History PapaWolf / RealLIfe

* Creator/PaulSorvino did not mince words when he found out that disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein deliberately ruined his daughter Mira's career for refusing his advances.

** In all ratites, large flightless birds like the ostrich, the male either has the sole task of incubating the eggs and raising the chicks, no input whatsoever from the mother, or he hatches and raises them in alongside the mother, which is done with the family after laying the eggs. So the male, now with a bunch of eggs and later chicks to raise alone, gets monstrously fierce. All ratites, from emus to rheas and even the small tinamous, attack anyone and anything daring to get close to the eggs/chicks, but the cassowary is the one that genuinely earns the price, for it has been able to horribly maim and even kill people just to protect its young with toes on each foot that are essentially a [[KnifeNut STILETTO.]]

* A very dark example (crossing with KnightTemplarParent) is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Kaloyev Vitaly Kaloyev]]. He was a grieving father whose wife (Svetlana) and children (Konstantin and Diana) died in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkirian_Airlines_Flight_2937 a horrible plane crash in Switzerland]], which Kaloyev thought was caused by a negligent air traffic controller. (In reality, Peter Nielsen, the air traffic controller, was a victim of circumstances caused by maintenance shutting down phone lines and other resources, his coworkers leaving him alone which is against the law, mechanical failure of important backup systems that would alert him of the problem, and Airbus taking up his time.) The mentally broken Kaloyev reacted via... searching for said operator with help of a private detective, and [[KnifeNut stabbing]] [[VigilanteExecution the one he blamed for everything to death]] two years later.

* * Some people cherish their pets as children, so it's not surprising when they get violent to protect their animals. One [[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-man-wrestles-alligator-save-his-dog-n1267405 Florida man]] jumped into a pond to save his dog from an alligator, wrestling it until his beloved dog was saved.

** Creator/AlecBaldwin once punched out a paparazzo for taking a picture of his infant daughter Ireland. [[AbusiveParents Too bad he didn't stay that way...]]

* In 2020, WWE wrestler Shad Gaspard died saving his son, Aryeh Gaspard, from drowning in 2020, using his last words to tell the lifeguards to save his son first. His sacrifice to save his son led to the WWE making "The Gaspard Award" in his memory as well as naming him as the most inspirational wrestler of the year. His fellow wrestlers stated that what Gaspard did to save his son was a testament to fatherhood, saving your child's life at the cost of losing your own.

** [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince Harry]] was so determined to protect his family from the toxic and racist attitude of the British media (an especially low point was a radio host tweeting a picture of a ''chimpanzee'' with the caption "Royal Baby Leaves Hospital") that he gave up the pampered existence he'd known all his life to move thousands of miles away and guard their privacy as fiercely as possible. To this day, the pictures of their children can be counted on one hand. It didn't help that he already publicly resented the paparazzi for their role in his mother's death.

* Paparazzi don't bother Creator/JohnnyDepp's family at home. Why? Because he's told them in no uncertain terms that if he catches any of them sneaking around his home taking pictures of his kids, he'll bite their nose off.
** He once swung at a paparazzo with a piece of wood for trying to take pictures of partner Vanessa Paradis while she was pregnant with their daughter.

** [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince Harry]] was so determined to protect his family from the toxic and racist attitude of the British media (an especially low point was a radio host tweeting a picture of a ''chimpanzee'' with the caption "Royal Baby Leaves Hospital") that he gave up the pampered existence he'd known all his life to move thousands of miles away and guard their privacy as fiercely as possible. To this day, the pictures of their children can be counted on one hand.

** Creator/ChrisHemswoth related in an interview an incident where he almost broke the paparazzi's cameras during a family outing because his son, for whatever reason six-year-olds do such things, took off his swim trunks and the paparazzi [[{{Squick}} still kept taking pictures]]. Fortunately, the paparazzi fled before violence actually became necessary.

* [[http://tumblr.thedailywh.at/post/21716152875/kickass-dad-of-the-day-when-stuart-chaifetz Stuart Chaifetz]] is worried because his autistic child behaves oddly in school. He puts a recorder in the kid's clothes and finds out he's horribly bullied and abused by the staff. He's now on a crusade to protect all kids in such a terrible situation.

** Swans also mate for life - they might look [[SwansASwimmingserene and peaceful and cute]], but just ''try'' to touch a cygnet when either parents are with them, but ''especially'' when Papa Swan is nearby. By the way, anecdotally at least, the wingbeats of a mute swan can break a human arm.

** Real-life ganders aren't far removed from the one in ''Literature/CharlottesWeb''. The goslings are cute, fuzzy little things, but you must resist the urge to pet them if you don't want both the goose and the gander to tear you apart. Considering that [[FowlWaterfowl geese have a tendency to attack people]] for seemingly any reason they can think of, you'd be a fool to try anything with them when they've got goslings to look after.

** Swans also mate for life - they might look serene and peaceful and cute, but just ''try'' to touch a cygnet when Papa Swan is nearby. By the way, the wingbeats of a mute swan can break a human arm.

** Don't dare mess with the bonxies either, they'll swoop down and smash your skull with their beak. Without even stopping. Probably a good thing they only live on isolated Scottish islands.

** Real-life ganders aren't far removed from the one in ''Literature/CharlottesWeb''. The goslings are cute, fuzzy little things, but you must resist the urge to pet them if you don't want both the goose and the gander to tear you apart.

* MLB Umpire John Hirschbeck lost two sons to a rare genetic disease called ALD. After an incident where Roberto Alomar spat on him during a game, Alomar said that the first son's death had affected his umpiring and made him extremely bitter. When Hirschbeck heard about this, he went to the Orioles' locker room the next day. He screamed to Alomar "You talk about my kid, I'll kill you!" while being restrained by fellow umpire James Joyce. Thankfully, Hirschbeck and Alomar have since buried the hatchet.

* MLB Umpire John Hirschbeck lost two sons to a rare genetic disease called ALD. After an incident where Roberto Alomar spat on him during a game, Alomar said that the first son's death had affected his umpiring and made him extremely bitter. When Hirschbeck heard about this, he went to the Orioles' locker room the next day. He screamed to Alomar "You talk about my kid, I'll kill you!" while being restrained by fellow umpire James Joyce.

* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lyLgZ65CrUQ This Florida father]], after catching a family friend in the act of molesting his 11 year old son proceeds to ''[[UnstoppableRage savagely beat him]] [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge into a stain on the floor]]''. The only thing that stopped the pedophile from being wheeled out in a body bag was the father deciding not to traumatise his son more than he already had been by killing the man, instead leaving him for the police.

** Swans also mate for life - they might look serene and peaceful and cute, but just ''try'' to touch a cygnet when Papa Swan is nearby. By the way, the wingbeats of a mute swan can break a human arm. As an aside, all the mammal examples are the exception, as in contrast to most birds, most RealLife mammalian males, bears and monkeys in particular, are more likely to kill and eat their offspring than anything else (polar bear males even make it a lifestyle), usually causing their mates to go Mama Bear on ''them''.

* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lyLgZ65CrUQ This Florida father]], after catching a family friend in the act of molesting his 11 year old son proceeds to ''[[UnstoppableRage savagely beat him]] [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge into a stain on the floor]]''. Amazingly enough, the only thing that stopped the pedophile from being wheeled out in a body bag ended up being said victim himself, who persuaded his father to stop and leave him for the police.

* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lyLgZ65CrUQ This Florida father]], after catching a family friend in the act of molesting his 11 year old son proceeds to ''[[UnstoppableRage savagely beat him]] [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge into a stain on the floor]]'', with the only thing stopping the perpetrator getting stabbed to death by the angry parent being his son, who persuaded his father to stop and leave him for the police.

* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lyLgZ65CrUQ This Florida father]], after catching a family friend in the act of molesting his 11 year old son proceeds to ''[[UnstoppableRage savagely beat him]] [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge into a stain on the floor]]'', with the only thing stopping the perpetrator getting stabbed to death by the angry parent being his son, who persuaded his father to spare him.

* Mark Wahlberg once said with a straight face about the 9/11 terrorists, "If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn't have went down like it did. There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin."

** Same-sex couples do occur in swans and other monogamous birds, which sometimes get to raise kids. Now try getting anywhere near a cygnet with two Papa Swans. Fun fact: cygnets raised by male/male pairs have a noticeably higher survival rate than those raised by male/female or female/female pairs.

* A conspiracy nut had been pestering Buzz Aldrin and other Apollo personnel, and he put up with that good-naturedly. But when said nut made an unfriendly move toward Aldrin's granddaughter, the 72-year-old astronaut threw one punch and knocked the guy out.

* An ex-Marine veteran, Brandon Moore, has threatened to murder his so-called friend, who abused his teenage daughter behind his back. But instead, Moore set a trap for the scumbag and just used his bare hands to turn him into a bloody pulp before the cops arrived.

* Sun Quan, leader of the southern kingdom Wu during China's [[Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms three kingdoms]] period. When Cao Pi declared himself emperor of the powerful northern kingdom of Wei, Sun Quan agreed to act as his vassal. But when Cao Pi requested that he send his son Sun Deng to the north as a hostage (and therefore a guarantee of loyalty), Sun Quan cut off relations with Wei, declared himself emperor of Wu, and basically told Cao Pi to bring it on.

* There are numerous criticisms that can be levelled at the head management of Creator/FoxNews, particularly its owner Roger Ailes, and many of them would probably be accurate. But the one thing everybody agrees on is that unless they screw up in a particularly egregious manner, Ailes will back his talent and staff to the ''hilt''. The Fox News "family" as a whole tends to stick together like glue, most notably in recent years being the instance when 2016 Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump made a disgustingly sexist remark about Megyn Kelly and the rest of FNC and its sister channels practically got out the torches and pitchforks in her defense. (As Shep Smith pointed out, Kelly didn't actually ''need'' their help -- but apparently she appreciated it all the same.) Trump in question later threatened to boycott a subsequent FNC debate, the network's response was the formal press release variant of "Okay!" -- this despite the fact that the potential boycotter was also the party front-runner, who could possibly cost them thousands of viewers (and thus advertising dollars) by not showing up.

* Jazz musician Keyon Harrold immediately defended his son Keyon Harrold Jr. when a 22-year-old woman named Miya Ponsetto falsely accused the boy of stealing her phone at a hotel in Soho. When Ponsetto had the gall to physically attack Keyon Jr., his father yanked her off of him as soon as she touched him.

** Real life ganders aren't far removed from the one in ''Literature/CharlottesWeb''. The goslings are cute, fuzzy little things, but you must resist the urge to pet them if you don't want both the goose and the gander to tear you apart.

* Jody Plauche was abducted and raped by his karate instructor. Jody's father Gary planned for 10 days to kill his son's rapist and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi3Hyxuf5AE did so]] as he was being walked through an airport terminal. Despite a clear cut case of premeditated murder Gary Plauche plead no contest to manslaughter and received a seven-year suspended sentence, five years probation, and 300 hours community service. To his dying day, Gary Plauche had no regrets about his action and simply stated, "If it had been your child you'd have done the same."
* There are some quite gruesome stories about what the Russian government does when a Russian diplomat is kidnapped. Things like mailing them a photo of each of the hostage takers-inside a crosshairs. Or reciprocally kidnapping an associate of the original kidnappers and then sending a package to the hostage takers containing-a finger. The Russian government is not the most benevolent of governments, but when it comes to situations like this [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong You do not want to mess with Mother Russia]].

* When Curt Schilling of the Red Sox posted on Twitter that his daughter would be playing softball at her new college, two obnoxious young jerkasses tweeted an anonymous series of highly-abusive sexualized insults and threats about his little girl. Schilling tracked down their real identities and publicized them in a scathing counterattack against cyber-bullying. Within days, [[LaserGuidedKarma one of the culprits was suspended from his college and fraternity, and the other was fired for his disgraceful online behavior.]]

* Jazz musician Keyon Harrold immediately defended his son Keyon Harold Jr. when a 22-year-old woman named Miya Ponsetto falsely accused the boy of stealing her phone at a hotel in Soho. When Ponsetto had the gall to physically attack Keyon Jr., his father yanked her off of him as soon as she touched him.

** ''{{Tyrannosaurus rex}}'' may have been one.

* Jazz Musician Keyon Harold immediately defended his son, Keyon Harold Jr. when Miya Ponsetto falsely accused the latter of stealing her phone in Soho. When Ponsetto had the gall to physically attack Keyon Jr, his father yanked her off of him as soon as she touched him.