History Main / FantasyForbiddingFather

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': Downplayed in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS17E3 The Ballad of Midsomer County]]''. Danny Carver isn't that keen on his daughter Melody becoming a professional folk singer as he fears it will change her irrevocably. He comes around at the end of the episode. [[spoiler: Ironically, Melody's ''real'' father probably wouldn't have minded.]]

* Downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' with Luz's mother Camila. While she loves Luz's creativity, she thinks Luz's obsession with fantasy is responsible for her being unable to make friends with other kids and that it makes Luz behave disruptively at school. All she wanted was for Luz to be able to temper her behavior when the situation demands it so that she can have a future.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 The Little Mermaid]]'' has King Triton who doesn't want Ariel going to the surface or interacting with humans, when he discovers her collection of scavenged human objects he destroys it. This is revealed in [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning the prequel movie]] to be due to the fact that he actually used to like visiting the surface with his family himself, but a pirate boat crushed his wife (Ariel's mother) Athena to death when she was trying to retrieve a music box he'd given her causing him to hate humans (and for some time prior to the first film, music).

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39KztAS3zHU Crumpled Talent]]'' is an animated short about a kid, whose parents gronded them for immersing in their drawing so much, that they didn't pay much attention in class.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': Downplayed in ''The Ballad of Midsomer County''. Danny Carver isn't that keen on his daughter Melody becoming a professional folk singer as he fears it will change her irrevocably. He comes around at the end of the episode. [[spoiler: Ironically, Melody's ''real'' father probably wouldn't have minded.]]

* ''Series/YediYuz'': This is a crucial part of the backstory in the episode "Refakatçiler", highlighting the protagonist's {{Pride}}. Serhat's son Okan wanted to become a painter, even winning a scholarship to study in Italy. When Serhat refused to support his dream, insisting that he become a trader, he ran away to find work in Russia and had been estranged from his father ever since.

** While Izuku's mother has always tried to be supportive ([[MyGreatestFailure and considers her greatest failure to be when she didn't properly encourage him when he had a moment of despair]]), when the school asks permission to move Izuku into dorms, she refuses. She says that she wants to pull him out of U.A. so that he can go to a normal school, even if that means he can never be a hero. Unlike most examples, she is portrayed as being ''completely'' justified. The school has been attacked multiple times since Izuku started going there, he was involved in a kidnapping attempt and a fight that leveled several city blocks, and every time he uses his power he [[HeroicRROD shatters at least one bone]]. All Might is only able to convince her to allow it by getting on his hands and knees and promising to be a better teacher.

*** The episode "Tattoo" has Chakotay's father be against him leaving his tribe and abandoning their ways to join Starfleet.
*** Played straight with Tom Paris's father, a Starfleet admiral who wanted him to go into space when Tom wanted to join the Naval Patrol. Lampshaded when Tom is dictating a letter to his father in "Thirty Days" explaining HowWeGotHere.
--->"It all started on a morning I was doing something you would find a ''complete'' waste of time..."\\
''(Cut to Tom in his ''Captain Proton'' holoprogram, flying through Outer Space in a JetPack and AdventurerOutfit)''

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E90TheFugitive The Fugitive]]", Mrs. Gann shows hints of this during this exchange with Jenny:
-->'''Mrs. Gann''': Who were you talking to?
-->'''Jenny''': Myself.
-->'''Mrs. Gann''': Cut it out. You can go crazy that way.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Her Pilgrim Soul", Nola Granville's father actively discouraged her from reading literature and discussing or even thinking about politics. Whenever she tried to discuss these topics with him, he merely looked at her and told her that she was beautiful, implying that she should not bother with such things as she is a woman. He disowned and disinherited her when she decided to pursue poetry as a career and [[MalignedMixedMarriage married a Jewish lawyer]] named Robert Goldstone.

* ''Bloodlines'': Sydney's father sees many subjects as "nonessential" and wants all three of his daughters to become Alchemists. When Carly chooses not to become one, he increases the pressure on Sydney and Zoe.