- The Bridge (MLP): Several:
- Mothra Lea's mother, the Mothra that fought Godzilla Senior in 1992, cared the world for her daughter in the short time she had and sacrificed herself to save her child.
- Harmony the Nexus of Light Magic is Celestia and Luna's mother. She's been consistently watching over her daughters to ensure they were raised well and shaved off chunks of her power to make the Elements of Harmony for them to use.
- Wysteria Daisy, Gloriosa Daisy and Timber Spruce's mother and the previous Gaea Everfree, was as much a dedicated mother and wife as she was effectively a superhero over twenty years before the present.
- Azusa Gojo, while adoptive, was nothing short of an amazing mother to Godzilla Junior. Her patience, morals, and care are a major reason he grew up to become a hero. And when he's having a full mental breakdown and crisis, she was the only one able to calm him down.
- Child of the Storm: While it mostly features examples of Parents as People, with understandable flaws and good intentions, there are several particular examples.
- James/Thor (Thor was incarnated as James. Long story) and Lily were excellent parents to Harry - and they have not let, respectively, a twelve-year case of amnesia and actually being dead stop them. Thor is a patient, kind, and gentle father, and one of the few who can pretty much always get through to Harry even when his traumas are at their worst, while Lily managed to arrange the most stonkingly powerful protection possible in the form of the Phoenix, and spends much of the first book (and second book, more indirectly) discreetly meddling from beyond the grave to protect and help Harry when she can.
- Pepper is shown from the start to be an excellent maternal figure, balancing work and her relationship with Tony with helping to care for the kids when necessary, and it's unsurprising that when she has a daughter of her own, she takes to it very naturally. Tony, meanwhile, is terrified of being like his emotionally distant (at best) father but acts as an insightful Cool Uncle to most of the kids and is noted to be a good father to his daughter (if an understandably very protective one).
- Marie Danvers walks the line between this and Parents as People. Short version: lots of family dysfunction related to her Refusal of the Call and lots of understandable fears about her daughter having Jumped at the Call, meaning she overlooked/missed the psychologically abusive behaviour of her husband. However, even before she really clicked to it, she's loving and supportive and far more reasonable than her daughter paints her as being (Harry notices this immediately and suspects that part of the problem is that they're too much alike). After she clicked, she reconciles with her daughter and instead resolves to be proud of her, and kicked said husband to the curb after she found out just how far he was willing to go to get his children to be what he wished them to (and her mother implied she'd have done far worse if she'd found out his intentions directly rather than from her more cold-blooded mother).
- Jonathan and Martha Kent are the stand-out example, with Jor-El picking them out as the prime candidates to foster his son because of their character (though he was pragmatic enough to arrange alternatives if, as would have been understandable, it was a bit much for them). Everyone else who meets them agrees with this assessment.
- Children of Time (Doctor Who & Sherlock Holmes): Michael and Carolyn Lestrade. Michael is not always around for his kids due to being a detective on the other side of the Atlantic, but he certainly had time to instill and cultivate a Sherlockian obsession in his eldest two children. Michael and Carolyn are still Happily Married with several children when their twenty-five-year-old daughter, Beth, can finally introduce them to her husband. Michael's first meeting with said husband, none other than Sherlock Holmes, turns out to be far less painful than Sherlock had anticipated, and much more fond.
- Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls (Bleach & My Little Pony: Equestria Girls): So far, almost every parent (whether human, Soul Reaper, Quincy, or even Hollow, at least those that decide to keep their offspring) has been this. Hurricane at bare minimum is neglectful of Posey's mental health, but he does care about her. The only exception so far is Guto, who treats his daughter Greta (who doesn't even know he's her father) like he treats the rest of his horde and wouldn't bat an eye if she died.
- Harry Potter: Pokémon Master (Harry Potter & Pokémon): Jack Kenway. He adopted his cousin when he was barely out of school after her parents were killed, fought a war because he saw her cry, and then dedicated his life to caring for her.
- If Wishes Were Ponies (Harry Potter & My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic): Harry Potter ends up as the ward (later officially adopted son) of Twilight Sparkle. For all of her quirks and occasional freak-outs, Twilight is a very good mother, as she always makes sure that Harry is safe and protected (or, as much as he can be when he's with the CMC all of the time). Even when Harry and the CMC go to Hogwarts, she still makes it obvious that she's looking out for him, to the point that, when Harry was scared and called her for help, she not only came to Hogwarts in less than five minutes, but she brought several platoons of Equestrian soldiers with her. And that's nothing compared to what she did to Quirrell...
- Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Haruhi Suzumiya & TV Tropes): Kyon's parents are this, even while they are shown antagonistic to the SOS Brigade: in this case their behavior it's usually because they aren't told all the facts including the supernatural, because they fear their children's actions will lead them to similar errors than they made, or because Kyon or his sister were in real danger of being shot, kidnapped, etc.
- The Naekawa Project: Makoto and Komaru's parents, Emiko and Toshiro, are loving parents who love their children dearly, something Toko likes due to her abusive childhood. They become in-law variants of this for Toko after a while.
- Makoto and Toko (and Syo) also become this for their children, cherishing them deeply and, for Toko, Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting.
- Valhalla's Angel:
- In sharp contrast to his mother, Hajime's father. He fought tooth and nail for custody of his son and did his best to provide for him.
- Minato Naegi, Makoto and Komaru's father, is as well. He loves talking about all his kids have done and is a Nice Guy.
- A.A. Pessimal expands the Discworld to take in the idea that nerdy Wizard Ponder Stibbons not only succeeded in getting - and keeping - a girlfriend who turned out to be so fond of him, that they also ended up married. Ponder's character and personal development, a couple of decades further on from meeting a Lady Assassin who didn't actually want to kill him, leads to their becoming the parents of three daughters. Ponder turns out to be a loving and largely capable father. He and Johanna have evolved a parenting style: if it's to do with magic, that's your problem, Ponder. Anything to do with a tendency towards creatively and stylishly applied violence - it's mine. Thus, the oldest daughter (Witch) spends a lot of time learning about magic from Daddy. The middle daughter (Assassin) spends quality parent-time with Mum. Ponder worries that Rebecka is better at magic than he is. Johanna frets that Famke will turn out to be a better Assassin than her mother. And both fervently hope they can stay ahead of the Girl Genius who is their youngest child. Periodically, they stop to reassure each other that they're not too hopeless at parenting.
- This trope crops in a number of fanfics. To name a few examples:
- Dodger and Rita to their pups Bandit, Robbie (affectionately called Rascal), Lily, Dash, and Nick.
- Aladdin and Jasmine to their son Ali.
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): From what we know, Dr. Vivienne Graham's mother Susan was a good mother when Vivienne was growing up. Even when she has a less-than-stellar first reaction to Vivienne as half of Monster X, it's because she's genuinely unconvinced her daughter is really Back from the Dead as a transhuman Titan, rather than because she can't make peace with what her daughter has become.
- A Better Man: Vernon and Petunia Dursley become this.
- Kimyōna, Komisch, Caldo
, a sequel to Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità: Germany, Italy, and Japan—all three of them—are this to Kugelmugel by the end of the story.
- Snippets of Sirin Shariac's life: Cecilia and Siegfried are this to Kiana and the adopted Sirin. Even if Sirin isn't too fond of Siegfried personally, he tries his best to make her feel at home.
- Highly Questionable Decisions: Ragyou and Soichiro try to be but they verge on Parents as People, with Ryuuko's antics being exacerbating.
- Kill la Kill AU: We have Ragyou and Soichiro, the former especially in a large divergence from her canon counterpart. In contrast, she loves her children and, while she is eccentric in some regards, she has none of the abusive and downright creepy things that made the original Ragyo such a monster.
- Fashion Upgrade: Tom and Sabine are loving and protective of their daughter, giving her a say in her life instead of making choices for her and supporting whatever she decides. They also apologize for even slightly believing Lila's lies about her.
- Ghosts of Evangelion: Neither Shinji nor Asuka thought they were parent material, but they become this to Ryuko. They are loving and supportive, put her happiness first and they are pretty open-minded with her delinquent behavior during her teen years.
- HERZ: Shinji and Asuka try to raise Akiko and later Sakiko at their best skill. Shinji desperately wants to be a good husband and father.
- The Second Try: Shinji and Asuka of all people, become this. It is repeatedly lampshaded by themselves.
- As Fate Would Have It: Both Nate and Yancy's parents are shown to be caring and reasonable to their son and daughter, respectively. When both parties find out that they're dating one another, they're nothing but thrilled and supportive of their relationship, even helping them advance it further.
- Pokémon Reset Bloodlines: While this fic has its fair share of Abusive Parents, there are many who are very supportive and loving to their children, such as Delia to Ash, Grace to Serena, and Meyer to Clemont and Bonnie. A general rule in-story is that, if any parent has a bloodliner child and doesn't fall into Fantastic Racism, they're considered good ones.
- Our Ceiling is Your Floor series: Percy's Divine Parentage comes from Hestia, goddess of hearth and home, due to Sally falling in love with her instead of Poseidon. In a world where the relationships half-bloods have with their divine parents tend to be otherwise filled with Abusive Parents, Parents as People, Parental Neglect, Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You, and overall enough Parental Issues to give a therapist a lifetime of work, Hestia is by all accounts a loving mother, who raised Percy well and who he loves dearly.
- White Sheep:
- Nicholas Arc is repeatedly pointed out to be a wonderful father. He is careful to spend an equal amount of time with all his children (including his adoptive daughter Cinder) to avert Parental Favoritism and doesn't care in the slightest that they're all inhuman monsters. The worst thing he ever did was tell his daughters to kill any boys who flirt with them.
- Salem, the immortal Queen of the Grimm, is only a tad worse than her husband. Like Nicholas, she dotes on all her children, and even if they find it annoying how she constantly bugs them for grandchildren, her love for them is never questioned. Her only real flaw (besides a complete inability to punish her children) is that she is overprotective of her only son, refusing to let him leave home until he runs away.
- Summer Rose and Taiyang Xiao-Long don't get much focus, but they're still examples. Summer died long before the start of the series, but her parenting style was apparently identical to Tai's, where she was always supportive of her children and on hand whenever they needed her. Near the end of the story, Yang specifically mentions that her dad always made sure she and her sister knew they were equal; when her dad bought her a motorcycle, he told her little sister that she'd get something similar when she was older.
- A Magical Evening: Sofia's parents, Miranda and Roland, are completely supportive of Sofia's relationship with Lucinda and try to help out as best they can.
- Elrond has been often portrayed as a loving father for all four of his children, including his adopted son Aragorn, as seen in such stories like An Eye For An Eye. Woe be to any living being who dared threaten or hurt his children.
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- The Child of Love: After having Teri, Shinji and Asuka try to be good parents for their kids. Shinji in particular was constantly tired during the first months because he was trying to combine parenting with school.
- In the original Dante's Night at Freddy's, Lucia is depicted as the better parent towards her and Dante's children, while Dante himself comes across as selfish and easily annoyed. However, when their daughter is dragged into the events of the sequel, Animatronic Boogaloo, Dante shows off a lot of Papa Wolf tendencies and that trying to hurt his kids is his most extreme Berserk Button.
- They were only talked about on two or three occasions, but the parents of Kallian Tabris from Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns are said to be this (or to have been, since her mother Adaia is dead). In fact, King Cailan practically invokes this trope while dying, because she slapped his senses back into him so he could meet his end calmly, without being wracked with guilt over having gotten his men killed. It is revealed that her father Cyrion spent most of one night talking to Faren, the dwarven commoner, when Kallian dragged him over to her home, so he could get a good idea of who his daughter had gotten involved with.
- Dungeon Keeper Ami has Dr Saeko Mizuno. She truly cares about her missing daughter and is willing to give magic a try if it means seeing her again. Once she does, she helps her with her Keeper business by giving medical advice; and happily adopts Tiger once she learns about her situation.
- Elrond has been often portrayed as a loving father for all four of his children, including his adopted son Aragorn, as seen in such stories like An Eye For An Eye and Healing Hope. Woe be to any living being who dared threaten or hurt his children.
- Some fanfiction has England and France be this to America and Canada for Hetalia Axis Powers. In Feverish, for example, both of them work together to help Canada survive the weird disease he suffers from.
- In The First Saniwa, Yorimitsu's father Mitsunaka is one of the only two people nice to him in his childhood while the rest of his family mistreated him because of his magical gift.
- The Fentons in Harmless. They love and support their children. And they instantly accept Danielle as family.
- Hellsister Trilogy has Fred and Edna Danvers, as well as Zor-El and Allura. The former try very hard to be caring and understanding to Linda. The latter are extremely supportive of Kara and treat Power Girl as their kind of daughter when they meet her.
- Zor-El and Allura In-Ze from Kara of Rokyn are loving and sweet parents who do their best to support and counsel their daughter.Zor-El: No man likes to see his daughter taking a pounding. Even though Kara's done her fair share of pounding, and more, I assure you. But I've come to accept it, and she needs our support. So she's got it, from myself and Allura. And we'll be there for her next match— and as many as we can make afterward.
- The primary crux of Ma Fille is that Joe wants to be the best father possible to his daughter Katrina. Throughout the story, he is shown to be very doting, affectionate, and encouraging to her, and in turn, she's a major Daddy's Girl.
- The Many Dates of Danny Fenton: Regardless of who he chooses, Danny and his chosen girl will grow up to be good parents to their kids.
- New Beginnings (Smallville): As telling his parents about him being a time-traveller, Clark thanks them for everything they did for him.Clark Kent: "You guys are the best parents anyone, anywhere could ever ask for. I can honestly say, I wouldn't be the man I am today if it weren't for the both of you."
- The Portal: John and Sarah are this for Thomas Smith (aka Blizzard) by bringing their son's best friend Alex over to Russia to make him feel better. When John and Sarah are both transformed into dragons upon their arrival in the Dragon Realms, John doesn't let his transformation concern him when he reunites with his son. Sarah, on the other hand...
- Ragnarok (Skeptikitten): Souichiro Yagami is this for Light. Light relates that his father "saved his life" when he caught onto his growing mental problems by pulling him out of school and working with him to help his mind heal, giving him training that actually stimulated his genius and encouraging him to experience more of the world and just be a teenager for a while. He also suggested Light take on a quasi-legal hobby like hacking in order to train him out of his growing Black-and-White Insanity.
- Resurrected Memories: The substitute music teacher Mrs. Murray seems to be a very loving and reasonably protective mother to both Zoe and Maggie.
- The Rigel Black Chronicles has Harriett Potter being raised by both her parents, and despite not always understanding her deep and abiding love of potions, they really do care about her life and her wellbeing, support her goals (even when the technical details go over their heads), and try to protect her from a hazardous political landscape. Unfortunately, she still doesn't feel she can trust them with the ruse.
- Such a Doting Father: The main premise is turning Enji and Rei Todoroki from an abuser and inadvertently neglectful (due to a mental breakdown) respectively, to considerate and doting, if amazingly embarrassing parents.
- Fate/Black Dawn: When Shirou meets Morgan le Faye's daughter Mordred, he immediately adopts her, spending much of his time making sure she is safe, happy, and healthy. It shouldn't be a surprise that she turns into a Daddy's Girl. Of course, Shirou being Shirou, he assumes that he's a mediocre father at best, and that the only reason Mordred likes him is because Morgan is even worse. Shirou drags Morgan into being a decent mother almost by accident.
- What Lies Beneath: Hiccup and Astrid ensure that Zephyr is loved and supported, especially when Hiccup has Stoick to work from
- T He MLP Comedy fic The God Squad has Lord Tydal. War god? Sure. Violent capricorn? Sure. Absolutely loving father who cares for his daughters and his baby sister? Oh yeah. There is a reason why when the younger gods learn he's alive they stampede to see the one relative they all consider their dad.
- In the Turning Red fic, The Panda Chronicles, Florencia Talavera is a wonderful mother to Aaron T.
