Doting Parent: Difference between revisions

Likewise, they have no problems with children leaving the nest, however, there are similarities to Overprotective Dad and My Beloved Smother in that there may be some elements of smother. To this end, the Doting Parent may come to face some of the same situations, as their children tend to choose to live on their own as early as humanly possible in an (often vain) attempt to avoid their parent's embarrassing behavior.

 

 

 

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* Kurosaki Isshin from ''[[Bleach]]'' is like that about all three of his children {{spoiler|and yet lets Ichigo run off to another dimension and fight life-threatening battles without his supervision, not to mention that he lets Ichigo's shinigami partner, Rukia, move into their house. This is largely because in actuality he is a former captain-level shinigami who lost his powers and doesn't get them back until the start of the Arrancar arc, at which point he becomes a major league [[Papa Wolf]].}}

* Tsuruga Ren's father in ''[[Skip Beat!]]!'' can wax on for pages about how his son is the most wonderful child on Earth. Ren used to like it, but when he went into adolescence the pressure to stay at the same height of his father's hopes and claims cracked him, eventually leading him to leave his home country and beginning again in Japan, away from his family.

* In ''[[Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl]]'' Hazumu's dad is this. It comes off as somewhat incest-ish though.

* ''[[Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo|Okusama wa Mahou Shoujo]]'' has Shioya, who when he talks about something that isn't work, it's about his daughter. And often instead of work.

 

== Comic Books ==

* [[Spider-Man|John Jonah Jameson]] yes, THAT [[Bad Boss|John]] [[Hates Everyone Equally|Jonah]] [[Ungrateful Bastard|Jameson]]. He REALLY cares for his son.

* [[Batman|Jim Gordon]] is this to his daughter [[Batgirl 2011|Barbara]], especially after the 2011 reboot, where it's revealed that Jim was the one who found the clinic in South Africa that helped Barbara regain her ability to walk follow being shot by [[The Joker]] in ''[[The Killing Joke]]''.

 

== Film -- Animation ==

* In ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'' "Big Daddy" La Bouff gives his daughter everything - in an inversion she turns out [[Spoiled Sweet|spoiled but really sweet and nice.]] Honestly she's more [[The Ditz|oblivious]] than anything else.

 

== Film -- Live Action ==

* ''[[Cherrybomb]]'': Malachy's family (especially his mother) are a relatively subtle version of this trope.

* Gunn's Mom, and his dad to a degree in ''[[Make the Yuletide Gay]]''. This actually drives most of the plot, as Gunn doesn't want to lose this by coming out to his parents for fear of being rejected by them. {{spoiler|The parents don't care and actually placed a bet on whether or not he actually is.}}

* Sam's parents in ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' are this, along with being [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents]].

 

== Literature ==

* Roald Dahl spends the first several paragraphs of ''[[Matilda]]'' sticking it to this type of parent, and suggests increasingly creative ways for a teacher to inform them that their little darling isn't as wonderful as they think. However, he does note that doting parents are on the whole preferable to the neglectful kind, offering up the Wormwoods as a case in point.

 

* Simon Tam in Firefly is sort of like this except he's not a parent. He would be a doting big brother.

** "She wasn't just gifted, she was a gift"

* Hester Crane from ''[[Frasier]]'' is [[Posthumous Character|described]] as this. In her one appearance on ''[[Cheers]]'', she threatens Diane (who was Frasier's girlfriend at the time) because she thought Diane wasn't good enough for her son.

* ''[[Raising Hope]]'': While Burt and Virginia tease and mock their son Jimmy at every opportunity, they genuinely love and care for their son and help become a Doting Parent in his own right to his infant daughter.

 

== Video Games ==

* It is hinted that King Krichevskoy from [[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness|Disgaea]] was one of these. His son [[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness/Characters|Laharl]] seems to have distanced himself from Krichevskoy after his mother’s death, but that did not stop Krichevskoy from thinking very highly of his son and having great faith in him. He also thinks Laharl inherited his own [[The Dandy|“sparkling good looks”]]. He also executed a plan that evidently involved getting [[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness/Characters|Laharl]] two pretty girls and willingly acts as a [[Stealth Mentor|“rival” to help his son get stronger]]. [[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness/Characters|Laharl]] is also a [[Royal Brat]], [[Sarcasm Mode|no idea where that came from]].

* Hakan from [[Street Fighter IV]] has ''seven'' little girls, apparently septuplets. His ending shows him as being this through and through to all of them.

 

== Web Comics ==

* The father who didn't bring enough money for both his cigarettes and his daughters chips in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130212062815/http://www.webtoonlive.com/webtoon/Welcome%20to%20the%20Convenience%20Store/ch7/ this ]''[[Welcome to the Convenience Store]]'' chapter.

* John's Dad in Homestuck positively smothers John with cakes, and his house is filled with notes informing John how proud he is of him, just in case John happens to perform the feat involved to reach the note. However, given John is {{spoiler|Traumatized by a [[It Makes Sense in Context|Doll version of Jack Noir]], and scribbles things like, "Lame kid" all over his walls}}, it's very understandable. Post-Scratch Dad is similarly supportive of Jane, although {{spoiler|Assassination attempts}} have forced him to be a bit more protective of her.

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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