History ActionDad / Film

* ''ThreeDaysToKill'': Ethan is a seasoned CIA assassin with a teenage daughter whom he's estranged from. He tries to mend things with her during the evil even while fighting and killing the bad guys (including rescuing her once from AttemptedRape).

* In ''Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse'', Peter B. Parker is now a father to his adorable daughter, and he even made her web shooters of her own.

* In ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'', Yondu Udonta is a OneManArmy with his TrickArrow, leads the ruthless and amoral Ravagers, and is Peter Quill's adoptive father. He survives his M-ship smashing into the ground with little more than a few scratches and then takes down [[spoiler: an entire Sakaaran platoon (and a necrocraft)]] in seconds with the aforementioned arrow. In ''[[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 Vol. 2]]'' he massacres hundreds of his mutinying crew in a matter of minutes and later [[spoiler: pulls a HeroicSacrifice to save Peter from the vacuum of space]]. Peter mentions that as a kid, he always told the other kids that his dad was Creator/DavidHasselhoff from ''Series/KnightRider'', who he thought was cool because he had an awesome car and fought robots. Peter eventually realizes that Yondu fits that description reasonably well.

* Tendai in ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresInZambezia''. Both he and his wife, Amaya were both the founders of the Hurricanes. After Amaya was killed by Budzo, Tendai is left to raise his son, Kai, alone.

* Benjamin Martin in ''Film/ThePatriot'' is firmly against a war for independence and submissive towards the over-the-top villain...until his farm is burned down, one of his sons is killed, and another is arrested and taken away to be hanged. Then he goes after the Redcoats with muskets and hatchets...

%%* Bob Parr (a.k.a. Mr. Incredible) in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''.

* Gru from ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'' after his 3 adopted daughters [[spoiler:are kidnapped]]. Among other things, he hopscotches over a group of heat-seeking missiles fired towards him and ''one-punches a shark!''

* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'': Nathan Wallace. Most of the time he is an OverprotectiveDad, but when he's in [[PsychoForHire Repo Man]] mode he flips to PapaWolf.

* In ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'', Yondu Udonta is a OneManArmy with his TrickArrow, leads the ruthless and amoral Ravagers, and is Peter Quill's adoptive father. He survives his M-ship smashing into the ground with little more than a few scratches and then takes down [[spoiler: an entire Sakaaran platoon (and a necrocraft)]] in seconds with the aforementioned arrow. Taken UpToEleven in ''[[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 Vol. 2]]'' when he massacres hundreds of his mutinying crew in a matter of minutes and later [[spoiler: pulls a HeroicSacrifice to save Peter from the vacuum of space]]. Peter mentions that as a kid, he always told the other kids that his dad was Creator/DavidHasselhoff from ''Series/KnightRider'', who he thought was cool because he had an awesome car and fought robots. Peter eventually realizes that Yondu fits that description reasonably well.

* An ActionDad score for Denzel Washington is ''Film/JohnQ'', where to make sure that his IllBoy son Michael will [[BillyNeedsAnOrgan get a heart transplant]] which is being denied to him because insurance doesn't cover it, John Quincy Archibald actually ''takes a full hospital hostage'' and claims he won't back off until Michael is given priority. [[spoiler: John goes as far as improvising a ThanatosGambit so his heart will be harvested and given to his child, but it fails. In the BittersweetEnding, however, John is still trialed and incarcerated, but Michael is saved.]]

* The [[DirectToVideo Direct to DVD]] Creator/StevenSeagal movies ''Belly of the Beast'' and ''Film/OutOfReach''. In the latter, he isn't actually even the girl's father, making it all the stupider.

* In the classic film ''Ma and Pa Kettle,'' [[ApronMatron Ma,]] [[HenpeckedHusband Pa,]] and their [[MassiveNumberedSiblings large family]] move into an ultra-modern house Pa had won in a sweepstakes. Eventually Pa gets fed up with all the newfangled gadgets in the house, and moves back into the family's old home: a decrepit shack in the middle of a swampy junkyard. Meanwhile, [[MamaBear Ma holds the police at a standoff with a shotgun]] after she learns the contest was a cruel publicity hoax. It takes the intervention of the Kettles' adult eldest son to bring her out of her rampage. Just as the woman who orchestrated the hoax decides not to press charges and offers Ma her most sincere apology, here comes Pa Kettle with the family wagon and a dozen or so of his Injun friends.

* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', Yondu Udonta is a OneManArmy with his TrickArrow, leads the ruthless and amoral Ravagers, and is Peter Quill's adoptive father. He survives his M-ship smashing into the ground with little more than a few scratches and then takes down [[spoiler: an entire Sakaaran platoon (and a necrocraft)]] in seconds with the aforementioned arrow. Taken UpToEleven in ''[[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 Vol. 2]]'' when he massacres hundreds of his mutinying crew in a matter of minutes and later [[spoiler: pulls a HeroicSacrifice to save Peter from the vacuum of space]]. Peter mentions that as a kid, he always told the other kids that his dad was Creator/DavidHasselhoff from ''Series/KnightRider'', who he thought was cool because he had an awesome car and fought robots. Peter eventually realizes that Yondu fits that description reasonably well.

** The role that followed that one was ''Man in the House'', where he's a sheriff who has to protect a bunch of cheerleader girls after they witness a murder. HilarityEnsues until not only one of the girls is almost killed by a car bomb, but the man's daughter is kidnapped...

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