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* In ''Manga/KareKano'', [[spoiler:Reiji Arima]] is ''extremely'' protective of his [[spoiler:biological]] son Souichirou, so much so that [[spoiler:he is willing to ''kill'' Souchirou's real mother Ryouko for abusing him during his childhood and in fact, is close to doing it until Souichirou intervenes.]]

* In the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4070794/1/A_Fathers_Wrath A Father's Wrath]], instead of the yondaime, Naruto's father is Orochimaru. He's so enraged by Naruto being made into a jinchuriki, that in this continuity it's his primary motive for forming the sound village and attempting to destroy Konoha. In sound, he also makes Tayuya something akin to a slave for Naruto [[DisproportionateRetribution for slapping him]]. It's implied he would have had her killed if Naruto hadn't spoken up about being in a panic at the time and that she'd been trying to calm him down. Otherwise, however, he seems to be a just ruler, and a devoted parent.

* Pre Flanderization WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy had Lois and Peter Griffin are kind of like this. During the early parts of the series, they could react violently to an idea of anything happening to their kids. For example, Peter (in his usual idiot self), assaulted his daughter's purse when she said she hated him, and Lois had [[LovableSexManiac Quagmire]] visit the bully who humliated Meg in another episode. That shows how far they have fallen since the Flanderization [[AbusiveParents occured]]...

Compare MamaBear and PapaWolf, which is more or the same concept but only occurs as an immediate defensive reaction to an emergent threat, and does not necessarily entail vengeance or DisproportionateRetribution. The EvilMatriarch is often an extreme version of the Knight Templar Parent, though by no means always. See also MyBelovedSmother. An older brother who will protect/avenge his younger sibling by any means neccesary is a KnightTemplarBigBrother, which is an extreme version of BigBrotherInstinct. For {{Knight Templar Parent}}s minus the KnightTemplar, see GoodParents.

And then there are parents who take the noble principle of looking out for their kids, and go a bit overboard. Just as a KnightTemplar or a WellIntentionedExtremist commits all sorts of illegal or immoral deeds in the name of a cause, a KnightTemplarParent does equally questionable things to [[SafetyWorst ensure his or her child's safety]]. While a normally protective parent would have a VerySpecialEpisode about telling their kid not to buy illegal drugs, a KnightTemplarParent would track down and [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill kill every drug dealer in town]]. Just to be sure.

Compare MamaBear and PapaWolf, which is more or the same concept but only occurs as an immediate defensive reaction to an emergent threat, and does not necessarily entail vengeance or DisproportionateRetribution. The EvilMatriarch is often an extreme version of the KnightTemplarParent, though by no means always. See also MyBelovedSmother. An older brother who will protect/avenge his younger sibling by any means neccesary is a KnightTemplarBigBrother, which is an extreme version of BigBrotherInstinct. For {{Knight Templar Parent}}s minus the KnightTemplar, see GoodParents.

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* A [[OverprotectiveDad protective father]] [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/8197617/German-man-castrates-teenage-daughters-57-year-old-boyfriend.html Helmut Seifert takes the law into his own hands]] when he hears his daughter is sleeping with an older man. And decides to personally castrate him while he was conscious to experience the whole thing. Yes, being upset was perfectly warranted. However, when it gets to BodyHorror, it crosses into KnightTemplarParent territory.

-->''"[[KillEmAll Every living creature that directly shares your bloodline is dead.]] [[ApocalypseHow Every living creature that is directly related to any of those creatures is also dead]]... [[SaltTheEarth Now, no one will come to avenge your defeat. No one will lament your passing.]] Think about [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge the fate you have brought]] upon '''your''' [[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide family]] as [[FateWorseThanDeath you suffer in the afterlife.]] This - and no less - is the price of threatening '''[[PapaWolf m]]''''''[[MamaBear y]]''' family.''
-->-- ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''

* Some adaptations of the FairyTale "Literature/{{Rapunzel}}" portray the witch this way, possibly to make her seem more sympathetic. Included among them are the Donna Jo Napoli's novel ''Zel'' and StephenSondheim's musical ''IntoTheWoods''. In both those versions, the witch truly loved Rapunzel and was trying to protect her.

* [[MoralMyopia Kham's father]], the Santovasku Emperor from ''Manga/{{Outlanders}}'' (the manga moreso than the anime). Yeah, he may be just a bit [[IDidWhatIHadToDo extreme in his methods]]--[[spoiler:even going so far as to brainwash his own daughter, making her forget the "lowly Earth-born human" husband that he does not approve of and encouraging her to murder the boy; he also destroys the entire frikkin' Earth in his rage]]--he's really not ''[[EvilVirtues all bad]]''. After all, [[NecessarilyEvil he has the welfare an entire pan-galactic empire to look after]], and humans like his new son-in-law (who has basically rendered the Emperor's daughter [[spoiler:unmarriageable to another man) have basically been infesting, raping and despoiling the sacred Santovasku "Mother World"--yeah, they originated on Earth]]--since they first began to walk upright. [[WellIntentionedExtremist He's got plenty of reason to be a bit pissed-off, if you think about it]].
* ''CodeGeass'' pulls this rather surprisingly with '''both''' of Lelouch's parents, Emperor Charles (whom he despised) and Empress Marianne (whom he revered); the two formed a plan to change the world for the better shortly after they met, and since Lelouch and his sister Nunnally were their favorites, they intended to let the kids in on it when they were old enough. However, they didn't bother taking into account how the kids would feel about forcibly changing the nature of all of humanity. And all this is before you throw in their EvilPlan to protect the kids which resulted in both kids being mentally and emotionally scarred, and drove Lelouch to try to kill his father in the first place.

* Recent chapters of ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' suggest that [[spoiler:Syaoran and Sakura Li went path for their son, [male] Tsubasa. Their moves include getting sealed in separate parts of a glass container for the better part of their offspring's lives as a payment for his safety, Sakura sacrificing a MagicWand she was given by [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura an alternate universe version of herself]] so [male] Tsubasa can go to an alternate dimension to help [female] Tsubasa, [[OedipusComplex his love interest]], and then facing the BigBad in a battle that potentially can destroy the multiverse in an AWESOME BigDamnHeroes moment. All this because [male] Tsubasa fell in LoveAtFirstSight with the person his mother was cloned from.]]
* A minor suspect in an early ''DetectiveConan'' story locked her own son Akio in the basement of her house for six years so the StatuteOfLimitations would run out on Akio's accidental murder of his apparently abusive father... even when Akio ''did'' aknowledge his guilt and wanted to pay for his crime, and being locked downstairs only made him cross the DespairEventHorizon. Ultimately, Conan and the Detective Boys found out as they sneaked in the apparently abandoned house; Conan uncovered the mother, helped Akio convince her to let him go, and they turned themselves in together.
* [[spoiler: Giovanni]] from ''PokemonSpecial''. Wanna find your missing son? Simple, just [[spoiler: destroy the Sevii Islands, put other families through hell, nearly kill quite a few people, and put the protagonist through a whole lotta traumatizing shit, etc.]].
* Whitebeard of OnePiece is an example of this to his "sons," as he considers killing a crewmate to be an unforgivable crime. When Ace, who had gone after Blackbeard for killing his division commander, lost to Blackbeard and was turned over to the World Government, Whitebeard sent his entire fleet of pirates to Marineford to save him, playing into the World Government's plans [[spoiler:as well as Blackbeard's]].

* Despite typically being cold and dismissive toward his daughter Hinata, Hiashi Hyuga of {{Naruto}} has some hallmarks of this, like when he activated his brother's curse seal merely because he sensed that he was considering harming Hinata.
* [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Maes Hughes]] ''pulls a gun'' at a bunch of three-year-old boys who want to play with his daughter, who's of the same age. Excused by it being a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
* ''{{Berserk}}'': The King of Midland practically destroyed his own kingdom just to make Griffith's life a living hell after he [[spoiler: deflowered]] his precious daughter, Princess Charlotte [[spoiler: who he later tried to rape and evidently fell deeper and deeper into insanity afterward.]]
** The Count can also count, since he was so determined to keep his daughter Theresia away from the evils of the world [[spoiler: himself being one of them]] that he locked her in her room for most of her life.
* Suits Renton and Eureka to the T in {{Eureka Seven Ao}} for their goal to ensure their son Ao's survival [[spoiler: after the tragedy that happened to their firstborn daughter.]]
* In ''Manga/KareKano'', [[spoiler:Reiji Arima]] is ''extremely'' protective of his [[spoiler:biological]] son Souichirou, so much so that [[spoiler:he is willing to ''kill'' Souchirou's real mother Ryouko for abusing him during his childhood and in fact, is close to doing it until Souichirou intervenes.]]

* Mr.Chau from ScottPilgrim. Once he finds out his daughter, Knives, is dating a 23-year old white boy (or used to at this point) he did the most logical thing possible... He went around with his ceremonial sword and hunted Scott so he could decapitate him. This eventually helped Scott though as he used Mr.Chau as a distraction in a battle with one of Ramona's evil exes and, after that, made peace with him.

* In the ''{{Naruto}}'' fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4070794/1/A_Fathers_Wrath A Father's Wrath]], instead of the yondaime, Naruto's father is Orochimaru. He's so enraged by Naruto being made into a jinchuriki, that in this continuity it's his primary motive for forming the sound village and attempting to destroy Konoha. In sound, he also makes Tayuya something akin to a slave for Naruto [[DisproportionateRetribution for slapping him]]. It's implied he would have had her killed if Naruto hadn't spoken up about being in a panic at the time and that she'd been trying to calm him down. Otherwise, however, he seems to be a just ruler, and a devoted parent.
* [[MissingMom Padme]] from the ''StarWars'' FanFic, ''[[http://fanfic.theforce.net/fanfic.asp?action=view&ID=804 By the Grace of Lady Vader]]'' is this for both Luke and Leia. She will do ''anything'' to get her family back and keep them safe, to the point of imprisoning one of her own children. Fact that she seems to be a bit [[IRejectYourReality delusional]] and has [[MyBelovedSmother problems accepting the idea that said child might be in love with someone she doesn’t approve of and make independent decisions]], doesn’t help at all. [[DisappearedDad Anakin]] also shows the same traits but his methods are different.
** Though to be fair: Padme was locked up in a Sith prison for at least a decade, which is not considered good for your sanity, while Anakin got set on fire, his limbs chopped off...well there is a difference between parents who are like that without an excuse, and those who suffered like that.

* In ''Fanfic/GameTheory'', Precia is entirely willing to assassinate innocent people in order to protect Alicia.

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* Jack Byrnes (Robert de Niro's character) in ''MeetTheParents''.
* Christof in ''Film/TheTrumanShow'' takes this to the extent of trapping his adoptive son Truman in an entire "[[StepfordSuburbia perfect]]" fake world, with actors playing every person in Truman's life, so that Truman will never be exposed to the evils of real life.
** At least this is what he claims. The fact that he then TELEVISES this as "the ultimate reality show" rather makes that doubtful as his real motive. He even instills a phobia of flying or sailing in Truman to keep him from finding out he's in a huge dome.
* ''The Positively True Adventures of the Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom'' is based on a true story about a woman who plotted to kill her daughter's cheerleading rival.
* Anakin Skywalker of ''StarWars''. Heartbroken by the seemingly impending death of his wife and possibly of his child (whose future he cannot see in his visions), he goes on a savage killing spree to to immerse himself in the powers of the Dark Side of the Force, in order to gain the power to save Padme Amidala and, if need be, the baby too. (Note that this is not precisely clear in the movies - the novelization makes it much more apparent.)
* Viktor in the ''Film/{{Underworld}}'' series, to the point where the entire Vampire-Lycan War began due to his being so much of one that he had his daughter, Sonja, executed after finding out she was pregnant with the child of a Lycan. Naturally, when several centuries later he discovered his [[ReplacementGoldfish adoptive daughter]], Selene, had begun to consort with a Lycan, ''he doesn't take it well.''
* In ''Film/EasterBunnyKillKill'', the killer who's been taking out Remington's low-life friends out to be [[spoiler: Nick's seemingly-oblivious mother, Mindy.]]
* In ''Film/LaPielQueHabito'' (''The Skin I Live In'') the father of a nearly-raped girl [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge goes out of his way]] to punish the perpetrator.

* Adam Hauptman of the ''MercyThompson'' novels can be like this with his teenage daughter, Jesse. When Jesse is beat up at school because her father is a werewolf, she refuses to tell her father who it was, because if he knew, he would kill them.
* Queen Cersei Lannister in ''ASongOfIceAndFire''; she is terrified that something will happen to her children (not an unjustified fear, given [[spoiler: they're born of incest with her brother and are thus treason to her royal husband]]) and protecting them is a large part of her motivation in some of the most immoral acts in her regency. It's easily [[SmugSnake her most favorable attribute]].

* Sara in ''MySistersKeeper''. Sara had a child (Anna) ''specifically'' so it would be a perfect tissue match for her middle daughter Kate, who has severe leukemia. She also neglects her older son Jesse once it is found out he is not a genetic match for Kate. After Kate's kidneys fail, Sara and her husband want to use Anna's kidneys. Anna deciding, she's had enough [[spoiler: and sues them for medical emancipation. ''With Kate's blessing''.]]
* Both Charity and Michael in ''TheDresdenFiles'' can qualify. Especially after [[StormingTheCastle what Charity goes through to get Molly back.]]
** [[spoiler: Harry Dresden himself in ''Changes'']]. The Red Court took his daughter, and he will do ''whatever it takes'' to get her back. Including [[spoiler: becoming the Winter Knight and causing the genocide of the entire Red Court.]]

* Margaret White from ''{{Carrie}}'', who is also an EvilMatriarch.

* ''Film/{{Dogtooth}}'' takes this trope and runs with it: both parents keep their kids in the confines of their estate, crafting images of the world outside as highly dangerous and suspicious. This leads to their portraying cats as "the most dangerous animal of all," for example.

* ''Series/{{Alias}}'':
** Jack Bristow. In the course of protecting his daughter, Jack has tortured and killed people, faked people's deaths, played multiple simultaneous games of GambitRoulette, [[spoiler: shot his own wife in the head when he'd thought she'd put a contract out on Sydney]], counter-brainwashed Sydney to resist programming, endured radiation poisoning, and eventually [[spoiler: sacrificed his own life]]. [[PapaWolf Never]], [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge ever]], find yourself so much as threatening his daughter. It will not end well.
** Irina reaches this status as well, for villainous reasons. She uses both her daughters as nothing more than pawns in her endgame, but [[MagnificentBitch god help you]] if you attempt to interfere with that plan.
* ''{{Lost}}'': Ben is so worried Alex will get pregnant (which on the island is a death sentence) that he jails her boyfriend and then orders him brainwashed in a ''Clockwork Orange'' fashion. [[spoiler:Michael is also willing to pull a FaceHeelTurn to get him and Walt off the island.]]

* Yoo Won Gook in ''VampireProsecutor'' kills any one who so much as ''hints'' at [[BerserkButton harming his daughter]], Jung In. The fact that she's a prosecutor working hard to arrest him complicates matters. To this end, he even distances himself from her so that she won't be implicated when he is indicted.
--> '''Jung In''': He's the bad guy. He's someone I have to lock away. But when the reason he did those bad things is because of me, I can't call him the bad guy. I can't even hate him.

* On ''Series/{{Misfits}}'', Nathan leers at a girl named Jessica and then is beaten to death by a mystery person (luckily he has ResurrectiveImmortality). They find that another guy who flirted with Jessica also died. Simon goes on a date with this girl and they try to warn him, assuming she's a BlackWidow. It's later revealed that [[spoiler: her father is the one killing all the boys that so much as look at her.]]

* Raphael from the ''SoulSeries'' has repeatedly tried to claim an incredibly evil sword on behalf of his adopted daughter, Amy. One time, it was to try give it to a country he hated so it's leaders would kill each other because of it. The other was so he could destroy an artifact that was curing people of the vampirism he was infecting them with so she wouldn't feel left out, having contracted vampirism from him as a result of his last attempt to get the sword. As Amy is an [[EmotionlessGirl Emotionless]] ElegantGothicLolita we have no idea how she feels about his insane plots.
** Apparently she just doesn't take him seriously at all, given that [[spoiler: in her ending sequence of ''SoulCalibur 4'''s story mode after Raphael claims Soul Calibur to create a new world for her... she pushes him into a pit during the requisite EvilLaugh.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', [[spoiler: Handsome Jack]] himself. Late in the game, [[spoiler: Angel]] is begging you to kill her, and he is screaming at her to stop, saying that all the bandits he's killed and people he's manipulated and the world of pure order he's trying to establish is ''to protect her.'' Keep in mind that by this point, [[spoiler: Angel]] has spent most of her life imprisoned [[spoiler: due to her Siren powers]] and used as a biological computer by her father, and [[spoiler: has spent the last five years being used as a living catalyst to charge the Vault Key with Eridium]], so her father's pleas sound hollow to everyone but himself and his extremely twisted viewpoint.

* While not strictly their ''father'', Charles Offdensen of {{Metalocalypse}} is definitely the closest thing most of the band has to one, even if they don't realize it and generally misinterpret his presence in the Dethklok organization at all. He's also personally responsible for the utter ruin of everything that threatens the band in any way; the show's main antagonists are the threats he hasn't been able to ''find'' yet.
* In the episode "Over The Edge" in WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries, Jim Gordon of all people loses it when [[spoiler: [[AllJustADream Batgirl is killed]]]] and goes on a rampage to hunt down Batman (who he blames) in vengeance. He is even willing to release [[spoiler: Bane]] if it will help him capture Batman. [[spoiler: Fortunately, it was AllJustADream experienced by Batgirl herself, a result of the Scarecrow's fear gas; apparently, this sort of scenario was something she had dreaded happening ever since she became Batgirl.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania'', Dracula is fiercely protective of his daughter Mavis due to his promise to his dead wife that he'll protect her no matter what. He tries to instill within her his fear and hatred of humanity and built a massive hotel for monsters as a safe haven for her. He even builds a fake human village with his zombie minions playing a human mob (complete with torches and pitchforks) so that his daughter loses her wanderlust.

* Liam Neeson's character of Bryan Mills in ''Film/{{Taken}}'' fits this trope to a T. All in the name of rescuing his daughter, he is not afraid to kill whoever stands in his way, or even torture those who can give him advice as to where he can find her.

-->''"[[KillEmAll Every living creature that directly shares your bloodline is dead.]] [[ApocalypseHow Every living creature that is directly related to any of those creatures is also dead]]...[[SaltTheEarth Now, no one will come to avenge your defeat. No one will lament your passing.]] Think about [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge the fate you have brought]] upon '''your''' [[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide family]] as [[FateWorseThanDeath you suffer in the afterlife.]] This - and no less - is the price of threatening '''[[PapaWolf m]]''''''[[MamaBear y]]''' family.''

* In ''FanFic/TheImmortalGame'', [[TheDragon Esteem]] claims that everything he did to Rarity -- TrainingFromHell, emotional (and possibly physical) abuse, killing her mother (who opposed his plans) -- was all for her own good, to make her strong enough to survive and rule by his side in the new order he'd help [[BigBad Titan]] create. [[hottip:side note: He also nearly cut out Prince Blueblood's tongue for how he treated her; he's a real piece of work.]] She calls him out on this during their confrontation, and disowns him.

* In ''Manga/KareKano'', [[spoiler:Reiji Arima]] is ''extremely'' protective of his [[spoiler:biological]] son Souichirou, so much so that [[spoiler:He was willing to ''kill'' Souchirou's real mother Ryouko for abusing him during his childhood.]]

* In ''Manga/KareKano'', [[spoiler:Reiji Arima]] is ''extremely'' protective of his [[spoiler:biological]] son Souichirou, so much so that [[spoiler:He was willing to ''kill'' Souchirou's biological mother Ryouko for abusing him during childhood.]]

* In ''KareKano'', [[spoiler:Reiji Arima]] is ''extremely'' protective of his [[spoiler:biological]] son Souichirou, so much so that [[spoiler:He was willing to ''kill'' his biological mother Ryouko for abusing Souchirou during childhood.]]

-->-- [[spoiler:'''[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0640.html Vaarsuvius]]''']], ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''

->''"If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I '''will''' find you, and I will kill you."''
->-- '''Bryan Mills''', ''Film/{{Taken}}''

* HarryPotter features a clever ''heroic'' inversion with Narcissa Malfoy. She is willing to betray her sworn master Lord Voldemort just to protect Draco, up to the point of [[spoiler:hiding the fact that Harry was not killed by Voldemort as he thought.]]

* In the episode "Over The Edge" in WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries, Jim Gordon of all people loses it when [[spoiler: [[AllJustADream Batgirl is killed]]]] and goes on a rampage to hunt down Batman (who he blames) in vengeance. He is even willing to release [[spoiler: Bane]] if it will help him capture Batman. [[spoiler: Fortunately, it was AllJustADream.]]

* Two words: [[Series/{{Alias}} Jack Bristow]].
** To elaborate, in the course of protecting his daughter, Jack has tortured and killed people, faked people's deaths, played multiple simultaneous games of GambitRoulette, [[spoiler: shot his own wife in the head when he'd thought she'd put a contract out on Sydney]], counter-brainwashed Sydney to resist programming, endured radiation poisoning, and eventually [[spoiler: sacrificed his own life]]. [[PapaWolf Never]], [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge ever]], find yourself so much as threatening his daughter. It will not end well.

* Gibbs from ''{{NCIS}}'' might not be a biological father of anyone on his team, but he plays the role of Team Dad often enough (and well enough) to generally count here. Heaven help you if you hurt one of his agents - especially Abby.

--> Abby: ''Because, I wanted him restrained...not bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat.''
* Yoo Won Gook in ''VampireProsecutor'' kills any one who [[BerserkButton so much as ''hint'']] at harming his daughter, Jung In. The fact that she's a prosecutor working hard to arrest him complicates matters. To this end, he even distances himself from her so that she won't be implicated when he is indicted.
--> '''Jung In''': ''He’s the bad guy. He’s someone I have to lock away. But when the reason he did those bad things is because of me, I can’t call him the bad guy. I can’t even hate him.''