The Parent Trope
Of course parents can be important in fiction, whether or not they are actually around.
Not to be confused with Super Trope.
Tropes:
Subcategory:
- Absurdly Youthful Mother
- Action Mom
- Almighty Mom
- Amicably Divorced
- Anticlimactic Parent
- Asian Baby Mama
- Babies Ever After
- Because You Can Cope
- Birth Death Juxtaposition
- Bumbling Dad
- Children Raise You
- Dad the Veteran
- Dating What Daddy Hates
- Deceased Parents Are the Best
- Deliver Us From Evil
- Department of Child Disservices
- Designated Parents
- The Diaper Change
- Divine Parentage
- Don't Tell Mama
- Doting Parent
- Education Mama
- Embarrassing Old Photo
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
- Evil Matriarch
- Evil Parents Want Good Kids
- Extra Parent Conception
- Financial Abuse
- First Father Wins
- Fostering for Profit
- Freudian Excuse
- Generation Xerox
- Give Him a Normal Life
- Glamorous Single Mother
- Glorified Sperm Donor
- Good Parents
- Happily Adopted
- Happily Married
- Has Two Mommies
- Hippie Parents
- Hot Mom
- Housewife
- Human Mom Nonhuman Dad
- I Am Not Your Father
- I Am X Son of Y
- I Want Grandkids
- Immigrant Parents
- Invisible Parents
- Jacob and Esau
- Lamarck Was Right
- Like Father Like Son
- Lineage Comes From the Father
- Luke I Am Your Father
- Mad Scientists Beautiful Daughter
- Mandatory Motherhood
- Mama Bear
- Missing Mom
- Monster Is a Mommy
- Muggle Foster Parents
- My Beloved Smother
- My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad
- My Parents Are Dead
- Mysterious Parent
- Nephewism
- No Blood Ties
- Offing the Offspring
- Open Minded Parent
- Orphanage of Fear
- Overlord Jr
- Overprotective Dad
- Papa Wolf
- Parents Know Their Children
- Parental Abandonment
- Parental Betrayal
- Parental Hypocrisy
- Parental Incest
- Parental Marriage Veto
- Parental Obliviousness
- Parental Sexuality Squick
- Parental Substitute
- Parent Ex Machina
- Parents in Distress
- Parent Trap Plot
- Parent With New Paramour
- Patronymic
- Pervert Dad
- Promotion to Parent
- Raised By Grandparents
- Raised By Natives
- Raised By Orcs
- Raised By Wolves
- Resentful Guardian
- Single Mom Stripper
- Sink or Swim Fatherhood
- So Proud of You
- Solomon Divorce
- Stage Mom
- Standard Fifties Father
- Stand-In Parents
- Team Dad
- Team Mom
- Tell Me About My Father
- That Thing Is Not My Child
- Through His Stomach
- Time Out
- Tough Love
- The Trap Parents
- Truly Single Parent
- Twerp Sweating
- Unnamed Parent
- Visit By Divorced Dad
- When You Coming Home Dad
- Where Did We Go Wrong
- Who Will Take the Kids
- Wonder Child
- You Are Grounded
- You Killed My Father
- You're Not My Father