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* Bob Kinellen from ''Literature/LetMeCallYouSweetheart'' is a Type II to Robin. To make up for being emotionally neglectful and repeatedly prioritizing his work and new family over her, he takes her to expensive restaurants and buys her things her mother can't afford as easily (when he doesn't [[DaddyDidntShow cancel]], that is). Her mother Kerry isn't impressed, because she hates to see how hurt Robin is by Bob's flakiness and hands-off parenting; Robin still loves spending time with her dad and occasionally defends him to her mother, but it's implied she's starting to realize Bob's not a great father.

* ''Literature/{{Violeta}}'': Violeta's estranged husband, Julián, is a neglectful parent towards [[TheUnfavorite his son]]. However, he is a Type II example with his daughter Nieves. When she is 14, she starts spending class breaks with him in Las Vegas instead of in Chile with her mom. He teaches her to drive a car and serve as copilot to him. When he catches her smoking, he provides her with menthols. He lets her wear [[AgeInappropriateDress overly sexy attire]] to go with her dad to go gambling at casinos. He does drive away any male attention she gathers, to her chagrin.

* [[BewareTheSuperman Homelander]] in ''Series/TheBoys2019'' was a mix of Type I and II after learning that he was a father, as he more or less cared for his son's well-being but was a narcissistic {{sociopath}} who cared more about turning his son into a miniature him than getting to know him personally. At one point he takes him to a [[EvilInc Vought]]-owned amusement park but doesn't stop to think that his being [[GildedCage raised in isolation]] would make him uncomfortable with crowds.

* Kendall Roy on ''Series/{{Succession}}'' is a Type II: he has either limited or no custody of his children, but he's so rich, he can rent out an entire amusement park for his daughter's birthday.

* '''Type I''': Got the short end of the custodial stick, but genuinely loves their kids and wants to spend time with them despite the restrictions in their custodial arrangement. The physical distance from their kids is emotionally taxing for them, and when they do have their children, they want the experience to be as memorable as possible to make up for their inability to spend more time together. How to show the kids Dad loves them? [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Take them to the most magical place on Earth!]]
* '''Type II''': Doesn't get to see the kids often and that's fine. After all, they have a career or post-breakup personal life to focus on. However, even parents who are cool with not seeing their kids every day, or even every month, periodically get a paternal or maternal inkling and feel obligated to go pick up the kids for visit. But what to do with them? What are the kids even into nowadays? Don't know? Take 'em to [[ImGoingToDisneyWorld Disneyland]]! What kid can resist Disneyland?!

* Rei's senator father in every version of ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' is a hard Type 2. Unusually, he has the full ability to take custody of Rei (as her mother is dead and her poorer grandfather is her current guardian), but he chooses instead to functionally ignore her in favor of his career. However, he sends Rei to the most prestigious school around and she clearly wants for nothing. In [[Manga/SailorMoon the manga]] especially, Rei's father sends the exact same expensive gift for Rei's birthday every year (chosen by his assistant)--and misses their expensive birthday dinner together pretty often.

* Caleb from ''Literature/{{Sanctuary}}'' is a type 1. He works as a long haul airline pilot, which means that he gets few opportunities to see his and Vinnie's ten-year-old son Theo, who lives with Vinnie in Casswell Park. When he does get a few days with Theo, he always takes him someplace fun, like Alton Towers, and whenever he visits, he brings gifts that he picked up during his travels.

* Rei's senator father in every version of ''Series/SailorMoon'' is a hard Type 2. Unusually, he has the full ability to take custody of Rei (as her mother is dead and her poorer grandfather is her current guardian), but he chooses instead to functionally ignore her in favor of his career. However, he sends Rei to the most prestigious school around and she clearly wants for nothing. In the manga especially, Rei's father sends the exact same expensive gift for Rei's birthday every year (chosen by his assistant)--and misses their expensive birthday dinner together pretty often.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}''. The title character's ex-wife Meredith, Alexis' mother, actually makes Castle look like the responsible parent. Apparently, she once dropped by Alexis' school to take her to Paris on a whim. Alexis, fortunately, is more responsible than either of her parents and basically sets the rules for herself.

-> '''Nathalie:''' ''[talking to Gabriel Agreste on the phone]'' Yes sir, understood. I'm sure he'll understand, sir.\\
'''Adrien:''' My dad's flaking, isn't he? Let me guess, something came up?\\

* WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'s best friend Buster has a father who only appears to take him on trips, except for the Father's Day episode "1001 Dads." Arthur feels guilty that Buster's parents are divorced, so he tries to have other men step in to play the role of surrogate father to Buster. Come the day of Elwood City's Father's Day picnic, it turns out Buster's dad has rented a hot air balloon for the afternoon, enabling everyone at the picnic to have free rides. This ends up being subverted as the series and the spin-off would eventually make clear that Buster’s dad is actually a good father who genuinely loves Buster and simply isn’t around due to having separated from Bitzi and having a job as a pilot who flies planes around the world. When Buster is traveling with his dad, he’s nothing but present and loving to his son.

A non-custodial or limited-custodial parent who tends to take their offspring somewhere spectacular and do expensive stuff to earn or show affection. Disneyland Dad doesn't spend time with his kids, so he spends money on them instead.

* ''Film/{{Chef}}'': Carl is so engrossed in his work as a restaurant chef, he mostly ignores his kid, Percy, even though said son is interested in his job and wants to see the kitchen for himself. When the two get a single day off together, it's summed up in two brief shots of them on a rollercoaster, at a movie, and then Carl having driven Percy right back home.