The Parent Trope



Of course parents can be important in fiction, whether or not they are actually around.

Not to be confused with Super-Trope.

Tropes:
Subcategory:
 * Parental Issues


 * Absurdly Youthful Mother
 * Action Mom
 * Almighty Mom
 * Amicably Divorced
 * Anticlimactic Parent
 * Asian Baby Mama
 * Babies Ever After
 * Because You Can Cope
 * Birth-Death Juxtaposition
 * Bumbling Dad
 * Children Raise You
 * Dad the Veteran
 * Dating What Daddy Hates
 * Deceased Parents Are the Best
 * Deliver Us From Evil
 * Department of Child Disservices
 * Designated Parents
 * The Diaper Change
 * Divine Parentage
 * Don't Tell Mama
 * Doting Parent
 * Education Mama
 * Embarrassing Old Photo
 * Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
 * Evil Matriarch
 * Evil Parents Want Good Kids
 * Extra Parent Conception
 * Financial Abuse
 * First Father Wins
 * Fostering for Profit
 * Freudian Excuse
 * Mommy Issues
 * Generation Xerox
 * Give Him a Normal Life
 * Glamorous Single Mother
 * Glorified Sperm Donor
 * Good Parents
 * Happily Adopted
 * Happily Married
 * Has Two Mommies
 * Hippie Parents
 * Hot Mom
 * Hot Dad
 * Housewife
 * Human Mom, Nonhuman Dad
 * I Am Not Your Father
 * I Am X, Son of Y
 * I Want Grandkids
 * Immigrant Parents
 * Invisible Parents
 * Jacob and Esau
 * Lamarck Was Right
 * Like Father, Like Son
 * Lineage Comes From the Father
 * Luke, I Am Your Father
 * Luke, You Are My Father
 * Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter
 * Mandatory Motherhood
 * Mama Bear
 * Missing Mom
 * Monster Is a Mommy
 * Muggle Foster Parents
 * My Beloved Smother
 * Jewish Mother
 * My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad
 * My Parents Are Dead
 * Mysterious Parent
 * Nephewism
 * No Blood Ties
 * Offing the Offspring
 * Open-Minded Parent
 * Orphanage of Fear
 * Overlord, Jr.
 * Overprotective Dad
 * Papa Wolf
 * Parents Know Their Children
 * Parental Abandonment
 * Parental Betrayal
 * Parental Hypocrisy
 * Parental Incest
 * Parental Marriage Veto
 * Parental Obliviousness
 * Parental Sexuality Squick
 * Parental Substitute
 * Parent Ex Machina
 * Parents in Distress
 * Parent Trap Plot
 * Parent With New Paramour
 * Patronymic
 * Pervert Dad
 * Promotion to Parent
 * Raised By Grandparents
 * Raised By Natives
 * Raised By Orcs
 * Raised By Wolves
 * Resentful Guardian
 * Single Mom Stripper
 * Sink-or-Swim Fatherhood
 * So Proud of You
 * Solomon Divorce
 * Stage Mom
 * Standard Fifties Father
 * Stand-In Parents
 * Team Dad
 * Team Mom
 * Tell Me About My Father
 * That Thing Is Not My Child
 * Through His Stomach
 * Time Out
 * Tough Love
 * The Trap Parents
 * Truly Single Parent
 * Twerp Sweating
 * Unnamed Parent
 * Visit By Divorced Dad
 * When You Coming Home, Dad?
 * Where Did We Go Wrong?
 * Who Will Take the Kids?
 * Wonder Child
 * You Are Grounded
 * You Killed My Father
 * You're Not My Father