During said seance, it's revealed that the father killed Tommy by drowning him in a lake because Tommy heard his father and sister in her room every night. Ghost Island: In the first issue, Josh is holding a seance to help a family contact their dead son, Tommy.In the end, only his adopted son Carnelin survived the entire original series. The Villain Dark Opal from the Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld comic managed to off many (almost all) of his offspring when they came to exact revenge on him for his poor parenting skills.Outliving One's Offspring is when the child dies for reasons that are not the parent's fault.Īs this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Has nothing to do with The Offspring or Offing the Mouth. This trope goes back to Greek Mythology with Hesiod's Theogony, and even further to the Mesopotamian creation story Enûma Eli. Usually also a case of Would Hurt a Child, as most examples have the offspring be younger than a teenager. In case you are wondering, the technical term for this kind of murder is "filicide".įor the inversion/opposite of this trope, see Self-Made Orphan, Patricide and Matricide.
Sadly, there have been many cases of real-life parents - both mothers and fathers - who murder their own children. In the worst case scenario, your entire species will be like this, in that case, you get Abusive Alien Parents. In any case, they never wanted it, it just happened.
Accidental Murder: Maybe they were trying to kill someone else, or maybe a chain of unfortunate accidents stemmed from their actions led to their child's death.Regardless, no one wants this, but it's going to happen anyway. Maybe the Nazis are making Sophie choose. But some other overwhelming force is demanding a sacrifice. The Choice of Abraham: The parent loves the child.
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