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When Abusive Parents are Played for Laughs. In the real world, child abuse is never hilarious, or even remotely funny. It's a traumatic event that can warp a child's psyche, causing them extensive physical and psychological problems, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as they develop into adulthood. Sometimes, abused children will go on to abuse children themselves. It's a horror that takes years of intensive therapy and anger management to recover from, and, worst-case scenario, it can stay with you for life. Another possible unfortunate outcome is the abused child putting an end to their own life. Therefore, No Real Life Examples, Please! In the media, on the other hand, a fair amount of Black Comedy can come from a character's horrible childhood. Notably, such comedy seldom includes sexual abuse (unless you're a writer for South Park or It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), which tends to take things into Dude, Not Funny! territory if it's molestation or rape. It's usually Parental Neglect, physical abuse (though, due to changing values, that's falling a bit out of favor), exaggerated takes on Parental Favoritism and Sibling Rivalry, witnessing events and things that are Harmful to Minors, or abuse so over the top that it's exaggerated to the point of comedy. This can be played for laughs and seriousness alternately, especially if the characters are comically screwed up already and their parents are shown to be equally or (often) more messed up. In the case of anime and manga, there's VERY heavy Values Dissonance in this regard. A smack to the head does not get the same reaction in Japanese culture as it would in America. Contrast Double Standard: Violence, Child on Adult, where children abusing adults is Played for Laughs. Related to Dysfunction Junction, Badly Battered Babysitter, Babysitter from Hell, and Poverty for Comedy. A Boarding School of Horrors can also cause this, although it’s more often Played for Drama. |
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Matilda. Her parents aren't physically abusive, but neglect her in favor of her brother and insult her. The school headmistress, however, is a Child Hater whose punishments take Refuge in Audacity. She once flung a girl across the schoolyard by her hair simply because that hair was in pigtails. Subverted in the movie, which treats her parents and Miss Trunchbull's abuse as much more disturbing than how it's portrayed in the book. | |
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The Funniest Minecraft Videos Ever: In the "Natural Disaster" video, Wilbur locks Tubbo in his basement, then forces him kill to mules to stock Wilbur's Mule Bits shop, all while Tubbo cries hysterically. By the time Tommy and Jack decide to become CPS and raid Wilbur's house, Tubbo is practically despondent, and spends the entire time Tommy was there hiding under the stairs. Then, when Tommy gives Tubbo a whip (fishing rod) to defend himself with, Tubbo immediately starts whipping himself. | |
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The Prehistory of The Far Side The book features a hysterical extended sequence where the author, Gary Larson, "explains" the bizarre and often extremely dark nature of his humor with a series of supposed drawings from his childhood, where it's revealed, among other things, peeked out from beyond bars in his bedroom window, that his parents tried to murder him by hiding his cookies in the middle of the highway, his father liked to amuse other children by holding him over an alligator pit, his brother once tied him to a tree and set it on fire, during family dinner time he sat under the table with a rabid dog, and that he was forced to ride in the trunk of the car. A substantial part of the humor comes from the fact that while the reader realizes how grotesque this is, the author himself does not, and reminisces fondly of his family life as a kid. And more mildly (and truthful) is Gary's dedication to his brother, where he explains that it was due to his brother that he learned to appreciate "the wonder and beauty of a jellyfish. And it was he who taught me the wonder and beauty of smacking your sibling upside the head with said jellyfish". Followed by a strip of what he imagines The Far Side would be like without his brother's influence. |
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Fred's mother was an alcoholic prostitute who would often leave Fred alone, not feed him (sometimes as punishment, sometimes she would forget), have him play in the parking lot of the bar while she was inside, and even left him alone with the psychopath Claudio. | |
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Ranma ½: Most of Ranma Saotome's life spent training with his dad, most infamously when his dad "taught" him the Cat Fist technique by wrapping him in sausage and throwing him in a pit of hungry cats. Kuno didn't have the world's greatest father either. Getting his head forcibly shaved was just the tip of the iceberg. |
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The thing the dad does in Who's Your Daddy to prevent his baby from killing themselves tend to be pretty mild such as locking cabinets and keeping cleaning supplies and sharp objects out of reach. In Alpha V0.6.0 however, Dad can use a taser to prevent the baby from going anywhere. Of course, the fact that the baby can slash his ankles with a steak knife, this a bit more justified, if not needlessly extreme, in comparison. | |
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Bleach: Ichigo has grown up being constantly attacked by his father, usually by being ambushed, especially when entering or leaving a house or being woken up in the morning by an ambush attack. It's always Played for Laughs and tends to degenerate into a silly catfighting between the two. On one occasion, however, it's played for drama. Isshin is shocked when his ambush succeeds, flooring Ichigo, who doesn't fight back. It's designed to emphasise how depressed and unhappy Ichigo is at the time. Isshin seems to have a more serious reason for having raised Ichigo this way, as implied when he and Ryuuken discuss what terrible fathers they both are. | |
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Gaia Online: The Christmas 2007 event had users fostering adorable shabby orphans, who would hang out by the user's avatar. Their lives at the orphanage were a clear Dickens parody — "imitation" gruel for food, whiskey to keep warm, scraps of carpet for toys... many users tried to keep their orphans, which led to a later Chance Item being adoption forms. Brennevin's wizard father once turned him into a set of silverware for trying to celebrate Halloween. Let's not forget Gino Gambino, whose father tried to toughen him up by doping him with prototype zombie serums. Nor Labtech X, who apparently got disowned when Gino came along. |
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Channel Awesome: The Nostalgia Critic once showed a drawing he drew as a kid, featuring his parents as two dinosaurs ripping him apart, played for Black Comedy. What makes it more tangible, however, is that the character has become something of a Papa Wolf who can't stand it when non-bratty children get abused. The Nostalgia Chick too, perhaps fittingly. Her mother made her feel inadequate, her dad never loved her, and her uncle was sexually abusive. In her case, this is also a Freudian Excuse, as she herself abuses Nella, doesn't like to show weak emotion, and makes a lot of off-color sex jokes. Ask That Guy with the Glasses also apparently had a pretty crappy childhood, what with being raped by a doctor and his parents saying he ought to "go back to the dumpster where they found him". Of course, this refers to the characters, not Doug Walker and Lindsay Ellis. Another Doug character, Chester A. Bum, has a vaguer past than Critic or Ask That Guy due to his brain being scattered by drugs, but has also made references to family abuse. Even logically, something had to happen to make him homeless and keep him that way for so long. |
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Mom Can't Cook!: The Running Gag of fathers from Disney Channel Original Movies being awful often leads to depictions of this. They are often portrayed as beating their children, pushing them to ludicrous extremes, denying them any joy, and being very keen on gender conformity, among other such behaviour. Most of the time, this isn't too far from the actual character. | |
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Great Expectations. Pip is treated horribly by the sister who "brought him up by hand" and her series of friends, all of whom treat him as a burden and give him a terrible time, especially on Christmas. The narration treats the whole scenario very comically, probably because Pip's the one narrating the story and hindsight has given him a sense of humor. | |
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In Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, Kara Zor-El's parents are peculiar even if you disregard Kara's fib wherein Zor-El and Alura tied her to a rocket and banished her to Earth because she asked her mother to pass the salt (her "last display of insolence!"). | |
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Zigzagged with Allen Walker's childhood in D.Gray-Man. On one hand, his abuse and psychological trauma at the hands of his master General Cross is played entirely for laughs. Whenever he hears the word "debt," it's shown as a thousand-pound rock crushing his chest, and he gets very depressed. This was caused by Cross being an alcoholic gambler that left young Allen with all his debt... along with hitting Allen, all done in a funny (or sometimes Dude, Not Funny!) light, of course. However, the other parts of his horribly traumatizing childhood are played completely straight. | |
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And there's, of course, Marik's father, Hank Ishtar, who did things like beat up Odion for killing the snake that attacked Marik (it was his pet cobra, Cornelious) or making Marik a tombkeeper with the painful ritual of carving symbols in his back with a red-hot knife... and then forcing him to watch Beverly Hills Chihuahua. (Marik is more horrified by the second part.) He also bought a Playstation and an Xbox for his kids, but he not only forbids them from going outside to buy games, he also keeps pouring beer on them. | |
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Classic British comics like The Beano and The Dandy began in the very early part of the 20th Century, and, in the case of The Beano, is still here today in 2020. Much of the humour in the serial strips arose from the inevitable parental retribution meted out to misbehaving child characters, often involving the flat of the hand applied with percussive force to sensitive parts of the body. Belts, straps, slippers, and canes also figured as corrective devices. This persisted in the pages of these comics even after corporal punishment fell out of favour in the latter part of the 20th century — the anachronistic nature of a punishment that fewer and fewer children had seen or experienced added to the laughs. The death knell for this approach to comic humour came about when in The '90s, Scotland made it illegal to slap or cane a child, redefining corporal punishment and physical chastisement as child abuse. As these comics were published out of Dundee, the Hilariously Abusive Childhood was retired as a source of humour. | |
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Humza's mother from Diary of a Bad Man stabs him for throwing a snowball at her, beats him until he needs to be hospitalized, and ties him up and throws him in the road so she can run him over whenever he interrupts her favourite TV show. | |
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Wagnaria!! have two examples: Inami's Boyfriend-Blocking Dad didn't want any boy to ever come anywhere near his daughter, so he arranged since her younger age to make her scared of men via Behavioral Conditioning, and secretly put weights in her school bag to make her develop physical strength. The result is that as a teenager, she is strong enough to put cracks in a stone wall, and can't help but punch any guy who comes too close to her. Needless to say, Takanashi, who very often ends up on the receiving end of those punches, was not pleased to learn about this and gave Inami's Dad a "Reason You Suck" Speech. Season 3 introduces Shizuka Takanashi, who traumatized her children so much they wear mourning clothes when they learn she is coming home to see them. She constantly criticized, mocked, and looked down on her elder daughter Kazue's choices and deemed everything she did not good enough. For example, she criticize her for getting married to Minegishi, for divorcing him, and she mocks her again when she get back together with him. She forces her ill second daughter Izumi (who is weak enough to get exhausted from a kitten standing in her head) to push herself physically. Her third daughter Kozue probably has it the worst, as her mother doesn't even remember her name and most of the time forgets to include her when talking about her children no matter how hard Kozue tries to attract her attention. It is shown to be the reason why Kozue Desperately Craves Affection. |
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8-Bit Theater: Onion Kid turns out to become a lot more than just funny, though — he grows up to become Sarda. His whole raison d'etre is to screw over the Light Warriors that made his life horrible, by cutting them down in their most awesome state to signify their insignificance to what he's become, instead of just killing them all before they could repeatedly destroy his parents, his foster parents and the orphanages that have adopted him. When you take a good look past his creativity, omnipotence, and amazing capacity for spite, you see a godlike entity whose only purpose is to horribly abuse a handful of people and will screw over countless innocents to do so, one of whom being himself during his childhood. Not to mention what he did to Ranger, oh, poor ranger and Ranger's Wife... |
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In the Harry Potter parody fic Harry Potter and the Something Something, Lily and James aren't actually dead, but rather straight-up abandoned Harry in favor of his twin brother Daniel. The Dursleys are even worse. Vernon's abuse extends to constant starvation, at least four beatings a day, killing Harry's owl and forcing him to cook her for dinner, and pouring toxic waste on him. At one point, Vernon approaches Harry for inspiration, having run out of ideas for ways to further torture him. Harry says that he doesn't know how his life could be any more miserable, then Vernon gets a stroke of inspiration and suggests that he could violate Harry sexually, to which Harry admits that that would do the trick. | |
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While playing "Patently Stupid" from The Jackbox Party Pack, Technoblade is given a prompt to somehow teach a baby to understand theoretical physics. His solution is threatening the baby with a gun, because according to him, "Fear is the greatest motivator." | |
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Chaos Attack: After Doah Lee lost his parents at the age of ten, his overprotective, violent older sisters decided to take care of him, and he'd often wind up caught in the crossfire of his sisters' assaults on his bullies. To the point that he warns a pair of bullies taking his money and says to get away as soon as possible before she comes and beats the ever-loving daylights out of them. He was too late. | |
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In Cowboy Bebop, Edward's father was apparently loving but incredibly neglectful and abandoned her at age six after forgetting that he left her at a daycare. When they reunite when Ed is thirteen, he can't even remember whether she's a boy or a girl. He offers to take her with him on his travels, but abandons her again before she can even respond. Later that episode, Ed leaves the Bebop with Ein, but it's unclear whether she intends to join her father or continue wandering the Earth. | |
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Scrooged: The Ghost of Christmas Past reveals that TV executive Frank Cross had some very disappointing childhood Christmases. Apparently, the greatest gift he ever got was five pounds of veal from his father, who is implied to be a butcher. When little Frankie points out that all he wanted was a choo-choo, his old man rudely tells him to get a job. Frankie was four! | |
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Lampshaded in Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs the first conversation in Grenn's personal bond story has him relate the horrific details of his upbringing. He immediately reveals that he was just making stuff up to troll Kay since he figured that was the sort of story he'd expect to hear. | |
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Nextwave's Elsa Bloodstone was trained from birth to hunt monsters. "Trained" here equals "thrown into a monster's pit as an infant armed with her feeding spoon." Then told to do it again when she emerged victorious. And then there's the flash-card training robot that uses its built-in iron maiden when she gets an answer wrong. You have to laugh. | |
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Hayate the Combat Butler is a prime example of this. Even the fact that his parents sold him to the "very nice people" for organ harvesting is played for laughs. In-Universe, when he talks about his childhood, most of the listeners burst into tears. The further the story goes, however, the less this trope is played straight, as we see not only the depths his parents would go but how non-humorously messed up it left Hayate. | |
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The Binding of Isaac is all about surviving bad childhoods, with Religious Horror tropes and some Dungeon Crawling thrown in. | |
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Nomeansno's song "Dad" recounts an evening of absolutely horrific domestic abuse against the teenaged narrator, his mother, and his sister; the lyrics don't feature any explicit jokes, but the mood of the song and the spoken line at the end, "I'm seriously considering leaving home", lighten the mood somewhat. | |
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In Fallout: New Vegas one of the ways to deal with Phillipe (a cannibal chef) is to psychoanalyze him with a sufficient Medicine skill, at which point he angrily rambles on about how his father left him, his mother constantly brought back strange men and his sisters locked him inside crates for laughs. This eventually gets him depressed and leaves the kitchen (as well as his recipes) to you so he can run off and cry. | |
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Homestuck: Confirmed by Word of God and this Loose Canon Paradox Space story. Dave Strider was raised by his rapping hipster ninja brother, known only as "Bro," who decorates their apartment with pornographic puppets and swords, kicks Dave's ass regularly with a puppet to "toughen him up", and once threw infant Dave off a roof to teach him how to Flash Step. If there was any question as to how badly this has messed with Dave's head, Bro's favorite puppet, Lil' Cal, is, due to Weird Time Shit and some meddling by Gamzee, a manifestation of Dave's nightmares from living with Lil' Cal. It gets even worse when Dirk (the Post-Scratch incarnation of Bro) is adamantly against ever having kids. Partly because he's not into girls, and partly because he thinks he'd be a terrible parent. | |
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In many Donald Duck comics (OK, Depending on the Writer), his nephews have this. Donald beats them with the carpet beater, forces them to do all the housework, robs their piggy banks, etc. The physical discipline is mostly present in comics from the time it was considered normal in Real Life. Huey, Dewey, and Louie were also far bigger brats at the time, often fully deserving Donald's ire. Characterization Marches On. | |
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Tycho from Penny Arcade, shown here, here, here, here, and here. Yikes. | |
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Spy X Family has an unintentional example: Yor was Promoted to Parent for her little brother Yuri after the death of their parents and she genuinely loved him and did all she could to give him a good life (this is how she started her work as a Professional Killer) and Yuri sees his childhood as a happy time. However, a mix of Lethal Chef and Does Not Know His Own Strength caused the boy to have to grow up with horrible food that makes most people throw up or pass out (he genuinely loves eating her food, even though it causes him to puke and bleed) and suffering from bruises or broken bones when she would give him a "light" slap in embarassment or would hug him a bit too tight. This actually caused Yuri to become Made of Iron and able to shrug injuries that would kill normal people | |
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Movie 43: In one of the film's sketches, two parents (played by real-life husband and wife Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts) are concerned their home-schooled son is missing out on things experienced in regular schools. They decide to put their son through experiences a teenage boy may undergo. They verbally bully the son, calling him "faggot" and "fuck face". In one scene, the boy shares an awkward first kiss with his own mother. The father tries to give the son an experience in gay relations, and also kisses him. Of course, the entire sketch is Played for Laughs. | |
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The Russian female voice in Saints Row: The Third reveals that when she was a child, her father would make her fight the dogs for food. It made her what she is today. | |
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Epic Battle Fantasy: Lance had an abusive father, which is often just left to throwaway lines when he's hit by an attack. (Along the lines of "My dad hit me harder when I was a baby!") Epic Battle Fantasy 5 takes his abuse slightly more seriously, but it still has Black Comedy sprinkled in, such as when he tries to use it to excuse his actions prior to his defeat before Natalie brushes it off, or when the party reaches a noose in Redpine and Lance says his father hung him from it "to try to make him taller." | |
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The Nostalgia Critic once showed a drawing he drew as a kid, featuring his parents as two dinosaurs ripping him apart, played for Black Comedy. What makes it more tangible, however, is that the character has become something of a Papa Wolf who can't stand it when non-bratty children get abused. | |
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Alistair had one of these in Dragon Age: Origins. He's the bastard son of King Maric, and he was given over to the guardianship of Arl Eamon, whose sister had been Alistair's father's wife years earlier. Eamon's idea of raising this child involved making him sleep in the stables with the hounds, where he accidentally locked himself in a cage at least once and nobody found him for hours. When Alistair was ten, Eamon got married, and his new wife was convinced that Alistair was Eamon's own bastard. Rather than treat him with any kindness, she talked her husband into sending the boy away; he was handed off to the church to be raised and forced into life as a Templar. He's about twenty years old by the time of the game and only escaped his old life because he was recruited to the Grey Wardens, a military outfit that guarantees a relatively early death, but which at least enabled him to make friends and feel like he was part of a family for the first time in his life. He's a bit of a Sad Clown because of all this. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Piccolo's training of Gohan summed up in one word: "DODGE!" and yet everyone, including Piccolo, Gohan and Goku, considers Piccolo a better dad than Goku. | |
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In Ultra Fast Pony, Rainbow Dash is the one with the abusive past. Her parents died when she was a few hours old, and she's never stayed with a single foster family for longer than a week. In the present, when her parasprite pets turn violent, Dash's only reaction is "My new family's trying to kill me again!" | |
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The Time of the Ghost, which is based on the author's real childhood growing up with parents more focused on teaching than on parenting. Diana Wynne Jones actually toned down some of the more absurd moments, and people still didn't believe parents would be like that. | |
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Dave, a guy you meet during Fallout 2, had a fun childhood. | |
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Something*Positive: Monette discussing her Disappeared Dad: "He spent the first six months of my life battling my mother for custody of all of us, and when he got it, he took my sisters and dumped me on my grandma's doorstep. And she wasn't even there! She was on vacation. And she raised pitbulls at her house [...] He had tied raw, bloody steaks to my head." Her grandmother wasn't much better, as we see in her recounting of childhood Christmases. Meanwhile, Jason's father is a psychiatrist who "used his field of study to bully children" and abandoned the family when he got bored with them. Before that, he was emotionally abusive towards them in a number of ways, including "giving me invoices for how much love I owed him per week. That wasn't so bad, but the man did the audits suck." Davan's father was usually fine, but had his interesting moments; Inverted with Ollie, whose implied history of sexually servicing his psychopathic uncle Avagadro was apparently an improvement over life with his own violent, two-faced father. |
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Grim Fandango: In his attempt to borrow a metal detector from Carla, the security guard at the airship dock in Rubacava, Manny ends up getting pulled into her office for a "strip search" that leads to Carla rambling to Manny about her childhood. Needless to say, her ranting about her distant father, her alcoholic mother, and her awkwardness around boys goes on for so long it becomes hilarious, even when she starts sobbing uncontrollably. | |
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In Jake and Amir, Amir frequently relays horrifying stories of his childhood to Jake. For instance, in the episode "Driving Lesson", we learn that his parents forced him to take driving lessons when he was four, threw knives at him, and called him 'Queen Dweeb'. Furthermore, their abuse towards him continues to this day; when Amir came to visit them during vacation, his father greeted him by throwing a cast iron skillet at the back of his face. | |
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Yuki of Ménage à 3 wasn't deliberately abused, but her father was a manga artist working on tentacle porn who was prone to leaving his artwork lying around where the young Yuki could see it, later named one of his female characters after her, and took her on set during the shooting of a live-action version of one of his works. His wife divorced him to get Yuki away, but she still grew up with a severe phobia (she hallucinates tentacles whenever she sees a penis) and in denial about her attraction to men (she's a bisexual who thinks she's a lesbian) — all of which is used for comedy. | |
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Because I'm Depressed: Diego's father found Diego's attachment to an Imaginary Friend so annoying that he pretended to take it outside and shoot it while Diego watched. | |
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Oni Ga Shiku Series: The main plot of the fic is Goro Majima aka the Mad Dog of Shimano putting four-year-old Izuku through Training from Hell so he can become a Hero. Needless to say, neither Majima nor any of Majima's acquaintances have any real idea of what a normal training routine is, so poor little Izuku is subjected to things like being forced to learn how to dance on and off rollerskates, being chased around by Majima who's screeching like a banshee, and being shot with rubber bullets by several different people to learn how to dodge them. The only adult in the group who acknowledges that there's something wrong with the whole situation is Kiryu, who instantly justifies it by saying that it's pressure that makes diamonds. Izuku when he grows into his teens is rather nonchalant about it. | |
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Despicable Me: Downplayed. Gru's mother was more neglectful than abusive, but her constant "eh" reaction to young Gru's moon interests, even when he builds an actual rocket by himself, achieve the same effect as most examples of this trope. | |
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Chainsaw Man: Denji's horridly impoverished childhood is sometimes played for dark humor. One omake is about him enjoying and carefully rationing "cake", which is just uncooked flour and water. It's implied Kobeni being exploited and endangered by her parents as an adult was proceeded by a similarly-unpleasant childhood. She mentions she only ever got to try soft-serve ice cream once, and then dropped it after one taste. Later, it's shown a guy who may be her younger brother is getting pushed by into devil hunting by her parents while still in high school. |
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Baku, the leader of the Tantalus gang in Final Fantasy IX gives beatings to any of his children who leave the band or disobey him. It's played for laughs. The band is mostly composed of 16-year-old teenagers. It's also played for drama and a little bit of laughs in Zidane's flashback. | |
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In The Onion, this article: "Abusive Father Can't Wait To See The Art He's Inspiring His Kids To Create," is this trope embodied: | |
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In Blades of Glory, Jimmy McElroy's "pretty normal childhood" consisted of constant training and various injections to make him a superb skater. | |
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From Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee. When it has Johnny himself being the closest thing to a big brother the kid has and Squee saying "I am full of guilt" when his parents are abducted by aliens, you know it is this trope. | |
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Kinjiro's childhood in Mayo Chiki! was being The Chew Toy for his wrestling mother and sister. | |
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Ask That Guy with the Glasses also apparently had a pretty crappy childhood, what with being raped by a doctor and his parents saying he ought to "go back to the dumpster where they found him". Of course, this refers to the characters, not Doug Walker and Lindsay Ellis. | |
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The Unfantastic Adventures of Bizarro No. 1: In order to prove to his son that he didn't mean to hit his wife (he actually didn't. Long story), Bizarro bops Junior on his head, effectively reassuring him. Needless to say, Bizarros are weird. | |
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Friendly Hostility's Padma Maharassa was inflicted with a Gender-Blender Name in memory of his deceased mother and describes his father as too busy to pay much attention to him. | |
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Banjo and Medium Dave from Hogfather. They fondly remember their mother as "tough but fair." By the end, the comedy is cut away and the real effect of Ma Lilywhite on Dave in particular is shown... and it's not funny anymore. Members of the Fools' Guild have this collectively; the Guild school is a Boarding School of Horrors, and most of the Fools' fathers were Fools, so they know that and still decide to send their sons there. When you spent your childhood wishing you could be next door learning to be an Assassin (even if there were slightly fewer of them at the end of the year), it's hilariously abusive in a uniquely Discworld fashion. |
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My Little Pony: The Mentally Advanced Series has Twilight's hilarious abuse under the care of Celestia. | |
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Storks: Offscreen but heavily implied. Tulip is raised as a baby by a company of storks, who view her as an accident and want to fire her the moment she turns 18. She's obviously not considered one of the storks, given that they call her "Orphan Tulip" and her friends are all non-stork employees. It's mostly played for Black Comedy. | |
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In Batman: Wayne Family Adventures, Tim, Damian and Cass are very casual about being trained as assassins as children, which Duke comments is a bit concerning. | |
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Ron Stampler from Dungeons & Daddies is a Cloud Cuckoo Lander with No Social Skills to say the least. But much of his oddness becomes at least a little more understandable the more you hear about his father, Willy, who was incredibly cruel and neglectful to him. Not that Ron realises that any of that wasn't normal, and his total obliviousness to how awful his childhood was is often played for Dark Humour. For example, in the Christmas episode he reveals that Christmas presents from his dad were always tubes of wrapping paper, so he could use them to wrap up presents for Willy. While the other dads are appropriately disgusted by that, Ron himself is perfectly happy about it all — which is why he cheerfully gifts the other dads wrapping paper for their presents, too. | |
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Cusack's film Grosse Pointe Blank seems to reference the earlier film in the backstory of protagonist Martin Blank, which appears to have been similarly hilariously abusive. By the time of the movie, Martin's mother has gone completely over the bend and is in an asylum and doesn't recognize him, and his father is implied to have been an abusive drunk (Martin does a Libation for the Dead at his grave and ultimately dumps the entire bottle out and leaves it there). In Martin's case, this unhinged him enough to become a professional assassin. | |
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A Very Potter Sequel has both Harry and Draco. | |
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Ernie Eaglebeak is still enduring his at the beginning of The Spellcasting Series, although he escapes soon after. | |
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One Piece: Monkey D. Luffy's childhood is clearly this, to the point that it dips into Refuge in Audacity. If Luffy's childhood was anything to go by, his older brother Portgas D. Ace likely had a similar (if not worse) childhood — which was confirmed during the flashback to Luffy and Ace's past together after Marineford. Note that Ace is every bit as scared of Garp as Luffy is; he only went against him when defending his younger brother. Ditto for Sabo. He spent only a fraction of the amount of time Luffy and Ace did with Garp, but by the end of his first meeting with the old man, he was every bit as terrified of him as they were. "Black Leg" Vinsmoke Sanji also had one under "Red Leg" Zeff. However, while Zeff ultimately cared about Sanji's wellbeing, his childhood under his birth family was a horrible aversion, as his brothers and his father only saw him as a weak waste of space. |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: Kafuka Fuura. Though she doesn't seem like she notices it. To list some of the things that has happened to her: Her mother was possessed by the devil, and in order to cure her, she was forced to repeatedly strike her with a cross, her father became redundant, and repeatedly tried to kill himself, even if he was described as a caring and loving father, the teacher who she's in love with is also trying to kill himself all the time. And to top it off, She died at a young age, and is really just a mirage or some kind of body hopper, that the main characters are seeing. And yet she's the class's genki, optimist, lovable idiot, and local alien enthusiast. Nozomu as well, albeit in a different way. The audience doesn't see his upbringing but given (as part of family tradition), his family tries to force him to marry the first person he locks eyes with during a ceremony, it's unlikely to have been that normal. Whatever it involved, Nozomu turned out to be a hilariously neurotic guy. And then there's Nozumu's nephew Majiru, whose Parental Abandonment is somewhat Played for Laughs, as is Nozomu's Hands-Off Parenting of him after taking him in. |
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Another Doug character, Chester A. Bum, has a vaguer past than Critic or Ask That Guy due to his brain being scattered by drugs, but has also made references to family abuse. Even logically, something had to happen to make him homeless and keep him that way for so long. | |
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Friendship is Witchcraft is full of Black Comedy and this trope appears frequently: Fluttershy's distant father did everything from not going to her softball games to creating extremely elaborate attempts to kill her. She's terrified of him but overcame those fears and killed him. It's also possible Fluttershy was an Unreliable Narrator due to her Adaptational Villainy. Spike is the Butt-Monkey of the entire town who no one seems to like. He's treated like a servant and is constantly poked fun of. Twilight (who is essentially his adopted mom) outright made him hold up a lightning rod during a storm, which caused him to break his legs. Pinkie Pie had one by her own admission. She lost her parents in a fire and was sent into an Orphanage of Fear that emotionally abused her and ostracized her for being Romani and being an Earth pony. Into adulthood, this has caused her deep mental trauma and self-confidence issues that she hides behind deceptively happy-sounding songs. Scootaloo is Dash's daughter whom she pays no attention to. |
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The central theme of the Metal Gear Solid alternate universe fancomic "Les Enfants Terribles" is Big Boss's absolutely dreadful parenting of his clone children, and of Liquid Snake in particular. | |
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The Nostalgia Chick too, perhaps fittingly. Her mother made her feel inadequate, her dad never loved her, and her uncle was sexually abusive. In her case, this is also a Freudian Excuse, as she herself abuses Nella, doesn't like to show weak emotion, and makes a lot of off-color sex jokes. | |
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A rare sibling-abuse variant in The Most Popular Girls in School; Rachel is often verbally and physically abused by her older sister Bridget, but the former always stupidly sets off the latter's wrath. | |
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Hinted at with Charlie in Mystery Team. Two throwaway gags imply that his dad is abusive/pedophilic and an alcoholic. | |
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"Albuquerque" fits, too, given the bizarre conditions of the narrator's childhood, though that's not the only subject of the song. His mother made him live in a box under the stairs in the basement and force-fed him nothing but sauerkraut until he was 26. (And a half.) He didn't get out of there until he won a plane ticket to the eponymous city in a radio contest. It kind of explains why he's so messed up. | |
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Sorcerer Hunters. Marron's Dad is shown being creepily affectionate to him because he looks just like his absent mother. The disturbing implications of this and Marron's obvious discomfort are played for laughs. | |
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Borgel: Borgel's relationship with his father involves a humorous level of abuse and neglect. In The Old Country, people are too poor for things like food or affection and have to scrape by on squashed skunks and blows to the head. | |
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And similarly in his film Zelig: | |
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John Cusack's character in Better Off Dead had a somewhat off home-life coupled with bizarre neighbors and general lucklessness, spurring him into several bungled suicide attempts played for laughs. | |
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Team Fortress 2 The Demoman was given up for adoption at birth, accidentally killed his adoptive parents, sent to an orphanage, and only contacted by his real parents when his bitterness and lack of depth perception had honed his demolition skills. Apparently averted at first with the Sniper, who still speaks with his parents. The only hiccup seems to be his father's disapproval with his line of work. Later on, he discovers that his family has been killed by assailants unknown... and they turn out to not be his real family. The truth is that he was accidentally launched out of the sunken island of New Zealand as a child by his idiotic pseudoexpert father, who flooded all of New Zealand in the process. Whether that specifically is abuse is up for debate, but judging by what we see of him, Sniper's dad isn't exactly playing with a full deck, and his mother is shrewish and prone to drinking — he probably was better off being launched out of the ocean and onto Australia. Gray Mann also had a comically abusive childhood, which started with his father literally trying to strangle him out of the womb. Being raised by Eagles didn't help either, since he apparently ate his "adoptive mother" and "brothers" the moment he came of age. |
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The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom seems to love inflicting this on Scootaloo. She is not infrequently portrayed in fanon as an orphan (often a homeless orphan) who no one notices. Casual abuse of Scootaloo, particularly by Rainbow Dash (though occasionally by the other Cutie Mark Crusaders, or random townsfolk) is common enough that the term "Scootabuse" has been coined to describe it. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: Turns Seto Kaiba's childhood into an example of this. And unlike the source material, Gozaburo apparently treated his biological son Noah even worse: And there's, of course, Marik's father, Hank Ishtar, who did things like beat up Odion for killing the snake that attacked Marik (it was his pet cobra, Cornelious) or making Marik a tombkeeper with the painful ritual of carving symbols in his back with a red-hot knife... and then forcing him to watch Beverly Hills Chihuahua. (Marik is more horrified by the second part.) He also bought a Playstation and an Xbox for his kids, but he not only forbids them from going outside to buy games, he also keeps pouring beer on them. |
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Beyond the Canopy. Greliz asks Glenn how he got to be such an agile, scrappy fighter. Glenn explains that his grandpa throws things at him a lot. | |
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The Locked Tomb: Gideon the Ninth: Gideon did not have a good time growing up in the Ninth House as a universally reviled indentured servant. She's mostly blase about it, treating instances like having the heat turned off in her cell until she's so cold she's left screaming in a hallway as comically mundane, but it gets Played for Drama later, especially when it comes to her twisted and entangled history with Harrow. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Downplayed. Rodrick is constantly bullying Greg, and his antics are mostly portrayed as funny, but it is not abuse per se. | |
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In Deadpool, Wade/Deadpool and his love interest Vanessa compare Hilariously Abusive Childhoods when they meet. The whole thing is played for comedy and Crosses the Line Twice, as can be expected. | |
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The song "When I Was Your Age" features horrible incidents from the narrator's childhood. However, given how outrageously over the top (i.e. physically impossible) all of them are, it's not likely there's any truth in them: "Then he'd chop me into pieces and play Frisbee with my brain/ And let me tell you, Junior, you never heard me complain!" | |
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Freddy Got Fingered: Andy Malloy is a young neighbor of the Brodys who suffers horrific facial injuries every time he appears. His father treats him nicely because of it, but that still doesn't stop the horrible things that happen to that boy, which are out of their control. | |
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The Book of Life: Gets one mention and is entirely played for laughs, but Luis apparently put his son Carlos in a ring with a bull when he was nine years old. This ended predictably. | |
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Cyber Team in Akihabara Tsugumi has some way off parents, her dad is a martial arts teacher and her mother is a pro wrestler who routinely tackle each other and their daughter! But they do at least love and care about her. | |
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In Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido, Emperor Octavius became a psychotic wreck in his childhood due to his father, the previous emperor, constantly taking sushi meant for Octavius and eating it in front of Octavius's face under the school of thought the former emperor called "What's Yours Is Mine." As sushi is Serious Business in this game, by the time Octavius reached adulthood, this traumatic upbringing had somehow manifested into an actual power to warp sushi out of other people's hands and into his own. | |
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Hiimdaisy: The Persona 4 comics exaggerate Dojima's Parental Neglect to levels of Comedic Sociopathy, like indulging in Convenience Store Gift Shopping while getting his daughter Nanako a Children's Day present. | |
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Homestar Runner: Strong Sad suffered all sorts of over-the-top abuse from Big Brother Bullies Strong Bad and Strong Mad over the years, like being stuck to the ceiling with Bubble Tape or getting locked in the bath-tub every Decemberween. There's also the time in "The House That Gave Sucky Treats" where giving Strong Sad a pack of Necco Wafers remind him of his childhood... namely, the time where he was "sick for a year and nearly died" after eating colored chalk. A remark Strong Bad makes in the Strong Bad Email "specially marked", while going on a rant about cereal box prizes that require sending in box tops or UPC barcodes, implies his mother was a compulsive gambler who was always taking trips to Las Vegas. The 2006 Halloween fan costume compilation had Strong Bad mistaking a woman for "The Cheat's hot mom", who was "always in and out of prison" for, at the very least, giving alcohol to minors ("Is she giving out frozen margara-Cheat-as again?"). |
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GURPS Goblins casts its PCs as members of a race of hilariously sordid goblins, who are extremely malleable in childhood. It features a table of random abuses to be suffered by each character during their upbringing, each of which grants some mixture of advantages and disadvantages. (Being left out in a snowdrift grants white fur, being run through a mangle gives longer limbs, and so on.) | |
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The eighth issue of the Madballs comic book by Star Comics (a now-defunct subsidiary of Marvel Comics) had Dr. Frankenbeans' assistant Snivelitch warmly reminisce on how his father used to give him the pet name of "Get lost". | |
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A remark Strong Bad makes in the Strong Bad Email "specially marked", while going on a rant about cereal box prizes that require sending in box tops or UPC barcodes, implies his mother was a compulsive gambler who was always taking trips to Las Vegas. | |
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Kenshin's actual childhood in Rurouni Kenshin isn't funny at all, and is rather tragic. But the days he spent with Seijuro Hiko consisted of him learning sword techniques, which were always learned by Kenshin being hit with the move first and depicted in chibi form. | |
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When playing Babysitting Mama, RTGame goes out of his way to abuse the included baby doll as much as possible. This includes starting by slamming the baby's head onto the desk, using various cooking implements on him (including trying to stick him in a blender), sticking pins in his hands and feet, and — since the game involves sticking the Wii Mote into the baby doll — using him to play Wii Sports. | |
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Christian Potter Chandler depicts the Chandler family as basically a 24/7 three-way melee: Bob tries to get Chris (and Barb) kidnapped or taken away by CPS (some methods being honest but also trying crazy plans like calling male strippers and blaming it on Barb), calls Chris a dumbass on an hourly basis, swears at Barb in front of Chris, threatens to lock Chris in a cupboard for ten months, swears at Chris because Barb claimed he was talking to a snake and gets drunk and challenges Chris to a fight. Barb routinely beats up Chris, usually to get Bob to buy her things (e.g. kicking Chris in the balls to get Bob to take her to the thrift store when she can't convince Bob that he's heartbroken that Bob won't take them and getting it past CPS by passing off Tic Tacs as Bob's dementia pills, throwing Chris through a plate of glass and getting free wine, trying to get Chris's penis bitten by a crocodile so they can sue the zoo) and screams at Chris for talking when it doesn't get her anything. |
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Gods of Food: Blynn was part of an unlawful experiment to whether compassionate parenting affected adolescent development, and was raised by a wire monkey covered in cloth. They got shut down, but they did learn the answer. It does. Giuseppe Grecco and his family were constantly verbally abused by previous generations to hammer home the importance of sticking tradition and always baking the exact same thing with the same, incredibly laborious methods. They spat on his great-grandmother for suggesting they take advantage of advancements in cooking. With Guiseppe as the last Grecco the cycle will end, which he takes some comfort in, but he's still trapped by family obligation and the furious reactions of his customers if he makes any kind of innovation. |
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Dr Glaucomflecken: The Psychiatrist's parents really pushed him into becoming a psychiatrist. | |
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In Sgt. Frog, Dororo was not only quite sickly as a lad, but suffered all sorts of cartoony pain and abuse during the games he would play with Keroro and Giroro. | |
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Bananas — Woody Allen recalls his parents to his psychiatrist: Allen used similar jokes in his stand-up acts: "When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room." And similarly in his film Zelig: |
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Spoofed in-universe in West Side Story in the song officer Gee Officer Krupke! as an "explanation" for why they're gang members and punks. | |
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch: In the first film, Phoebe Cates's character, who hates Christmas, tells the sad story of her dad dying on Christmas Day, having broken his neck whilst climbing down the chimney to surprise for her and her mom. In the sequel, she starts going on about some other awful thing that happened to her on Lincoln's Birthday, involving a guy dressed as Lincoln (the fact that a Gremlin wannabe flasher was her Berserk Button in the first movie may shed some light on that), at which point her husband says something like 'Not now, honey.' | |
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