Department of Child Disservices: Difference between revisions

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'''Child Services Clerk''': I hope not, Mrs. Stevens. Because next time we won't just take him away, we'll ''kill him''!|''[[Family Guy]]'', "Love Thy Trophy"}}

 

== [[Fanfic]] ==

* The ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' [[Alternate Universe Fic]] ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7189428/1/Prison_Island_Break Prison Island Break]'' plays this straight. Convict Shadow Robotnik was taken away from his eccentric father-creator Gerald, but Social Services itself accidentally knocked down his sister Maria while doing so, fuelling a life-long resentment towards The Man. He was then passed around a series of foster homes which had trouble coping with him due to his emotional trauma and the fact that he's the Ultimate Lifeform. He was finally passed into the care of foster parents who physically and sexually abused him, and who he eventually murdered. Different from many other abuse fanfics in that Shadow clearly avoids bringing it up and will try to change the subject if it does.

'''Shadow:''' Nobody ever came when ''I'' screamed. Nobody sympathised with me when ''I'' did what had to be done. Why should I help you, knowing there's nothing you can do for me?! }}

 

* Wikus invokes this trope in ''[[District 9]]'' to deal with an unusually clever prawn to get him sign an eviction notice; that a slum isn't a suitable growing environment for his young, who will get shipped off and put in a little box for the rest of his life if he doesn't sign and agree to leave.

* Played with in ''Life as we know it''. Their social worker turns out to be quite competent, but Messer thinks it was way too easy for him and Holly to get custody over Sophie in the first place.

'''Messer:''' Done! Next case! [[Sarcasm Mode|"Here, take a kid. No, take two; we've got extra."]] }}