Boyfriend-Blocking Dad in Western Animation.
- Adventure Time: When Jake becomes a dad in "Jake the Dad", he's extremely protective of them to the point it's exhausting him to constantly keep watch because he's paranoid anything could happen to them, and also stifling attempts for the puppies to just have fun, because he doesn't want to them to risk getting hurt, sick, or scared by anything. Eventually, he realizes keeping his kids from experiencing anything isn't better than keeping them safe from everything, and the pups age into mostly-independent adults due to the Rapid Aging of Rainicorn and dog genes hybridizing.
- Penny's father, Patrick Fitzgerald from The Amazing World of Gumball, especially in "The Kids", where he mistakes Gumball — who had a puberty spurt that made his voice change — for a creepy teenager making prank calls:Mr. Fitzgerald [on the phone]: You think you can call my house and freak us out? You think you've got a scary voice? [in a deep, ominous voice] This is a scary voice. Now listen to me: I have a very specific set of skills; skills I've acquired over a very long career... in real estate. If you never call my daughter again, that will be the end of it, but if you do, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will build a house around you... with no doors.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender:
- Lao Bei Fong of Avatar: The Last Airbender was extremely protective of his daughter because she was blind, and even kept her existence a secret. When he finds out she wasn't learning just basic earthbending but was instead amazingly proficient, he decides she's had too much freedom and must be monitored around the clock. When she runs away he sends two people after her, one of which had just kidnapped her hours ago.
- Korra from The Legend of Korra gets frustrated with her dad when he tries to protect her during her stay in the Southern Water Tribe. If it weren't for him and Tenzin suggesting the compound she had to stay in for most of her life, then things would've been different.
- In Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "The Golden Age of Justice", the entire Justice Society treats Black Canary as if she was made of glass and will tell her to wait back while they do all the hard work — despite the fact that she's a competent crimefighter in her own right, as well as half their age. Eventually, she learns from Wildcat that their over-protectiveness stems from a promise made to Dinah's mother, the first Black Canary, as she died in the middle of a rescue mission. Not to mention, they treat Batman kind of the same way, but not quite as severe.
- Camp Lazlo: Commander Hoo-Ha is this to his daughter Patsy
- Paulina's father in Danny Phantom. He threatens Danny within seconds of meeting him ("If you upset her, we're going to have a violent talk.") and then tells him he knows where Danny lives just before they leave for the school dance.
- Disenchantment:
- King Zog cannot stand the idea of his daughter Princess Bean dating anyone she fancies (he only sets her up with foreign princes she doesn't like), and will kill any man who tries to sleep with her. Much to Bean's dismay, nobody will dare have romance or sex with her out of fear for their lives.
- Same deal with the Elf King, the ruler of Elfwood. When he catches his daughter Kissy in bed with Elfo, he has the poor guy sentenced to death by hanging from a tree (though fortunately, he survives the execution). And this isn't even the first time that Kissy's old man tried to kill one of her boyfriends.
- Dr. Dimensionpants has a villainous example; Glass Skull absolutely doesn't like the idea of his daughter Rebecca getting a boyfriend, and will chase away any boy that shows interest in her.
- DuckTales (2017): Donald Duck acting as a single father to his three nephews comes across as well meaning but stifling, making the triplets wear life vests on their own house boat when a baby sitter is to take care of them in the Pilot. In a Call-Back in the Grand Finale, when Scrooge finds out Webby is his daughter via cloning, he puts her into a life vest while they're on a plane.
- On F is for Family, this is both subverted and played straight with Dr. Goldman, the father of Kevin's girlfriend, Alice. The first time, they're still in the heavy petting stage and he's pretty chill and understanding. The second time he walks in, he actually catches them in the act, and goes berserk. The language he uses implies that at least part of his anger is because he is Orthodox Jewish and holds a taboo against the idea of his daughter getting pregnant by a Gentile (non-Jewish person).
- On The Fairly OddParents!, Big Daddy, Wanda's father, embodies this trope so well that he nearly got Wanda to leave Cosmo and Timmy in his first appearance. Unsurprisingly, he ends up hooking up with Mama Cosma.
- Family Guy:
- Carter Pewterschmidt just can't let it go. Despite decades of happiness Lois has experienced with Peter, he has and still tries to smash his skull in occasionally. He used to be this trope. Nowadays he hates Peter because Peter is a fat, annoying slob.
- Peter's usually neglectful or abusive with Meg, but in one episode, after she ended up in a hospital, he became overprotective. Also when Quagmire tries to seduce Meg after she turns eighteen, he freaks out. Not to mention calmly walking up to her then-boyfriend's house with a shotgun when she believes she's pregnant:Peter: (overlapping Meg's protest after loading the barrels) I just wanna talk to him. I just wanna talk to him. I just wanna talk to him, I just wanna talk to him, I just wanna talk to him, I just wanna shoot him, I just wanna talk to him.
- The Future is Wild animated series: C.G.'s father comes off strict and demanding of his Daughter, Cassiopeia AKA C.G., but this is due to being overprotective. He is always overly considered for her safety and wellbeing and at first, keeps C.G. from learning on her own in his desire to make sure she succeeds in her mission and returns home safely. Not helping with his overprotectiveness is the fact that he doesn't at first approve of C.G. bringing her crew of 21st-century teenagers (Ethan, Emily, and Luis), often calling them primitives. Thankfully, over the course of the series, he changes his attitude for the better once he realized that C.G. needs friends her age and stepped back to give her more flexibility to lead the mission.
- The Jetsons: George Jetson has every reason to be this way, especially when one considers how boy-crazy his daughter, Judy, is. That being said, this trope is played for laughs most of the time.
- Johnny Bravo: The episode "A Page Right Out of History", a crossover with The Flintstones, ends with Fred Flintstone siccing Dino on Johnny just because Johnny flirted with Fred's daughter Pebbles (who was portrayed in the episode as a young woman).
- Kim Possible: Kim's father James seems more concerned about the idea of his daughter dating boys than risking her life fighting supervillains. In the first movie, he's glad Kim's trapped in the timestream and not "staying out late with some boy", and his version of "the talk" in "Emotion Sickness" is a threat to stick Ron on a deep space probe if he tries anything. It seems to be lessening in season four — after all, her boyfriend is... the safest guy on the planet.
- An episode of King of the Hill dealt with an extremely overprotective dad who treated all of his children this way, including his twin boys, who were Bobby's age. He treated them (and the rest of the boy scouts) like babies just because one had ADHD and the other was hyperglycemic. To the point he kicked Bobby out of the scouts simply because he was playing a fighting game, considering him a bad influence.
- Amusingly subverted in The Legend of Zelda (1989) cartoon. The king catches Link about to swing into Zelda's room for a kiss and tells him not to... until he has flowers, because "girls are crazy about flowers."
- Tennie's father in Motorcity doesn't like her hanging around Dutch, since he knows he's part of Mike Chilton's Burners.
- The father of one-off love interest Angela D'Angelo in My Dad the Rock Star is both completely neurotic and extremely overprotective. He's so overprotective that no-one has ever dated his daughter because every boy who ever tried got scared away during the "pre-date"... interrogation. Willy, the main character, fares no better in trying to woo Angela. Even when Angela decided to defy her father's decision, his response was to move the entire family out of town just to make sure he kept his daughter "protected". Appropriately enough, his wife is also an equally extreme example of a Beloved Smother.
- Phineas and Ferb:
- When a biker hits on Vanessa in "Vanessasary Roughness", Dr. Doofenshmirtz snaps "She's sixteen!" and sends him to another dimension.
- In the DVD Commentary for "The Chronicles of Meap", Dr. Doofenshmirtz states that he doesn't trust Ferb and disapproves of his crush on Vanessa when it comes up during the episode.
- The 2nd Dimension Doofenshmirtz is also this trope, maybe more than the main one. A deleted scene has his Vanessa complain about how he keeps banishing every guy who shows interest in her.
- Oscar Proud of The Proud Family:Oscar: (to Penny) No dating, until after you're married.
- Rocko's Modern Life: "Let me tell you something; you lay ONE PAW ON MY DAUGHTER AND YOU'LL BECOME MY PERSONAL TOOTHPICK, YOU HEAR ME!"
- Rugrats: Chas Finster, Chuckie's father, shows shades of this regarding his son. A major example occurs in "Mr. Clean," where he's so concerned about his son getting sick that he gives Chuckie excessive baths and tells him about germs. He meant well, but with his son's worried nature, he ended up making the poor kid Terrified of Germs. His overprotective tendencies may well be justified considering his wife Melinda has died and Chuckie is all he has left of her.
- The Simpsons: Mr. Stanky from "Bart's Friends Falls in Love" is Samantha Stanky's strict and overprotective father. After Bart calls him on the phone with new concerning Samantha, Mr. Stanky shows up to the Simpson residence and immediately goes up Bart's treehouse. Shock to see Milhouse and Samantha together, he let's out a prolonged "Noooooooooooooo!" that is powerful enough to make birds flee from the tree. Mr. Stanky then snatches her out of the tree and nervously asks her what happened. Before Samantha can even fully explain, he yells at her. As Mr. Stanky carries her off on his back, he tells her that she will be put in an all-girl school and that she will never see Milhouse again. After Milhouse and Samantha cry out for each other, Mr. Stanky puts her in the car, slams the door, and bitterly drives off, leaving Milhouse heart-broken.Mr. Stanky: (to Samantha Stanky) I'm putting you in an all-girl school! You're never gonna see that boy again!
- Subverted on Spongebob Squarepants, when SpongeBob agrees to chaperon Mr. Krabs' daughter to the prom. When he's dropping her off, Krabs runs out the door screaming "GET AWAY FROM ME PRECIOUS FLOWER!!!"... which turns out to be an actual flower that SpongeBob was in danger of stepping on. Also, another episode has Krabs worried sick that boys will show up to his daughter's sleepover, though his overriding concern isn't anything the boys would do to Pearl, but the thought that boys would destroy any of his property and beloved possessions. It should also be noted that in the prom episode, Mr. Krabs totally subverts the trope by telling Pearl not to mess SpongeBob up too much. (because he needs him for work)
- The second Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series includes a gender-reversed example in Casey Jones' mother, who, upon first meeting April, subjects her to an increasingly aggravating series of chores, all while being rude and bossy to her. When an exasperated April finally completes the tasks, Mrs. Jones becomes much nicer, even inviting April to call her "Mom", implying that the whole thing was a Secret Test of Character to see if April's devotion to Casey was strong enough that she'd be willing to go through anything for him.
- An earlier episode of the series parodies the trope: when Casey picks up April for a date, Splinter and the Turtles take on the respective roles of a Boyfriend-Blocking Dad and big brothers, jokingly asking Casey stock questions associated with this trope.
- El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera: Emiliano Suarez, the father of Frida, is not only the chief of Miracle City's police, but also the only policeman in the city to avert Police Are Useless. This is unfortunate for Manny, who is constantly on the receiving end of Chief Suarez's ire because of how close he is to Frida. Given the supervillains who plague Miracle City, Chief Suarez is not unjustified in being protective of Frida, but he usually blames Manny for the messes Frida gets them into.
- In The Venture Bros.. Dr. Orpheus is shown to be very overprotected of his only daughter Triana. Where when Pete White tried to flirt with her at the Xmas Party (complete with mistletoe headband) he caused the mistletoe to burst into flames while giving Pete the Death Glare.Triana Orpheus: Dad, I can take care of myself, you know.
Byron Orpheus: I'm sorry, pumpkin. I trust you to defend your honor. It's just that... MY PUMPKIN'S MAIDENHEAD IS NOT A PRIZE TO BE...
Triana Orpheus: DAD!
