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* Mother Gothel in ''[[Tangled]]'' delights in piling on the fear and doubt to keep Rapunzel locked in her tower; she excuses her cruel words with assurances that she's "just teasing," criticizes and diminishes everything Rapunzel does, and casts herself as a victim whenever there's a confrontation between them. This is disturbingly similar to how emotionally abusive mothers behave in real life.
** In the song "Mother Knows Best," notice how she trips Rapunzel, then tells her she's clumsy (along with the other [[Jerkass]] things she says), only for Rapunzel to run into her arms for comfort at the end of the song. [[Fridge Horror|What makes it worse]] is that Mother Gothel has been doing this to Rapunzel for the ''past eighteen years''.
* Not in the film itself, but heavily implied in the prequel novel to ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'', ''Fairest of All'', that Queen Grimhilde's father caused her to be extremely insecure of her beauty by refusing to acknowledge it, which ultimately drove her insane especially after her sisters created a magic mirror by fusing her father's spirit with it and become the vain maniac that she was in the film.
* In the Superman: Doomsday movie, an adaptation of the Death Of Superman arc, [[Lex Luthor]] makes a clone of Superman that quickly gets into [[Beware the Superman]] territory. However, he keeps doing whatever Lex tells him, as he was programmed to do--including, in one of his early scenes, just standing there and taking it when Luthor has him walk into a red-sun chamber and then whales on him mercilessly with kryptonite-knuckled gauntlets while [[Foe Yay|screaming out his frustration with Superman for dying and leaving him]]. Later he has the classic [[Abusive Parents]] line "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out of it."
** This is all especially chilling because it's presumably what would have happened to the comics character Kon-el, Conner Kent, Post-Crisis Superboy, if Luthor's experiments had run a little more smoothly.
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* The incarnation of the Mouse Queen from [[The Nutcracker Prince]] is implied to be this around her son. Though she only has one son at the time, she still treats him like he is worthless as well as the fact she belittles his thoughts and slaps him with her glove when he doubts her spells would work.
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