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* ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' features this a couple times with Will's dad, especially in the episode "Q for Quarry".

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' ''WesternAnimation/WITCH2004'' features this a couple times with Will's dad, especially in the episode "Q for Quarry".

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* In the movie ''Film/Armageddon1998'', one of the guys who has to go to space visits his son. The mom doesn't tell the boy that this is his father, but that he's a salesman; from what she says to her ex after their son goes into the house, it's implied that he's actually not ''allowed'' to visit, or at least not without advance notice (which is why his son doesn't recognize him). Later, after the father takes part in a plan that saves the planet, his family sees him on TV. When the boy says, "That salesman is on TV," the mom finally admits, "That's not a salesman. That's your dad." A similar thing happens at the end of ''Film/TheLongKissGoodnight''.

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* In the movie ''Film/Armageddon1998'', one of the guys who has to go to space visits his son. The mom doesn't tell the boy that this is his father, but that he's a salesman; from what she says to her ex after their son goes into the house, it's implied that he's actually not ''allowed'' to visit, or at least not without advance notice (which is why his son doesn't recognize him). Later, after the father takes part in a plan that saves the planet, his family sees him on TV. When the boy says, "That salesman is on TV," the mom finally admits, "That's not a salesman. That's your dad." "
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A similar thing happens at the end of ''Film/TheLongKissGoodnight''.''Film/TheLongKissGoodnight''. (ZCE: Similar to what? Please explain this example by its own merits and not in comparison or relation to another work)
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* ''Film/AndYearAndChange'': Owen has historically been terrible at these with his son, and part of his plan to be a better person is to start taking them more seriously.

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* ''Film/AndYearAndChange'': ''Film/AYearAndChange'': Owen has historically been terrible at these with his son, and part of his plan to be a better person is to start taking them more seriously.
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* ''Film/AndYearAndChange'': Owen has historically been terrible at these with his son, and part of his plan to be a better person is to start taking them more seriously.
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* ''Literature/{{Slugfest}}'' : Arabella's father visits near the end of the book and is proud of her being on a flag football team. This does nothing to dampen her constant stream of anger toward him for divorcing her mom after she helped him get through college and giving Arabella and her brother's college funds to his baby with his new wife.
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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' inverts this trope, since Rick Castle is raising his daughter Alexis (or in [[ManChild his case]], [[WiseBeyondTheirYears possibly the other way around]]) and they get the occasional visit from his even more irresponsible ex-wife. (Even one of his ''other'' ex-wives, who isn't Alexis's mother, occasionally turns up to spend time with her.)

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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' inverts this trope, since Rick Castle is raising his daughter Alexis (or in [[ManChild his case]], [[WiseBeyondTheirYears possibly the other way around]]) and they get the occasional visit from his even more irresponsible ex-wife. (Even one of his ''other'' ex-wives, who isn't Alexis's mother, occasionally turns up to spend time with her.)
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* ''Manga/CaseClosed'': A GenderFlipped example with Ran's mother Eri Kisaki. Ran (with or without her father Kogoro Mouri) either gets visited by Eri or she/they stumble(s) on her by accident or there's an meeting arrangement going on.
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->''"I was working, sometimes two jobs, so I just wasn’t around much. I’m not making excuses—I should’ve been there, but I wasn’t. ... But now when my kids are with me, it’s just me. I’m the one who puts the band-aids on, I’m the one who rubs the tummies and shampoos the hair, holds them when they have a bad dream. Then they go back to their mother, and I realize what I'm missing."''

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->''"I was working, sometimes two jobs, so I just wasn’t around much. I’m not making excuses—I should’ve been there, but I wasn’t. ...wasn’t... But now when my kids are with me, it’s just me. I’m the one who puts the band-aids on, I’m the one who rubs the tummies and shampoos the hair, holds them when they have a bad dream. Then they go back to their mother, and I realize what I'm missing."''

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