History Main / CallingTheOldManOut

* ''Theatre/TheWildDuck'': Gregers Werle has an entire scene where he calls his father out on his schemes. When he comes to the fate of his mother, it almost goes into TearJerker territory. Not that old Werle minded, though.

*** Dorian's entire personal quest revolves around confronting his father for [[spoiler:trying to change his sexuality with blood magic,]] in order to better fit with the Tevinter idea of perfection. It's up to the player if Dorian leaves it at that after his callout, or if he decides to try and reconcile with his father. This quest is a complete TearJerker and a NightmareFuel in a way that Dorian reveals to the Inquisitor (and to the player) that his father who always espoused against using blood magic ''ends up'' using it and considers his son being reduced to a vegatable rather than being himself as a worthy risk to take:

** [[spoiler: The [[TearJerker tragic irony]] is that he did want to help her more than anything, but is unable to do anything unless someone wishes for it and could only wish if she won the contest. You can clearly see how utterly heartbroken he is by having to put her through this]].

** As mentioned above, the '90s animated series condensed and distilled Cyclops' resentment of Corsair (originally a 3-issue-long storyline) into one TearJerker of a rant about his pre-Xavier school DarkAndTroubledPast to a shamefaced Corsair, even as he helps him escape a crooked Shi'Ar cop so he can [[ClearMyName clear his name]].
** The time Magneto got called out by Wanda and Pietro, while they're kept as prisoners alongside Beast and Professor X. Up until then, neither the twins nor Magneto had an idea of this, and worse, the twins had ''just'' learned that the Maximoffs were only their adoptive parents. [[TearJerker Yeah, that scene was just as sad as the former one]].

* Mark does this to the Emperor, his biological father, when he finally meets him in the ''Third Literature/BookOfSwords'' by Fred Saberhagen. Since the Emperor is really [[spoiler:[[BluenoseBowdlerizer God]]]], it is not very surprising that His response is, in effect, when you're as old as I am and know as much as I do, you can question what I do and why I do it.

SubTrope of GrewASpine. Compare RageAgainstTheMentor. See also IHateYouVampireDad and HatesTheirParent. As noted, AbusiveParents will likely be on the receiving end, putting this on the far side of the SlidingScaleOfParentShamingInFiction. Often a subtrope of TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.

** In ''Proven Guilty'', Carlos Ramirez confirms his brass-balls-itude by calling out the Merlin himself -- the single most powerful wizard in the world -- on how much of a hypocritical {{Jerkass}} of a bastard he's being. It's also done movingly by Molly, to her mother Charity.

Bonus points are awarded if the child is able to (correctly) point out that they have managed not to repeat the parental mistakes with their own offspring. Penalty points are awarded if they have tragically repeated exactly the same mistakes with their own offspring. Of course, the parent [[EvilParentsWantGoodKids may be happy]] [[DaddysLittleVillain either way]].

* Roy does this several times over the course of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' to his father's ghost, most recently in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0500.html comic 500]]. Which ends up being a [[PlayingWithATrope variation]]: Roy only gets to "You pathetic little--" before stopping himself, calming down, and explaining that he won't be bullied by his father anymore.
** And strangely enough, it works better than any rant Roy could have attempted.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', near the end of Dojima's [[RelationshipUpgrade Social Link]], you, as the PlayerCharacter and provided your courage parameters are high enough, have a dialogue option to call him a coward for his inability to interact with his daughter Nanako, following her mother's death. He calls you a punk for doing so but nonetheless agrees with you.

-->'''Haley:''' HEY! When's the last time either of you were the American Dragon? Well as the little troll girl currently filling the position, let me tell you it's stinkin' hard! I can't imagine doing it two more days let alone two more years. And to think about everything Jake's gone through; he's had to save magical creatures on a daily basis, lie to his own dad about who he is, say good-bye to the girl he loved, all to protect a mystical world that nobody knows about. He may be the American Dragon but he is also a 14-year-old kid who just wanted a couple days off. If that makes him immature, fine, but self-serving? With all due respect to both of you, STEP OFF!!

* ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperheroes'': Timber Wolf was calling out his [[EvilutionaryBiologist father]] twice in the series, the first time where he confronts him in the lab after the Legion helped restore his humanity, was when he points out that his father wasn't a [[AbusiveParents good parent]] to him and destroys his lab, the second time [[spoiler: he was BrainwashedAndCrazy]] and was confronting him at a science convention in front of a huge audience, where he accuses him of manipulating people around him and experimenting on sentient beings as well as destroying their lives and families. [[spoiler: This time he makes himself into a SelfMadeOrphan.]]

-->"You don't even act like [heroes] anymore."

* Possibly, the final reaction of Timmy toward his parents near the end of the episode ''Freaks a Greeks'' in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''
** Cosmo gets an awesome one against Mama Cosma in ''Apartnership''.
--> '''Cosmo:''' Let's get something straight! I'm not bright! Big words confuse me! I have the attention span of a rodent! But Wanda loves me anyway. She makes me happy and THAT SHOULD BE ENOUGH FOR YOU!

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "The Color Ruckus" at his grandmother's funeral, Uncle Ruckus finally tells off his father for abusing him as a child and what a horrible father he was to him, this enrages him and he tries to smash a bottle on him. But his back gives out and he ends up falling into an open grave and breaking his neck.

** [[spoiler: The clashes between Nero and Vergil in-game are certainly this, with dialogue of Nero rightfully calling Vergil out for being a callous bastard]].
-->'''[[spoiler: Nero]]''': Feeling accepting yet?\\

** ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' changes their dynamic a bit; Jecht is more or less something of a PosthumousCharacter (kind of, it's complicated) in ''Final Fantasy X'', but in ''Dissidia'', he's fully alive and his normal self. Tidus's showdown with Jecht has Jecht initially beating the tar out of Tidus, only for Tidus to recover and yell, "There's no tomorrow for me until I beat you today!" Before the fight, he did get the chance to call him a "no good, self-centered old bastard." And his antagonistic relationship with his father is never actually explained in ''Dissidia'', beyond the need to settle things with Jecht. It's unclear if it's a case of hatred and loathing or anger at living in the old man's shadow and disgust at his father's being manipulated.

--> "How could you do this? How could you fall so far?"

* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'' Claire does this on behalf of Sherry (who is too docile to complain herself) calling out her mother Annette for her disregard towards her daughter’s life. Seen when Sherry gets infected and Annette watching from a security camera initially writes her off as dead, Claire enraged scolds “Are you [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] kidding me? You’re her mother. Get in here.” [[spoiler: Annette does ultimately redeem herself curing Sherry and apologising for being a terrible mother before succumbing to her injuries and dying]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Struggling}}'': Troy's speech [[spoiler: to the scientists who created them at the Galaxy Brain Summit]] is variation of this, calling out the pain and suffering that their audience's prior actions ended up leading to. Hopefully the standing ovation they received in response implies that they took it to heart and will be more careful and responsible in the future.

* ''WesternAnimation/101DalmatiansTheSeries'' introduces Cruella de Vil's mother Malevola, the head of the de Vil family and a horrid woman who makes Cruella look like a saint in comparison. In "Coup de Vil" Cruella finally snaps at the years of constant disrespect Malevola's shown her and calls her out for the hateful, domineering bitch that she is. Interestingly, Malevola responds to this disrespect with ''pride'' and sheds TearsOfJoy because Cruella finally shows some spine and their relationship actually improves.

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'', when the aliens take over the town, Chicken Little's father, Buck, tries to force him to hide, but Chicken Little refuses saying he knows how to stop the invasion, but Buck refuses to listen. Which is when he tells Buck he was never there for him, [[TheCassandra when he tried to warn everyone in town of the signs of the incoming aliens,]] Buck sided with the townsfolk and assumed that Chicken Little was insane. Buck apologizes for how he treated him and they work together to stop the invasion.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Wishology}}'', Timmy Turner directs this, combined with WhatTheHellHero, at both Jorgen Von Strangle and Turbo Thunder about always attacking the Darkness because it looked "scary", not because it did anything. Both Turbo and Jorgen are at least thousands of years old, making it kind of calling the ''really'' old men out.
* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'': Nemo has done this to his OverprotectiveDad Marlin. [[TwoWordsAddedEmphasis Three little words:]] "I hate you."
* In the Disney film ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame,'' Quasimodo gives an incredible speech to Frollo, the churchman who raised him.
--> '''Frollo:''' Now- now, l-listen to me, Quasimodo-\\
'''Quasimodo:''' No, ''you listen''! All my life you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place! But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is ''people like you''!!!
* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': Tai Lung angrily calls out his adoptive father, Shifu, when he returns to claim the Dragon Scroll. Angrily relaying that everything he ever did was to make him proud. And his fury over Shifu not doing anything when he was denied the scroll:
-->'''Tai Lung:''' All I ever did, I did to make you proud! Tell me how proud of me you are, Shifu! Tell me! (''Punch'') Tell me! (''Punch'') '''TELL ME!'''
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime III: The Time Of The Great Giving'', Cera does this to her father shortly after he forbids her from seeing Littlefoot, whom he sees as a bad influence.
-->'''Cera's Father:''' Cera, I'm your father. I want what's best for you.\\
'''Cera:''' No, you don't! You just don't want me to have any fun! ''(runs off in anger)''\\
'''Cera's Father:''' Cera, please! I'm just trying to... As a parent, I... Ohhh!
** Later on in the same film, Cera's father, having realized that he was never the best parent for his daughter, calls out another one who's overly strict and harsh behavior leads his own son to become [[TheBully the local bully]].
-->'''Cera's Father:''' If you always react with anger, that's all your son will know. And that's all he'll be able to express with others.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'':
** Kiara tells her father Simba "You will never be Mufasa" in reaction to his overprotective nature and want to be like his own father.
** Kovu calls his adopted mother Zira out after she holds him responsible for the death of his brother Nuka.
--->'''Kovu:''' I did nothing!\\
'''Zira:''' Exactly! And in doing so, you betrayed your pride, betrayed Scar!\\
'''Kovu:''' I want nothing more to do with him!
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', once Rapunzel is dragged back from Corona and realizes she's the lost princess, she calls Mother Gothel out on stealing her and claiming to protect her when she was using her all along. Gothel responds by revealing just [[ThenLetMeBeEvil how evil she can really be]].
-->'''Gothel:''' [[spoiler:You want me to be the bad guy? Fine — ''now I'm the bad guy...'']]
** She later does this to her real father after she nearly dies from mercenaries that the King hired to retrieve something without telling her, calling him out on how overprotective he is to the point of sending guards to watch over her and invading her privacy and how he essentially acts no better than Gothel. Too bad the King didn't listen as he continues to confine her under maximum security protection, even as his wife ended up getting kidnapped due to underestimating the bad guy as JustAKid.

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%%* ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'': Used with Fester/Gordon after his [[spoiler:fake]] mother pushes him just a little too far...
* ''Film/AustinPowersInternationalManOfMystery'' -- Dr. Evil, cryogenically frozen for 30 years, meets his artificially-conceived son Scott.
-->'''Scott:''' I haven't seen you my whole life -- and now you come back and just expect a relationship?! ...I ''hate'' you!\\
'''Dr. Evil:''' ...can I have a hug?
* Lilly calls out her abusive dad (who's also implied to have been pimping her since she was 14) near the start of ''Film/BabyFace'':
-->'''Lilly:''' Yeah, I'm a tramp, and who's to blame? My father! Ever since I was 14, what's it been? Nothing but men! Dirty, rotten men! And you're lower than any of them!
* ''Film/BeyondTheLights'':
** Early in the film, Kaz confronts Macy, making it clear that, by refusing to get her [[DrivenToSuicide suicidally depressed]] daughter help, she's not doing her job as a parent. Talk about gutsy!
** After bottling up her emotions for years and even attempting suicide rather than actually address it, Noni finally calls her mother out on being a micromanaging, [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]], StageMom. She isn't wrong and her mother slaps her in frustration.
* ''Film/BlackSnakeMoan'': For a female example, Christina Ricci's character Rae calls out her mom in the middle of a Quick Stop over her mother willfully ignoring years of sexual abuse. This leads to a full out brawl in the middle of the store aisles.
* ''Film/BlackZoo'': When Michael Conrad attempts to kill Edna, his son Carl finally snaps and comes to his stepmother's defence, standing to up his father for the first time. As Carl is TheSpeechless, this becomes a physical confrontation that quickly turns into a full-on BattleInTheRain.
* The titular character in ''Film/Boy2010'' does this finally to his father who left him and his little brother to live with their granny and only returns when he tries to find robbed money he buried in the area.
-->'''Boy:''' I don't remember you! You weren't there! You weren't there when he was born! You weren't there when she died! Where were you?
* ''Film/{{Braindead}}'': In Peter Jackson's film, Lionel finally stands up to his manipulative, possessive mother. Unfortunately, he's waited until she's turned into a gigantic monstrosity, but he's still properly equipped to take her down the old-fashioned way.
* ''Film/TheCelebration'' (''Festen''): This Danish film centres on eldest son Christian very publicly calling his [[spoiler: sexually abusive]] father out at the latter's 60th birthday party. His mother gets her fair share of his contempt as well.
* ''Film/{{Cherrybomb}}'': Luke steps in to prevent his raging alcoholic father from killing himself and the father responds by punching him. At this point Luke snaps completely (having put up with a LOT of crap by this point), hitting his dad back and berating him for being such a useless parent. As if to illustrate this point, the next day the father uses this incident as an excuse to leave town and abandon his son (who is 16 and has no mother) entirely, despite Luke apologising for what he'd done and pleading with him to stay.
* Martha does this to her aunt who raised her in ''Theatre/TheChildrensHour''. She was too busy pursuing her acting career to testify in her and her friend's court trial, which caused them to lose it and essentially ruined their lives, but despite this, she came crawling back to them pretending she will be there for them now.
-->'''Martha:''' There's an 8:00 train. Get on it.\\
'''Mrs. Mortar:''' Martha...\\
'''Martha:''' All my grown life I've been something for you to pick dry. Now get out and don't come back.\\
'''Mrs. Mortar:''' How can you talk to me like that?\\
'''Martha:''' Because I hate you. I've always hated you.\\
'''Mrs. Mortar:''' God will punish you for that.\\
'''Martha:''' He's doing alright.
* ''Film/CitizenKane'':
** Sees one delivered to Kane's adoptive guardian, Mr. Thatcher:
--->'''Kane:''' You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.\\
'''Thatcher:''' Don't you think you are?\\
'''Kane:''' I think I did pretty well, under the circumstances.\\
'''Thatcher:''' What would you like to have been?\\
'''Kane:''' Everything you hate.
** This is displacement. Kane's really angry at his ''mother,'' for sending Kane away when he was young and putting him into Thatcher's hands. Implicitly, Thatcher is a decent (if very conservative) middle-aged banker who did his best while (ahem) raising Kane.
* ''Film/CitySlickers'': Mitch (Billy Crystal) asks his buddies Ed(Bruno Kirby) and Phil(Daniel Stern) to describe "the best day and the worst day in your life". Ed recalled when stood up to his father, a serial adulterer:
-->'''Ed Furillo:''' I'm 14 and my mother and father are fighting again... y'know, because she caught him again. Caught him... This time the girl drove by the house to pick him up. And I finally realized, he wasn't just cheating on my mother, he was cheating us. So I told him, I said, "You're bad to us. We don't love you. I'll take care of my mother and my sister. We don't need you anymore." And he made like he was gonna hit me, but I didn't budge. And he turned around and he left. He never bothered us again. Well, I took care of my mother and my sister from that day on. That's my best day.\\
'''Phil Berquist:''' What was your worst day?\\
'''Ed Furillo:''' Same day.
* ''Film/{{CreedII}}'' has Viktor Drago calling out his dad, Ivan, for trying to suck up to the same people that used and threw him aside decades ago, including his ex-wife, Ludmilla. Unlike most examples of this trope, Viktor actually deeply loves and respects his father and is only criticizing him for not standing for himself.
* ''Film/DirtyDancing'': A heartbreaking example when Baby does this to her father:
-->'''Baby:''' I told you I was telling the truth, Daddy. I'm sorry I lied to you...but you lied too. You told me everyone was alike and deserved a fair break, but you meant everyone who was like you. You told me you wanted me to change the world and make it better, but you meant by becoming a lawyer or economist and marrying someone from Harvard. I'm not proud of myself, but I'm in this family too, and you can't keep giving me the silent treatment. There are a lot of things about me that aren't what you thought, but if you love me, you have to love all the things about me (''starts to cry''), and I love you, and I'm sorry I let you down. I'm so sorry, Daddy, but you let me down too.
* ''Film/DoctorSleep'' has an excellent example of this as [[spoiler: Daniel Torrance gets to do a post mortem version to the ghost of his father [[Film/TheShining Jack Torrance]] (in the form “Lloyd” the bartender). Sitting at the bar Dan [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech spells out]] how much Jack ruined his wife and son’s lives, to extent where Wendy couldn’t even look her son in the eyes without being [[TraumaButton reminded]] of Jack forcing Dan to mercifully use his [[PsychicKids power]] to help her cope to her dying day. “Lloyd” doesn’t respond to this speech but offers Dan a drink to make him feel better and Dan notes how alcohol was the [[TheAlcoholic source]] of both their problems. Finally dropping the facade Jack (showing not even being trapped in a hotel forever has humbled him) explains that having to be there for a nagging wife and mewling son sickened him and whiskey was the only “medicine” before offering the glass again. Dan refuses once more, infuriating Jack who breaks the glass on the counter]].
* ''Film/FindingNeverland'': Emma spends most of the movie trying to control the lives of her daughter and school-aged grandsons, attempting to keep James Barrie out of their lives. Near the end of the movie, George, the eldest brother, finally takes a stand against her meddling.
* ''Film/TheGeneralsDaughter'':
** This is the entire reason for [[spoiler:Campbell's undermining of her father's position by seducing most of his staff, as revenge for the cover-up of her rape at Westpoint.]]
** SubvertedTrope by Brenner in an offhand comment when questioned if he likes his own father:
--->''My father was a drunk, a gambler, and a womanizer. I worshiped him.''
* ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'': After years of [[ParentalNeglect neglect]] and [[WellDoneSonGuy paternal disapproval]], [[TheCaligula Commodus]] delivers a [[CryForTheDevil truly heart-wrenching one]] to his father, Marcus Aurelius.
* In ''{{Film/Greedy}}'', Danny ends up calling out his father's anti-materialistic attitudes, taking the side of the rich Uncle Joe over his father's pompous self-righteousness. [[spoiler: It was actually a dishonestly InvokedTrope: Danny hired an actor to pose as his "father", with the whole confrontation set up so that Danny could choose Joe over his father]].
* ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner?'': John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) delivers a scathing speech to his father in one of the only dramatic scenes in this comedy:
-->"You listen to me. You say you don't want to tell me how to live my life. So what do you think you've been doing? You tell me what rights I've got or haven't got, and what I owe to you for what you've done for me. Let me tell you something: I owe you nothing!"
* ''Film/TheHairyBird'': Abby, to Page Singer. After Page announces that the school is going coed, the girls rebel, but Page wants Abby to take charge of them, at which point Abby tells her off.
* ''Film/TheHeiress'': Towards the end, Catherine Sloper calls her father out on his lifelong emotional abuse of her -- treating her as a socially incompetent waste of space, driving away her GoldDigger fiancé (only to protect his money, not her) and telling her that the only thing interesting about her is her $10,000 a year inheritance. She even calls him on his bluff to disinherit her:
-->'''Catherine:''' You have cheated me! You thought that any handsome, clever man would be as bored with me as you are were. It was not love that made you protect me--it was contempt!\\
'''Dr. Sloper:''' You have found a tongue at last, Catherine. It is only to say such terrible things to me.\\
'''Catherine:''' Yes. This is a field where you will not compare me to my mother.\\
'''Dr. Sloper:''' Promise me you are done with him!\\
'''Catherine:'''I won't promise.\\
'''Dr. Sloper:''' Then, I must alter my will.\\
'''Catherine:''' You should... you should do it immediately!\\
'''Dr. Sloper:''' I don't want to do it. I don't want to disinherit my only child.\\
'''Catherine:''' You'd like to think of me sitting in dignity in this handsome house--rich, respected and unloved. But I may take your money and chase after Morris and squander it on him.\\
'''Dr. Sloper:''' I don't know what you would do, Catherine.\\
'''Catherine:''' That's right, father. You'll never know, will you?
* In ''Film/HotFuzz'', when the rest of the Sanford Police come in and try to arrest Nicholas, Danny refuses to obey his father's orders, even when he threatens to have them both arrested.
-->'''Frank Butterman:''' This is ridiculous!\\
'''Danny:''' No it's not, Dad. It's all very un-ridiculous, and it's only now that I'm starting to realize how un-ridiculous it all is!\\
'''Frank Butterman:''' SILENCE, DANNY! Think of your mother!\\
'''Danny:''' Mum is dead, Dad. And for the first time in my life, you know, I'm glad. If she could see what you've become, I think she'd probably kill herself all over again!
* In ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine'', after Jacob sees [[spoiler: Lou is having sex with Kelly,]] he becomes completely flabbergasted that [[spoiler: this makes Lou his father,]] which Jacob sees as a sort of MoralEventHorizon.
-->'''Jacob:''' I always knew there was a reason I hated you!
* ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'': In the book, James's Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker were run over by the peach and killed. In the movie, however, they catch up to James when he finally makes it to New York City. James is alone, no idea where his friends are, and the townspeople who witnessed his arrival are too flabbergasted by what's going on to do anything but stand there and watch, yet he tells his [[EvilMatriarch evil aunts]] "I said, [[PunctuatedForEmphasis no. I'm. NOT!]] I hate that house and that cold room, and how I'm always hungry! ''(crowd gasps)'' And how you beat me! ''(crowd gasps again and turn to Sponge and Spiker)'' AND TELL ME I WAS NOTHING!" When Sponge and Spiker tell him to shut up, he replies, "No, not this time! I flew a giant peach across the ocean. ''I'' landed on the tallest building in the world! ''I'' made it! I'm not the one who's nothing, [[ThisLoserIsYou YOU are]], and I'm never going back with you! Not me, and not the peach!" They retaliate by attempting to [[AxeCrazy attack him with axes]] only for [[TrueCompanions the bugs whom James has grown to consider family]] [[BigDamnHeroes to descend from the sky and]] help James deliver much overdue justice to Spiker and Sponge, who can only freak out at the sight of the bugs, screaming their heads off. The movie seems to be a much more satisfying way to see them go down.
* ''Jenny's Wedding'': Jenny delivers a memorable one to her father over his inability to accept her sexual orientation.
* ''Film/KissKissBangBang'': A somewhat KickTheSonOfABitch example is found at the end, where a father in his deathbed is slapped around and insulted by Gay Perry for sexually molesting his daughter. Harry at the end justifies this by saying, "Don't worry, he was creepy."
* LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek: While not ''always'' featured, this trope is nonetheless still a given in any movie of this kind (although many non-Lifetime TV movies have done this as well).
* ''Film/LittleOdessa'': Joshua does this several times to his father, with escalating hostility and violence. The reasons are numerous: his father is a strict, belt-wielding figure, harsh on his younger son and harsher on the elder (for good reasons, though). Moreover, he cheats on his wife. However, Joshua is definitely not the victimized party: he was banished from home for being a hitman and not due to some insignificant offense.
* ''Film/{{Locke}}'': the only dialogue in the film not directed at someone over the phone is the title character imagining that his late, [[DisappearedDad deadbeat father]] is sitting in the back seat of his car. On two occasions, Locke directs tirades at his imagined father, saying he's not going to make the same mistakes that his father did.
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', after Loki finds out from Odin about his true heritage as a Frost Giant and Laufey's son, revealing that he took the premature Loki as a possible means of creating peace between Asgard and Jotunheim. Loki, upset and outraged by this, tearfully then harshly chews out Odin for keeping the truth from him and favoring Thor over him. Granted, he does regret saying it after the stress and grief make Odin go into the Odinsleep.
--->'''Loki:''' ''[on the verge of tears]'' So I am no more than another stolen relic, locked up here till you have use for me?\\
'''Odin:''' Why do you twist my words? \\
'''Loki:''' You could have told me what I was from the beginning! Why didn't you?\\
'''Odin:''' You're my son. [[IDidntTellYouBecauseYoudBeUnhappy I only wanted to protect you from the truth.]]\\
'''Loki:''' Why? ''[stutters]'' Because I am the monster parents tell their children about at night?\\
''[Odin begins to go weak and half-conscious]''\\
'''Loki:''' ''[his sadness turns to anger]'' You know it all makes sense now! Why you [[TheUnfavorite favored Thor]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis all. These. Years!]] Because no matter how much you claim [[SuddenlyShouting TO LOVE ME!]] You could never have a Frost Giant sitting on the Throne of Asgard!
** In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', the titular Thor calls Odin out for endangering Asgardains by refusing to take the battle with the Dark Elves away from the palace. Odin doesn't take his son's defiance well, although to his credit he does mellow out by the time of ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' admitting that he has failed both of his sons.
** In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', the closest thing Peter Quill had to a father was Yondu Udonta, leader of the Ravagers, who kidnapped him as a child and constantly holds the fact that he ''didn't'' allow his crew to kill and eat Quill as a child over his head. Naturally, Quill eventually gets sick of it and call him out on it:
--->'''Peter Quill:''' Twenty years you've been throwing that in my face, like [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency it's some great thing]] ''[[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency not]]'' [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency eating me]]! Normal people never even think about eating someone else, much less make it something they have to be grateful for! You abducted me man, stole me from my home and from my family!
** ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'': [[spoiler:On his second time in the spiritual realm, T'Challa wastes no time condemning T'Chaka to his face about how he killed N'Jobu (T'Chaka's brother and T'Challa's uncle) and left N'Jobu's son (and hence T'Chaka's nephew and T'Challa's cousin) N'Jadaka/Erik "Killmonger" Stevens to fend for himself in Oakland.]]
** Zigzagged in the ''Film/IronMan'' films as Tony in the present never wastes an opportunity to rag on his father Howard for being such a unloving dad and in the memory scene during ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' a teenage Tony directly criticises Howard for taking his mother Maria on a “lovely date at the Pentagon” all while bickering with his father who isn’t impressed at his son’s attitude either. Subverted however as Tony secretly did genuinely love Howard and vice versa [[spoiler: this is seen in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' where a disguised Tony cannot help but be overjoyed to be able talk to Howard again through TimeTravel and even gives him a hug. Later on Tony says he regrets making his father out to be worse than actually he was]].
** Gamora throughout ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' calls her out adoptive father (er, kidnapper) Thanos for being a insane, callous intergalactic prick who believes in [[WellIntentionedExtremist sacrificing billions of lives to save others in the name of peace]]. Of course being Thanos he just brushes aside Gamora’s objections by either trying to justify his actions by pointing out the good he’s done for her planet and others or worse still emotionally manipulates Gamora into feeling guilty and ungrateful.
** Also in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', during the battle of Titan, Nebula wastes no time telling her adoptive father how much he sucks, but being TheUnfavourite to him Thanos just spites Nebula back and [[OffingTheOffspring tries to kill her]].
* ''Film/MeetTheParents'' (''Meet The Fockers''): The ''entire family'' calls out Creator/RobertDeNiro's character for using truth serum on his future son-in-law.
* The first film in ''Film/TheMightyDucks'' trilogy has Gordon Bombay finally realizing how disposable his old pee-wee hockey Coach Riley treated his players when he casually has the Ducks' best player Adam Banks taken out of the game via cross-check and injury just as Banks had put the Ducks on the board to make the championship game 3-1, when Banks had been on the Hawks earlier in the season due to a clerical error. Bombay had [[MyGreatestFailure spent twenty years beating himself up over the missed penalty shot]] that could have won both of them the 1973 Minnesota state championship, that could have satisfied young Gordon's own [[WellDoneSonGuy desire to please his replacement father figure]] after [[DisappearedDad his own had died]]...and there he was, continuing to practice his philosophy of [[SecondPlaceIsForLosers winning at any cost]].
-->'''Riley:''' You got something to say to me, Bombay?\\
'''Bombay:''' To think I wasted all those years, worrying about what you thought. You're going down, Riley. ''[walks back to the Ducks bench [[spoiler:and proceeds to keep his promise with the Ducks winning 5-4]]]''
%%* Molly gets quite a few of these moments toward her father in ''Film/MollysGame''.
* ''Film/MoulinRouge'': Satine to Harold Zidler, a man who has been like a father to her, when he tries to prevent her from running away with Christian. Naturally, her outburst prompts him to make TheReveal (known to the audience already) that [[spoiler:she is dying of tuberculosis]].
* ''Film/MysteriousSkin'': The normally mild-mannered Brian drunkenly confronts his father on his 19th birthday for his absense and emotional neglect leaving him open to [[spoiler:being sexually abused by his pedophile Little League coach as a child]], and then not noticing anything was wrong, despite his obvious emotional and physical problems.
-->'''Brian:''' I was bleeding! I kept passing out! I wet my [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING]] bed! AND YOU NEVER ASKED WHY!
* ''Film/NothingInCommon'' is about David, an advertising executive, whose parents, Max and Lorraine, have gotten divorced, and David gets angry when he finds out Max cheated on Lorraine (he claimed she was "frigid"). At the end of that scene:
-->'''David:''' Tomorrow, I'm doing a commercial about a family that loves each other, cares for each other. I'm faking it.
* In ''Film/OctoberSky'', Homer Hickam's father, John, keeps pressuring him to work in their town's coal mine instead of pursuing his dream of building rockets. After Homer wins the science fair and qualifies for the Nationals in Indianapolis, things come to a head when the miners go on strike and one attempts to shoot John; after John dismisses Homer's fears and derisively tells him to go find his suitcase, Homer snaps and berates John for being the only person who doesn't understand the coal mine is done for, and vowing that if he wins in Indianapolis and goes to college, he's never coming back.
* In ''Film/PacificRim'', [[BrokenAce Chuck Hansen]] calls out his father Hercules and says that [[HandsOffParenting he never raised Chuck to be anything,]] and that the only reason they're still together after all this time is because they're Drift-compatible, so they don't even need to talk to each other outside the Conn Pod. The look on Herc's face is heartbreaking.
-->'''Chuck:''' After Mum died, I spent more time with these machines than I ever did with you. Now, the only reason you and I speak, old man, is because we're Drift-compatible.
* ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead'': A subplot of the well-cast film. Leonardo [=diCaprio=]'s [[YoungGun young, confident gunslinger]] spends most of his time in a gunfighting tournament provoking his father (Gene Hackman) into a duel. Hackman asks [=diCaprio=] not to duel him, but when [=diCaprio=] refuses to back down, Hackman shoots him down immediately.
* ''Film/Revolution1985'': Ned, seeing Tom going along with the British without a fight, accuses him of being a coward and runs off to join a gang of youths named Mohawks.
* ''Film/{{Scanners}}'': Dr. Ruth doesn't get this treatment until after he's dead. Once Cameron learns that [[spoiler: [[LukeIAmYourFather Dr. Ruth was his father]] who had left him as a street-wandering pariah his whole life, he is horrified, and does nothing to defend Ruth from the insults of Darryl Revok ("That was ''Daddy''.").]] And when the inevitable NotSoDifferent moment comes up, it's not BigBad Revok comparing himself to Cameron; it's Cameron comparing Revok to Ruth. And Revok is [[BerserkButton outraged]].
* ''Film/SlingBlade'': Karl comes close to this with [[spoiler: his estranged father, Frank, for making Karl dispose of his miscarried little brother, but Frank has progressed too far into senility/dementia to care about anything anymore, and Karl realizes this]].
* In ''Film/SodomAndGomorrah'', Hebrew leader Lot's daughters, Shuah and Maleb, only reluctantly join him as he leads the Hebrews out of the title cities ahead of their destruction, as they are still angry at him for killing Astaroth, the man they both loved. Shuah in particular says she will not leave his side until he feels the same grief and pain she felt on losing Astaroth. She gets her wish shortly after when Lot's wife, Ildith, is TakenForGranite after disobeying his instructions [[DontLookBack not to look back]] at Sodom's destruction.
* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'': [[spoiler: When Admiral Marcus is about to destroy the defenseless Enterprise -- after kidnapping Carol with the Transporter -- Carol [[ArmorPiercingSlap slaps his face,]] shouting, "I'm ashamed to be your daughter!" She still screams when Khan kills him]].
%%* ''Franchise/StarWars'': The whole issue of "Jedi truths".
* ''Film/TheWaterboy'': In this Creator/AdamSandler comedy, Bobby Boucher finally stands up to [[MyBelovedSmother his overprotective Mama]]:
-->'''Mama Boucher:''' (''furiously'') You gonna lose all your fancy foosballs games! And your gonna fail your big exam! Because foosball and school are-\\
'''Bobby:''' (''interrupting, bitterly'') The devil?\\
(''Mama is taken aback'')\\
'''Bobby:''' Everything's the devil to you, Mama! Well, I like school! And I like football! And I'm gonna keep doin' them both because they make me feel good!\\
(''Bobby grabs his things and walks to the door'')\\
'''Bobby:''' [[AndAnotherThing And by the way, Mama. Alligators are ornery 'cause of their "Medulla Oblongata"!]]\\
(''Bobby slams the door behind him, but he opens it a few seconds later'')\\
'''Bobby:''' (''almost in tears'') And I like Vicki, and she likes me! And she showed me her boobies, and I like them too!\\
(''Bobby slams the door for the last time'')
* ''Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins'': Roscoe (Martin Lawrence) finally deals one out to his father (James Earl Jones) towards the end, during a meltdown at the family obstacle course, for mistreating him for so much of his life.
* ''When Did You Last See Your Father?'': The whole of this film is a flashback onto this guys life story which (?) leads up to a massive subversion where he should have called his father out but [[spoiler:forgives his father on his death bed.]]
* ''Film/WingCommander'': Blair calls Angel, his squadron[[labelnote:*]]"wing" in the film dialog, a script editing error that was fixed in the {{Novelization}}[[/labelnote]] commander, on her policy that pilots who died "never existed", as being unfaithful to those who have died in service.
* ''Film/WhyBeGood'' has a great sequence where Pert calls out her dad for being so bossy about her outfits--she's a hardworking girl and deserves to wear and do what she likes.
* ''Film/IrreconcilableDifferences'' has Casey telling her parents at her emancipation trial about how that even if they hate each other, they should at least treat each other with respect. She also told them that they treated her like a pet that they pay attention to only once in a while.

[[folder:Literature]]
* In the short story "On Stage" from the North Korean anthology ''Literature/TheAccusation'', Kyeong-hun lashes out at his father for not realizing the nation's mourning for Kim Il-Sung comes from fear rather than sorrow. [[spoiler: The realization ultimately drives the latter to suicide.]]
* Happens at the end of ''Gifts'', the first book in ''Literature/AnnalsOfTheWesternShore''. Orrec confronts his father on [[spoiler:faking Orrec's supposed "wild gift" to give Caspromant a fearsome reputation when Orrec really has no gift at all. His father can't even answer, having convinced himself that Orrec really ''did'' have a wild gift]].
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
** The [[ButtMonkey unfairly despised]] but worthy youngest son Tyrion Lannister finally tells off his father, Lord Tywin Lannister. And then [[spoiler:kills him. Tywin deserved it]].
** After his father slaps him and goes on a rant about now being the King of the Iron Islands with a crown of iron and so on, Theon angrily reminds him that he's just a joke to his enemies, who will clean him up shortly after the true threats are dealt with. Balon admits that it's a bold move on Theon's part, but beyond that dismisses him. Ultimately Theon is proven correct: the only real blow the Iron Islands deal out has nothing to do with Balon, and only after [[spoiler: Balon has been killed in a gloriously anticlimactic way do the islands begin to rise as a credible threat under Euron.]]
** Princess Arianne Martell calls out on her father for being unresponsive [[spoiler:to her Uncle Oberyn's death]], for locking up her cousins, the Sand Snakes and for passing off her rights to her younger brother, Quentyn. [[spoiler:She got the third one wrong when Doran revealed that she's supposed to marry Viserys Targaryen which was one of his plans to return the Targaryens to power and to destroy the Lannisters.]].
* In ''Literature/TheBrothersKaramazov'', Dmitri Karamazov calls his father out and ends up beating ''the everliving crap'' out of him in a fit of rage. It's part [[MacGuffin inheritance money]] and part LoveTriangle which spurs him.
* In ''Literature/TheCanaryPrince'', an Italian FairyTale, the heroine calls out her father for his neglect of her, locking her in a [[GirlInTheTower tower]] for years. Somehow, the fact that she wasn't happy cut off from all society is new information to him, After asking for forgiveness, he punishes the [[WickedStepmother queen]], but he himself is not held accountable for his mistreatment of his daughter.
* ''[[Literature/AssassinFantastic Coin of the Realm]]'': Rosalind calls out her father, The Ruling Monarch and The Man Who Thought He Knew More About Everything Than Anyone Else, upon [[spoiler: assassinating her newly-wed husband ''at the wedding itself'', in front of everyone, and boldly claiming her prize as his new royal assassin.]]
* In ''Literature/TheCorrections'', all three of Alfred and Enid's children try to call them out on their various issues and problems. It does not take.
* ''Literature/CountAndCountess'' tells the story of Vlad Tepes and Elizabeth Bathory, who, though living 100+ years apart, start writing to each other in childhood. At the start of the story, Vlad's father, Vlad II Drakul, has surrendered his three sons to the Ottoman Empire as war hostages. Vlad and his brothers endure unspeakable cruelty while there, and only Vlad survives it [[spoiler: seemingly]]. When Vlad escapes life as a [[ChildSoldiers Janissary]] and walks all the way home to Wallachia, he calls the old man out by [[spoiler: [[{{Patricide}} murdering him]]]].
* [[Literature/{{Everworld}} Senna Wales]], when she finally meets up with her mother during her VillainEpisode book, ''Inside the Illusion.'' Apparently, she's been imagining the moment since she was a small child.
-->'''Senna:''' How have I been? For the last ten years [[ParentalAbandonment after you dumped me off?]] How have I been, the only one like me stuck in a world full of [[{{Muggles}} deaf, dumb, and blind fools?]] Fine, Mom. Fine. How have you been?!
%%* William de Worde does this to his father at the end of the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/TheTruth''.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':
** In ''Proven Guilty'', Carlos Ramirez confirms his brass-balls-itude by calling out the Merlin himself -- the single most powerful wizard in the world -- on how much of a hypocritical {{Jerkass}} of a bastard he's being. It's also done movingly by Molly, to her mother Charity.
** Harry himself calls out his de facto father, Ebenezar [=McCoy=], several times in the series. [[spoiler: He later finds out that [=McCoy=] is his grandfather, making it "Calling the Even Older Man Out."]]
* Tash and Zak Arranda, in ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear: Army of Terror'', finally tire enough of their uncle's standoffishness and stubborn secrecy to call him out. [[spoiler: Turns out he's TheAtoner.]] It works out well for them in the end.
* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''[[Literature/TheGoldenOecumene The Golden Transcedence]]'', Ungannis declares that HumansAreBastards because her father didn't give her everything she wanted when she was a child. It does not go over well.
* In ''Literature/TheGunslinger'', Roland calls out Cort for the ritual coming-of-age challenge of every gunslinger. Due to a plot by Walter, Roland is only 14 when he issues the challenge. Walter expects Roland to be disgraced and exiled. Some creative thinking on Roland's part plays a key role in the outcome of the challenge.
* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series:
** Percy had himself a distinctly unheroic version between [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet]] and [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order]] when Perc got into a shouting match with his father during the hiatus between the books. During the fight, Percy blames his father for their family's poverty and a lousy reputation he's had to fight against since joining the Ministry. He vows to end his association with their family in order to protect himself from what he views as their foolish support of Dumbledore.
** Harry himself throws a Grand Mal fit in Dumbledore's office at the end of ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order Of The Phoenix]]'' over a combination of the shock of [[spoiler:Sirius']] death, Dumbledore's misguided avoidance of him for the entire book, and the revelation that Dumbledore had been hiding even more information from him than he suspected (information that might have helped avert the aforementioned death). To his credit, Dumbledore ''does'' let him vent his rage before apologizing and promising to tell Harry the whole truth. ([[TheChessmaster It still wasn't ''the whole'' truth]], but still things he admits he should've told Harry from the start.) In fact, he thinks Harry deserved to be even angrier than he was at the time.
** In ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'':
*** Harry gets to confront [[spoiler:Lupin, who just abandoned his wife and unborn child.]] To his credit, [[spoiler: Lupin realises he's being an idiot and, next time he sees Harry, asks him to be godfather to his newly born son.]]
*** Harry gets to call out [[spoiler:Dumbledore again, when they meet in Harry's [[ItMakesSenseInContext dreamworld limbo train station]]]], towards the end of the book.
* Dee of ''Literature/TheHeartsWeSold'' puts up with a lot of her dad's crap, but after years of abuse and negligence, the discovery that he [[spoiler:stole her inheritance from behind her back]] proves to be the straw that broke the camel's back. She finally calls him out and only returns home one more time after that: to get everything she needs to get a job, meaning she can move out for good.
* In the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series, Honor makes an enemy of industrialist Klaus Hauptman when she confiscates one of his freighters with contraband aboard. He continues to sabotage her career for several books, and when [[spoiler:Honor saves his life and that of his only daughter, Stacey,]] in ''Honor Among Enemies'', he still won't bury the hatchet. At that point, his daughter calls him out, threatening to never speak to him again unless he makes peace. He does, [[spoiler:and the Hauptmans go on to become two of Honor's most powerful allies on Manticore.]]
* ''Literature/ILucifer'' has many instances of Lucifer calling out ''[[{{God}} "The Old Man"]]'' on a few of his perceived jerkass qualities and actions.
* While still a child, Literature/JaneEyre eventually calls out her aunt and caretaker for being abusive and unfair towards her, and it actually seems to have some effect.
* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': [[spoiler: The Noble Family of Esrah is supposed to serve the Royal Family of Ataidar, but Duke Selen stages both a kidnapping of the princess and then a coup against the king in order place himself or his son, Siron, in charge. He tells Siron that he's doing this for his sake and so Siron goes along with it. Eventually, he's had enough and calls out his evil dad for his treachery.]]
* In the ''Literature/{{Jumper}}'' novel, the AbusiveParents subplot culminates in an epic Calling Out. [[spoiler:Davy jumps his father to his mother's grave and then subjects him to a BreakingSpeech. While using Daddy Dearest's whipping belt as a prop to emphasize just how horrific and wrong the abuse was]].
* In ''Kristy's Big News'', the title character -- founder of Literature/TheBabysittersClub -- and her older brothers get to finally do this to the father who walked out on them six years earlier, letting him know exactly how difficult he made life for them by abandoning the family.
* Inverted in ''Literature/LevenThumps'' when [[spoiler: Elton]] calls out his son [[spoiler: Leven]] for [[spoiler: killing his wife Maria in childbirth]]. Then they fight. Afterwards, it's played straight as [[spoiler:Leven]] gets to call [[spoiler: Elton]] out.
* In Creator/JaneAusten's ''Literature/LoveAndFreindship'', Edward does this in face of a marriage to a lovely and agreeable woman.
-->''"No, never," exclaimed I. "Lady Dorothea is lovely and Engaging; I prefer no woman to her; but know, Sir, that I scorn to marry her in compliance with your Wishes. No! Never shall it be said that I obliged my Father."''
* Creator/MercedesLackey's ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series:
** ''[[Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy Magic's Pawn]]'': After a series of traumatic experience that include the death of his first love, a failed attempt at suicide, and the sudden acquisition of a massive array of powers that he doesn't really want, Vanyel is drugged to the gills and barely conscious but still able to pull a mild Literature/{{Carrie}} on his abusive father for spending his entire childhood trying to have the "weakness" beaten out of him and make sure that he became a "real man." He repeatedly uses his new telekinetic powers to knock his father to the ground, demanding to know if he's finally "strong enough" and how his father likes being pushed around by someone bigger and stronger than he is. (His father gets the message, and by the third book of the trilogy, the two of them manage to reconcile.)
** The "calling the mentor out" version happens in ''Winds of Fate'', when Elspeth realizes that her companion Gwena is herding her, fat, dumb and happy, toward a [[BecauseDestinySaysSo Glorious Destiny]] while trying to foist Skif on her as an ideal mate. Her response, paraphrased: ScrewDestiny, stop manipulating me, and if you don't like it, you can go back to Haven without me! Gwena is so shocked at Elspeth's behavior that she actually acquiesces (more or less). It turns out pretty well for all involved.
** Bear calls his father out by proxy in ''Changes''. He goes all-out on the spy his father planted in Haven to keep an eye on him, knowing the spy will send a full report home. He gets to do it face to face in ''Redoubt''.
* In "Literature/TheManWhoCameEarly", Thorgunna calls her father Ospak a coward and a perjurer when their houseguest Gerald kills a man in self defense, and Ospak will not pay the weregild out of fear for a blood feud.
* ''Literature/MonsterOfTheMonthClub'': Woman, in this case, since Rilla has it out with her mother in book 2 when she finally gets tired and frustrated with her over a variety of things, including Sparrow embarrassing her in front of her friends. Sparrow is somewhat taken aback, but she and Rilla do sit down and talk over things as a result, including asking Rilla to ''tell'' her if Sparrow is embarrassing her so she'll stop doing it.
* ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'': For the entire duration of Jocelyn's kidnapping and subsequent coma, Clary is completely devoted to bringing her back. When Jocelyn finally is cured and returned, the very first thing Clary does is tear into her for depriving Clary of her Sight and not preparing her for the Shadowhunters' world.
%% ** [[spoiler:A difficult feat for Jace, even after years of having been abandoned by Valentine.]]
* In the second ''Literature/NightHuntress'' book, Cat tries to call her father out. Unfortunately, vampire politics get in the way.
* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'':
** Luke is...very ticked with his father.
** And in ''The Last Olympian'', Percy does this to [[spoiler: all the gods, telling them they should accept all demigods (including checking in time and time on their children) and take responsibility for their actions. And he even extends it to telling them that even the minor gods and their children should have a place at the camp.]]
** Also in ''The Last Olympian'', [[spoiler: Hades]] calls out his father.
---> "And if there is one thing we agree on - it's that you were a TERRIBLE father."
*** Leo does this to his dad, Hephaestus, in the sequel series, ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', to a degree that not even Percy would have.
* In ''Literature/PrinceRoger'', near the end of ''March Upcountry'' Prince Roger is told that his father [[spoiler: tried to pull off a coup before Roger was born.]] Roger, unfortunately, looks [[GenerationXerox almost identical]] to the man. [[spoiler: Worse, ''no one'' ever told Roger what happened, or why his father was banished - or even why his mother seemed to hate and distrust him. The resulting spoiled-lonely-brat-who-wants-some-loving-attention behaviour did nothing to improve anyone's attitude towards him.]] And to top it all off, once he finally finds all this out...he can't even Call Out his mother for her actions, because she's several solar systems away -- so he has to settle for throwing a tantrum of epic proportions, ending up trashing his room and mistreating his sword badly.
* In ''Literature/RockOfAges'' by Creator/WalterJonWilliams, Drake tries this after discovering just how convoluted some of the plots his legally-dead father has gotten involved with are. Unfortunately, his father is not merely a BrainInAJar but is getting rather senile, and manages to completely miss the point of Drake's angry lecture.
* Not sure if this was included in ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', but Cao Pi (son of MagnificentBastard Cao Cao) ordered one of his concubines (Zhen Ji, for those of you familiar with VideoGame/DynastyWarriors) to commit suicide on the pretext that she was too jealous of his other wives. One day he takes his heir apparent (and Zhen Ji's son) out for a hunt and manages to bag himself a nice doe; in high spirits, he tells his son to capture the fawn as well, at which point the son answers: "You have already killed the mother; I see no need to murder its child as well".
* Jenna from ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'' does this to Milo Banda, her father who's always absent, in ''Syren'':
-->'''Jenna Heap:''' And you are ''not'' my father. Dad is.
* Carmen in ''Literature/TheSisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants''. Her dad definitely deserved it, seeing as [[spoiler: he didn't tell her he was engaged, living with his fiancée and her two kids, and getting married that August]] before she came to spend the summer with him for the first time since the separation.
* Zacharias in ''Literature/SorcererToTheCrown'' finally is able to stand his ground against his adoptive father Stephen, after [[spoiler: Stephen is dead. And a ghost. Zacharias finds his appearing in the midst of conversations with living people most annoying, and says so.]]
* In ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}'', [[ChildMage Coin]] has spent his whole life as his [[AbusiveParents father Ipslore's]] mindslave, being forced to kill people and [[ElectricTorture magically tortured]] if he disobeys. At the end of the book, he finally calls Ipslore out. It's epic and involves a magical battle.
** To put things in perspective, Coin is ''nine''.
* The Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse novel ''The Captain's Daughter'' has Admiral John "Blackjack" Harriman, father of ''Enterprise-B'' captain John Harriman, and heavily implied to be the reason such a young, inexperienced officer is in command of the ''Enterprise'', accompany his son's ship. He spends the entire time boasting about how he got his son such a prestigious command, complaining about James Kirk, and overriding the captain at critical moments. When Captain Harriman finally stands up to him, the admiral unloads on him, calling him names and saying he's worse than Kirk ever was, before sitting in the command chair. The captain's response is to beam him to the brig.
* In one of the ''Literature/TeenageWorrier'' books, Letty mistakenly believes her father is planning to leave his family for a male lover. She imagines confronting him in a humorous scenario, finishing with:
-->And the great noble Hand of God will wag its finger at Dad and say "Look after your kids, punk."
* Mark does this to the Emperor, his biological father, when he finally meets him in the ''Third Literature/BookOfSwords'' by Fred Saberhagen. Since the Emperor is really [[spoiler:[[BluenoseBowdlerizer God]]]], it is not very surprising that His response is, in effect, when you're as old as I am and know as much as I do, you can question what I do and why I do it.
* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'':
** Crookedstar eventually stands up to his abusive mother Rainflower, telling her that she'll never make him ashamed of who he is or what he looks like.
** Brambleclaw defies his father, [[BigBad Tigerstar]], in ''The Darkest Hour'' when Tigerstar invites him to join him.
* Both played straight and subverted by Zephyr in ''Literature/TheWindwaterPack'': His father Stone Voice is at the top of his list and he never hesitates to let him know it. However, when he has the chance to really put him in his place, he simply says “Good-bye” and walks away.
* In the third book of ''Literature/TheWitchlands'', Vivia finally gets angry at her father, a ManipulativeBastard who moulded her into a WellDoneSonGuy, calling him out on his megalomania, his lies and the way he constantly dismisses her and treats her like a child to prop himself up. Years of mental abuse being rather hard to cast off, she still feels horrid about it.
* ''Literature/WonderWomanWarbringer'': Jason is Alia's brother, not her father, but he's essentially raised her since their parent's death, and Alia delivers a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to him after he reveals his true allegiances.

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* Music/ThreeDoorsDown. "Sarah Yellin'" is a diatribe directed at an entire family.
* Reversed in Music/{{Ayreon}}'s "Day 16: Loser" off "The Human Equation". Here we have the abusive, alcoholic, jerkass of a father berating and calling out his own son while in the hospital. He goes on about how weak, helpless and pathetic his son is before leaving. The closest we get to a response is when the son's rage persona freaks out and screams at the father.
* Music/DeathCabForCutie's "Styrofoam Plates" consists entirely of a boy/young man calling his father out in the bitterest way imaginable ''at said father's funeral''. Naturally, averts NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead.
* Music/DemiLovato's song "For The Love Of a Daughter" is about her biological father's drinking & abusiveness, directed at him. It includes lines like "Lied to your flesh & your blood, put your hands on the ones that you swore you loved," and says "You're hopeless" as part of the chorus.
* "Pa" ("Dad") by the Dutch band Music/DoeMaar from their album ''Music/{{Virus}}'', about a troubled son-father relationship.
* Music/DreamTheater's "Honor Thy Father" is exactly this. Directed towards a stepfather, but a pretty venomous rendition of the trope nonetheless. Drummer Mike Portnoy wrote this song about his stepfather. He explained, "I'm not very good at writing love songs, so I decided to write a HATE song!"
* Music/{{Disturbed}}'s "Down with the Sickness", though done symbolically - the "mother" in question represents society.
* Everclear's "Father of Mine", which calls out the speaker's DisappearedDad.
* Any Music/{{Eminem}} song about his mother, especially "Cleanin' Out My Closet".
* The TropeNamer is the Music/GarthBrooks song "The Night I Called the Old Man Out", in which the narrator and his father come to blows. It's never quite revealed what exactly the father is being called out for, but by the end of the song the son relents, realizes his father is right, and "prays someday he's half the man he is."
* Reversed in Music/{{Genesis}}' "No Son of Mine". The song tells the story of a boy who runs away from home, and after some consideration attempts to return, only to be berated by his jerkass abusive father. [[note]]Phil Collins has said in interviews that the lyrics are deliberately vague as to whether the narrator or his mother is the victim of the abuse.[[/note]]
* Music/IronMaiden's "Wrathchild".
* Music/JamesDurbin's song "Screaming" has him calling out his parents for being "liars" because they said that his life would improve with time.
* The Music/JohnnyCash song "A Boy Named Sue" deals with a man on a search to find his old man, who abandoned him at a very young age and left him with the titular name (which led, [[UnfortunateName as you might expect, to a lot of bullying]] for the kid). When Sue finally finds his father, he calls him out with "[[MyNameIsInigoMontoya My name is Sue]]! How do you do! Now you gonna ''DIE!''", then starts throwing punches. Then Dad gets out he named him Sue so he'd be the tough SOB he'd grown to be in his absence, and they make up, and Sue says if he ever has a son, he'll name him..."Bill or George, anything but Sue!"
* Possibly Music/{{Korn}}'s "Daddy". There has been some confusion over this one, given the title. Jonathan Davis has clarified (in the few interviews where he discusses this song) that his father did not abuse him; rather, the song is about a neighbor who abused him, with the line "I'll be your daddy" being some sort of sick come-on and not at all literal. The reason he was so ticked off at his parents was that they didn't believe him when he told them about it.
* Lifehouse's "Walking Away" and "Blind" are both good examples of this.
* Martha Wainwright's "Bloody [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Motherfucking]] Asshole" is about her father Loudon Wainwright III.
* A bittersweet example is Martin Simpson's ''Never any good'', where the narrator is saying his dad was no use but without those traits, he'd have never been born:
-->You were never any good with money / couldn't even hold a job / not steady enough for the office / not hard enough for the hod ... If you'd have been a practical man / If you'd have been forewarned / you would have seen that it never would work / And I would have never been born
* Music/TheMegas: Franchise/MegaMan rages at Dr Light for sending him to war against his wishes, while Proto Man is understandably furious that Light physically took him apart and used the bits to build Mega Man.
-->'''Mega Man:''' Why did he give me voice? And still choose not to hear it - just white noise? Your [[{{Pun}} light]] is going out on me. It was you who built this uncertainty! This is your answer - another machine...I'm just another machine. ("Fly on a Dog")\\
'''Proto Man:''' My heart is gone, there's only fire. I've met my maker and the man's a liar. ("I'm Not the Breakman")
* Music/{{Metallica}}'s "Dyer's Eve" is mostly this, with both parents being called out for their sheltered religious parenting.
-->''Dear Mother, Dear Father\\
What is this hell you have put me through?\\
Believer, Deceiver\\
Day in, day out, live my life through you\\
Pushed onto me what's wrong or right\\
Hidden from this thing that they call life''
* Music/TheMountainGoats song "Lion's Teeth" describes a terrifying confrontation with the singer's abusive stepfather, imagined as a literal lion. The whole ''album'' is actually an example of Calling The Old Man Out. There's a reason why the album is dedicated to those who are living in broken homes.
* Music/{{Nickelback}}'s "Never Again" where the speaker calls out a domestic abuser: "Father's a name you haven't earned yet / You're just a child with a temper / Haven't you heard you don't hit a lady / Kickin' your ass would be a pleasure." Not surprising, the wife busts a cap in her abusive husband.
* {{Music/NOFX}}'s "Happy Father's Day" starts off with a soft melody before transitioning into a typical fast-paced punk song, as the true intentions are revealed:
-->Fuck you Paul Burkette / I'm glad that you are dead
* Music/PearlJam's "Better Man" is a good example. It's inspired by Eddie Vedder's abusive stepfather, whom he referred to as "the bastard who married my mama".
* Music/{{Queensryche}}'s "Bridge", in which the speaker calls out his estranged father for trying to make up for lost time when he never made that connection in the first place.
-->''You say, "Son, let's forget the past,''
-->''I want another chance, gonna make it last."''
-->''You're begging me for a brand new start,''
-->''trying to mend a bridge that's been blown apart,''
-->''but you know... you never built it, dad.''
* Either a songwriter, singer or someone closely associated with the band Music/SimplePlan must have had some serious father issues because a fair number of their songs are about just this: "Shut Up", "Perfect", "One Day", "You Don't Mean Anything". And listen to the song "This Song Saved My Life." There is a line which says that he became closer with his dad than he used to be.
* Music/{{Skillet}}'s song "Open Wounds" is essentially about a young man calling his father out for being emotionally distant in his life (with lyrics like "How could you hate me/When all I ever wanted to be was you?") The song is based on frontman John Cooper's rocky relationship with his father after his mother died of cancer, but they've since made up.
* Music/SufjanStevens's "Pittsfield" from The Avalanche describes a neglectful (and possibly emotionally abusive) parent or guardian. It opens with the narrator affirming their own independence and reflecting that they are no longer afraid of this person.
-->I'm not afraid of you now, I know / so I climb down from the bunk bed this slow /I can talk back to you now, I know / from a few things that I learned from this TV show / You can work late 'til midnight; we don't care / We can fix our own meals, we can wash our own hair
* Music/TupacShakur's second album has "Papa'z Song", featuring 2Pac and his half-brother Moprene raging at 2Pac's stepfather and Moprene's father at abandoning his family.
* One of the interpretations of "Bite My Tongue" by You Me At Six is that it's one of these thanks to the chorus: "I wanna hate every part of you in me/I can't hate the ones who made me."

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* A recurring theme in Myth/ClassicalMythology. Cronus does it to his father Uranus, as punishment for imprisoning his children, and Zeus does it to his father Cronus in turn, for doing his damnedest to [[ImAHumanitarian swallow all of his own children at birth]]. In both cases, it ends in a rather permanent GroinAttack.
* Achilles does it to Agamemnon, the commander of the Greek forces at large, in ''Literature/TheIliad''. Agamemnon responds by taking Achilles' war prize, kicking off the plot.
* In Literature/TheBible, God actually [[InvokedTrope encourages]] His people to call Him out despite Him being an infallible deity. Mainly on the grounds that humans not be just mindless machines doing what they are told and to better understanding their own faith by testing it and questioning it. God often praises those who question Him... If they have a good reason too that is. If they don't and are just complaining for some petty reason, He will call ''them'' out.
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* Very common in a game of ''TabletopGame/BlissStage'', where someone is almost certainly going to get sick of the Authority Figure's crap and tear them a new one.
* The Literature/HorusHeresy from ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', where Calling The Old Man Out resulted in a galaxy-splitting civil war which left trillions dead, trapped a comatose CrystalDragonJesus on life support, and started ten thousand years of the worst regime imaginable as mankind slowly shudders its way towards extinction.
* The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' module ''Return to the TabletopGame/TombOfHorrors'' lets the BigBad Acererak, of all people, give one to his demon father. As a ChildByRape whose mother tried to raise him well and was [[TorchesAndPitchforks killed by a mob]] for her efforts, Acererak held a grudge against the demon for [[BestServedCold 800 years]], then finally {{summon|ingRitual}}ed it and trapped it in service... as a [[PeopleJars decoration]].
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Subtrope of GrewASpine. Compare RageAgainstTheMentor. See also IHateYouVampireDad and HatesTheirParent. As noted, AbusiveParents will likely be on the receiving end, putting this on the far side of the SlidingScaleOfParentShamingInFiction. Often a subtrope of TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.

* ''Film/{{Revolution 1985}}'': Ned, seeing Tom going along with the British without a fight, accuses him of being a coward and runs off to join a gang of youths named Mohawks.

** In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', the titular Thor calls Odin out for endangering Asgardains by refusing to take the battle with the Dark Elves away from the palace. Odin doesn't take his son's defiance well, although to his credit he does mellow out by the time of ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' admitting that he has failed them.

** In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', the titular Thor calls Odin out for endangering Asgardains by refusing to take the battle with the Dark Elves away from the palace. Odin doesn’t take his son’s defiance well, although to his credit he does mellow out by the time of ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' stating that Thor (and even Loki) have become better men than him.

** In both ''Film/{{Thor}}'' and ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', the titular Thor calls Odin out, first for being a foolish old man who is too merciful to the Ice Giants and secondly (after some CharacterDevelopment) for endangering Asgardains by refusing to take the battle with the Dark Elves away from the palace. Odin doesn’t take his son’s defiance well in either scenario, although to his credit he does mellow out by the time of ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' stating that Thor (and even Loki) have become better men than him.

*** [[spoiler:Morrigan]] of all people gets one, provided that you [[spoiler: imported a world state where Kieren has the Old God Soul. When Flemeth leads Kierran into the Fade, Morrigan is more [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness fearful and desperate than at any other point in the series]], but that doesn't stop her from trying to defend herself and her son or calling her mother out on her horrible parenting and body-snatching tendencies. The player gets to see that she truly does care about her son, beyond whatever ambiguous power he is said to have.]]
----> '''[[spoiler:Morrigan]]:''' [[CharacterDevelopment I am many things, but I will not be the mother you were to me. / Take over my body now if you must. Just let Kierran go. He will be better off without me... just I was better off without you.]]

*** Dorian's entire personal quest revolves around confronting his father for [[spoiler:trying to change his sexuality with blood magic,]] in order to better fit with the Tevinter idea of perfection. It's up to the player if Dorian leaves it at that after his callout, or if he decides to try and reconcile with his father.

*** [[spoiler:Morrigan]] of all people gets one, provided that you [[spoiler: imported a world state where Kieren has the Old God Soul. When Flemeth leads Kieren into the Fade, Morrigan is more [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness fearful and desperate than at any other point in the series]], but that doesn't stop her from trying to defend herself and her son or calling her mother out on her horrible parenting and body-snatching tendencies. The player gets to see that she truly does care about her son, beyond whatever ambiguous power he is said to have.]]
----> '''[[spoiler:Morrigan]]:''' [[CharacterDevelopment I am many things, but I will not be the mother you were to me]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'', when the aliens take over the town, Chicken Little's father, Buck, tries to force him to hide, but Chicken Little refuses saying he knows how to stop the invasion, but Buck refuses to listen. Which is when he tells Buck he was never there for him, [[TheCassandra when he tried to warn everyone in town of the signs of the incoming aliens,]] Buck sided with the townsfolk and assumed that Chicken Little was insane. Buck apologize for how he treated him and they work together to stop the invasion.

* In season four of ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'', Bojack learns his [[Abusive parents emotionally abusive mother, Beatrice]], has gone senile and now can't even recognize him, leaving him bummed out... because he never got around to personally telling her off and now, may never get the chance to let her know how much he truly hated her. [[spoiler: Later in penultimate episode of the season, he gets his chance when she's finally able to recognize him, right after she's done probably the worst thing she's ever done to him and he's ready to dump her off to die alone in the worst nursing home room he could find, no less. But, he ultimately decided to be the bigger horse and instead, tells her she's eating ice cream at the old family summer home by the lake.]]

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* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** Happens with [[ConflictBall distressing]] and [[AesopAmnesia perfectly typical]] regularity to [[IWorkAlone Batman]]. The ones doing the calling out tend to be ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} and [[ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey Oracle]] -- the oldest son and the not-quite-daughter with the most equal standing with Batman. Oracle criticizes him openly a lot more than Nightwing does, whereas Nightwing's are more violent. [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]] ''unleashes'' on Batman in the Road Home for all the manipulative crap she's been through because of him. [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] has made it clear what he thinks of Bruce unilaterally making decisions for him on multiple occasions. [[ComicBook/RedHood Jason Todd]] has called him out on his moral selfishness.
** Now that Batman has a ''biological'' son, Damian, it happens with a good deal of regularity with him, too. It helps that Damian's mother, Talia, is the heir of one of Batman's arch-nemeses, so no matter what the kid does, one or the other of his parents is going to give him grief about it.
** In ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'', Tim lays things out for his incredibly neglectful biological father when said father says he doesn't even know his son anymore:
--->'''Tim:''' Who is the son you know, Dad? You don’t know me, you never bothered. You shipped me from one boarding school to another and nobody paid any attention as long as my grades stayed high. You and mom were too involved running around the world. Your careers-\\
'''Jack:''' Don’t think you can talk to me like that just because I’m in this chair. Just because I’m not like Bruce Wayne...\\
'''Tim:''' At least Bruce cares about ''me''. Not just [[TrophyChild how I reflect on him]]! You don’t know me! You don’t know a thing about me!
* Rose Wilson aka Ravager does this to her father ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} every time they meet. She never really got over the whole "injecting me with PsychoSerum and shoving a piece of radioactive Kryptonite into my eye socket" thing that Deathstroke pulled the last time she trusted him. That, and he's an amoral and ruthless mercenary who inevitably ruins the people close to him. In ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', after circumstances force them to fight side by side again, Rose calls him out one last time. While Rose acknowledges that part of her will always love him because he is her father (and ''only'' for that reason), she never wants to see him again. Rose also swears that if Slade [[spoiler: tries to track down Rose's MissingMom]] she ''will'' kill him.
* ''Franchise/TheFlash'':
** Villain Captain Cold had a violent confrontation with his father after the old man had been abducted by the New Rogues. To teach everybody a lesson, Cold and his team [[spoiler: searched for the impostors, trouncing each with their own weapons]] until Cold found his father in a meat locker. He proceeded to call him out for every indignity he had ever visited upon the family. The old man, clearly not impressed, shot back with his own opinions on how weak Cold and his mother were for not taking it. Cold, furious but unable to kill him, asked fellow Rogue Heat Wave to incinerate him.
** ''ComicBook/TheLifeStoryOfTheFlash'': Iris recalls how displeased she was to know that, not only was she in fact adopted like she'd always thought, but Ira knew and never told her.
--->'''Iris:''' WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME I WAS ADOPTED? Don't tell me you didn't remember! I won't stand for the men in my life keeping secrets from me anymore. Do you understand that? Do you?
* ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'':
** In #319, General Ross comes in to stop the wedding between Bruce Banner and Betty Ross. After he accidentally shoots Rick Jones, Betty calls him a stupid, miserable, interfering, old fool. And that's not all--she also calls him out for being less of a parent and more of a strict, tyrannical bully, and says that the real reason why Ross didn't like Bruce (even before Bruce became the Hulk) was because Bruce was kinder and more supportive to Betty than her own father. Also, Betty gave her father an awesome ultimatum: if he really wants to keep Betty away from Bruce, then he has to kill her. Of course, he doesn't do it and instead breaks down emotionally while Bruce and Betty finally get married.
** In Issue #377, Bruce is sent into a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind where he relives various traumas. Eventually, they reach his mother's grave, where he confronted his father. A hallucination of his father as a monster appears and calls him a "perverted monster"....but Bruce cuts loose and calls out the image for years of abuse, stating that HE was the monster and that he buried his emotions for fear of being like him. The monster promptly takes Brian's form and shatters.
** Done in epic fashion during ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' 13# where a undead Brian serves The One Below All and continues to torture his son, before Bruce (thanks to Absorbing Man) gets a HeroicSecondWind and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech puts]] his father in his place.
-->'''Brian''': NO! You’re not my son, you never were!\\
'''Hulk''': Yeah? That your new theory?\\
'''Brian''': You’re the Devil’s child! His son! You’re son of The One Below All!\\
'''Hulk''': Look at you still trying to figure me out—learn the rules find out the secrets. Do you think you ever knew what I was old man? Here’s your special theory dad. The only equation you’ll need! '''[[PreMortemOneLiner HULK IS HULK!]]''' [he blows Brian and The One Below away with a ShockwaveClap].
* ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' calls his father out for lying to him and for [[spoiler:the whole "[[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]]" bit]]. They eventually come to blows and they wreck a few continents in the ensuing, bloody brawl. [[spoiler:It later turns out that said Calling Out ended up in the old man's HeelFaceTurn]].
* In ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' story ''ComicBook/TheGreatDarknessSaga'', Orion's restored clone calls Darkseid out on stealing his deceased son's cells in order to create a mindless slave.
-->'''Darkseid:''' It seems I erred in restoring you to life, my son.\\
'''Orion:''' Restoring--? You mean desecrating me, do you not, father? You stole those cells from me in life-- and warped them to make a shambling mockery of me in death. No more, father... Your cursed voice will be still!\\
'''Darkseid:''' But, youth, I merely--\\
'''Orion:''' Still, I say... Your tongue could seduce a planet of priests, Darkseid... But not your own son.
* Done in ''ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard'' #16 where [[spoiler: Story!Loki finally gets Odin's and the Asgardians' approval and respect, placing them at the same level as Thor... and tells them to stick it.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'':
** This is the entire driving motivation for Jesse Custer, except instead of calling out his father, he wants to call out [[RageAgainstTheHeavens the Father of all Creation]].
** Jesse had a great, happy childhood until he was around six or maybe even younger, when Jesse's father was killed in front of his eyes [[BigScrewedUpFamily by Jesse's uncle Jody]]. Jody raised Jesse brutally for the rest of his childhood, also taking Jesse's mother aside to shoot her and using horrific child abuse. All this is revealed in the third or fourth story arc of the series and by the end of it [[spoiler: Jesse has finally killed Jody and everyone else on that side of the family responsible for his misery]].
* ''ComicBook/TheRedTen'': Crimson was originally Red's sidekick, but eventually left after the two started to butt heads. He ultimately cut ties with her completely upon finding out she had recruited a second Crimson Kid, a decision he finds abhorrent. Especially after she's murdered by Oxymoron.
* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'': Daniel when he becomes Dream and becomes an adult calls out Lyta for her Roaring Rampage of Revenge, since ultimately the previous Dream dying means that her Daniel was lost forever, and caused countless damage in that realm by unleashing the Kindly Ones. With that said, he does acknowledge she was manipulated into causing such destruction, and offers her eternal protection.
* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
** In "American Son", Harry Osborn finally does this to his father ComicBook/NormanOsborn (aka Green Goblin, aka Iron Patriot, aka Worst Father in Comics).
** This trope plays part in the origin of ComicBook/DoctorOctopus. His [[MyBelovedSmother overprotective mother]] forced Otto Octavius to break off his engagement to take care of her, only for Otto to discover her going out on a date. Enraged, he finally stood up to her and called her out, leading to her having a fatal heart attack in shock that her boy did that. The emotional duress Otto had from all of this lead to him not catching the warning signs his experiment was going wrong and exploding.
* In his classic appearances, ComicBook/StarLord doesn't take too kindly to his father abandoning his mother and partially blames him for his uncle sending assassins to kill her, but doesn't outright consider him a villain and allows his allies to stay in his father's care. In more modern books, J'Son has become much more of a jerk, and Quill has far less patience for it.
* ''ComicBook/StarTrekUntoldVoyages'': In "Past Imperfect", Dr. [=McCoy=]'s daughter Joanna resents him for telling her that it would not be a good idea for her to become involved with Admiral Kirk because he was never there during her childhood due to his Starfleet career. She tells him that he doesn't have the right to stroll into her life and play Daddy after all of this time.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** Through ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 New Krypton]]'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} followed her mother's orders and tried to forgive Alura's constant emotional abuse. By the time of "War of the Supermen", though, Kara has had it with her mother when she finds out that Alura ordered her to capture Reactron in order to torture information out of him.
--->'''Supergirl:''' "Watch out for your mother." That's what father said to me as he died. "Watch out for your mother." I thought that meant I should... I don't know, make sure you didn't get hurt after he was gone or something. But that's not what father meant at all, was it?\\
'''Alura:''' Kara, I--\\
'''Supergirl:''' He wasn't warning me to look out for you... He was warning me ''about'' you.\\
'''Alura:''' Don't you dare judge me, Kara. Reactron is a prisoner of the state, and he has information necessary for the protection of our people--\\
'''Supergirl:''' "Our people"? Have you lost your freaking mind? You've been torturing someone down here, mom! Someone you sent me to Earth to bring back to New Krypton. That makes me responsible for him. Just as it makes me complicit in a war crime.\\
'''Alura:''' If I have to go to extreme measures to get information out of him--information that will keep our planet safe--it's worth it.\\
'''Supergirl:''' That's how you justify this? You think the safety of New Krypton is so important we have to beat information out of someone--\\
'''Alura:''' How naive can you be, Kara? Or have you forgotten that this... monster... murdered your father in our streets--\\
'''Supergirl:''' I know he did, mom. I was there. Dad died saving my life. In fact, where were ''you'' when he died?
** Also in ''ComicBook/NewKrypton'', when Ursa complains that her son Lor-Zod--adopted and renamed Chris Kent by Clark and Lois--is a disappointment to her and his father General Zod, Chris retorts: "Neither of us got the family we wanted."
** ''ComicBook/SupermanLoisAndClark'': After ComicBook/JonathanSamuelKent learns about his powers and who his father is, he calls his parents out on not telling him sooner. To their credit, they tell him that they had every intention to when he was an adult. They just didn't expect his powers to manifest so soon (or at all), as Clark's came later in life.
** In [[ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth "Reign of the Cyborg Supermen"]], Zor-El intends to annihilate National City to bring the people of Argo City back. Every time his daughter tries to talk him out of it he claims he's doing it for her sake. Finally, Kara becomes fed up with his attitude and states if he was doing it for her (and not to assuage his guilty conscience), he would listen when she asked him to stop.
** In the Superman[=/=]ComicBook/{{Shazam}} crossover ''First Thunder'', upon learning [[OlderAlterEgo Shazam's true identity]] and who it was that gave him that power, Superman heads straight to the Rock of Eternity to chew out the Wizard on his behalf, for foisting this amount of responsibility on the shoulders of a child.
--->'''Superman:''' What is '''wrong''' with you? He's a child! His life shouldn't be about '''this'''! Little boys go to school, play with their friends and go to bed at night. Their biggest concerns should be homework and school-yard crushes--'''not''' if [[spoiler:their best friends are going to be murdered by assassins]]!!\\
'''The Wizard:''' It is his '''fate''' to bear the mantle.\\
'''Superman:''' Do '''not''' talk to me about fate. All of you people of magic--you sorcerers... All your talk about fate and destiny... This is '''wrong'''. No '''boy''' should have the responsibility of the world on his shoulders. It is a fate chosen by '''men'''... He's just a boy.
* In Geoff Jones' ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' #6, an angry ComicBook/WonderWoman causes a LetsYouAndHimFight between the Titans and the ComicBook/JusticeLeague, leading to the younger members attacking their mentors and airing out their frustrations, notably [[ComicBook/{{Impulse}} Bart]] chewing out Wally for not trusting him to uphold Franchise/TheFlash legacy and [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim]] attacking Bruce over his usual distrust issues. Once things calm down and ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} enters the scene, it becomes quite clear that the Titans are still suffering a HeroicBSOD from [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]]'s death.
* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'', Starscream does this to Megatron in issue 20.
-->'''Starscream:''' My people control Iacon, and more Cybertronians will come home and join us. We'll enter a new golden age. A real golden age. Not the corrupt lines of Primes, not... not you. Because you were just as bad as them. At least they knew they were oppressing us. Might doesn't make right, Megatron. Not anymore.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'', this happens with a lot of characters. Spoilt Bastard is constantly insulting his mother in order to get what he wants. Biffa Bacon often insults his parents and gets beaten up by them. In The Modern Parents, Tarquin is always insulting his parents because of their hypocritical beliefs.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Volume 1]]: When Diana learns that Hippolyta had her memories erased and altered in an attempt to manipulate Diana's relationship with ComicBook/SteveTrevor she gives her mother a cold speech about trust and how Hippolyta will never regain hers and then leaves Paradise Island with a promise that her mother's actions mean it will never be home to her again. Diana remains the Amazon champion, but her relationship with her mother is permanently soured by the manipulation.
** [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Volume 2]]: Diana is furious with her mother when she realizes Hippolyta manipulated ComicBook/TheContest because she'd seen a vision of Wonder Woman's death and decided to have another Amazon unknowingly take the fall. Her speech to her mother is short as she wants to hurry and rescue ComicBook/{{Artemis}} but she ends up being too late.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanWarbringer'': While Jason is her brother, not her father, he's been raising Alia since their parents' deaths. Once she realizes that he's decided to usher in the apocalypse and kill millions in his quest for personal glory as a war hero she tears into him for an entire paragraph about, among other things, why powers alone do not a hero make how his backhanded manipulative tactics and grabbing every power source available and destroying other's ability to fight before anyone else is even aware there's a fight coming is not heroic by any measure.
* ''Franchise/XMen'':
** [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott Summers]]' father Christopher aka Corsair was abducted by aliens when he and his brother were fairly young; when Dad showed up many years later, Scott vented his displeasure that a) he hadn't bothered to come back and look for them earlier, despite having plenty of opportunity, and b) he'd become a ruthless [[SpacePirates space pirate]] in the interim. The [[WesternAnimation/XMen animated series]] used a similar storyline, with even more shouting on Scott's part.
** Any time ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} and ComicBook/{{Magneto}} appear in a book together, Quicksilver issues one of these since his dad recruited him into a terrorist supervillain team and all. Magneto actually tends to take it in stride because he knows he was a terrible father (and, frankly, doesn't seem to care that much about Quicksilver's opinion), sometimes offering a token "I was trying to toughen you up" defense.
** ComicBook/{{Gambit}} delivers one to ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} on ComicBook/{{X 23}}'s behalf in her solo series, telling him off for allowing the reforming and emotionally damaged TykeBomb to participate on ComicBook/XForce, when she really needed someone to help her cope with the things that she'd been made to do, rather than be allowed to do them all over again.
** In ''Astonishing X-Men'', Cyclops "fires" Professor X after he finds out that Xavier knew the whole time that the Danger Room had become sentient and that he continued to use her (and keep the secret to himself).
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** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Diana is furious with her mother when she realizes Hippolyta manipulated ComicBook/TheContest because she'd seen a vision of Wonder Woman's death and decided to have another Amazon unknowingly take the fall. Her speech to her mother is short as she wants to hurry and rescue ComicBook/{{Artemis}} but she ends up being too late.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanWarbringer'': While Jason her brother, not her father, he's been raising Alia since their parents' deaths. Once she realizes that he's decided to usher in the apocalypse and kill millions in his quest for personal glory as a war hero she tears into him for an entire paragraph about, among other things, why powers alone do not a hero make how his backhanded manipulative tactics and grabbing every power source available and destroying other's ability to fight before anyone else is even aware there's a fight coming is not heroic by any measure.