'''Basic Trope''': A father who fiercely defends his children from whatever sort of danger or threats.
* '''Straight''': In ''The Adventures of Bob'' Bob's children are threatened and he leaps to their defense.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob inflicts DisproportionateRetribution on anyone who even annoys his children -- even justifiably. See KnightTemplarParent.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob gives a stern lecture to someone who threatens his children.
* '''Justified''':
** They're his children, and his protectiveness is an expression of his love for them.
** The protective dad ''is'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a]] {{wolf|Man}}.
* '''Inverted''':
** Bob will protect any and every one but his children, [[AbusiveParents whom he will abuse for getting into trouble.]]
** Or the adult children fiercely defend their aging father against all threats; this qualifies as an ExtremelyProtectiveChild.
** Or Bob is fierce and defensive ''until'' you threaten his kids. Then he becomes a docile, BumblingDad.
** OffingTheOffspring
** Bob isn’t a parent, but won’t hesitate to leap to any child’s defense because he knows it’s the right thing to do.
* '''Gender Inverted''': Alice is a MamaBear.
* '''Subverted''':
** Bob's defense of his children keeps them too sheltered to survive when he dies, so they end up worse off than before.
** Bob tries to be a PapaWolf, but proves woefully inadequate against the threat against his children...
** Bob looks like he's going to protect his children from an angry mob but suddenly supports the children's attackers...
** Bob prepares to protect his children only to discover that they don't need him to.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** He arranged for a ParentalSubstitute, since no matter how hard they tried, they would never have been able to face their dangers.
** ...but [[YouShallNotPass his attempt buys them enough time to escape anyways]].
** ...as an act, Bob convinces the mob that he'll punish his children himself while helping his children out in secret.
** Turns out that they ran themselves ragged and wasted all of their ammo in [[ThoseWereOnlyTheirScouts 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]].
* '''Parodied''': Half of the plot is taken up by unending conflicts between fathers over real and imagined slights to their children.
* '''Zig Zagged''':
** The little girl who the old man goes out of his way to protect at all costs is under a magical effect that has reduced her to the appearance of a child. She's his mother.
** Bob and his daughter both protect each other fiercely.
* '''Averted''':
** DisappearedDad
** Bob is too cowardly to try to protect his kids.
* '''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.
** "If he doesn't protect his kids, it means he doesn't care about them, and it makes him look like a {{jerkass}}."
* '''Lampshaded''': "Just because he's a shop clerk doesn't mean we can risk his seeing us harm his kids!"
* '''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]].
* '''Invoked''': "I knew if they did that, they would bring down Bob's wrath on them."
** 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.
* '''Exploited''': "Jane, I'm [[KnightTemplarBigBrother your brother]] and I know you're mad at Bob. So I'm going to arrange a date between [[ManipulativeBastard Bob and Alice]]. You know what [[TwerpSweating her dad is like]] don't you?"
* '''Defied''': "I know my kids can take care of themselves -- I won't steal their thunder."
* '''Discussed''': "He would do anything to protect his kids."
* '''Conversed''': "You have to write in a son for him. It gives him a motive. Men in stories like that will [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch out God]] to save their son."
* '''Deconstructed''':
** Fathers obsess over their children to the neglect of what else is their duty, and shelter them into helplessness.
** Or his zeal to protect his children scares them, and his wife (if he has one) and end up driving then away.
** A genuinely good person of similar age (to the offspring of course) who's romantically interested in his children (most likely the daughter) shies away out of fear of inadvertently provoking his wrath somehow.
** His desire to protect his children is well-intentioned, but he is completely incompetent otherwise. He gets himself (or his kids) killed as a result of his LeeroyJenkins antics.
** Bob sees his children in a situation that is NotWhatItLooksLike, and PoorCommunicationKills ensues.
** Bob has to repeatedly resort to the use of violence to protect his loved ones, coming across as a very terrifying ImplacableMan.
** Bob ass-kicking someone who have wronged his children lands him in prison.
** 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]].
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Bob learns his Aesop and teaches his children to defend themselves, and brings them along to help others.
** Bob sees his children in a situation that is NotWhatItLooksLike, and his first instinct is to protect them... But they explain to him exactly what happened, and while he feels like a massive idiot, no permanent harm was done.
** 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).
** The ass-kicking Bob delivered, plus "I 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.
* '''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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Back to PapaWolf, and get your hands off my son!
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