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* [[Terry Pratchett]] has used this a few times in ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]''. Young Nobby Nobbs fears prison because his father's in there, and he used to break Nobby's arms. And while the Grey House isn't exactly parental abuse, it's still... icky.
** In the novel ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'', the criminal Catseye is famous in criminal underworld circles for being able to see in the dark. But as he admits he is actually scared of the dark and of old cellars, because when he was a boy his father regularly used to lock him up in their cellar without a light for hours as a punishment. He trained himself to see in the dark mainly as a way of compensation.
*** Most of the working-class, smalltime criminals in ''Hogfather'' turn out to have been abused, physically and/or emotionally, as children, although they're still sane... compared to the main villain, the psychotic, boyishly handsome assassin Mr. Jonathan Teatime, who is implied to have killed [[Self
* This is [[The Reveal]] in ''[[The Thread That Binds the Bones]]''.
* In ''Sunny Ella'', a dark retelling of Cinderella, Ella's stepmother slaps her across the face twice the day they meet. Later she uses her cane as a weapon and at one point removes Ella's voicebox as punishment for talking back.
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