Basic Trope: Parents are good to their children.
- Straight: Carl's mom Alice and dad Bob are loving and compassionate towards him.
- Exaggerated:
- Carl's parents are both Incorruptible Pure Purenesses.
- Carl's kind's ancestors/gods were benevolent people.
- Downplayed:
- Carl's parents are strict, but treat him well at the end of the day.
- Or Carl's parents are Jerks With A Heart Of Gold.
- Carl's mother is very loving to him, but his father is a douche.
- Or Carl's father is a positive role model who's a caring parent towards him, while his mother is anything but a loving mom.
- Justified:
- Carl's parents are good people who want to do the best for their son.
- One or both of Carl's parents had terrible parents growing up, and they swore to never be like them.
- Inverted:
- Abusive Parents
- Parental Neglect
- Carl is a well-behaved and kind-hearted child to his parents.
- Subverted:
- Carl's mom and dad were so kind until they later act so abusive towards him.
- Carl always talks about how great his parents are, but the more his parents are shown, the more apparent it becomes that they are actually abusive towards him.
- Carl's parents are very loving towards him...but not to his siblings.
- Double Subverted: But this treatment was to make him a better person. They soon drop the act when he improves.
- Parodied: Carl's parents are Stupid Good.
- Zig Zagged: Sometimes Carl's parents are benevolent, sometimes they're nasty; their intelligence also varies, and his mother and father don't necessarily act the same way on the same day.
- Averted:
- Carl's parents neither love nor hate him.
- Carl is an orphan who never met his parents.
- Enforced: The author loved his parents and wanted to make parent characters for the hero as a tribute to them.
- Lampshaded: "My parents are awesome!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Carl's parents are good but dumb and Carl takes advantage of this to get away with all kinds of dangerous stunts.
- Defied: "Treat our kids right? Hell no! I'm not gonna be nice to the little brat who ruined our life the day it came out of my wife's womb!"
- Discussed: "I wish my parents were like Carl's."
- Conversed: "Troperville has way better parents than my parents."
- Deconstructed:
- Alice and Bob are loving parents, but Carl is a horrible person. They try their best to remain good to him despite this, but they eventually snap and become Abusive Parents.
- Alice and Bob are Pushover Parents, and as a result Carl doesn't learn that his actions have consequences.
- Reconstructed:
- Carl's parents becoming very abusive because of his awful behavior causes reality to hit him like a truck full of bricks. He improves his ways, and Carl's parents are once again loving. A life without friends is a depressing one indeed.
- Alice and Bob eventually put their feet down, to Carl's surprise. They remain loving parents, albeit more strict, so that Carl knows right from wrong.
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