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{{quote|''"[[Kill'Em All|Every living creature that directly shares your bloodline is dead.]] [[Apocalypse How|Every living creature that is directly related to any of those creatures is also dead]]...[[Salt the Earth|Now, no one will come to avenge your defeat. No one will lament your passing.]] Think about [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|the fate you have brought]] upon '''your''' [[Would Be Rude to Say Genocide|family]] as [[Fate Worse Than Death|you suffer in the afterlife.]] This - and no less - is the price of threatening '''[[Papa Wolf|m]]''''''[[Mama Bear|y]]''' family.''|{{spoiler|'''[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0640.html Vaarsuvius]'''}}, ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]''}}
Not all parents are [[Adults Are Useless|useless]] or [[Abusive Parents|evil]]. There are quite a few who actually [[Good Parents|seem interested in their children's welfare]]. Sure, they might be [[Mama Bear|a little]] [[Papa Wolf|overprotective]] or annoying, but they mean well.
And then there are parents who take the noble principle of looking out for their kids, and go a bit overboard. Just as a [[Knight Templar]] or a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] commits all sorts of illegal or immoral deeds in the name of a cause, a
When the kids grow up and flee the nest as fast as their battered sense of independence can carry them, this parent is demoted to [[Meddling Parents|Meddling Parent]]. Though this may be difficult if it doubles up with [[My Beloved Smother]].
The [[Evil Matriarch]] is often an extreme version of the
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== Anime and Manga ==
* [[Moral Myopia|Kham's father]], the Santovasku Emperor from ''[[Outlanders]]'' (the manga moreso than the anime). Yeah, he may be just a bit [[I Did What I Had to Do|extreme in his methods]]--{{spoiler|even going so far as to brainwash his own daughter, making her forget the "lowly Earth-born human" husband that he does not approve of and encouraging her to murder the boy; he also destroys the entire frikkin' Earth in his rage}}
* ''[[Code Geass]]'' pulls this rather surprisingly with '''both''' of Lelouch's parents, Emperor Charles (whom he despised) and Empress Marianne (whom he revered); the two formed a plan to change the world for the better shortly after they met, and since Lelouch and his sister Nunnally were their favorites, they intended to let the kids in on it when they were old enough. However, they didn't bother taking into account how the kids would feel about forcibly changing the nature of all of humanity. And all this is before you throw in their [[Evil Plan]] to protect the kids which resulted in Nunnally being physically disabled and both kids being mentally and emotionally scarred.
** Lampshaded in the audio commentary for the episode in which the parents' Templar-hood is revealed, when the episode's director comments "They probably thought they were doing the right thing, but {{spoiler|Lelouch}} wanted to say that they weren't [[Good Parents]]. We wanted to make sure that was clear."
* Recent chapters of ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' suggest that {{spoiler|Syaoran and Sakura Li went path for their son, [male] Tsubasa. Their moves include getting sealed in separate parts of a glass container for the better part of their offspring's lives as a payment for his safety, Sakura sacrificing a [[Magic Wand]] she was given by [[Cardcaptor Sakura|an alternate universe version of herself]] so [male] Tsubasa can go to an alternate dimension to help [female] Tsubasa, [[Oedipus Complex|his love interest]], and then facing the [[Big Bad]] in a battle that potentially can destroy the multiverse in an AWESOME [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment. All this because [male] Tsubasa fell in [[Love At First Sight]] with the person his mother was cloned from.}}
* A minor suspect in an early ''[[Detective Conan]]'' story locked her own son Akio in the basement of her house for six years so the [[Statute of Limitations]] would run out on Akio's accidental murder of his apparently abusive father... even when Akio ''did'' aknowledge his guilt and wanted to pay for his crime, and being locked downstairs only made him cross the [[Despair Event Horizon]]. Ultimately, Conan and the Detective Boys found out as they sneaked in the apparently abandoned house; Conan uncovered the mother, helped Akio convince her to let him go, and they turned themselves in together.
* {{spoiler|Giovanni}} from ''[[Pokémon Special]]''. Wanna find your missing son? Simple, just {{spoiler|destroy the Sevii Islands, put other families through hell, nearly kill quite a few people, and put the protagonist through a whole lotta traumatizing shit, etc.}}.
* Whitebeard of [[One Piece]] is an example of this to his "sons," as he considers killing a crewmate to be an unforgivable crime. When Ace, who had gone after Blackbeard for killing his division commander, lost to Blackbeard and was turned over to the World Government, Whitebeard sent his entire fleet of pirates to Marineford to save him, playing into the World Government's plans {{spoiler|as well as Blackbeard's}}.
** This being [[Badass|Whitebeard]] however, he was playing a hefty case of [[Xanatos Speed Chess]] with the World Government during the encounter and {{spoiler|his defeat and demise}} happened because of unforeseen events such as {{spoiler|Blackbeard turning up and Ace being killed, resulting in a [[Heroic BSOD]]}}.
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* [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Maes Hughes]] ''pulls a gun'' at a bunch of three-year-old boys who want to play with his daughter, who's of the same age. Excused by it being a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
* ''[[Berserk]]'': The King of Midland practically destroyed his own kingdom just to make Griffith's life a living hell after he {{spoiler|deflowered}} his precious daughter, Princess Charlotte {{spoiler|who he later tried to rape and evidently fell deeper and deeper into insanity afterward.}}
** The Count can also count, since he was so determined to keep his daughter Theresia away from the evils of the world {{spoiler|himself being one of them}} that he locked her in her room for most of her life.
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== Fan Works ==
* [[Missing Mom|Padme]] from the ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Fanfic]], ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20121206153035/http://fanfic.theforce.net/fanfic.asp?action=view&ID=804 By the Grace of Lady Vader]'' is this for both Luke and Leia. She will do ''anything'' to get her family back and keep them safe, to the point of imprisoning one of her own children.
* In the ''[[Naruto]]'' fanfic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4070794/1/A_Fathers_Wrath A Father's Wrath], instead of the yondaime, Naruto's father is Orochimaru. He's so enraged by Naruto being made into a jinchuriki, that in this continuity it's his primary motive for forming the sound village and attempting to destroy Konoha. In sound, he also makes Tayuya something akin to a slave for Naruto [[Disproportionate Retribution|for slapping him]]. It's implied he would have had her killed if Naruto hadn't spoken up about being in a panic at the time and that she'd been trying to calm him down. Otherwise, however, he seems to be a just ruler, and a devoted parent.
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== Film ==
* Jack Byrnes (Robert de Niro's character) in ''[[Meet the Parents]]''.
* Christof in ''[[The Truman Show]]'' takes this to the extent of trapping his adoptive son Truman in an entire "[[Stepford Suburbia|perfect]]" fake world, with actors playing every person in Truman's life, so that Truman will never be exposed to the evils of real life.
** At least this is what he claims. The fact that he then TELEVISES this as "the ultimate reality show" rather makes that doubtful as his real motive. He even instills a phobia of flying or sailing in Truman to keep him from finding out he's in a huge dome.
* ''The Positively True Adventures of the Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom'' is based on a true story about a woman who killed her daughter's cheerleading rival.
* Anakin Skywalker of ''[[Star Wars]]''. Heartbroken by the seemingly impending death of his wife and possibly of his child (whose future he cannot see in his visions), he goes on a savage killing spree to to immerse himself in the powers of the Dark Side of the Force, in order to gain the power to save Padme Amidala and, if need be, the baby too. (Note that this is not precisely clear in the movies - the novelization makes it much more apparent.)
* Viktor in the ''[[Underworld (film)|Underworld]]'' series, to the point where the entire Vampire-Lycan War began due to his being so much of one that he had his daughter, Sonja, executed after finding out she was pregnant with the child of a Lycan. Naturally, when several centuries later he discovered his [[Replacement Goldfish|adoptive daughter]], Selene, had begun to consort with a Lycan, ''he doesn't take it well.''
== Literature ==
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** {{spoiler|Harry Dresden himself in ''Changes''}}. The Red Court took his daughter, and he will do ''whatever it takes'' to get her back. Including {{spoiler|becoming the Winter Knight and causing the genocide of the entire Red Court.}}
*** It goes beyond that. He mentions to {{spoiler|Mab}} that if she didn't take him up on his request, he'd be willing to take up Lasciel's coin and join the Denarians, an organization of fallen angel-possessed immortals whose goal is to literally cause as much suffering to humanity as a whole as possible. And if ''that'' failed, he'd summon a Darkhallow, murdering hundreds of thousands and becoming, basically, a god. All of this, just to ensure his daughter's safety.
** The Red Court screwed Harry over during a duel to the death, with the vampire in question trying to toss a dozen bruisers into the ring to kill Harry. Ebenezar McCoy didn't take that very well, and proceeded to {{spoiler|[[Colony Drop|drop a Soviet satellite on said vampire's home, wiping him out]].}}
* [[Harry Potter]] features a clever ''heroic'' inversion with Narcissa Malfoy. She is willing to betray her sworn master Lord Voldemort just to protect Draco, up to the point of {{spoiler|hiding the fact that Harry was not killed by Voldemort as he thought.}}
** It also includes a more traditional version with Molly Weasley: the otherwise soft hearted and kind mother kills {{spoiler|Bellatrix Lestrange}}. This counts as more than just [[Mama Bear]] in part because it's the only recorded killing curse ever used by someone other than a bad guy in the books. Doubly surprising considering how strong and experienced her opponent was, but works as an in-universe version of the mythical mother lifting a car off her child. ''"Not my daughter you bitch!"''
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* Gibbs from ''[[NCIS]]'' might not be a biological father of anyone on his team, but he plays the role of Team Dad often enough (and well enough) to generally count here. Heaven help you if you hurt one of his agents - especially Abby.
** A fact that Team Gibbs is ''fully'' aware of, as Abby proved in one episode when he asked why she hadn't told him about her crazy stalker ex:
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* Yoo Won Gook in ''[[Vampire Prosecutor]]'' kills any one who [[Berserk Button|so much as ''hint'']] at harming his daughter, Jung In. The fact that she's a prosecutor working hard to arrest him complicates matters. To this end, he even distances himself from her so that she won't be implicated when he is indicted.
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== Music ==
* [[Eminem]] took this trope to ridiculous extremes at the end of his otherwise [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] song "Mockingbird". It's all [[Played for Laughs]], though.
== Real Life ==▼
* [http://www.capalert.com/ Tom Carder, the CAP Alert man] is an excellent (real-life) example of this trope, if you're to believe that he searched his kids' electric sockets to try to find satanic symbols.▼
* Real life example: Christophe Fauviau, who doped the drinks of at least 27 tennis players due to face his son and daughter. After one match, one of these opponents passed out at the wheel of his car due to the medication he had been slipped. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4789066.stm He was killed in the ensuing accident.]▼
* A [[Overprotective Dad|protective father]] [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/8197617/German-man-castrates-teenage-daughters-57-year-old-boyfriend.html Helmut Seifert takes the law into his own hands] when he hears his daughter is sleeping with an older man. And decides to personally castrate him while he was conscious to experience the whole thing. Yes, being upset was perfectly warranted. However, when it gets to [[Body Horror]], it crosses into [[Knight Templar Parent]] territory.▼
* Emperor Francis Josef of Austria was a knight templar uncle. He started [[World War I]] when his nephew was assassinated.▼
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== Western Animation ==
* Parodied quite a few times on ''[[South Park]]''. To give just a few examples, in "Child Abduction Is Not Funny", after misinterpreting statistics that show most children are abducted by their parents, the parents of South Park end up banishing the kids from town to protect them from being abducted. In "My Future Self and Me", they pay actors to pretend to be washed-up loser versions of their kids from the future in order to scare them straight. And let's not forget the many things Kyle's mom Sheila has done to "protect" the children of South Park, like the war with Canada and the public execution of Terrance and Phillip in ''South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut''.
* While not strictly their ''father'', Charles Offdensen of ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' is definitely the closest thing most of the band has to one, even if they don't realize it and generally misinterpret his presence in the Dethklok organization at all. He's also personally responsible for the utter ruin of everything that threatens the band in any way; the show's main antagonists are the threats he hasn't been able to ''find'' yet.
* In the episode "Over The Edge" in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', Jim Gordon of all people loses it when {{spoiler|[[All Just a Dream|Batgirl is killed]]}} and goes on a rampage to hunt down Batman (who he blames) in vengeance. He is even willing to release {{spoiler|Bane}} if it will help him capture Batman.
▲== Real Life ==
▲* [http://www.capalert.com/ Tom Carder, the CAP Alert man] is an excellent (real-life) example of this trope, if you're to believe that he searched his kids' electric sockets to try to find satanic symbols.
▲* Real life example: Christophe Fauviau, who doped the drinks of at least 27 tennis players due to face his son and daughter. After one match, one of these opponents passed out at the wheel of his car due to the medication he had been slipped. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4789066.stm He was killed in the ensuing accident.]
▲* A [[Overprotective Dad|protective father]] [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/8197617/German-man-castrates-teenage-daughters-57-year-old-boyfriend.html Helmut Seifert takes the law into his own hands] when he hears his daughter is sleeping with an older man. And decides to personally castrate him while he was conscious to experience the whole thing. Yes, being upset was perfectly warranted. However, when it gets to [[Body Horror]], it crosses into
▲* Emperor Francis Josef of Austria was a knight templar uncle. He started [[World War I]] when his nephew was assassinated.
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