!!General Information
* TruthInTelevision. Normally, adrenal glands and the brain's limiters make it so that you only use around 20% of your muscles and maintain a thought of self-preservation. Putting a loved one, child, or sufficiently close friend of somebody in danger is the fastest way to see the brain [[UninhibitedMusclePower release said limits and let adrenaline kick in]]. All thoughts of self-preservation (and just about everything else that makes shy, meek people shy and meek) [[BewareTheNiceOnes are overridden]], and it is quite likely that [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown several dozen of your bones will be broken]] (if you are lucky) before they let up. People who manage to enter TranquilFury instead of all-out anger are even more dangerous.

[[folder:Animal Fathers]]
* [[TropeNamer Wolves]] mate for life, and a male wolf will fight even to the death to protect his mate and offspring (in the last case, often in a tag team with [[MamaBear Mama Wolf]]). This is especially true with more northern subspecies of wolves who form large packs. Contrary to popular belief there are no [[AlphaAndBetaWolves "alpha", "beta", and "omega" wolves]] and packs are most often just a mated pair with their young or adult descendants with the lead male being the father or grandfather. He is also involved with raising the pups, taking charge of the youngsters, and teaching them how to hunt. (Hence, trope title.)
* Swans also mate for life - they might look [[SwansASwimming serene, peaceful and cute]], but just ''try'' to touch a cygnet when either parents are with them, but ''especially'' when Papa Swan is nearby - swans have bone spurs on their wings, and the wingbeats of a mute swan can break a human arm. On top of that, same-sex couples occur in swans, meaning a cygnet could have ''two'' Papa Swans. (Fun fact: cygnets raised by male/male pairs have a noticeably higher survival rate than those raised by male/female pairs, with 80% of cygnets raised by male/male pairs fledging compared to 30% of cygnets raised by male/female pairs.)
* Don't dare mess with the bonxies (Great skuas) 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.
* Male lions defend both their pride and their territory, especially their cubs, and will lay down their lives if need be. Other males' cubs, however, are fair game. Lionesses will also kill foreign (non-pride) cubs if given the chance, despite being very good mothers to their own. [[note]]Cubs belonging to the same pride are treated as kin regardless of biological relation.[[/note]]
* Male gorillas are normally [[GentleGorilla very gentle creatures]], the silverback leader of a troop often being the father, uncle, or grandfather of the babies in it. When the youngsters go off to investigate an oddity, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2H7zcqjplc such as a cameraman]] the silverback is always right behind them to make sure nothing messes with the little ones. Mess with those babies, though, and [[BewareTheNiceOnes you won't have very long to live]].
** Several male non-human primate species that take on an equal or greater role in parental care are this, such as gibbons and tamarins.
* Mockingbirds will attack ''anything'' that they consider as a threat to their chicks.
* In all ratites (large flightless birds like the ostrich) the male either has the sole task of incubating the eggs and raising the chicks with 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. The cassowary takes the cake though: it can horribly maim and even kill anything threatening its young using sharp claws on its toes - including a highly specialized dagger-shaped toe that is essentially a [[ArmedLegs STILETTO.]]
** There's a reason why Cassowary chicks have such loud calls - because they are lucky enough to have one of the most dangerous birds on the planet as their dad. Their calls are almost guaranteed to attract his attention and direct him towards any possible threat.
* There's a very good reason Papa Goats have big horns.
* Sheep may normally be the poster children for docile creatures, but unless you're their shepherd, don't enter a pasture after lambing season. Even walking past outside the enclosure will rate you a [[DeathGlare Death Glare]].
* True of ''piranhas'', believe it or not. Piranha eggs are guarded by their father, who'll take bites out of anything that threatens them until they hatch.
* Birds of prey. ANY. Just dare to approach an eagle's nest while the young are still there and see who's on the welcome committee.
* 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 [[FoulWaterfowl 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.
* And you'd never guess that some arachnids are this. Opiliones, a.k.a. the daddy longlegs, take on the sole duty of egg protection. They're LITERALLY a daddy longlegs!!
* Australian magpies are known to be aggressive during breeding season, and the males will attack any potential intruders.
* ''Any'' male bird that helps take care of chicks after mating. While the mother bird sits on eggs, the father often stands guard nearby, ready to pounce on anything that comes close enough.
* Male wolverines, despite their solitary lifestyles, are attentive and protective parents. They even keep an eye on their kids after they grow up. Some biologists trapping young adult wolverines for tagging have reported finding themselves menaced by older males.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXCrmrcQnU4 Zorro the Doberman won't let other dogs touch the baby he's protecting!]] As mentioned in MamaBear, animals raised around young children from a few weeks to around a year old often develop incredibly strong attachments to them.
* Male deinonychosaurs were the ones that brooded the nests.
* An Ethiopian girl is kidnapped and beaten by some guys who wanted to rape her and then force her to marry one of them. [[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8305836/ns/world_news-africa/t/ethiopian-girl-reportedly-guarded-lions/#.TxFwOfIlngf Three lions mistake the girl's cries for a lion cub's cry for help. They chase the kidnappers away and guard the girl for half a day.]] This allows guards and policemen to protect the victim and chase after the criminals.
* Nearly literal [[http://www.live5news.com/story/23394818/family-dog-sniffs-out-baby-abuser-hidden-tape-leads-to-confession?autostart=true here]], with a dog instead of a wolf. A babysitter was abusing his owners' son, and the parents found out because whenever she came around he'd be aggressive towards her and defend the baby.
* There was a news story in India detailing two puppies that fell into a well. For 48 hours, they were accompanied and allegedly protected by, of all things, a ''king cobra''. While there is some debate as to whether or not the cobra had amiable intentions, he did manage to save the puppies' lives by keeping them away from a deep, muddy part of the well that would have drowned them if they entered.
* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=veVwc1RKr9s This dog]] makes [[TranquilFury his displeasure]] clear when the nearby cat tries to swipe at the squirrel on his head. The cat [[KnowWhenToFoldThem wisely]] backs off.
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[[folder:Human Fathers]]
* A conspiracy nut had been pestering UsefulNotes/BuzzAldrin 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 then 72-year-old astronaut threw one punch and knocked the guy out.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liviu_Librescu Dr. Liviu Librescu]], Romanian-born Holocaust survivor, [[BadassBookworm scientist]] and [[BadassTeacher academic professor]]. During the Virginia Tech massacre, Librescu [[YouShallNotPass personally kept the door shut]] to prevent gunman Seung-hui Cho from entering the classroom while his students escaped out the windows. He was [[MadeOfIron shot through the door five times]] before finally succumbing to a shot to the head. Of course, he had a history, since surviving the Holocaust takes a {{Determinator}} in itself. He was also frequently noted to have treated his students like his own children, making his HeroicSacrifice and PapaWolf reactions all the more heartbreaking. Unarmed and faced with a cold-blooded killer, Librescu did the only thing he could to protect his students and used himself to barricade the door.
* [[http://badassoftheweek.com/wanyandie.html Tom Wanyandie]], a 78-year-old Cree Native American wilderness guide who fought off a literal {{Mama Bear}} attacking his son while screaming every profanity of his native language.
* Creator/BruceLee was known for taking challenges from aspiring martial artists. During the making of ''Film/EnterTheDragon'', a challenger snuck into their home and scared his two children, Brandon and Shannon. An enraged Lee put the idiot in the hospital with ''one kick.''
* [[https://youtu.be/B5nAt4_73uM When a Marine veteran, Brandon Moore]], found out that his [[FalseFriend so-called friend]] had been sexually abusing his daughter behind his back for years, he seriously considered killing him on the spot, but reconsidered when he knew he would still go to prison and his family will not have their protective father to watch over them. 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.
-->'''Brandon Moore:''' ''Don’t fucking move until the cops get here'' ''''' AND SAVE YOU FROM ME!!! '''''
* [[http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/07/19/shark.attack/ Vance Flosenzier]], who ''fought off a motherfucking shark'' when it was attacking his nephew. Not only did Flosenzier immobilize the shark and free his nephew, he then dragged it to shore so that park rangers could shoot it.
* 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.
** Quite sadly, Sun Quan eventually did outlive Sun Deng, who died of an illness. Based on some of his irrational and self-destructive decisions in the following years, it appears Sun Quan came noticeably unglued as a result.
* One story about UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan claims he killed a man personally who made only a ''casual'' insult towards one of his daughters. (He said she looked like a frog, which in Mongolia at the time was the equivalent of telling a person he had loud clothes.)
* Supposedly professional wrestler Kensuke Sasaki actually adopted Katsuhiko Nakajima, who debuted in the business ''in his teens'', to act as this both in physical presence and through the Kensuke Office organization, which is essentially a "brand name" for their family (Kensuke Sasaki and his wife, female legend Akira Hokuto also have two biological sons) and affiliated wrestlers.
* There have been some notable incidents of Paparazzi angering a celebrity while he was out with his children.
** 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.
** Creator/AlecBaldwin once punched out a paparazzo for taking a picture of his infant daughter Ireland.
** Doubtlessly this is the reason there are very few pictures of Creator/SimonPegg's family.
** Creator/ChrisHemsworth 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.
** [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince Harry]] was so determined to protect his family from the toxic and racist attitude [[note]] His wife Creator/MeghanMarkle is biracial [[/note]] 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" - perhaps thankfully, said host almost immediately regretted his actions and deleted said tweet, but the damage was already done) 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 and have been willingly released by him and [[Creator/MeghanMarkle his wife]] rather than intrusively taken. It didn't help that he already publicly resented the paparazzi for their role in [[UsefulNotes/DianaPrincessOfWales his mother's]] death.
** Creator/SteveCarell, well known for being an even tempered person usually, ''flipped out'' on the paparazzi one day when he encountered them taking photos of him teaching his daughter Annie how to ride a bike, which made Annie so flustered that she quit and ran inside their home crying. The photographers actually wound up ''apologizing'' after the dressing down he gave them.
* [[http://www2.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/north_phoenix/Valley-dad-jumps-out-window,-shoots-man-attacking-daughter A man finds his daughter being choked by her ex. The father shoots the man in the groin.]]
* This Papa Wolf in Florida stormed onto a school bus to confront his daughter's bullies. [[http://www.wftv.com/news/25047891/detail.html Read more about it here.]]
* 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 pled 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]].
* May 31, 2011, a bank robbery took place in Sarasota, Florida. As soon as the incident began, US Staff Sgt. Eddie Peoples placed himself between the robber and his young sons, then advised them to hide under some chairs and moved other chairs to cover them. Eventually the robber pointed his gun at one of the sons and said that if anyone tried anything, he'd shoot the kid. After the man left, Peoples followed him and used his own van to block the escape vehicle, then disabled the robber with hand-to-hand combat. In an interview with news sources, Peoples said "You don't threaten [[StealthPun people's]] children."
* [[http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/ohio-boy-falls-40-foot-dad-climbs-save-14044387 This]] Ohio man who, after hearing his three-year-old son's screams upon falling into a well more than 40 feet deep, scaled the well's walls down to the bottom to ensure that nothing bad would happen to his little boy before the fire department arrived.
* A man from Turkey saw his four-year-old son fall from a fifth-story balcony and immediately ''jumped after him.'' Pushing against the balcony to gain momentum, the man grabbed his son mid-fall, wrapped his arms around him, and then turned his own body over so that he would hit the ground instead of his son. The child was left completely unharmed while the father suffered from a broken shoulder and ribs.
* [[http://velocicrafter.tumblr.com/post/16567856200/meet-omari-two-days-ago-he-returned-from-the A Kenyan orphanage caretaker named Omari]] sees the place he works in raided by thugs. He takes a beating and a machete to the face to protect the kids. [[MadeOfIron He lives to tell]].
* 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 stabbing [[VigilanteExecution the one he blamed for everything to death]] in the presence of Nielsen's own children two years later. He's on record as saying that he considered Nielsen "nobody" and insists that [[BlamingTheVictim that the tragedy might not have happened had Nielsen invited him into his home]] for a "discussion" (after Kaloyev sat down in Nielsen's garden [[ImplausibleDeniability with a knife]] without knocking on the door, which would of course look suspicious).
* [[http://viralviralvideos.com/2012/04/23/brave-father-sends-son-with-autism-to-school-with-a-wire-exposing-teacher-abuse/ 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.
* Creator/YoshiyukiTomino is said to have given [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech a SEVERE verbal/written lashing]] to some racist assholes who tried to shame the lady who played Loran in ''Anime/TurnAGundam'', Creator/RomiPark, due to her Korean ancestry.
* [[http://austinist.com/2012/06/13/4_year_old_girl_allegedly_sexually.php This]] instance of a father beating the alleged molester of his daughter to death.
* A Chicago father held off the would-be kidnapper of his two-year-old daughter. [[http://news.yahoo.com/chicago-man-saves-daughter-abduction-attempt-211411557--abc-news-topstories.html Here.]]
* Israeli politician and current Minister of Foreign Affairs [[HuskyRusskie Avigdor Lieberman]] (who worked as a ''bouncer'' when he was in university) once clobbered a kid who was bullying his son and threatened to do it again if he did it again. He wound up apologising and paying compensation.
* The "Push my kids and I ''will'' stab you" guy from Black Friday 2012 certainly fits among the darker examples of this trope.
* Duncan Bannatyne from ''Series/DragonsDen''. After people threatened to hurt his daughter if he didn't pay them £35,000, Bannatyne offered to pay £25,000 for information on the culprits, and another £25,000 to anyone who broke their arms. He's since changed this to £30,000 for the info, and nothing for violence. Read the article [[http://techfruit.com/2011/08/02/duncan-bannatyne-faces-extortion-and-threats-on-twitter/ here]].
* In an episode of ''Series/TheOsbournes'', Music/OzzyOsbourne makes perfectly clear how protective he is of his children. Sharon Osbourne, his wife, is, naturally, [[MamaBear a female example]].
--> Ozzy: And don't let ''anyone'' try to mess with you, or... *picks up giant stone pestle* Or they'll get ''this'' up their arse!
* A man named Brian Metzger defends his kindergarten-age daughter from an alleged bully by '''''filing a restraining order against him'''''.
* When Curt Schilling, then of the Boston 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.]]
* While Assyria was fighting the Elamites, the Elamites went to Babylon and captured its ruler Ashur-nadin-shumi, taking him back to Elam and (probably) killing him, along with liberating Babylon and putting a new king on the throne. Unfortunately for them, Ashur-nadin-shumi's father was Sennacherib, king of Assyria, who attacked Elam so violently that apparently the Elamite army soiled their chariots, and the Elamite king abandoned his kingdom and hid in the mountains, before trying his hand at Babylon-liberating again. Sennacherib's response to that was to crush Babylon, sack the city and even kidnap its god. Do not mess with an Assyrian king's children.
* A heartbroken father [[TranquilFury took revenge]] [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge on a venomous cobra and killed it by]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJla8CUvwAg whipping it]] on the ground after discovering the snake had [[TearJerker bitten his son to death]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnYT4uQQu0c This video]] is a compilation of different fathers going into protective mode when their child/children are in danger.
* Leopoldo Narvaiz stabbed his ex girlfriend, 17 year old Shannon Mann, and her three siblings, 19 year old Jennifer, 15 year old Martha, and 11 year old Ernest, to death for refusing to rekindle a relationship. The siblings' father deliberately got himself arrested for an act of petty theft in order to kill him in jail, but [[ShootTheShaggyDog Narvaiz was moved to death row]] by the time he was booked. Narvaiz was executed by the state of Texas a decade after the murders.
* Creator/PaulSorvino did not mince words when he found out that disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein deliberately ruined his daughter [[Creator/MiraSorvino Mira's]] career for refusing his advances.
-->'''Paul Sorvino''': If I meet him on the street, he oughta hope that he goes to jail, because if we come across, I think he'll be lying on the floor, somehow, magically. He's going to go to jail. Oh yeah. That son of a bitch. Good for him if he goes, because if not, he has to meet me. And I will kill the motherfucker. Real simple. If I had known it, he would not be walking, he'd be in a wheelchair. My daughter is a wonderful person and she doesn’t deserve to have been treated that way by this pig. So this pig will get his comeuppance. He’s going to go to jail and die in jail, but if he doesn’t, Harvey, come here, I have some news for you.
* During the February 2018 sentencing of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, who had pled guilty to sexually assaulting over 150 gymnasts, father Randall Margraves was present to hear the victim statements given by his three daughters, ''all'' of whom had been abused by Nassar. After his daughter Morgan gave her statement, her father responded by '''charging Nassar on the stand''' and had to be tackled by no less than ''[[UnstoppableRage three]]'' police officers and an attorney, as was dramatically captured on camera [[https://media.glamour.com/photos/5a748390f6ee2f6fbff201c4/master/pass/AP_18033537532606.jpg here.]] It must also be pointed out that mere seconds before he charged, Margrave requested the judge to [[ImpliedDeathThreat give him five minutes]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in a locked room with Nassar]], and when he was denied he lowballed it to one minute, and when he was denied again, [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight he decided he was going to get his hands on Nassar anyway]]. The judge, by the way, [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure decided not to punish Margrave for contempt of court]] -- she let him off with a stern reminder that while she completely understood his feelings, justice needed to be sought through the law, not by vigilante justice.
* In [[https://wsvn.com/news/local/police-man-takes-ak-47-to-middle-school-after-receiving-call-from-crying-son/?fbclid=IwAR1AU5op0EJwMDte2a4Axv8vNPOeu0CV07TPo4oIEwD6JCmDQ84CjO5DiU8 this news report]], a West Palm Beach man got a [=FaceTime=] call from his crying young son, who explained that a teacher at his school had just "slammed" him. While the call was going on, the kid was grabbed by an adult and the phone flew from his hands. The dad's response? He went to the school ''with an AK-47''. Sure, he got arrested and slapped with a restraining order for his actions, but can you blame him?
* When Gambino family boss Paul Castellano found out that his [[MafiaPrincess beloved daughter Connie]] was being abused by her husband Frank Amato, he had him whacked.
* Otto Frank, the father of famous [[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne Frank]] did everything in his power to put his family into hiding and also made sure his younger daughter's diary would be published to honor her memory.
* On March 18, 1980, 12-year-old Frank Gotti was accidentally run over and killed on a family friend's minibike by neighbor John Favara. Unfortunately for Favara, Frank was the son of Gambino crime boss John Gotti, who promptly had Favara abducted and disappeared.
* December 2020 saw jazz musician Keyon Harrold immediately defend his 14-year-old 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.
* [[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.
* 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.
* In 2020, WWE wrestler Shad Gaspard died saving his son, Aryeh Gaspard, from drowning, 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.
* 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.
* [[https://news.yahoo.com/texas-man-gets-60-years-200116721.html This father]] found his 9-year-old daughter being raped by [[WithFriendsLikeThese a family "friend" of 10 years]] who had been staying in their home. The father held the creep at gunpoint until the cops arrived.
* Downplayed but worth noting -- [[https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/xfdp1m/when_the_family_noticed_the_girls_dance_partner/ A father jumped in to be his daughter's dance partner when said daughter's partner didn't show up]].
* [[https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/y2qird/fathers_instinctually_protecting_their_children/ Different fathers each protecting their own children from earthquakes]].
* In March 2023, Jake Coomb of Tailem Bend, Australia found his daughter in their garage near an Eastern Brown Snake about to strike. Coomb was able to get his daughter to safety but was bitten instead. Fortunately, it was a "dry bite", meaning no venom was released, although Coomb was hospitalized overnight to be sure. Eastern Browns can easily kill a small child, and Coomb felt his daughter wouldn't have gotten away fast enough. His thoughts on the entire situation, "Better me than her, that's for sure."
* Creator/SteveHarvey has repeatedly stated during interviews that he raised his 4 daughters differently from his sons and has repeatedly said [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGYV-WT7Xq0 he will attack and humiliate anyone who mistreats his daughters]]. He even says that he'll still be wary of his sons-in-law because he's prepared to drop all pretences of in-law relations as soon as he hears that they've mistreated his daughters. He's even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFU6O7HB73w praised]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T2T6_-W_kA other]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrFrQuxdXdM&t=70s fathers]] for looking out for their daughters in the same way.
* Van Terry’s daughter was one of the three victims of SerialKiller Michael Madison. Just as he started his victim impact statement, he turned to Madison and saw him ''[[SlasherSmile smiling]]''. His response? Runs over and leaps over a table to attack his daughter’s killer. It took several deputies to separate the two.
* [[https://www.instagram.com/p/C3eeBBGNMxk/ Michigan father rushed into burning house to save infant twin daughters]].
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