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** There was also a story where Batman has to do a night of crimefighting while toting a baby around...
{{quote|'''Batman:''' You all know who I am. You know what I can do. But I'm holding a small child here. And if you make me do anything that could possibly endanger this baby... you will be very, very sorry. ''Forever.''}}
**:* That story ends with the revelation that he was willing to risk revealing his identity in order to give the baby a chance at a normal life with his parents.
*:* It goes back to his father, Dr. Thomas Wayne. The good Doctor was a classic example of [[The Stoic]]: in control of himself, logical and not given bouts of emotion. But one night at a Halloween party the Waynes attended (with Dr. Wayne dressed as Zorro and Little Bruce dressed as a skeleton), Lew Moxon needed Wayne's help with an injured man. Dr. Wayne agreed, sewed the man up and calmly informed Moxon that he was going to report the incident to the police the next day. And then, Moxon made an offhand threat against Martha and Bruce. Poor Moxon had no idea he'd just flipped Dr. Wayne's [[Berserk Button]] until Wayne decked him so hard his grandkids felt it while shouting, "YOU TOUCH MY FAMILY AND I'LL SEE YOU IN HELL!" It's an awesome case of [[In the Blood]].
**:* Goes so far with Thomas Wayne that in the [[Flashpoint]] storyline, HE becomes Batman after Bruce and Martha are killed in the mugging. Mind you, he's as good as Bruce at the job, but he's probably ''[[Badass Grandpa|pushing sixty AT LEAST]].''
* Batman's fellow crime fighter and [[Mama Bear]] [[Black Canary]]'s boyfriend Oliver Queen/[[Green Arrow]] isn't any different. When his son Connor was shot in the head, Ollie forced an arrow between Onomatopoeia's (the shooter) teeth, angrily asking why he tried to kill his kid and just a hair away from making shish-kebab out of his brain. He then decides he doesn't care ''why'' Onomatopoeia tried to kill Connor, and tells him that he will die if his son doesn't pull through, holding his bow in that position while the surgeons work. For 30 minutes. With a 200 lb. pull longbow. ''After giving blood''. More recently, poor Connor was shot ''again'' ([[Butt Monkey|guy has no luck]]), fell into a coma, and was kidnapped from his hospital bed. Lord only knows what Ollie will do NOW to the ones responsible...
** Recently, in the ''[[Cry for Justice]]'' mini-series, the villain Prometheus's plans managed to result in the maiming of Roy Harper and the death of Roy's daughter, Lian {{spoiler|[[Green Arrow]]'s grand-daughter}}. This results, at the end of the book, in Green Arrow putting an ''arrow'' through Prometheus's brain via his forehead, {{spoiler|after ''[[Blackest Night]]''}}.
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* [[Luke Cage, Hero for Hire]]: [[Norman Osborn]] learned the hard way to not endanger Luke Cage's girlfriend (now wife) [[Alias (Comic Book)|Jessica]] and their (then unborn) daughter - Luke beat the tar out of him in public, not caring if his already revealed identity took a nosedive in regards to reputation.
** Later, after ''[[Dark Reign]]'', Cage's [[New Avengers]] took on Norman's new [[Dark Avengers]]. Norman was savvy enough to invoke this trope beforehand, knowing it would anger Cage into [[Unstoppable Rage|doing something impulsive]] (and make Norman appear to be defending himself from a [[Scary Black Man]]).
* ''[[Spider-Man]]'' examples:
** [[Spider-Man|Peter Parker]] has his moments in [[Spider-Girl]]. Sure, he may be [[Retired Badass|retired]] and [[Handicapped Badass|missing a leg]], but you shouldn't mess with his kids.
** [[The Atoner|Kaine]] also shows this trait from time to time when his "niece" is in danger. Must be [[Cloning Blues|genetic]].
** Pretty much every incarnation of Peter Parker has this to some extent.... Granted, most versions don't have children, but they all have a big blinking button somewhere in their psyche labeled 'someone hurt my loved ones', and the majority of the New York underworld can tell when some idiot has pressed it.
*** Hint: the reason the motor-mouthed superhero hasn't talked in the last sixty seconds is because he's using all his superior intellect and enhanced nerve conduction velocity (IE: ability to think faster than normal) to consider the merits of the 6,000 different ways he intends to hurt you.
** There's also ASM #645. He's led to believe an infant he was trying to protect is killed. He then proceeds to go on a rampage. It's so bad, that some of his rogues gallery don't believe it...until he comes for them.
** Also, Ben Parker, his deceased uncle; he was never a violent man, of course, but he ''was'' a retired MP in the U.S. Army, and at least one flashback story showed he would show this Trope if May or Peter were threatened.
* Scandal Savage and Bane of ''[[Secret Six]]'' have something of a father-daughter relationship, with Scandal's biological father being... well, [[Manipulative Bastard|Vandal]] [[Magnificent Bastard|Savage]] and Bane being a [[Genius Bruiser]] when not on his venom, and it seems the one surefire way to get Bane to ''use'' said venom again is to put Scandal in danger, at which point anyone who happens to be in the way gets to experience what the [[Batman]] went through in ''[[Knightfall]]'' -- that is, a broken back.
* The [[Marvel Universe]] [[Ares (Comic Book)|Ares]] could, would, and has gone to war with '''[[Rage Against the Heavens|The Heavens Themselves]]''' to protect his son, tearing his way through both Olympus and the Japanese heavens to save Alexander.