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* ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer]]'': [[UFO Robo Grendizer/Characters|Danbei Makiba]]. Unlike other fathers in the ''Mazinger trilogy'' -''[[Mazinger Z|Gennosuke Yumi]]'' and ''[[Great Mazinger|Kenzo Kabuto]]'' come to mind- who were, at the best, neglecting, Danbei was overprotective to the point his daughter found it annoying. He threatened with -or outright attempted- killing whoever hang around with Hikaru. And if someone offered to drive her to some place, he loaded his shotgun in front of that person while he stated: "You better bring her back without ever one scratch."
* San's father in ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'' is overprotective to the point of homicidal mania when his daughter gets married. He repeatedly attempts to ''kill'' his son-in-law.
* Similar to San's father, Matsudaira from ''[[Gintama]]'' repeatedly tries to assassinate his daughter's boyfriend or whoever approaches her.
* Maka's father Spirit in ''[[Soul Eater]]'', albeit somewhat subverted; in the first episode, there is a short scene where he warns Soul not to make any moves on Maka ... and quickly goes on to tell him that he should give Maka a grope. He does seem to be a decent guy overall, since he was not amused with [[Manipulative Bastard|Medusa's]] [[Abusive Parents|treatment of her child]], [[Ambiguous Gender|Crona]]; when he learns about it from Medusa herself, [[Berserk Button|it's the first time we actually see him]] ''[[Berserk Button|angry]]'' and goes on to prove [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|just how dangerous he really is when his daughter or her friends are threatened]].
* Fujioka "Ranka" Ryouji, Haruhi's father in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]''. Or he could just be a sociopath, he did recognize Tamaki. Though considering that Ryouji '''has''' been raising Haruhi alone ever since the death of Kotoko... The trope also applies to Tamaki himself in his guise as Haruhi's 'father'.
* ''[[Ranma ½|[[Ranma
* ''[[Bleach]]''
** Ichigo's father Isshin is always having fits about protecting his two young daughters (Karin and Yuzu) from any and all dangers. Later subverted in {{spoiler|that he's always known about supernatural dangers much of the world is unaware about. That, and he's actually a Shinigami, too.}} Also subverted in that while he's obsessed with ensuring the safety of his ''daughters'', {{spoiler|he is and has always planned on using his son as a living weapon, even admitting that a father willing to kill his son is a better father to his son than him. He himself isn't very happy about it.}}
** Orihime's hollowfied [[Promotion to Parent|brother]] Sora also qualifies, trying to ''kill'' Ichigo (and Tatsuki, though less so) for taking his place in Orihime's heart. He then says he'll kill Orihime ''[[Yandere (disambiguation)|just so no one else can have her]].'' Ichigo is ''[[Big Brother Instinct|not]]'' [[Berserk Button|impressed]].
* Akane Hino's father in ''[[Cannon God Exaxxion|Cannon God E Xa X Xion]]'' turns into this temporarily (after spending all his other appearances as a mostly useless wimp) after he finds out that male lead Hoichi Kano had sex with his daughter. Kano got punched a lot. Which is kinda fair considering that Hoichi is currently fighting the alien occupation on earth, meaning that his daughter would be in danger by being in a relationship with him. Heck, she was interrogated and used as a secret weapon against him, her sister was nearly killed by Hoichi's giant mecha, and now her entire family must remain in hiding to be safe, all because of her just being ''friends'' with him. Probably the most rightfully protective dad on this page.
* ''[[Dragon Ball]]''
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== Fan Works ==
* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', Kyon realizes his father will be one when his sister gets older. His father already thinks that way, though.
* [[Gender Flip|Gender Flipped]] in ''[[Ultimate SpiderWoman|Ultimate Spider-Woman: Change With The Light]]'' when Ben Reilly's father threatens to make Mary Jane Watson's life very, very miserable if she doesn't stay away from his son. Ben himself is not amused when he finds out.
* The fanon portrays Hiashi Hyuuga from ''[[Naruto]]'' ([[Ron the Death Eater|when he's not being portrayed as a]] [[Complete Monster]]) as this over Hinata and Hanabi. Also Kurenai over Hinata as well.
* Ensei in ''[[The Tainted Grimoire]]'' is said to be this by Sasasha. An example includes his reaction to learning his daughter Kanin is going on a date. It is exactly what you'd expect from someone labelled overprotective.
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* Tramp from ''[[Lady and the Tramp]]'', {{spoiler|particularly in the sequel, because he didn't want his son to make the same mistakes he did.}}
* This trope is the driving force behind the entire plot of ''[[Finding Nemo]]''. This is justified because Marlin lost his wife and the rest of his children to a barracuda.
* Simba turned into this in ''[[The Lion King]] 2: Simba's Pride'', but considering the amount of trauma he endured as a cub in the original, perhaps it was well justified.
* Roxanne's dad in ''[[A Goofy Movie]]'', in [[Ugly Guys Hot Daughter|all his huge, fat, ugly glory.]] Although all he does is glare ominously at Max and growl.
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* Less [[Egregious]] than other examples, Dr. Houseman from ''[[Dirty Dancing]]'' is still pretty damn strict.
* Bruce Willis and his shotgun in ''[[Armageddon]]''.
* In ''[[
* [[Roger Ebert]] once condemned the Tony Danza movie ''She's Out of Control'' for dragging this into [[Squick]] levels.
* John Mahoney plays one in ''[[Say Anything]]''.
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* Subverted in the Colin Firth plot in ''[[Love Actually]]''; when Firth travels to Portugal to ask the woman he loves to marry him, he encounters her father... who, thinking that he's wanting to marry her (less attractive) sister, has no problem -- and when she indignantly asks him whether he'd sell his daughter to a perfect stranger, blithely replies "Selling? I'll pay ''him''." Even when the misunderstanding is clarified, he still isn't particularly bothered that a complete stranger (to him) wants to propose to his daughter completely out of the blue.
* Subverted in ''The Wackness''. It looks as if Squarez is rearing to rip Luke a new one when he finds out that he and his stepdaughter Stephanie are dating; however, it's actually ''Luke'' that he's worried about, warning him that Stephanie is likely to dump him once her friends return from vacation. Considering the fact that he's Luke's friend, therapist, and that Luke hinted at considering suicide, it's not as strange as it seems.
* Lancelot in ''[[Monty Python and
* Nathan Wallace in ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera|Repo the Genetic Opera]]'' takes this to some ''scary'' extremes with his daughter, Shilo. When the story begins, she's been locked in her bedroom for 17 years. It seems like he has good reason for this, as she has a rare blood disease. {{spoiler|Until it turns out that she doesn't, and he was actually poisoning her so he could keep her with him and away from the outside world.}}
* ''[[Troll 2]]'': "If my father knew you were here, he'd cut off your little nuts and eat them. He can't stand you."
* In ''[[Bad Boys|Bad Boys II]]'', Marcus' daughter is being picked up at her home by her boyfriend Reggie. Despite specific instructions from his wife to ''not'' go into the overprotective "Her daddy is a policeman, so watch out!" routine, he immediately proceeds to lay down the law [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRiT3ISEN3M punctuated with threats of violence]. ('''Language warning'''.) The scene then [[Crosses the Line Twice]] when his partner Mike pretends to be a family friend who just got out of prison, and chimes in with his own ''outright psychotic'' threats, including pointing a gun at Reggie's face and then pretending he will ''rape'' him if Reggie exceeds the dating boundaries:
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'''Mike Lowery:''' You ''want'' to?
'''Reggie:''' (almost crying) No sir... }}
* In the 2008 Liam Neeson film ''[[Taken (film)|Taken]]'', Neeson's character Bryan Mills comes across as this at first, with the rules he tries to impose for his daughter's safety. She's annoyed by them and thinks he's too strict, as does his ex-wife. Shortly after, he is proven right when he has to storm his way through the Paris Underworld to try and save his daughter from sex-traders. Mills, an ex-CIA agent, fights off thugs left and right with mostly hand-to-hand combat and even ties one of the unfortunate traders to a chair, sticks a long nail into each leg, hooks a jumper cable to each leg nail and to the house's wiring, and shocks him so he reveals who he and his group sold his daughter to. After the interrogation, he leaves him in the chair, to have volts and volts of electricity flow through his body until "it is shut off for not paying the bill." Mills did say that he would kill him after finding him, and kill him he did!
* Although he does warm up to his daughter's boyfriend by the end of the movie, Beldar from ''[[Coneheads]]'' can be quite the Overprotective Dad too, in his own peculiar way (backed up by [[Super Strength]]):
{{quote|''(Beldar tears open the roof to Ronnie's car)''
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{{quote|"Just remember: anything you do to her, I do to you." ''(insert menacing glare)''}}
* ''[[The Sound of Music]]'': Captain Von Trapp was this towards his eldest daughter Liesl when he suspected she was seeing a German boy, Rolf. However, {{spoiler|he was ''right'' about the matter when Rolf became a Nazi and threatened to turn the whole family in. The Captain tries to talk him out of it and fails, so they have to leave the country.}}. However, Rolf may very well have done so because of the Captain's former treatment, and couldn't find it in himself to forgive the old man.
* In the Ice Cube film ''The Players Club'', Blue, the local DJ at the stripper club the protagonist, Diana, works at comes to pick her up for a date. While he waiting for her to get ready, he meets her dad who just happens to be practicing his marksmanship with a gun. As you can imagine, the scene is far from comfortable to Blue.
* The father from ''[[Critters]]'' is a low-key example, glaring at her daughter's new boyfriend all through dinner and dismissing his flashy sports car as a "fancy toy". Also a severe case of [[My Girl Is Not a Slut|fatherly denial]], as he's floored when his wife reassures him she'd told their daughter the facts of life "years ago"... this, while said daughter is busily making out with her date in the barn.
* In Disney's ''My Date with the Presidents Daughter'', when Duncan is about to take the titular girl out (he had no idea who she was when he asked her out), [[Our Presidents Are Different|her father]] comes in and tells him to have her back by 10 PM. He even threatens to institute the draft if anything happens to his daughter (of course, if Duncan knew anything about how US government works, he'd know the President doesn't have that power). He also sends two Secret Service agents with them. At the end of the film, he seems to have mellowed a little and even shows up at Duncan's school to tell him he's ok with them dating and has accepted that his daughter is just a regular teenager. Then, when Duncan takes Hallie out again, the camera pulls back to reveal their car flanked by four Secret Service vehicles with a helicopter providing aerial support.
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* Done ''very'' darkly with Beverley Marsh's dad in Stephen King's ''[[IT]]''. He beats her up whenever she does something odd (commenting that he worries about her A LOT) and when he finds out that she's been spending time with the rest of the Loser's Club, he demands that she take off her pants so he can check her barrier. Thankfully she gets away, but wow.
* ''[[Percy Jackson & the Olympians|Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'': [[Gender Flip|Gender flipped]], but Athena does not approve of the son of the guy she hates being around her daughter.
* Jean Valjean in ''[[Les Misérables (novel)|Les Misérables]]'', even though he isn't Cosette's real father. At first this is partly from self-preservation, as he believes Marius (who has been exchanging glances with Cosette) is an agent of the police, but once he finds out that they have been secretly meeting he wishes Marius dead.
* A mild version in those parts of ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'' written by [[Aaron Allston]]. Wedge Antilles has two daughters. He insisted on having them carry two blasters when they were going out, and despaired when he found that one of them was dating another pilot, and due to the mission and secrecy he couldn't talk to her.
* '''[[Disgaea Hour of Darkness/Characters|Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth!]]''' becomes this when he and [[Disgaea Hour of Darkness/Characters|Jennifer]] have a daughter named [[Disgaea Novels/Characters|Jane]] in the ''[[Disgaea]]'' [[Disgaea Novels|novels]]. The most noteworthy proof of this is that he absolutely does not approve of Jane’s romantic feelings for [[Disgaea Hour of Darkness/Characters|Laharl]], even though he should know that [[Noble Demon|Laharl]] [[Hidden Heart of Gold|would never hurt her]] and is [[Celibate Hero|not interested in a romantic relationship to begin with]].
* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'': Harry Dresden. When his daughter is kidnapped in "Changes", although it wasn't his original plan, {{spoiler|he wipes out an entire RACE OF VAMPIRES WITH THE SPELL THEY WERE PLANNING ON USING HER FOR.}}
* ''[[Washington Square]]'' brutally subverts this -- while the way Catherine's father treats her paramour Morris comes off as him wanting to protect his little girl from a man who's not up to snuff, in reality he only wants to protect his money from a prospective [[Gold Digger]].
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** Philip Banks with Ashley. He could be that way with Hilary as well such as the episode when she was going to pose for [[Playboy]]. Though he was never as protective with her as he was with Ashley.
** Will was also pretty protective of Ashley, to the point of throwing a fit when he sees her kissing boys.
** Will meets one such dad of a girl he was currently dating. The dad however happens to be a pilot and tricks Will into a plane ride where he uses his flying skills to try and scare Will away from his daughter. It doesn't get much better when the plane stalls, they have to bail out and end up stuck alone in the forest together.
** And another during the show's first season, who doesn't think ANYONE is good enough for his little girl, to the point where no one even bothers to ask her out because they know her dad will say "no".
* Cain Dingle in ''[[Emmerdale]]'' has gotten violent on several occasions when he thinks someone is trying to take advantage of his little girl
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* ''[[Married... with Children|Married With Children]]''
** Subverted: where Peg's father actually approves of Al, so much so that he literally [[Shotgun Wedding|forced Al at gunpoint]] to marry Peg after Al mistakenly proposed to Peg while drunk and later tried to get out of the marriage.
** Played straight when Al goes so far as to hurt each and every one of Kelly's boyfriends (and boy, does she have a fair amount). He does that to protect the family's reputation (Kelly's very low standards means that most of the guys she dates ''truly'' are scum, and this is one of the very few times when Al actually shows some responsibility as a parent), while he doesn't mind when Bud gets some (but once in a while)...
** Also subverted with Kelly herself whenever she lands a rich guy, as Al actively supports the relationship and tries to exploit it for his own benefit.
** And when Bud confides that he has been dating his 40 year old teacher, Al shows up at the school the next day to blast the woman as a "cradle robbing pervert" and bring in two cops to arrest her. Unfortunately, the woman was out, so Al just humiliated the completely innocent elderly substitute, but overall, kudos to Al for not buying into [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)]], even if the woman was "hot" and Bud was "consenting".
* Parodied with Hermes Pinzan in ''[[Yo Soy Betty, la Fea|Yo Soy Betty La Fea]]'', who follows the trope to a T, but the daughter he protects so obsessively is such a ugly, nerdy and wholesome woman that he shouldn't have any reason for worry... Or has he?
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:: Millet forces Milton to row across the Pacific (as [[Product Placement]]) before he will let Milton marry his daughter, but reneges on this promise and locks her up in a fortress.
* ''[[Eureka]]'''s Sheriff Jack Carter is a prime example. He's supposed to be a likeable protagonist, but when he interacts with his daughter... scary. Scary as in "she will need psychological help someday soon" scary. At the end of one episode, he ''handcuffed'' her to keep her from ''talking'' to a boy. And it was played for ''laughs''... [[Unfortunate Implications|Hmmm.]] Considering how she's implied to have acted before coming to him, that's a fairly understandable level of caution. Besides, he gets much better about that whole thing later on as she gets a bit older and more mature. At one point, we think the APB he's been given is about the Mystery of the Week as he rushes off... to confront his fifteen-year-old daughter who is wanted on charges of credit card fraud to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. All through the first season it was played with, as his being protecting her from the law (he ''is'' in the business of "law enforcement" after all). After that he started to relax as she became more comfortable and began to fit into the town. To the point that he has not voiced any problems with Zoey and her boyfriend going to colleges in the same city ''on the other side of the country'' from Eureka. When he walks in on them being... intimate, his only reaction is "now my day is complete" and then turns to work on the issue of the week. At the end of the episode it is commented on his self-restraint not making any threats while they are making out in public.
* Played humorously on ''[[That '70s Show]]'' when Red decides to "convince" Kelso not to date his daughter Laurie. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* Ben with Alex on ''[[Lost]]'', though for good reason, as women who become pregnant on the Island invariably die. Still, locking the kid in a cage and then brainwashing him ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]''-style was a bit extreme. It's even reinforced in a parallel dimension in the final season, Ben {{spoiler|gives up dreams of school-wide domination for Alex's benefit}}. What a twist!
* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' gives us {{spoiler|Chuck's father Charles Charles, when he gets resurrected.}}
* Subverted in ''[[True Blood]]'' when the vampire Bill Compton threatens to throw the mortal Hoyt Fortenberry through a closed window when Bill discovers Hoyt and Jessica, who is Bill's progeny (or is it his ''ward''?), making out in his living room. Bill's physical threats were intended to protect Hoyt in case Jessica's love lust turned to blood lust.
* ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'': Facing off with Jack Bristow is bad enough when you think he's just a very tall, broad-shouldered, poker-faced airplane parts manufacturing executive/bank manager/large glowery person who seems to know everything you get up to. Telling him you want to date Sydney when you know he's a [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]-playing double agent who keeps multiple caches of weapons around is the ''really'' fun part.
* Richard [[Castle]] whenever he runs across a case that hurts teenage girls... Alexis may be the most responsible one in the family, but there's no denying that he loves his daughter dearly. Though the standard scene where the father intimidates his daughter's date is defied when she goes out with Owen, as she insists that he gets rid of the fake ''severed head'' and bloodstained coat, and is ready to leave immediately.
* ''[[CSI: Miami]]'': In an episode that was otherwise a homage to ''[[The Hangover]]'', the bride's dad ''really'' disapproved of the groom and at the first sign that he had hurt her (emotionally, by going to a strip club after swearing he wouldn't) he {{spoiler|bribed a stripper to bring him out back, hogtied him and [[Disproportionate Retribution|left him to die at sea in a tiny inflatable raft]].}}
* ''[[CSI: NY]]'': Lucy's still a baby, but Danny's already saying boys won't get close enough to get her pregnant.
* Rob Fitch (Katie and Emily's dad) in ''[[Skins]]''.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''
** Mr. Stanky from the episode "Bart's Friends Falls in Love" is Samantha Stanky's strict and overprotective father. After Bart calls him on the phone with new concerning Samantha, Mr. Stanky shows up to the Simpson residence and immediately goes up Bart's treehouse. Shock to see Milhouse and Samantha together, he let's out a prolonged "Noooooooooooooo!" that is powerful enough to make birds flee from the tree. Mr. Stanky then snatches her out of the tree and nervously asks her what happened. Before Samantha can even fully explain, he yells at her. As Mr. Stanky carries her off on his back, he tells her that she will be put in an all-girl school and that she will never see Milhouse again. After Milhouse and Samantha cry out for each other, Mr. Stanky puts her in the car, slams the door, and bitterly drives off, leaving Milhouse heart-broken.
{{quote|'''Mr. Stanky:''' ''(To Samantha Stanky)'' I'm putting you in an all-girl school! You're never gonna see that boy again!}}
* Oscar Proud of ''[[The Proud Family]]'':
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* ''[[Family Guy]]''
** Carter Pewterschmidt just can't let it go. Despite decades of happiness Lois has experienced with Peter, he has and still tries to smash his skull in occasionally.
** Peter's usually neglectful or abusive with [[Butt Monkey|Meg]], but in one episode, after she ended up in a hospital, he became overprotective. Also when Quagmire tries to seduce Meg, he freaks out.
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'': Kim's father seems more concerned about the idea of his daughter dating boys than risking her life fighting [[Super Villain|supervillains]]. In the first movie, he's glad Kim's trapped in the timestream and not "messing around with boys", and his version of [[The Talk]] in "Emotion Sickness" is [[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...|a threat to stick Ron on a deep space probe if he tries anything]]. It seems to be lessening in season four -- after all, her boyfriend is... the safest guy on the planet.
* Subverted on ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', when SpongeBob agrees to chaperon Mr. Krabs' daughter to the prom. When he's dropping her off, Krabs runs out the door screaming "GET AWAY FROM ME PRECIOUS FLOWER!!!"... which turns out to be an actual flower that SpongeBob was in danger of stepping on. Also another episode has Krabs worried sick that boys will show up to his daughter's sleepover, though his overriding concern isn't anything the boys would do to Pearl, but the thought that boys would destroy any of his property and beloved possessions. It should also be noted that in the prom episode, Mr. Krabs totally subverts the trope by telling ''Pearl'' not to mess ''SpongeBob'' up too much. (because he needs him for work)
* The father of one-off love interest Angela D'Angelo in ''[[My Dad the Rock Star]]'' is both completely neurotic and ''extremely'' overprotective. He's so overprotective that no-one has ever dated his daughter because every boy who ever tried got scared away during the "pre-date"... interrogation. Willy, the main character, fares no better in trying to woo Angela. Even when Angela decided to defy her father's decision, his response was to ''move the entire family out of town'' just to make sure he kept his daughter "protected." Appropriately enough, his wife is also an equally extreme example of a [[My Beloved Smother|Beloved Smother]].
* On ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'', Big Daddy, Wanda's father, embodies this trope so well that he nearly got Wanda to leave Cosmo and Timmy in his first apperance. Unsuprisingly, he ends up hooking up with [[My Beloved Smother|Mama Cosma]].
* Chief Emiliano Suarez, Frida Suarez's father, from ''[[El Tigre|El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera]]''.
* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'': "Let me tell you something; you lay ONE PAW ON MY DAUGHTER AND YOU'LL BECOME MY PERSONAL TOOTHPICK, YOU HEAR ME!"
* In ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold]]'' episode "The Golden Age of Justice", the entire Justice Society treats Black Canary as if she were made of glass and will tell her to wait back while they do all the hard work -- despite the fact that she's a competent crimefighter in her own right, as well as half their age. Eventually she learns from Wildcat that {{spoiler|their over-protectiveness stems from a promise made to Dinah's mother, the first Black Canary, as she died in the middle of a rescue mission}}. Not to mention, they treat ''Batman'' kind of the same way, but not quite as severe.
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* An episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' dealt with an extremely overprotective dad who treated all of his children this way, including his twin boys, who were Bobby's age. He treated them (and the rest of the boy scouts) like babies just because one had ADHD and the other was hyperglycemic. To the point he kicked Bobby out of the scouts simply because he was playing a fighting game, considering him a bad influence.
* In the [[DVD Commentary]] for the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "The Chronicles of Meap", Dr. Doofenshmirtz states that he doesn't trust Ferb and disapproves of his crush on Vanessa when it comes up during the episode. When a biker hits on Vanessa, Dr. Doofenshmirtz [[Disproportionate Retribution|sends him to another dimension.]]
* Paulina's father in ''[[Danny Phantom]]''. He threatens Danny within ''seconds'' of meeting him ("If you upset her, we're going to have a ''violent'' talk.") and then tells him ''he knows where Danny lives'' just before they leave for the school dance.
* Played ''[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|hideously]]'' straight in ''[[Camp Lazlo]]''. "Valentines Day" reveals that [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|Commander Hoo-Haw]] is [[Stalker with a Crush|Patsy]]'s father. All hell breaks loose when he finds the Valentine Patsy intended to send, and when Patsy refuses to name its recipient ([[You Should Know This Already|Lazlo]]), he orders her to beat up every scout she DOESN'T love so he can [[Fate Worse Than Death|punish]] the one she does. [[Take a Third Option|When she beats up everyone]] and claims the valentine was for him instead, [[Squick|Hoo-Haw's delight]] is... [[Brain Bleach|disturbing]].
* In ''[[The Venture Brothers]]''. Dr. Orpheus is shown to be very overprotected of his only daughter Triana. Where when Pete White tried to flirt with her at the Xmas Party (complete with mistletoe headband) he caused the mistletoe to burst into flames while giving Pete the [[Death Glare]].
{{quote|'''Triana Orpheus:''' Dad, I can take care of myself, you know.
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* Some people feel that the abstinence pledge for girls comes down to a statement by the fathers involved that says, "I will not let you have boyfriends until you're married."
* This trope becomes a [[Subverted Trope]] to a degree in the United Kingdom; fathers can be more overprotective of their '''sons''' these days. Ironically, the "If you ever do anything to hurt her..." speech is virtually a [[Dead Horse Trope]] in Britain; now invectives are aimed at the son's partner about this.
* [[Meat Loaf]] once met one of his daughter Pearl's dates with a baseball bat "casually" in hand and told the young man what he would do with said bat if anything happened to his daughter. They came home early.
* [[Bill Engvall]]: ''"Boy, look at me. You see that little girl right there? She's my only little girl, man. She's my life. So if you have any thoughts about hugging, or kissing, you remember these words: I ain't afraid to go '''''back''''' to prison."''
* Oddly subverted by [[L'Etat, C'est Moi|Charlemagne]]: although he refused to dine unless all of his available children (he accepted that sometimes, his sons would be out on kingdom business) were at the table with him and forbade all but one of his daughters from marrying, he also was more than happy to let his daughters have children out of wedlock with various courtiers.
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