History Main / KnightTemplarParent

* The Devil Hulk from ''ComicBook/THeIncredibleHulk'' -- in ''ComicBook/AvengersNoSurrender'' and ''ComicBook/AvengersNoRoadHome'' -- thinks that the universe isn’t being very nice to Bruce. His solution: [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end the world as we know it]] in order to [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery put everyone out of Bruce's misery]]. It doesn't help that Bruce apparently ''wants'' the world to end, given his wish on the PleasurePlanet Euphoria.

* Real-life example: Christophe Fauviau, who doped the drinks of at least 27 tennis players due to face his son and daughter. After one match, one of these opponents passed out at the wheel of his car due to the medication he had been slipped. [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4789066.stm He was killed in the ensuing accident.]]

* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'', the goddess Freya made her son invulnerable to all threats, physical and magical, so that he would FeelNoPain. Too bad for him that this meant he could feel nothing else, and [[SenseLossSadness he went insane over it]]. When the player meets Freya, she fully admits that [[ItsAllAboutMe her desire to save her son was selfish]], but also [[IgnoredEpiphany refuses to break the spell]], even saying that the spell ''can't'' be broken, when it easily can and she knows how. [[spoiler:When Kratos and Atreus figure out his weakness anyway and kill him, Freya swears eternal vengeance on Kratos and Atreus, even though it was a MercyKill and [[UngratefulBastard they did it to save her]].]]

* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'', the goddess Freya made her son invulnerable to all threats, physical and magical, so that he would FeelNoPain. Too bad for him that this meant he could feel nothing else, and [[SenseLossSadness he went insane over it]]. When the player meets Freya, she fully admits that [[ItsAllAboutMe her desire to save her son was selfish]], but also [[IgnoredEpiphany refuses to break the spell]], even saying that the spell ''can't'' be broken. [[spoiler:When Kratos and Atreus figure out his weakness anyway and kill him, Freya swears eternal vengeance on Kratos and Atreus, even though it was a MercyKill and [[UngratefulBastard they did it to save her]].]]

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 and OverprotectiveDad. An older brother who will protect/avenge his younger sibling by any means necessary is a KnightTemplarBigBrother, which is an extreme version of BigBrotherInstinct. For Knight Templar Parents minus the KnightTemplar part, see GoodParents. For the non-parental equivalent, see WellIntentionedExtremist.

* 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 Knight Templar Parent territory.

* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ConversationsWithACryptid'', All For One is fiercely protective of his child [[spoiler: Izuku]]. This leads him to torturing and experimenting with the child's childhood bullies, spying on his family to extremely invasive levels, setting Shigaraki to be his fall guy and ''slaughtering'' [[spoiler: the entire prison staff and Izuku's kidnappers]] who were keeping him from [[spoiler: saving the critically injured Midoriya.]] The kid, obviously, is horrified when they realized the truth and has to spend most of the sequel trying to either run away from their father or rein him in.

** He dislikes Marinette's best friend Alya because of her scatting articles on Lady Noir when she first debuted. This is despite the fact that Alya cares greatly about Marinette (enough that she gets Akumatized on her behalf to hunt down an anonymous harasser) and that she is coming to accept Noir as a hero rather than a menace or ex-villain. When Plagg uses an account to insult her earlier articles, Kagami outright calls it harassment rather than [[JerkassHasAPoint valid criticism]] as Alya initially passed it off as.

** Hell, Tomoe is this normally. She once said that Gabriel is ''too permissive'' with his son.
* Rick from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' is this towards his daughter, Beth, and his grandkids, Summer and Morty. Trying to hurt or kill any of them ''will'' result in an immediate, often gruesome death.

to find this ''one'' murderer? '''Come on, Mae.'''

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}} Onmyōji]]'': It is understandable that Tamamo no Mae is [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge very upset]] when his kids are murdered, but ''burning down entire towns with innocent people living in them'' just

When the kids grow up and flee the nest as fast as their battered sense of independence can carry them, this parent is demoted to [[MeddlingParents Meddling Parent]]. Though this may be difficult if it doubles up with MyBelovedSmother.

* Enya from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders''. She despises Jotaro and his friends, particularly Polnareff, who "mercilessly" killed her "sweet, innocent son". Said son is actually a serial murderer/rapist, who raped and killed Polnareff's little sister long ago.

* ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'': When Stephanie Brown was younger, one of her villainous father's friends tried to rape her; eight days later, he died of an apparent drug overdose. Stephanie is quite aware that there may have been more to it than that.
* ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'' Jaime Reyes' friend Brenda had an [[AbusiveParents abusive father]], but a very supportive aunt who took her in when said father died in a car accident. An accident that happened shortly after he put Brenda in the hospital. Oh, did we mention that Brenda's aunt happens to be the secret head of El Paso's criminal underworld?

* 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. [[note]] He also nearly cut out Prince Blueblood's tongue for how he treated her; he's a real piece of work.[[/note]] She calls him out on this during their confrontation and disowns him.
* In the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fanfic ''FanFic/AFathersWrath'', 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.

** 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/HeirOfTheNightmare'': The whole reason Luna became Nightmare Moon and cover Equestria in Eternal Night [[spoiler: was because her daughter was nearly murdered by a cabal of religious fanatics. Only by casting Celestia down, along with the moon, she reasoned she could scare anypony from harming Twilight]].

* ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'': Babysitting children is normally a mission given to Genin fresh out of the academy. Shizune on the other hand demands from the Hokage that her children be watched by a squad of highly trained Jonin, and only by ones that she personally trusts if possible. [[spoiler:Considering the fact that both of the kids were nearly kidnapped by Danzo's minions to be raised as {{Tyke Bomb}}s and the one responsible managed to escape, it's understandable that she'd be a bit overprotective, even if the chance of the kidnappers returning is almost nonexistent.]]
* Darth Vader in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13422699/1/Missing-and-Presumed-Dead Missing and Presumed Dead]]'' is practically a (paternal) {{Yandere}} towards his son, Luke. After Luke managed to escape from him on Bespin, he began desperately pursuing him by any means necessary, including kidnapping and torturing members of the Rebellion for information. When he learns that his son is dead (not really, just [[FakingTheDead faking it]]), he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. After he learns that Leia is also his child, he kidnaps her to make sure that she doesn't die like his son did.
* Played for laughs in ''Fanfic/ForTheGloryOfIrk'', where Professor Membrane and his new wife Moira's initial solution to any problem that Dib and Gaz have is to provide them with high-grade weaponry.
* Amber Harrison in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27736435 Zero Context: Taking Out the Trash]]'' has a zero-tolerance policy for anyone harming her children, and is noted to make hobbies out of DisproportionateRetribution and [[RealityWarper reality warping]]. When her daughter gets a light scratch during combat, she chases after the person who did it, violently transforms him into the thing he hated most, and leaves a warning message on the person's spinal column not to do it again.[[note]]No, not just the back; the ''actual'' skeleton. In permanent marker, no less.[[/note]]
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1644775 Shattered Heir Saga]]'': [[VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs After the deaths of Lois Lane and his unborn child]], Superman becomes dangerously overprotective of Jon, to the point of either confining him to the Watchtower or having other heroes escort him when he wants to go out.
* ''Fanfic/TheSunWillComeUpAndTheSeasonsWillChange'': Dana Summers is a deconstruction. She sees ''herself'' as one, fighting Mary every day to help her blend in with the world and fight her autism. However, to Mary herself and everyone except Dr. Goldman and her mother Irene, she's an abusive ControlFreak mother with a self-righteous attitude [[NeverMyFault who refuses to take any responsibility for her actions]] and treats Mary like garbage simply for existing.

* 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.
* Subverted with King Stefan in ''Film/{{Maleficent}}''. While he does order every spindle to be burned to prevent Princess Aurora from succumbing to the titular fairy's curse, as well as having the princess hidden away with the Three Good Fairies, it becomes clear rather early that Stefan's concern is not with Aurora so much as with keeping his power and proving himself superior to Maleficent. Notably, when Aurora returns to him as a teenager, he's too preoccupied with finally being able to defeat Maleficent that Aurora is nothing more than a thorn in his side.

* Jacob in ''Film/OctoberBaby'' is perfectly fine with violating the Hippocratic oath, lying, and generally being a dick to his adopted daughter Hannah if it means keeping her under his thumb.

* Linda's mother in ''Film/NextOfKin1982'' [[spoiler:has her sister Rita relocated to a nursing home in order to get her share of the money and thus receive enough funds to take care of her daughter's future needs. This sets in motion a nasty chain of events that eventually leads to Rita's killing spree seen in the film.]]
* ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': Wanda Maximoff initiates an orgy of murder throughout two universes to capture America Chavez, absorb her powers, and travel to a universe where her counterpart has children, ergo [[KillAndReplace killing and replacing her]] so she can have the children all to herself. Disregarding the second part aside, Wong points out that she can just ask for America to teleport her to said universe without resorting to absorbing her powers, but Wanda counters with the [[InsaneTrollLogic insane assumption]] that her children may suffer an illness whose cure lies in the multiverse, so the power must be standby at all times.

* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'', the goddess Freya made her son invulnerable to all threats, physical and magical, so that he would FeelNoPain. Too bad for him that this meant he could feel nothing else, and [[SenseLossSadness he went insane over it]]. When the player meets Freya, she fully admits that [[ItsAllAboutMe her desire to save her son was selfish]], but also [[IgnoredEpiphany refuses to break the spell]], even saying that the spell ''can't'' be broken. [[spoiler:When Kratos and Atreus figure out his weakness anyway and kill him, Freya swears eternal vengeance on Kratos and Atreus, even though it was a MercyKill and [[UngratefulBastard they did it to save her]].]]

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}} Onmyōji]]'': It is understandable that Tamamo no Mae is [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge very upset]] when his kids are murdered, but ''burning down entire towns with innocent people living in them'' just to find this ''one'' murderer? '''Come on, Mae.'''

*** With the obligatory "RING OUT" announcement as well.
* The Deku King from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''. When his daughter went missing trying to cleanse the poisonous waters of Woodfall Swamp, he was so angry and worried that he planned to torture the first suspicious character he came across, in this case a monkey. So focused was he on retribution that he never bothered to find out that the monkey was actually helping the Princess try to save Woodfall.
* ''VideoGame/TheBunker'' has [[spoiler: John's mother go past MamaBear straight into this when she enlisted her son's aid as an UnwittingPawn to poison every other occupant, allowing their meager rations to stretch for the 20-30 years it would take for the radiation levels outside to drop]].
* ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'': Daddy Dearest, [[SatelliteLoveInterest Girlfriend's]] father, starts out as a fairly reasonable OverprotectiveDad. After he's [[SoreLoser beaten in a rap battle]], however, he goes JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope and '''[[VideoGame/{{Pico}} hires an assassin]]''' to take [[PlayerCharacter Boyfriend]] out! When it turns out said assassin had a past history with Boyfriend, Daddy Dearest makes another attempt on Boyfriend's life by [[TrappedInTVLand trapping him in a video game]], [[spoiler: where it's revealed that he's done so to countless other victims.]] The fact that his daughter is present for all of these attempts, and probably would get extremely upset with him if any of them did work out, doesn't seem to phase him. He's implied to be much worse in the Ludum Dare version, as the description for it says he was out for Boyfriend's blood from the get-go and the rap battle was meant to [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath get him to calm down]]. Mommy Mearest, Girlfriend's mother, is not much better, gleefully challenging Boyfriend to a battle on a moving vehicle and helping Daddy Dearest crash the couple's concert while holding a MallSanta hostage.

* ''Webcomic/CastleSwimmer'': [[spoiler:Queen Susna altered the mural of their prophecy meant to life the cure slowly killing her people off by switching the places of her son Siren and The Beacon as Siren is supposed to be killed by The Beacon to end the cure in an attempt to spare him and when the citizens start becoming impatient, she has a silent breakdown and out of desperation, tries to kill The Beacon herself in order to satisfy them and even locks up Siren to prevent him from interfering. She also insists on doing it even after Elder Selkie points out that killing The Beacon could potentially cause the other kingdoms to declare war on them, which they will not survive]].

* In 1984, [[PapaWolf Gary Plauché]] ambushed Jeff Doucet, the man who kidnapped and molested his son, and shot him in the head in full view of the police officers who were escorting Doucet through Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport to face trial. Due to the nature of the crime, the jury and judge sympathized with Plauché (what he did was legally wrong, but both found it very difficult to condemn him on moral grounds) and he was given a suspended 7-year sentence, only serving 5 years probation and 300 hours of community service. Up to his dying day Plauché had zero regrets about killing his child's rapist.

* A minor suspect in an early ''Manga/CaseClosed'' 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'' acknowledge 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.

* [[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]].

** There's also the time when the kids are stuck in 1800s New York and Chase meets the past versions of the Yorkes, who were also time traveling in that date. Upon learning from Chase that their daughter is going to die in the future, Mr. Yorkes tries to attack him. The pair immediately begin making plans to keep Gertrude safe - and bring a nuclear bomb from the future to blow up 1800s New York. As revenge for Getrude dying in any possible future.
* Mr. Chau from ''ComicBook/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 ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ConversationsWithACryptid'', All For One is fiercely protective of his child [[spoiler: Izuku]]. This leads him to torturing and experimenting of the child's childhood bullies, spying on his family to extremely invasive levels, setting Shigaraki to be his fall guy and ''slaughtering'' [[spoiler: the entire prison staff and Izuku's kidnappers]] who were keeping him from [[spoiler: saving the critically injured Midoriya.]] The kid, obviously, is horrified when they realized the truth and has to spend most of the sequel trying to either run away from their father or rein him in.

** He dislikes Marinette's best friend Alya because of her scatting articles on Lady Noir when she first debuted. This is despite the fact that Alya cares greatly Marinette (enough that she gets Akumatized on her behalf to hunt down an anonymous harrasser) and that she is coming to accept Noir as a hero rather than a menace or ex-villain. When Plagg uses an account to insult her earlier articles, Kagami outright calls it harassment rather than [[JerkassHasAPoint valid criticism]] as Alya initially passed it off as.

* Cindy's parents from ''Film/TheGenerationGap'', but ''especially'' her father; refusing to allow his daughter pursue her passion, which is a career in music, he goes as far as to ''smash her guitar right in front of her'' and snaps at her for crying after that. When Cindy is driven to run away from home, the father instead brands Cindy's lover, Ling, as a kidnapper.

* In ''Literature/LetMeCallYouSweetheart'', Dr Charles Smith was this to his daughter Suzanne, to the point of stalking her. In particular, [[spoiler:after stumbling across his daughter's body, Smith believed that her husband Skip had murdered her after learning she was having an affair. He worried that Skip would be treated more leniently by a jury, so he hid the evidence of the affair and testified that Skip was [[CrazyJealousGuy unjustly jealous]], so that he would get a harsher sentence as punishment for killing Suzanne]]. This created a huge problem, because [[spoiler:it turns out Skip was innocent and it was one of Suzanne's lovers who killed her, and has gotten away with it for eleven years thanks to Smith's actions]].
* ''Literature/MySistersKeeper'': Deconstructed with Sara. She's an unfailing {{Determinator}} in getting her oldest daughter, Kate, quality medical treatment for her severe leukemia. Unfortunately, that takes the form of exploiting her youngest daughter Anna as a source of genetic material to support Kate's health. 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''.]]
* Queen Cersei Lannister in ''Literature/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]].

* Gibbs from ''Series/{{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.

*** He pulls this trick again in season 6, where he [[spoiler: refuses to wake a pregnant Belle from the sleeping curse because while she is in the coma, she is not with Rumplestiltskin. While Moe certainly has reasons to doubt his son in law, he takes away his daughter's agency and endangers both her life and that of her child. Moe might not know about the threat to her life, but it is still an awful thing to do to your own daughter: being under the curse means Belle is trapped in an eternal nightmare from which she cannot wake up by herself.]]

* ''Series/{{Accused}}'': Mo, with her own mother aiding and abetting, pulls out all the stops to keep her son Jake out of jail. In the process she perverts the course of justice, betrays every principle she espouses, repeatedly deceives her best friend Sue [[spoiler: whose own son, Sean, Jake was coerced into killing]] and even states under oath that [[spoiler: Sean would have done the same in Jake's position]]. In the end [[spoiler:Jake gets the maximum sentence of twelve years,]] Sue bitterly spurns Mo, and Mo and her mother become pariahs.

* Junko's father from ''Webcomic/StalkerXStalker''. He casually offers to ''murder Junko's classmates'' because they've been bothering her. After she tells him not to, he decides to murder her bullies' parents instead for allowing them to get away with it.

** Gabriel Agreste obsessively micromanages his son Adrien's life, to the point where he crosses into [[AbusiveParents abusive]] territory, and essentially kept him under house arrest for all his life prior to the show, all in the name of protecting him from some unspecified danger, all while [[ParentalNeglect never even being around to do any of that in person]], instead doing it by proxy through his assistant. [[spoiler:And that's just as Gabriel. As [[BigBad Hawk Moth]], he's willing to cause massive devastation across Paris (and in [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS03E17StormyWeather2 one case]], risk ''killing everyone on Earth'') in the name of reviving Adrien's mother. He's also either an enormous hypocrite or totally lacking in self-awareness, since on several occasions he has akumatized children who found themselves in similar situations to Adrien, and has always expressed anger that someone would be so strict or neglectful towards a child, and when akumatizing Anarka Couffaine, he once again expresses anger at "the suppression of a soul demanding liberty and freedom". In perhaps the ultimate display of his hypocrisy, every time he has learned that Adrien is Cat Noir, all that talk about protecting his son goes right out the window, and his immediate reaction is to first emotionally break Adrien by revealing his own identity and showing him his comatose mother, then akumatize him. As of Season 4 this has happened twice, but time travel was used both times to set everything back to normal]].

* The ''twelve'' members of the Pride in ''Comicbook/{{Runaways}}'' are promised ''six'' places in a coming paradise. In order to avert infighting about who gets the honor, each of the six couples agrees to grant a spot to their children. Of course, earning these six places involves routine human sacrifice and taking over the world...
** Don't forget how Geoffrey Wilder from the 1980s bargained with the Gibborim in the present - just because he wanted his to-be-deceased wife and son back (keep in mind that at this time, Geoffrey hasn't even ''met'' Alex yet). He also chooses Nico as the sacrifice just because she refused the advances of Alex. Oh, and there's also the time when the kids are stuck in 1800s New York and Chase meets the past versions of the Yorkes, who were also time traveling in that date. Upon learning from Chase that their daughter is going to die in the future, Mr. Yorkes tries to attack him. The pair immediately begin making plans to keep Gertrude safe - and bring a nuclear bomb from the future to blow up 1800s New York. As revenge for Getrude dying in ''any'' possible future.

* When [[Comicbook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]] was younger, one of [[ArchnemesisDad her father]]'s friends tried to rape her; eight days later, he died of an apparent drug overdose. Stephanie is quite aware that there may have been more to it than that.
* ''Comicbook/BlueBeetle'' Jaime Reyes' friend Brenda had an [[AbusiveParents abusive father]], but a very supportive aunt who took her in when said father died in a car accident. An accident that happened shortly after he put Brenda in the hospital. Oh, did we mention that Brenda's aunt happens to be the secret head of El Paso's criminal underworld?

* 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 Music/StephenSondheim's musical ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods''. In both those versions, the witch truly loved Rapunzel and was trying to protect her.

* Dana Summers is ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheSunWillComeUpAndTheSeasonsWillChange'' is a deconstruction. She sees ''herself'' as one, fighting Mary every day to help her blend in with the world and fight her autism. However, to Mary herself and everyone except Dr. Goldman and her mother Irene, she’s an abusive ControlFreak mother with a self-righteous attitude [[NeverMyFault who refuses to take any responsibility for her actions]] and treats Mary like garbage simply for existing.

* ''Film/HubieHalloween'': Hubie’s mom kidnaps four of Hubie’s tormentors and decides to [[KillItWithFire burn them alive]] in her backyard as vengeance for bullying him. Hubie himself lampshades it.
-->'''[[Creator/AdamSandler Hubie]]:''' Mommy, I would have been satisfied if you put itching powder in their sleeping bags. This is extreme.
* Jack Byrnes (Robert de Niro's character) in ''Film/MeetTheParents''.

* Keller Dover from ''Film/{{Prisoners}}''. Over the course of the film, he went from being appropriately paranoid about his missing daughter and her friend to outright kidnapping Alex Jones, just because he suspects that the man is responsible for their kidnapping.

* Viktor in the ''Film/Underworld2003'' 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.''

* Warren Worthington II in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', given that his son is a mutant.

* Margaret White from ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'', who is also an EvilMatriarch.
* Played with in ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'': Madame de Villefort will go to any lengths to ensure that her son inherits a large fortune; [[spoiler: which includes poisoning nearly every member of her family, including her step-daughter]]
* ''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.

** In comic [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0639.html #639]], after dealing with an Ancient Black Dragon who showed up to avenge her son [[DisproportionateRetribution in a brutal fashion]], [[spoiler:Vaarsuvius uses the spell Familicide on her, which kills not only her family, but the family members of her other family members, and so on ''ad infinitum''. V estimates that s/he killed a whole quarter of the black dragon population in the [=OotS=] universe.]] However, Karma lines up to give the perpetrator a kicking. [[spoiler:The power required to do it was acquired via a DealWithTheDevil, so V's soul is pledged to three separate Fiends]], and it's further revealed that included among the bloodline was [[spoiler: the family of Girard Draketooth, one of the legendary heroes who guards the gates imprisoning the Snarl.]] Perhaps most notably concerning this trope, though, [[spoiler:V's mate is so appalled at what s/he did that they file for divorce.]]

* In 1984, [[PapaWolf Gary Plauché]] ambushed Jeff Doucet, the man who kidnapped and molested his son, and shot him in the head in full view of the police officers who were escorting Doucet through Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport to face trial. Due to the nature of the crime, the jury and judge sympathized with Plauché and he was given a suspended 7-year sentence, only serving 5 years probation and 300 hours of community service. Up to his dying day Plauché had zero regrets about killing his child's rapist.

** And on the flip side, there was the infamous StageMom who sought out a ''hitman'' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Holloway to kill the mother of a cheerleader who'd beaten her on the team]] - thankfully, her ex-brother-in-law (whom she'd asked to find one) [[EveryoneHasStandards immediately informed the police]].

* There are many parents who insist that their kids will not get privacy until they're old enough to live on their own, in order to be able to ensure they're not doing drugs, sexting, drinking, and also to be able to step in if their child is suicidal, hurting themselves, or otherwise suffering depression. [[https://peopleiwanttopunchinthethroat.blogspot.com/2013/04/why-my-children-have-no-right-to-privacy.html?m=0 Here's one of them.]]
** The problem with this style of parenting is that it doesn't make better-behaved kids -- it makes [[StrictParentsMakeSneakyKids sneaky]], [[ProperlyParanoid paranoid]] kids who have severe trust issues long into adulthood, and tends to fracture relationships with parents once the invasion is noticed, creating a ViciousCycle as the child tries to hide things more in reaction, and the parent tries to hunt even more into their life in retaliation and misguided 'concern'.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/TheSunWillComeUpAndTheSeasonsWillChange'', Dana Summers is a deconstruction: She sees ''herself'' as one, fighting Mary every day to help her blend in with the world and fight her autism. However, to Mary herself and everyone except Dr. Goldman and her mother Irene, she’s an abusive ControlFreak mother with a self-righteous attitude and treats Mary like garbage simply for existing.

* * In the ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/TheSunWillComeUpAndTheSeasonsWillChange'', Dana Summers is a deconstruction: She sees ''herself'' as one, fighting Mary every day to help her blend in with the world and fight her autism. However, to Mary herself and everyone except Dr. Goldman and her mother Irene, she’s an abusive ControlFreak mother with a self-righteous attitude and treats Mary like garbage simply for existing.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/TheSunWillComeUpAndTheSeasonsWillChange'', Dana Summers is a deconstruction: She sees ''herself'' as one, fighting Mary every day to help her blend in with the world and fight her autism. However, to Mary herself and everyone except Dr. Goldman and her mother Irene, she’s an abusive mother with a self-righteous attitude and treats Mary like garbage for existing.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/TheSunWillComeUpAndTheSeasonsWillChange'', Dana Summers is a deconstruction: She sees ''herself'' as one, fighting Mary every day to help her blend in with the world and fight her autism. However, to Mary herself and everyone except Dr. Goldman and her mother Irene, she’s an abusive mother with a self righteous attitude and treats Mary like garbage for existing.

** It also includes a more traditional version with Molly Weasley: the otherwise soft-hearted and kind mother kills [[spoiler: Bellatrix Lestrange]]. This counts as more than just MamaBear in part because it's the only recorded stunning spell powerful enough to stop another person's heart. Doubly surprising considering how strong and experienced her opponent was but works as an in-universe version of the mythical mother lifting a car off her child. ''"Not my daughter you bitch!"''

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* Lucretia, a Roman nobleman, was the [[ProperLady most virtuous woman in Rome]]. As a result [[FridgeLogic of this offense]] the Etruscan prince ruling Rome raped her. She went before her husband and father and [[HonorRelatedAbuse committed suicide]]. In their rage, they took a blood oath and then gathered all the good citizens of Rome to join them. Whereupon they decided to act [[ThisMeansWar as good Romans should.]]
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* ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': Wanda Maximoff initiates an orgy of murder throughout two universes to capture America Chavez, absorb her powers, and travel to a universe where her counterpart has children, ergo [[KillAndReplace killing and replacing her]] so she can have the children all to herself. Disregarding the second part aside, Wong points out that she can just ask for America to teleport her to said universe without resorting to absorbing her powers, but Wanda counters with the [[InsaneTrollLogic insane assumption]] that her children may suffer an incurable illness one day, so she may need the power to find the cure in other universes.

* ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': Wanda Maximoff initiates an orgy of murder throughout two universes all so she can become a mother to her two children -- who aren't even hers in the first place, as they came from an alternate universe. When Wong points out that she can rest easy knowing that they are being taken care of, she counters that only ''[[MoralMyopia she]]'' alone can care for them.