"Resenting their parents is the human way, sir. Black Widow spiders eat their mates after sex, humans blame their parents for all their failings. It's the characteristic that makes you lovably idiotic to all the other species."
— Kryten, Red Dwarf: Last Human
Let's face it: No parent is perfect. Even the Good Parents in fiction can still make mistakes, and others make a lot of mistakes. Too many, in fact. Some of them may even be abusive or neglectful, perhaps even unintentionally so. And despite this, their kids still love them, right?
Well...
Sometimes, people just hate their parents. It may or may not be because the parent did anything to wrong them—the kid may simply think they've been wronged, or maybe they've reached such a rebellious stage that it just became "uncool" to love their parents. Maybe their dad went out to "get milk" and never returned, only to show up again expecting praise and affection. Maybe their mother had an affair with the milkman, and her cheating drove the family apart. Maybe they liked their brother more. Maybe the parents were part of a class or group they found to be morally repellant, uncultured, or backward. Or it could be the kid just finds their parents corny and lame. Even maybe unable to accept their parents being different, despite them being Open-Minded.
Whatever the reason, these parents are loathed. Far from being respected, trusted, or admired, they're seen as the enemy, regardless of whether or not they deserve it. Any attempts by the parent to win their child's love back will take a lot of work and time, especially if the underlying issue was a breach of trust.
How sympathetic the child and their parent(s) are played can vary, depending on what, if anything, the parent did, how long the child has been holding their grudge, and whether or not the parent attempted to make any amends. On one extreme, you can have the child rightfully and heroically opposing their Abusive Parent; on the other extreme, you have a "Well Done, Dad!" Guy struggling to please an Ungrateful Bastard (or Bitch), who is often depicted as Unintentionally Sympathetic with a lot of Wangst, and a lot of Gray-and-Gray Morality in the middle.
If the child isn't just hateful, but actively opposing their parents, see Antagonistic Offspring; for parents who are hated for being evil, see Archnemesis Dad and the Evil Matriarch.
Super-Trope to Divine Parental Issues, where this applies to gods and their parents. When only one of the parents is hated, this might stem from Notorious Parent, All Abusers Are Male, Loving Parent, Cruel Parent, Stern Parent, Doting Parent, or a Custody Battle — it can also be the end result of Til Murder Do Us Part committed by the surviving parent if Deceased Parents Are the Best. This may lead to Self-Made Orphan, Disowned Parent, Calling the Old Man Out, or Betrayal by Offspring. When parents hate their children, see I Have No Son!, Maternal Death? Blame the Child!, The Un-Favourite, and Resentful Guardian. Contrast Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas and the "Well Done, Son" Guy; compare I Hate You, Vampire Dad and Unpleasant Parent Reveal. For the opposite of this trope, see Honor Thy Parent.
Finally, see also the Dysfunctional Family, which can have this dynamic as part of the dysfunction.
Examples:
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Anime and Manga
- Downplayed in The Apothecary Diaries, Maomao couldn't care any less about her birth parents master strategist Lakan and former Verdigris House's top courtesan Fengxian simply because neither of them cared for her for different reasons (Lakan had terrified her as a toddler when he desperately tried to reach out to her, and Fengxian became terminally ill with syphillis and driven to depression because Lakan couldn't reach her in time for years when her value as courtesan hit rock-bottom when she became pregnant with Maomao). Maomao would rather like her adoptive father Loumen who is Lakan's uncle over her birth parents.
- Bleach:
- Sora Inoue thought of his mother as a "whore" and his father as a "devil", and moved out of their house with his sister Orihime the day he turned 18 because he knew that if he didn't they would end up killing her.
- Downplayed with Uryu Ishida, who doesn't outright hate his father Ryuken but doesn't exactly have a loving relationship with him, either. Ryuken is distant and cold even at the best of times, and though he does care for Ishida he's terrible at showing it. The fact that he keeps a great many secrets from his own son does no favors to either of them, and one of Ishida's most traumatic memories is the sight of Ryuken performing an extended autopsy on the corpse of his wife Kanae as he relentlessly tried to find out exactly how she died. It gets to the point that Ryuken privately admits that he's a horrible father, and at one point discusses with Isshin which of the two is the worse parent.
- Yukio's parents neglected him because he would not speak in their presence. Eventually Yukio stole his father's money, ruined his business and ran away, leaving both of his parents to commit suicide. He claims to be perfectly fine with all of this, but Hitsugaya manages to get a rise out of him by stating that Yukio was abandoned, making it unclear if Yukio really hated his parents or yearned for their affection.
- Call of the Night: Following Kiku's manipulations, Mahiru admits to his mother that he hates her, before correcting himself and stating that at this point she's not even worth hating anymore. Considering that she ignored him for years after never moving on from his brother's death, it's easy to see why, but it's especially poignant in this case since his mother has just realized how horrible a parent she has been and was profusely apologizing at that moment; her pleas go ignored as her apathetic son leaves the apartment to never return, to Kiku's utter delight.
- Code Geass: Lelouch vi Britannia despises his father, Emperor Charles di Britannia, for not telling him about the death of his mother, Marianne, and for sending him and his sister, Nunnally, away to Japan which was eventually conquered by the Britannian Empire. This is one of his reasons for aiding the Japanese rebels against Britannia after he obtains the power of the Geass and dons the mask of Zero. Then it turns out Charles actually sent him and Nunnally to safety because his older twin brother (Lelouch and Nunnally's uncle) murdered Marianne, who is actually alive due to her Geass. It even gets complicated in that Charles and Mariane are working together to destroy the collective unconscious so they can "make a world without lies". However, Lelouch doesn't appreciate this answer because they started a war that killed millions of people and they essentially left their children to die in favor of their own happiness.
- The Daichis - Earth's Defense Family:
- In episode 2, Nozomi explains that she hates her own parents because of her mother Seiko's selfishness and her father Mamoru's wishy-washiness and this along with Dai puts her up with an immense amount of unpleasantness towards her.
- In episode 13, Dai explains that he hates his parents because his father Mamoru is pathetic and spineless while Seiko on the other hand he considers is the worst as she's stinky (doesn't like her perfume), sneaky and and always lies.
- Delicious in Dungeon: The protagonist Laios cut off contact with his father over 10 years ago and even styles his hair to avoid any family resemblance. It's partly to do with how the father let their village ostracize Laios' sister when her magical abilities became known, but he's shown to have always been a cold figure who preferred hunting to his own children.
- Fairy Tail: Lucy Heartfilia resents her father Jude for neglecting her after her mother Layla's death, especially after she unsuccessfully gives him a rice ball on her 11th birthday. It gets to the point where she disowns him for inadvertently starting the guild war between Phantom Lord and Fairy Tail. In the end, however, Lucy gets over this resentment shortly after Jude loses his fortune and grieves his death after the Time Skip hammers in just how much she missed him.
- Fruits Basket:
- Akito can't stand the mere fact that her mother Ren is alive and the feeling is mutual, and it's completely understandable since Ren has emotionally and psychologically abused her for years. In fact, the only reason Akito hasn't killed Ren is because Ren wants to die so she can be with Akito's father, Akira.
- In the sequel Another, with help from Hajime and the rest of the Sohmas, Sawa admits that she hates her mother for being such an emotionally and verbally abusive Jerkass, and wishes she wasn't around. The final straw is when she discovers that her mother not only drove her friends away with her insults but when Sawa fell off the stairs, she decided to blame Shiki and use it as an opportunity to sue the Sohmas for a payoff. Upon hearing that, Sawa disowns her mother and vows to never forgive her.
- In regards to Hajime himself, he loves his parents, but makes it clear in no uncertain terms that he hates his paternal biological grandfather and doesn't consider him family at all, and no matter how many times people tell him otherwise, nothing will change his mind. Perfectly understandable, considering Kyo's biological father was an extremely unpleasant person who viewed Kyo himself as a horrifying monster and abused his mother to the point she jumped in front of a train.
- Tohru (Hajime's mother) is something of a deconstruction. Following the death of her father, her mother fell into a deep depression that almost led to suicide. Tohru began to speak formally like her late father did in order to remind her mother of him and keep him from leaving. Further complicating matters is the fact that relatives had told Tohru to her face that she probably wasn't even her father's child anyway, thinking she wouldn't understand. As a result, Tohru harbors some negative feelings toward her father in the present, and feels guilty as a result, since it wasn't her father's fault that he suddenly died and the few memories she has of him are good.
- GTO: The Early Years: Onizuka says "I don't have a father" when someone asks if he'd seen him recently. Understandable, as his father was never around, and he hates deadbeat dads in general.
- Interspecies Reviewers: Stunk has nothing but disdain for his father, calling him "womanizing trash", though Stunk can't deny that his sexual appetite is inherited from him. A final argument with him served as the impetus for Stunk to leave his home and become an adventurer.
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood: Dio Brando hates his father, Dario, for being an abusive father and for forcing Dio's mother to work to death. When Jonathan suspects Dio of poisoning his own father, George Joestar, he presses Dio's Berserk Button by telling him to swear on Dario's honor that he is innocent. Dio flips out and tries to punch Jonathan, yelling that Dario had no honor to swear upon. Later, while Jonathan investigates the "medicine" Dio was giving George, Dio spends the night drinking away his troubles, whereupon he angrily tosses the bottle upon realizing he's turning exactly like Dario.
- Kill la Kill: Satsuki Kiryuin has pretty resentful feelings toward her mother, harboring that for more than a decade before making a move to kill her. It's pretty understandable since her mother is a sociopathic, physically, sexually, and psychologically abusive monster who used Satsuki as a Life Fiber experiment when she was a child and callously discarded Satsuki's unnamed baby sister (Ryuko) like trash on the assumption that she died in the experiments.
- A Love Letter for the Marching Puppy: Fujino Kagami has a rather cold relationship with her own mother, who belittles Fujino when the latter visits her, while doting on Shinobu Iindou, the orphaned daughter of an old friend of hers who sees Fujino's mother as an Honorary Aunt. Fujino later tells Iindou that she'd once tried to meet her mother halfway, but is currently fine with how things are between them and has no problem saying that she hates her mother, especially after her mother apparently pulls strings to separate her and Iindou at the academy. It turns out that Fujino's mother blames Fujino for the death of Shinobu's mother Chiyo, with whom the elder Kagami was very close. Chiyo encountering Fujino by chance led to her getting in the newspaper being promoted and sent on a mission that cost Chiyo her life.
- My Hero Academia:
- Shoto Todoroki holds his father, the Number Two Hero Endeavor, in contempt for fostering an abusive household and possibly killing his oldest brother Toya while trying to turn Shoto into a Tyke-Bomb powerful enough to unseat All Might as the Number One Hero. As a result, he refuses to use the half of his Quirk he inherited from his father in favor of using the ice inherited from his mother to deny Endeavor the satisfaction of being the heir he always wanted. This backfires on Shoto when Izuku notes that said refusal is disrespectful to his peers and himself (not to mention detrimental as Shoto's lack of pushing himself means he is in danger of getting left behind.) However, he does not completely hate his father as he goes through a rollercoaster of fear and relief when his dad nearly dies against the High End Nomu. His resentment toward his father does soften as he does work with him professionally and the man makes changes in his behavior after All Might retires and he talks to him. However, he does grapple with whether to forgive him. Bakuguo notes that Shoto has no obligation to while Izuku speculates that Shoto does want to forgive his father, but he is not ready to.
- As for the rest of the Todoroki children, it varies. Natsuo hates Endeavor even more than Shoto does (though like Shoto, still loves him enough to be worried when he's in mortal danger) and won't forgive him. At the end of the series, Natsuo cuts ties with his father for good, but has some grudging respect for him. Fuyumi, his and Shoto's older sister and second oldest child, is ready to forgive them and wants them to be a real family. Toya hates Endeavor the most, having dedicated his supervillain career to spite his father, and is even willing to cause the deaths of his other relatives to do so. Despite this, a dying Toya comes to regret hurting Shoto.
- Tomura Shigaraki or rather, Tenko Shimura, is shown to hate his father in flashbacks to his childhood. In fact, his treatment of Shigaraki was so bad that he outright murders his father with gleeful joy when given the opportunity. This hatred extends to his grandmother, Nana Shimura, whose decision to abandon Kotaro in order to protect him from All For One directly turned him into an abusive parent due to his own resentment.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji resents and loathes his father Gendo, due to him being absent, cold, and neglectful for most of Shinji's life. Despite this, he still subconsciously wants Gendo's approval, and it's painfully clear they're cut from the same cloth. And why did Gendo exclude himself from Shinji's life? Because he was afraid of hurting Shinji. Oh, bitter irony.
- One Piece:
- Ace resents his biological father, Gol D. Roger, since being publicly associated with him would've meant his own death. That said, Ace would often pick fights with anyone he overheard badmouthing Roger.
- Doflamingo hates the very memory of his own father as he blames him for everything that went wrong in his childhood. While it's true that Homing's naivete caused no small amount of trouble for his family, the fact of the matter is that Doflamingo was always a rotten apple. In the end, Doflamingo murdered his own father in front of his brother Rosinante when Trébol offered him a gun.
- Sanji resents his biological father Vinsmoke Judge since the latter abused him as a child. During the Whole Cake Island arc he has enough and angrily denies that the two are related, but he's got enough compassion that he's willing to save his family anyway, knowing that his father figure Zeff would be ashamed of Sanji letting his biological family die over a petty grudge.
- When Prince Loki was born, his Gold Digger mother, Queen Estrid, was afraid of his Hellish Pupils and ordered the servants to throw him into the underworld. He survived and he repeatedly crawled back to her sleeping chamber, desperately craving for love. Estrid died later and deemed her son as being cursed, while his father, King Harald only got to see his son for the first time a few months after his birth, the day of Estrid's funeral. By that point, the baby prince had already given up on love. 48 years later, when the prince had grown into an adolescent Giant, Prince Loki declared that the king's mistress Ida, who accepted the accursed prince for who he was and kept loving him as one of her own sons, was the only mother he had because he remembered what Estrid did to him.
- Oshi no Ko: After Ai's murder, Aqua manages to deduce through the barest of hints that the only way her killer could've possibly known where she lived and where she gave birth to him and his sister Ruby was if their Disappeared Dad had told him, as he's the only one among the very few people who knew about both locations that could reasonably have a motive to send the killer her way. Because of this, Aqua develops an unhealthy desire to avenge Ai by murdering his father, and dedicates the rest of his life to find out who he is while keeping his vendetta a secret from everyone else.
- Ranma ½: Downplayed; Ranma Saotome distrusts and dislikes his father Genma Saotome for his lifelong Training from Hell regime, and for getting him afflicted with his Gender Bender curse. Whilst there are brief moments of affection, their usual routine is of contemptuous or scornful comments, and bare-knuckle brawling. In one story, Genma even defeats his son by creating a move based on hugging Ranma, which disgusts Ranma to the point he can't fight back.
- In Strawberry Fields Once Again, Midori Kouno does not have a good relationship with either of his children from his first marriage, due to him having left their mother Hotaru for his second wife Aoi, and not having come to see Hotaru when she was dying (although it is implied he may have missed her death due to being present for his and Aoi's daughter Shion's birth).
- His son Ruri despises him so much that Ruri is disturbed by the idea of being at all like Midori. It's so bad that Ruri wants to change the past so that Hotaru never marries Midori, since Ruri believes Hotaru would have been happier if she had never done so. In the end, Ruri gives up on his plan but is adamant that he will continue hating Midori in his mother's stead for the rest of his life.
- His eldest daughter Akira's feelings are more complicated. She has not forgiven her father, but doesn't want to hate him, lest that hatred taint her fond memories of him as her father, and chooses to blame romance for the end of her parents' marriage. Near the end of the series, she reads her mother's private social media posts, in which Hotaru expressed how, while she hasn't forgiven Midori, she was planning on asking him to look after Ruri and Akira after her death. Akira then recalls a conversation with her mother in which Hotaru has come to terms with her feelings for Midori. Whilie Akira notes that things are still awkward between her and her father, she's willing to invite him to her and Pure's wedding.
- Tokyo Fears Rhapsody: Hachiro hates Rodolphe, his "father", and is immediately upset and hostile when he visits his apartment. Normally friendly and upbeat, he descends into childlike insults and tries to make him leave. Much of it has to do with Hachiro's refusal to follow orders and act like a regular Fear, instead choosing to rebel and live as a human.
- Tweeny Witches:
- Sheila resents her mother for abandoning her to stay with her father in the Warlock Realm. She goes as far as to throw the birthday cake her mother made for her on the floor. They eventually reconcile, however, after which she calls her mother reliable.
- Lennon believes that his witch mother Atelia abandoned both him and his human father Jidan so that she could come to power. Her initial disownment of him during their reunion, along with her word that she gave him up to fulfill her duty as a leader, doesn't help matters. After her Zero-Approval Gambit for him, Wil confirms the truth that she was desperately looking for their family, causing him to soften up and decide to stay by her side.
- Urusei Yatsura: Ryunosuke Fujinami despises her father, a man who Wanted a Son Instead and makes no bones about it, having brought Ryunosuke up to be as manly as possible by literally beating boyish behavior, speech and mannerisms into her, even going so far as to sabotage any efforts of hers to obtain feminine clothing or learn feminine mannerisms. He also compounded this behavior by repeatedly lying to and deceiving Ryunosuke, typically so he could eat delicious food without having to share it. Whilst there are a few moments where the two don't hate each other, Ryunosuke is constantly cussing out or physically assaulting her father, and nobody around her blames her for it.
- Voltes V: Prince Heinel despises his father — despite never seeing his face, he betrayed the Boazanian Empire and defected, leaving him as The Scapegoat for the Boazanian nobles to take out their anger on. Given that the Boazanian Empire is an honour-focused society, Heinel swears to clear his family name by invading the Earth. It later turns out that his father didn't even know of him until after he was incarcerated for the crime of being born without horns, and once he realizes that Heinel is his son, he cries and welcomes him. Unfortunately, this re-union is short-lived, as Heinel dies saving Kenichi (who, as it turns out, is his paternal younger half-brother), with his final words being "Father...!".
Comic Books
- Animal Man: In the alternate future miniseries The Last Days of Animal Man, one of the villains is Prismatik, who is the daughter of the Evan McCullough Mirror Master and states that she hates both her parents (her father for treating her mother like crap, her mother for treating her as a proxy for her father due to never having the nerve to fight back against her lover's abuse when she had the chance).
- The Batman Adventures: In the 29th issue of Gotham Adventures, Robin remarks to the Penguin that he'd give up his own mother. The Penguin replies with "I wasn't going to jail for that witch".
- Cereal: Lady Cocoa admits to being General Post's daughter, and would not hesitate to imbed a knife into his heart given the chance. Considering he presumed she would try to assassinate him and would then try to execute her in the sunlight without batting an eye, her hatred of him is definitely justified.
- Thor (Marvel Comics): Loki's relationship with his adoptive father Odin can be this way, sometimes, depending on just how much of a jerk Odin's being that week.
- Teen Titans: Surprisingly zig-zagged with Rose Wilson and her father. Considering he used a Psycho Serum to make her Brainwashed and Crazy screwing up her life even after she was freed from his control, she justifyably spend a long time hating him and trying to track him doen to kill him. But when she finally did, they were interrupted by Black Lanterns. When they were about to kill Slade, she couldn't help but save him and fight with him. As seen through the eyes of the Black Lanterns, she still felt love for him. In the end, while she decides not to hunt him down anymore, she still openly resents him and decides to cut him out of her life completely.
- Watchmen: Rorschach is very heavily implied to despise his mother, which is perhaps justifiable considering how abusive she was to him. When she was killed, the only word he said was "Good", implying that he couldn't care less about her. This hatred of his mother is made even more explicit in the animated film, where he expresses that his deepest regret at the time was not being present to spit on her remains.
- Wonder Woman: Ares has made multiple attempts on his father Zeus' life, and while they both hate each other Ares is the only one of the two who will happily explain why he loathes dear old dad while Zeus usually tries to act as if he's just disappointed and doing what his position dictates he needs to in reaction to Ares' behavior.
Fan Works
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Madison Russell does not have a high opinion of her late mother Emma after everything the latter did in MonsterVerse canon. Anyone daring to try painting Emma's crimes in a positive light is a good way to piss Maddie off, and she shows near the end that she's genuinely scared of being like her mother.
- Alicorn: Rainbow Dash can be civil with Celestia, her mother, as long as Celestia doesn't say anything that triggers her trauma, but she resents her deeply. This is because Celestia was unable to handle having a child when Rainbow was born, and ended up giving her up for adoption, which is the root cause of Rainbow Dash's inferiority complex because she's under the impression that not even her mother wanted her. Celestia wanting to reconnect does not make things better, Rainbow's self-image issues making it impossible for her to see that Celestia loves her, and her newfound royalty has both strained her relationship with her friends and more or less ruined all her future prospect, which she understandably blames Celestia for.
- All For Luz: When Luz Noceda wakes up and first sees her concerned mother, she admits to herself that part of herself does hate Camila for unwittingly dumping into that horrible situation. However, she doesn't want to take her anger out on her or tell her that as her mother already feels guilty enough. However, its later revealed while going through her memories she does hate her for her years of Parental Neglect and decides to disown her.
- The Apprentice, the Student, and the Charlatan: Nova Shine lives his life trying his damnedest to stay away from his parents at all costs, due to years of being neglected as a child. A major part of the first half of the story is Nova letting go of his hatred for them, forgiving them, and letting them into his life again.
- The Beauty, The Beast, The Boy, and The Dragon: While opening up to Hugo, the Beast admits that his father was an Abusive Parent who was mainly responsible for the Beast becoming the person he was before his curse. Based on the amount of damage his father's portrait has gotten (to the point that Hugo can't even make out a face), the teen notes that the Beast has not ever forgiven the man (even if he's long dead).
- BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant: After Yang learns from Luna that her biological mother, Raven Branwen, is a murderous bandit leader who robs and kills innocent people while leaving any survivors to die to the Grimm, she grows to despise her. In Chapter 62, after she learns from Qrow that he has an idea where Raven will end up, she tells him that she has no interest in finding her anymore, deciding that she's not worth the effort. When Qrow offers to pass along a message, Yang tells him that the only thing she has to say to Raven is for her to "piss off", making it clear she wants nothing to do with her.
- Codex Equus: This is very common, especially when the parents themselves are abusive. However, it's often deconstructed; as one of the Central Themes is forgiveness, holding a grudge against one's parent(s) often leads to a toxic grudge that not only hurts the grudge-holder, but also everyone around them.
- Both Moon Ray and Sunny Field Vaughoof hated their birth father, Sunny Mane Vaughoof, an ill-tempered drunkard who physically and mentally abused them as colts. This extended to their mother, Pepper Cook, who enabled her husband's abuse by prioritizing her religious beliefs over protecting her sons. Eventually, the Vaughoof brothers realize they became "addicted" to their foalhood pain and ultimately choose to let it go. To her credit, Pepper Cook realized she messed up as a mother and worked on repairing her relationship with her sons.
- Meli’āki hates the Count Draclawa who adopted and abused her for not only being half-Dragon, but also being prophesied to kill him. Once she is shown kindness by Moon Ray Vaughoof, she manifests her repressed Dragon traits and kills Count Draclawa in retaliation for her abuse, fulfilling the prophecy anyway. Meli’āki also hated her mother Fik'iri for abusing and then abandoning her for being the daughter of a Ryujin ex-lover who humiliated Fik'iri in the past. With Moon Ray's help, Meli’āki forgives Fik'iri, but makes it clear that she doesn't see the latter as her mother. It's unknown what she thinks about her biological father.
- Conversations with a Cryptid: Izuku goes from not giving a damn about his Disappeared Dad, Hisashi, to deeply hating him when Hisashi is revealed to be All for One. Which is awkward considering that Hisashi deeply loves his son and left to keep his criminal past from affecting Izuku.
- Danny Phantom: Stranded: Colette Bevier never cared about any of her stepmoms unless they could fulfill her materialistic needs. Downplayed with her biological mother Suzette, who Colette does love but resents for putting work before family. However, she begins to resent Suzette even more after the events of "Blackmailed", straining their mother-daughter relationship more than ever. After being sent to boarding school at the end, Colette has grown to feel betrayed by both of her biological parents, to the point of disowning Suzette and only desiring to get Jean-Luc's approval back for the sake of her lavish lifestyle and so she can continue plotting.
- Dragonball Rewritten: The Series: In Dragonball: Retribution, at age six, Gohan thoroughly hates his second father, Vegeta, due to his Tough Love parenting style and a general belief that Vegeta doesn't care about him or the rest of their family. Gohan admits to Goku that he thinks Vegeta is a monster and wishes Vegeta was dead.
- Everything she deserved: Justified. Sasha resents her mother for letting her boyfriend molest her and ignoring Sasha's trauma after the fact.
- Family Guy Fanon: Averted with Peter (at first). Despite his father Francis being a Fundamentalist Jerkass and his mother Thelma, while being more compassionate to Peter, still be quite ungrateful to Peter's love the same way Francis is, Peter still loved them regardless. This aversion is subverted in "Between Sanity and Madness"
when, after having his buttons pressed, Peter loses it on the two of them, throws them out and starts to show more open hate towards Francis (Peter's hate for Thelma is more downplayed) even after the episode concludes with them making up to the point where Peter boarders to Abusive Offspring at times. However, Peter still loves them deep down and does still worries about them when they're in danger.
- Fate/Harem Antics: One of the Masters is Caren Hortensia, long lost daughter of Kirei. When the War starts, she comes to live with him at the church and takes great glee in needling him at every opportunity, because she remembers how he abandoned her and her mother. Kirei considers that he knows exactly what God is punishing him for, but still thinks it is a bit much.
- The Flash Sentry Chronicles: Doom Raizer hates his father Grand Hoof, blaming his negligence towards him and the rest of their family as the source of everything that has ever gone wrong in Doom's life. This includes the deaths of Doom's wife and mother, and the status of Doom's own son Lightning Blitz. While Grand acknowledges that he didn't do the best job raising Doom, Doom himself refuses to take responsibility for any of his own actions and just continues to blame everything on his father and anyone who sides with him.
- For His Own Sake: In both of these instances, it's because the child in the relationship is a Spoiled Brat who resents their parent for not doing whatever they ask.
- Naru Narusegawa rejects both her biological parents and her stepfather because she's an Attention Whore who couldn't handle that she wasn't the center of their worlds. Her mother Saori confesses she doted on Naru too much after the divorce, which is why Naru went to live at the Hinata Inn after Saori married Hiroshi and brought her stepsister Mei into the family. As a result of Granny Hina's coddling and Keitaro's unintentional enabling, Naru's blossomed into a Narcissist who reacts violently to anyone that doesn't cater to her every whim. By the end of the story, she shamelessly tries to have either of her parents take her back into their homes, only to have both reject her due to the horrible insults she spewed towards them and poor Mei.
- Sarah MacDougal initially starts off as a possessive Daddy's Girl who hates Keitaro because she thinks he's taking her adopted father Seta's attention. After Seta realizes the negative influence the Hinata Inn girls have had on Sarah, he's forced to put her into a strict boarding school because of her violent behavior. Angry that he won't let her do whatever she wants like Naru and the others did, Sarah grows to hate Seta and proclaim he's not her father anymore. Seta takes this to heart and cuts ties with her, sadly realizing he wasn't fit to be a father. It's only after Sarah learns from Haruka that Granny Hina, Naru, and the others aren't coming to take her back to the inn that she starts crying for Seta to save her.
- Rather ironically, Motoko, despite hating men as much as Naru does, averts this by easily admitting she loves both her parents. When her father asks if she thinks he’s another example of how vile and perverted men are, Motoko is stunned before assuring her father “He’s one of the good ones.” Though her parents give her the cold shoulder after her status as heir to the God Cry School is taken away, Motoko later resolves to earn their forgiveness alongside the rest of her family’s and Keitaro’s as well.
- From Muddy Waters: All For One is depicted as a possessive Control Freak who seeks to take complete control of his wife and son's lives. Understandably, Izuku lives in utter fear of both being discovered by him and people's potential reaction to finding out he's All For One's child.
- Here Comes the New Boss — Hostile Takeover: The PRT brings in Tattletale's parents, since she's a minor — and then has to physically remove them from the building to stop the screaming match, parents and child blaming each other for her brother's suicide, her fleeing home, and her life of crime.
Calling the resulting reunion an argument would have been like calling a direct lightning strike 'tingly'.
- Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail: Chloe Cerise hates her father with a passion because he never pays any attention to her problems — like the fact that maybe, just maybe — she doesn't want to have a career in Pokémon and how he focuses more on his research and on his "research fellows" Ash and Goh. She tears into him after she passes her Rage Breaking Point that all he cares about is if she's involved with Pokémon, not her in general. This comes to a head during the Unown Arc when Chloe's grudges push Parker to release the Unown onto Vermillion City with intent to 'punish' its citizens for hurting his older sister. Many people come to realize that Chloe is a spiteful child who is essentially throwing a tantrum over her father not paying more attention to her, and she is called out by Talia, who makes it clear that unless she stops with the childish attitude, no one will forgive her.
- In Karma in Retrograde, Touya possesses a burning animosity towards his father Endeavor for what the man did to his children. The feeling is mutual, as Endeavor despises Touya for becoming the villain Dabi. Natsuo has similar feelings towards Endeavor, but Shouto and Fuyumi are trying to mend the bridge as their father tries to be a better person.
- Lincoln Loud: The Savviest Spider-Man: Girl Jordan doesn't like her father due to how he controls her life and criticizes everything she does. She even straight-out admits to Lincoln that she hates her dad.
- In the ROTTMNT fic Mystic Mayhem, Venus de Milo (the Turtles' long-lost sister) was raised by Big Mama... and says that she hates her mother. This is not unjustified: she notes that her "mother" basically saw her as free labor, having her do numerous jobs despite not even being in her teens yet (which included participating in battles to the death in the Battle Nexus, something even Venus knows is not something a child should be doing. When she learns that her brothers did survive the lab fire and have grown up without her, she begins planning to leave Big Mama for good and join her family.
- Of The Earthling Saiyan:
- The Wrath of The Earthling Saiyan: Karot lashes out at Chi-Chi and refuses to be with her since he believes she made him weak. This is likely due to Raditz's influence. Later on, during the battle against the Z-Fighters, he is apathetic when Kakarot throws Chi-Chi into a rock and knocks her unconscious.
- The Dissonance of The Earthling Saiyan: Karot comes to hate Kakarot because of his Sanity Slippage and actions as a result of being possessed by Youzi. Karot blames his father for everything that's happened and on multiple occasions has said he wishes Kakarot was dead. This borders on Disowned Parent at times, as despite Kakarot trying to make up for what he's done, Karot mostly ignores him and refuses to engage with him.
- One helluva time with Iruma kun:
- Iruma Suzuki is an All-Loving Hero. His parents are among the few people he hates. They both saw him as nothing more than a tool to make money from the day he was born. Their imbecilic attempts to make money off of Iruma would have gotten him killed many times over if Emily hadn’t been looking out for him. While Iruma supports Charlie’s goal of redeeming Sinners, when he sees his parents ended up in Hell after dying, he wants nothing to do with them. As the two prove too stupid to understand they are awful parents, he doesn’t object to the duo being tortured.
- Moxxie has a mob boss named Crimson as a father, who is an even worse abuser than Iruma’s parents. Moxxie despises Crimson and while acting as a caretaker to Iruma, his greatest fear is failing as a provider like his father did.
- Pokémon: A Marvelous Journey: Twelve-year-old Caiseal Brownstone has come to utterly despise his biological parents due to years of being neglected and verbally abused because as a fetus he absorbed his twin in utero. His mother, Nollaig, openly favors his younger sister over him, abandoned him in the Ice Path—which, keep in mind, is an icy cave where lots of territorial, dangerous Pokemon live—cursed him out when he returned home, and outright disowned him, whereas his father Fergus doesn't want him around, putting his wife's needs above those of his children. The only person in the family who cares about him is his younger sister Violet, who is fully aware of the mistreatment he endured but doesn't have the power to do anything, what with being only a child. He did get Happily Adopted by another family and does try to maintain contact with Violet as much as humanly possible, but he wants nothing to do with Nollaig and Fergus, to the point where he doesn't refer to them as Mom and Dad but by their first names.
- Pokémon: Nova and Antica: Ash expresses clear bitterness about his father leaving him and his mother but would rather not go into detail.
- Titanic Valley
- Cyborg/Victor Stone hates his father, Silas Stone, for neglecting to be a part of his life and even more so after Silas was forced to convert him into a cyborg to save his life.
- Aside from Grant, Slade's other two children, Jericho and Rose Wilson, despise him with a burning passion with them being currently at odds with him.
- Vandal Savage admitted that his own children want absolutely nothing to do with him even after he offered them a chance to rule alongside him as immortals, seeing their refusal as an act of spite against him.
- The Ultimate Evil: Whilst Shendu genuinely seems to have unresolved abandonment issues towards his mother Tiamat, there is flat-out no love lost towards his Disappeared Dad Typhon, who took advantage of Shendu's mother's raw grief.
- Vow of Nudity: River was a young orphan suffering from a severe dust allergy in her youth, and would have died had she continued to live in the Stoneskeep orphanage. Luckily (thanks to machinations by fellow orphan Spectra) she gets adopted by the Ironsteins, a rich noble couple who ensure their mansion is spotless so she won't suffer from her allergies, but she grows up to resent being cooped up in the mansion unable to make friends or visit the city. By the time Spectra encounters her again as adults, River is vengeful, emotionally stunted, and imprisons Spectra in her basement out of jealousy for the "better life" she's supposedly lived. She also states aloud that she wished the Ironsteins had never adopted her and just left her to die.
- White Sheep (RWBY): Yang was never sure how to feel about Raven, the mother who abandoned her as a baby, but she didn't feel great about her. Then she actually met her, discovered she was a cowardly, self-centered hypocrite, and decided she wanted nothing to do with her. Then it got worse when Raven tried to kill Yin, Yang's Grimm-parasite of an arm, who Yang considers a son. Yang's boyfriend Jaune does more to keep Raven alive than Yang does.
Jaune: Cinder, you can't kill Raven.
Yang: Now Jaune, let's hear her out.
Films — Animated
- Ponyo doesn't like her father, Fujimoto, due to him being a Fantasy-Forbidding Parent who doesn't want her to go to the surface world and thinking humans are bad. After escaping from her house, she outright tells Lisa and Sosuke that "He hates humans! He keeps me in a bubble! So I swam away from home." in a tone that clearly indicates she's glad to be on land.
- Patlabor: The Movie: This film establishes that Asuma's father (who never appears in person) runs the third-biggest Labor manufacturer in Japan, Shinohara Heavy Industries, and that they're not on good terms, which is suggested to be the result of Asuma joining the police force rather than entering the family business. This gets to the point where Asuma is actually accused by Da Chief of conducting his investigation into HOS just to embarrass his father.
Films — Live-Action
- The Batman (2022): Being Falcone's secret bastard has brought Selina nothing but misery, which inspires her plan to kill him and make off with his valuables. He had murdered her mother too, giving her even more reason to hate him.
- Daddy Issues: Maya hates her father for (she thinks) abandoning her. When they run into each other, he reveals that her mother had kept him away and they start to patch things up. After she learns he's the sugar daddy of her girlfriend, Maya is outraged. She seems to have permanently cut him out of her life by the end.
- Honey Don't!: Honey understandably doesn't like her father, who abused her.
- Love Lies Bleeding: Lou is estranged from her dad and refuses to even speak with him at first. It turns out to be from her hatred of him as he'd gotten her to kill for him in the past.
- Marvel Cinematic Universe:
- Tony Stark's relationship with his father Howard was strained at best, Tony being convinced Howard never loved or even liked him, and Howard's sudden death prevented any chance of reconciliation, leaving Tony with a lot of resentment toward him. In Captain America: Civil War, when he confronts his parents' killer, his father gets a Snub by Omission when Tony says that the person in question "killed (his) mom." In Avengers: Endgame, Tony does manage a sort-of reconciliation via time travel, a few hours before he dies.
- Peter Quill is pretty resentful towards his biological father, Ego, feeling the man abandoned his mother on Earth to die, and then sent a bunch of space pirates to pick him up, only for them to kidnap him instead. While it looks like Ego's hoping to make amends, things immediately turn sour when it turns out Ego plans to kill a lot of people to reproduce, and was the one who gave Meredith Quill the tumor that killed her. On purpose.
- Star Wars:
- Luke Skywalker is understandably horrified when he learns in The Empire Strikes Back that his father Anakin is, in fact, the murderous and ruthless Darth Vader, declaring that it's impossible and burning with enough hatred to overwhelm him in their final duel. However, in the end, he acknowledges the man Vader once was and forgives him. By contrast, his sister Leia Organa takes a lot longer to come to terms with it and never fully forgives Anakin, to the point of concealing their relation from the public and even her own son.
- Ben Solo (Kylo Ren) hates his father Han, and while his relationship with Leia is sort of better, it's not by much. This mostly stems from frequently feeling neglected by them (especially Han), suspecting they see him as a disappointment, and resenting the expectations put on him because of his relation to them. Those feelings were exacerbated when they shipped him off to train as a Jedi under his uncle, and egged on by Snoke, who pretended to be a confidante to young Ben and exploited his resentment to lead him into The Dark Side. This all ultimately culminates in Ben murdering Han, albeit not without being shaken by finally going through with it. In The Last Jedi, Ren is unable to bring himself to launch a killing strike on a ship knowing Leia is aboard and is aghast when another First Order soldier does it instead (though Leia survives). In ''The Rise of Skywalker, Ren is so devastated by Leia giving up her life to reach him through the Force that it finally provides the groundwork for his return to the light, and he manages to reconcile with a Force memory of his father before doing so.
- Somebody I Used to Know: Cassidy is estranged from her parents and is upset when they turn up at the wedding, having been invited by Ally in a form of sabotage, as they're quite opposed to her being bisexual.
- The Suicide Squad: Polka-Dot Man violently hates his mother, who experimented on him and his siblings in order to give him superpowers. The only way he can kill people is if he imagines them as being her.
- Wolves: Cayden towards Connor, for oh so many reasons.
Literature
- American Girls: Julie: Downplayed—while Tracy doesn't hate her dad, she's mad at him for getting divorced from their mom and upending their lives, and declines to go see him on weekends even though Julie does.
- Barber Black Sheep: Protagonist Oliver Winslow absolutely despised his father, Caspar, before the latter passed away.
- The Beast Player: Yuyan's discussion with Elin about her Ahlyo heritage makes Elin realize how much she's been hurt by the callous treatment of her by her paternal relatives and Asan, her foster father's biological son. She comes to consider her paternal grandfather "no better than trash" for letting Toda attack his daughter-in-law and young granddaughter.
- The Camp Half-Blood Series: Numerous demigods side with the Titans to spite their divine parents who refused to acknowledge them and left them alone in a dangerous world filled with monsters trying to eat them around every corner.
- The Cat Ate My Gymsuit: Protagonist Marcy Lewis hates her father for reasons that very quickly become evident: he's an emotionally abusive waste of flesh that constantly belittles his entire family. This never changes throughout the story.
- Crescent City: Ruhn can't stand his father for many reasons, including but not limited to his treatment of his mother and of Bryce.
- In Forbidden Fruit, Hope despises her mother Lily for the humiliation and social stigmas that Lily's reputation as a brothel madam brought Hope when she was a child, and planned to cut her completely out of her life as early as when she was fourteen and about to head off for boarding school. Even in the present, she still refuses to ever have anything to do with Lily or let her have contact with her granddaughter Glory, and the only time Hope ever re-establishes contact is when she needs Lily's money as a last resort to pay her husband's loan on his hotel, which she undeservedly receives. Even when Lily is on her deathbed, Hope refuses to fulfill her mother's dying wish of seeing her again.
- Harry Potter:
- Tom Riddle, the boy who would be Voldemort, hated his father Tom Marvolo Sr. for being a Muggle and for abandoning his mother for being a witch. Tom would then track down and murder his father and his parents. However, Harry later finds out that Sr. was an unwilling participant in the marriage (Dumbledore believes she either gave him a love potion or cursed him) and she'd raped him for over a year, but it's never made clear if Jr. ever managed or wanted to find out the full story.
- Sirius Black comes from a noble Pureblood family that shares the same bigoted views on blood-Purity that Voldemort champions despite not being Death Eaters themselves. Sirius's mother Walburga is especially unpleasant and her portrait at Grimmauld's Place 12 would constantly scream insults at visitors not befitting of her class. Sirius himself never passes the chance to speak ill of her, calling her a heartless witch who "only kept herself alive out of pure spite". Sirius hates them so much that he ran away from home at 16 to live with James's family.
- In Order of the Phoenix, when the Ministry of Magic begins a smear campaign against Dumbledore and Harry, Percy Weasley is unable to bring himself to sink his career by standing with them and fully commits to the Ministry, coldly rejecting Arthur and Molly as his parents. When Molly came to try to speak to him after the falling out, he shut the door in her face and pointedly avoids running into his father at work. By the time the Ministry changes hands to Rufus Scrimgeour and admits Voldemort is back, Percy awkwardly refuses to go home due to having made his bed by this point, but it's implied and later confirmed that he is truly guilty for his actions and wants to rejoin his parents and family. He is unable to do so in Deathly Hallows until the Battle of Hogwarts because of the Death Eater takeover ensuring it would be suicide, but he finally reconciles with his parents shortly before the battle.
- Post-Deathly Hallows, Draco's relationship with his father Lucius became very strained as whenever he would bring his family to visit his parents, Lucius tried his hardest to indoctrinate his grandson Scorpius into his Pureblood supremacist ideology, something Draco and his wife Astoria were against.
- High School D×D: Akeno Himejima despises her father Baraqiel since he was too late to save Shuri from being killed by her own relatives. Fortunately, with Issei Hyoudou's help, she and Baraqiel reconcile at the end of Volume 7.
- It Ends with Us: Lily despises her father for abusing her mother, so much so that she can't say five good things about him at his funeral. To a lesser extent, she doesn't think highly of her mother for putting up with the abuse for so long.
- I've Got You Under My Skin:
- Nina Craig loathes her mother and it's not hard to see why, considering how Muriel has been making her life miserable for decades. A big part of the reason Nina agrees to appear on the Under Suspicion programme is that she could use the $300,000 payment to buy her mother her own house and finally be rid of her. Notably, besides being a bit shocked, Nina isn't that affected by Jane's attempt to kill Muriel, and tells her she can have all of the money she was paid for appearing on the show on the condition she never speak to her again.
- Contrary to what her stepfather Robert Powell claims, Claire despised her mother by the end of her life. Claire loved her mother when it was just the two of them, but after she married Rob Powell she came to see Betsy for who she really was, hating her for being an utter Manipulative Bitch who didn't care about anyone but herself and for letting her husband molest her.
- A number of characters in Jacqueline Wilson's novels don't have the best relationship with their parents, as her stories frequently revolve around dysfunctional families and abuse.
- In Lola Rose, Jayni states that she knew she hated her father after seeing her mother's bruises from him beating her worse than ever. Him verbally abusing her and eventually hitting her across the face when she calls him out doesn't improve her opinion of him; however, she later privately admits to herself that part of her still loves him as well as hating him.
- Beauty from Cookie becomes increasingly alienated from her father, who is verbally and emotionally abusive to her and her mother. The last straw is when Beauty discovers her father got her pet rabbit killed, at which point she openly states she hates him. After she and her mother leave, she's quite happy to never see her father again.
- Martine from The Diamond Girls resents her mother Sue, feeling that she always puts her siblings before her, never confides in her and disliking the fact that Sue is making her move away from her boyfriend (whom Sue disapproves of) into a rundown house. During an argument, Martine even states to Sue's face that she thinks she's a slag note due to all her children being fathered by different men and moves out. However, Martine is actually quite horrified at herself for saying this and in the end she comes back and reconciles with her mother, with both of them admitting they made mistakes.
- Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: Magnus's father Frey fully expects this when he finally meets his son face-to-face. He's completely taken aback when Magnus instead rushes to Glomp him, subverting this trope.
- Fellow Einherjar Alex Fierro hates both of his/her Abusive Parents. Her father for kicking her to the streets for not being "normal" (which is rich coming from an adulterer), and his mother Loki for attempting to cause Ragnarök and murder him and his half-sister.
- The Neapolitan Novels:
- Elena admits in the first book that she really hated her abusive mother Immacolata when she was younger. Subverted in the last book, where Immacolata is sick and Elena realizes how much she actually loves her mother. She also learns that part of her mother's abuse was Tough Love.
- Nino hates his (seemingly friendly) father for being a hypocritical liar who cheats on Nino's mother. Ironically, Nino ends up becoming exactly life his father as he grows up.
- In the third book, Pietro can't stand his mother and is always trying to avoid her.
- On the Street Where You Live: Will has been estranged from his father for decades; when his father turns up at his office trying to build bridges, Will gives him a furious "Reason You Suck" Speech and screams at him to Get Out!. Will explains to Emily his father was always emotionally distant and that he resented him for cheating on and divorcing his mother. The incident where Will was charged with vehicular manslaughter when he was 15 cemented his hatred for his father; Will's father refused to believe his son was innocent and wouldn't even hire a decent lawyer for him despite money not being an issue. That said, the revelation that Will was actually put away for attacking a girl and has displayed psychopathic traits from an early age casts doubt on his claims about his father, though either way he hates the guy.
- The Otherworld: It is shown throughout the books that Jeremy Danvers and his father Malcolm do not have the best relationship. This was because Malcolm was racist and hated that he couldn't have children before Jeremy, who was the son he had with another supernatural, but didn't realize this until she was pregnant. After his own father, Edward, forced him to take custody, Malcolm neglected and emotionally abused Jeremy, and would have killed him if Edward hadn't put safeguards in place. Jeremy, in the present, doesn't think highly of Malcolm, even threatening at one point to report him for murder, though his calm demeanor means he never raises his voice at him. Malcolm, by contrast, viewed his own father, Edward, as a weak coward who he would have killed if Edward's will didn't give all the family money and other property to the Sorrentino family, and after Jeremy's birth, Jeremy.
- RCN: Male lead Daniel Leary is the son of Corder Leary, the longtime Speaker of the Senate (de facto prime minister of Cinnabar), and he and his father mutually detest each other, with Corder having cut him off from accessing any family funds. The only time he's actually shown his face in the series is when he tries to get Daniel to kill his new C.O., Captain Slidell, in The Way to Glory, because Corder suspects Slidell murdered Corder's illegitimate son.
- A Song of Ice and Fire: Tyrion Lannister resents his father Tywin for the mistreatment that he received because of his dwarfism and that his birth killed his mother Joanna. It eventually evolved into pure hatred after his brother Jaime told him that Tywin tricked him into thinking that his first wife Tysha is a whore, leading her to be gang-raped by the guards. Eventually, Tyrion murders his father for this unforgivable act and flees to Essos.
- Strangers on a Train: Charles Bruno in the original book (and its film adaptation) despises his father so much that he's accumulated a large mental repertoire of ideas on how to murder him; what kicks off the plot is him meeting a man named Guy Haines on the train, instantly becoming enamored with him, and trying to convince him to kill Bruno's father in the dead of night, and in return, he'll kill Guy's wife who refuses to finalize their divorce.
- Things Fall Apart:
- Okonkwo's father Unoka was a bum who spent all his time singing in his hut instead of working; his family only eked by through loans that Unoka never repaid. When he died, Okonkwo refused to sacrifice a goat to him, noting that Unoka had never even owned a goat in life. Not winding up like Unoka is Okonkwo's driving motivation and fuels his often tyrannical rule over his own family.
- Sadly, Okonkwo repeats the cycle by driving away his oldest son, Nwoye, after learning of the latter's conversion to Christianity. In the sequel, No Longer at Ease, we learn that Nwoye (now Isaac) refused to go home for his father's funeral, even at the missionaries' urging.
- Third Time Lucky: And Other Stories of the Most Powerful Wizard in the World: In "Third Time Lucky", Magdelene's son Tristan loathes her, denies he was born to her, and also tries to kill her. It appears to result from her being a bad mother.
- Warrior Cats:
- As a result of Crowfeather treating Breezepelt more like a Trophy Child than an actual son, all the while showing actual fatherly love to his ThunderClan children Lionblaze, Hollyleaf, and Jayfeather, Breezepelt despised him. His constant Parental Neglect led him to join the Dark Forest and attempt to murder his half-siblings multiple times.
- After the reveal that Leafpool and Crowfeather were the parents of the protagonists, rather than Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw, Hollyleaf grew to hate her biological mother for keeping the secret and being "selfish". She hated her so much, in fact, that after murdering Ashfur, she started to go crazy, and tried to make Leafpool eat Deathberries.
- The Wildflowers: All four main girls in the story hate their parents and for good reason.
- Both of Misty's parents use her as a pawn in their bitter divorce, her father is emotionally neglectful and her mother is arguably emotionally abusive and manipulative. She even states she hates them more than Charles Allen, her callous boyfriend who manipulated her into sleeping with him; the other girls correctly guess it's because she thinks it wouldn't have happened if her parents hadn't left her in such an emotionally vulnerable state.
- Star's father abandoned her and her brother with their neglectful, alcoholic mother, who then abandoned them to run off with her boyfriend.
- Jade's parents act like she doesn't exist except when they're forcing her to testify during their grueling divorce trial; they didn't even notice she'd been missing for nearly two days. She ends up telling the judge she doesn't care which parent gets custody of her because she hates them both equally which actually serves as a huge wake-up call for them and they start trying to improve their relationship with her.
- Cat's mother is a Control Freak and a religious fundamentalist, while her father is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who took advantage of her naivety and longing for affection to sexually abuse her. However, Cat actually ends up forgiving her mother after finding out about her own Dark and Troubled Past and expresses a wish for them to both heal together.
Live-Action TV
- Bones: A few characters hate their parents for justified reasons.
- Booth's father was a drunk, abusive jerk who Booth says probably would have killed him if not for his grandfather intervening. He does see in a letter his father wrote that he regretted his actions, but only softens slightly.
- Intern Finn Abernathy had a similar issue with his stepfather. He actually threatened to kill him when he beat Finn's mom. Only his fear of Booth and Brennan hunting him down stopped him.
- Brennan resents Max early on for leaving her and her brother as teens, though she forgives him later and is saddened by his Heroic Sacrifice in season 11.
- Bridgerton: Simon Basset famously and reasonably despises his father since his old man was not only viciously abusive toward him, but also eventually disowned him due to his stammer. The former duke only cared about maintaining his title and legacy, not his son's (even his wife's) well-being, leading Simon to vow to never marry as well as have children in order to spite him by ending his line and legacy. Nevertheless, after his wife, Daphne, convinces him that he deserves love, he finally breaks his vows and earns a happy marriage.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Xander does not like his Abusive Parents at all and rarely talks about them unless he's making fun of them. He also takes every opportunity to stay away from them, from sleeping in the backyard every Christmas Eve to avoid their drunken arguments, to taking the first chance he can find to move out of their basement in Season 5, to deciding to connect with Willow's parents following Joyce's death over his own. The point is driven home in "Gone," when he disapproves of Anya arranging for Buffy to sit next to his family on her chart for their wedding:
Xander: Great. Yeah... except we don't hate Buffy.
- Cobra Kai: Robby despises his dad, Johnny, because Johnny was mostly absent for the first 16 years of Robby's life. They finally reconcile in the season 4 finale.
- Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Rebecca's mother Naomi is aloof and critical of her daughter, making the relationship very strained. Rebecca also has issues with her neglectful father.
- The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance: Seladon resents her mother Maudra Maylin for saddling her with a lot of royal duties and ignoring her in comparison to her sisters. This eventually culminates in her usurping the throne by selling her out as a traitor to the Skeksis and burning her corpse out of spite.
- ER's Doug Ross regarding his late abusive father:
"I hated the son-of-a-bitch. And. . .I loved him. It's never simple, is it?"
- Father Brown: In "The Star of Jacob", Mrs. Langton notes that David doesn't seem to like her at all. This causes her a lot of grief and depression, thinking she is a horrible mother, unnatural, lacking in maternal instinct. She puts on a good face, but is secretly distraught and ill over it. Justified because "David" isn't her baby at all.
- Fellow Travelers:
- Hawkins Fuller loathes his homophobic father, who is not only disgusted that his son is gay, but even demands an apology for being this way. Not surprisingly, they're estranged.
- Jackson Fuller divulges to Tim Laughlin that he hates his father Hawk.
- Gotham Knights (2023): Duela loathes the Joker as he abandoned her mother and her. On learning Harvey was her actual father, she turns this on him, even shooting him at her mom's instigation.
- Hacks: Deborah's daughter D.J. doesn't have that great a relationship with her, resenting how neglected she'd been growing up as Deborah so often was busy with her comedy career. She's quite happy at getting an opportunity to vent through insult jokes at Deborah's comedy roast, though it's never outright hatred. In fact they get to a better place somewhat after this.
- House of Anubis:
- Downplayed with Jerome and John Clarke. Jerome initially hated his father for all of the mistakes he'd made, which eventually landed him in prison and forced him to abandon Jerome and his daughter Poppy. Even when they reunited, Jerome was almost too angry to actually speak with him, even comparing him negatively to Darth Vader. However, when they actually began to talk, and when it was clear that John wanted to be a good parent, Jerome cooled down, and their relationship grew strong.
- Eddie resented Mr. Sweet for abandoning him as a child, revealing that after years of longing for him, he eventually grew bitter. Because of this, he intentionally stirs up trouble in school, and tries to goad his father into punishing him- only for Mr. Sweet to intentionally not punish him, making him even more resentful. Eventually, though, Eddie began to forgive him and their relationship improved, though it's still distant and awkward.
- In My Skin: Bethan doesn't like her dad Dilwyn at all, who's a neglectful jerkass with disgusting habits, and wishes sometimes that she could kill him. After he terrifies and endangers her mother, she openly threatens to kill him if he ever hurts her like that again. In the finale she vows to never see him again once he's committed even worse crimes but gotten off.
- Interview with the Vampire (2022):
- "In Throes of Increasing Wonder...": Lestat de Lioncourt detests his father, whom he characterizes as a vulgar man with a temper, for beating and starving him when he was a boy in order to dissuade him from joining the clergy.
- "A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart": Claudia has grown to loathe her vampire dads for giving her the Dark Gift and reading her journals without her permission. She lashes out at them with "I hate you both!" and later runs away from home.
- "The Thing Lay Still": It's hinted that Daniel Molloy's daughters hate him because they refuse to have any contact with their father.
- "Do You Know What It Means to Be Loved by Death": Quang Pham resents his father Tuan because he calls him an asshole when they're introduced to Louis de Pointe du Lac and Claudia.
- "I Want You More than Anything in the World": Santiago says that he hates the "My Baby Loves Windows" song as much as he hates his mortal father.
- "Like the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light": Armand tries to dissuade Louis from turning Madeleine into a vampire by pointing out that fledglings often abhor their makers, although Louis brings up counter-examples.
Armand: Those we make ourselves will always despise us.
Louis: Celeste and Estelle, they're inseparable. Merde'em, Basilic, Planche, that's a tight band.
Armand: And [Lestat] made you and Claudia.
- Kamen Rider Gavv:
- Lango Stomach's cold disdain extends to his recently deceased father, Bouche, whom he calls a lunatic for protecting Michiru Inoue and Shoma.
- This is ironically one thing Lango has in common with Shoma, although Shoma's reason for it is for all the abuse that Bouche subjected him and his mother to. Given what a Nice Guy Shoma is and how forgiving he can be, the fact that Shoma has nothing but resentment for Bouche really says something about what an awful parent Bouche was.
- The Lazarus Project: Becky hates her dad on the assumption he abandoned her when she meets George. She soon changes once he tells her that her dad in fact looked for her over many years, and they quickly make up after meeting.
- Malcolm in the Middle: To say that Francis hates Lois would be a vast understatement. Any comment that's even remotely kind to her will get you chewed out, and he'll often bend logic to "prove" that she's responsible for anything and everything wrong in his life.
- Monarch: Legacy of Monsters: In the series opening, Bill Randa tries to leave an Apocalyptic Log to his son Hiroshi on his handheld camera — he comments that Hiroshi likely won't even feel all that upset that Bill's dead if he gets this, and Bill solemnly apologizes to his son, saying that he can't fix all the mistakes he made and all the things that he cost him.
- The Murders: "In My Feelings" has a hostage taker with a daughter who had disowned him for killing his wife, her mother, refusing to see him and not even calling him her dad as a result over it. She only relents, speaking with him and addressing him as "dad", in hopes that he'll free the hostages.
- The Penguin (2024): Sofia despises her father Carmine in the present because he'd framed her for the murders of women he committed (including his own wife, her mother), which caused her to get locked up in Arkham State Hospital for a decade and tarred wrongly as "The Hangman" Serial Killer.
- Reboot (2022): Hannah begins the series deeply resenting her father Gordon for abandoning her. She angrily quits on the spot when he arrives on set and tries to assert his authority and experience over her. They begin to mend their relationship over the course of the show.
- Roseanne: while Roseanne and Jackie have each expressed their hatred for their mother, Jackie is the more venomous of the two since Bev always complains about how Jackie lives her life. On the other side, Roseanne actually hates her father more because he used to beat them when they were kids.
- Runaways (2017): While some members of the titular team continue to try and make excuses for their parents, for certain, Alex and Nico definitely hate their parents after finding out who they really are, with Alex's season 2 arc ultimately culminating in him having them arrested.
- Scream: The TV Series: Piper and Kieran both hated their respective parents, with Piper blaming Maggie for the death of her father, Brandon James, and Kieran suffering from his dad's Parental Abandonment. The two of them bonded over their issues... and used them as motivation to murder people as Ghost Face.
- Shameless (US):
- It's practically a rite of passage for Gallagher kids to start Calling Parents by Their Name as a mark of showing they have no trust or respect for said parent. Patriarch Frank definitely deserves it, seeing how he's an utterly useless Junkie Parent who's never worked an honest day in his life.
- In the episode "Requiem for a Slut", Fiona spitefully declares that she's happy that her mother Monica is dead, as she no longer has to deal with the woman who abandoned her and the rest of the family only to waltz back in expecting hugs and forgiveness, all the while forcing Fiona to be Promoted to Parent and put her own life on hold to take care of her siblings.
- Mickey and Mandy are at their happiest when their abusive father Terry is in prison, as the man is a viciously homophobic Heteronormative Crusader who went as far as to force Mickey to have sex with a prostitute to "fuck the queer out of him" and has molested Mandy more than once.
- Sirens (2025): Simone detests her father for his neglect of her, and ignores her sister's calls after he is diagnosed with dementia. When faced with the prospect of going home penniless and helping care for him, she decides to seduce her rich boss instead.
- Spartacus: Blood and Sand: Zigzagged with Tiberius. He is desperate to earn the approval of his father Crassus but it doesn't always work, for which Tiberius resents him. After an attempt to capture Spartacus goes horribly wrong, Crassus punishes Tiberius and his troops by forcing them to take part in decimation during which Tiberius is forced to kill his best friend, Sabinus. Tiberius hates his father for this but doesn't take it out on him directly. Instead, he wages a campaign of terror behind the scenes on those closest to Crassus, starting with raping Kore, his father's mistress, when she attempts to reconcile him to Crassus. In a twisted way, Tiberius enjoys both gaining his father's respect publicly and privately tormenting others he cares about for revenge.
- Special Ops: Lioness:
- Joe's daughter Kate shows dislike of her and says she hates her after Joe comes home (probably due to resentment over her so frequently being gone). In Season 2, this has softened into her just worrying about Joe's going into harm's way.
- Cruz has to include an abusive father as one part of her cover story to account for the bruises she receives during Joe's training exercise.
- In Season 2 Josephina Carrillo hates her father, who is the lieutenant to her brutal cartel boss uncle and also quite vehemently homophobic (she's queer), along with abusive to her.
- Stranger Things:
- Jonathan Byers completely loathes his and Will's father Lonnie. Justified because Lonnie is a Jerkass, sleazy and emotionally and physically abused Jonathan as a child. He wasn't any better towards Will and their mother Joyce, having cheated on the latter at least once during their marriage.
- Although he's never been shown onscreen, Steve Harrington hates his father, calling him an asshole more than once.
- Billy Hargrove greatly dislikes his abusive father Neil.
- Strike Back:
- In Project Dawn Dr. Clare Somersby hates her father Gerald Crawford over his being an arms dealer. She's devoted herself to helping people as a UN aid worker, against violence his arms supplies help cause. They hadn't seen each other for years-her mother had taken sole custody of Clare as a girl. However, when he saves her from Janjaweed kidnappers, Clare still shows clear love for him when he's injured. She's distraught at being unable to save him.
- In Vendetta Loric hates his dad Edon, unsurprisingly, as the latter is pushing him into an Arranged Marriage to a woman when he's gay, and has also murdered his boyfriend.
- Supernanny: Some children feel this way about one or both of their parents; sometimes with justifiable reason, and other times without. One noticeable case has Maryann Agate confess how she feels about her own mother in the Reflection Room:
Maryann: I don't like my mum. She's definitely horrible. She's selfish and horrible. She never lets me do nothing. She just tells me off. Putting her face straight up to me, and looking into my eyes, and saying "I hate you".
- Victorious: Jade has problems with her father, describing him as cold and judgmental. This animosity stems from him not approving of her pursuing a career in the creative arts. In addition, it is implied her childhood was less than ideal. For instance, the only time her Dad cooked breakfast for her, she spent the rest of the day throwing up. That being said, she does try to prove herself to him, even inviting him to one of her plays.
- Vida: Emma is hostile to both her parents, calling the two using only their first names given that her mother had sent her away while her father had beaten her mother up.
- The Wilds: Boy does Devon, and with good reason. He’s the frat bro who accidentally got Nora’s ex Quinn killed in a Deadly Prank and feels immense guilt for it. Then he looks at his mother Gretchen, an adult who willingly and remorselessly puts kids at risk, traumatizing them and ruining their lives all to prove Women Are Wiser, which horrifies him.
- You Me Her: Izzy isn't happy to see her dad initially despite him trying to reconnect, as he had been a neglectful alcoholic during most of her life. She's very hostile to him at first as a result. It takes some time for her to forgive this.
Music
- Mentioned and Played for Laughs in Bowling for Soup's "I'm Gay":
Well, we've all heard about how the guys in the band
Weren't the popular kids in school
And you hate your parents 'cuz the way it turned out
But in the end, the blame's on you - Eminem's hatred for his mother (mental issues) and father (abandoned the family) translated to hit records. Lately, he's forgiven his mother, but made no reconciliation with his father before the latter's death in 2019. In the song "Leaving Heaven" on Music to Be Murdered By, he stated that he didn't really care when his dad passed because he was never there for him during his life, even going as far as saying he wished he could have told him he hated him straight to him.
Mythology & Religion
- The Bible plays with this trope. On one hand, one of the 10 Commandments is to honor your mother and father. Despite this, Jesus claimed his arrival would turn parents and children against each other and that children should turn against their parents if it would be for his sake.
- Classical Mythology: Needless to say there's no love lost between the first six Olympians and their father, Cronus. Given he swallowed five out of six of them out of paranoia they'd overthrow him. When the Olympians won the Titanomachy, the Titans were merely imprisoned in Tartarus, but Cronus got a special punishment in the form of a Crippling Castration.
Theatre
- Jasper in Deadland: Jasper resents his mother for leaving him and his father, and he resents his father for being a Junkie Parent. When Agnes gets her memories back, she reveals that she hates her father for being physically abusive and that she feels bad for hating him.
Agnes: Aren't I supposed to love them? The fact is I don't. Is that wrong of me?
Video Games
- Another Code: While "hate" might be pushing it, Ashley spends much of the sequel filled with animosity towards her father both for the initial abandonment of a decade and the fact that it nearly happened again when he got a new job to get his life back in order. It takes near the end of the game before they're on better terms with each other.
- Best of Three: While Helen is okay with her father, she resents her mother. Helen's mother constantly belittles her, didn't want her to apply to college, and tried to guilt trip her into taking care of her younger brothers.
Helen: We don't discuss things in my house. We communicate by a process of applied guilt.
- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!: Aurelia dislikes her mother, probably due to being sold the family business just so her mother could retire, and due to acting like there's a psychic link between them that generates irritation, as said in some Idle Animations:
Wonder if mama is dead yet? Nooooo... Still feeling a deep sense of irritation. Her heart still beats.
After mama sold me the family business, she decided to take it easy. In this context, 'easy' apparently consists of going from planet to planet, subjugating workers, killing people, and generally continuing to run mining operations behind my back. All the same to me as long as all the cheques keep coming, but it's awfully bloody boring to be a CEO with piss-all to do. - Devil's Hunt: Desmond despises his father, Richard, and barely wants to interact with Richard after his mother's passing. In all fairness Richard is indeed A Dick in Name.
Richard: Desmond, Desmond, Desmond... will you ever be anything other than a burden? First I'm cleaning up the mess you've made of my company, then you're getting your ass handed to you in front of all my friends and colleagues. The only good is your mother didn't live long enough to witness this failure.
- Devil May Cry: Played with twice.
- While Nero may not have forgiven and is infuriated by his father, Vergil, for ripping off his Devil Bringer arm among his many crimes, and during their fight in the last mission of Devil May Cry 5, Nero gives an atomic middle finger to the guy for insulting his existence, one would be hard-pressed to argue he'd still try as hard as he did to prevent his duel to the death and protest his departure to Hell if he truly hated him in the end.
- It's implied in Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening that Dante dislikes his father Sparda, whose enemies killed his mother and ended up driving him and Vergil apart. Dante being frequently compared to him both negatively and positively doesn't help either. However, this only really applies in 3; in other games, Dante is either respectful of his father or is apathetic to his name being mentioned.
- Die Hard: Vendetta: The Big Bad, Piet Gruber, is the son of Hans Gruber from the original Die Hard 1. Turns out Hans, in addition to being a ruthless terrorist mastermind, is also a terrible father — Piet's actually glad McClane dropped his father Hans off a building all those years ago to his death.
- Dragon Age: Inquisition: Elven companion Sera intensely hates her deceased human noble foster mother, who started Sera's Internalized Categorism over being one of Thedas' Enslaved Elves due to Honor-Related Abuse. Sera becomes intensely angry just talking about her, and throws out words like "bitch" and "monster" to describe her. What is even tragic is that her mother did that fatal mistake without active malice on her part and was truly ignorant of what the girl has to go through as an elf navigating to human world, but the damage is already done. And with all Sera's hatred towards her, part of her knows that she didn't mean it and that she mourns that she never managed to reconcile with her before she died.
- Elden Ring: Messmer the Impaler did all the terrible things he did on his mother Marika's orders, one of those orders being to become the focal point of all the hatred of the people in the Land of Shadow. His last words as he dies are him spitting a curse on his mother's name.
- Elohim Eternal II: Son of Man: Judas resents his father, Joseph, for being subservient to the Pleromans, who are oppressing the Shemerians. He later learns that Joseph used to be the leader of the Zealots, but lost his fighting spirit after the Time of Tribulation, where the Pleromans massacred many Shemerians, including his wife. Due to Judas's increasing doubts with the Zealots, he becomes more sympathetic towards his father.
- Façade (2005): Both Trip and Grace resent their parents, which is just one part of their many, many issues. Trip resents that his parents are poor and uneducated, which resulted in him growing up in poverty and constantly feeling he was never good enough. Grace resents her parents for being image-obsessed snobs who spoiled her, thus leading her to avoid responsibility for her actions and let others make decisions for her. Ironically, they both like each other's parents; Trip likes that Grace's parents are sophisticated and successful, while Grace likes Trip's parents for being 'real' and not caring only about wealth.
- Far Cry: New Dawn: Ethan Seed is the illegitimate son of Joseph Seed, the Big Bad of Far Cry 5, who went to live with his father after the Collapse and his mother's death by cancer. From his childhood, Ethan desperately wanted to be named the heir to his father's kingdom of New Eden, partially due to being his last living blood family, and partially because he wanted the power of the mystical apples Joseph discovered that gave him the power to defend his people. Joseph, however, feared that Ethan's soul was becoming dark and corrupted, and therefore the apple's power would destroy him, so he refused. Years later, Ethan, a man in his 20s, is first introduced to the Player Character going on an explosive rant against his father for entrusting his kingdom to whoever found his personal book of guidance instead of just his son. Needless to say, Ethan doesn't get along with his father.
- Final Fantasy X: Tidus loathes his father Jecht, who he remembers being a drunken, verbally abusive father during his childhood. Throughout the game, Tidus' feelings gradually become more complex, as while Jecht certainly wasn't a good father Tidus learns to accept that Jecht was a complicated figure who changed after arriving in Spira and did care about Tidus even if he didn't express it well.
- Fire Emblem:
- In Fire Emblem Gaiden and its remake Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, Sonya resents her father Jedah, and for a good reason. He abandoned her and her sisters at a priory, and sacrificed her sisters to Duma. She even calls him by his name if she fights him in Act 4.
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses has several examples:
- Ferdinand von Aegir has a rather low opinion of his father, although it has nothing to do with how Ferdinand was treated, and rather how he treats everybody else and embodies the worst traits of a noble. If his Goddess Tower scene is obtained, Ferdinand hints that he's willing to commit Patricide. It's more complicated than it seems, however, as while Ferdinand will readily admit his father was greedy and arrogant, he's also conflicted after his father is deposed and imprisoned after Edelgard ascends the throne. If his Paralogue is cleared, while Ferdinand does admit his father did deserve to die, he also mourns. Taken further in Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, where Ferdinand does end up committing Patricide in Scarlet Blaze (and, in fact, Duke Aegir wanted Ferdinand to be the one to kill him) and admits that his father deserves to die for everything he's done against the Empire. That said, Ferdinand still seems to love Ludwig as his parent and is conflicted about having to kill him.
- Bernadetta's opinion towards her own father is no different, but it is based on how awfully she was treated. She's more concerned with her mother when her father ends up under house arrest in the second half of the story. In Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, Bernadetta has virtually no reaction if her father dies in the Scarlet Blaze route, but if he survives, she'll admit that even if she hates him, he's still her father.
- Hubert has nothing nice to say about his father, outright calling Marquis Vestra a "miserable piece of filth" for his betrayal of Emperor Ionius IX (along with Duke Aegir and the other Imperial courtiers). As Hubert's family has protected every emperor since the foundation of the Adrestian Empire, he takes his devotion to Edelgard completely seriously, and when the chaos of the war between the Empire and the Church of Seiros erupts, Hubert wastes no time in executing the former Marquis for treason. In his support chain with Hanneman, Hubert vents about his father, and while Hanneman, an old friend of Hubert's father, offers some explanation for Marquis Vestra's actions, Hubert maintains that he still hates his father and his father deserved to die.
- Felix has strained relations with his father Rodrigue due to their differing views of his brother's death, and is hostile toward him in most of their conversations, though he quietly grieves on the Blue Lions route when Rodrigue dies taking an attack meant for Dimitri. If recruited on other routes (besides Crimson Flower, where he can take this trope to its logical conclusion), he'll reveal that he hasn't heard from his father in some time because of the war, and it's clear that he's worried.
- Garou: Mark of the Wolves: Rock wants absolutely nothing to do with his father Geese Howard for abandoning him and his mother, refusing to help said mother as she was dying, and generally being villainous scum. Unfortunately, any chance at revenge is long gone as Geese has been dead for ten years.
- God of War:
- In God of War II and God of War III, Kratos qualifies against Zeus, both before and after learning they're related. After all the misery Zeus puts him through, he's more than justified. On the other hand, this is a case of a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in that Zeus tries to kill Kratos after becoming convinced that the latter will try to kill him first, which of course is exactly what Kratos tries to do after Zeus tries to kill him.
- God of War (PS4): During the second visit to Helheim, Kratos and Atreus discover that Freya is Baldur's mother and that she was responsible for the invincibility spell that cost him the ability to feel any pain or pleasure of any sort. Since he has suffered this Fate Worse than Death for over 100 years, he is completely psychotic and depressed and wishes nothing more than to have violent revenge on her. Seeing his younger self in Baldur, Kratos tries to reason with him before he does something he'll regret forever, but Baldur is having none of it.
- Hades: Zagreus' relationship with his father Hades is deeply strained. Hades is a cold and distant parent who continually puts down Zagreus' attempts to be helpful (dipping into I Have No Son! territory at worst), and Zagreus resents his father as a result. The tipping point comes when Zagreus learns Nyx, who he actually respects, isn't his birth mother, and Hades forbids him from trying to find out more about his parentage. Zagreus does eventually meet his birth mother Persephone who asks if he really hates his father. Zagreus admits to holding a grudge against Hades, but can't say he truly hates him when he knows how Hades and his siblings violently warred against their own Abusive Parents.
- Throné from Octopath Traveler II despises her Parental Substitute Mother, due to Mother's excessively abusive nature; Mother constantly flies into a rage and whips the Blacksnakes when they do anything to displease her. Her feelings towards her other "parent," Father, are a bit more complicated: Throné cares for him deep down, but still hates all of the training he put her through. Once she meets her biological father, Claude, Throné immediately finds him completely disgusting. Claude has spent so long "impregnating countless women" and pitting all his children against each other just to make the "perfect heir" that he's responsible for untold amounts of suffering for all the Blacksnakes.
- Psychonauts: Raz hates his father for hating psychics and trying to dissuade him from becoming one. As a result, Raz runs away from the circus in hopes of becoming a Psychonaut like the ones he's always admired. In truth, Raz's father doesn't hate psychics and is, in fact, one himself. His attempts to dissuade Raz were born from a desire to protect him, as their family had been cursed by another group of psychics to always drown in any remotely deep body of water. When he sees Raz's mental perception of himself, his father is both saddened and confused.
- Red Dead Redemption II: Arthur Morgan speaks of his biological father twice over the course of the game, and both times the only thing he has to say on the subject is that he didn't die soon enough.
- In The Roottrees are Dead, Caroline tried but failed to argue against her father's company policies that threatened the environment.
- Tiny Tina's Wonderlands: There's a side quest called "Lyre and Brimstone" where a character named Archon loudly proclaims multiple times he hates his mother, and once that he hates his brother. It's Played for Laughs where Archon is clearly misbehaving or overreacting in these short stories and acts like he's the victim in this scenario. It seems his reason for joining the Metal Concert is to show up his strict parents; given the world this takes place in, it results in him being killed by his own actions and the other band winning by default.
Visual Novels
- Buried Stars: Oh Inha hates, hates her father, Yu Ilchun. Not only did he beat her—in large part for not being a male child like he had wanted—and her mother, he was also a cruel Con Man whose activities resulted in at least one suicide. She actually called the cops on him as a murderer and thief as he left their house, and he still tries to worm his way back into her good graces. She changed her name in full (mother's family name, a given name to reflect purifying herself of his influence) entirely because of how loathsome she found her father.
- Class of '09: Nicole has very little love for her mother due to the fact that she is a huge Hypocrite and that her multiple failed marriages are the reason why she's constantly had to move and change schools, with many of these husbands being implied to have being violent or pedophiles. While Nicole is hardly a saint herself, it is shown that her mother is very dismissive of her at best, and outright abusive at worst, with several routes having her kicking Nicole out of the house or threatening to do so, and in another one she becomes physically abusive and starts hitting Nicole for "becoming a disappointment". Nicole also feels like her mother favors her older brother despite him being an overweight deadbeat who mooches off of them and is a pedophile. Notably, she never kicks her son out of the house like she does with Nicole. In Re-Up, her abuse is dialed up, and she is seen strangling Nicole in the intro and threatens to hit her multiple times throughout the game. Tellingly, Nicole refers to her mother as "a bitch" in said game's intro, and in the endings where she graduates or moves to LA after winning a lawsuit, she cuts off all contact with her. The ending in which Nicole is murdered in particular has her state that her mother can "fuck off and burn in hell" with her.
- Diabolik Lovers: Every parent fails in some critical, Freudian excuse-forming way, but the leading hated ones are Cordelia and Karlheinz.
- Cordelia was profoundly self-centered and saw her triplet sons as tools for her own advancement, amusement, and gratification. They have very complicated feelings towards her, since her cruelty eventually drove them to murder her. Ayato probably the least so - he hates her and doesn't regret acting against her. Laito is glad she's dead, but will be haunted by her memory forever. Kanato may love her more as a memory than as an actual person.
- Karlheinz is the father of the triplets as well as three other sons by different mothers, but he has never been there for any of them and merely lords over them from afar. They resent the bizarre demands he sends them by correspondence, but they seldom disobey him, since the price of disappointing him can be as steep as it is strange. The one exception is Reiji, who respects Karlheinz and hates his mother instead.
- Fate/stay night: Illyasviel "Illya" Einzbern once resented her father Kiritsugu Emiya because he seemingly abandoned her and took it out on Shirou Emiya. Once she learns the truth, that Kiritsugu didn't know she was alive and that her caretakers kept him from seeing her, Illya softens up and becomes more amicable.
- In Heart of the Woods, Morgan Fischer hates her mother Evelyn, the mayor of the town where she lives, for being a cold and controlling individual who is willing to sacrifice Morgan so that Morgan can serve as her new body. Of course, Morgan also knows that the Moonsick One is possessing Evelyn's body, having destroyed Evelyn's soul in the process of possessing her, which is part of the reason why Morgan doesn't refer to Evelyn as a parent.
- Highway Blossoms:
- Downplayed with Amber. Her mother lost custody of her at some point in the past, leaving Amber to be raised by her grandfather until his death a year prior to the start of the story. Amber has not seen her mother in years and doesn't seem to want to, since she describes her grandfather as the only one who mattered to her prior to her meeting Marina.
- Mariah is more openly contemptuous of her mother, whom she refers to with demeaning terms such as "the hag" or "my old lady," and implies is a promiscuous alcoholic. This may be why she and her sister are with their mutual friend Joseph rather than living at home.
- Higurashi: When They Cry: Rena Ryugu has made it abundantly clear that she wants nothing to do with her mother, thanks in part to Mrs. Ryugu's attempts at manipulating Rena into liking the man she was cheating on Rena's father with. Rena's since cut all ties with her mom, refusing to speak with her and having no interest in the sibling that was later born to her mother and her new husband until she finally meets said sibling in the spin-off game, Higurashi: When They Cry Mei.
- In Tavern Talk, Jade hates her resentful working-class parents and cut off all ties with them long ago.
Web Animation
- ATTACK on MIKA: Herika hates her mother, Megumi, for having to work as a hostess. Her sister Chiyo, however, loves her despite that and understands the circumstances that led her to work there in the first place.
- The Debbie and Carrie Show:
- Vicky Jackson was born to a prostitute and drug dealer/addict who was willing to use her own daughter as a prostitute for pedophiles as well as feature Vicky in child pornography. Vicky was taken from her birth mother at age seven and then adopted by Jessica and Lucy Sims at age 12, being legally renamed Vicky Sims. She hated her birth mother for what was done to her and did her best to keep her in prison as long as possible.
- George Anderson was once fanatically loyal to his father, Ted Anderson, who had been the corrupt mayor of the Town in Texas. That loyalty ended once George learned about his father's willingness to throw George under the bus in order to save Ted's political career. Encouraged by his mother Patty (who later divorced Ted), George got his revenge on his father by revealing secrets that later got Ted sent to prison for destruction of public property and racketeering.
- Arlene Green was the daughter of Rebekah Smith/Wilson, but hated her own mother for abandoning her as a baby. Arlene was raised by her grandparents who totally shared her contempt for their own eldest daughter.
- MoniRobo: Yui hates both her parents, especially her mother, for bringing her up in poverty.
- RWBY:
- Both Mercury Black and his father, Marcus, hated each other. Marcus raised Mercury to be an assassin, and often brutalized him. Eventually, Mercury killed Marcus, for unknown reasons, but he makes it no secret he loathed his father.
- Winter Schnee loathes her father Jacques for being an abusive Control Freak and joined the Atlesian military to get away from him. Come Volume 8, while Weiss ultimately can't abandon any sense of family towards Jacques, Winter has no such sentiment and makes it clear she couldn't care less what happens to him. Though he thanks Winter for promising to evacuate him from Atlas, she bluntly informs him it was actually Weiss' decision.
Webcomics
- The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!: Galatea created a Mechanical Abomination named Gosh using alien technology, and they both agree this makes her his mother. Their initial interaction when he was born lasted maybe half a minute, but Galatea was rude and demanding to him, and he decided he hated her. They make up before he leaves at the end of the storyline, though, with Galatea sadly whispering "I love you" after he's out of earshot.
- Galatea herself hates her "father,'' the scientist who grew her in a lab and treated her as a test animal rather than as a child who needed love.
- The Order of the Stick:
- Roy has no love lost with his father, Eugene. Eugene never respected Roy due to his dream of becoming a Fighter (Eugene was a proud wizard who looked down on non-magic users), and Roy resented his father for being a neglectful parent whose over-focus on work led to the accidental death of Roy's younger brother. A good deal of Roy's character arc is driven by his desire to one-up his father and the mutual dislike between the two.
- Even though they're both Evil, Nale can't stand his father, who he considers overly controlling. He spends his whole life trying to get out from under his wing and establish himself as a villain in his own right, doing things his own way. This leads to his demise, as he rejects his father's protection at a moment when his life depended on it.
- True Villains: Bayn is a comically serious Evil Sorcerer whose father is a quirky, whimsical gadfly of vastly greater power. Bayn loathes him for his attitude, the harmless-yet-annoying Curses he stuck on Bayn for fun, and some implicit serious Dysfunctional Family drama, but they reconcile after Bayn's Darkest Hour.
Dove: I am going to murder your entire family.
Bayn: Please do.
Web Novel
- Can You Spare a Quarter?: When Graham muses to the street child Jamie that it must be bad to lose one's parents, the boy responds angrily that "nothing happened to them" and thinks to himself that his situation would be much better if he did in fact lose them. Graham realizes that Jamie is running from Abusive Parents.
Web Original
- The Jenkinsverse: Allison was forced to give up her son Alex at birth by her conservative Mormon parents, which led to him resenting her for abandoning him (despite being adopted by his father's family) and growing up into a real troubled kid. When Allison courts controversy after her triple with Julian and Xiù makes First Contact with the Ten'Gewek and teaches them how to make steel, this makes Alex a prime target for radicalization by the Alien Protection Army and he firebombs Julian's Minnesota property as revenge.
- Looming Gaia: Lukas and Jelani Fanaka hate their mother Moswen due to both her psychological abuse towards them and physical abuse towards her slave Itanya, who they were in love with, and eventually selling her to Kaconenans. Eventually, Lukas poisons Moswen, and Jelani sends him a thank-you card once he realizes what he did.
Web Video
- Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Where his father is concerned, Vegeta has... issues.
- Best exemplified by Yajirobe...:
Vegeta: You... You cut through my armor! This was a gift from my father!
Yajirobe: I'm sorry! I'm sure your father was a great man!
Vegeta: I hated my father!
Yajirobe: Oh, well then, I'm sure your father was a total prick.
Vegeta: (punches Yajirobe into a rock) HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT MY FATHER LIKE THAT?! - ...And Cell:
Cell: I want you. To hit me. As hard. As. You. Can.
Vegeta: And if I don't play along?
Cell: Well then, I guess your father was right about you.
Vegeta: (kicks Cell in the head, to no effect)
Cell: Oooh... Consider that nerve touched!
- Best exemplified by Yajirobe...:
Western Animation
- Adventure Time: When Finn meets his biological dad in person, he quickly grows to hate him due to his openly dismissive attitude towards Finn and immediately runs away again, indirectly leading to his right arm being ripped off. The following episode has Finn trying to reach space to find his dad, beat him up, and rip off his arm as revenge, one of the few times in the series when Finn succumbs to evil thoughts. In another episode where Finn is under a curse that turns anyone he looks at into how he imagines them, Finn imagines himself as someone uncaring, judgemental, self-centred, and monstrous, turning into an ogre-like caricature of his dad. In their final episode together, Finn comes to an understanding that his dad will always be a selfish deadbeat and nothing's going to change that now, moving beyond his hatred of him right as they say goodbye.
- Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake: Marshall Lee has an extremely strained relationship with his mother Hana and does his best to have as little to do with her as he can (including choosing to live in a van despite his mother being incredibly wealthy, owning a lot of property, and having connections to pretty much every important person in the city), due to her being a huge Control Freak who doesn't see her son as an independent person with his own thoughts and interests, but someone that she can mould into an extension of herself. The fact that Marshall was willing to agree to this in exchange for a favour for Gary (without Gary even knowing it was a favour) is basically an Act of True Love, proving his affection for Gary runs much deeper than merely friendship.
- Family Guy:
- Meg seems to greatly resent Peter and Lois, even giving them a verbal dressing down in one episode. Justified given their treatment of her.
- Likewise, Stewie Griffin holds the parents with no respect. This especially applied to Lois in the earlier seasons, with Stewie's repeated attempts at matricide. Even if he's since moved past this, he rarely speaks of her or "The Fat Man" outside of disgust or contempt.
- Harley Quinn (2019): Harley Quinn absolutely loathes her deadbeat mobster of a father. Since he's the reason why she was forced to lose a gymnastics competition she wanted to win badly just so he could win a bet he made against her, it's hard to not see why she hates him so much. To top it off, just when she starts to think her father isn't so bad, he tries to kill her for money.
- Moral Orel:
- As the series progresses, Orel loses more and more respect for his father Clay until, at the end of season two, he ends up outright saying "I hate you" with complete sincerity after Clay spends a father-son hunting trip getting violently drunk and bullying him. The fact that Clay's response to hearing this is a mirthful "Hate away, sister! Hate away!" is downright horrifying.
- Joe resents his father Dr. Secondopinionson for being so old (for context, his half sister is already an adult). When he finds out his father lied about his mother being dead, he beats the crap out of him. Considering the implications that Nurse Bendy wasn't much older than Joe currently is when Dr. Secondopinionson raped and impregnated her, he deserved it.
- The Owl House: Amity Blight comes to hate her mother Odalia after so many years of emotional abuse from her, with the final straw coming from Odalia selling out all of witchkind to Emperor Belos so she can gain more power.
- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Both Adora and Catra have severe issues with their adoptive mother Shadow Weaver, although Catra spends most of the first two seasons alternating between hating Shadow Weaver's guts and desperately craving her approval. Justified in spades because Shadow Weaver is an Abusive Parent to the core. She gave Adora a steady supply of praise mixed with manipulation that left her with a diminished sense of self, an out-of-control Guilt Complex, PTSD symptoms, and severe limitations on her emotional intelligence, while the open dismissal and intermittent bouts of magical torture she inflicted on Catra played a major role in making Catra the walking, talking open wound she's been for most of the show; with Shadow Weaver, all hatred is earned.
- The Simpsons:
- Ned Flanders hates his Beatnik parents due to their incredibly lax parenting. During an episode where he suffered a psychotic breakdown, him outright admitting that he hated his parents is treated as a good thing since it meant that he's openly processing his anger rather than bottling it up.
- A few episodes revolving around the Lisa Simpson-Homer Simpson relationship deal with Homer's fear that she might be getting into this territory with regard to him, such as "Lisa's Pony," which sees him desperately buying her the pony she'd always wanted after his latest disappointment meant that he no longer saw "love in her eyes." In "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words," she goes as far as changing her name from "Simpson" to "Bouvier," her mother's maiden name, after his latest disappointment. However, Homer always manages to earn her affection back by the end of the episode.
- Bart Simpson often straddles this line. He almost regularly shows his dad little to no respect, almost always calls him by name, and is often quick to leap at opportunities to get away from him and either his borderline abusive behavior or stupidity when it becomes too much for him to bear. It's a Generation Xerox as Homer has a similar set of problems with Abe (and, in at least one possible future, Bart has two sons who are likewise frustrated with Bart).
- Star Trek: Lower Decks:
- Early in the series, Sam Rutherford programs a virtual tutor called Badgey designed to train Starfleet officers, but a flaw in Badgey's emotional processing predisposes him to resent his "father" and become Ax-Crazy, and Rutherford unknowingly triggers this by punching him during a long, apparently stalled loading sequence. The moment Badgey is freed from the confines of the holodeck, he becomes hostile to Rutherford and Tendi, and Rutherford is forced to break his neck. Later recruited to disable a Pakled clumpship, he instead prevents Rutherford from disconnecting from the clumpship's computer and tries to blow the ship up, only for Shaxs to tear Rutherford's implant off, shove him in the Sequoia, and shove the Sequoia off the ship.
- Later, Rutherford realizes that he unintentionally recycled Badgey's AI code from work he did pre-implant on a project that would become the Texas class, and promptly realizes that these new ships are an enormous danger... especially to Admiral Buenamigo, the class' sponsor. However, Rutherford warns him not to bring the ships online right after exposing him as an Insane Admiral who wiped a cadet's memory to cover up an illegal project and repeatedly put the Cerritos in danger to unveil the class, meaning Buenamigo is too busy going through a Villainous Breakdown to listen and grants the USS Aledo autonomy. The result is the Aledo slipping its leash and obliterating its "father"'s office.
- Tangled: The Series: While Rapunzel is generally an All-Loving Hero (almost to a fault), she has few nice things to say about Gothel, who kidnapped her as a baby and was a manipulative, abusive parent to her all her childhood.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012): A complicated example with Karai. Early in the series, she was raised by Shredder and hates Splinter/Hamato Yoshi due to believing that he killed her mother. However, in the second season she learns that Splinter is her biological father and that Shredder is not only her kidnapper, but that he was the one who killed Tang Shen. She transfers all of her hatred to Shredder, though it's shown a few times that she has conflicting feelings about the situation.