinoff ''Manga/PuellaMagiOrikoMagica'': Yuma Chitose's dad was almost never around. Her mom blamed Yuma, constantly telling her she was useless and burning her forehead with cigarettes. Watching her parents get eaten alive and being subsequently reduced to living on the streets was ''a step up'' for Yuma. |
| 285 | ** In the spinoff ''Manga/PuellaMagiSuzuneMagica'', Chisato Shion's father was a decent storybook artist. When his works stop getting accepted by publishers, he starts to drink and abuses his wife until the former dies. His abuse then turns onto Chisato. This prompts her to wish for a kinder father, effectively brainwashes him. |
| 286 | ** There are a ''lot'' of these in ''[[VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory Magia Record]]''. Two of the top contenders are Tsukuyo Amane's grandmother and Sana Futaba's family. |
| 287 | *** The former forced Tsukuyo's mother to cut off her father for being of a lower social class, separated Tsukiyo from her twin sister, and brutally enforces absolute perfection on Tsukiyo to "make up" for her mother "embarrassing the family." |
| 288 | *** The latter didn't want a third child at all after having two sons, and they especially didn't want a girl. The parents both ruthlessly neglected and belittled Sana and encouraged her brothers to do the same. She was made to do all house chores, forbidden from participating in holidays or family gatherings, and often left to fend for herself. It got so bad that her wish to Kyuubey was to "disappear from the world". |
| 289 | *** Nagisa Momoe's mother. It's implied that she frequently beat up Nagisa and starved her at times. Even when hospitalised, she still verbally abuses Nagisa every time her daughter comes to visit, blaming Nagisa for the reason her husband left and her life went downhill. |
| 290 | * Shirō Onijima from ''Manga/{{Pupa}}'' is a sadistic bastard who used his son as a walking ashtray. |
| 291 | * ''Manga/RamenFighterMiki'': The show, being an hilarious deconstruction of the FightingSeries, offers a subversion of this trope because Miki Onimaru is not a child but a WomanChild, and when her mother punishes her it's via a very violent CurbStompBattle. Also Miki is TheSlacker and TheBully, so her mother is always justified. |
| 292 | * ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': |
| 293 | ** Almost everything wrong in Ranma's life can be traced back to the actions of his father, Genma. Juusenkyo? Genma's idea. A crippling fear of cats? Genma didn't bother reading the page mentioning how utterly stupid a particular training regime was. Getting Ukyou and Shampoo dead set on killing them? Both due to Genma's short-sighted greed and gluttony, though Ranma was somewhat to blame in the latter case. Plus pairing him up with a girl who will assault him or lash out at him for the pettiest misunderstandings, in an ArrangedMarriage. Even separating Ranma from his mother at toddler age, thus ensuring the boy would get very limited social and emotional development, was Genma's idea, because she would have made him "weak"... and let's not even go into the bit about the {{seppuku}} vow Ranma was made to take without knowing. He claims he did it all to make Ranma a peerless fighter and man among men, though. |
| 294 | *** Ironically enough, he may be the less abusive parent compared to his wife, Nodoka. While Genma manipulates Ranma for his own personal gain, he still attempts to protect Ranma throughout his life. Nodoka, on the other hand, does love and care for Ranma, but is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who is completely determined to carry out the {{seppuku}} contract she and Genma had Ranma sign when he was just a baby. Even though she wants to see her son and desperately want to see him, she will kill him if she doesn't find him manly. [[spoiler:After she discovers Ranma's a GenderBender and determines that his actions are still manly enough for the contract, she deems the curse isn't a failure in and of itself, but she is still perfectly willing to carry out the Seppeku ritual if she feels that his conduct isn't satisfactory]]... Yeah, Ranma's family is [[DysfunctionalFamily pretty screwed up.]] |
| 295 | ** Ranma's family life is ''less'' messed-up compared to [[GenderBlenderName Konatsu]]'s, though. While his parents were loving towards him, they both died when Konatsu was young, [[CinderellaPlot leaving him in the care of his abusive stepmother and stepsisters, who treated him less like a family member and more like a slave]]. Small wonders, then, that he considers being in the care of Ukyo, who's not exactly generous towards him (her daily allowance to him was a paltry 5 yen, and that's before she found out Konatsu was a guy harboring a crush on her, which she then took advantage of by making him work double-time without pay), a ''heavenly'' upgrade. |
| 296 | ** Although it's not highlighted, Principal Kuno was himself an appalling father figure to his son, with flashbacks showing him verbally abusing Tatewaki, forcibly shaving him bald over and over, and hanging him from a tree by a rope. The abuse was so severe that Tatewaki suppressed all memory of his father when the latter went on sabbatical to Hawaii, and even after he returns, absolutely refuses to acknowledge the man as his father, even kicking him out of the Kuno estate. |
| 297 | * ''Literature/RascalDoesNotDreamOfBunnyGirlSenpai'': Mai's mother is perfectly willing to exploit her daughter's career to enrich herself, and eventually caused her to quit acting upon trying to force her to participate in a SleazyPhotoshoot. [[spoiler:[[DownplayedTrope That being said]], she is utterly traumatized when informed that [[OutlivingOnesOffspring her daughter was struck and killed by a car]]]]. |
| 298 | * In ''Manga/{{Rinne}}'', Rinne's dad Sabato seems to have studied at the Genma Saotome Anything Goes School of Parenting... and then invented some more techniques of his own to enhance his massive jerkass status. Let's see...Daddy's been stealing Rinne's money for years, forced him to take on his debts, and is trying to get him married to take over his failing company... probably to force even more debt on him while he gets to go off skipping. |
| 299 | * ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': |
| 300 | ** Gyokuro Shuzen is an all-around bitch to all of her children. She's had ''nothing'' but contempt for her stepdaughter Moka since the day of Moka's birth, raised the sweet and gentle Kahlua to be a [[BerserkerTears berserker]] [[ReluctantWarrior assassin]], implies at one point that she'll kill Akua when Akua has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness worn out her usefulness]], and [[TheUnfavorite hates]] Kokoa to the extent that she put a hit out on Kokoa and forced Kahlua to try to kill her. |
| 301 | ** Hokuto Kaneshiro suffered so much physical abuse from his own father that he enrolled in Yokai Academy just to get away from him. |
| 302 | * There's a one-shot manga by Creator/RumikoTakahashi that opens with a son trying to escape from his parents, since they keep trying to use his bone marrow to create gold and thus solve their financial woes. |
| 303 | * ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' -- Part this, part [[WickedStepMother Evil Step Parents]] -- [[TheDragon Soujirou]] was horribly battered and mistreated as a slave by his much older half-brother and his family [[HeroicBastard for having been born to a mistress]], and became a StepfordSmiler to deal with the abuse. He eventually snapped and [[SelfMadeOrphan killed them in self-defense]] when [[spoiler:he learnt that they planned to kill him and blame his death on Makoto Shishio, then a runaway from justice. However, Shishio [[EvilMentor had taken Soujiro under his wing already]] and convinced the kid to kill them and then leave with him...]] |
| 304 | * In ''Franchise/SailorMoon'', parental trouble shows up often. Rei's mother is dead and her father ignores her in favor of his career, to the point of missing her birthday dinners; at least Rei has her grandfather, but in the first anime, despite his good intentions, he's a pervert. Hotaru's mother is dead and her father is either possessed or possessed ''and'' crazy (depending on the canon) and, in the anime, he lets his assistant Kaorinite psychologically abuse the girl. Chibi-Usa thinks of herself as neglected, and Wiseman exploits this to implant FalseMemories of abuse, which is the pull he needs to turn Chibi-Usa into Black Lady. |
| 305 | ** {{Subverted}} with Minako: her comments about her mother imply this, but not only there're no actions to back it up but WordOfGod is that she's actually a good parent. |
| 306 | * The BigBad Gyokumen Kousho in ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'', who uses her daughter Liriin and her stepson Kougaiji for her own devices, including experimenting on them. She also has an [[ParentalIncest attraction/crush]] on Kougaiji, even brainwashing him at one point to become her mindless, obedient slave. |
| 307 | ** Gojyo's stepmother was both physically and emotionally abusive to him, beating him and berating him for the color of his hair, which was a constant reminder that he was a half-breed and therefore that her husband had had an affair with a human woman. She was also [[ParentalIncest sexually abusive]] to her own blood-related son Jien -- when she was so upset she might actually do serious harm to Gojyo, he would intervene [[{{Squick}} and allow her to sleep with him]], since he reminded her of her husband. It's clearly implied that this was her idea and not his, although [[TearJerker he goes along with it]] [[BigBrotherInstinct for his little brother's sake]]. |
| 308 | ** In the prequel ''Saiyuki Ibun'', the young youkai apprentice monk Genkai's parents used his powers of foresight for financial gain, leading them to become greedy for more money and it eventually led to their deaths. Genkai realized after their deaths that not even once in his life did his parents ever touch him. |
| 309 | * In the manga ''Manga/SatouKashiNoDanganWaUchinukenai'', self-proclaimed mermaid Umino's [[{{Jerkass}} rockstar father]] Masachika clearly fits into the emotionally abusive category, often shouting at his teenaged daughter and once leaving her behind in a grocery store parking lot simply because a defective shopping cart made him angry. Later it's seen that she is also physically abused, and [[spoiler:her father eventually beats her so badly that [[OffingTheOffspring he kills her]] and tries to hide the body, which Nagisa and her brother find dismembered in the nearby mountains.]] |
| 310 | * Zigzagged with all the characters in ''Anime/SelectorInfectedWixoss'': it's heavily implied Ruuko's mother was abusive towards her out of some fear of her, possibly due to mental illness and [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned her]] at some point. However Ruuko's grandmother, who is essentially a [[ParentalSubstitute surrogate parent]] is very kind and loving to Ruuko. Ruuko's father remains unknown other than there were likely marital problems. Hitoe's own mother and father are GoodParents who become deeply concerned when she suddenly withdraws and grows deeply depressed [[spoiler:from her wish of making friends being tainted.]] Akira seems to be abusive towards whomever is caring for her, Iona seems to live a life of high privilege and it's implied she's treated well. The series antagonist. Mayu is parallel to Ruuko having been neglected and abandoned by her parents but doesn't have a kind surrogate in replacement. We don't see Yuzuki's or Chiori's parents but nothing indicates a bad home life with them. |
| 311 | * ''Manga/ShadowStar'': |
| 312 | ** [[TheOjou Hiroko "Hiro-chan" Kaizuka]]'s father constantly berates her for anything but a 100% in every class (despite pressure from bullies to do poorly to lower the grading curve), and cuts her ties to the only friends she ever had. That last one finally [[BreakTheCutie broke her]] [[spoiler:enough to kill the bullies *and* both of her parents]]. |
| 313 | ** It practically spelled out in the manga that Akira Sakura suffers this at the hand of her father. [[spoiler:And she [[CallingTheOldManOut calls him out]] by ''stabbing him to death''.]] |
| 314 | ** Shiina's parents aren't together anymore, because her mother Misono [[spoiler:''strangled her'' once during an emotional breakdown]]. Shiina ''also'' gets emotional abuse from her, since Misono was so mentally damaged by [[spoiler:the death of her older daughter Mishou]] that she convinced herself that Shiina, born some days before [[spoiler:Misho's demise]], was to blame. [[spoiler:And when Mom actually ''redeems'' herself? She's [[RedemptionEqualsDeath almost immediately murdered]].]] |
| 315 | * There is something unsettling about Kyouko's mother in ''Manga/SkipBeat''. The few scenes we see of her are when she is openly berating her then 6-year-old daughter for not being academically perfect, and then ignoring her. Next we know, Kyouko is living most of her "family" life with Shou's family, the Fuwas, who are quite cold to her [[spoiler:while planning to make her either marry Shou or shape her into the heiress to their ''ryokan'']] but she still sees them as warmer than her mom. By the time Kyouko has snapped out of her pathological search of affection and is trying to live in another city, it has become more than obvious that Mrs. Mogami ''just plainly doesn't care for her'', not even to seek fame because of Kyouko's increasingly notoriety. |
| 316 | * In ''Manga/SoulEater'', [[KnightOfCerebus Medusa]]'s MoralEventHorizon moment was stating that [[Woobie/AnimeAndManga Chrona]] was her child (in light of everything she did to [[AmbiguousGender them]]). |
| 317 | ** [[spoiler:[[SelfMadeOrphan Chrona]] then kills Medusa because [[PetTheDog she was being nice]]. Unfortunately, this is what Medusa [[ThanatosGambit wanted]]]]. |
| 318 | ** Chrona's AmbiguousGender actually adds toward this, as it implies that to Medusa, giving Chrona a gender or even acknowledging whatever it really is [[ItIsDehumanizing would make them too human for her liking]], since she sees Chrona as nothing but a tool and a weapon. |
| 319 | ** In an interesting subversion, Spirit will come off as a neglectful skirt chaser and a really bad husband... who [[DotingParent adores his daughter Maka]] [[PapaWolf and will do absolutely anything for her]], which leads to someone ''knowingly'' harming their child to make him incredibly angry. |
| 320 | * ''Manga/SnowWhiteWithTheRedHair'': Eisetsu Rugilia's father despised his romantic notions and even when Eisetsu was an adult beat him for showing intrest in and showing kindness towards a widow who was working for the family, even though Eisetsu didn't do anything that could have been reasonably taken as making a romantic advance towards her. |
| 321 | * Zigzagged in ''Anime/SpacePatrolLuluco''. As a [[CardCarryingVillain card-carrying]] [[TheUnfettered unfettered]] {{Space Pirate|s}}, Lalaco Godspeed isn't exactly prime parenting material, having run off when Luluco was a child and beating her up for getting in the way of a heist when they finally reunite. That said, she does care about her daughter, as demonstrated when [[SoProudOfYou she expressed genuine pride in her character growth]] and gave her full support in helping her confess to the boy she liked (pirate crew and CoolStarship included). |
| 322 | * In ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'', heroine Kagura experiences a number of forms of abuse. Her mother, Shinzen underfeeds and generally mistreats her, is cruelly insulting, and is shown slapping her on a couple of occasions, since she has hated Kagura almost from birth because [[spoiler:Shinzen's doctor and husband/Kagura's father ran out on them when Shinzen was still pregnant]]. Also, Suitengu having Kagura be the "goddess" at his club, with Shinzen's approval, is pretty damned close to sexual abuse, given that her role is to kiss a bunch of creepy perverts. She ''seriously'' lucked out when one of the guys she kisses, Saiga, turns out to be an AntiHero [[IOweYouMyLife who decides to return the favor by protecting her from Shinzen]]. |
| 323 | ** Two of Suitengu's debtors shown in the series committed FinancialAbuse -- the first smashed his son's piggy bank to try and pay part of the debt, and the latter was going to try to sell his daughter to Suitengu (also some sexual abuse, given that he did this because of a mistaken impression that Suitengu was a pedophile. [[spoiler:Too bad he angered Suitengu's and ended up dead]]). |
| 324 | * [[spoiler:Head]] in ''Anime/StarDriver'' has shades of this in regards to his son [[spoiler:Takuto]]. [[ParentalAbandonment He didn't care for his child at for most of his life]] and when he shows up on Southern Cross Island more sees him as nuisance rather than anything else. But then [[spoiler:Takuto]] starts tearing down his organization's Cybodies one by one and when it's [[spoiler:Head's]] turn to fight the boy, he gives him the most brutal beatdown this series has experienced until that point and seems to absolutely ''enjoy'' it. Around the middle of the series, he mentions that he is not interested in killing [[spoiler:Takuto]], but once the finale rolls around, it's quite obvious that he has changed his mind completely. Not only does he put up another very brutal fight, he also uses [[spoiler:Samekh's powers]] to resurrect a whole bunch of fallen Cybodies to home in on the boy all at once, commanding them to kill him. And then there's the fact that he manipulates and uses [[spoiler:Takuto's]] friends left and right for his personal goals, abandoned the boy's mother when she was just barely pregnant, and even tried to manipulate [[spoiler:Takuto]] himself at one point (though that didn't work), among other unrelated but nontheless evil things the guy did. What a great father. |
| 325 | * ''Anime/StarsAlign'' has multiple accounts of parental child abuse. In the first four episodes we already see [[spoiler: one of the main characters Maki get assaulted by his sociopathic father, the [[BigBad main villain of the series]], who forces himself into their apartment when the teenage boy is home alone.]] There is also a flashback to [[spoiler: Itsuki's mother pouring boiling water over her son's back when he was a baby which resulted in him having several burn scars that he feels self-concious about.]] It's also heavily implied that [[spoiler: Toma's mother is emotionally abusive.]] Needless to say, those boys really have it hard in this anime. |
| 326 | * ''Literature/TheStoryOfSaiunkoku'': Emperor Senka attentively watches over his sons and has the policy of saving each of his sons' life once; however, he does not care about their personal well-being and does nothing to prevent the power struggle that leads to the death of four of them. Similarly, Ryuuki's mother resented the fact that Senka didn't favor her, and took it out on Ryuuki himself. |
| 327 | * The version of [[MadScientist Washu]] from the original OAV version of ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' has one [[NeverLiveItDown particularly infamous scene]] that makes her appear to be less than a standard mother. Specifically, the scene where she captures Ryoko, binds her to a table, and then wanders off, leaving her trapped and alone in the dark. This hits such traumatic memories for Ryoko that the hardened {{Space Pirate|s}} bursts into tears and starts screaming for "mommy" to come and save her, unaware that Washu is gleefully eavesdropping from around the corner and taping Ryoko's complaints. Presumably so she can hear Ryoko call her "mommy" whenever she wants to, because Ryoko normally refuses to acknowledge Washu as her mother. |
| 328 | * The titular character of ''Manga/ThatsMyAtypicalGirl'' was put in a dog cage whenever she caused her father trouble. |
| 329 | * The fact that ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'''s [[spoiler:Yuri had an abusive father as part of his FreudianExcuse is probably not too surprising]]. The fact that said abusive father was [[spoiler: an emotionally destroyed, alcoholic Mr. Legend?]] Much more surprising. |
| 330 | * ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'': After the death of his mother, [[TheHero Kaneki]] moved in with his aunt, who resented the fact that he was academically better than her own son and did such things as throwing away his books ForTheEvulz; eventually, she just stopped feeding him, instead giving him money to buy his own food. To add insult to injury, it's revealed in the sequel series that [[spoiler:Kaneki's mother, who he had previously described as gentle and kind, was in fact prone to flying into rages and beating him, with Kaneki having [[RepressedMemories repressed his memories]] of her doing so]]. |
| 331 | * In ''Anime/TrueTears'', Shinichiro's mother hated the deceased mother of Hiromi, who has taken up residence with Shinchiro's family. She makes Hiromi very aware of this and is a driving factor in turning Hiromi into a very emotionally repressed girl. |
| 332 | * Mr. Fujinami, of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', fulfills at least several of the types of abuse in regards to his daughter [[WholesomeCrossdresser Ryuunosuke]]. Apparently solely because of his insane levels of chauvinism, he is convinced that a "mere" girl is unable to run his precious (run down) tea shop, and so he has forcibly raised her as a boy, despite her protests, since her mother Masako [[strike:died]] left him. He refuses to allow her to buy any feminine clothes, both by refusing to give her money to do so and stealing/destroying any she does manage to get, demands she speak in masculine fashion, refers to her only as a male, frightens off any boys she acts interested in, encourages girls who are attracted to her, insults and mocks her femininity, and otherwise goes out of his way to thwart any attempt by her to discover her feminine side. He routinely enforces his desires with violence, and though she [[CallingTheOldManOut is quick to degrade him and beat the tar out of him in return]], he always manages to beat her. For some insane reason he has dozens of pictures of himself, baby Ryuunosuke and women hired for that purpose posing, so many so that even he can't remember which one of them is the real Masako Fujinami, and so Ryuunosuke will never know what her mother looked like (although he has claimed at least that Ryuunosuke looks right like her mother -- and Lum checked it with a lie detector just in case). Despite his daughter's extreme distaste and discomfort, he set up for her an ArrangedMarriage with a male-to-female WholesomeCrossdresser, Nagisa. |
| 333 | ** Ataru's parents are not a sterling example of parenthood, either. Both of them go from stating they want to protect their son, even if he is an idiot, to stating how happier their lives would be without him. |
| 334 | ** Ran's mother was a very strict parent and her go-to whenever (she thought) Ran did something wrong (like wetting the bed) was to violently spank her to the point of making Ran cry. And thanks to Lum, Ran was often blamed for things that she didn't even do. What separates her from a parent that is strict and harsh because they think it will help their child be better, is that it is clear her punishments are more because she’s mad at Ran than anything else. She also hit Ran while harshly comparing her to Lum, made it clear she liked the other girl better and verbally assaulted Ran while spanking her which can be considered emotional abuse. Her very first appearance even has her automatically blaming something bad that happened on Ran without considering it could have been Lum, then spanking Ran and verbally assaulting her for lying when she said it was actually Lum. |
| 335 | * In ''Manga/{{Usogui}}'', Kaji's mother (alongside her boyfriend of the week) would injure him to the point of hospitalization so that she could cash in on the insurance money. One example given is when her lover tried to cut up a young Kaji with a utility knife -- to avoid that, Kaji volunteered to ''get hit by a car'' instead. Kaji's sense of self-worth was absolutely wrecked by her abuse, and he constantly involves himself in {{Absurdly High Stakes Game}}s alongside the protagonist because he believes he's only useful if he's hurting himself for the benefit of others. Overcoming this mindset and coming to see himself as the protagonist's equal is the culmination of his CharacterDevelopment. |
| 336 | * In ''Manga/VirginLove'', Kaoru's mom neglected him for her relationships and then blamed him when they went sour. His emotional isolation and fear of relationships stem directly from not wanting to be her. |
| 337 | * In ''Manga/TheWallflower'', Kyohei's mother repeatedly tells him that she wishes he'd never been born, and she wishes he'd never had his face. It's what causes him to be living with the other boys in the first place. This leads to a very poignant moment in the anime [[spoiler:where Sunako witnesses the abuse, then repeats some of the words to him in a fit of rage. This causes Kyohei to run away and join a biker gang until he is lured home by Sunako's fried shrimp]]. In the live action version, this causes a TearJerker episode [[spoiler:when Kyohei reconnects with his mother and makes her a special lunch from one of his fondest memories. The memory is not fond for her, however, and she snaps, screaming all of the abuses of his childhood at him as she breaks down. Later on, his father shows his abusive side, by demanding that Kyohei stay out of their lives for good]]. |
| 338 | * ''Literature/TheWayToProtectTheFemaleLeadsOlderBrother'': Lant Agriche encourages his kids to compete among themselves and murder each other in order to rise in the ranks, openly derides and humiliates them if they fall short off his expectations and outright kills them when he ultimately decides they're not up to his insanely high standards. Many of his wives are not much better. |
| 339 | * ''Literature/WelcomeToTheNHK'': It's revealed that [[spoiler:Misaki was physically abused by her stepfather. The abuse ultimately caused her mother to commit suicide through falling off a cliff. The abuse also caused Misaki to find someone else she thought was more else worthless than herself as a result of the abuse, causing the plot of the show]]. |
| 340 | * In ''Anime/WhosLeftBehindKayokosDiary'', the mentioned but never seen father of Kayoko's friend and neighbour Yoshisuke is implied to be abusive to him and his unseen mother due to an addiction to sake. At one point, Kayoko catches Yoshisuke in the act of trying to run away with his infant sibling because he no longer feels safe in his own home. |
| 341 | * In ''Manga/WithTheLight'', the fathers of Eri and Oki are the main offenders. Eri's father intimidates her and beats her mother regularly. Oki's father beats his son and keeps the house is a state of squalor after his wife leaves. A few other frustrated parents approach this at various points in the story (even Sachiko, who hit Hikaru in frustration a couple of times, admits this to herself), yet they never quite get that far. |
| 342 | * Kohane's mother in ''Manga/XxxHolic'' sees her daughter only as a financial asset, and maintains her as such. Afraid that anything "impure" would disrupt her powers as a medium, Mrs. Tsuyuri forbids Kohane from having any friends and from talking to people. (This culminates in her throwing ''scalding hot coffee'' at Watanuki's face after she finds Kohane eating dinner with him.) Watanuki also notices that she refuses to call her [[HeyYou daughter by her name]] or even touch her. |
| 343 | ** It goes into physical abuse after Kohane points out to her mother that the reason she never touched Kohane [[spoiler:was because the mother thought of herself as unclean]]. She viciously slaps Kohane on live television and would have done it again if Watunaki hadn't protected Kohane. |
| 344 | * Kousei's now [[PosthumousCharacter deceased]] DelicateAndSickly mother from ''Manga/YourLieInApril'' was emotionally and physically abusive towards him. She was a StageMom who overworked him from a young age and forced him to miss school to practice the piano. He often couldn't play with friends due to having to practice. She even beat him up in public. She has a FreudianExcuse, [[spoiler:She was [[AngerBornOfWorry scared]] of how he would be once she finally died. She wanted him to be skilled enough to become a professional pianist and support himself after her death.]] It doesn't excuse her actions in the end though. After beating him after a performance one day, the then 12-year-old Kousei snaps and tells her [[IWishedYouWereDead she should die]]. She does just that not too long later and Kousei heavily regrets those were his final words to her. |
| 345 | * ''Manga/YuGiOh'': |
| 346 | ** Emotional and implied physical abuse of Seto Kaiba by his adoptive father, Gozaburo. Also emotional neglect of Mokuba, and [[Anime/YuGiOh in the second series anime version]] his ''actual'' son, Noah. [[SelfMadeOrphan Backfired]]. |
| 347 | ** According to [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries another source]], [[RuleOfFunny Seto fired his parents.]] |
| 348 | ** Ryuuji Otogi in the manga, where his father is a crazy clown who carries a whip and uses it on Ryuuji in front of his friends, as well as emotionally abusing him through the guilt-trip of telling Ryuuji he's the only one who can save his father. Cue [[WellDoneSonGuy issues]] and Ryuuji [[LoveMartyr very cautiously]] telling his father that it's wrong to want revenge. |
| 349 | ** Katsuya Jounouchi has a drunken father who throws bottles at his friends when they try to visit, under the impression that they're Jounouchi. |
| 350 | ** Malik's father cuts scars/tattoos into his back as part of a coming-of-age ritual, ignores his eldest daughter, Isis, and uses his adopted brother, Riishid, as a whipping boy. [[spoiler:Malik's alter-ego gets [[SelfMadeOrphan revenge]]]]. |
| 351 | ** Played for laughs in''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' where the worst part of their ritual was [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking being forced to watch Beverly Hills Chihuahua.]] |
| 352 | ** [[Anime/YuGiOh In the second series anime version]], FillerVillain Dartz goes insane and tries to kill his own daughter and father... [[BrainwashedAndCrazy although in that case, it wasn't his fault]]. |
| 353 | * In the manga version of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', Mukuro's stepfather had her outfitted at ''birth'' with cybernetics that allowed him to use her as his obedient SexSlave. Which he did the ''moment'' it was finished. He raped her constantly throughout her childhood until she finally mutilated herself with acid so that he wouldn't want to touch her any more, whereupon he threw her out and abandoned her. And did we mention that he implanted an artificial memory of him having once treated her with kindness, so she would never be able to bring herself to kill him no matter how cruel he was? In the end, [[spoiler:Hiei obtains a demonic plant called a "pseudo creature" from Kurama and uses it on him, turning him into [[AndIMustScream an immobile half-plant thing that can still feel everything, but will regenerate any wound except for the destruction of its brain]]. He then gives him to her as a birthday present -- and as well as telling her that her memory of his kindness was a fake, so she is now truly able to do whatever she wants to.]] |
| 354 | * ''Anime/YuGiOhARCV'': Reira Akaba suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, and goes into [[EmptyShell a dissociative state]] as a survival mechanism. Himika, their adoptive mother, fully takes advantage of this and uses Reira as an obedient tool against the BigBad. She's also heavily implied to be very strict and unforgiving of any weaknesses from Reira. Tellingly, the sight of their mother nearly causes Reira to become a NervousWreck. [[spoiler:She later comes to regret her treatment of Reira after their HeroicSacrifice, and becomes a more caring mother for the reborn Reira.]] |
| 355 | * ''Manga/{{Yuureitou}}'': |
| 356 | ** Satoko is terrified of her strict father. [[spoiler:He's shown to have been molesting her for years and probably isn't even her biological father, which causes her to loathe him after learning the fact.]] |
| 357 | ** [[spoiler:Tetsuo]]'s mother once tried to leave him to die because he's a trans man and she didn't accept that, wanting him to be a feminine lady. |
| 358 | * Sherry Belmont's mother from ''Manga/ZatchBell''. It's hinted in the flashbacks that whenever she tried her best at something to please her (like playing the piano), she snapped at her for the slightest mistake. She abandons Sherry for stealing the family jewel, which she didn't, and hasn't seen her since. Sherry was about to kill herself because of the abuse before her friend Koko came along. At least some things get better for her later. |
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