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* [[Evil Matriarch|Mama Elena]] from [[Like Water for Chocolate]]. She is constantly controlling to her youngest daughter, Tita, and forbids Tita to marry the man she loves so Tita can care for Elena when she's old just because it's tradition. |
* [[Evil Matriarch|Mama Elena]] from [[Like Water for Chocolate]]. She is constantly controlling to her youngest daughter, Tita, and forbids Tita to marry the man she loves so Tita can care for Elena when she's old just because it's tradition. |
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* [[Roald Dahl]]'s ''[[Matilda (novel)|Matilda]]'' has this and neglect; they call her names and deride her for not being like them (she prefers to read, they watch endless, brainless television). At one point, her father rips up one of her library books while calling it trash. Also, her parents leave her (a five year old) alone on afternoons when they are at work or bingo. But |
* [[Roald Dahl]]'s ''[[Matilda (novel)|Matilda]]'' has this and neglect; they call her names and deride her for not being like them (she prefers to read, they watch endless, brainless television). At one point, her father rips up one of her library books while calling it trash. Also, her parents leave her (a five year old) alone on afternoons when they are at work or bingo, which would endanger her if she weren't so intelligent. Her father is the worse of the two as he scams people out of their money, but her mother is a total slacker. But both of them the take a back seat to the horrifying [[Evil Teacher|Agatha Trunchbull]], |
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* [[Darkness Visible|William Marsh's]] father is a brute, though how much of one is only gradually made [[Scars Are Forever|clear]]. Lewis is so shocked about it that the abuse is never, ever played for [[Dude, Not Funny|laughs]]. |
* [[Darkness Visible|William Marsh's]] father is a brute, though how much of one is only gradually made [[Scars Are Forever|clear]]. Lewis is so shocked about it that the abuse is never, ever played for [[Dude, Not Funny|laughs]]. |
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* In [[Tanith Lee]]'s ''The Silver Metal Lover'', Jane, the heroine, discovers that her mother {{spoiler|futzed with her phenotype to make Jane plainer than she should have been because she didn't want the competition}}. The reader sees all along how her mother passively-aggressively manipulates and undermines Jane at every opportunity. She also {{spoiler|arranges for the destruction of Jane's android sweetie}} because Jane was growing up: growing *away* from her. |
* In [[Tanith Lee]]'s ''The Silver Metal Lover'', Jane, the heroine, discovers that her mother {{spoiler|futzed with her phenotype to make Jane plainer than she should have been because she didn't want the competition}}. The reader sees all along how her mother passively-aggressively manipulates and undermines Jane at every opportunity. She also {{spoiler|arranges for the destruction of Jane's android sweetie}} because Jane was growing up: growing *away* from her. |
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