History Main / YouAreGrounded

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* ''Fanfic/AngerManagement'': Lincoln is grounded for beating up Lynn, and she is later grounded for trying to anger him.
* ''Fanfic/TheBabysittingFiasco'': After her parents discover that she and Nino have been dumping their babysitting duties on Marinette to go on extra dates, Alya ends up grounded for ''at least'' a month; it's explictly noted that was a ''minimum'' sentence, along with heavy implications that Alya's refusal to admit any fault is ensuring said sentence will stretch out even longer. Nino is also grounded by his parents.
* ''Fanfic/TheBoyWhoCriedIdiot'': Lincoln's parents ground him for biting his textbook and blaming Martin for throwing it, not realising that it was a raccoon who bit the textbook and that Lincoln was telling the truth when he blamed Martin. Later, he extends the grounding to two weeks after Lincoln (accidentally) hits Leni and then to three weeks after Lincoln gets into a fight with Martin and Chandler.
* ''Fanic/BurningBridgesBuildingConfidence'': After attacking Marinette and Cole with deliberately sharpened fingernails and [[EyeScream ripping open several of Cole's stitches]], Alya's parents ground her. This specifically includes being banned from working on the Ladyblog, and they post a notice on the blog itself explaining the reason for the hiatus. This is noted to cause several akumatizations.
* ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesGetXtreme'' has Calvin grounded in the middle of Chapter 4.
* Calvin has been grounded at the end of several episodes in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'', usually after whatever wacky escapades he and Hobbes have been having end up destroying something of note.
* ''Fanfic/{{Continuance}}'': During Golden Week, Souji Seta[[note]]aka Yu Narukami, the protagonist[[/note]] makes a return visit to [[VideoGame/Persona4 Inaba]] under the pretext of gathering information on the town's businesses. When Yuuma, his ControlFreak father, doesn't like what Souji brings back, he grounds and forbids him from visiting Inaba again for the foreseeable future. Later on, after Souji ends up on the cover of a magazine after a chance encounter with [[IdolSinger Rise]], he gets into a heated argument with his father, during which Yuuma starts to threaten him. Souji, however, isn't fazed, saying "And what are the repercussions this time? You can't ground me any more than you already have, Father."
* ''Fanfic/ConversationsWithACryptid'': In ''Kidnapping of a Cryptid'' Izuku is on medical leave from Yuuei due to his kidnapping but in spirit, he's grounded. Izuku is forbidden to do any hero work due to his impending surgery and his parents fully intend him a long recovery due to Izuku's previous neglect of his health.
* In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' fic ''Fanfic/ACureForLove'' L is amused when this happens to [[EvilOverlord Kira]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfic ''Fanfic/MallRats'', Lincoln mentions that his parents would ground him for a week if he tried reciting the edgy slogans on some hoodies he sees in front of him.

* In ''Fanfic/MoreFamilyMoreHappinessRight'', Massimo grounds both Alberto and Giulia after they had a very violent physical fight with each other after Giulia drank from Alberto's mug.
* In ''Fanfic/TheOneToMakeItStay'', Alya gets grounded for forgetting that she was supposed to babysit her younger sisters. This forces her to put the Ladyblog on hiatus for a time, and naturally does not help her mood, as she ''already'' felt she was being [[DisproportionateRetribution unfairly punished]] by Ladybug ''and'' Marinette had just put her foot down and declared they needed a break from each other.

* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/series/82162 Stars From Home]]'', Charles grounds Scott when he claims to have broken the laundry room door. (He didn't and Charles knows that, turns out he's grounded for lying.) Scott sneaks out anyway and [[PoorCommunicationKills leaves a really vague note]].
-->'''Charles:''' If you ever do anything like that again...\\
'''Scott:''' [[GroundedForever Grounded for the rest of my natural life?]]\\
'''Charles:''' No, no. I'll have you resurrected and re-ground you.

* Sister Bear is grounded in ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' ''and the Slumber Party'' by Mama Bear after things go south at Lizzie's slumber party. It's actually Papa Bear who is the voice of reason and admits that they as parents were partially to blame for not knowing just how wacky things had ended up with the slumber party (which had basically become a little bear cub girl equivalent of a bad college frat party.) The grounding then gets cancelled the next day, and Sister and Mama go back to Lizzie's house to clean the mess up.

* Schlendrian tries this on his daughter Lieschen in ''Music/SchweigtStillePlaudertNicht'' to get her to stop [[MustHaveCaffeine drinking coffee]] and quickly gets desperate; perhaps the apex (or nadir) is when he forbids her from ''standing by windows''. Lieschen isn't fazed by any of it until Schlendrian forbids her from marrying, which changes her mind ''very'' quickly ([[TakeAThirdOption or]] [[LysistrataGambit not]]).

* One of the 90s CD-ROM games, ''[=McKenzie & Co.=]'', released by Her Interactive had this as Disc 5 was inserted to continue the dating sim, either Kim or Carly are grounded for skipping school and going to a party, thus giving either girl a NonStandardGameOver, causing one of their boyfriends to get the heartbreaking ending.

* In ''VideoGame/DontStarve: Hamlet'', Wilba the Pig Princess is grounded for losing the Queen's crown. Finding and returning it as another character satisfies the Queen, who allows Wilba to [[PromotedToPlayable go adventuring again]].

* At the end of the Kubitarou case in ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'', one of Akira's companions will be comatose. The other one will be temporarily grounded (Seiji by his father, Kaoru by her agency) to justify the inclusion of two new companion characters, though they do make a return in the Tsukuyomi case.

** {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_jihYz-YgA Caillou has had enough!]], in which Caillou is grounded by his dad simply for watching ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated''. This time, his mom finally takes action, and calls Boris out. Boris initially tries to defend himself by saying Caillou needs to behave better and that his groundings work, but Doris says otherwise. Eventually, though, Boris calls Caillou an "out-of-control brat" and paints himself as the OnlySaneMan, even going as far as to ground Doris. This results in a slapfight, and Doris grounds Boris, condemning him to the closet as Caillou and Rosie (who heard everything) rush to call the police. The next video, "Caillou's Terrible Fire Drill!", sees Caillou freaking out during a fire drill, and Boris, of course, grounding him. However, Doris tells Caillou to disregard him, as the events of the previous video have stuck, and Boris is still being held hostage in the closet.

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* ''ComicBook/WonderGirl'': This Cassie Sandsmark's weakness. Since her father Zeus wouldn't help raise her, yet knew a super powered demigoddess might be too much for her mother to handle, he gave Cassie's mom the right to deny Cassie use of her powers.

* ''ComicBook/MsMarvel2014'': Kamala Khan gets grounded for the rest of the month for being late in her first appearance (''All-New Marvel Now! Point One'') and is [[GroundedForever grounded till an undisclosed time]] at the end of the 2nd issue of her own book for sneaking out to a party, then in issue 6 she is sent to counseling to the Mosque when she repeatedly climbed out of the window to do who knows what (Superheroing).

* Inverted in ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}''; since Jason is such a major nerd that he ''voluntarily'' stays indoors all day, his punishment is being (threatened with being) banned from the house, rather than grounded in it.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Continuance}}'', when Souji Seta[[note]]aka Yu Narukami, the protagonist[[/note]] returns to visit [[VideoGame/Persona4 Inaba]] for Golden Week under the pretext of gathering information on the town's businesses. When Yuuma, his father, doesn't like what Souji brings back, Yuuma grounds him and forbids him from visiting Inaba for the foreseeable future. Later on, after Souji ends up on the cover of a magazine after a chance encounter with [[IdolSinger Rise]], he gets into a heated argument with his father, during which Yuuma starts to threaten him. Souji, however, isn't fazed, saying "And what are the repercussions this time? You can't ground me any more than you already have, Father."
* In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' fic ''FanFic/ACureForLove'' L is amused when this happens to [[EvilOverlord Kira]].
* In ''[[Fanfic/ConversationsWithACryptid Kidnapping of a Cryptid]]'' Izuku is on medical leave from Yuuei due to his kidnapping but in spirit, he's grounded. Izuku is forbidden to do any hero work due to his impending surgery and his parents fully intend him a long recovery due to Izuku's previous neglect of his health.

* ''Fanfic/TheRigelBlackChronicles'': Archie and Harry are both restricted to half an hour per day outside the house after they [[spoiler: are revealed to have been lying about their schooling; Archie was in America and Harry claims to have been homeschooling herself rather than admit to being illegally at Hogwarts]].
* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/series/82162 Stars From Home]]'', Charles grounds Scott when he claims to have broken the laundry room door. (He didn't and Charles knows that, turns out he's grounded for lying.) Scott sneaks out anyway and [[PoorCommunicationKills leaves a really vague note]].
-->'''Charles:''' If you ever do anything like that again...\\
'''Scott:''' [[GroundedForever Grounded for the rest of my natural life?]]\\
'''Charles:''' No, no. I'll have you resurrected and re-ground you.
* In ''Fanfic/TheOneToMakeItStay'', Alya gets grounded for forgetting that she was supposed to babysit her younger sisters. This forces her to put the Ladyblog on hiatus for a time, and naturally does not help her mood, as she ''already'' felt she was being [[DisproportionateRetribution unfairly punished]] by Ladybug ''and'' Marinette had just put her foot down and declared they needed a break from each other.
* ''FanFic/BurningBridgesBuildingConfidence'': After attacking Marinette and Cole with deliberately sharpened fingernails and [[EyeScream ripping open several of Cole's stitches]], Alya's parents ground her. This specifically includes being banned from working on the Ladyblog, and they post a notice on the blog itself explaining the reason for the hiatus. This is noted to cause several akumatizations.

* ''WebComic/ScarletLady'''s take on "The Collector" sees Adrien get grounded for 'losing' his father's secret book about the Miraculous. Notably, Gabriel originally threatened to pull him out of school entirely, only for Adrien to make clear that if he did that, he'd ensure that it blew up into a PR scandal. Being grounded for a month is considerably less awful... though that doesn't stop Chloé from reacting as though this is the ''worst possible thing'' that could have ever happened [[ItsAllAboutMe to her]].

* ''Fanfic/TatteredRemainsOfBrokenDreams'':
Officer Roger outright grounds Sabrina in order to ''make her'' take the time to study and focus on other things.

* ''Fanfic/TheBabysittingFiasco'': After her parents discover that she and Nino have been dumping their babysitting duties on Marinette to go on dates, Alya ends up grounded for ''at least'' a month; it's explictly noted that was a ''minimum'' sentence, along with heavy implications that Alya's refusal to admit any fault is ensuring said sentence will stretch out even longer. Nino is also grounded by his parents.

* ''Fanfic/TheBabysittingFiasco'': After her parents discover that she and Nino been dumping their babysitting duties on Marinette to go on dates, Alya ends up grounded for ''at least'' a month; it's explictly noted that was a ''minimum'' sentence, along with heavy implications that Alya's refusal to admit any fault is ensuring said sentence will stretch out even longer. Nino is also grounded by his parents.

* ''Fanfic/TheBabysittingFiasco'': After her parents discover that she has been dumping her babysitting duties on Marinette to go on dates with Nino, Alya ends up grounded for ''at least'' a month; it's explictly noted that was a ''minimum'' sentence, along with heavy implications that Alya's refusal to admit any fault is ensuring said sentence will stretch out even longer.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', "3 Squares and an Ed"

* In ''[[Literature/YoungWizards Deep Wizardry]]'', Nita and Kit are grounded for staying out incredibly late (on wizardly business, but Nita's parents don't know that). They sneak out after that, get caught when they come back in, and ultimately wind up explaining exactly what they were doing, why they have to keep doing it, and that they're going to have to do it whether they get permission or not.
* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid: Double Down'': Greg's punishment for "goofing off" instead of playing at a school concert is being grounded with no video games. Greg says that the only thing he can do is practice his instrument, which he thinks is the point.

* This actually benefits Finn in the first ''Literature/KingdomKeepers'' book, since being grounded allows him to go to bed earlier without attracting suspicion, which allows him to cross over.

** In the aptly-named “You’re Grounded, Roys Bedoys!”, Mrs. Bedoys grounds Roys for stealing an eraser.
** In “Don’t Watch Grown-Up Movies, Roys Bedoys!”, Maker’s mother grounds him for watching a “grown-up movie”.
** At the end of “Where Are You, Roys Bedoys?”, Mr. Bedoys grounds Roys for not asking permission to go to Maker’s house.
* ''Literature/TheSirenSong'', by Anne Ursu has this. Charlotte is grounded because she went to go save all the children in London and her hometown from certain death. Her parents do not believe her, despite her note:
-->" Zee and I know whats making everyone sick. we had to go save the world. Love, Charlotte. PS, Don't Worry"

* In ''Literature/TheEvolutionOfEmily'', Emily's [[MyBelovedSmother overprotective mom]] walks in on her kissing August and responds by grounding her. She considers pulling Emily out of school, but Dad talks her out of it.
* In ''Literature/TheMermaidsMirror'', Lena tells her parents that she's seeing a movie with her friends when she's actually surfing, [[FantasyForbiddingFather which her father has banned her from doing]]. When she gets home, her parents [[GoToYourRoom order her to her room]] and ground her for the next few days. Her dad picks her up after school because he doesn't trust her not to get into trouble while walking home.
* ''Literature/JuniperSawfeather'': In ''Echo of the Cliffs'', June climbs down a cliff to the shore in pursuit of a mermaid. The mermaid drags her out into the ocean, almost drowning her. As punishment for endangering her life, June's parents ground her for two weeks, which means no phone, no internet, and no talking to Haley or Carter. Their house's internet connection is so spotty that June barely misses it, and it's not hard to get around the rest of her punishment. She lives next door to Haley and their rooms face each other, so they can just open their windows and talk whenever they want, and a week into her grounding she gets a job at the pet store where Carter works so they can see each other during their shift change.

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* ''[[WebVideo/DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesTeamDattebayo Death Note Abridged (Team Dattebayo)]]'':
-->'''Souichiro:''' Light! For being [[SerialKillerKiller Kira]], and squandering our family's reputation, [[EasilyForgiven you are GROUNDED, mister!]]

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** Sister Bear is grounded in ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' ''and the Slumber Party'' by Mama Bear after things go south at Lizzie's slumber party. It's actually Papa Bear who is the voice of reason and admits that they as parents were partially to blame for not knowing just how wacky things had ended up with the slumber party (which had basically become a little bear cub girl equivalent of a bad college frat party.) The grounding then gets cancelled the next day, and Sister and Mama go back to Lizzie's house to clean the mess up.

* Inverted in ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}''; since the youngest brother is such a major nerd that he ''voluntarily'' stays indoors all day, his punishment is being (threatened with being) banned from the house, rather than grounded in it.

* In Music/TheBeachBoys' "I'm Bugged at My Ol' Man", the narrator's father grounds him to his room for getting home late, and goes to extreme lengths to punish him, such as boarding up his windows, selling his surfboard, cutting off his hair while asleep, yanking his phone out of the wall, taking away his radio (and using it), and eating steak while only giving him breadcrumbs and water to eat.

* ''ComicBook/{{Stray}}'': This was what convinced [[TheProtagonist Rodney]] to quit being the Rottweiler for five years. After one mission, The Doberman and Rodney got into a fight over a decision Rodney made to let a perp go because he was trying to feed his family. Rodney felt he made the right call, but the Doberman felt otherwise, and tried to ground him for his insubordination. Rodney hung up the Rottweiler costume in resignation... and apparently walked out of his dad's life.

The kiddie version of TurnInYourBadge. A possible consequence of being CaughtComingHomeLate. If the punishment is blatantly excessive, it's GroundedForever.

TruthInTelevision as parents do ground children and teenagers for bad behavior or conduct (on the other hand, it is ''much'' more widespread in the US than elsewhere). Stricter parents, especially in [[ValuesDissonance older time periods]], are also liable to say DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff.

TruthInTelevision as parents do ground children and teenagers for bad behavior or conduct. Stricter parents, especially in [[ValuesDissonance older time periods]], are also liable to say DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff.