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And what about your parents, the cause of the bad blood that's turned your life into a living hell? If you're lucky, they're still alive and all the charges against them just the product of a big misunderstanding. (Not so lucky if their idea of defending you is [[Mama Bear|beating the crap out of anyone]] [[Papa Wolf|who so much as looks at you funny]].) Optimistically, [[Evil Parents Want Good Kids]], and they'll help out however they can. ... ''Or'' they may be [[Inadequate Inheritor|disappointed]] you aren't living '''down''' to your potential.
 
Compare [[Sins of Our Fathers]] and [[Revenge Byby Proxy]]. Contrast [[Turn Out Like His Father]]. Subtrope of [[All of the Other Reindeer]] and [[Malicious Slander]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* {{spoiler|Satoshi and Satoko}} in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]]'', because {{spoiler|their parents supported the construction of the dam, which the whole town opposed}}.
* Wim in ''[[Monster (Animemanga)|Monster]]'' - his father is a deadbeat alcoholic, so all the neighborhood kids beat up on him for being "trash."
** Also Fritz "Son Of A Spy" Verdeman.
* ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' is a heroic inversion of this plot. Ayasaki-Dad is always stealing money(he even cops to it), run con businesses and has been stated to have two large debts, one to the 'very nice men' and one to Wataru's video store. But Hayate is the hero of the manga, {{spoiler|and his brother is stated to be a hero, even going to rescue Athena from [[Expy|the devil]]}}.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== Literature ==
* Andrew Tabor of the ''Apple Valley'' books is assumed to be a drunken bum because his father is, and has to leave town forever in order to get rid of that reputation.
* Aedelas Blackmoore of the [[War CraftWarcraft]] novel [[Warcraft: Lord of the Clans]] is the son of a traitor to the Alliance, and the stigma he endured as a result may have contributed to his drinking problem and his resulting plan to train Thrall as a puppet ruler of the Orc clans to turn them against the Alliance and gain control of it for himself.
* Tawnypaw of [[Warrior Cats]] is told by an elder that she will become [[In the Blood|just like her father]], the [[Big Bad]] of the series, because she [[Disproportionate Retribution|did an apprentice task wrongly]]. This results in her {{spoiler|defection to her father's clan}}.
** This is made worse when it is revealed in a later book (Bluestar's Prophocy) that the elder, Smallear, is her own grandfather.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Bud and Kelly Bundy in ''[[Married... Withwith Children]]'', although it's completely [[Justified]] when you see how they actually behave.
* On ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'', Morgana seems to attribute this trope to her half-brother Arthur, believing that he's just as bad as his father King Uther, despite all evidence to the contrary.
* [[Star Trek|Klingon society]] works under this principle. When a warrior is disgraced somehow, his dishonor hurts his entire family and his sons are also dishonored for seven generations. The dishonored are outcasts in the Empire and are forced to live with the shame of their forefather's actions. [[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation|Worf in particular had a problem with this,]] since his father was framed for treason with the Romulans, which led to Worf being cast out from the Empire until he'd cleared his name.
** In particular, Worf only discovered the existence of his own son ''after'' accepting discommendation and dishonor. It weighs heavily on him that even acknowledging Alexander as his son would make it next to impossible for the boy to find any place in Klingon society until Worf could expose the real traitor.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Part of {{spoiler|Yukari's}} [[Backstory]] in ''[[Persona 3]]'': their father was blamed for a tragic incident several years ago, and they allude to others treating them horribly. This got so bad that their mother finally decided to move away and start over in another town; tragically, they misinterpreted this attempt at protecting them as "turning her back on my father", leading to a long-standing grudge against her.
* Isair and Madae from ''[[Icewind Dale]]'' ''2'' got this treatment because their father was the devil Belhifet who tried to open a portal to the Nine Hells and nearly destroyed the Ten-Towns. As cambions -- elfcambions—elf-demon half-breeds -- theybreeds—they are literally half evil, and Iselore warned their foster mother against raising them because of this. Their foster mother was the only one who ever believed they could grow up to be good people.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In [[Shadowgirls]] Becka suffers because her mom [[Really Gets Around]], and is hated by Misty's mother, one of the sickest examples of the [[Alpha Bitch]] in the history of webcomics. In one of the worst examples, Misty made a scheme that almost ended with Becka being raped, and said:
{{quote| '''Misty:''' ''Serves the little slut right if she gets knocked up... like her mother.''}}
* In ''[[Endstone]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20120616145429/http://endstone.net/2010/08/19/4-16/ Cole hears murmurs that she's evil like her father].
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Chester and his dad from ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'', who [[In the Blood|both suck at baseball]]. Even though Chester's dad was [[Rule of Funny|somehow]] qualified to be on a professional baseball team in the first place.
** He must have been a very good baseball player BEFORE he started sucking.
* Referenced in ''[[A BugsBug's Life (Animation)|A Bugs Life]]'': Flik moans that if he fails "my children's children will walk down the street and people will say, 'Look, there goes the spawn of Flik the Loser!'"
* A good portion of the [[In -Universe]] hate directed at Prince Zuko in [[Avatar: The Last Airbender]] is this. After a century of war caused by his father, grandfather and great-grandfather, you can see their point, and to an out-sider's eye Zuko seems to be following in their footsteps. {{spoiler|Until he finally gets over his [["Well Done, Son" Guy]] attitude and [[Calling the Old Man Out|calls the old man out]].}}
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
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