Papa Wolf/Video Games


 * Harry Mason from Silent Hill. Generally, he's a Non-Action Guy (he has to be shown how to use a gun by Action Girl cop Cybil) but when his little girl, short, with black hair, just turned seven last month is in danger, he'll go To Hell and Back, blunder through a Town with a Dark Secret, and kill a Cosmic Horror Eldritch Abomination to save her. He was replaced with a woman, Rose, in the Live Action Adaptation; cries of sexism ensued.
 * Silent Hill 3 further reveals that Harry killed a cultist that came after his beloved daughter.
 * Murphy Pendleton of Silent Hill: Downpour is a deconstruction., and seeking revenge has only made things worse. He's in prison, his wife has left him due to very understandable reasons,.
 * In the Soul Series, the best way to bring Nathaniel "Rock" Adams into action is to kidnap or threaten his adoptive son Bangoo.
 * One of the most touching examples is Barret Wallace of Final Fantasy VII, towards his adoptive daughter Marlene. Four years before FFVII began, Corel Village had a Mako Reactor installed to the north despite the protests of the local leader, Dyne. A few days later, the reactor had an accident (and was cleaned up enough so that it seemed normal by the time the game rolls around), but it was reason enough for Scarlet to burn the village to the ground. Out of the survivors are Dyne, his good friend Barrett Wallace, and Dyne's daughter Marlene, who was adopted by the latter. With Dyne presumed KIA, Barrett adopted the infant Marlene and raised her as if she was his own daughter. Had Dyne not crossed the Despair Event Horizon and spent those years either in a psychotic state or festering in Corel Prison, he would be the one exhibiting Papa Wolf tendencies instead.
 * Continuing the trend of black male playable characters being papa wolves is Sazh Katzroy from the thirteenth numerical title in the series.
 * Advent Children: Once Cloud decides to earn his forgiveness (and gets over the idea that anything he does to help will be too late, not enough, or both), he shows definite signs of this trope. He uses his sword as a boomerang to take out the shadow creepers attacking Denzel while chopping through buildings to rescue Tifa from being crushed. And all he has to say about it is "Sorry I'm late." I'd call it a Crowning Moment of Awesome if it wasn't immediately followed by the fight against Bahamut SIN and the entire team tossing Cloud through a Mega Flare at Bahamut.
 * Final Fantasy VIII: Laguna spends much of his life doing anything he can to find Ellone.
 * Ichiro Tamura a.k.a Salaryman in Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan. Usually comes off as an ordinary office man who is reviled even by his own family, but... the moment he sees his daughter getting threatened by a giant blue rat, he goes "HENSHIN!", turns gigantic and starts kicking the rat's ass.
 * In the Soul Nomad and The World Eaters backstory:
 * Christopher Belmont of Castlevania Adventure & Belmont's Revenge. Just when he thought he could retire from Vampire Hunting business and leave it to his son Soleiyu... said son suddenly gets possessed by Dracula. "Screw retirement, I want my son back, you son of a bitch."
 * Although it's widely believed that Belmont's Revenge is what happens when Konami learns their mistake from their extreme Nintendo Hard-ness of Adventure, it kinda shows off that when his son is in danger, Christopher DOES NOT lose his whip's power at one measly hit (a problem plaguing Adventure), except by one type of enemy. Papa Wolf to the max indeed.
 * This is the default mentality of the Big Daddies in BioShock (series) for the Little Sisters. They will ignore you if you don't attack them or the Sisters (at the most, they'll shove you away if you get too close), but anybody who does so much as to slap them will face a very pissed off Big Daddy dashing straight at you with his drill (or shooting at you with his rivet gun), and he will not stop until one of you is dead. The sequel will allow the player to be this, since the playable character is the Super Prototype of the Big Daddies.
 * In fact, this is the plot of the sequel. Subject Delta storms the entire Rapture trying to find the Little Sister he was first imprinted on, who is Eleanor Lamb, the daughter of Big Bad Sofia Lamb.
 * When you chose to save your adopted Little Sisters, they become very fond of you. When harvesting ADAM they usually don't require much protection, leaving you free to chase after fleeing Splicers to impale them with your drill or give them a blast of the shotgun to the face. But even over the sound of the heaviest fighting, you can easily hear the panicked scream when a Little Sister is in danger. And may God have mercy on whatever Splicer is currently grabbing her arm.
 * In the ARG for the sequel, protagonist Mark Meltzer lets his life fall apart in favor of tracking down a Big Sister who took his daughter Cindy to Rapture.

""Hey, I was waiting for you guys. I heard you saved Maphy, my son. Thanks to you, I was able to hide him in safe place, along with the other children. I'm Hicks, an Axe Knight of Manster. I was thinking it was about time to teach that Leidrick a lesson. I'll fight alongside you.""
 * From Mortal Kombat:
 * |This comic book adaptation shows King Gorbak - as in, Goro's dad - leading an army of Shokan against Kotal Kahn to avenge his son's humiliation. Sadly, this ended very badly for Gorbak.
 * Johnny Cage is like this in the comics towards Cassie. Sonya has to hold him back after Kano makes a snide remark about her fate.
 * ... and he doesn't learn. In 11, he threatens Sonya and Cassie in front of Johnny, only for Johnny to beat him black and blue.
 * The main character in Dragon Quest V. Okay, so he's not The Chosen One, his son is. Traditionally this means Dad will have to heroically die and the son will grow up tragically an orphan, to be strong enough to beat the Big Bad as an adult. It came close to this, but hell no! The main character and his family band together, and while the Legendary Hero is still only 8 years old, his Dad helps him beat the crap out of the forces of darkness and goes To Hell and Back to beat the King of Evil before it does anything like come to their world.
 * Hector of Ostia is portrayed as a potential Papa Wolf in his B support with Eliwood in Fire Emblem 7, where he tells his best friend about a prophetic dream involving his still unborn daughter and, as he mentions a redheaded boy who takes her away in the dream, he isn't very pleased to have his "little girl" courted by the other kid..
 * However, he does play it straighter in his own route, where woe betide whoever dares harm his friends and crewmates. In fact, when, Hector openly warns him that he has not forgiven him  , and that should the guy ever step out of line, he will kill him with his own hands.
 * Pretty much the only real reason why Dorcas joined Lyn's group and later Eliwood's is to get enough money for the medical treatment that his Ill Girl wife Nathalie needs.
 * Do not threaten the eggs of an Angry Bird if you want to remain standing. This advice applies to pigs, their armies, their fortresses and their space fleets.
 * Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 has the Axe Knight Hicks, who refuses to join Leaf's army if you don't rescue the children that have been kidnapped, including his son Maphy. If you do, however, he will join the group without hesitation.

"I can't stop! Not until I teach those guys not to mess with me...or my family!"
 * Also, the backstory has Fin as both the Team Dad and as one of these for Leaf  Two of the CG's at the end of the game have him protecting toddler!Leaf and running away with him after
 * Flint in Mother 3 is a deconstruction of this trope. He starts out as a loving husband and father to his wife Hinawa and his twin sons Lucas and Claus. Then Hinawa is killed and Claus goes off to avenge her and disappears; torn apart by the death of his wife and disappearance of his son Flint spends most of the time out searching for Claus neglecting his only surviving child Lucas.
 * At the end of the first God of War, Ares casts Kratos deep into his own mind to revisit the memory of his wife and daughter dying at his own hands. In perhaps his only moment of actual heroism motivated by a desire to protect his family, Kratos staves off the doppelgangers of himself trying to attack his family.
 * Considering he has to hug his family to transfer his own health to them to stop them from dying, and he is fighting dopplegangers with his full strength and, in a few cases, magic, it's a pretty damn good moment of heroism.
 * In the third game,.
 * With Phoenix Wright and Maya it's a tossup between a father-daughter and brother-sister relationship. Either way, if you try to arrest Maya he'll defend her with every last Objection! he has. If you kidnap her he'll . And if she's in actual physical danger he'll
 * And in Investigations there's Kay and her 'Uncle Badd'.
 * Shadow the Hedgehog. Just try and devastate the world he promised to protect. You're going to end up a black mark on the floor. Even if you're a Physical God, demigod, or what have you.
 * For that matter, depending on what medium you're looking at, threatening any harm to Tails, the closest thing to a little brother Sonic the Hedgehog has, will show you even something as silly looking as a blue hedgehog will make you cry.
 * It also wasn't a good move for those soldiers to shoot Maria either. It sent Shadow on a total "annihilate all humans" kick.
 * Chaos from Sonic Adventure. You dare hurt any Chao he protects and he will show you why he is called the God of Destruction.
 * Link in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Even before he was turned into a literal wolf, he was incredibly defensive of Ilia and the kids of Ordon. The Bulbins should be thanking their lucky stars that he wasn't armed at the spring. (He got his revenge anyway when he massacred their entire camp at Arbiter's Grounds about halfway through the game, though.) He also is shown, especially toward the end, to be incredibly protective of Princess Zelda and Midna.
 * Rusl, from the same game, is like this too. About his own son Colin; about the other children in the village (their abduction gets him into the war as well as Link); and about Link himself, who Word of God states he regards as his younger brother.
 * Just  try  and harm Zelda in Skyward Sword
 * Averted in The Godfather. Optional sidequests allow you to contract kill the sons of the enemy Dons, but this doesn't make the eventual encounter with them any tougher.
 * Purposely invoked in Heavy Rain, where
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 * Breath of Fire III has Rei, the oldest in a trio of orphans that Ryu was a part of. When the group was devastated by Balio and Sunder, Rei... didn't take it very well, thinking that his adoptive family was killed, and that he failed to protect them. Around many years later, he's still in his Unstoppable Rage, targeting the criminal organization that Balio and Sunder were a part of. He only calmed down somewhat when he finds out that Ryu was still alive (in fact, it was Ryu who took care of Balio and Sunder for good). But that doesn't mean it was over; for Rei, anyway.

"Nier:You want me to understand your sadness? You think I'm gonna sympathize with you? I swore to protect my daughter and my friends. If someone puts them in danger, they must stand aside or be cut down! Come on, let's go!"
 * Kazuma Kiryuu may be a Yakuza, but he's usually a pretty nice and helpful guy. But if you mess with his adoptive daughter Haruka or the orphans he's taking care of... oh boy, you're in for a world of pain. In fact, he's kinda protective of every kid he meets.
 * The protagonist of Nie R Gestalt is a man determined to go to any lengths to find a cure for the painful disease afflicting his daughter Yonah. He also displays similar tendencies towards the group he makes his True Companions.

"Aethyta: Hey... khm, I've called a few friends... commandoes. Eclipse girls who, um, owe me some favors. They're all yours. Just... tell 'em where to go. Liara: You're giving me... asari commandoes...? Aethyta: Well, you're too old for me to buy you a damn pony! Liara: ...you're the best father a girl could wish for."
 * In Nitro Family, mom and dad go on a killing spree to return their little child.
 * Splinter Cell's Sam Fisher. When he learns that he goes batshit insane. He no longer chokes people unconscious, preferring to leave a trail of bodies behind him, and the black humor and psychological mindgames he used to use in his interrogations is now gone; he prefers the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique.
 * Chuck Greene of Dead Rising 2 spends the game attempting to raise money for/find Zombrex (Zombie infection suppressant) for his infectee daughter Katey. This means that he'll have to carve his way through a seaload of Zombies to do so. Not only that, but psychopaths with chainsaws? Morotcycles? Guns? Flamethrowers? Dad will not be stopped.
 * And let's not forget what happens to the whacked out asshole mechanic of Case Zero who decides that because Katey's infected she's fair game for zombie hunting.
 * When Chuck learns that  is the key behind the outbreak,   gets a nice fatality at the end of the battle as a reward for his actions.
 * Professor Layton is an Actual Pacifist, a Gentleman and a Scholar, and an all-around nice person who would rather settle problems over a cup of Earl Grey and a Stock Puzzle. But as Unwound Future clearly shows us, villains who are stupid enough to will find themselves pursued by a relentless Determinator who has no problem violating the laws of physics if that's what it takes to get her back.
 * Final Fight: Mike Haggar, who piledrove all the goons of the city he was the major of after they kidnapped his daughter Jessica to blackmail him.
 * Terra in Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, as befitting his Team Dad nature, will do anything to protect his son/younger brother figure, Ventus, and will not hesitate to attack any who threaten to harm or kill Ven..
 * Whether as a display of political power or a general Jerkass move, do not declare any intent of executing Eoleo. Briggs may back off if things get sour, but he will come at you, again and again, to get his boy back. So tenacious, does he become, that you'd have to kill him to stay his wrath.
 * In the last part of Psychonauts,
 * The protagonist of Action Doom 2 Urban Brawl is willing to beat up a whole town full of gangsters, potentially take on a hulking Serial Killer psycho with his bare hands, and attack a guard-filled company headquarters all by himself, all to save his daughter. This actually backfires in you in one of the possible endings:
 * Cyrus of Dawn of War II is one of the few who refused the power armor of a full space marine to remain a scout and train the initiates. Targeting them is a surefire way to send him on a bloody warpath.
 * Asura's Wrath was cast down by his fellow gods and sealed away for some 12,000 years. Now that's enough to piss him off, but when he finds out they're using his daughter to amplify their power, it's time to kick some heavenly, planetary-sized ass.
 * And when we mean he goes to kick heavenly ass, we're not talking in hyperbole here. The final battle of the DLC involves . Because that motherfucker made his daughter cry.
 * The Orion Conspiracy presents Devlin McCormack. His son Danny died at the beginning of the game, and Devlin attends the funeral expressing his regret for not being a good father for Devlin. Shortly afterwards, he receives a note revealing that Danny's death is not an accident, but a murder. At that moment, Devlin turns into this trope, vowing to find out who killed Danny and kill the murderer.
 * Eli Vance from Half-Life 2.
 * In Chaos Rings Omega, Dante is fiercely protective of his daughter Vahti, his newborn grandson Ohm, and his son-in-law Vieg (he's effectively a Parental Substitute to him since Vieg never knew his own parents).
 * The male Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect series, is potentially this depending on how he's played. If played straight, threatening his crew is about the biggest mistake you could make.
 * Urdnot Wrex, if he survives the first game, eventually becomes this for his entire species.
 * Liara's father turns out to be one in the third game. Aside from threatening Shepard that he wouldn't get a lightyear of her daughter (yes, that's the correct pronoun), the following exchange can be overheard between her and Liara.

"Sagat: "The disregard for the innocent has incurred the wrath of the King! That will NOT be forgiven!""
 * The nameless father in the Dead Island trailer sees his daughter being chased down the hallway by a group of zombies. He charges out of the room, grabs a nearby fire axe, and with a bellow of rage starts hacking the nearest ones up before tenderly bringing his bitten daughter into the room. Then he fights like a maniac to defend it.
 * Persona 4 has been known to elicit this response in the player regarding the Main Character's little cousin, Nanako.
 * Prototype2 starts off with a pretty bleak setting: The wife and daughter of Ex-Marine James Heller has been killed by the Mercer virus. The prologue shows just how much Heller is willing to go through to, just to get a stab at the source behind it. Give him god-like powers, and there is no end to his destructive rampage.
 * In Street Fighter X Tekken, Sagat is pissed off when a young boy from a Thai village tells him that his little sister, a girl that Sagat once rescued, has disappeared again. Then, Dhalsim appears in front of him and tells him that several children from his village have also vanished. The two fighters go into full Papa Wolf mode, so they decide to team up to both rescue the abducted children and go to the Antartica, where the Pandora box is located.


 * Similarly, Ryu has a big Papa Wolf moment towards Sakura in Street Fighter Alpha 3, where  is one of the triggers that let him   When this happens, an absolutely pissed off Ryu goes to   and totally one-shots him.