History Main / HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood

* Despite {{Naruto}}'s happy appearence, this is painfully averted as a par tof his childhood. Gaara and [[spoiler: Nagatos]] as well.

** "Noo.. don't kick da baby..." "'''Kick the baby!'''"
**** Ironically, one of the few major characters who ''never'' suffers child abuse at home is Kenny [=McCormick=], whose parents are ''rednecks''. Which is just as well, because the poor kid [[{{Understatement}} gets into a whole heap of predicaments just the same]].

* Happens very often in StillStanding. One particular instance is where Judy commented that Brian was the only one of the children who'd be successful, not knowing that Lauren and Tina [[RightBehindMe had just come into the room]].

** Did Dr. Evil take his own psycho drugs he wants to use to subjugate humanity?? This is... I don't know which trope it is. Not DisorganizedOutlineSpeech, not NonSequiturThud, not LemonWackyHello... how do you make stuff like that up??

In the media, on the other hand, a fair amount of BlackComedy (or, in the worst cases, DeadBabyComedy) can come from a character's horrible childhood. Notably, such comedy seldom includes [[RapeAsComedy sexual abuse]], which tends to take things into DudeNotFunny territory.

Related to DysfunctionJunction.

* The Demoman was given up for adoption at birth, accidentally killed his adoptive parents, sent to an orphanage, and only contacted by his real parents when his bitterness and lack of depth perception had honed his demolition skills. If similar things aren't confirmed for at least half of the cast of TF2, I'll eat my shirt.

**** Ironically, one of the few major characters who ''never'' suffers child abuse at home is Kenny McCormick, whose parents are ''rednecks''. Which is just as well, because the poor kid [[{{Understatement}} gets into a whole heap of predicaments just the same]].

** Really doesn't help that the Father was played by [[AgainstType Rodney Dangerfield]]. The dissonance between character and actor is ''staggering''
** if the dip into DudeNotFunny is read as intentional, the scenes become a DeConstruction of the trope executed by playing it straight

* Tracy Jordan from ''{{30Rock}}'' should be the page quote in this Troper's opinion:

* ''{{Monk}}'' has a fair number of references to his childhood, which was also highly dysfunctional. Although it's played a bit more seriously than usual for this trope, there is an explanation for his offputting behavior.

***** Sadly enough, the real Stephen Colbert's father - James Colbert - and two of his brothers - Peter and Paul - were killed in a plane crash in 1974. However the real Colbert gives his parents credit for encouraging him to question everything and learn as much as he can. Definitely not "Charachter" Colbert.

* Given the [[EverythingTryingToKillYou brutal nature of the game]], [[TheManyDeathsOfYou the many potential ways to die]], and the [[ArtificialStupidity hilarious stupidity of its title characters]], it should be no suprise that these pop up occasionally in ''DwarfFortress''.

* The Demoman was given up for adoption at birth, accidentally killed his adoptive parents, sent to an orphanage, and only contacted by his real parents whe his bitterness and lack of depth perception had honed his demolition skills. If similar things aren't confirmed for at least half of the cast of TF2, I'll eat my shirt.

** Not to mention what he did to Ranger, oh, [[KickTheDog poor ranger and Ranger'sWife...]]

* Rusty Venture's boyhood on ''TheVentureBrothers'' manages to tetter on the edge of being serious and morbidly funny. He was constantly being kidnapped and his father used him as little more then a prop to make himself look good, plus the issues this left him with are what made him the morally-bankrupt mad scientist he is today. But given the laughs we get from the show already, seeing Jonas Venture drunkenly fall on top of Rusty while trying to score with this woman he just met is darkly hilarious.

** And then he tried ''two more variations of it''. To try to ''cure it''.
*** More accurately, the first time didn't work. Ranma didn't learn the Cat-fist, and only got a debilitating fear of cats from the experience. Genma figures this is unacceptable as a martial artist, so he ties up Ranma with different "cat" foods and threw him back in the pit so Ranma could overcome his fear of cats. Eventually Ranma learns the Cat Fist and has a debilitating fear of cats used to unlock it.

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* ''{{Two And A Half Men}}'' often displays the poisonous behavior of Charlie and Alan's mother, both in the show's timeframe and in BackStory presented by "who-did-Mom-scar-more" arguments.

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* [[InvaderZIM "I love you cold and unfeeling robotic arm!"]]
* Carl's continued adult life as a [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkey]] to his ''AquaTeenHungerForce'' neighbors is shown to have been bred in him quite early, as the few glimpses we are given into his childhood include his father making him eat carpet squares and putting him to work as a child in a dangerous chemical factory for days at a time. Of course, Aqua Teen plays ''everything'' for comedy, and this wouldn't even make the top FIFTY most disturbing things they've joked about on that show.

* Originally Helga's home life in ''HeyArnold'' was PlayedForLaughs. But thanks to [[CerebusRetcon Cerebus Retconning]] in her [[ADayInTheLimelight Day in the Limelight]] ''Helga on the Couch'', people learned [[TearJerker otherwise]]...

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* Onion Kid in ''[=~8 Bit Theater~=]''
** Subverted in that he grows up to become [[spoiler:[[PhysicalGod Sarda]]. His whole raison d'etre is to screw over the Light Warriors that made his life horrible, by cutting them down in their most awesome state to signify their insignificance to what he's become, instead of just killing them all before they could repeatedly destroy his parents, his foster parents and the orphanages that have adopted him. When you take a good look past his creativity, omnipotence and amazing capacity for spite, you see a godlike entity whose only purpose is to horribly abuse a handful of people and will screw over countless innocents to do so]].
** Not to mention what he did to Ranger, oh, [[KickTheDog poor ranger and Ranger'sWife...]]
* [[PennyArcade Tycho]], shown [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/01/13/ here]], [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/01/17/ here]], [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/06/30/ here]], [[OverlyLongGag and]] [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/6/23/ here]]. Yikes.
* [[http://plif.courageunfettered.com/archive/wc134.gif It's GOOFY TIME!]]
* The central theme of the ''MetalGearSolid'' alternate universe fancomic [[http://zarla.deviantart.com/gallery/#Les-Enfants-Terribles "Les Enfants Terribles"]] is Big Boss's absolutely dreadful parenting of his clone children, and of [[TheUnfavorite Liquid Snake]] in particular.
--> [[http://zarla.deviantart.com/art/Les-Enfants-Terribles-38063076 "I'm BUSY, Liquid GOD. Why do you have to be so inferior?"]]
* Monette of ''SomethingPositive'', discussing her DisappearedDad: "He spent the first six months of my life battling my mother for custody of all of us, and when he got it, he took my sisters and dumped me on my grandma's doorstep. And she wasn't even there! She was on vacation. And she raised pitbulls at her house [...] He had tied raw, bloody steaks to my head." Her grandmother wasn't much better, [[http://somethingpositive.net/sp11302004.shtml as we see in her recounting of childhood Christmases]]. Meanwhile, Jason's father is a psychiatrist who "used his field of study to bully children" and abandoned the family when he got bored with them. Before that, he was emotionally abusive towards them in a number of ways, including "giving me invoices for how much love I owed him per week. That wasn't so bad, but man did the audits suck."
* ''{{Achewood}}'''s Roast Beef, who "comes from circumstances"

** The Janitor from ''{{Scrubs}}'' was apparently raised in a cage.
*** And forced to eat off the floor.

-->'''Bill:''' I remember one time my father came home from a night on the town which of course had turned into a week and my mother said, "John, is there anything you wont drink?" and my father shot back, "Poison... I'm saving it for you." (Laughing) And I and my brother, who is now an alcoholic himself, just about died laughing...

** "His arm's come off!"

** Homer repeatedly strangles Bart for humour.
** ...in one instance, while standing in front of a billboard saying "Report Child Abuse."

* Rusty Venture's boyhood on ''The Venture Brothers'' manages to tetter on the edge of being serious and morbidly funny. He was constantly being kidnapped and his father used him as little more then a prop to make himself look good, plus the issues this left him with are what made him the morally-bankrupt mad scientist he is today. But given the laughs we get from the show already, seeing Jonas Venture drunkenly fall on top of Rusty while trying to score with this woman he just met is darkly hilarious.
* Every Maori or Pacific Islander in BroTown basically. The cops don't even care.

* Monette of SomethingPositive, discussing her DisappearedDad: "He spent the first six months of my life battling my mother for custody of all of us, and when he got it, he took my sisters and dumped me on my grandma's doorstep. And she wasn't even there! She was on vacation. And she raised pitbulls at her house [...] He had tied raw, bloody steaks to my head." Her grandmother wasn't much better, [[http://somethingpositive.net/sp11302004.shtml as we see in her recounting of childhood Christmases]]. Meanwhile, Jason's father is a psychiatrist who "used his field of study to bully children" and abandoned the family when he got bored with them. Before that, he was emotionally abusive towards them in a number of ways, including "giving me invoices for how much love I owed him per week. That wasn't so bad, but man did the audits suck."
* Achewood's Roast Beef, who "comes from circumstances"

***** Sadly enough, the real Stephen Colbert's father - James Colbert - and two of his brothers - Peter and Paul - were killed in a plane crash in 1974. However the real Colbert gives his parents credit for encouraging him to question everything and learn as much as he can. SoYeah, definitely not "Charachter" Colbert.

->'''Dr. Doofenshmirtz:''' It all began on the day of my actual birth. [[FridgeHumour Both of my parents failed to show up.]] And on my fifth birthday, I had to throw myself my own surprise party.

->'''Homer Simpson:''' Now son, on your first day of school, I'd like to pass on the words of advice my father gave me.
->'''Abe Simpson:''' (in flashback) Homer, you're as dumb as a mule and twice as ugly. If a strange man offers you a ride, I say take it!
->'''Homer Simpson:''' ...Lousy traumatic childhood!

->'''Dr. Doofenshmirtz:''' It all began on the day of my actual birth. Both of my parents failed to show up. And on my fifth birthday, I had to throw my self my own surprise party.