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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Louis de Pointe du Lac is the "feminine" partner in the MasculineFeminineGayCouple dynamic that he has with his boyfriend Lestat de Lioncourt, so his role within their household is fairly similar to a traditional housewife. Louis is extremely devoted to their vampire daughter Claudia, with a doting parenting style that could be described as "motherly," and raising her is the greatest joy in his life. The fifth episode suggests that their townhouse becomes a MessOfWoe after Claudia abandons them because Louis is too depressed to do any housework ("...ignoring all other duties of the role Claudia once mocked me for -- the unhappy housewife"). In the seventh episode, after Lestat kills a man with blood cancer, he orders Louis to tidy up ("Clean up the mess and come to coffin").

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-->''"Hi. I'm a dad. Not a "dadmom", just a dad. And I can do anything this asshole can do because I'm a fucking dad, not because I'm somehow also a "mom." I don't have to qualify it by turning myself into an offensive cartoon version of what a caring father is. Your commercial is insulting to all fathers out there who stay at home and take care of their family. I'm not a "dadmom." I'm just a dad. Because dads already know how to do this shit without being stereotypes."''

* In ''Manga/CaseClosed'', [[spoiler: when Wataru Takagi [[MistakenForPregnant mistakenly believes]] that his girlfriend Miwako Sato is pregnant, one of his {{imagine spot}}s about their probable married life has him retiring from police work and happily becoming one of these.]]

* ''Manga/UFOPrincessValkyrie.'' Kazuto. In one episode, he participates in a "bridal training game" along with several other cast-members, including the eponymous Valkyrie (albeit in her childlike SleepModeSize). At the end, the game crowns the finest "bride"... him. Responsible, skilled at cooking and cleaning, kind, and even knows flower-arrangement somehow.

** In ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'', Shinji takes care of all household chores in the Misato's apartment because Misato is a slob and Asuka was banned from the kitchen after an ill-fated attempt to make a pizza.
** ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'': Shinji is the one makes all household chores in Misato's apartment... although one of his flat-mates often complains about him always taking too long.

---> Once he had been assigned everything but the laundry, a task that he didn’t particularly care for, he feigned displeasure at having so much to do, and grumbling he began to clean up the table. Inwardly he was overjoyed. This apartment would never be clean if Misato had to do the chores, and the act of cleaning was to change one’s environment, to act against decay and entropy, things that pleased Tzeentch. It was a small thing, but there were small things and big things in life, and the small ones came around more often.
** ''Fanfic/LastChildOfKrypton'': When Shinji started living with Misato and Asuka, he quickly became in charge of all household chores. Asuka joked that he was a housebroken male.
** In ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'' Shinji makes all domestic chores since Misato is a slob and Asuka doesn't care as long as ''she'' doesn't have to ''do'' them.
--->"Well I have to say, having a house broken male around is a more useful thing then I gave Misato credit for"

* In ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'', Helen Parr goes back into superheroics, leaving Bob to say home to raise the kids. Despite initial struggles such as Dash making him learn [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math New Math]], he quickly proves himself to be a very competent homemaker. He cooks for the kids, gets better at helping with homework, and makes sure Violet's first date goes well. The only reason things go sideways is that while Bob's great at handling kids, he has no idea how to handle super ''babies''. Jack-Jack developing 17+ superpowers at once [[MenCantKeepHouse really strings him out]].

* Music/JonLajoie's "Stay At Home Dad".
* The narrator's girlfriend in Music/CamperVanBeethoven's "Northern California Girls" lets him know he can be this. "I've got a good job, stay home and play the guitar" and raise the children.

** Anthony finally convinces Therese to have a baby by promising to become one of these so she doesn't have to give up her promising career in finance. He's shocked when she holds him to that instead of giving up her career to StayInTheKitchen like a woman 'should'. [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality We're supposed to side with]] [[CreatorsPet Anthony on this one.]] [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Many don't.]]
** Averted with Michael and Deanna: After Michael works at home as a writer, he’s supposedly one for Meredith and Robin while Deanna works as a pharmacy tech. However, he’s a {{Workaholic}} and rather neglectful, resulting in Deanna taking on the "second shift" of cleaning, cooking and child rearing. A conversation with Elizabeth conforms that Deanna has given up trying to get Michael to step up.

* Discussed in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair''. Mahiru tells Nagito that she thinks he’d be good househusband material because of how good he is at cleaning. Nagito dismisses the idea because while he is indeed good at cleaning, he’s also a LethalChef.

* The ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "Little Girl Lost" features a male artist who stays at home and takes care of his daughter while his wife works. The wife is so angry with him for "doing nothing" for ten years while she worked that she plotted with her sister to kidnap her own daughter, just so she could pay the ransom to herself and thus keep her husband from getting half of their assets when she divorced him. Another reason she's angry with him is because she doesn't think he's a particularly ''good'' house husband.

* In ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'' Anthony finally convinces Therese to have a baby by promising to become one of these so she doesn't have to give up her promising career in finance. He's shocked when she holds him to that instead of giving up her career to StayInTheKitchen like a woman 'should'. [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality We're supposed to side with]] [[CreatorsPet Anthony on this one.]] [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Many don't.]]

%%* Yuki from ''Manga/NoBra''. Then again... [[WholesomeCrossdresser considering other traits of this character...]]
* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
** This was a result of Brock's PromotionToParent status when his mom vanished and later his dad does. He does do quite a good job of taking care of his many younger siblings and was able to list them to his father Flint who returned (Brock's mom returned while Brock was in Johto). He even lampshaded that Ash and Misty can't travel well or eat properly without him.
** Cilan is taking over this role in ''Best Wishes'', although Iris is at least savvy enough to fend for herself.
* ''Manga/UFOPrincessValkyrie.'' Kazuto. In one episode, he participates in a "bridal training game" along with several other cast-members, including the eponymous Valkyrie (albeit in her childlike SleepModeSize). At the end, the game crowns the finest "bride"... him. Responsible, skilled at cooking and cleaning, kind, and even knows flower-arrangement somehow.
* Kenshin from ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' is a textbook example. When he moves into Kaoru's dojo he takes over the laundry, shopping, cooking, and even child-sitting duties, always with maximum cheerfulness and reasonable efficiency (he's not exactly a ''good'' cook, but anyone's better than Kaoru) Considering his OneManArmy past, this serves mostly to underscore his [[TheAtoner Atoner]] and BrokenAce tendencies.
* Ryuuji from ''Literature/{{Toradora}}'' is a variation on this, as he plays this role to both his own mother and Taiga. And enjoys it.

* Tanda from ''Literature/MoribitoGuardianOfTheSpirit'', a rather feminine healer-in-training, in contrast to his tomboy love interest/childhood friend Balsa, a bodyguard-for-hire.
* Madoka's father Tomohisa in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. He's so good at it that his wife Junko is the breadwinner of the family while he happily takes care of the children.
* Shinji Ikari from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is definitely a House Husband in training. His roommate/commander is a total slob and CordonBleughChef -and his {{Tsundere}} LoveInterest is not much better-, so he takes care of just about all the cooking and cleaning duties once he moves in.

%%** This manga seems to favor a symmetrical design in terms of characters. Yoshimori's clan of Sumimura, the kekkaishi who wear black and who have a white shikigami dog, passes down their name to all members directly related by blood, disregarding the typical patrilineal naming convention in Japan, which makes his family in particular a matriarchal one (he takes his mother's family name) and which explains his father's househusband status in the family. All members of his family other than his father are kekkaishi, including his grandfather, his mother, his older brother, him and his younger brother. It's the opposite situation for the Yukimura clan of his partner Tokine who are kekkaishi who wear white and who have a black shikigami dog; her family has her grandmother (who was the one to pass down the family name), her deceased father, and herself as kekkaishi.
* In ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', in spite of his temper, Kyo is shown to be a good cook and able to at least take care of himself. He generally doesn't do it often because he doesn't like the people he currently lives with (except for Tohru), but did have to help out with the housekeeping when he was raised by his [[MenCantKeepHouse less able]] former guardian. In an aside note in the last volume of the series, [[WordOfGod the author]] also notes that Kyo will be "a kind father".
* In ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'', Hakkai lives with Gojyo and manages to turn his bachelor pad into a home worth returning to. He cooks! He cleans! He nags Gojyo right out of the habit of using beer cans as ashtrays! And of course, he continues to play this role for the team as they travel. In ''Saiyuki Gaiden'', on the other hand, Hakkai's previous incarnation Tenpou was a total slob, and Gojyo's previous incarnation Kenren was the one who was forever cleaning and organizing Tenpou's office for him.
* In ''Manga/CookingPapa'', it's kinda downplayed with Airawa Kazumi. Both he and his wife work, but only he can cook in the family (and his office is just 5 minutes from apartment), so he's the one who takes care of food.

* In ''Literature/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'', Alciel turns from a Demon General in [[StandardFantasySetting Ente Isla]] to this once he arrives on Earth. Definitely PlayedForLaughs.
* ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'' has Hajime, who works from home and is a far better chef than [[LethalChef his wife]].
* In ''Manga/CaseClosed'', [[spoiler: when Wataru Takagi [[MistakenForPregnant mistakenly believes]] that his girlfriend Miwako Sato is pregnant, one of his {{imagine spot}}s about their probable married life has him retiring from police work and happily becoming one of these.]]
* Yuuya from ''Manga/{{Nukoduke}}'' isn't married, but he's so good at doing housework that his adopted kids/pets see him as their mother and tried to get him a mother's day gift. He does have a {{heterosexual life partner|s}} whom he makes food for, and a flashback showed that he usually cooked for his girlfriend instead of the other way around.
* Haise Sasaki from ''Manga/TokyoGhoul[=:Re=]'' is often compared to a housewife. He treats his subordinates like his own children, handling a variety of domestic duties as well as training them. In particular, he's noted to be an exceptionally skilled chef that enjoys cooking up meals for them. In the 2016 Calendar, he represents "Housewife Rest Day". An omake after [[spoiler: he leaves the team]] features Urie wondering how he managed it all, calling Sasaki a monster for juggling work and domestic duties so well.
* Kouji Takanashi from ''Manga/InterviewsWithMonsterGirls'' took it upon himself to be a stay at home dad after his twin daughters were born. His wife is the breadwinner of the family after all.

* Youichi from ''Manga/FatherAndSon'' becomes one during his wife's absence. He does the cleaning, laundry and the cleaning as well as taking care of his young son.
* Yaichi in ''Manga/MyBrothersHusband'' is a stay-at-home single dad to his young daughter after his divorce.
* ''Manga/TheWayOfTheHousehusband'' is the story of Tatsu, the eponymous house husband (who is also [[RetiredBadass an ex-yakuza]]) of a career woman. HilarityEnsues as he attempts to incorporate his yakuza ways into his new house duties, [[SeriousBusiness a job he takes very seriously]].

* ''Manga/{{Hyakunichikan}}'': Kouji remarks that Shuuto has "the skills of a housewife". Understandable, for a MinorLivingAlone, especially one who has to take care of a kid.

* ''Fanfic/YinAndYangSeries'': Fujuju cooks and cleans while his wife is busy presiding over the order of time.

* ''FanFic/HowTheLightGetsIn'': Dean is the homemaker and Laurel is the breadwinner for their family, but he occasionally works a few shifts as a mechanic if they needed extra money. The story doesn't look down on Dean for this, but the rest of Team Arrow seemed to dismissively think of think as nothing but a "stay at home dad". [[UnderestimatingBadassery Boy were they wrong]].
** In an argument with Quentin, Dean accuses him and Dinah for judging and condemning him for this, and they'd have a higher opinion of him if he worked and Laurel was a housewife.

* ''Film/LittleChildren'', 2006: Brad Adamson (Patrick Wilson) is an apparently loving and responsible stay-at-home dad. Despite that, his son still displays greater fondness for his mom whenever she comes home.
* Jack Butler, the eponymous house husband in ''Film/MrMom'', starts out as a FishOutOfWater, but ends up this at the end of the movie.
* The aptly titled film ''Film/{{Househusbands}}'' is all about this trope.

* Felix from ''Film/TheOddCouple1968'' was this; it was part of the reason that his wife left him and he ended up rooming with Oscar.
* In the Creator/StanleyKubrick adaptation of ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'', Humbert complains of doing all the housework while painting Lolita's toenails, showing how she's got him wrapped around her little finger (or toe).
* ''Film/AlexanderAndTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodVeryBadDay'': Mr. Cooper is one while his wife is the only breadwinner in the family. [[spoiler:In the end, he gets a job but will remain in charge of household chores because his job, unlike Mrs. Cooper's, allows him the time for it.]]
* In ''[[Film/MeetTheParents Meet the Fockers]]'', it's revealed that Greg's father Bernie, a lawyer, has given up practicing law after Greg was born, choosing to raise him instead. Jack, being a staunch traditionalist, finds this disturbing. At the end, when Greg, Bernie, and Jack are in jail, Bernie offers to go talk to Judge Ira, presumably to use his familiarity with the judge through his former practice to get them all out. The judge does indeed order the cop to let them out, but not because of anything Bernie says. It turns out that Ira and his wife are regular clients of Bernie's wife, a sex therapist.
* In the 2015 film ''Film/TheIntern'', Jules' husband became this after she founded her company because she'd not have time to raise their daughter and take care of their house. She comments to the titular intern that [[InsistentTerminology househusbands prefer to be called "stay-at-home-dads"]].
* After retiring, Frank Drebin takes on this persona in the third ''Film/TheNakedGun'' movie. All jokes aside, he actually seems to be pretty good at it.

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures novel ''Father Time'' features the Doctor playing this role. He's always been the TeamChef, but in this one, he adopts a young girl and is seen serving her friends homemade lemonade. Aww. And he has time to have a successful career and save the day.
* At the end of Dave Barry's novel, ''Tricky Business'', it's revealed in the WhereAreTheyNow epilogue that Ted and Fey got married, and that Ted enjoyed (and was very good at) staying at home to take care of their three daughters, while Fey went to work for the Coast Guard.
* This is the expected role for men in ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' because of the GenderRarityValue[[note]]One boy for every ten or so girls. A family with twenty-eight girls and four boys is considered ''exceptionally lucky''[[/note]], and they're expected to take to it well.
* Michael Hosea takes on this role in ''Literature/RedeemingLove'', mainly because he’s been living alone and single well into his twenties, and his wife picked up absolutely no domestic skills during her thirteen-year career as a prostitute. The gender-stereotype connotations of this trope are averted, though; he’s a very typically manly farmer and she is [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman extremely]] [[FemmeFatale feminine]].
* This is the dynamic between Jill and Saul in Lilith Saintcrow's ''Jill Kismet'' series. Saul, however, is very much a bad-ass and often backs her up when hunting.
* In ''Literature/TheBabysittersClub'' book ''Kristy and Mr. Mom'', Kristy's step-father becomes a stay-at-home dad after having a heart attack.

* ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'': The {{matriarchy}} of Dathomiri society reverses the usual gender roles in this fashion, among others. Men at Singing Mountain are described as quietly serving their wives food and taking care of the children. Their wives are Witches with Force "magic" who are warriors and govern everything.

* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': Some of the husbands become this at some points in the series, most prominently Tom Scavo whenever Lynette feels an urge to reinvigorate her HighPoweredCareerWoman vibe and Carlos Solis when he becomes blind (though he also takes up a masseur job).
* ''Series/{{Search}}'': Da-jeong's husband Min-jae runs the household and raises their daughter while Da-jeong is at work or on a mission.

* In ''Series/FullHouse'', Jesse (played by John Stamos) and Joey (played by Dave Coulier) were effectively this, helping Jesse's widowed brother in law Danny (Bob Saget) raise his three girls.
* In ''Series/GrowingPains'', Doctor Seaver ran his psychiatric practice out of his home office so he could be a stay-at-home dad to his kids while his wife worked.
* In the 2010 version of ''Series/{{Parenthood}}'', Erika Christensen's character works full time as a lawyer while her husband stays at home and raises their child.
* The J-dorama called ''At Home Dad''.

* One episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' had Ziva talking to a female Marine's "domesticated house husband."
* On the ''Series/LoisAndClark'' show, Clark is a gourmet cook who wants kids (and children seem to adore him in both his guises). Lois, conversely, is terrified of children and "can only make four things", one of which is pasta salad. (Fanon sometimes cranks this up to "burning water" levels). One wonders how he manages time.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Chandler in between switching jobs. Played with in that while his wife [[MasculineGirlFeminineBoy Monica]] is more masculine, she's also a chef and loves cleaning so is normally happy to pull house wife duties. Also despite his feminine habits, Chandler ''doesn't'' enjoy being home all the time and gets despondent at not working.

* The Double Standard involved in this trope was ''starkly'' illustrated on an episode of ''Series/WifeSwap'' when a conservative, very religious, "traditional" couple (husband worked, wife stayed home to run the house and care for the kids) switched with a non-religious, more liberal, "unconventional" couple (husband stayed home to run the house and care for the kids, wife worked). The "traditional" housewife almost immediately started berating the house husband (who was equally competent as she in taking care of a home) for being a "lazy deadbeat" and kept insisting that he "get a job". Surely, if anyone would, she should have known that staying at home and taking care of the kids '''''is''''' a job and it's '''''anything but lazy'''''.

* On ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', Kanaan is basically this when Teyla goes back on active duty after the birth of their child. He doesn't suffer any stereotypes for it, though, probably because he's such a small character.
* On ''Series/TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager'', George becomes this after Anne's business career takes off. Anne discovers that she enjoys that more than staying at home and George discovers that he likes staying home more than he likes working in the furniture store. However, it is not treated as a strange thing.
* The ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "Little Girl Lost" features a male artist who stays at home and takes care of his daughter while his wife works. The wife is so angry with him for "doing nothing" for ten years while she worked that she plotted with her sister to kidnap her own daughter, just so she could pay the ransom to herself and thus keep her husband from getting half of their assets when she divorced him. Another reason she's angry with him is because she doesn't think he's a particularly ''good'' house husband.
* ''Series/UpAllNight'' begins with a couple who just had a baby. The mother is a television producer working on a show (an Oprah {{Expy}}) while the father is a lawyer who is on temporary leave from work as a lawyer to take care of the child.
* A number of husbands on ''Series/CallTheMidwife'' have shades of this, being very involved with helping out during their wives' pregnancies and caring for the baby. One notable example is Mr. Warren, who is noted as standing out for staying with his wife during the deliveries of all twenty-two of their children. When she delivers the twenty-third while suffering a concussion, he stays with her the entire time, holding her still and keeping her calm.

* ''Series/StrongMedicine'' Dr. Andy Campbell's husband is the stay-at-home spouse and primary caretaker of their two girls. While they initially seem HappilyMarried, things become strained as time goes on, culminating in him slapping her during an argument and them divorcing--with ''her'' paying ''him'' alimony.
* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', one episode had Howard Wolowitz come to terms with the fact that his fianceé Bernadette wasn't good with children and didn't look forward to being a traditional mother. The two eventually come to an agreement (somewhat reluctantly on Howard's part) that should they decide to raise a family, Howard will be the one to stay at home with the kids.

* In ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', Jefferson identifies himself as a house husband, but avoid all kinds of work to live a life of leisure. ''Just because I'm a house husband doesn't mean I don't work'' (Not doing any work means you don't work.)
* Kevin in the BBC sitcom ''Motherland'' is a stay-at-home dad. While Kevin himself is somewhat dorky, very un-masculine and enjoys things like hanging out with elderly people, him being a stay-at-home dad in and of itself isn't played for laughs, and he seems to genuinely enjoy it.
* Briefly, on ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', after Matt's law enforcement career hits an even more serious snag than usual, he becomes a surprisingly apt house husband, having breakfast ready when his wife gets up, cooking French cuisine, and apparently taking on most of the childcare responsibilities. Nonetheless, his wife worries he's not happy without a job. (Perhaps relatedly, his wife appears with PowerHair and a [[LadyInAPowerSuit very sensible black pantsuit]] while he's being Mr. Mom in the kitchen.)
* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Louis de Pointe du Lac is the "feminine" partner in the MasculineFeminineGayCouple dynamic that he has with his boyfriend Lestat de Lioncourt, so his role within their household is fairly similar to a traditional housewife. Louis is extremely devoted to their vampire daughter Claudia, with a doting parenting style that could be described as "motherly," and raising her is the greatest joy in his life. The fifth episode suggests that their townhouse becomes a MessOfWoe after Claudia abandons them because Louis is too depressed to do any housework ("...ignoring all other duties of the role Claudia once mocked me for -- the unhappy housewife"). In the seventh episode, after Lestat kills a man with blood cancer, he orders Louis to tidy up ("Clean up the mess and come to coffin").

%%* Stuart from ''ComicStrip/DykesToWatchOutFor'' is an extremely peppy, successful example.
%%* ''Adam@Home''
* While Ted from ''ComicStrip/{{Sally Forth| Howard}}'' has a job of his own, he often helps out with the jobs at home too. In one comic where his parents show up for the holidays, his dad demands that someone provide him with a sandwich. He then berates Ted for fixing it instead of leaving it for Sally (who already had her hands full with the actual dinner for everyone) and asks "What did you get married for?" Ted replies with "Oh, you know. Love, companionship. Having a second mother wasn't really a part of it."

* Shirou from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', whose primary skills are housekeeping and cooking. Especially cooking, where the descriptions border on FoodPorn.
** Archer in other media is considered much the same outside his duties, since he constantly criticizes Shirou's cooking if given the chance. [[spoiler:Might have to do with the fact that he's just a possible older Shirou.]] It's a common joke that they're the most capable domestic partners.
* The King of Devils (Forbesii) in ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'' cooks all of Nerine's food much to the surprise of all her friends. In the original VisualNovel he's even seen in an apron from time to time. People comment that his cooking is quite good.
* Rafael in ''VisualNovel/DateWarp'', although not romantically involved with anyone at the start of the game, lives with another character and does all the housework - during the course of the story, he's basically looking after ''all'' the game characters. And yes, he is a [[RomanceGame romance option for the protagonist]].

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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Johnny's father Hugh Test in ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', who is literally a "house husband."
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' Stu works at home inventing toys and apparently serves this role during most of the year, when his wife Didi is working as a high school teacher.
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' both Jake and Helen work, but Helen is by far more successful and obsessed with it. Jake, meanwhile, seems to enjoy cooking strange dishes much more than business.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'' has Oscar stay at home as an inventor (an unsuccessful entrepreneur) while his wife, Trudy is a veterinarian. Although we do see Oscar at his enterprises every now and then.

* Downplayed with Arthur's father David in ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}''. He and Arthur's mother Jane both work from home (he runs a catering business and Jane is an accountant), but Jane earns more of the family's income and David cooks most of the meals--and he's quite a good cook when he isn't [[CordonBleughChef experimenting]]. He also has some feminine traits, and is even prone to binging on [[HeartbreakAndIceCream ice cream]] when depressed.
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': WordOfGod says that, following the events of the finale, Roy Harper, aka Red Arrow, will take a leave of absence from the Justice League to focus on his daughter Lian.
* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': While Celery is always taking the kids to space, Carrot stays home and does things like cooking.

* ''Manga/TheWayOfTheHousehusband'' is the story of Tatsu, the eponymous house husband (who is also [[RetiredBadass an ex-yakuza]]) of a career woman. HilarityEnsues as he attempts to incorporate his yakuza ways into his new house duties, a job he takes very seriously.

* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/Persona4'', who can cook better than any of the girls ([[LethalChef which says nothing]]), is good with kids, can clean pretty well, and has jobs to do at home.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' features potion-shop owner Luv and her husband Bertie. Whereas Luv is a shrewd businesswoman who is known for her brashness, meek Bertie is the one who constantly takes care of their child, only runs a side-business, and is even referred to by your ExpositionFairy as a "tireless househusband." Although Bertie seems like a HenpeckedHusband, he seems to genuinely enjoy being the primary caretaker for their child ("Even when they keep you up all night, babies are still pretty cute"), and he and Luv make a great potion-making team.
* In ''VideoGame/TheSims'', a male character with a family-based aspiration works very well as one of these. And as the Sims world is a largely genderless utopia of acceptance, no one finds it in any way strange. ''The Sims 3'' subverts this trope with pre-made Dustin Langerek, who, though a stay at home dad, is less than focused on the housework.

* Some of the male potential spouses in ''VideoGame/StardewValley'' could be considered this, as your spouse will help out around the farm (feed the animals, water the crops, mend fences, cook breakfast), which often contrasts with their old life, and a few of them (such as Sam, who stops playing music) outright give up things they loved. However, these are strictly their own decisions and they only do it because they love you (unhappy spouses mope instead), and others, like Harvey, can still find time for their own lives. (In contrast, Abigail will finally have the chance to realize her dream of becoming a monster slayer, and may randomly give you monster drops from her latest adventure.)

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

* Ryuuji from ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'' is a variation on this, as he plays this role to both his own mother and Taiga. And enjoys it.

* In ''LightNovel/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'', Alciel turns from a Demon General in [[StandardFantasySetting Ente Isla]] to this once he arrives on Earth. Definitely PlayedForLaughs.

* Briefly, on ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', after Matt's law enforcement career hits an even more serious snag than usual, he becomes a surprisingly apt house husband, having breakfast ready when his wife gets up, cooking French cuisine, and apparently taking on most of the childcare responsibilities. Nonetheless, his wife worries he's not happy without a job. (Perhaps relatedly, his wife appears with PowerHair and a [[LadyInAPowerSuit very sensible black pantsuit]] while he's being Mr Mom in the kitchen.)

** In ''VideoGame/RuneFactory5,'' Reinhard is a platonic example to [[KnightAndLady his lady,]] Beatrice. He handles all of the chores from her, from laundry to shopping to cooking, though his cooking [[LethalChef is occasionally questionable.]] Should the player marry him, he'll also mention doing chores for them... and his dialogues will still mention looking out for Beatrice, suggesting he's now the primary domestic of ''two'' households.

* In ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'', Kiel is this if the player marries him. He's a fantastic cook who gives the player very good food for breakfast every morning, and he does lots of chores, which he mentions frequently in his dialogue. He's a doting father to his and the protagonist's eventual child, too, but [[GoodParents all the bachelors are.]]

* Lelouch Lamperouge from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is an excellent cook, knows how to sew, and is a consummate neat freak, all as a result of looking after his IllGirl sister for years. This especially contrasts with his partner C.C., a total slob who leaves trash all over the place and would gleefully eat [[ProductPlacement Pizza Hut]] each and every meal if she could.