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When a teenage girl has a date, the date always comes over to pick her up, and because it takes women forever to get ready, he ends up spending some quality time in the living room with her BoyfriendBlockingDad. Depending who the audience is sympathetic towards, we either watch a domineering tyrant taking this opportunity to brutally intimidate the crap out of the poor kid, or we see a loving and indomitable guardian instill some much-needed restraint into a [[TeensAreMonsters disgusting]] [[HormoneAddledTeenager teenage]] [[AllMenArePerverts male]] -- a vile creature he remembers only too well.

* In ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' by Fred Perry, Theodore Diggers is the master. As it's put by his adoptive daughter Brittany, "Some dads polish a shotgun in front of their daughters' dates. My dad [[DemonHead magically sets his]] [[FlamingSkulls head on fire]]." He even quips "Mind if I smoke?" It's a sign that he really likes Stryyp'Gia (Brittany's boyfriend [[spoiler:[[TheyDo and eventual husband]]]]) that he doesn't does that.

* During an early episode of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', Will meets a father who brutally rapid-fire interrogates anyone who even tries to ''talk'' to his daughter. When the intimidated boy of course can't even answer him, he tells him, "You disgust me, boy. Get out of my sight."

* One of the absolute best examples (to the point of being the trope image source) is in ''Film/BadBoysII'' where Marcus and Mike threaten the hell out of Marcus' daughter's date Reggie. ClusterFBomb and NWordPrivileges ahoy. [[BlackComedyRape Mike threatening the poor boy with anal sex]]. Mike then pulls a ''gun'' on him. Reggie looks like he's about to cry by the time Marcus' daughter comes to the door. It must be seen to be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APhw7rju-Co appreciated.]] Even better, [[EnforcedMethodActing the poor boy playing him had no idea what he was in for]]. The fear is quite genuine.

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[[caption-width-right:350:As if things weren't bad enough for his daughter's date already, sometimes the BoyfriendBlockingDad has ''help'' as well.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:As if things weren't bad enough for his daughter's date already, sometimes the OverprotectiveDad has ''help'' as well.]]

* One episode of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist: Brotherhood'' features a [[ExaggeratedTrope particularly silly example]], with Maes Hughes telling a group of ''three-year old boys'' playing with his daughter not to "try anything funny", [[OverprotectiveDad all while holding a pistol]] [[PapaWolf and looking threatening.]]

* Done with several entertaining twists in ''ComicBook/SecretSix''; the "twerp" is a good-natured adult lesbian, the "innocent girl" is Scandal Savage, team leader and immortal badass, and the ''very'' OverprotectiveDad is ''Bane''.

* Downplayed in ''FanFic/ChildOfTheStorm''. [[OverprotectiveDad Magneto]] looms over Harry Dresden when he starts dating his daughter. This is a neat trick, considering that while Magneto's relatively tall, Dresden is 6'9'' - though he's also trying and failing miserably to hide behind Wanda (5'6'') at the time. However, he backs off with good grace before he can even get beyond a speculative look when she warns him off, and later proves surprisingly friendly. Of course, the flip side is that, him being TheDreaded for just about anyone who's ever heard of him, he doesn't ''need'' an IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer speech.

* {{Gender Flip}}ped ''[[Fanfic/UltimateSpiderWoman Ultimate Spider-Woman: Change with the Light]]''. Instead of the OverprotectiveDad threatening his daughter's potential boyfriend, in this case the OverprotectiveDad is threatening his ''son's potential girlfriend.'' Andrew Reilly hates Mary Jane Watson and bluntly warns her to stay away from his son Ben, threatening to make her life very miserable if she doesn't stop dating him. Ben himself is not amused when he finds out.

* One episode of ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' features a [[ExaggeratedTrope particularly silly example]], with Maes Hughes telling a group of ''three-year old boys'' playing with his daughter not to "try anything funny", [[OverprotectiveDad all while holding a pistol]] [[PapaWolf and looking threatening.]]
* Averted in ''Anime/{{Bakemonogatari}}''. On a date, Senjougahara Hitagi suggests Koyomi has a chat with her father while she gets things ready, who unexpectedly turns out to be the one driving them to the woods. But instead of sweating him, Mr. Senjougahara is ashamed for being a bad father and grateful to Koyomi for curing Hitagi and making her happy again.

When a teenage girl has a date, the date always comes over to pick her up, and because it takes women forever to get ready, he ends up spending some quality time in the living room with her OverprotectiveDad. Depending who the audience is sympathetic towards, we either watch a domineering tyrant taking this opportunity to brutally intimidate the crap out of the poor kid, or we see a loving and indomitable guardian instill some much-needed restraint into a [[TeensAreMonsters disgusting]] [[HormoneAddledTeenager teenage]] [[AllMenArePerverts male]] -- a vile creature he remembers only too well.

* ''Fanfic/SOE2LoneHeirOfKrypton'': One {{Omake}} in the epilogue has [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Kal-El]] (who, [[spoiler:[[ForWantOfANail even if he died as a baby when his ship crash-landed in Germany's Black Forest]]]] is still Asuka Langley Soryu's biological father) meeting Shinji Ikari (Asuka's boyfriend) in the kid's dreams and telling Shinji that he better treat Asuka right while cradling a shotgun. Shinji takes a second [[LampshadeHanging to ask Kal-El that]], if he has the same powers as Asuka, why the heck does he has a shotgun? Kal-El's response is to shrug and say that "it just felt right".

* In ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' by Fred Perry, Theodore Diggers is the master. As it's put by his adoptive daughter Brittany, "Some dads polish a shotgun in front of their daughters' dates. My dad [[DemonHead magically sets his]] [[FlamingSkulls head on fire]]." He even quips "Mind if I smoke?"

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* [[http://www.misfile.com/?date=2013-03-18 Ash's father]] in ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'' uses a sausage and a pair of scissors to tell Rumsiel why sleeping with Ash would be a bad idea.
* In a Crossover between Webcomic/EerieCuties and Webcomic/MagickChicks, Melissa's "Daddy", Dakota, does this to Ace, offering to show off "his" sword collection. (Slightly subverted in that Dakota actually has a far better reason to be "showing Ace the sword collection" and is using this trope as an excuse.)

* Inverted on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' when Seymour Skinner twerp-sweats his ''mother'''s date.

* Non-date example: Trent has been unsuccessful in calling ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' (alas, it was just to help him buy Jane a birthday present) and shows up at her house. Before Daria comes down, he undergoes a bit of this from a befuddled and suspicious Jake (as Daria simply doesn't get "gentleman callers" while her sister Quinn has one every night), which all just confuses Trent.
* Happens to Danny in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' when he goes to pick up Paulina for the dance and her very large and scary looking father answers the door.
--> "If you upset her, we're going to have a very long, ''violent'' talk."

* In the ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' short ''WesternAnimation/RileysFirstDate'', Mr. Andersen tries this on Riley's [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend not-boyfriend]] Jordan, giving him the silent treatment and a DeathGlare. It's not very effective, given that Jordan is kind of a space cadet. Then the two end up bonding over their shared love of classic rock music.
* While older than most examples of this trope, [[WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife Rocko]] was subjected to this once when he went on a date with a cute rabbit girl and met her father. While seemingly friendly when his daughter is present, the moment Mr. Rabbit is alone with Rocko he morphs into a hulking monster with several sharp claws that tells the wallaby in no uncertain terms what will happen to Rocko if he touches the daughter. Naturally, the show being what it is and Rocko being a [[TheChewToy Chew Toy]], [[AllWomenAreLustful the daughter turns out to be much more amorous]] than Rocko and almost immediately begins throwing herself at Rocko when they get in his car... and Mr. Rabbit is apparently a ninja who can sneak into cars unnoticed.
* Attempted by Bob in ''WesternAnimation/GodTheDevilAndBob'', but he actually connects with his daughter's date based on their mutual love for the Detroit Pistons hockey team. Then it turns out that the boyfriend is actually Satan wanting to show Bob just how malevolent he could be.

* Creator/BillyCrystal tells about his first date. The girl's father identifies himself as a sergeant, so is either police or military, and asks Billy if he's ever seen a .357 Magnum.

* In ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' by Fred Perry, Theodore Diggers is the master. As it's put by his adoptive daughter Brittany, "Some dads polish a shotgun in front of their daughters' dates. My dad [[DemonHead magically sets his]] [[FlamingSkulls head on fire]]." He even quips "Mind if I smoke?"

* {{Gender Flip}}ped ''[[Fanfic/UltimateSpiderWoman Ultimate Spider-Woman: Change with the Light]]''. Instead of the OverprotectiveDad threatening his daughter's potential boyfriend, in this case the OverprotectiveDad is threatening his ''son's potential girlfriend.'' Andrew Reilly hates Mary Jane Watson and bluntly warns her to stay away from his son Ben, threatening to make her life very miserable if she doesn't stop dating him. Ben himself is not amused when he finds out.
* Quite a few ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'' fanfics feature [[TheBigGuy Iron]][[TriggerHappy hide]] becoming part of the Lennox family as an HonoraryUncle to Will and Sarah Lennox's daughter Annabelle and Twerp Sweating her prospective dates. In some fics, he uses a holographic projection (usually of a very big and scary man), but in others, he Twerp Sweats the hapless boys in his alt mode.[[note]]Keep in mind, said alt mode is a large black GMC Topkick pickup truck.[[/note]]

* In the ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8935062/1/Shards-To-A-Whole Shards to a Whole,]]'' shortly after newlyweds Tim and Abby [=McGee=] announce their impending first baby will be a girl, [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8935062/151/Shards-To-A-Whole Gibbs has Tim and Jimmy Palmer go through "boot camp,"]] in part to generally improve their fighting skills, and in part so they can successfully instill the "Fear of Dad" in any boys who glance at their daughters.

* Downplayed in ''FanFic/ChildOfTheStorm''. [[OverprotectiveDad Magneto]] looms over Harry Dresden when he starts dating his daughter. This is a neat trick, considering that while Magneto's relatively tall, Dresden is 6'9'' - though he's also trying and failing miserably to hide behind Wanda (5'6'') at the time. However, he backs off with good grace before he can even get beyond a speculative look when she warns him off, and later proves surprisingly friendly. Of course, the flip side is that, him being TheDreaded for just about anyone who's ever heard of him, he doesn't ''need'' an IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer speech.
* ''Fanfic/FantasiaTimes'': When asking for permission to date Sera, Rob gets this from not only Sera's dads, but the parents of Sera's best friend as well. [[spoiler:Given that Sera's last boyfriend was a LoveInterestTraitor, it's justified.]]

* One of the absolute best examples (to the point of being the trope image source) is in ''Film/BadBoysII'' where Marcus and Mike threaten the hell out of Marcus' daughter's date Reggie. ClusterFBomb and NWordPrivileges ahoy. [[BlackComedyRape Mike threatening the poor boy with anal sex]]. Mike then pulls a ''gun'' on him. Reggie looks like he's about to cry by the time Marcus' daughter comes to the door. It must be seen to be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APhw7rju-Co appreciated.]] Even better, [[EnforcedMethodActing the poor boy playing him had no idea what he was in for]]. The fear is quite genuine.
* From ''Film/{{Clueless}}'': "Anything happens to my daughter, I have a .45 and a shovel. I doubt anyone would miss you." Doubly funny because the father spends most of the movie buried in his work. His entire perp-sweating consists of the above line, during a (very) brief break from his work. [[spoiler:Not that he had to worry about [[IncompatibleOrientation that particular guy]].]]
* Referenced in ''[[Film/HighSchoolMusical High School Musical 3]]'s'' number "A Night to Remember" (re: the senior prom).
--> '''Guys:''' ''Her mother opens the door, I'm shaking inside…''
--> '''Girls:''' ''He's here! It's time! The hour's arrived!''
--> '''Guys:''' ''Don't know why her father's staring me down!''
--> '''Girls:''' ''Where's my purse? Lip gloss? Now I'm really freaking out!''
* Used darkly in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' when Peter is escorting Liz to the homecoming dance. Her dad, as Peter learned when they met, [[spoiler:is Adrian Toomes aka ''the Vulture''.]] At first, [[spoiler:Adrian]] goes through a typical Twerp Sweat procedure -- waggling a very large knife as he prepares some food, offering Peter alcohol that he doesn't want someone underage to accept -- but during the drive to the dance, [[spoiler:Adrian figures out that Peter is Spider-Man]]. When [[spoiler:Adrian]] drives them to the dance, he sends her in first, saying he has to give Peter "The Dad Talk". [[spoiler:He then makes it clear that dating his daughter is the ''good'' option, but if Peter tries to thwart the Vulture's next heist, he and possibly his family will be killed, a threat Adrian tries to make good on later.]]
* ''Film/DenOfThieves'': When Levoux's daughter's date shows up to collect her for the prom, Leveaux leads him into a room fill with {{Tattooed Crook}}s who very politely threaten him.
* In ''Film/TragedyGirls'', Sadie's (very large) dad does this to Jordan when he arrives to pick Sadie up for the prom just by standing in the doorway--and completely filling it--and staring silently at Jordan as he blathers nervously.
* Subverted in ''Film/GrossePointeBlank'', where Debbie's dad tries to sweat Martin over asking his little girl to prom and promptly vanishing off the face of the earth for ten years. However, his heart clearly isn't in it, and Martin, who has spent the past ten years travelling the world and killing people, first for the US government and later as a freelance assassin, is unimpressed. Eventually, the older man just shrugs and the two bond over scotch.

* ''Series/DerryGirls'': ParodiedTrope. Joe gives this treatment to Gerry, his daughter's husband of 17 years. Gerry endures it with the patience of a saint.
-->'''Joe:''' I'll find some dirt on you yet, boy. I've a few people working on it!

* In one episode of ''Series/JustTheTenOfUs'', Wendy recruits a ringer to pass her father's "dinner test", then drive her to meet her real date. All the sisters want to actually date the ringer, as he is played by a young, charming Creator/MatthewPerry.
* ''Series/EightSimpleRules''. Number Six: "No complaining while you're waiting for her. If you're bored, change my oil."
* Done once with style in ''Series/HannahMontana'' where after very blatantly hitting on Miley while her dad is in the room, then insulting Robbie Ray's choice of guitars, the date manages to announce that he's not afraid to say that Hannah Montana sucks, prompting Robbie Ray to comment, "Well waddya know, [[OpenMouthInsertFoot the boy's got]] ''[[OpenMouthInsertFoot three]]'' [[OpenMouthInsertFoot feet!"]]
* Parodied in ''Series/{{Angel}}'', when Angel and Doyle take the opportunity to do this to one of Cordelia's dates... in order to rile ''Cordelia''.

* ''Series/LieToMe'': Emily Lightman is the sixteen-year-old daughter of the world's foremost expert on [[LivingLieDetector deception]], Cal Lightman. She expects her father to pull something like this on her date for the evening, so she makes him promise not to use any "covert tactics" to freak out the guy. But, since she never said anything about ''overt'' tactics:
-->'''Cal:''' (''opening the door'') Hi, Dan!\\
'''Dan:''' Hi, Doctor Lightman.\\
'''Cal:''' Are you going to try and have sex with my daughter tonight, Dan?

* ''Series/DoctorWho''. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E6TheCaretaker The Caretaker]]" the Doctor is being a {{Jerkass}} towards the boyfriend of his current companion. We're meant to believe this is down to jealousy, but the boyfriend realises it's because the Doctor is worried he's not good enough for her. He helps to save the world by the end of the episode, so the Doctor grudgingly accepts he's good enough.
* [[ActionDad Jefferson Pierce]] does this in ''Series/BlackLightning,'' and it's PlayedForLaughs (and Jefferson has a little smile on his face when he's done, implying that he's not actually too worried). However, it quickly becomes HarsherInHindsight at the end of the episode, when said boy is [[spoiler: shot and crippled, which means he won't be having sex any time soon]].
* Inverted in ''Series/NCISNewOrleans''. Pride gets along with his daughter's boyfriends better than ''she'' does, and it ''freaks her out''.
* An episode of ''Series/JustTheTenOfUs'' started with the father putting one of his daughter's dates through this, known as "The Dinner Test" paired with SecretTestOfCharacter--he actually asks him supposedly benign questions to see if he gives the "right" answer. All goes well until the kid enthusiastically accepts his offer of a beer. Cut to him literally being thrown out of the house. Knowing that her date is sure to fail, another daughter hires a NiceGuy to pose as the boy in question and coaches him on what to do and say.
* Inverted in one episode of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', where Jake pulls this on his mother's new boyfriend... his own father. Justified as his dad is a slimeball who previously cheated on his mom (a ''lot'') and then abandoned them. However, Jake eventually accepts that his mother is a grown woman, and he really doesn't get a say in who she dates... though he does threaten his father one more time for good measure.
* During an early episode of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', Will meets a father who brutally rapid-fire interrogates anyone who even tries to ''talk'' to his daughter. When the intimidated boy of course can't even answer him, he tells him, "You disgust me, boy. Get out of my sight."
* Parodied in ''Series/{{Burnistoun}}'', where a teenage girl tells her date to wait in the living room with her dad and 'all her mad uncles' while she gets ready. After grilling him over his intentions and even the movie he's taking her to see (which is described in the paper, much to their chagrin, as a 'saucy sex romp'), the girl comes back downstairs and finds the boy and one of her uncles ''having a spoon fight in their underwear''. While ''handcuffed together''.
* ''Series/That70sShow'': Red Forman, upon finding out Michael Kelso is dating his daughter Laurie, kicks him out of the house when he comes over for dinner and later has Eric summon him into the garage, locking the two of them in it until Kelso gets the gist of what Red wants to happen. Kelso struggles, as he is a dumbass and cries before they are done.
* ''Series/GoodWitch'' has Sam Radford doing this for his stepdaughter Grace when her new boyfriend Luke comes over, complete with DeathGlare and asking about his intentions.
-->'''Luke:''' You're a doctor, right?
-->'''Sam:''' Surgeon. I cut people open.
** Mostly, though, it's PlayedForLaughs, since the audience knows that Sam is a pretty sweet guy, and he even admits to Luke that he's messing around.
* ''Series/VeronicaMars'': Keith does this to Troy early in Season One.

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* One of the absolute best examples is in ''Film/BadBoysII'' where Marcus and Mike threaten the hell out of Marcus' daughter's date Reggie. ClusterFBomb and NWordPrivileges ahoy. [[BlackComedyRape Mike threatening the poor boy with anal sex]]. Mike then pulls a ''gun'' on him. Reggie looks like he's about to cry by the time Marcus' daughter comes to the door. It must be seen to be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APhw7rju-Co appreciated.]] Even better, [[EnforcedMethodActing the poor boy playing him had no idea what he was in for]]. The fear is quite genuine.

* Parodied in ''Series/{{Burnistoun}}'', where a teenage girl tells her date to wait in the living room with her dad and 'all her mad uncles' while she gets ready. After grilling him over his intentions and even the movie he's taking her to see (which is described in the paper, much to their chagrin, as a 'saucy sex romp'), things are rapidly taken UpToEleven when the girl comes back downstairs and finds the boy and one of her uncles ''having a spoon fight in their underwear''. While ''handcuffed together''.

* During Maru's 2-heart event in ''VideoGame/StardewValley'', you end up alone for a few minutes in the lab with Demetrius, who warns you not to interfere with his daughter's career. Your options when Maru returns are to tell her he was acting weird, costing relationship points, or to pretend nothing happened.

'''Buck:''' Fair enough. I like to carry it, you never know when you're going to need it. A situation may come up say for example, someone has been drinking, and about to drive a loved one home, then I'd like to know I have it. Not to kill, no. Just to maim. Take a little off the shoulder. Swish! The elbow. Slash! Shave a little meat off the old kneecap. Fowap! Ooooo! You got both kneecaps? I like to keep mine razor sharp. Sharp enough you can shave with it. Why, I've been known to circumcise a gnat. You're not a gnat are you Bug? Wait a minute, bug, gnat. Is there a little similarity? Whoaaa, I think there is! Ha ha ha. You understand what I'm talking about? I don't think you do. I'll be right back. Heh heh heh heh.
** And when Tia tells Bug that Buck is "all talk", Buck produces the hatchet from the trunk of his car! He later gets to make good on the spirit of his threats (if not the letter) when the kid does turn out to be a slimeball who's only interested in getting it on and takes some liberties with Buck's niece... by practicing his golf. And using the kid as a target.

* Quite a few ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'' fanfics assume that [[TheBigGuy Iron]][[TriggerHappy hide]] becomes part of the Lennox family, becoming [[HonoraryUncle "Uncle Hyde"]] to Will and Sarah Lennox's daughter Annabelle, even Twerp Sweating her prospective dates. Most of the time he uses a holographic projection (usually of a very big and scary man), but occasionally he Twerp Sweats the hapless boys in his alt mode.[[note]]Keep in mind, said alt mode is a large black GMC Topkick pickup truck.[[/note]]

* While older than most examples of this trope, [[WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife Rocko]] was subjected to this once when he went on a date with a cute rabbit girl and met her father. While seemingly friendly when his daughter is present, the moment Mr. Rabbit is alone with Rocko he morphs into a hulking monster with several sharp claws that tells the wallaby in no uncertain terms what will happen to Rocko if he touches the daughter. Naturally, the show being what it is and Rocko being a ChewToy, [[AllWomenAreLustful the daughter turns out to be much more amorous]] than Rocko and almost immediately begins throwing herself at Rocko when they get in his car... and Mr. Rabbit is apparently a ninja who can sneak into cars unnoticed.

* Quite a few ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'' fanfics assume that [[TheBigGuy Iron]][[TriggerHappy hide]] becomes part of the Lennox family, becoming [[HonoraryUncle "Uncle Hyde"]] to Will and Sarah Lennox's daughter Annabelle, even Twerp Sweating her prospective dates. Most of the time he uses a holographic projection (usually of a very big and scary man), but occasionally he Twerp Sweats the hapless boys in his alt mode[[note]]Which keep in mind is a large black GMC Topkick pickup truck[[/note]] .

* In the ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8935062/1/Shards-To-A-Whole Shards to a Whole]]", shortly after newlyweds Tim and Abby [=McGee=] announce their impending first baby will be a girl, [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8935062/151/Shards-To-A-Whole Gibbs has Tim and Jimmy Palmer go through "boot camp"]], in part to generally improve their fighting skills, and in part so they can successfully instill the "Fear of Dad" in any boys who glance at their daughters.

** Then Kate's father does it to Castle in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPUnxxZ2L4s deleted scene]]. Though it's mostly Castle's [[DiggingYourselfDeeper fault]]. This is entirely in keeping with Castle's ManChild tendencies - the character is in his late 30s or early 40s, but often acts like someone who would expect to be Twerp Sweated.

* Subverted in ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'': Larissa's boyfriend braces for this when her father [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2012/05/17/0377-serious-talk/ wants a talk with him]], but the father is all too happy she's dating a nerdy nice guy and gives him tips on how to avoid sinking the relationship instead.

* Happens to [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Danny]] when he goes to pick up Paulina for the dance and her very large and scary looking father answers the door.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' short "Riley's First Date"?, Mr. Andersen tries this on Riley's [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend not-boyfriend]] Jordan, giving him the silent treatment and a DeathGlare. It's not very effective, given that Jordan is kind of a space cadet. Then the two end up bonding over their shared love of classic rock music.

* Subject of the Rodney Atkins song "CleaningThisGun (Come On In Boy)." The singer recalls getting a brief, pointed talk from his date's father, which he admits he needed and fully intends to give to any guy his daughter brings home who is the same kind of person he used to be.

* Used darkly in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' when Peter is escorting Liz to the homecoming dance. Her dad, as Peter learned when they met, [[spoiler:is Adrian Toomes aka ''the Vulture''.]] At first, Adrian goes through a typical Twerp Sweat procedure - waggling a very large knife as he prepares some food, offering Peter alcohol that he doesn't want someone underage to accept - but during the drive to the dance, Adrian figures out that Peter is Spider-Man. When Adrian drives them to the dance, he sends her in first, saying he has to give Peter "The Dad Talk". [[spoiler:He then makes it clear that dating his daughter is the ''good'' option, but if Peter tries to thwart the Vulture's next heist, he and possibly his family will be killed, a threat Adrian tries to make good on later.]]