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* Possibly the least likely [[Papa Wolf]] ever -- [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s Tramp character in ''[[The Kid]].'' When an official from the local orphanage takes the [[Door
** His [[Spiritual Successor]], Sonny Koufax in ''[[Big Daddy]]'', is no slouch himself. He at first takes a boy as his own son to raise out of undisguised selfishness, but thanks to [[Becoming the Mask]], ends up declaring: "I would die for this kid, just so he wouldn't have to feel a moment of sadness."
* ''[[The Blind Side]]'': Coach Cotton has a [[Papa Wolf]] moment after the [[Opposing Sports Team]] deliberately kicks Michael when he's down and after the play has already ended, and the referee not only ignores the kick, but penalizes the Wingate Crusaders.
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{{quote| '''Megatron:''' ''"Is the future of our race not worth the life of a single human?"''<br />
'''Optimus Prime:''' ''"You'll never stop at '''one!!''' [[Heartwarming Moments (Sugar Wiki)|I'll take you ALL on!!]]"'' }}
** [[What an Idiot!|BAD mistake on Megatron's part,]] as the [[Beware the Nice Ones|Warrior in Optimus awakens]] to [[Curb Stomp Battle|tear him, Grindor AND Starscream apart single handedly]] wielding [[Dual
** Do recall that the battle there ended with Megatron impaling Prime. Megatron never planned to use Sam's brain in the first place: [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|It was a ploy to draw out Optimus]]. However, Optimus made up for it with what he did to Megatron after coming [[Back From the Dead]], and what he did to The Fallen for trying to drain Earth's sun.
{{quote| '''Optimus Prime:''' ''[[Berserk Button|You picked the wrong planet.]] '''[[Transformers (Franchise)/Awesome|Give me your]] [[Family
*** To be fair, Megatron only impaled Optimus because the latter was distracted to find Sam. That and Optimus didn't bring both swords out from the start.
** It should also be noted that in the first live-action movie, Prime comes to the rescue when Sector Seven kidnaps Sam and Mikaela, lifting their car thirty feet in the air and tearing the top off while intoning, "Taking the children was a ''bad move,''" in pure bad-ass fashion.
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* [[Tommy Lee Jones]] also played a Grandpa Wolf in ''The Missing''. He was a [[Disappeared Dad]] and Grandpa hoping to try getting his family's forgiveness... and arrived back home just in time to learn that his eldest granddaughter has been kidnapped and was about to be sold as a child bride. So when his daughter (played by Cate Blanchett) went [[Mama Bear]] to get her girl back, he decided he wouldn't be less and joined her cause. {{spoiler|So much that he defeated the [[Big Bad]] via [[Taking You With Me]], [[Heroic Sacrifice|killing himself]] [[Redemption Equals Death|in the process]].}}
** The role that followed that one was ''Man in the House'', where he's a sheriff who has to protect a bunch of cheerleader girls after they witness a murder. [[Hilarity Ensues]] until not only one of the girls is almost killed by a car bomb, but the man's daughter is kidnapped...
* ''[[Star Wars]]'': Darth Vader, [[Archnemesis Dad|of all people]], has his Papa Wolf moments--not surprising since his attempts to preemptively protect Padme was what drove him to the Dark Side in the first place. In ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'', the Emperor's [[Cold
* Benjamin Martin in ''[[The Patriot]]'' is firmly against a war for independence and submissive towards the over-the-top villain...until his farm is burned down, one of his sons is killed, and another is arrested and taken away to be hanged. Then he goes after the Redcoats with muskets and hatchets...
* [[Harrison Ford]] in pretty much every movie that he's been in that wasn't [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9GwtRsOYSI Indiana Jones or Star Wars]
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* Chingachgook from ''[[Last of the Mohicans (Film)|Last of the Mohicans]]'', though it's more out of vengeance than protection.
* Sirius Black in the fifth ''[[Harry Potter (Film)|Harry Potter]]'' film:
{{quote| '''Sirius''': [[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Awesome|Get away from my godson]]! ''{{[[["Hey You!" Haymaker]] POW}}]''}}
** As well as James Potter. He decided to take on Voldemort on this own, knowing it almost certainly meant death (he even said to Lily "I'll hold him off", indicating he knew he stood no chance) because it gave his wife and son a chance of escaping.(He wouldn't have had a chance against the Dark Lord anyway, but on top of that, he wasn't holding a wand. It makes this into a ''heroic sacrifice''.)
* ''[[Death Sentence]]'' is a very cynical take on Papa Wolf-hood, and on revenge in general. When Nick Hume's older son gets killed by a gang member and he learns that the gang member will only receive a few years in jail, he forces the case to be dropped so that he can kill the bad guy himself. In doing so, he is forced to kill another member of that gang. However, the gang's head doesn't take kindly to this and swears vengeance on Nick's family. Nick being an [[Action Survivor]] rather than a hardened [[Badass]], he fails to stop the gang. Though {{spoiler|his younger son survives and}} he gets back at the gang successfully, it's quite clearly shown that Nick ends up far from the man he used to be. Not all positively.
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* Coach Jones of ''Radio'' becomes this on several occasions for Radio. In one instance, he slammed the [[Jerk Jock]] that tricked Radio to enter the girls' locker room into the trophy case display, after the eye-opening words of, "Son, it's times like these I wish I wasn't a teacher so I could do what I really want to do to you."
* In ''[[Terminator]] 2'', the T-800 is reprogrammed by John Connor to be this to his past self. John's mother even remarks on it in her narration.
{{quote| '''Sarah Connor:''' ''Watching John with the machine, it was suddenly so clear. [[Call Back|The Terminator would never stop]]. It would never leave him. And it would never [[Abusive Parents|hurt him, never shout at him or get drunk and hit him]], or say it was [[When You Coming Home, Dad?|too busy to spend time with him]]. It would always be there, and it would die to protect him. Of all the would-be fathers that came and went over the years, this thing, this ''machine'', was the only one that measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice.''}}
* Charlie Anderson in ''[[Shenandoah]]'' insists that the Civil War doesn't concern his family, even saying that his sons don't owe their state anything because the state "never came around here with a spare tit." But when some Union soldiers mistake his youngest for a rebel and take him prisoner, he starts taking the war personally.
* ''[[The Godfather (Film)|The Godfather]]'' begins with a mortician making himself a client of Vito Corleone to outsource his [[Papa Wolf]] duties. [[The Don]] of course takes his [[Papa Wolf|Papa Wolfing]] [[
* There's an excellent case for Mr White fulfilling this trope in ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'' in his protectiveness over young protégé Mr Orange, to the point where he takes a bullet for him. He really, really doesn't like it when you accuse Orange of being a rat. {{spoiler|When Orange indeed turns out to be the rat, Mr. White has to put the bullet to him in probably the most emotional moment of the entire movie}}.
* Invoked in ''[[Away We Go]]'' when the expecting parents are discussing their future daughter.
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