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* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'''s Johnathon and Martha Kent sometimes lean to the overprotective side, but mostly they are perfectly fine with their son racing around saving lives and fighting mutants. They also tend to be the ones who help him get a handle on his new powers.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', in an episode where Xandir is working up the nerve to tell his parents he's gay. Trouble is, it's so obvious, the other characters initially mock him for being in a TransparentCloset. They then enact what it would be like if Xandir's parents hated the idea, going so far as to adopt personas of AbusiveParents, even when Xandir's not there. When Xandir finally tells his actual parents he's gay, his parents [[CallBack mimic the first response]] given by his housemates.

* Mrs. Ketchum has no problem with allowing her son Ash, age 10, to travel the Anime/{{Pokemon}} world - with or without any [[TrueCompanions traveling companions]] and amass a small personal army of creatures who protect him; it's a custom that borders on RiteOfPassage, after all. Plus, his friends sometimes crash at his place for arbitrary lengths of time as well; again, she's cool with this, and dotes on them almost as though they were her own children. In [[TheMovie the second movie]], she's slightly annoyed with him being right in the middle of the end of the world. But she loosens up later.
* In ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', Gold's mom asks where her son is, but turns around and says "Oh well, he'll be back when he wants to." before getting an answer.

* Zig-zagged on ''Series/GilmoreGirls.'' Lorelai tries for this trope, even saying in the pilot that she tries to run her home as a democracy and pull the "Mom" card as little as possible. However, as the series goes on, she proves that she and her mother (very much the opposite of this trope) are NotSoDifferent, when Rory goes off to Yale and cracks under the pressure, veering from the carefully cultivated path Lorelai has guided her on for her entire life. Lorelai freaks out and this causes a months-long estrangement between her and Rory.

* ''Film/EntreNous2021'': Elodie's stepfather Roity is wholly accepting of her being a lesbian. He even encourages her to have a child with her fiancée Laetitia. She's very grateful for him, as many LGBT+ people (including Laetitia) don't have someone like this supporting them in their lives.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Michael Carpenter, which is even more notable considering that he's also a devout churchgoing Christian. Upon seeing his BlackSheep daughter return home from running away with all her piercings, tattoos, and multicoloured hair, his first instinct is to hug her. Afterwards, he relays to the protagonist:

* In ''Fanfic/TheEarthAdventuresOfMonStar'', while they are not happy that their daughter just had non-marital sex with a human boy she just met, Toffee and Moon take it way better than you'd think, even sympathizing with the predicament that Marco was forced upon. They're still making him marry her though.
* ''Fanfic/FemaleTransfiguration101'': Both Ginny and Hermione's parents seem fine with their relationship.

* Ugga from ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'' is a downplayed example. While she's open to newer things unlike [[OverprotectiveDad Grug]], it's only ''slightly'' more than him, and she would usually (until CharacterDevelopment) agree with his choices.

* Sherman Hollis from ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'' is this to his daughter, Laura, despite his [[MyBelovedSmother insane]] [[OverprotectiveDad overprotective nature]]. He's completely fine with Laura being a lesbian, his issues with her dating Carmilla having more to do with the fact that Carmilla's an [[LesbianVampire undead bloodsucker]] of ambiguous morality than with the fact that Carmilla's a girl. Even that, he gets over eventually. He's also immediately accepting of [=LaFontaine=], Laura's friend who's non-binary, and makes an immediate effort to correct himself when he accidentally misgenders them.

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'''s parents are completely supportive of their daughter's {{supervillain}}-fighting activities and don't bat an eyelid over her flying halfway around the world to stop Dr. Drakken's latest scheme and risk life and limb in the process, so long as she's doing well on [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld the home front]]. Dating boys, though, her father [[OverprotectiveDad isn't so happy with]]. Despite his feelings, he's willing to accept it when Kim has a boyfriend. Kim's mom is completely supportive of her having a relationship with Ron, Kim's childhood friend and partner in crime-fighting, even encouraging their relationship. This also extends to Kim's younger twin brothers, Jim and Tim. Their parents are apparently completely okay with them blowing up the garage with their experiments (though it's somewhat justified in that Mr. Possible, their father, did just that when he was their age.)

* In ''LightNovel/KyoKaraMaoh'' Yuri is deeply worried about what will happen when he shows up at home with his entire boy harem, including fiance, from another magical world where he is king. Much to his surprise, his parents already knew he was going to be king, and are merely disappointed that he didn't tell him sooner. His (male) fiance then proudly announces their engagement, despite all Yuri's protests, only for his mother and fiance to plan a shopping trip to buy a wedding gown, much to Yuri's horror.

* Souji's mother in ''LightNovel/GonnaBeTheTwinTail'' is... special, for sure. For one, she's not only okay about this whole Tail Red gender-swapping heroine nonsense, but she's also fine with Twoearle converting the basement of the house into a secret base, never mind her complete blessing for Twoearle to jump Souji's bones. In the light novel, she admits that both she and Souji's father were stricken by a serious case of {{chuunibyou}}, which is why she was totally okay with her son being a hero by proxy, as he was living his parents' fondest dreams.

* In ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', Mahiro finds out that his mother Yoriko is coming home early and worries about her finding out about his PrettyFreeloaders Nyarko and Cuko, partly because he's afraid she'll think he's the type of son who brings girls home when his parents are away, but mostly because they're {{Eldritch Abomination}}s straight out of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos. When Yoriko does show up, she's fully aware what they are because she's a [[ActionMom part-time monster hunter and god-slayer]] (something Mahiro didn't know about) and is completely fine with them staying under her roof as long as they don't cause too much trouble [[MamaBear or hurt her Hiro-kun]]. Later on she declares that she's perfectly fine with Nyarko romantically pursuing Mahiro, but encourages her to take it slow, because "high schoolers should have a high school romance."\\\

* In ''Literature/{{Rick}}'', the title character's mom reminds his dad that he might look for a "cute" girl ''or boy'' when he starts middle school. Rick's dad tells him this after his first day, adding that he might just be a late bloomer, but neither him nor his mom realize that he isn't interested in anyone because he's asexual.

* The ''Literature/YoungWizards'' series, Nita's parents seem to be awfully accepting of the fact that she's made herself a personal enemy of the [[BigBad Lone Power]] by becoming a foot soldier for the Cosmic Forces of Good. But then this might just be resignation in the face of the fact that there's absolutely nothing they can do to stop her: grounding your daughter is pretty futile when she can both walk through walls and teleport.
** Apparently, Kit's father took it amazingly well. "My son's a ''brujo''....cool."
** Don't think that it was easy though. At the time they decided to come out to their parents (during ''Deep Wizardry''), Nita had volunteered to take part in an undersea ritual with the whale wizards without fully understanding that the role she had taken required her to sacrifice herself to complete it. Telling your parents you're probably going to die in the course of your work never goes over well. However both the terms of the ritual and the Wizard's Oath entail that she can't go back on her commitment without serious consequences--at best, the surrender of her wizardry and a boost for the Lone Power, at worst, if the ritual fails, the destruction of the Atlantic seaboard. [[spoiler: She makes it out alive because someone was able to TakeAThirdOption.]] By the same token, it's dishonorable at best to use wizardry to get out of something like being grounded, and Tom and Carl, the local Seniors, cooperate with parents in on TheMasquerade and aren't above restricting the powers of a misbehaving wizard if they absolutely have to. (Nita's sister Dariane gets grounded from interplanetary travel in ''A Wizard's Holiday''--worse than it sounds since she has close friends in parts of the universe too far away to observe using conventional astronomy.)
* In ''Literature/ShadowOfTheHegemon'', Peter is flabbergasted when his parents tell him how proud they are of his secret double life as a famous columnist. They then gently chide him for not realizing that his genius is genetic especially given the intellects of his own siblings.
* ''Literature/ThePaleKing'': Chris's mother defends her son's actions while dealing with her own issues with regards to feminism and individuality.
* Peter Grant's parents in ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'' are very accepting of the fact he's gone from junior copper to [[TheApprentice apprentice wizard]] copper. At one point he reflects that in his Mum's culture being a "witch smeller" is probably ''more'' respectable than being a policeman.

* In ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImASupervillain'', Claire's mom, being a former villain herself, fully supports the trio's activities, just as long as they don't get in over their heads.
* Subverted in ''Literature/VampireAcademy''. Daniella Ivashkov seems to accept the relationship of her son Adrian with dhampir Rose, though the Moroi in general and her husband Nathan look down on such relationships. She later has a private talk with Rose, revealing that she simply figures their relationship won't last. She is content to let it run its course.
* In the Creator/MaeveBinchy novel ''Evening Class'', a young woman is explaining to her younger sister that she is actually her mother. She states that ''her'' mother's reaction to her out of wedlock teen pregnancy was to say, "Won't it be grand to have another baby around the house." Already remarkable, but even more so considering that this was Ireland in the 1950s, where such a situation was a ''major'' embarrassment.
* In ''Literature/TheHeartsWeSold'', Gremma's parents are fine with the fact that their daughter is a lesbian. Gremma reveals that briefly after she came out, she saw "how to be supportive of gay kid" in her mom's search history.

* ''Literature/JustJuliet'': Juliet's dad doesn't mind at all that his nephew's boyfriend stays over. He later says the same to Lena with Juliet, so long as they practice safe sex.

Compare HippieParents, PranksterParent, DotingParent, MilhollandRelationshipMoment, ReasonableAuthorityFigure. Contrast FantasyForbiddingParent, HelicopterParents, LoveObstructingParents.

Compare HippieParents, DotingParent, MilhollandRelationshipMoment, ReasonableAuthorityFigure. Contrast FantasyForbiddingParent, HelicopterParents, LoveObstructingParents.

Compare HippieParents, DotingParent, MilhollandRelationshipMoment, ReasonableAuthorityFigure. Contrast FantasyForbiddingParent.

Compare HippieParents, DotingParent, MilhollandRelationshipMoment, ReasonableAuthorityFigure.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Tarquin from the same series absolutely LOVES the fact that his son [[spoiler: Elan is a hero determined to take down villains like him]] because it makes for a much more entertaining story (and he can exploit it to his advantage). Despite their differences, he's glad his son is doing something awesome with his life and has a hot girlfriend ([[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents to the point of hitting on his future daughter-in-law]]). Tarquin's relationship with his [[EvilTwin OTHER son]] is much worse and even more messed up.

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': Chibiusa´s parents, Mamoru and Usagi Tsukino, are remarkably open minded about letting their daughter fight with them in some extremely dangerous battles, and deliberately allow her to go back in time more than once after her initial time travel adventure to continue with it, which is even more impressive given that Chibiusa has the mind and size of a roughly 6 or 7 year old child to begin with, and later on grows into something closer to 10 and 12 as the seasons go by. When Chibiusa stay with Kenji, Ikkuko, and Shingo, her grandparents and uncle are also rather happy to let her do largely whatever she wants to at whatever time and place with Usagi, Mamoru, and their friends who are twice as old as she is to start out.

* Lee to foster daughter Clementine in ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead''. In Clementine's dream from "Broken Toys", Lee shows support to Clem if she romanced Louis or Violet, saying she's got "a boy who thinks the world of you" or "a girl that loves her" in her life now.

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