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* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob growls before confronting his kids' attacker.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Laughs''':
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Bob growls before confronting his kids' attacker.attacker.
** Bob is a BumblingDad [[LetsGetDangerous up until his kids are threatened]] and either shows a split second of action-hero hyper-competence as he kicks ass then switches back to being an idiot or he maintains his bumbling and the person who threatened his kids becomes ([[PayEvilUntoEvil righteous]]) [[LethalKlutz collateral damage]], whatever is funnier.
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'''Basic Trope''': A man who fiercely defends his children.

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'''Basic Trope''': A man father who fiercely defends his children.children from whatever sort of danger or threats.
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** Even if they're not his kids, Bob still leaps to their defense.

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** Even if they're not his kids, Bob still leaps isn't a parent, but won't hesitate to their defense.leap to any child's defense because he knows it's the right thing to do.
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** In order to set up a HeelFaceTurn for Bob the Evil Emperor, he finds out his kids have been kidnapped. Bob stops being evil completely and absolutely focuses on [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes saving his kids]], and the heroes realize [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis Bob isn't so awful after all]] if he's such a good dad. Ultimately this changes the dynamic as Bob stops being evil and becomes TheAtoner as thanks for the help of the heroes.


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** This moment is the end of a HeelRealization for Bob where saving his children from danger has him [[HeelFaceTurn switch sides for the sake of his children]].
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** The ass-kicking Bob delivered, plus "I JustGotOutOfPrison and [[ImpliedDeathThreat if you hurt my kid I'll gladly upgrade to death row]]" makes applicable ammunition to turn Bob into TheDreaded Papa Wolf.

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** The ass-kicking Bob delivered, plus "I JustGotOutOfPrison JustGotOutOfJail and [[ImpliedDeathThreat if you hurt my kid I'll gladly upgrade to death row]]" makes applicable ammunition to turn Bob into TheDreaded Papa Wolf.
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** The ass-kicking Bob delivered, plus "I JustCameOutOfPrison and [[ImpliedDeathThreat if you hurt my kid I'll gladly upgrade to death row]]" makes applicable ammunition to turn Bob into TheDreaded Papa Wolf.

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** The ass-kicking Bob delivered, plus "I JustCameOutOfPrison JustGotOutOfPrison and [[ImpliedDeathThreat if you hurt my kid I'll gladly upgrade to death row]]" makes applicable ammunition to turn Bob into TheDreaded Papa Wolf.
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** The ass-kicking Bob delivered, plus "I JustCameOutOfPrison and [[ImpliedDeathThreat if you hurt my kid I'll gladly upgrade to death row]]" makes applicable ammunition to turn Bob into TheDreaded Papa Wolf.
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** Bob ass-kicking someone who have wronged his children lands him in prison.
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* '''Straight''': Bob's children are threatened and he leaps to their defense.

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* '''Straight''': In ''The Adventures of Bob'' Bob's children are threatened and he leaps to their defense.



* '''Gender Inverted''': MamaBear

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* '''Gender Inverted''': MamaBearAlice is a MamaBear.

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* '''Enforced''': "If he doesn't protect his kids, it means he doesn't care about them, and it makes him look like a {{jerkass}}.

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* '''Enforced''': '''Enforced''':
** The writers of ''The Adventures of Bob'' have been asked to switch the show's format because the show [[LongRunner has been going for twenty years]], so they decided to switch the protagonist role to [[SpinOffspring Bob's son Jim]] and that there is no way in hell Bob will be on the sidelines as a BumblingDad or ObsoleteMentor.
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"If he doesn't protect his kids, it means he doesn't care about them, and it makes him look like a {{jerkass}}."
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** Turns out that they ran themselves ragged and wasted all of their ammo in what they believed was the only wave of enemies they needed to fight, and are unprepared [[DiabolusExMachina for the second wave that is coming]]. [[BigDamnHeroes So good thing Dad's here to play reinforcements, and brought some gear to share]].

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** Turns out that they ran themselves ragged and wasted all of their ammo in [[ThoseWereOnlyTheirScouts what they believed was the only wave of enemies enemies]] they needed to fight, and are unprepared [[DiabolusExMachina for the second wave that is coming]]. [[BigDamnHeroes So good thing Dad's here to play reinforcements, and brought some gear to share]].
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** Even if they’re not his kids, Bob still leaps to their defense.
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'''Basic Trope''': A man who fiercely defends his loved ones.

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'''Basic Trope''': A man who fiercely defends his loved ones.children.
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** The day Bob's children tell Bob to back off and leave them alone, [[LeftYourLifesaverBehind Evulz comes out of the woodwork to terrorize them]]. The HardTruthAesop they learn is that there are things out there [[CrapsackWorld so damned vile]] that Bob's violence [[LesserOfTwoEvils is an acceptable safeguard]] (they may convince him to [[MyBelovedSmother stop smothering them in less life-and-death details]], though).

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** Or the adult children fiercely defend their aging father against all threats.

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** Or the adult children fiercely defend their aging father against all threats.threats; this qualifies as an ExtremelyProtectiveChild.



** ExtremelyProtectiveChild
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** ExtremelyProtectiveChild
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob growls before confronting his kids' attacker.
* '''Played For Drama''': Bob winds up injuring or killing one of his own children trying to protect them.
* '''Played For Horror''':
** "Bob" is a literal papa wolf and the cast is in a TrappedWithMonsterPlot.
** Bob is a KnightTemplarParent and people he considers a threat to his children (be it for actual reasons or, worse yet, reasons he imagined in his derangement) often die screaming.
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* '''Implied''': Jim the BarbaricBully brutalizes everybody in class on a constant basis regardless of such things as gender, but leaves Alice alone and treats her with a rather suspicious level of respect. Sure enough, we get a flashback eventually where Jim either heard Alice was Bob's daughter and knew of his deeds and decided not to push his luck… or he did anyway, and [[WouldHurtAChild Bob gave Jim a personal demonstration of why he's so feared]].
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* '''Parodied''': Unending conflicts between fathers over real and imagined slights to their children.

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* '''Parodied''': Unending Half of the plot is taken up by unending conflicts between fathers over real and imagined slights to their children.
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** Bob has to repeatedly resort to the use of violence to protect his loved ones, coming across as a very terrifying ImplacableMan.


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** ...as an act, Bob convinces the mob that he'll punish his children himself while helping his children out in secret,

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** ...as an act, Bob convinces the mob that he'll punish his children himself while helping his children out in secret,secret.
** Turns out that they ran themselves ragged and wasted all of their ammo in what they believed was the only wave of enemies they needed to fight, and are unprepared [[DiabolusExMachina for the second wave that is coming]]. [[BigDamnHeroes So good thing Dad's here to play reinforcements, and brought some gear to share]].


** The protective dad ''is'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a]] [[PettingZooPeople wolf]].

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** The protective dad ''is'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a]] [[PettingZooPeople wolf]].{{wolf|Man}}.

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