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Abuse Tropes

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In a work of fiction, there will be two people, most likely in a close relationship with each other, as parent and child, siblings, friends, or romantic partners. But, unfortunately, one is abusing the other partner, either emotionally, financially, physically, sexually, or a combination of some or all of these. The person may also be required to be in a certain place or institution, such as a school, that they have no choice but to be in, making them perfect captives for the abusive staff member(s) who work(s) there. Sadly, abuse is all too common in Real Life and is a very serious and terrible thing. There are a significant number of works that recognize this and treat it as such, but there are also those who downplay abusive behavior and even portray it as funny or even romantic.
For information on how abuse and abusers present themselves in Real Life, consult our handy Abuse page in the Useful Notes section. However, because of how sensitive of a topic abuse is, a lot of the tropes in this index are No Real Life Examples, Please!. To look up characters who have been or are on the receiving end of abuse, consult This Index Has Had a Hard Life.
Not to be confused with Loophole Abuse.
See also A Tortured Index, Child Abuse Tropes, Dirty Social Tricks, Parental Issues, Sexual Harassment and Rape Tropes, and Threatening Tropes.
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 Affair? Blame the Bastard
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 All Abusers Are Male
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 All of the Other Reindeer
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 All Take and No Give
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 Babysitter from Hell
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 Bad Bedroom, Bad Life
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 Bad People Abuse Animals
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 Bedlam House
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 Beg the Dog
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 Bigot with a Badge
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 Boarding School of Horrors
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 Bunker Woman
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 Cain and Abel
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 Child Abuse Is a Special Kind of Evil
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 Cuckold
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 Destructive Romance
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 Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!
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 Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
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 Drill Sergeant Nasty
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 Drunk with Power
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 Elder Abuse
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 Evil Matriarch
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 Honor Thy Abuser
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 If I Can't Have You…
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 Intentional Heartbreaker
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 "Just Joking" Justification
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 Lima Syndrome
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 Mad Love
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 Manipulative Bastard
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 Nobody Likes a Tattletale
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 Obscene OB-GYN
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 Offing the Offspring
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 Parental Favoritism
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 Parental Incest
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 Sink or Swim Mentor
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 Slap-Slap-Kiss
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 Sour Outside, Sad Inside
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 Stalking Is Funny if It Is Female After Male
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 Teasing the Substitute Teacher
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 The Bully
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 The Chain of Harm
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 The Neidermeyer
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 Tough Love
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 Training from Hell
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 Treated Worse than the Pet
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 Troubled Abuser
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 Troubled Toybreaker
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 Tsundere
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 Why Did You Make Me Hit You?
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 Would Hit a Girl
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