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* Even one of the villainous rogues in Batman, Dr. Jonathan Crane aka Scarecrow, is implied to have tendencies of this. When an [[Alpha Bitch]] outright bullies a distraught girl who was one of his patients, he was apparently angered enough to exact revenge on the same [[Alpha Bitch]] and her friends by gassing them with the Fear Toxin.

** In the premiere issue of ''[[The Batman Adventures]]'', Jonathan Crane begins teaching again under an assumed name and [[Morality Pet|grows to care]] for [[Teen Genius|a bright young student]] under his tutelage. When she gets [[Break the Cutie|abused]] by a [[Jerk Jock]] {{spoiler|in what is heavily implied to be [[Rape as Drama]]}}, [[Heroic BSOD|Professor Crane goes away]], [[It's Personal|and]] [[Oh Crap|Scarecrow comes back]].

** His father the North Wind as well. After spending most of the series acting like a [[Jerkass God]] who never seemed to care much for Bigby {{spoiler|he sacrifices himself destroying Mister Dark to save his son and his grandchildren.}}

* Rick Grimes in ''[[The Walking Dead]]'' will do almost anything to protect his son Carl.

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* Even villains can fall under this trope. When Marvin and Wendy suffer their utterly ridiculous, cruel, and pointless death and maiming respectively at the jaws of a demonic ''Wonder Dog'' while working with the [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]], their father {{spoiler|The Calculator}} is somewhat understandably pissed. Being a villain, he acts as a ''very'' dark [[Papa Wolf]]. His vengeful scheming has already claimed the life of {{spoiler|Eddie Bloomberg aka Kid Devil}}. He's even gone so far as to {{spoiler|search for the Anti-Life Equation}} in the hopes that it could restore {{spoiler|Wendy's ability to walk. It didn't work out}}.

* Marv from ''[[Sin City]]'' is like this to the girls at Kadie's Bar, especially Nancy. Granted, it's due to his enormous chivalry, but given his age and the ages of most of the dancers, I say it counts. He mentions one moment when a frat boy roughed up Nancy, which hit his [[Berserk Button]] about hitting women in general, and he "straightened him out but good," mentioning that he maybe went a little too far (implying that the other guy didn't survive). There's also the short yarn "Silent Night," where Marv {{spoiler|hears about a mother asking after her missing daughter, then hunts down and kills her abductors (who had been planning to sell the poor girl for sex) and [[Pet the Dog|cradles the terrified child in his arms]] in a rare tender moment before taking her home}}.

** The corrupt police commissioner Liebowitz turns against the Wallenquist crime organization in "Hell and Back" after his [[The Dragon|Dragon]] The Colonel orders the assassin Mariah to break Liebowitz's son's arm to remind Liebowitz of the organization's power over him. Liebowitz responds by organizing a police raid on the organization's human trafficking operations. Then he personally blows The Colonel's brains out and orders his officers to "make a missing person out of the fucker."

* [[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]]).

** [[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.