Parental Abandonment/Video Games: Difference between revisions

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** This makes the first game sorta headscratchy, as Sora spends the whole game trying to find Riku and Kairi, yet doesn't even mention his family ONCE (though then again, the very beginning of the game has them planning to go off on a raft, so I guess he didn't think much of his family to begin with).

** This sort of thing hits ''Birth by Sleep'' even harder. None of the PCs mention any relatives - Master Eraqus seems to be the only father figure Terra has, and Ven was basically adopted by Eraqus, Terra and Aqua after losing his memory. {{spoiler|After Xehanort murders Eraqus and tries to do the same to Aqua and Ven, Terra demands "Was my teacher - no, my father not enough for you?!", suggesting he really doesn't have any other parental figures.}}

* ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' and [[Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World|its sequel]] features this in spades:

* ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' and [[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World|its sequel]] features this in spades:

** Lloyd: Mother killed, adopted by a dwarf. {{spoiler|Finds out later that his father [[Mercy Kill|killed his mother to save him]], is still alive, and [[Oedipus Complex|is the right-hand man of the Big Bad.]]}}

** Colette: spends {{spoiler|the first third of}} the game under the belief that her loving father and grandmother are merely a foster family and that her true father is an angel -- {{spoiler|and said angel is something of an uncaring prick towards her. Subverted once we learn that the angel was lying (or as he claims, the characters just misinterpreted him using "daughter" as a priest would) -- and her foster family is really her family.}}.

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*** That's actually a fair point to make, considering {{spoiler|Orphan's genocidal plot is only formed because the fal'Cie wish to call back the Maker, the creator deity which allegedly abandoned the world and all his creations millions of years ago.}}

* [[Nippon Ichi]] loves to use this trope.

** In ''[[Rhapsody a Musical Adventure]]'', Cornet's mother, Cherie, died protecting her when she was young.

** In ''[[Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure]]'', Cornet's mother, Cherie, died protecting her when she was young.

** In ''[[La Pucelle|La Pucelle Tactics]]'', Prier's and Cullotte's parents were killed in a wagon accident years before the game begins. Homard became a [[Sky Pirate]] to defeat the demon who injured his father and attacked his kingdom, {{spoiler|Marl Kingdom, making him the grandson of Cornet from [[Rhapsody a Musical Adventure|Rhapsody]]}}

** In ''[[La Pucelle|La Pucelle Tactics]]'', Prier's and Cullotte's parents were killed in a wagon accident years before the game begins. Homard became a [[Sky Pirate]] to defeat the demon who injured his father and attacked his kingdom, {{spoiler|Marl Kingdom, making him the grandson of Cornet from [[Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure|Rhapsody]]}}

** In ''[[Disgaea Hour of Darkness]]'', Flonne's parents are never mentioned. Etna is an orphan, and the closest thing she had to a father figure, the Overlord and Laharl's dad, died two years ago. Laharl's mother died before the game began {{spoiler|when she sacrificed herself to cure him of an incurable disease}} and his father, the Overlord, died choking on a black pretzel {{spoiler|which is just a rumor and actually died after sealing away Baal. Both his parents, however, do return to watch over him...though his mother is a Prinny and his father is [[The Dandy]] [[Goldfish Poop Gang]]}}. Jennifer was orphaned, and her adopted father is [[The Dragon]].

*** Flonne's parents are met in [[No Export for You|the Japan only]] [[Disgaea Novels|novels.]]