History Main / PushoverParents

* ''Manga/ItsToughBeingNeeko'': Neeko's dad fawns over her slightest achievements around the house, and is constantly sneaking her spending money. Meanwhile, it's {{Downplayed}} with her mom, as for all her barbed comments about how Neeko needs to become a more productive member of society, she immediately backtracks the instant Neeko becomes visibly distressed. She eventually does start actively forcing the issue and tries to built Neeko's confidence, but only after ''one of Neeko's friends'' approaches her on the matter out of concern.

* In ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'', it's explained that [[AlphaBitch Reika Tamaki]]'s father is like this. [[spoiler: This is because he once accidentally caused her to get scalded with hot coffee, so he promised to himself that he'd never make her cry again. Unfortunately, Mr. Tamaki never really disciplined her from then on, causing Reika to become a SpoiledBrat. It eventually reached a breaking point when a well-placed ArmorPiercingQuestion from Onpu leads the usually self-assured [[DaddysGirl Reika]] to doubt that her father ''actually'' loves her...]]

* A ''Literature/JudgeDee'' fanfic uses this: a young boy with many facial tics, whose father seems completely indifferent, never beating or praising him, while his mother alternates between love and hate. It turns out the man was sterile, so his wife slept with another man to conceive (which, in eighth-century China, was a horrifying crime, both the adultery and the fact that the husband did nothing against it). Ever since, the father doesn't punish the boy for fear of going too far, the mother is constantly reminded that she failed as a wife, and as a result, the poor boy is growing up very confused.

* ''Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton'': As Danny notices to his shock, even Katie's parents are afraid of her.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Andre Bourgeois is the mayor of Paris and the father of [[AlphaBitch Chloe Bourgeois]], who always bends over backwards to make his daughter happy, which [[FreudianExcuse could be chalked up to his wife leaving while Chloe was a little girl]].

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': Implied with Sarah and Ed's parents -- except [[ParentalFavoritism mainly to Sarah]]. Ed is infamously grounded in one episode; his parents remove the stairs to ensure he can't escape.

* ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'':

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': Bella Swan's father is one of the most laid-back and hands-off parents around. Throughout the series, Bella continuously ignores the rules he sets, particularly the ones about him not wanting Edward over all the time, and he either doesn't notice or doesn't do anything about it. This gets pretty absurd in ''New Moon'' (when he makes one heartfelt effort to get Bella to see sense and move on past Edward but drops the subject when she refuses to talk about it) and ''Breaking Dawn'' (when Bella strongarms him into accepting her getting married at 18 and squashes his argument that maybe she and Edward are a little too young to be raising a child).

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone2002'': In the episode "It's Still A Good Life" (the sequel of "It's a Good Life", from ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''), Anthony ends up being this for his own daughter Audrey. Because he was coddled throughout his life, while he loves Audrey, he's rarely shown actually ''parenting'' her. He sets one other parent on fire for letting it slip that he hadn't wanted his son to play with Audrey, angry at the idea that anyone would disapprove of their children associating with her. Audrey, meanwhile, knows full well that her father's wrapped around her fingers and uses this to manipulate him into not hurting people she cares about (for example, distracting her father when he starts to lose his temper at the bowling alley and then pretending she's tired, so they can leave right away). [[spoiler:When Anthony sees that her powers are even greater than his own and that she seems to have no issues with sending her own mother to the Cornfield (something which [[EvenEvilHasStandards not even he ever considered doing]]), he begins to behave towards her in a way similar to how his own parents treated him, being visibly nervous while speaking to her when she asks how he feels.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfKorra'': Toph's parents were way too overprotective, never realizing their only daughter's immense earthbending ability more than compensated for her blindness. Naturally, Toph's kids weren't raised nearly as strictly... with the result that Suyin ended up with a gang of delinquents and being their getaway driver, while Lin became the authoritarian of the household, joining the police and trying to arrest her sister. Culminating in Toph resigning from the police force after covering up Suyin's involvement. Suyin later turned out to be a much more balanced parent, if somewhat protective of her only daughter.

* ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' has Veruca Salt's parents, who have [[SpoiledBrat spoiled her rotten]] to the point that her father would rather just buy her whatever she wants no matter how outrageous just so he won't have to put up with her tantrums. It is shown at the end of [[Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory the 2005 film adaptation]] that Mr. Salt does learn to say "no" to her though, subverting this ultimately.

A SubTrope of LawfulPushover, which applies to any similar person of authority. Compare to ExtremeDoormat.

[[folder:Films -- Animated]]

* ''Film/MeanGirls'': Regina George's mom has shades of this, as shown in a scene when Regina tells her mother to stop talking, and she stops.

** Played straight with Charlie, who [[ExtremeDoormat puts up with Ellie's attitude]] due to both his depression and immobilized state.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Vicky's parents are downright ''terrified'' of Vicky, and they are afraid of disciplining her.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'': Woody Johnson spoils Malloy with junk food, video games, and weapons while letting him walk all over him.