History Main / LoserSonOfLoserDad

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* ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'': Precis and her father Graft are {{Gadgeteer Genius}}es who have managed to develop robotic technology that far outpaces anything else that can be found natively on [[StandardFantasySetting Expel]]. Unfortunately, this has led to both being [[NotAcceptedInTheirHometown outcasts in their own village]], as the other residents of Linga generally regard them as loons and [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer do their best to avoid them]]. In Rena's version of Precis's potential recruitment scene, Graft admits that he's worried about the toll this is taking and asks Rena to consider becoming her friend, as she's the first person he's met in ages who hasn't judged his daughter before meeting her.

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* Marvel Comics ''Comicbook/{{Runaways}}'' suffered many times because of the fact that their parents were all criminals.

->'''Homer:''' Why am I such a loser? Why?
->'''Bart:''' Well, your father was a loser, and his father, and his father ... it's genetic, man. [''Beat''] D'oh!

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-->'''Jasper's Mother:''' Three C’s, two B’s, and an ''F'', Jasper. You wanna be a failure, like your [[JunkieParent crack-head father]]? Do you?

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* Isair and Madae from ''Videogame/IcewindDale'' ''2'' got this treatment because their father was the devil Belhifet who tried to open a portal to the Nine Hells and nearly destroyed the Ten-Towns: as cambions -- elf-demon half-breeds -- they are literally half evil, and Iselore warned their foster mother against raising them because of this; their foster mother was the only one who ever believed they could grow up to be good people.

** Fears of this form a big part of Munehisa Iwai's Confidant in ''VideoGame/Persona5'': he [[spoiler: used to be in the Yakuza]] and wants to make sure his adopted son doesn't end up the way he did, keeping his past a secret from his son for this reason.

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* Invoked in ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters''. [[spoiler:Long ago, Haruka's mother was married to two men: one went insane and attacked her and was sent to jail; later, she gave birth to two children... one from each father. Since the family couldn't tell who was the daughter of who, they decided that whoever was the loser daughter would be considered the son of the criminal: Haruka proved less capable than Kanata and so all her life was labelled the worthless daughter of a worthless man, with her believing every word of it and hating her father because of it.]]
* Tomoya Okazaki is shaping up to be one at the start of ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}}''. He has a disinterest in academics after a fight with his father left him with a permanently dislocated shoulder. His father is an alcoholic who can't keep a job and later gets arrested for selling drugs, which causes Tomoya to lose out on a job offer later in the novel. Avoiding this fate after meeting Nagisa is part of his character development.

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->'''Strickland''': You've got a real attitude problem, [=McFly=]; you're a slacker. You remind me of your father when he went here; he was a slacker too.\\
'''Marty''': Can I go now, Mr. Strickland?\\
'''Strickland''': I notice your band is on the roster for the dance auditions today. Why even bother, [=McFly=]? You don't have a chance; you're too much like your old man. No [=McFly=] ever amounted to anything in the history of Hill Valley!
-->-- ''Film/BackToTheFuture1''

->'''Homer:''' Why am I such a loser? Why?
->'''Bart:''' Well, your father was a loser, and his father, and his father ... it's genetic, man. [''Beat''] D'oh!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

* KC in ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' experienced this in his childhood; his CharacterDevelopment arc in the HighSchool-themed show was based on his attempts to subvert it.

* In ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' Strickland was ready to denounce all [=McFlys=].

* A good portion of the InUniverse hate directed at Prince Zuko in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is this: after a century of war caused by his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, you can see their point, and, to an outsider's eye, Zuko seems to be following in their footsteps, until he finally gets over his WellDoneSonGuy attitude and [[CallingTheOldManOut calls the old man out]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', Morty mostly takes after his father Jerry in being a cowardly simpleton, though his experiences with Rick has helped him grow a spine. His mother Beth recognizes this and allows her son to go on dangerous adventures with her father partially out of the fact that she'd rather Rick rub off on him than her husband, with him indeed coming to outshine Jerry in many ways. Jerry himself would also eventually develop to be a more assertive and well-adjusted person as well.

** Bart and Homer as is the nature of the Simpsons Gene (it only affects males though). This might be an aversion though, depending on how canonical one considers the future episodes (those that are set in the future) as at least one shows Bart becoming a successful bike shop owner, another shows him going into law school and, if one considers canonical the ending of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E6ItchyAndScratchyTheMovie Itchy and Scratchy The Movie]]", he would end as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; however, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E19LisasWedding Lisa's Wedding]]" shows him as a demolition worker with three divorces who frequents strip clubs and Moe's bar.

* Basically every Homeworld Gem Steven meets in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' tries to kill him because of something his mother Rose Quartz did. Complicated by the fact that Gems don't naturally reproduce and Steven is a rare, if not the ''only'' child of a Gem ever made. Because of this, many Gems have no idea what a son or daughter is and assume Steven ''is'' Rose Quartz, just in a different form.

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* Referenced in ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'': Flik moans that if he fails "my children's children will walk down the street and people will say, 'Look, there goes the spawn of Flik the Loser!'"

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* A good portion of the InUniverse hate directed at Prince Zuko in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is this: after a century of war caused by his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, you can see their point, and, to an outsider's eye, Zuko seems to be following in their footsteps, [[spoiler:until he finally gets over his WellDoneSonGuy attitude and [[CallingTheOldManOut calls the old man out]].]]

* As revealed in ''LightNovel/FateZero'', this is the case with Shinji Matou from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' -- Shinji is an all around loser and {{Jerkass}} who abuses his sister Sakura, which is exactly what his father, Byakuya, did when he was still alive. Both also lack/lacked Magic Circuits. However, it should be noted that Shinji is actually fairly capable when he really puts his mind to something, and is implied to get fairly good grades and have multiple women interested in him (though the later is primarily because [[MealTicket he has money]]). It's just that his dream (being a Magus) and his romantic target (Rin) are both completely inaccessible to him (Rin is utterly repulsed by him, while becoming a Magus is physically impossible for him because he lacks Magic Circuits). Ironically, it's implied he was on his way to defying this in his youth, having made peace with his lack of magical powers during childhood (even if he still sulked over it). [[spoiler:He only really lost it when Sakura [[DontYouDarePityMe showed him pity]], with Zouken egging him on afterwards out of amusement]].

->'''Bart:''' Well, your father was a loser, and his father, and his father ... it's genetic, man. D'oh!

-->'''Servo:''' I'd like to make a sale, but what can I do? I'm gonna be a failure just like yoooou, dad!\\
'''Crow:''' Like me?\\
'''Servo:''' That's right! I'm gonna be a failure ''just like yoooooooooou!''
-->-- ''Series/{{Mystery Science Theater 3000}}'', "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E23BrideOfTheMonster Bride Of the Monster]]"