Abusive Parents/Video Games

""You've been a very naughty boy... spare the rod, spoil the child.""
 * King Desmond in Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken makes no bones about the fact that he loathes his son Zephiel and tries to kill him twice. Is it any wonder this wise, gentle boy grows up to be such a bastard in Fuuin no Tsurugi?
 * Ashnard's treatment of his son is more a case of Parental Abandonment, but the fact that he used his son to lure a dragon to his side, and the fact that he kept the boy separated from his mother even after abandoning them both, probably falls into the "abusive" category. Strangely, while the son turned out to be just as good a strategist as the father, he was also fiercely loyal to Ike.
 * It's heavily implied in the Ace Attorney series that Manfred von Karma was, at the very least, emotionally abusive toward his adoptive son and biological daughter. Both had breakdowns in adulthood as a result of the pressure he put on them growing up, and let's just say he was famous for having... very stiff penalties for people who would accept anything less than complete perfection. That's not even getting into what the guy is shown actually doing in-game to said adoptive son...
 * Pearl's mother, Morgan Fey, also screwed up the little girl horribly. To make a long story short, she essentially  Standard procedure for the Fey clan.
 * And now in Miles Edgeworth Investigations 2 we have
 * Matsuri, Aoba and Jun's parents in Family Project. Jun's are probably the worst.
 * In Final Fantasy X, Tidus's father often insulted and berated his son for being a crybaby. After believing Jecht had died at sea, Tidus's mother also pined and eventually died. As a result, Tidus harbored bitterness towards his father and never quite forgave him for it. While it's made clear Jecht actually did love his son, the man never, at any point in his life, tell him such - throughout both that game and Dissidia, Jecht only admits his love for Tidus when the younger man is either absent or unconscious (or when he himself is dying).
 * Braska comes off as a close second. Before he set off on his pilgrimage he apparantly hadn't arranged any kind of carer for his 7 year old daughter. We know this because during her video will (the sphere that Tidus stole) she explains that whilst coming to terms with the fact she was now orphaned; she just kind of wandered off until Kimarhi found her and took her to Besaid. Firstly, if Braska had arranged for a carer they were oblivious to her walking off and apparantly couldn't care less that she was commandeered by a hulking 6ft Ronso. Secondly, this situation proves exactly why Yuna needed a babysitter; shes the most trusting girl in the world - replace Kimahri with paedophile and Braska's stole the Dad of the Year Award from Jecht.
 * That's a severe twisting of the situation. Braska most likely tried to get a caretaker and couldn't get one with Yuna being half-Al Bhed and his own status as "the heretic summoner who everyone should avoid." Then he sent Auron to go back and take care of her ,]] and he in turn sent Kimahri. Besides, Yuna remembers him very positively--his pilgrimage is a definite example of Despair Event Horizon rather than intentional neglect.
 * Cyrus, the Big Bad of the Pokémon Diamond and Pearl games, is revealed in the postgame to have been under severe parental pressure as a child. Specifics are never given, but it was apparently bad enough to make his grandfather consider taking him away from his parents. And, you know, bad enough to make him snap and want to take control the only way he could think of...
 * And the cycle continued. In one of the spin-off series, Cyrus is, for all intents and purposes, father figure to an orphan girl. Who he raised as a war machine, constantly telling her that everyone is alone in the world. It's implied later that she didn't realize that kindness existed, because he didn't either. Fortunately for her, she got better, and.
 * Cyrus' parents were horrid perfectionists, true, but they were consistent. In Pokémon Black and White
 * Pokémon is full of terrible, terrible parents, isn't it? Pokémon Ranger gives us Gordor, who forced his four kids into joining his criminal gang and brainwashing Pokémon. When they finally wise up and leave to embark on their music careers, he just scoffs and goes about his merry evil way. He doesn't give two craps about them and saw them as just more goons.
 * ZHP. It's eventually revealed that
 * In Tales of Symphonia, Zelos never had the nicest relationship with his mother, as she was forced into a loveless marriage, even though she "probably loved someone else". It's shown in the manga that even before this, she was cold and dismissive of her son, often making the excuse that she's ill or has a headache to get out of having to see him. No wonder he's so messed up...
 * In Guilty Gear X, Sol Badguy takes part in bounty hunting after Dizzy. He finds her and beats her. And it's possible not only that he is her father, but also that he already knew it, when he went after her.
 * Baek Doosan's backstory in Tekken 2 involves him having to put up with a decidedly unpleasant and abusive father, a result of alcoholism after a crippling injury forced him to leave Tae Kwon Do. How bad did it get? To the point where a sparring session degenerated into a fight in which Baek killed his father by accident.
 * Becomes a recurring theme in Grand Theft Auto IV, as the main character, Niko Bellic, and his cousin, Roman's, fathers were violent alcoholics who would regularly beat up both their children and their wifes. Dwayne Forge and Packie McReary had similar childhoods, and while the first comments how he felt "nothing" when his father was murdered, the second will at one point open up to Niko and tell that his violent father at one point even attempted and would have succeeded at molesting him, if his older brother, Gerry, had not intervened at the last minute.
 * In the Japanese version of Earthbound, when Porky and Picky get back home at the beginning of the game, their father chases them offscreen, and can be heard spanking them. In the American version, this is changed to the sound made when enemies in battle use "word attacks," implying that their father was only scolding them.
 * Then again though; this happens so early in the game people can easily assume it's not supposed to be a "word attack".
 * Pachacamac from Sonic Adventure was this to Tikal.
 * In a scene near the end of No More Heroes, it's revealed that constantly molested his sister. She eventually gets revenge by killing him, his wife, and attempting to kill his son. Although, having a sexually abusive father is quite possibly the most normal thing about her story...
 * In Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty, Emma was stated to have been sexually assaulted by her second stepfather, to which she injured him in self defense shortly before graduating from High School. The game itself doesn't specify what kind of assault it was, but the script included in the Document of Metal Gear Solid 2 had in brackets "sexual" right before "assault."
 * Otacon, to a certain extent, underwent this with his stepmom in the same game, although Otacon claimed she "seduced" him, implying that his part in it was willing.
 * Insofar as a minor is capable of giving consent and legitimately being "willing" when an adult authority figure makes a sexual advance. But it's not like sexual abuse victims are ever so fucked up by the experience that they have to rationalize it by claiming they wanted it or that it was a relationship.
 * Bioshock has Sofia Lamb. An incredible list of abuse, mostly of the mental variety-though a degree of neglect etc. Attempting to condition your child in to the 'Peoples Daughter' (an individual who knows everything, or more accurately a conduit for everything), using a serum that reduced a fellow researcher to a sentient tumour, does not a good parent make.
 * Sofia Lamb may not even be Eleanor's mother, an audio log from her alludes that she did as little to be involved in raising her as possible, possibly even using a surrogate.
 * Silent Hill. Let's count: Dahlia Gillespie, Leonard Wolf, Thomas Orosco, the unnamed Mrs. Orosco, Walter's parents, Helen Grady, Adam Shepherd, and those are just off the top of my head. There's been, what, one good parent in the series?
 * At least Harry Mason, the protagonist of the first game, is a Papa Wolf to the max.
 * In Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, depending on what ending you get,.
 * Additionally, one of the endings reveals
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 * We learn very early into Blaze Union that Gulcasa's father beat and neglected him when he was a young child; his father blamed him for his mother's disappearance. We later learn that said mother . All of this started from Fantastic Racism, which was also the reason that no one tried to do anything about the abuse. Luckily for Gulcasa, his childhood friends were willing to become parental surrogates, and lovingly helped him grow up mostly undamaged by all this.
 * Hojo and Lucrecia from Final Fantasy VII did genetic experiments on their son while he was still in the womb in the name of science. The child, Sephiroth, did not take this well.
 * Lucrecia at least harbored some regret for her part in the genetic experiments, even causing her to nearly commit suicide. Hojo, on the other hand, had absolutely no regret for what he did. In fact, he enjoyed every single moment of it even afterwards, and was heavily implied to have manipulated all of Sephiroth's actions and everything in Sephiroth's life/lives.
 * Hojo actually did come to "regret" his actions near the end of his life, but not in the way one would expect. When he confronts the party at the Sister Ray, he acknowledges that he's "even beginning to hate himself" for his actions. He also explicitly states that he's helping Sephiroth because he's his son, not to see his experiment come to fruition. In the end, he's become something of a Papa Wolf, if only because Sephiroth, in his eyes, has surpassed science.
 * Not technically her parents, but the Gestahlian Empire from Final Fantasy VI was the closest that Terra Branford could call her parents due to And, sure enough, their raising her was very much abusive in terms of emotional and possibly other forms of abuse. She was raised in a loveless environment for most of her life, Kefka placed the Slave Crown on Terra to manipulate all of her actions, including burning 50 of their finest soldiers alive, and the one person who was even relatively decent to her, General Leo Cristolph, nonetheless placed the mind control device back on her when they finish training.
 * Embric of Wulfhammers Castle. He's the Duchess' uncle, not her father, and the gory details aren't given, but Bad King Greyghast was not above imprisoning, drugging, killing animals, spying on, and sexually abusing his favorite niece to control her.
 * All of the above happened to Alma Wade, in F.E.A.R. thanks to her father, Harlan Wade, and the Armacham Technology Corporation. (Save financial abuse, and that was because she was never old enough to have money in the first place.) Psychic Powers that made her susceptible to emotions, particularly negative ones and especially her fathers', coupled with physical and mental abuse due to being constantly experimented on, ultimately culminated in  Sexual abuse followed when   And worse still,   Needless to say, when Alma gets loose, hell follows her. So great is his abuse of her that her uber-powerful psychic ghost  After that, he goes and abuses his grandkids, For Science!. Swell guy.
 * In Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, Paz Ortega Andrade, real name Pacifica Ocean, according to her diary tapes, was an orphan, and was apparently adopted by Cipher (in other words, the Patriots faction run by Zero after the split), and she intends to obey Cipher's command, not simply due to her loyalty to the organization, but because she feels as though she has to obey them even if she doesn't agree with their goals because she'll otherwise suffer a fate worse than death if she doesn't.
 * There's also the fact that they created the clones of Big Boss. The fact that they were created without Big Boss's consent would make this a form of sexual abuse. Oh, and the project that created them also had six of their brothers essentially murdered during development so they could gain strong fetal growth. Then there is the fact that they kidnapped Olga's child, Sunny, after birth, and put her life on the line by having her life being connected to Raiden's vital nanomachines, meaning if he dies, they kill her, and it is heavily implied that even after Raiden defeated Solidus Snake, they still are placing her life on the line as a threat to Raiden, and she grew up completely withdrawn from people. Yeah.
 * Where to even start with Fei from Xenogears? After she got possessed by, Fei's mother started experimenting on him, thus creating his  , who then was used by his father possesed by   as a Person of Mass Destruction, and that's not even all of it.
 * Adam Malkovich's treatment of Samus Aran in Metroid: Other M has been construed by some reviewers as romanticizing an abusive relationship between an otherwise capable bounty hunter and her surrogate father figure.
 * Lucien from Runescape was already notorious for being cruel, but the newest Fremminik Saga has confirmed rumors of him having a daughter. Specifically, a half human, half Mahjarrat daughter whom he abuses severely. Every time he speaks to her, he calls her a failure, finally declaring that when he next sees her, he will strangle her. And she just takes it.