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* ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'': Arguably, the best thing [[Satan|Trigon]] ever did for his daughter was staying out of her life for as long as he did, and while he never actually lays a finger on her, he is [[Genre Savvy]] enough to threaten her friends instead. Thus, {{spoiler|Raven's}} dad convinces her to essentially commit suicide in a ritual that will let him break out of his prison dimension and [[The End of the World As We Know It|turn the planet into slag and lava]]. {{spoiler|It works. For [[Status Quo Is God|a staggering three]] episodes, even!}}

* ''[[Batman Beyond (Animation)|Batman Beyond]]''

** "Hidden Agenda" featured a student whose mother had unbelievable standards for him. When he got a [[The B Grade|2391 out of 2400]] on the annual exam, 2nd best in the school, she told him flat out he was a horrendous failure who would never get ahead in life. Any sympathy is lost, however, when he's revealed to be a rather psychotic leader of a gang of Jokerz. Then again, his mother may have caused his psychosis, as evidenced by the fact that many of his acts as gang leader are to try and get rid of the one person who is academically better than him.

** "Hidden Agenda" featured a student whose mother had unbelievable standards for him. When he got a [[The "B" Grade|2391 out of 2400]] on the annual exam, 2nd best in the school, she told him flat out he was a horrendous failure who would never get ahead in life. Any sympathy is lost, however, when he's revealed to be a rather psychotic leader of a gang of Jokerz. Then again, his mother may have caused his psychosis, as evidenced by the fact that many of his acts as gang leader are to try and get rid of the one person who is academically better than him.

** Willie Watt consistently suffers ridicule from his father for being a "wimp" who can't physically stand up to the bullies at school. Then, Willie gets a hold of his father's construction golem, develops a psychic link to it, and uses it to trash a party after one more humiliation causes him to snap. When his father, tracking the golem's disappearance, finds Willy and berates him once again, Willy proceeds to turn the golem on ''him''. Batman saves the day, but the end result shows that the father is still a major [[Jerkass]].

{{quote| '''Mr. Watt:''' Well, at least he ain't a wimp no more. ''(Batman gives him a disgusted glare before leaving)''}}

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** Even Joshua qualifies for this at times. He's shown being quite insensitive, even emotionally abusive, towards his children. Even though his intentions were good, this led to Finn getting depressed, even suicidal, at one point.

* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|Dr.]] [[Evilutionary Biologist|Mar]] [[Complete Monster|Londo]] from the ''[[Legion of Super Heroes]]'' cartoon series manages to be physically and emotionally abusive towards his only son [[Big Badass Wolf|Timber Wolf]]. For starters he performed illegal genetic experiments on [[Guinea Pig Family|his son]] transforming him into a werewolf-like monster and he [[Up to Eleven|turns it up to eleven]] in Season 2 where he {{spoiler|implants nanites into his son's brain, [[Brainwashed and Crazy|driving him insane]] and using him to kill a clone of his just so he can get Timber Wolf to work with him again.}} The sad thing is judging by the photo Dr. Londo showed to the Legion of Superheroes in Timber Wolf's debut episode seemed to imply that he wasn't always abusive.

* The entire [[Royally Screwed Up|Heinous line]] on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' is like this to the next generation. A [[Flash Back]] shows Lucius VI denying Lucius VII cake on his birthday for no other reason than [[For the Evulz]]. In another episode, Lucius VII notes he keeps Beezy "nice and miserable". In series, he has given him the necktie variant of [[Buried Alive]] and forced him into a [[Shotgun Wedding]].

* The entire [[Royally Screwed-Up|Heinous line]] on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' is like this to the next generation. A [[Flash Back]] shows Lucius VI denying Lucius VII cake on his birthday for no other reason than [[For the Evulz]]. In another episode, Lucius VII notes he keeps Beezy "nice and miserable". In series, he has given him the necktie variant of [[Buried Alive]] and forced him into a [[Shotgun Wedding]].

* It's difficult to pin-point where to put the dads of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', but a mixture of neglect and emotional abuse likely puts all of them here.

** Rusty Venture has almost no interest in his sons, particularly Hank, and barely shows any concern for them. He appears to love them deep down, as he kept making clones of them after they died upwards of twelve times, but he shrugs all his parenting duties off to the much-more-attentive Brock Samson. After his cloning facility got trashed, he showed a bit more concern for the boys, but is very verbally abusive to Hank and his "guidance" of Dean is likely screwing the boy up even worse.