Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You: Difference between revisions

 

See also [[Tell Me About My Father]], [[Turn Out Like His Father]]. Sometimes related to [[Give Him a Normal Life]], and may overlap with [[Because You Can Cope]] in certain instances. If the info is specifically withheld to increase tension even though there's no good reason to withhold it, see the [[Rule of Drama]]

 

== Anime and Manga ==

 

* Although we don't know the exact circumstances involved with Hinagiku and Yukiji's being abandoned by their birth parents in ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', Hinagiku firmly believes that they had a good reason for leaving them behind. Yukiji doesn't seem to agree.

 

 

* In [[The DCU]], the Persuader's father left her mother because she was abusive towards both him and the young Persuader herself. However, her threats to [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit|rough herself up and say he did it]] if he even thought about taking their daughter convinced him that leaving her with that monster was a better alternative to living on the run with him. They eventually get reunited in a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] before the Persuader's boss kills her father just for kicks.

* [[Batman]] does [[Inverted Trope|the exact opposite]]: rather than abandoning his adopted sons, he tends to be just enough of a [[Jerkass]] that they go away themselves. In his mind, it's for their own good—the less attached they are to him, the less painful it will be when he dies, and Batman knows that all it takes is one lucky shot to finish him off. So it's more like Daddy Had a Good Reason To Be An Ass, [[Fridge Brilliance|which makes perfect sense when you think about how he became Batman in the first place.]]

 

* In ''[http://percyjacksonfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Whispers_in_the_Dark Whispers in the Dark]'', a popular [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]] fanfiction, Taylor is told that her father is dead only to find out that all this time, he's been alive and on Kronos' side. Somewhat justified in the fact that Luke didn't even know that he had a daughter until he saw Taylor and noticed that she had his [[Blue Eyes]].

* ''[[Nobody Dies]]'' Mommy had a good reason for abandoning Shinji...a basement full of Eldritch Abominations out to kill him (although why she didn't [[Mundane Solution|kill them]] instead of abandoning her son and possibly endangering the planet is a question unasked).

 

 

 

* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' has an unusual variation, where someone else makes this excuse on the [[Disappeared Dad]]'s behalf: No one besides Anthony Carver knows why he disappeared, but his daughter Antimony says that he [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=95 "must have his reasons"].