Abuse

Emotional or physical abuse, inflicted by differents sources and at differents circunstances.

It can be a specific moment, a recurring situation, or mostly focused on the effects of past abuse at the present.

Rape will not be listed here.

If this is a sensitive subject to you, please be safe and proceed with caution.

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Animes
Fruits Basket (2019)


 * 1x12: When the head of the family, Akito, makes a surprise appereance at the school, Sohma Yuki freezes. Ever since he was a kid, Yuki suffered on Akito's hands, being locked up and targeted with physical and psychological attacks, as Akito "subtly" reminds him at this moment.

Saiunkoku Monogatari


 * 1x03: Shi Ryuuki suffered a lot of abuse while growing up, mostly from his older siblings, resulting on a very lonely young man longing for affection. On this episode, while suffering the effects of a poison, he talks a bit about how he hates the dark, since the others used to lock him up for days as a kid.

TV Shows
Alex Rider


 * 1x04: Alex Rider (Otto Farrant) is being disrespectful with the school's headmaster, so Evan slaps him on the face. The mark stays after.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency


 * 1x03: Dirk Gently (Samuel Barnett) is happy with the clues they were founding, and with the fact that he might actually have friends now... until the man who took him to be locked up and experimented on as a kid, appears. The man asks Dirk (Project Icarus) to return to the organization, worried of what might happen if he doesn't, and Dirk backs away, showing fear and hurt, almost on tears.

Gotham


 * It happens a lot with Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor), working for Fish Mooney, for Maroni or Falcone. He gets manhandled countless times, punched, beaten and humiliated.

His Dark Materials


 * 2x03: Lee Scoresby (Lin-Manuel Miranda) shares with Mrs.Coulter some of his past, about his abusive father, adding more weight to his conviction of not betraying Lyra. After she lefts his cell, Hester (his daemon) comforts him.

Sense8


 * Wolfgang Bogdanow (Max Riemelt) had an abusive childhood, suffering with his father's violent behavior. We see some scenes of young Wolfgang throughout the series, even as an explanation to some of his choices at the present.

The OC


 * 1x01: Ryan Atwood's (Ben McKenzie) mother throws him out of the house, in favor of her boyfriend, who punches Ryan a few times before he concedes and runs away.
 * 1x03: Ryan's mom is back, and there's a few scenes that flashes all the abuse he suffered throughout the years, including a great moment of flinching and stepping back when she tries to reach him.

Movies
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)


 * Faramir (David Wenham) suffers a great deal of emotional abuse from his father, being constantly treated as the least favorite son. With his brother's death, the father actually admits that he would prefer that the opposite had happened, and sends Faramir on a suicide mission.

Dramas
Navillera


 * Ep 6: Lee Chae Rok (Song Kang) gets cornered by his bully, who put him on his knees as he dares Chae Rok to repeat something he had said earlier.

The Untamed


 * Ep 1: Wei Wu Xian (Xiao Zhan) is being tormented by a group of bullies from the Mo family, literally kicked while down. Not that he cared much about it, more confused than anything else. The bullies thinks he is someone else, btw.
 * Ep 15: Madam Yu do as the Wen envoy demands and punishes Wei Wu Xian, whipping and humiliating him.