History Main / KnightTemplarParent

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 Knight Templar Parent 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 Knight Templar Parent would track down and [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill kill every drug dealer in town]]. Just to be sure.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/25927015/chapters/63016108 Crimson and Noire]]'': [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Plagg]] might come off as abrasive, but he cares deeply for Marinette and wants to keep her safe compared to his previous holders. This ends up deconstructed as he has a tendency to go too far.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky The 3rd'': Erika Russel is this for Tita over Tita's PrecociousCrush on Agate. When first arriving to visit, Agate senses KillingIntent, and Erika is present with GlowingEyesOfDoom, putting the oblivious Agate through comedically over the top death traps.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky The 3rd'': Erika Russel is this for Tita over Tita's PrecociousCrush on Agate. When first arriving to visit, Agate senses KillingIntent, and Erika is present with GlowingEyesOfDoom, putting the oblivious Agate [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/kiseki/images/1/18/Moon_Door_1_-_artwork_2_%28Sky_3rd%29.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20210411124921 through several death traps.]]

* Pre-{{Flanderization}} ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has [[MamaBear Lois]] and [[PapaWolf Peter Griffin]] as this during the series' early days. They can react violently to an idea of anything happening to their kids. For example, Peter (in his usual idiot self) assaults his daughter's purse when she says she hates him, and Lois has [[LovableSexManiac Quagmire]] visit the bully who humiliates Meg in another episode. This shows [[AbusiveParents how far they have fallen]] since the Flanderization occurred...

** Gabriel Agreste obsessively micromanages his son Adrien's life, to the point that he crosses into {{abusive|Parents}} 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.]]

* 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.

* 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, saying "If it had been your kid, you'd have done the same thing."

* Recent chapters of ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' suggest that [[spoiler:Syaoran and Sakura Li went this 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.]]

* While not strictly their ''father'', Charles Offdensen of ''WesternAnimation/{{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.

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* 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.
* ''Film/ThePositivelyTrueAdventuresOfTheAllegedTexasCheerleaderMurderingMom'' is based on the true story of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Holloway Wanda Holloway]], a woman who plotted to kill her daughter's cheerleading rival.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': In "Nemesis", Peppermint Butler becomes the target of Peace Master, a monster hunter who is convinced Peppermint Butler put a curse on his family to make his children rowdy and disobedient. PlayedForLaughs in that Peace Master's children are just ordinary kids rebelling against his strict parenting style and there is no curse, though Peppermint Butler does get cheesed enough to turn two of the kids into monsters (not that [[FreakyIsCool they seem to mind]]).
* In the episode "Over The Edge" in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', Jim Gordon of all people loses it when [[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. 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.
* While not strictly their ''father'', Charles Offdensen of ''WesternAnimation/{{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.
* Parodied quite a few times on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. To give just a few examples, in "Child Abduction Is Not Funny", after misinterpreting statistics that show most children are abducted by their parents, the parents of South Park end up banishing the kids from town to protect them from being abducted. In "My Future Self and Me", they pay actors to pretend to be washed-up loser versions of their kids from the future in order to scare them straight. And let's not forget the many things Kyle's mom Sheila has done to "protect" the children of South Park, like the war with Canada and the public execution of Terrance and Phillip in ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut''.

'''Manny:''' Well then, I'll just be go-\\

* Considering the fact that Goliath from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' comes from a ProudWarriorRace, you would EXPECT this of him regarding Angela, but the unique "not knowing your parents" communal-raising style of the Clans has him tempered somewhat. At least when he's not being empowered/corrupted by the Eye of Odin and ends up doing some... questionable things to "protect" her and Elisa. Then there was the time the Quarrymen almost killed her; [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge it wasn't pretty]].
* Pre-{{Flanderization}} ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' had [[MamaBear Lois]] and [[PapaWolf Peter Griffin]] as this during the series' early days. 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 humiliated Meg in another episode. That shows how far they have fallen since the Flanderization [[AbusiveParents occurred]]...
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', a scientist builds an army of robots designed to keep children safe by any means. Unfortunately, they take their programming too far when they determine that the biggest danger to children are adults themselves.
* In a BadFuture episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', in which adult Candace altered the past so that Phineas and Ferb's first project (the rollercoaster) was seen by their mother, parents overreacted to the point that they eliminated everything fun (dismantling playground equipment, coloring coloring books ahead of time, and in the lines) before finally resorting to storing children in PeopleJars until adulthood. These actions caused the tri-state area to become bleak and demoralized, allowing Doofenshmirtz to take over.

** 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]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': In "The Floating Palace", Queen Emmaline is extremely protective of her younger daughter Oona, and goes as far as to cause a storm to sink the floating palace just to rescue her from Sofia's family, mistakenly believing that they kidnapped her when it was Cedric who did it instead.

-->-- ''[[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Changes]]''

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* 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.

* In ''Manga/MariaNoDanzai'', Mari loves her son Kiritaka so much that she abandoned her dream of becoming a SchoolNurse in order to raise him. Then, after he is [[BullyBrutality sent to his death by bullies]] and she learns that [[NeverSuicide he didn't actually kill himself]], Mari decides to avenge her son. [[BestServedCold She then spends the next two years plotting to do just that]], after which she takes the first step by becoming a nurse at the school her son's bullies go to.
-->'''Mari:''' Mere revenge is too soft. They deserve ''[[FateWorseThanDeath judgement]]''.

* 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 (by sheer happenstance) 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]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': In "Nemesis", Peppermint Butler becomes the target of Peace Master, a monster hunter who is convinced Peppermint Butler put a curse on his family to make his children rowdy and disobedient. Played for laughs in that Peace Master's children are just ordinary kids rebelling against his strict parenting style and there is no curse, though Peppermint Butler does get cheesed enough to turn two of the kids into monsters (not that [[FreakyIsCool they seem to mind]]).
* 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.]]

* ''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.]]

* ''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.

** 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.

* ''Anime/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.

* [[MissingMom Padme]] from the ''Franchise/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.

* ''Manga/MariaNoDanzai'': Mari loves her son Kiritaka so much that she abandoned her dream of becoming a SchoolNurse in order to raise him. Then, after he is [[BullyBrutality sent to his death by bullies]] and she learns that [[NeverSuicide he didn't actually kill himself]], Mari decides to avenge her son. [[BestServedCold She then spends the next two years plotting to do just that]], after which she takes the first step by becoming a nurse at the school her son's bullies go to.

* The final arc of ''Manga/FoodWars'' reveals that Azami Nakiri was actually this towards Erina. The reason he put her through TrainingFromHell to cultivate her God's Tongue and tried to create a world of only gourmet cooking was that [[spoiler:his wife Mana, whom he loved dearly, eventually developed a tasting disorder, causing her to be unable to enjoy food at all,]] and he doesn't want that to happen to his daughter. Unfortunately, his means to do so was being a FantasyForbiddingFather to the Point Erina not only grew into a rather haughty AlphaBitch as a teenager but became ''terrified'' of him.

* ''Film/MeetTheParents'': Jack Byrnes.