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* Jim Hopper's behavior in the early episodes of [[Series/StrangerThings Stranger Things 3]] might be the least justified instance in the history of the trope, for two reasons: first, Mike Wheeler is not at all the kind of boy who would put his own desires ahead of his girlfriend's wellbeing; and second, ''any'' boy who tries to pressure Jane Hopper into doing something outside her comfort zone and won't take no for an answer is liable to find himself [[MindOverMatter hurled across the room]].

* Jim Hopper's behavior in the early episodes of [[Series/StrangerThings Stranger Things 3]] might be the least justified instance in the history of the trope, for two reasons: first, Mike Wheeler is not at all the kind of boy who would put his own desires ahead of his girlfriend's wellbeing; and second, ''any'' boy who tries to pressure Jane Hopper into doing something outside her comfort zone and won't take no for an answer is liable to find himself [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MindOverMatter hurled across the room]].

* Proving that EvenEvilHasLovedOnes, Gul Dukat from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' tends to overreact quite spectacularly to his daughter Ziyal's feelings for Garak. Roughing the tailor up in the middle of Quark's for holding Ziyal's hand before embarking on a dangerous mission comes to mind. However, this has as much to do with the identity of the man in question as with a general protectiveness of his daughter; it's well-established by this point that Dukat and Garak hate each other, possibly because Garak might have had something to do with [[spoiler:Dukat's father's death]].

* ''Series/{{Alias}}'': Facing off with Jack Bristow is bad enough when you think he's just a very tall, broad-shouldered, poker-faced [=airplane parts manufacturing executive/bank manager/large glowery person who seems to know everything you get up to=]. Telling him you want to date -- or worse, '''marry''' -- Sydney when you know he's a XanatosSpeedChess-playing double agent who keeps multiple caches of weapons around is the ''really'' fun part. The man has broken just about every rule in the book in the course of protecting his daughter, and he's probably broken rules that didn't even exist in the course of protecting her. Lampshaded by Dixon after it's revealed the lengths Jack was willing to go to, to protect Vaughan -- just because it meant protecting his daughter.

** Played straight when Al goes so far as to hurt each and every one of Kelly's boyfriends (and boy, does she have a fair amount). He does that to protect the family's reputation (Kelly's very low standards means that most of the guys she dates ''truly'' are scum, and this is one of the very few times when Al actually shows some responsibility as a parent), while he doesn't mind when Bud gets some (but once in a while)...
** Also subverted with Kelly herself whenever she lands a rich guy, as Al actively supports the relationship and tries to exploit it for his own benefit.

* ''Series/{{Castle}} '':

** Similar to his character [[Characters/DieHard John McClane]] listed above, [[Creator/BruceWillis Bruce Willis]] plays an overprotective dad to Ross's college-aged girlfriend, Elizabeth Stevens. He strongly disapproves of Ross dating his daughter and repeatedly antagonizes him, even threatening to expose their relationship and have him fired if he doesn't break up with her. Much like Jack, his disapproval is understandable since [[StudentTeacherRomance Ross is Elizabeth's teacher]] and there's an [[AgeGapRomance age gap]] between them.

* ''Series/{{Alias}}'': Facing off with Jack Bristow is bad enough when you think he's just a very tall, broad-shouldered, poker-faced [=airplane parts manufacturing executive/bank manager/large glowery person who seems to know everything you get up to=]. Telling him you want to date - or worse, '''marry''' - Sydney when you know he's a XanatosSpeedChess-playing double agent who keeps multiple caches of weapons around is the ''really'' fun part. The man has broken just about every rule in the book in the course of protecting his daughter, and he's probably broken rules that didn't even exist in the course of protecting her. Lampshaded by Dixon after it's revealed the lengths Jack was willing to go to, to protect Vaughan - just because it meant protecting his daughter.

* ''Series/DearWhitePeople'': The motive behind Dean Fairbanks' strict parenting - to mold Troy into a model individual so that he won't face the same struggles his father did as a black man.

* ''Series/PennAndTellerBullshit'' takes two episodes arguing against and beating down this mindset. "Abstinence" deals with the HelicopterParents thinking at the societal level and how the attendant lack of sex education is doing teens a disservice, while "Teen Sex" deals with the pitfalls of teen relationships and sexuality - including actual parents!

* Earl's BadBoss Mr. Richfield on ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}''. He's so overprotective, he actually ''eats'' his daughters boyfriends[[note]]He claims he only wanted to talk to the first one, but he lost his temper, and "after that, it was like eatin' peanuts."[[/note]]

-->'''Blackadder:''' You have a beautiful and charming daughter, sir.\\

* Even though he was only a one-shot character, the father of Jerry's GirlOfTheWeek from "The Raincoats" episodes of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' is a good example. If you're still grounding your daughter and preventing her from seeing her boyfriend when she's old enough to rent an apartment (or at least a car), then it's probably safe to say that it's moved outside being a "tough but fair" approach to parenting and into the realm of control freakish-ness (although to be fair, [[ExtremeDoormat the girlfriend didn't seem to be trying to stop it]]). [[Film/MeetTheParents Jack Byrnes]] didn't tell us he had family there. Though there was some HypocriticalHumor to be had in the later episode "The Hamptons". For all his religious faith, [[EasilyForgiven it only took a dish of food for a peace offering]].

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Mr. Conklin has this attitude toward his daughter Harriet, sometimes kicking off the plot of the week:
** In "Madame Brooks Dubarry", Mr. Conklin unaccountably thinks that Miss Brooks is a "modern day dubarry" and carrying on with Mr. Boynton. This leads to him ordering Miss Brooks to have a talk with Harriet and ultimately leading to Mr. Conklin and Harriet spying on Mr. Boynton, Miss Brooks, and landlady Mrs. Davis from a hiding place in Mrs. Davis' living room.
** Again, in "Parlor Game", Mr. Conklin believes that Harriet is growing up "far too fast". He's disgusted with her relationship with Walter Denton. To fix this, he plans Harriet, Walter, Miss Brooks and Mr. Boynton to spend a quiet evening at the Conklin house.
** In "Cat Burglars", Harriet is mortified that her father forces her to have a babysitter after a series of cat burglaries in town.
* ''Series/That70sShow'':
** After [[spoiler:Kelso]] gets a girl pregnant and she bears his illegitimate daughter, he finds himself unable to take advantage of a DumbBlonde as he can't stop worrying about ''his'' daughter being exposed to [[HypocriticalHumor some sex-crazed jerk.]] He eventually decides that the only way to have guilt-free sex is to get the father's permission. This . . . [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong doesn't quite work.]] It doesn't help that he says something very close to: "I'd like to have sex with your daughter and I thought I'd ask you first because I couldn't help but worry about my own illegitimate baby girl."
** Bob Pinciotti was like this with Donna in relation to her dating Eric, especially after finding out the two of them had sex.
** PlayedForLaughs when Red decides to "convince" Kelso not to date his daughter Laurie.
* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'':
** Subverted: where Peg's father actually approves of Al, so much so that he literally [[ShotgunWedding forced Al at gunpoint]] to marry Peg after Al mistakenly proposed to Peg while drunk and later tried to get out of the marriage.
** Played straight when Al goes so far as to hurt each and every one of Kelly's boyfriends (and boy, does she have a fair amount). He does that to protect the family's reputation (Kelly's very low standards means that most of the guys she dates ''truly'' are scum, and this is one of the very few times when Al actually shows some responsibility as a parent), while he doesn't mind when Bud gets some (but once in a while)...
** Also subverted with Kelly herself whenever she lands a rich guy, as Al actively supports the relationship and tries to exploit it for his own benefit.
** And when Bud confides that he has been dating his 40-year-old teacher, Al shows up at the school the next day to blast the woman as a "cradle robbing pervert" and bring in two cops to arrest her. Unfortunately, the woman was out, so Al just humiliated the completely innocent elderly substitute, but overall, kudos to Al for not buying into DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale, even if the woman was "hot" and Bud was "consenting".

* In the "Explorer" episode of ''[[Radio/TheVeryWorldOfMiltonJones Another Case of Milton Jones]]'', Annette, daughter of camping tycoon Mr Millet, complains of having an overbearing dad.
-->'''Milton:''' And my heart went out to her, as she sat there in her [[DescriptionCut cycle helmet and bubblewrap dress]].
** Millet forces Milton to row across the Pacific (as ProductPlacement) before he will let Milton marry his daughter, but reneges on this promise and locks her up in a fortress.
* ''Series/PushingDaisies'' gives us [[spoiler:Chuck's father Charles Charles, when he gets resurrected.]][[spoiler:Of course it doesn't help that young Ned accidentally killed Charles Charles.]]
* Subverted in ''Series/TrueBlood'' when the vampire Bill Compton threatens to throw the mortal Hoyt Fortenberry through a closed window when Bill discovers Hoyt and Jessica, who is Bill's progeny (or is it his ''ward''?), making out in his living room. Bill's physical threats were intended to protect Hoyt in case Jessica's love lust turned to blood lust.\\
Although it ''is'' to protect Hoyt, you know Bill's also being an Overprotective Daddy. After all, he did have a daughter pre vampirism.
* The father of Eddie's girlfriend Greta in the later seasons of ''Series/FamilyMatters'', to the point where he ''[[DisproportionateRetribution stops paying her college tuition]]'' when she won't break up with Eddie.
* An episode of ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'' had [[BigBad Ransik]] turn into this because his daughter Nadira fell for Blue Ranger Lucas. However, rather than threatening him, Ransik interrupts a fight with the MonsterOfTheWeek to help out, dusting off the young man's uniform, handing him some flowers to give Nadira, and then chewing out the MOTW for nearly ruining his daughter's date.
* Proving that EvenEvilHasLovedOnes, Gul Dukat from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' tends to overreact quite spectacularly to his daughter Ziyal's feelings for Garak. Roughing the tailor up in the middle of Quark's for holding Ziyal's hand before embarking on a dangerous mission comes to mind. However, this has as much to do with the identity of the man in question as with a general protectiveness of his daughter; it's well-established by this point that Dukat and Garak hate each other, possibly because Garak might have had something to do with [[spoiler:Dukat's father's death]].
* In a case of WhatCouldHaveBeen, an episode was planned for ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' in which Kirk would have courted Dr. [=McCoy's=] daughter. The storyline would have involved [=McCoy=] being torn between his friendship with Kirk and his desire to protect his daughter.
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'':
** While he might have a point given that the man in question is Rumplestiltskin, Belle's father definitely crosses into this trope when his solution for getting Belle away from the man is to [[spoiler:force her over the Storybrooke line, which would completely erase her Enchanted Forest memories, ''[[DisproportionateRetribution possibly for good]]'']].
** Rumplestilkstin himself is an ''absurdly'' overprotective father, to the extent of murdering an innocent man whose cart ''might'' accidentally have hurt his son... even though said son actually came out fine and the man was apologetic. His slaughtering innocents left and right and insisting that Bae stay inside with him all the time and away from the big, bad world is one of the major contributing reasons to [[spoiler:Bae leaving him.]]
** David/Prince Charming ranges from hostile to reluctant when it comes to Captain Hook dating his daughter, Emma.
--->'''Emma:''' Okay, Killian. We should get out of here before David decides to give you his Overprotective Dad Speech.\\
'''Hook:''' Well, you can spare yourself the trouble, mate. I assure you your daughter couldn't be in better hands.\\
'''David:''' That's exactly what worries me. Especially now that you have two of them.
* Subverted and PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''. Jerry is not this trope, but Chris ''thinks'' he is. Cue the hilarity when Chris begins dating Jerry's daughter and goes out of his way to keep their relationship on the down-low, despite Jerry's explicit support and approval.
* ''Series/PennAndTellerBullshit'' takes two episodes arguing against and beating down this mindset. "Abstinence" deals with the HelicopterParents thinking at the societal level and how the attendant lack of sex education is doing teens a disservice, while "Teen Sex" deals with the pitfalls of teen relationships and sexuality - including actual parents!
* ''Series/ResidentAlien'': According to Asta, her father never likes any man she's close with (as her apparent first was an abusive prick, it might be at least somewhat justified).
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS3E06TheBounty The Bounty]]" it takes Geordi two seconds to see Jack is quite interested in his daughter Sydney and even less time to tell Jack to stay away from her.

* Ben with Alex on ''Series/{{Lost}}'', though for good reason, as women who become pregnant on the Island invariably die. Still, locking the kid in a cage and then brainwashing him ''Film/AClockworkOrange''-style was a bit extreme. It's even reinforced in a parallel dimension in the final season, Ben [[spoiler:gives up dreams of school-wide domination for Alex's benefit]]. What a twist!

* Danny Tanner of ''Series/FullHouse'', specially in regards to DJ.
* Joel Nash and Rhyss Sutherland in ''Series/HomeAndAway''.
* Tommy Harris in ''Series/CoronationStreet''. More recently, Owen Armstrong.
* ''Series/ICarly'': As Carly's legal guardian Spencer can do this a few times, like in ''iDate a Bad Boy''. Spencer generally averts the trope though, trusting Carly to make good decisions about her movements and activities.
* John Ritter's ''Series/EightSimpleRules'' was also based on this concept, particularly a very funny list from such a father. The full title, of course, was ''Eight Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter''.
* ''Series/H2OJustAddWater'': Cleo's father is the type of father who has a hard time accepting that his daughter is growing up. He's especially against her dating, becoming hostile to Lewis every time Cleo shows romantic interest in him. Funnily enough, he simultaneously ''only'' approves of Lewis, being willing to team up with him if both of them think Cleo dating another boy.
* Gene Simmons of ''Series/GeneSimmonsFamilyJewels'' is shown as an overprotective father to his daughter Sophie, since he knows what young guys want from his own past experience. He might as well breathe fire to any guy trying to get close to Sophie. He was even called a {{hypocrite}} by one of his friends.

* The first rule of ''Series/LieToMe'' is that you don't mess with Cal Lightman's daughter. Ever. As people that make that mistake find out, he'll only ''begin'' with punching you in the face.
* Subverted in one episode of ''Series/GrowingPains''. Carol's dad isn't like this, but in one episode where she sneaks a boy home without telling her parents and they come home early, she panics, and tells him that he's "insane and carries a gun". Naturally, [[FromBadToWorse that only makes the situation worse.]]

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': While he might have a point given that the man in question is Rumplestiltskin, Belle's father definitely crosses into this trope when his solution for getting Belle away from the man is to [[spoiler:force her over the Storybrooke line, which would completely erase her Enchanted Forest memories, ''[[DisproportionateRetribution possibly for good]]'']].

*** Given that Hook [[HeelFaceTurn used to be a not-very-moral pirate,]] one can rather understand his reluctance.
%%* Very much a DeadHorseTrope in British works, mainly on:
* Jack Foster towards Tess on ''Series/LifeWithBoys''.

* In the ''Series/EnemyAtTheDoor'' episode "After the Ball", John Weston is an overprotective dad to his only daughter. He doesn't threaten Marie's dates, because he hasn't even got to the stage where he lets her have any; he supervises her social life very closely and has never let her had any kind of unchaperoned contact with the opposite sex. (She's not a legal adult yet, but she is old enough to reasonably find his attitude unfairly restrictive.) When she takes an opportunity to slip away and have a good time on her own initiative, it goes badly, at least partly because her sheltered upbringing has left her unprepared for what might go wrong.
* ''Series/DearWhitePeople'': The motive behind Dean Fairbanks' strict parenting - to mold Troy into a model individual so that he won't face the same struggles his father did as a black man.

* Sam Radford enjoys playing this to his stepdaughter Grace in ''Series/GoodWitch.'' He has a lot of fun TwerpSweating her boyfriend, with DeathGlare, ImpliedDeathThreat, and inquiring about the boy's intentions. Unlike many examples on this page, he's actually a NiceGuy who approves of Luke--he just enjoys giving the guy a hard time. On a more serious note, though, he warns his AlphaBitch ex-wife that if she wants to go through a complicated legal battle for custody over their son, he will oblige her, and she will lose.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'':
** When Monica and Richard tell her parents that they're dating Ross makes sure to snatch a baseball bat out of his father's hands before he hears the news. In the next scene Richard implies that Jack chased him out of the house and down the street. Jack's reaction is understandable as Richard is an old family friend meaning there's a [[MayDecemberRomance significant age gap]] between him and Monica.
--->'''Monica:''' So, are you sorry that I told them?\\
'''Richard:''' No, it's been a long time since your dad and I went running.
** Similar to his character [[Characters/DieHard John McClane]] listed above, [[Creator/BruceWillis Bruce Willis]] plays an overprotective dad to Ross's college-aged girlfriend, Elizabeth Stevens. He strongly disapproves of Ross dating his daughter and repeatedly antagonizes him, even threatening to expose their relationship and have him fired if he doesn't break up with her. Much like Jack, his disapproval is understandable since [[StudentTeacherRomance Ross is Elizabeth's teacher]] and there's an [[AgeGapRomance age gap]] between them.

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Mr. Conklin has this attitude toward his daughter Harriet, sometimes kicking off the plot of the week:
** In "Madame Brooks Dubarry", Mr. Conklin unaccountably thinks that Miss Brooks is a "modern day dubarry" and carrying on with Mr. Boynton. This leads to him ordering Miss Brooks to have a talk with Harriet and ultimately leading to Mr. Conklin and Harriet spying on Mr. Boynton, Miss Brooks, and landlady Mrs. Davis from a hiding place in Mrs. Davis' living room.
** Again, in "Parlor Game", Mr. Conklin believes that Harriet is growing up "far too fast". He's disgusted with her relationship with Walter Denton. To fix this, he plans Harriet, Walter, Miss Brooks and Mr. Boynton to spend a quiet evening at the Conklin house.
** In "Cat Burglars", Harriet is mortified that her father forces her to have a babysitter after a series of cat burglaries in town.
* ''Series/That70sShow'':
** After [[spoiler:Kelso]] gets a girl pregnant and she bears his illegitimate daughter, he finds himself unable to take advantage of a DumbBlonde as he can't stop worrying about ''his'' daughter being exposed to [[HypocriticalHumor some sex-crazed jerk.]] He eventually decides that the only way to have guilt-free sex is to get the father's permission. This . . . [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong doesn't quite work.]] It doesn't help that he says something very close to: "I'd like to have sex with your daughter and I thought I'd ask you first because I couldn't help but worry about my own illegitimate baby girl."
** Bob Pinciotti was like this with Donna in relation to her dating Eric, especially after finding out the two of them had sex.
** PlayedForLaughs when Red decides to "convince" Kelso not to date his daughter Laurie.
* Danny Tanner of ''Series/FullHouse'', specially in regards to DJ.

* Joel Nash and Rhyss Sutherland in ''Series/HomeAndAway''.
* Tommy Harris in ''Series/CoronationStreet''. More recently, Owen Armstrong.
* ''Series/ICarly'': As Carly's legal guardian Spencer can do this a few times, like in ''iDate a Bad Boy''. Spencer generally averts the trope though, trusting Carly to make good decisions about her movements and activities.
* John Ritter's ''Series/EightSimpleRules'' was also based on this concept, particularly a very funny list from such a father. The full title, of course, was ''Eight Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter''.
* ''Series/H2OJustAddWater'': Cleo's father is the type of father who has a hard time accepting that his daughter is growing up. He's especially against her dating, becoming hostile to Lewis every time Cleo shows romantic interest in him. Funnily enough, he simultaneously ''only'' approves of Lewis, being willing to team up with him if both of them think Cleo dating another boy.

* Played straight with Jed Bartlet for six seasons in ''Series/TheWestWing'', particularly toward his youngest daughter Zoey.
** Often {{lampshaded}} (especially in the sixth season), in which his wife would make fun of him for being a cliché. Fortunately for him, being [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent President of the United States]] came in very handy for intimidating potential mates.
--->'''President Josiah Bartlet:''' Just remember these two things: she's nineteen years old, and the 82nd Airborne works for me.
** These fears are kind of justified, as demonstrated by his rant from season 1 outlining how anything happening to Zoey would be the "nightmare scenario" and by [[spoiler:her kidnapping in season 4, which causes him to invoke the 25th Amendment and temporarily relinquish power in a way that's very similar to the said rant.]]
** In the seventh season, when his middle daughter, Ellie, was getting married to a nerd named Vic, he deliberately engineered a situation where Vic would get swarmed by backslapping military brass. The nerd eventually wins over Bartlet, of course.

* Gene Simmons of ''Series/GeneSimmonsFamilyJewels'' is shown as an overprotective father to his daughter Sophie, since he knows what young guys want from his own past experience. He might as well breathe fire to any guy trying to get close to Sophie. He was even called a {{hypocrite}} by one of his friends.
* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'':
** Subverted: where Peg's father actually approves of Al, so much so that he literally [[ShotgunWedding forced Al at gunpoint]] to marry Peg after Al mistakenly proposed to Peg while drunk and later tried to get out of the marriage.
** Played straight when Al goes so far as to hurt each and every one of Kelly's boyfriends (and boy, does she have a fair amount). He does that to protect the family's reputation (Kelly's very low standards means that most of the guys she dates ''truly'' are scum, and this is one of the very few times when Al actually shows some responsibility as a parent), while he doesn't mind when Bud gets some (but once in a while)...
** Also subverted with Kelly herself whenever she lands a rich guy, as Al actively supports the relationship and tries to exploit it for his own benefit.
** And when Bud confides that he has been dating his 40-year-old teacher, Al shows up at the school the next day to blast the woman as a "cradle robbing pervert" and bring in two cops to arrest her. Unfortunately, the woman was out, so Al just humiliated the completely innocent elderly substitute, but overall, kudos to Al for not buying into DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale, even if the woman was "hot" and Bud was "consenting".
* Parodied with Hermes Pinzan in ''Series/YoSoyBettyLaFea'', who follows the trope to a T, but the daughter he protects so obsessively is such an ugly, nerdy and wholesome woman that he shouldn't have any reason for worry... Or has he?
* In the "Explorer" episode of ''[[Radio/TheVeryWorldOfMiltonJones Another Case of Milton Jones]]'', Annette, daughter of camping tycoon Mr Millet, complains of having an overbearing dad.
-->'''Milton:''' And my heart went out to her, as she sat there in her [[DescriptionCut cycle helmet and bubblewrap dress]].
** Millet forces Milton to row across the Pacific (as ProductPlacement) before he will let Milton marry his daughter, but reneges on this promise and locks her up in a fortress.
* Ben with Alex on ''Series/{{Lost}}'', though for good reason, as women who become pregnant on the Island invariably die. Still, locking the kid in a cage and then brainwashing him ''Film/AClockworkOrange''-style was a bit extreme. It's even reinforced in a parallel dimension in the final season, Ben [[spoiler:gives up dreams of school-wide domination for Alex's benefit]]. What a twist!
* ''Series/PushingDaisies'' gives us [[spoiler:Chuck's father Charles Charles, when he gets resurrected.]][[spoiler:Of course it doesn't help that young Ned accidentally killed Charles Charles.]]
* Subverted in ''Series/TrueBlood'' when the vampire Bill Compton threatens to throw the mortal Hoyt Fortenberry through a closed window when Bill discovers Hoyt and Jessica, who is Bill's progeny (or is it his ''ward''?), making out in his living room. Bill's physical threats were intended to protect Hoyt in case Jessica's love lust turned to blood lust.\\
Although it ''is'' to protect Hoyt, you know Bill's also being an Overprotective Daddy. After all, he did have a daughter pre vampirism.

** It doesn't help that these girls are nowhere near virgins already.

* Even though he was only a one-shot character, the father of Jerry's GirlOfTheWeek from "The Raincoats" episodes of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' is a good example. If you're still grounding your daughter and preventing her from seeing her boyfriend when she's old enough to rent an apartment (or at least a car), then it's probably safe to say that it's moved outside being a "tough but fair" approach to parenting and into the realm of control freakish-ness (although to be fair, [[ExtremeDoormat the girlfriend didn't seem to be trying to stop it]]). [[Film/MeetTheParents Jack Byrnes]] didn't tell us he had family there. Though there was some HypocriticalHumor to be had in the later episode "The Hamptons". For all his religious faith, [[EasilyForgiven it only took a dish of food for a peace offering]].

* Turk in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' has an infant daughter but already plans to be this. He claims he won't tell his daughter that she has a vagina until she's 18. On the other hand, he's eager to get Izzie married to JD's son Sam.
* George in ''Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow''. He tries to scare almost all of her boyfriends away and succeeded with all but two of them.
* ''Series/TheRiver'' gives us Emilio, who won't even let his teenage daughter be alone with a guy. [[NotUsingTheZWord Of course, he ends up being right, but not for the reason he thinks.]]

* Played with in an episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' in which Penny pretends to still be dating Leonard when her father is in town. See, her dad ''loves'' Leonard: he's nice, stable, educated and intelligent, while Penny's previous boyfriends were... not. When Penny eventually comes clean, her dad sends her out of the room, makes a stern face at Leonard... then begs him to keep going after his daughter. He even helps Leonard out by making a big show of shouting, "Leave my daughter alone!" loudly enough so that Penny can hear, knowing that his disapproval has always made her more willing to date guys in the past.
* Henry Spencer from ''Series/{{Psych}}'' tends to show signs of this, from early as season one episode two.
-->'''Henry:''' This is a derivative of methyl parathion. High-grade stuff. Whatever you're into, I want you to get out quick. I'm not kidding.

* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', the first thing Gypsy's father Breacher (who also happens to be her boss) does upon stepping foot on Earth-1 is to try to kill her boyfriend Cisco. All Cisco knows is that some scary-looking Hispanic guy (helps to be played by Creator/DannyTrejo in full ''Film/{{Machete}}'' mode) in a BadassLongcoat and with the same powerset as Cisco and Gypsy. He then reveals to Cisco that he hunts down and kills all of his daughter's boyfriends (she's weirdly resigned to that fact). If Cisco survives a full day without using his powers, Breacher will leave him alone. Breacher finally earns a measure of respect for Cisco after the latter stops him from killing Barry and another metahuman, showing that Cisco has balls. But he still doesn't like him! Also, the "overprotective" part of the trope only extends to boyfriends. Being her boss, he has no problem sending her after dangerous enemies.

* Cain Dingle in ''Series/{{Emmerdale}}'' has gotten violent on several occasions when he thinks someone is trying to take advantage of his little girl.

* Ripley Holden in ''Series/{{Blackpool}}'' veers into {{Squick}} territory over this, describing his daughter as a "wet dream" and trying to threaten and even bribe his daughter's "unsuitable" fiancée to get lost. Made worse by the fact that the man in question [[PaedoHunt is her father's age]]. Add in the fact that the fiancé gets beaten up by Ripley's gay son because he thought that's what his father wanted and you have a family just MADE of {{Squick}}.

* ''Series/{{Eureka}}'''s Sheriff Jack Carter is a prime example. At the end of one episode, he ''handcuffed'' her to keep her from ''talking'' to a boy, and it was played for ''laughs''. However, considering how she's implied to have acted before coming to him, it was a fairly understandable level of caution. He gets much better about that whole thing later on as she gets a bit older and more mature. At one point, we think the APB he's been given is about the Mystery of the Week as he rushes off... to confront his fifteen-year-old daughter who is wanted on charges of credit card fraud to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. All through the first season, it was played with, as his being protecting her from the law (he ''is'' in the business of "law enforcement" after all). After that, he started to relax as she became more comfortable and began to fit into the town. To the point that he has not voiced any problems with Zoey and her boyfriend going to colleges in the same city ''on the other side of the country'' from Eureka. When he walks in on them being... intimate, his only reaction is "now my day is complete" and then turns to work on the issue of the week. At the end of the episode, it is commented on his self-restraint not making any threats while they are making out in public.

* ''Series/{{Alias}}'': Facing off with Jack Bristow is bad enough when you think he's just a very tall, broad-shouldered, poker-faced [=airplane parts manufacturing executive/bank manager/large glowery person who seems to know everything you get up to=]. Telling him you want to date - or worse, '''marry''' - Sydney when you know he's a XanatosSpeedChess-playing double agent who keeps multiple caches of weapons around is the ''really'' fun part. The man has broken just about every rule in the book in the course of protecting his daughter, and he's probably broken rules that didn't even exist in the course of protecting her. Lampshaded by Dixon after it's revealed the lengths Jack was willing to go to, to protect Vaughan - just because it meant protecting his daughter.
-->'''Vaughan:''' You know, it's funny. It's the first time I ever felt Jack accepted me.\\
'''Dixon:''' Or else he manufactured a very elaborate scheme to postpone your wedding to his daughter.
* ''Series/{{Castle}} '':
** Richard Castle whenever he runs across a case that hurts teenage girls... Alexis may be the most responsible one in the family, but there's no denying that he loves his daughter dearly. Though the standard scene where the father intimidates his daughter's date is defied when she goes out with Owen, as she insists that he gets rid of the fake ''severed head'' and bloodstained coat, and is ready to leave immediately.
** Castle invokes this another time when he is talking with Beckett about Alexis' upcoming prom night and how he will instill fear into the young gentleman to ensure he didn't do anything untoward. While discussing this, Beckett revealed her father didn't do it (to her knowledge) but thinking back while talking she does admit her date was far more nervous after she stepped out of the room to finish getting ready, and left him alone with her father, than he was before.
* ''Series/CSIMiami'': In an episode that was otherwise a homage to ''Film/TheHangover'', the bride's dad ''really'' disapproved of the groom and at the first sign that he had hurt her (emotionally, by going to a strip club after swearing he wouldn't) he [[spoiler:bribed a stripper to bring him out back, hogtied him and [[DisproportionateRetribution left him to die at sea in a tiny inflatable raft]].]]
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': When Lucy was still a baby, Danny was already saying boys won't get close enough to get her pregnant. He wouldn't even let one of the male lab techs hold her the first time he and Lucy took her to work...she was only a week old!

* In ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'', the father in "Jumping at Shadows" had a really good case for being ProperlyParanoid since [[spoiler:his daughter and family were under Witness Protection and the people gunning for his daughter managed to find them after bribing the police.]]

* In ''Series/{{Chuck}}'', [[spoiler:Casey instantly becomes this on meeting his college-aged daughter.]] Possibly he feels he's missed out on ''years'' of overprotectiveness. Now imagine how he feels after finding out that she's [[spoiler:dating Morgan]].
* Subverted in one episode of ''Series/GrowingPains''. Carol's dad isn't like this, but in one episode where she sneaks a boy home without telling her parents and they come home early, she panics, and tells him that he's "insane and carries a gun". (Naturally, [[FromBadToWorse that only makes the situation worse.)]]
* Earl's BadBoss Mr. Richfield on ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}''. He's so overprotective, he actually ''eats'' his daughters boyfriends. (He claims he only wanted to talk to the first one, but he lost his temper, and "after that, it was like eatin' peanuts.")

* In ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode [[Recap/CommunityS1E18BasicGenealogy "Basic Genealogy"]], Pierce is shown to be this of his adult ex-step-children.

* Angela's dad (played by Billy Gibbons of Music/ZZTop fame) on ''Series/{{Bones}}''. He's scared Hodgins plenty of times and knocked him out, then tattooed him and abandoned him, twice. At the same time, he warns Hodgins that it's a ''very'' bad idea to ask him for permission to marry his free-spirited daughter. If she finds out, they're both dead.
-->'''Angela's Dad:''' Hodgins, I've got cars, and I've got guitars, and I've got guns. You treat my little girl right, and you'll only see the business end of the cars and guitars.

%%** ''Series/{{Casualty}}'' and its spin-off ''Series/HolbyCity''
%%** ''Series/CoronationStreet''
%%** ''Series/{{Emmerdale}}'' however, still plays this straight with Cain Dingle.
* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''
** In "Year's End", Tommy Merlyn says to Laurel Lance's dad "How are you?" and gets the response "Fully proficient with firearms". Of course since Laurel's sister ''died'' due to dating Tommy's best friend, you can't blame him.
** In a flashback to when Laurel was dating Oliver Queen, she wants them to get an apartment because her father has threatened to taser Oliver if they're in a room together with the door closed.
** In "Corto Maltese", John Diggle is cooing over his newborn daughter. When his wife jokes about her growing up and discovering boys, he says in the same tone of voice, "Well, that's what my Glock is for."
** In "Emerald Archer", when Rene Ramirez gets the idea that William and Zoe might be into each other, he makes it a point to let the teens know he'll be in the room right outside theirs...cleaning his guns. Ironically William is actually gay, though no-one knows that at the time.

* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'':
** Parodied in "[[Recap/BlackadderS3E5AmyAndAmiability Amy and Amiability]]", in which Blackadder is attempting to get the prince to marry the rich heiress Amy Hardwood to save his dwindling fortune:
-->'''Blackadder:''' You have a beautiful and charming daughter, sir.\\
'''Mr Hardwood:''' Indeed I do. I love her more than any pig, and that's saying summat!\\
'''Blackadder:''' It certainly is.\\
'''Mr Hardwood:''' And let me tell you, I'd no more place her in the hands of an unworthy man than I'd place my John Thomas in the hands of a lunatic with a pair of scissors.\\
'''Blackadder:''' An attitude that does you credit, sir.\\
'''Mr Hardwood:''' I'd rather take off all my clothes and paint my bottom blue than give her to a man who didn't love her!\\
'''Blackadder:''' What self-respecting father could do more?\\
'''Mr Hardwood:''' On the other hand, if he's a prince, he can have her for ten bob and a pickled egg.
** Played with in "[[Recap/BlackadderS3E6DuelAndDuality Duel and Duality]]", where Prince George, having spent the night with the Duke of Wellington's nieces, is horrified to discover that the Duke, who has sworn to kill anyone who takes sexual advantage of his family, has been back in England for several months.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{CHiPs}}'', the captain's adult daughter complains about her father's habit of greeting her dates while cleaning his gun when she lived at home.