History Main / ArchnemesisDad

* ''Series/{{Peacemaker}}'': Augie Smith, the father of the titular hero Christopher Smith a.k.a. Peacemaker, is introduced as emotionally and physically {{Abusive|Parents}} towards his own son who also guilt trapped Chris for the death of his brother. Over the curse of the first season we learn Augie is the Neo Nazi-supervillain White Dragon. When his own interests start to clash with the mission of Chris' team, he decides to kill him. [[spoiler:Chris eventually gets to kill his father, but is still haunted by visions of him afterwards.]] While Augie isn't the BigBad in the series, he's the villain [[ItsPersonal to go directly under the hero's skin]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoNinjagoMovie'' has the evil Lord Garmadon and his son Lloyd. In this case, Garmadon actually loves his son and doesn't want to hurt him. The real surprise comes when it's revealed that Lloyd is the prophesied Green Ninja destined to defeat him, leaving both parties incredibly reluctant to fight each other.

* ''Series/{{Peacemaker}}'': Augie Smith, the father of the titular hero Christopher Smith a.k.a. Peacemaker, is introduced as emotionally and physically {{Abusive|Parent}} towards his son, despite building Pacemaker's equipment. Over the course of the first season we learn Augie is the Neo Nazi-supervillain White Dragon. When his own interests start to clash with Chris' mission, he decides to kill him. [[spoiler: Chris eventually gets to kill his father, but is still haunted by visions of him afterwards.]] While Augie isn't the BigBad in the series, he's the villain [[ItsPersonal to go directly under the hero's skin]].

* ''VideoGame/Destiny2'': Empress Caiatl of the Cabal empire has a complicated relationship with her father, Emperor Calus, despising him for his venality, corruption, and ItsAllAboutMe attitude yet still feeling a semblance of familial loyalty. In one anecdote, Caiatl describes how Calus ''killed her dog'' because he felt she was paying more attention to it than to him. As such, she willingly participated in the Midnight Coup that overthrew Calus for his protégée Ghaul, yet spoke against executing him in favor of simply exiling him far from the empire. In turn, Caiatl is Calus's greatest fear -- specifically, his fear that her achievements will one day overshadow his, leaving him forgotten by history.

** ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul herself has played this role in the [[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman "Leviathan" story arc]] to her biological son with Bruce, Damian.

* In the 1970s, Marvel comics created a character named Comicbook/ShangChi, whose father just so happened to be the evil Dr. Literature/FuManchu (although they can't actually call him that anymore for [[ExiledFromContinuity copyright reasons]]).

** The original ''Comicbook/{{Brainiac}}'' has, at various points, tried to manipulate, control, or kill his clone son, Brainiac 2, his grandson, Brainiac 3, and his great-great grandson, Brainiac 5. Brainiacs 2 & 3 have also made numerous attempts to kill one another, proving this trope is more or less [[VillainousLineage in the blood]].
* ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'': [[spoiler:Zor-El]] becomes this to [[spoiler:his daughter Kara]] in ''Comicbook/SupergirlRebirth'' after turning into [[spoiler:Cyborg Superman]] and getting obsessed with getting their world back and setting things "right", no matter the cost. (This wasn't ''quite'' the case in his ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl2011}}'' appearances, where he was more of a CriminalAmnesiac, and neither of them realised the connection until afterwards.)

* The BigBad of ''FanFic/TheImmortalGame'' is Celestia and Luna's father Titan. And his [[TheDragon Dragon]], General Esteem (who's just as big a monster as he is), happens to be Rarity's father.

* In ''FanFic/SecretWar'' [[spoiler: [[TheSociopath Serghar Kaltos]] is this to Attelus Kaltos to the empth degree.]]

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* Jecht from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' is an {{abusive|Dad}}, [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] JerkJock of a dad. The nemesis relationship between himself and his son Tidus was heightened by the fact that both played the same sport, and Jecht went for the DrillSergeantNasty method of teaching and was too vain to admit his son might ever be anywhere near as good as him. Later, [[spoiler:he was transformed into the EldritchAbomination that terrorizes the entire world. Surprisingly, the trope is somewhat subverted, because Jecht becomes increasingly sympathetic as the game goes on, especially as Tidus comes to realizes that some of his [[FreudianExcuse Freudian]] [[OedipusComplex Issues]] are his own problems and not his father's fault. Though Jecht does admit at the end he was a pretty crappy father too]].

* In Webcomic/{{Blindsprings}}, Asher Thorne takes on this role, by turning against his wife and daughters because they're witches of the wrong kind. It is questionable whether he ever loved his wife, (the marriage, it seems, was mainly political, to secure peace) there might be DomesticAbuse, too.
* WebComic/ButImACatPerson runs [[LonelyRichKid Miranda]] through multiple flavors of ParentalAbandonment, including this one.

* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod''

* WesternAnimation/ElTigre: Played with with White Panthera and his father Pumo Loco. White Panthera is the only hero to have ever been able to defeat Pumo Loco, is often more mature than his father, and worried about the influence PL has on his son. Despite this, Rodolfo allows his father to live with him and Manny, and they seem to respect each other and not try to change their minds about where they stand on good and evil (thought the same can’t be said for how they raise Manny).

* The big reveal of "Comicbook/TheOzEffect" in ''Comicbook/SupermanRebirth'' is that the mysterious ubervillain Mr Oz, determined to prove to Superman that humanity isn't worth saving, is none other than a crazed Jor-El. (At least, unless the ongoing fallout eventually reveals that he was someone else posing as a crazed Jor-El.)

* In ''FanFic/ConversationsWithACryptid'', [[spoiler: All for One is Izuku's DisappearedDad Hisashi Midoriya.]]

* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': [[{{CorruptPolitician}} Masayoshi Shido]] serves as this to his bastard son Goro Akechi, who resents him for abandoning him and his late mother, and plans on taking revenge on Shido by destroying his political career by exposing their connection to the world.
* ''Tekken'': In the first two games, Kazuya's #1 archnemesis is his father Heihachi. In Part 3, Kazuya "died" and Heihachi was an Archnemesis ''Granddad'' to Jin. From Tekken 4 onward, Heihachi is still the archnemesis to both Jin and Kazuya (who is BackFromTheDead) and Kazuya is an Archnemesis Dad to Jin, who hates them both.

* ''WebComic/SluggyFreelance'': After Riff's long-absent father Wilcott is finally revealed, it's later revealed that he's running a cult of the [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt world-ending]] demon K'Z'K. His motive is a convincing fake prophecy that makes it seem as though serving the demon is the only way to save his loved ones from the inevitable end... but Riff, who's more into SavingTheWorld, has little sympathy for this and considers it unforgivable nevertheless.

** Roger Linus is a horribly physically and emotional AbusiveParent to his son, Benjamin Linus, because he [[MaternalDeathBlameTheChild blames Ben for his mother's death in childbirth]]. Ben eventually murders Roger personally when he defects from the DHARMA Initiative to the Others.

** John Locke's father abandoned him until well into his adult life, at which point he [[spoiler:stole his kidney]], [[spoiler:re-abandoned him]], [[spoiler:used him as a courier]], [[spoiler:abandoned him again]], and [[spoiler:pushed him out of an 8-story window]].
** [[spoiler:Locke was too much of a wuss to actually kill him when he had the chance]].

* The Freelancer Saga (seasons 9-10) of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' ended with the reveal that [[spoiler:[[BigBad the Director]], [[TheLostLenore Alison]], and [[BrokenAce Agent Carolina]] are father, [[MissingMom mother]] and [[WellDoneSonGuy daughter]], respectively]]. As with the last such reveal (the identity and source of the Alpha AI), it changes pretty much everything the audience knew about the preceding storyline.

* The Lore of ''LetsPlay/TwitchPlaysPokemon'' had Alice trying to stop the machinations of Bill, whom the stream had decided was her father.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'', [[spoiler:Mikey was sent to an AlternateUniverse where the Super Turtles are heroes with superpowers and not ninjas. The Super Turtles' father, Sliver, is their archnemesis which they already knew, but Mikey and the viewers didn't until TheBigReveal.]]

* Sassette in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' still loves Gargamel (her creator) as his dad and calls him "daddy Gargamel". She considers herself to have two dads; her creator Gargamel and her adoptive father Papa Smurf. When confronted on the fact that Gargamel is evil, she responds that she still loves him. Gargamel was brought to tears once she told him that, as no one has ever say "I love you" to him before.

** ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlynpians'': Atlas is this to Zoë Nightshade, as she was the only daughter who didn't support him during the First Titanomachy and instead support the Olympians. In ''The Titan's Curse'', she participates in the quest to free Artemis from his grasp, and ends up being [[OffingTheOffspring mortally injured by him]], fulfilling the prophecy about a child being killed by their father.

** Atlas is this to Zoë Nightshade, as she was the only daughter who didn't support him during the First Titanomachy and instead support the Olympians. In ''The Titan's Curse'', she participates in the quest to free Artemis from his grasp, and ends up being [[OffingTheOffspring mortally injured by him]], fulfilling the prophecy about a child being killed by their father.
** Gaea and Tartarus to Damasen, the only Giant who doesn't participate in both Gigantomachies, because he was created as an antithesis to [[BloodKnight Ares]], meaning he strictly abides by peace. Gaea considered him [[IHaveNoSon a disgrace]] and locked him up in Tartarus. In the climax of ''The House of Hades'', he sacrifices himself to buy Percy and Annabeth time to get out of Tartarus, and is presumably killed.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', it is eventually revealed that Mojo Jojo, nemesis of the titular characters, was once Professor Utonium's monkey assistant Jojo and it was through his tampering that Chemical X was introduced into the formula that created them. Mojo is left speechless at the realization that this technically makes him the creator of his greatest enemies. Not only that, but due to a time-travel episode, he inadvertently caused a young Utonium to actually want to become a scientist to "create the perfect little girl" after being saved by the Powerpuffs. This means that Mojo created the means for his and the girls' existence, but also the original desire which lead him to be adopted by the Professor as Jojo in the first place.