1 | [[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/big_screwed_up_family.png]]]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[ThisLoserIsYou Your typical American family.]]]] |
3 | ->''From now on a household of five will be divided,\ |
4 | three against two and two against three;\ |
5 | a father will be divided against his son\ |
6 | and a son against his father,\ |
7 | a mother against her daughter\ |
8 | and a daughter against her mother,\ |
9 | a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law\ |
10 | and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.'' |
11 | -->-- '''[[Literature/TheFourGospels Luke 12:52-53]]''', ''Literature/TheBible'' |
12 | |
13 | Tropes about family members who just ''really'' can't get along with each other too well. |
14 | |
15 | Obviously, this is a subcategory of FamilyTropes. |
16 | ---- |
17 | [[foldercontrol]] |
18 | |
19 | [[folder:General Family Mess]] |
20 | [floatboxright: |
21 | '''Main trope:''' |
22 | + DysfunctionalFamily |
23 | |
24 | '''See also:''' |
25 | + AbuseTropes |
26 | + IncestIsRelative |
27 | + MurderInTheFamily |
28 | + ThisIndexIsNotLikeHisFamily |
29 | ] |
30 | * BigScrewedUpFamily: A big family with all sorts of issues surrounding it. |
31 | * BlackSheep: The one member of the family who is met with disdain by their relatives for being different from the rest of the bloodline. |
32 | * BlendedFamilyDrama: A family including children from previous relationships struggles to get along. |
33 | * CannibalClan: A family who [[ImAHumanitarian eats other people]]. |
34 | * CustodyBattle: Conflict ensues when a couple gets divorced and can't agree on who should get custody of the children. |
35 | * DinnerAndAShow: When a dysfunctional family sits down together for dinner, something's bound to go wrong. |
36 | * DivineInfernalFamily: Cosmic opposites as family. [[GodKartingWithBeelzebub Sometimes not dysfunctional]], but that's usually the exception to the rule. |
37 | * DomesticAbuse: Someone physically and/or psychologically abuses another family member. |
38 | * FamilialBodySnatcher: A BodySnatcher who only possesses members of their own family and/or descendants. |
39 | * FamilyDisunion: DinnerAndAShow taken to the next level (involving big events among extended family, such as weddings or funerals). |
40 | * TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: An evil family comprised of murderous criminals. |
41 | * FinancialAbuse: Abusing a family member by controlling their money. |
42 | * FormerlyFriendlyFamily: Family members were once close, but grew to hate each other. |
43 | * FreudianExcuse: It's established that a villain (or a {{Jerkass}}) is the way they are because of something bad that happened to them when they were younger. Examples commonly involve domestic abuse or a beloved family member dying in front of them. |
44 | * GuineaPigFamily: A scientist uses their relatives for (usually unethical) experiments. |
45 | * HereditarySuicide: Suicide runs in families. |
46 | * HonorRelatedAbuse: Abuse that is committed in order to enforce a twisted code of personal honor/pride, and to punish those who are perceived to be violating it. |
47 | * HonorThyAbuser: A character learns to forgive and respect their abusive relatives, usually their AbusiveParents. |
48 | * InbredAndEvil: Being born of incest leads to immorality. |
49 | * IncestantAdmirer: When incestuous attraction is ''[[AbhorrentAdmirer not]]'' [[AbhorrentAdmirer reciprocated]] in the slightest. |
50 | * IntrafamilialClassConflict: Class conflict between relatives. |
51 | * ItRunsInTheFamily: Craziness or weirdness runs in the family. |
52 | * KidsVersusAdults: A well-known conflict in many families, either between siblings, between parents and kids, or with extended family. |
53 | * KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Killing a family member is seen as particularly heinous. |
54 | * NotBloodNotFamily: A character is denied as being family due to a lack of biological relation. |
55 | * OnlyCaresAboutInheritance: A character only cares about a family member's death because it will get them an inheritance. |
56 | * PlayingTheFamilyCard: A character uses family ties to manipulate someone into helping them. |
57 | * ProdigalFamily: Estranged family members show up to complicate a character's life. |
58 | * RoyalInbreeding: When royalty and nobility only marry within their class, it may eventually lead to a smaller gene pool and twisted family trees. |
59 | * RoyallyScrewedUp: Dysfunctional dynasties; royal families who don't get along well. |
60 | * StepServant: The character is made a servant/slave to the rest of the family. |
61 | * TreatedWorseThanThePet: Someone's status in their family is so low that even animals are treated better or valued more than they are. |
62 | * TroubledAbuser: The abuser bullies their family members because they were also abused themselves. |
63 | * TitanomachyRoundTwo: Someone's trying to free Cronus, Zeus's dad, to take Zeus out. Regular culprits tend to be Zeus's brothers, his wife, or a son. |
64 | * VicariousGoldDigger: A character pushes their relative to marry for money instead of respecting the relative's wishes. |
65 | * VillainousIncest: A villain has sex with a blood relative to show how evil and disgusting they are. |
66 | * VillainousLineage: Villainy runs in the family. |
67 | * WhiteSheep: The one decent member of a family otherwise composed of scoundrels. |
68 | [[/folder]] |
69 | |
70 | [[folder:Lovers and Spouses]] |
71 | [floatboxright: |
72 | '''See also:''' |
73 | + DysfunctionalRomanceIndex |
74 | + TheExIndex |
75 | + InfidelityIndex |
76 | ] |
77 | * AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Forcing someone to marry another person whom they'd rather not want to spend the rest of their lives with. |
78 | * AwfulWeddedLife: Both spouses are miserable together. |
79 | * BlackWidow: A woman who marries men so she can eventually kill them. |
80 | * TheBluebeard: A man who marries women so he can eventually kill them. |
81 | * ContraceptionDeception: One partner deceives the other about their ability to conceive children. Can be considered rape by fraud. |
82 | * {{Cuckold}}: A man who is being cheated on by his partner and probably knows, but can't/won't do much about it. |
83 | * ADeadlyAffair: An extramarital affair results in the murder of one or more person(s) involved or affected by it. |
84 | * DeadSparks: The couple loved each other once, but now just stay together out of complacency. |
85 | * DestructiveRomance: A romantic relationship is unambiguously toxic for the people involved (not always outright [[DomesticAbuse abusive]] but still unhealthy). |
86 | * DivorceAssetsConflict: A divorcing couple fight over their property. |
87 | * DivorceRequiresDeath: Someone tries to end their marriage by either killing their [[TilMurderDoUsPart spouse]], or [[DrivenToSuicide themselves]] (or [[MurderSuicide both]]). |
88 | * AFamilyAffair: A character cheats on their spouse with someone their spouse is related to (such as their spouse's sibling). |
89 | * FetishizedAbuser: A person abuses their lover and is made to look good doing it. |
90 | * FoolishHusbandResponsibleWife: A wife is smarter than her husband. |
91 | * FootDraggingDivorcee: One spouse doesn't want a divorce. |
92 | * GoldDigger: Marrying someone just to gain access to their wealth rather than love. |
93 | * HappyMarriageCharade: The married couple pretends that they're happy together to throw other people off. |
94 | * HenpeckedHusband: A submissive husband allows his bossy wife to constantly nag at and order him around. |
95 | * {{Kichiku}}: MediaNotes/AnimeFanspeak for a male FetishizedAbuser. |
96 | * KichikuMegane: MediaNotes/AnimeFanspeak for a male FetishizedAbuser who wears glasses to indicate that he is smart, sophisticated, and successful. |
97 | * LazyHusband: The husband is very reluctant to do anything his wife asks of him. |
98 | * MaritalRapeLicense: The belief that it is okay to force one's wife or husband into having sex, regardless of whether they consent or not. |
99 | * MarriedTooYoung: A couple gets married young and faces relationship problems as a consequence of not waiting until they've matured enough. |
100 | * TheMasochismTango: A couple who frequently alternate between being affectionate and fighting (essentially BelligerentSexualTension, but with the tension already resolved). |
101 | * OldManMarryingAChild: An elderly man marries a young girl. |
102 | * ParentingTheHusband: The wife caters to every whim of her [[{{Manchild}} immature husband]], treating him like he was her child. |
103 | * PsychoExGirlfriend: A crazy former girlfriend/wife (or boyfriend/husband) out for revenge. |
104 | * RomanticizedAbuse: Domestic abuse is made to look more attractive than it really is. |
105 | * SecretOtherFamily: A character has a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin secret second family]] the other family knew nothing about. |
106 | * SerialSpouse: A person has married and divorced multiple times. |
107 | * SexlessMarriage: A married couple who don't have sex, which often causes problems in their marriage. |
108 | * ShotgunWedding: When an accidental pregnancy leads to a reluctant (if not forced) marriage. |
109 | * SteppingStoneSpouse: A partner sacrifices for their spouse only to be left behind when fortunes increase |
110 | * TilMurderDoUsPart: Someone plans to kill or has killed their spouse. |
111 | * ToiletSeatDivorce: A couple divorce over a [[FelonyMisdemeanor trivial reason]]. |
112 | * UnholyMatrimony: Marriage between two evil people. |
113 | * UnwantedSpouse: Their spouse is stuck being married to them even though they don't love or necessarily even ''like'' them. |
114 | * WidowMistreatment: When someone dies, their spouse is treated worse by their family. |
115 | [[/folder]] |
116 | |
117 | [[folder:Parents and Offspring]] |
118 | [floatboxright: |
119 | '''See also:''' |
120 | + ChildAbuseTropes |
121 | + OrphanedIndex |
122 | + ParentalIssues |
123 | ] |
124 | * AbandonedWarChild: Children who were fathered by a disappeared soldier during wartime. They either live with a single mother or perhaps they have become orphaned by her as well. |
125 | * AbusiveAlienParents: Extraterrestrials are shown to be worse at raising their offspring than humans are. |
126 | * AbusiveOffspring: Children who are abusive towards their own parents. |
127 | * AbusiveParents: Parents who act cold and cruel towards their children. |
128 | ** PimpingTheOffspring: Parents who allow their children to be sexually exploited for personal gain. |
129 | * AdultsAreUseless: Parents are too stupid, apathetic, or oblivious to do anything helpful when their children are in trouble. |
130 | * AdoptionAngst: A character has issues with their parents because they were adopted. |
131 | * AffairBlameTheBastard: Taking out your anger from your spouse's infidelity on the bastard child born of said infidelity. |
132 | * AlcoholicParent: People don't tend to be good parents if they are drunk on booze most of the time. |
133 | * AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Parents who have a tendency to (accidentally) humiliate their kids in public. |
134 | * AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: When it's not exactly obvious if someone's parent(s) are around or not. |
135 | * AntagonisticOffspring: A person who antagonizes their parents. |
136 | * AnticsEnablingWife: A wife who lets her husband work out his plans despite telling him they won't do so well. |
137 | * ArchnemesisDad: Abusive fathers. |
138 | * AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: A father tries to bond with his son, but it doesn't end well (often because the father forces the son into an activity he has no interest in). |
139 | * BastardAngst: Children born to unmarried parents can suffer difficult lives for various reasons. May sometimes overlap with ParentalAbandonment. |
140 | * BastardBastard: A person who is a bastard in both senses of the word (i.e. he was born out of wedlock ''and'' he's a jerk). |
141 | * BetrayalByOffspring: Someone backstabs their parents. |
142 | * BrattyHalfPint: An obnoxious child who may act rude or ungrateful towards their parents (and also their siblings or other family members). |
143 | * BrattyTeenageDaughter: A teenage girl who acts rude or ungrateful towards her parents. |
144 | * BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting: Someone tries to avoid making the same mistakes that their parents made while raising their own children. |
145 | * BoyfriendBlockingDad: A father who is overly controlling of his daughter's love life. |
146 | * BumblingDad: The father of the family is a complete moron. |
147 | * CallingParentsByTheirName: A child addresses their parents by their given names, often as a sign of disrespect. |
148 | * CallingTheOldManOut: When children call out their parents for their actions. |
149 | * CallingTheYoungManOut: When parents call out their children for ''their'' actions. |
150 | * ChildByRape: A child from forced conception. |
151 | * ChildSupplantsParent: A child intends to supplant their parent. |
152 | * ChocolateBaby: A child doesn't quite look like one or both of their parents, suggesting that their real parent is someone their other parent cheated with. |
153 | * DaddyDidntShow: A parent fails to show up for a child's special event. |
154 | * DelusionsOfParentalLove: A child is [[AbusiveParents abused]], [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned]], or [[ParentalNeglect neglected]] by their parents, but insist that their parents really do love them despite their mistreatment. |
155 | * DisappearedDad: A character's mother is present, but not their father. |
156 | * DisinheritedChild: A parent leaves their child out of their will, ensuring that their child doesn't inherit jack squat when they die. |
157 | * DisneylandDad: Type II; absentee parent tries to buy their offspring's love with expensive gifts rather than show them actual affection. |
158 | * DisownedParent: A child disowns their parent. |
159 | * DoesntKnowTheirOwnChild: A parent barely understands anything about their kid's personality. |
160 | * DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: A character (usually a parent) spanks a kid. |
161 | * DumbassTeenageSon: A teenage boy who acts stupid or ungrateful towards his parents. |
162 | * ElderAbuse: Someone abuses their parents or other older family members. |
163 | * EmancipatedChild: A child legally "divorces" themselves from their parents. |
164 | * EvilMatriarch: Abusive mothers. |
165 | * FantasyForbiddingFather: The parents frown upon their children pursuing interests and goals that they do not see as matching their idea of a proper future. |
166 | * GlorifiedSpermDonor: When a man abandons the mother of his child soon after impregnating her. |
167 | * GrandparentFavoritism: These grandparents love their grandchildren... because they're more likable or superior to their own children. |
168 | * GruesomeGrandparent: Parental abuse, but it skips a generation. |
169 | * HandsOffParenting: Parents who are ''very'' irresponsible when it comes to raising their kids. |
170 | * HatesTheirParent: When a child hates or dislikes their parents for some reason. |
171 | * HelicopterParents: When a parent is overly involved in their children's lives, often micromanaging their activities and social life, to the detriment of the child. |
172 | * HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: A character is shown to have a ludicrously rough childhood for BlackComedy purposes. |
173 | * IHateYouVampireDad: An [[TragicMonster angsty vampire]] hates the person who turned them into one (who may be a [[ParentalSubstitute parental figure]], or even their actual parent). |
174 | * IHaveNoSon: A child gets disowned by their parents. |
175 | * InadequateInheritor: A child's or heir's worthiness of inheritance is questioned by their elders. |
176 | * JealousParent: A parent competes with their child for their spouse's attention. |
177 | * JunkieParent: Parents who are addicted to recreational drugs are often shown as being irresponsible. |
178 | * KnightTemplarParent: Parents who go to ridiculous extremes to defend their offspring from people and situations that they believe to be harming them. |
179 | * LoveObstructingParents: The parents disapprove of their child's choice of romantic partner, and so they try to split them up. |
180 | * MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: A child is blamed for their mother's DeathByChildbirth. |
181 | * {{Matricide}}: Killing one's mother. |
182 | * MiddleChildSyndrome: The middle child is unable to get as much affection or attention as their older and younger siblings. |
183 | * MissingMom: A character's father is present, but not their mother. |
184 | * AMistakeIsBorn: A child is regarded as a "mistake" (i.e. accidentally and/or regretfully conceived) by one or both parents. |
185 | * MyBelovedSmother: A mother who is clingy, controlling, and overbearing to their children. |
186 | * NewParentNomenclatureProblem: A child is unsure what to call their new step/adoptive/newly discovered parent. |
187 | * NotActuallyHisChild: A man finds out his child is not biologically his. |
188 | * NotoriousParent: A parent runs away from their offspring because they are a fugitive criminal wanted by law enforcement. |
189 | * OffingTheOffspring: A parent kills their own child or children. |
190 | * ParentalAbandonment: One or both of a character's parents are absent from their kid's life, whether due to that parent being deceased, missing, divorced, separated, or even having intentionally abandoned their family. May sometimes overlap with BastardAngst. |
191 | * ParentalBetrayal: A character is betrayed by their parent/parental figure. |
192 | * ParentalFavoritism: Parents have one child they like more than the others. |
193 | * ParentalIncest: Sex or romantic relationship between a parent and a child. |
194 | * ParentalMarriageVeto: They try to discourage their kid from marrying a fiancé(e) whom they dislike. |
195 | * ParentalNeglect: Parents who tend to ignore their kids' emotional needs, and don't seem to care much about whatever happens to them. |
196 | * ParentalSavingsSplurge: A character's parent uses up all or most of the money that was supposed to be for their child (e.g. college fund). |
197 | * ParentalTitleCharacterization: What you call your parents indicates your relationship with them. |
198 | * PaterFamilicide: Someone kills their entire immediate family (spouse and children) and then themselves in a MurderSuicide. |
199 | * {{Patricide}}: Killing one's father. |
200 | * PervertDad: A father who is sexually abusive towards his daughter (or son). |
201 | * PushoverParents: Parents who are easily manipulated into letting their children have their way. |
202 | * RacistGrandma: An elderly relative (often, though not always, a grandparent) who causes drama by spouting bigoted views, especially with the younger generations. |
203 | * ResentfulGuardian: They really regret having to raise a kid. |
204 | * SafetyWorst: Parents go overboard keeping their child safe, stopping them from having fun or being independent. |
205 | * SelfMadeOrphan: Someone murders their own parents. |
206 | * ShedTheFamilyName: A character stops going by their family name, usually because they're disowned by their family. |
207 | * SingleMomStripper: A prostitute, stripper, or other sex worker does this job in order to feed her child(ren). |
208 | * SonOfAWhore: Someone born from a [[SingleMomStripper prostitute]]. |
209 | * SpoiledBrat: A child who is rude and obnoxious because their parents give them whatever they want, whenever they want. |
210 | * StrictParentsMakeSneakyKids: Parents who are over-protective or too strict with their children simply make them better at hiding secrets. |
211 | * StrugglingSingleMother: It's much more difficult to raise a child [[DisappearedDad without their father]]. |
212 | * ToughLove: Parents treating their children harshly in order to make them better. |
213 | * TrophyChild: A child who is treated as a status symbol by their parents more so than a person. |
214 | * TroubledChild: Abuse and/or neglect doesn't do wonders for a kid's well-being. |
215 | * TheUnfavourite: A child who is ignored and neglected by their parents in favor of their siblings. |
216 | * UnpleasantParentReveal: Discovering an AwfulTruth about a parent or parents. |
217 | * UselessBystanderParent: A parent who does little or nothing to protect their child from abuse by the other parent. |
218 | * WantedAGenderConformingChild: Parents take issue with their son or daughter not conforming to traditional gender stereotypes. |
219 | * WantedASonInstead: A parent is disappointed when their new child isn't a boy (or more rarely, a girl). |
220 | * WellDoneDadGuy: A father who wishes his son would respect him. |
221 | * WellDoneSonGuy: A son who wishes his father would respect him. |
222 | * WhereDidWeGoWrong: Parents wonder if their child turned out poorly (or poorly in their eyes) because of the way they raised them. |
223 | * WhyAreYouNotMySon: When a parent (unfavorably) compares their own child not to their sibling, but to that child's ''friend''. |
224 | * WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: When parents are disappointed that their kids failed to live up to their expectations of them. |
225 | * WickedStepmother: Abusive stepmothers (or stepfathers) mistreating their spouse's biological children from another marriage. |
226 | * WifeHusbandry: Adopting a child for the purpose of marrying them when they're old enough. |
227 | * YoureNotMyFather: A character tells a parent/parental figure that they're not their parent. |
228 | [[/folder]] |
229 | |
230 | [[folder:Brothers and Sisters]] |
231 | * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: A younger sibling who bothers their older sibling by being annoying. |
232 | * BigBrotherAttraction: A girl is attracted to her older brother. |
233 | * BigBrotherBully: An older sibling who picks on their younger siblings. |
234 | * BrotherSisterIncest: Sex or romantic relationship between siblings. |
235 | * CainAndAbel: Brothers who don't get along well. |
236 | * CainAndAbelAndSeth |
237 | * DisappointingOlderSibling: A character who is seen as a letdown by their younger sibling, often for being a bully, irresponsible, etc. |
238 | * DisownedSibling: One sibling disowns the other. |
239 | * EvilBrunetteTwin: An EvilTwin who is dark-haired while the good twin is light-haired. |
240 | * EvilTwin: A wicked twin sibling who antagonizes their brother or sister. |
241 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: One sibling is responsible and cares about doing the right thing, while the other one is a lazy slacker who gets into trouble. |
242 | * TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Sisters, one smart and one pretty, who don't get along well. |
243 | * HalfSiblingAngst: The fact that you only share one parent with them makes it more difficult to get along with them. |
244 | * InfantSiblingJealousy: Feeling annoyed that your cute baby brother/sister gets all of your parents' attention. |
245 | * KnightTemplarBigBrother: Older siblings who go to extreme lengths to protect their younger siblings. |
246 | * LittleSisterHeroine: A female character whose relationship with her older brother (or a brother-figure) has incestuous undertones. |
247 | * ResentfulOutnumberedSibling: Someone dislikes that they are the only brother or sister in the family. |
248 | * SiblingMurder: Killing one's own brother or sister. |
249 | * SiblingRivalry: Siblings who don't get along well. |
250 | * SpartanSibling: A character who is unsympathetic to their sibling's struggles and expects them to fend for themselves. |
251 | * SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Someone feels overshadowed by their sibling's achievements. |
252 | * {{Twincest}}: Twins have sex or they are romantically related. |
253 | [[/folder]] |
254 | |
255 | [[folder:Extended Family and Other Relatives]] |
256 | * ClashingCousins: A conflict between cousins from different sides of the family. May overlap with FeudingFamilies if the families are big enough. |
257 | * CreepyUncle: An uncle who has an incestuous interest in his niece or nephew. |
258 | * EvilNephew: A wicked nephew/niece who antagonizes their uncle/aunt. |
259 | * EvilUncle: A wicked uncle/aunt who antagonizes their nephew/niece. |
260 | * IllegalGuardian: A [[ParentalSubstitute parental figure/guardian]] with not-so-benevolent intentions towards the child they're looking after. |
261 | * KissingCousins: Incest between cousins. |
262 | * MeetTheInLaws: Drama and conflict arising from having to meet your significant other's family. |
263 | * ObnoxiousInLaws: Hostility between a married person and their spouse's relatives. |
264 | [[/folder]] |
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