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-->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Huh? Are you Flats' dad?
-->'''Flats' Dad:''' Why, yes I am.
-->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Okay, see, I didn't know where else to turn! Patrick couldn't help me, and Mrs. Puff only made it worse. I sit next to your son Flats in school, and he is a fine boy and all, and I don't want you to take this the wrong way, but he wants to kick my butt.
-->'''Flats:''' Dad, what are you doing?
-->'''Flats' Dad:''' Uhh, nothing son.
-->'''Flats:''' What did I tell you about talking to strangers?
-->'''Flats' Dad:''' ''[to [=SpongeBob=]]'' Now he's gonna kick my butt!
** In "The Slumber Party" Krabs orders Spongebob to infiltrate Pearl's girls only party, and when he manages to get into the party he trashes Krab's house. When Krab's goes into the house he tries to ground Pearl for throwing a WildTeenParty, but she rightfully calls him out for making Spongebob crash her party, traumatizing her friends, and destroying the house and to make sure he learns his lesson she makes him pay for a rave which includes a bouncer that has been instructed to keep him and Spongebob away.

* ''Website/GoAnimate'':

Parents often set a penalty for their children whenever they do something morally wrong. This is very standard parent behavior. However, there is a time and a place where a child does this to their parents. In any sense, when the parent does something bad to a child, [[DisproportionateRetribution unfairly punishes them]], or even just does something stupid, the child decides that the parent needs some parenting and punishes them in return, whether it be ignoring a punishment that said parents set for them, barking orders at them like a parent would do to them, or even straight-up [[DisownedParent disowning them]]. In any case, this is a trope where the roles are reversed and the parent is disciplined by the child. In some cases, this can be misused like say a BrattyHalfPint punishes his or her parents for the littlest of things. Some parents take this due to being [[PushoverParents doormats.]]

Parents often set a penalty for their children whenever they do something morally wrong. This is very standard parent behavior. However, there is a time and a place where a child does this to their parents. In any sense, when the parent does something bad to a child, [[DisproportionateRetribution unfairly punishes them]], or even just does something stupid, the child decides that the parent needs some parenting and punishes them in return, whether it be ignoring a punishment that said parents set for them, barking orders at them like a parent would do to them, or even straight-up disowning them. In any case, this is a trope where the roles are reversed and the parent is disciplined by the child. In some cases, this can be misused like say a BrattyHalfPint punishes his or her parents for the littlest of things. Some parents take this due to being [[PushoverParents doormats.]]

->'''Narrator''': Harry Wormwood had unintentionally given his daughter the first practical advice she could use. He had meant to say, "When a ''child'' is bad." Instead he said, "When a ''person'' is bad", and thereby introduced a revolutionary idea: that children could punish their parents. Only when they deserved it, of course.
-->-- ''Film/{{Matilda}}''

* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' Peter [[spoiler:kills]] his long-lost father for [[spoiler:killing innocent children and his mother]]. [[AssholeVictim It couldn't be any more fitting.]]

* ''Website/GoAnimate'': Sometimes a troublemaker will get back at their parent for [[DisproportionateRetribution grounding them for petty reasons]] by giving them a [[HumiliationConga "Punishment Day"]] (read: putting them through several painful punishments). However, the parent often won't let them get away with this and they'll punish them afterwards.

->'''Narrator''': Harry Wormwood had unintentionally given his daughter the first practical advice she could use. He had meant to say, "When a child is bad." Instead he said, "When a person is bad", and thereby introduced a revolutionary idea: that children could punish their parents. Only when they deserved it, of course.

-->'''Lil Gideon:''' I CAN BUY AND SELL YOU, OLD MAN!
-->'''Bud Gleeful:''' ''(pause)'' Fair enough.