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* ''WesternAnimation/Rio2'' has a variant of this trope in the main plot concerning Blu and Jewel, who already raised offspring together at the end of [[WesternAnimation/{{Rio}} the previous movie]]; here, the bulk of the plot involves them attempting to win over a wild flock of blue Spix's macaws led by Jewel's father, Eduardo. The problem is that Eduardo wants nothing to do with human civilization, and once the flock finds out that Blu [[CityMouse never really grew out of having been raised in suburbia]], he grows to resent him and turns the flock against him. It's only because Blu and Jewel are already married with kids that Eduardo tries to give him a chance, but Blu screws up every one of his attempts to fit in, angering Eduardo even further. The flock only warms up to Blu come the climax of the movie, [[spoiler:when Blu finds out about an illegal logging operation threatening the macaws' home and rallies the jungle animals to save it; Eduardo in particular, after he's rescued from the loggers by Blu's former owner and her own husband who were trying to stop them, accepts that if the person who raised Blu is good at heart, then so is he]].

* In the Altered Destinies FanVerse, [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Vlad Tepesh]] nearly choked on his own tongue when [[Anime/{{Hellsing}} Alucard revealed that Integra had [[TakeAThirdOption Taken a Third Option]] and became his {{Familiar}}. She was around four months pregnant when [[Literature/VampireHunterD D]] found out and convinced Alucard to tell their father. The fact that Alucard used his mother’s ring to propose didn’t help.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTimeFionnaAndCake'': Little Destiny and Jay have been decretly dating for quite some time. However, their parents, Big Destony and FInn, are long-time enemies.

* {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10256543/1/Nymphadora-s-Beau Nymphadora's Beau]]''. Ted and Andromeda know that their daughter would never date anyone that they approve of, so they use ReversePsychology on her when she expresses interest in Remus. They encourage their daughter to pursue him while warning her about that dangerous [[Literature/HarryPotter Potter]] boy. [[SchmuckBait Tonks falls for it hook, line, and sinker]] and proceeds to try and date Harry. When left alone, Ted and Andromeda both agree that Harry is a much more preferable choice for their daughter than Remus.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Luminosity}}'' one of the native American werewolves imprints on a blonde girl whose dad is a racist.

* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10256543/1/Nymphadora-s-Beau Nymphadora's Beau]]''. Ted and Andromeda know that their daughter would never date anyone that they approve of, so they use ReversePsychology on her when she expresses interest in Remus. They encourage their daughter to pursue him while warning her about that dangerous [[Literature/HarryPotter Potter]] boy. [[SchmuckBait Tonks falls for it hook, line, and sinker]] and proceeds to try and date Harry. When left alone, Ted and Andromeda both agree that Harry is a much more preferable choice for their daughter than Remus.

* {{Zig|ZaggingTrope}}-Zagged in ''Webcomic/NaruHinaChronicles''. Hinata initially thought that Hiashi wouldn't approve of her dating Naruto because the latter was not exactly up to Hyuga standards. As it turned out, her father had no problem with that (besides the fact that Naruto wouldn't have been his first choice, but she could have picked worse as he said). [[spoiler:Unfortunately, following the Chunin Exams, Hiashi forced her to break up with Naruto because his reckless way of saving everyone that day could have killed everyone instead. Hinata responded by leaving the Hyuga residence and move in with her boyfriend. Afterwards, Hiashi wanted nothing to do with Naruto, even refusing to visit Hinata's new house just because it was Naruto's as well. However, it turned out he initially was against forcing his daughter to break up with her boyfriend, even going so far as to speak in Naruto's defense, but the rest of the Hyuga Clan forced him to agree to this solution to preserve the clan's reputation. Fortunately, after Naruto won his fight against Hiashi to earn the right to be with Hinata, Hiashi has been giving his full support to the couple, even giving his blessing when Naruto asked for Hinata's hand.]]

It frequently is seen in American Television and Movies... a BrattyTeenageDaughter brings home or is picked up by a date that her father would never, ever approve of. There's various forms:

It frequently is seen in American Television and Movies... a teenage daughter brings home or is picked up by a date that her father would never, ever approve of. There's various forms:

* Her date's of a different [[MalignedMixedMarriage race]], religion, political affiliation, social class (from the WrongSideOfTheTracks), or is [[GayAesop the same gender]] ([[TransTribulations and/or]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} gender]] [[CampStraight non-conforming]]).
* He has some other characteristic that offends Dad's sensibilities: he's too nerdy, too quiet, too loud, a fan of the wrong sports team, has bad table manners or atypical fashion sense.

* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'': Manny tries to upset her father by pretending to date Jay. It backfires because even though Jay was a BadBoy[=/=]delinquent in high school and didn't graduate, by that time, he had a job and career plans he was serious about and Manny's father respected that. Manny and Jay eventually [[BecomingTheMask fall in love]] and get engaged.

* The ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/ASwordToPass'' has a male example. Alrich returns home for the first time since he ran off. He is met by his father, Adger, and when he tries to enter the house with Tristan, Adger stops [[Tristan]] from entering because he is a warrior (Adger is a pacifist). Alrich reveals that Tristan is his son and in doing so reveals that he married a warrior. This causes Adger to kick him back out and a scuffle breaks out. Alrich mother comes in and puts an end to it. Welcoming her son and grandson into the home.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Elemental2023'', Ember, a young fire woman, falls in love with a water guy, Wade, and secretly dates him behind her water hating father's back. When Ember's father finds out about his daughter's relationship with Wade, he doesn't take it very well. However, after Wade [[HeroicSacrifice]] sacrificed himself to save Ember, her father comes to accept him and his relationship with Ember. Though he cringes when Ember kisses Wade.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Elemental}}'', Ember, a young fire woman, falls in love with a water guy, Wade, and secretly dates him behind her water hating father's back. When Ember's father finds out about his daughter's relationship with Wade, he doesn't take it very well. However, after Wade [[HeroicSacrifice]] sacrificed himself to save Ember, her father comes to accept him and his relationship with Ember. Though he cringes when Ember kisses Wade.

* In ''Elemental'', Ember, a young fire woman, falls in love with a water guy, Wade, and secretly dates him behind her water hating father's back. When Ember's father finds out about his daughter's relationship with Wade, he doesn't take it very well. However, after Wade [[HeroicSacrifice]] sacrificed himself to save Ember, her father comes to accept him and his relationship with Ember. Though he cringes when Ember kisses Wade.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Elemental'', Ember, a young fire woman, falls in love with a water guy, Wade, and secretly dates him behind her water hating father's back. When Ember's father finds out about his daughter's relationship with Wade, he doesn't take it very well. However, after Wade [[HeroicSacrifice]] sacrificed himself to save Ember, her father comes to accept him and his relationship with Ember. Though he cringes when Ember kisses Wade.

* ''Series/FirstKill'': Cal, though it's the objections of her mother that get the most attention. As she's a [[MonsterSlayerRomance vampire hunter dating Juliette, who's a vampire]], both of their families are obviously less than thrilled about their relationship. Margot herself having fallen in love with a human Sebastian and turned him, their objections are about what Cal and her family do rather than the fact that she's human.

* ''Manga/IMarriedMyBestFriendToShutMyParentsUp'': Machi Morimoto's parents are pressuring her to marry someone of respectable standing, and Machi knows full well that they're only doing it to have a son-in-law they can brag about. Machi starts contemplating a marriage to someone they hate [[InvokedTrope just to spite them]], but doesn't want to be attached to a deadbeat. Meanwhile, her [[SenpaiKohai kouhai]] Hana Agaya recently got booted from her apartment in Mitaka for renovations, and can't afford a new place on her own. Hana proposes that they both get a place in Shibuya, which allows for a legal partnership that is, for all intents and purposes, a same-sex marriage, simultaneously spiting Machi's parents and solving Hana's residential troubles.

* Invoked by Music/BodyCount in the song "[=KKK=] Bitch" from ''[[Music/BodyCountAlbum Body Count]]'', where Ice-T tells the story of his falling in love with a girl whose father is the Grand Wizard of the KKK.

* In Music/TobyKeith's song "God Love Her," a [[PreachersKid preacher's daughter]] falls in love (and eventually runs away) with a motorcycle punk, to the dismay of both of her parents. [[spoiler: Seems she hasn't deviated too far from her roots though; she helps the motorcycle punk find God and get on the right path.]]

* Perhaps the most famous example occurs in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', as the families of the two eponymous characters are sworn enemies.

* The quest in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' "A Cure for Vampirism" features something like this. The Daedric prince Molag Bal is displeased that his daughter Molag Grunda is in a relationship with a lowly Frost Atronach, so [[DisproportionateRetribution he orders the player to kill them both.]] (Being immortal Daedra, they won't really ''die''. Their souls will merely be sent back to Oblivion for Bal's punishment.)

* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': One of the best-known cases in the ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'' is Bruce Banner and his long-time love interest Betty Ross. Her father, General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, didn't approve of the relationship when Banner was just a nebbish scientist. Then the Hulk happened and Ross went GeneralRipper, determined to either kill the Hulk or use his power for his own benefit. He blames everyone except himself for what this did to his relationship with his daughter.

* Franchise/{{Superman}} has his own GeneralRipper father-in-law in Sam Lane, whose behaviour has ranged all the way from JerkWithAHeartOfGold to [[FantasticRacism anti-alien zealot.]] Unlike Ross, however, Lane has no idea Clark and Superman are the same person; to Clark, he mostly fits ObnoxiousInLaws. Ironically inverted in the ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' timeline, where he is a FatherlyScientist who comes to view young Kal-El (raised in a government lab in this universe) as the son he never had.

* In ''Fanfic/ABriefHistoryOfEquestria'', it's shown that Private Pansy (revealed to actually be Commander Hurricane's daughter) eventually fell in love with an Earth pony. Hurricane's [[DisproportionateRetribution overreaction]] to this ended up being a contributing factor in starting the war that would eventually summon the Windigoes.
* Creator/CoeurAlAran's ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13075474/1/Dating-What-Daddy-Hates Dating What Daddy Hates]]'': As the name implies. Weiss brings the Faunus Sun to a meeting with her father, who is infamously racist against Faunus. Though the truth is that it's a FakeRelationship and Sun was simply the only boy available, and Weiss also notes that her father would have hated ''anyone'' she brought. [[spoiler:At the end, Weiss does end up dating Sun for real, but only after she gives up ever earning her father's approval. He's been controlling her for her entire life and likely wouldn't let up until the day he died, so she's better off just doing what she wants and trying to do good that way]].

* In any ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' fanfiction shipping Dipper with [[DefrostingIceQueen Pacifica Northwest]], this trope will pop up with at least Pacifica's father, if not both of her parents. They will hate Dipper for any number of reasons, such as him not being rich, him helping get Pacifica out from [[AbusiveParents under their thumb]], and the fact they just plain hate him(and the feeling is mutual). If the story gets really serious about the issue, they will either [[IHaveNoDaughter flat out disown her]] or try to drag her back home in away way they can.

* ''WesternAnimation/Rio2'' has a variant of this trope in the main plot concerning Blu and Jewel, who already raised offspring together at the end of [[WesternAnimation/{{Rio}} the previous movie]]; here, the bulk of the plot involves them attempting to win over a wild flock of blue Spix's macaws led by Jewel's father, Eduardo. The problem is that Eduardo wants nothing to do with human civilization, and once the flock finds out that Blu [[CityMouse never really grew out of having been raised in suburbia]], he grows to resent him and turns the flock against him. It's only because Blu and Jewel are already married with kids that Eduardo tries to give him a chance, but Blu screws up every attempt to fit in, which only angers Eduardo even further. The flock only warms up to Blu come the climax of the movie, [[spoiler:when Blu finds out about an illegal logging operation threatening the macaws' home and rallies the jungle animals to save it. Eduardo in particular comes around after he's rescued from the loggers by Blu's former owner and her own husband, who had spent much of the secondary plot trying to stop said logging operation, finally accepting that if the person who raised Blu is good at heart, then so is he]].