Abusive Parents/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

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* In ''[[King of the Hill]]'', Hank's father Cotton is an abusive [[Jerkass]] of the highest order, who has considered Hank to be a horrific failure ever since the day he was born (it is said in one episode that this is because he was born in New York instead of Texas). While there are incremental moves towards a better relationship between the two, they always backslide by the end of the episode due to Cotton's aforementioned jerkass nature and Hank's difficulty with and distaste for anything emotional. When Cotton is finally [[Calling the Old Man Out|called out]] on his deathbed, it made for one of the best scenes in the show's 12-year run. Despite this abuse, Hank is [[Only Sane Man|one of the most well adjusted characters on the show]].

** You know what Cotton's idea of complimenting his son is? He tells Hank that he's better at being a father because "You made Bobby, all I made was you."

*** This knowledge is required to fully understand why he cries in "sacrifice" after giving a massive [[Reason You Suck Speech]] to everyone in the bar and failing to provoke a violent reaction.

** The abuse gets very horrifying without being sexual. Just watch the two-part episode "Nature". It speaks for itself.

* Arpo Butcher in ''[[Sons of Butcher]]''.

* Toki Wartooth in ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' was brutally beaten at the hands of his father, reverend Aslaug Wartooth. His offenses include whipping him heavily, leaving him (mostly) unclothed and out in the bitter ''Norwegian'' cold, and chaining his wrists together and letting him hang from the ceiling.

** The mama bear from "Storytelling," who kept smacking her son in the face

** 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.

* 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.

** Rusty's own father, Dr. Jonas Venture, manages to somehow top them both. In spite of having the outward image of a God-like scientist, he was secretly an immense Jerkass who treated his son as little more then a prop. Particular instances of abuse include him forcing Rusty to kill a man with a housekey at age ten, acting as Rusty's "therapist" by way of sneaking out of the room when Rusty was talking about his problems and then calling him ungrateful and whiney when he came back, and throwing him a birthday party and then inviting only supermodels, playboy bunnies, and prostitutes who were all much older then Rusty himself (this ended with Rusty having his swim trunks pulled down by other members of Team Venture and having his penis shot with a shrink ray). Aside from Rusty himself, no one seems to know about what a terrible person Jonas really was, to the point that there's a museum devoted to how awesome he was (which contains no reference to Rusty).

*** The museum was built by Jonas' other son, Jonas Jr., who was born ([[Mister Seahorse|in an extremely unusual way]]) long after Jonas himself died. JJ goes by his father's public image that he was some kind of godlike figure and doesn't believe Rusty when he tries to tell him what an ass he was. However, the episode where this museum opened featured an old clip of Jonas being interviewed, where he did say that Rusty was the most important thing to him....which played after Rusty left the opening party. Although there's possibly an implication that Jonas said this for publicity.