Abusive Parents/Film/Animated Films: Difference between revisions

* 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.

** The clone is all [[Knight Templar]], so he goes rogue from Lex [[Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal|after that]], and the first thing he does is dig the kryptonite bomb out of his skull with laser vision (incidentally, apparently the hemispheres of his brain aren't linked?), and then he saves Lois and Jimmy from Lex...and then rather horribly slaughters [[Send in the Clones|Lex's incipient clone army]], ranging from oversized fetuses to nearly-mature specimens, with the ironic comment "Evil Supermen? Not on my watch!" The line of clones at the stage of development Conner was when he entered the scene were especially nasty to see die, although it was obvious as soon as they were introduced that they'd all have to be massacred somehow.

* 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.