Abusive Parents/Web Comics: Difference between revisions

* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'': The only way in which Roy's father seems to care ''at all'' for either of his children is the extent to which they follow in his footsteps as a wizard. He has nothing but scorn for his eldest son Roy, who elected to take up the family [[Ancestral Weapon]] as a [[Genius Bruiser|Fighter]], and favors his spoiled [[Alpha Bitch|Libby]] of a daughter instead. Oh, and his second son? The fact that he ignored Roy's pleading led to his death.

** So much so that when {{spoiler|Roy dies, he offers his father a bargain: Roy will only cooperate if his father agrees to go away and leave the entire family alone for eternity. For double points, Daddy jumps on the bargain and scoffs that Roy made his price so low.}}

** Haley's father seems to have crippled her ability to interact with others honestly due to the paranoia that came as a result of living as a member of the Thieves' Guild. Whereas Roy seems to have risen above his father's abuse except for his [[Deadpan Snarker|habit of insulting people]], Haley is still pretty messed up.

*** Ian meant well, but had different, rather [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|family unfriendly]] values he tried to teach to his daughter. From what little we know of him, it seems they love each other very much.

* Marena from ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'' had a mother with... interesting ideas on parenting. Marena [http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0317.html a long list] of things to forgive her for.

* [[Persona 4|Ryotaro Dojima]] in the ''[[Peachi]]'' comics comes off as one, in a type we cannot peg yet... but he's an [[Comedic Sociopathy|amusing raging psychopath of a father/uncle]]

* Kenta Fujiwara in ''[[Red String]]'' is a domneering force in his son's life, he has [http://www.redstring.strawberrycomics.com/?p=964 called Kazuo useless] on [http://www.redstring.strawberrycomics.com/?p=3205 more that one occasion], which has let deep scars on [http://www.redstring.strawberrycomics.com/?p=968 Kazuo's pschye]. He has also hit Kazuo [http://www.redstring.strawberrycomics.com/?p=963 at least] [http://www.redstring.strawberrycomics.com/?p=2641 twice]. Kazuo has been shown taking some sort of medication in some comics, which are widely believed to be self proscribed anti-depressents and {{spoiler|1=Kazuo uses them to [http://www.redstring.strawberrycomics.com/?p=3258 attempt suicide] at the end of Chapter 43}}.

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'': Damien ended up making himself a sort of twisted father figure to Grace and her brothers, but there is nothing "fatherly" about him at all. He is an abuser pure and simple, able to control his "children" through fear and constantly hitting them whenever they displease him. And like any parent whose children are young enough, he's too powerful for them to do anything about it.