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* ''Film/ReturnToSeoul'': Freddie is not pleased to learn that her reappearance in her biological father's life has caused him to be a soused, needy wreck.

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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'': Fifteen-years-old Trish Una had only heard stories about her father from her mother, and after her mother died she learned that her father is the Boss of the criminal organization Passione. While initially acting like a MafiaPrincess, she reveals to Bucciarati (who was tasked with delivering her to the boss) that she's terrified at the newfound danger of being the Boss's daughter. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that the Boss is a raging paranoiac who is obsessed with his anonymity. He only ordered Bucciarati and his team to deliver Trish so he can kill her himself because he sees the fact he has a daughter as a threat to his identity.]]

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Fifteen-years-old Trish Una had only heard stories about her father from her mother, and after her mother died she learned that her father is the Boss TheDon of the criminal organization Passione. While initially acting like a MafiaPrincess, she reveals to Bucciarati (who was tasked with delivering her to the boss) that she's terrified at the newfound danger of being the Boss's daughter. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that the Boss is a raging paranoiac who is obsessed with his anonymity. He only ordered Bucciarati and his team to deliver Trish so he can kill her himself because he sees the fact he has a daughter as a threat to his identity.]]]]
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'': With his amnesia, Josuke's investigation to find out who he is leads him to meeting his mother, Holly, who is a patient at the hospital, having lost some of her memory and mental functions as a result of a large portion of her brain, along with a number of other organs, have been surgically removed.



** [[Manga/GoldenWind Giorno Giovanna]] is horrified when he learns that his "father", [[BigBad DIO]], was a twisted and cruel vampire that caused suffering to numerous people. It's enough that after the first time he sees him in person, he [[YouAreNotMyFather denounces Dio as his parent and burns the picture that he always carries]]. This is averted with his biological father [[Manga/PhantomBlood Jonathan Joestar]], who happily accepts Giorno as his son (even though the former is 20 at the moment) while Giorno sees him as the parent he never had.
** When [[Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable Josuke Higashikata]] finds out that the old man from the Manga/StardustCrusaders team is Joseph Joestar, his biological father, he becomes enraged since for Joseph it would have only been a few years since he left Josuke's mother heartbroken and alone. He nearly kills Joseph if [[TeamDad Jonathan]] didn't step in and calm him down.

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** [[Manga/GoldenWind [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Giorno Giovanna]] is horrified when he learns that his "father", [[BigBad DIO]], was a twisted and cruel vampire that caused suffering to numerous people. It's enough that after the first time he sees him in person, he [[YouAreNotMyFather denounces Dio as his parent and burns the picture that he always carries]]. This is averted with his biological father [[Manga/PhantomBlood [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Jonathan Joestar]], who happily accepts Giorno as his son (even though the former is 20 at the moment) while Giorno sees him as the parent he never had.
** When [[Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Josuke Higashikata]] finds out that the old man from the Manga/StardustCrusaders team ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' is Joseph Joestar, his biological father, he becomes enraged since for Joseph it would have only been a few years since he left Josuke's mother heartbroken and alone. He nearly kills Joseph if [[TeamDad Jonathan]] didn't step in and calm him down.



* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteelII'': At the climax of the main story, Rean finds out that his father is [[spoiler:the chancellor of [[TheEmpire Erebonia]] and the one who is behind the annexation of small towns, cities, and even countries to be absorbed by the Erebonian empire, Giliath Osborne]].

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* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteelII'': ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel II'': At the climax of the main story, Rean finds out that his father is [[spoiler:the chancellor of [[TheEmpire Erebonia]] and the one who is behind the annexation of small towns, cities, and even countries to be absorbed by the Erebonian empire, Giliath Osborne]].



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* ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'': In "Forget the Alamo", Tuddrussel is floored when he sees that Jeremiah is absolutely nothing like he had envisioned in his mind.



* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'': Omi was raised by warrior monks, with his upbringing and own arrogance instilling the belief that his parents were also gifted martial artists. In "[[Recap/XiaolinShowdownOmiTown Omi Town]]", Omi's search for his parents leads him to a small farm, where an old couple identifies him as the son they accidentally sold away due to mistaking him for a grapefruit. They turn out to be horribly abusive, treating Omi more as a servant than a son, up to forcing him to sleep in the chicken coop. [[spoiler:This is subverted when it's later revealed that they were actually robots, programmed by the BigBad to lure Omi away from the Xiaolin temple and break his spirit]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'': Omi was raised by warrior monks, with his upbringing and own arrogance instilling the belief that his parents were also gifted martial artists. In "[[Recap/XiaolinShowdownOmiTown Omi Town]]", Omi's search for his parents leads him to a small farm, where an old couple identifies him as the son they accidentally sold away due to mistaking him for a grapefruit. They turn out to be horribly abusive, treating Omi more as a servant than a son, up to forcing him to sleep in the chicken coop. [[spoiler:This is subverted when it's later revealed that they were actually robots, programmed by the BigBad Jack to lure Omi away from the Xiaolin temple and break his spirit]].



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* ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'': [[spoiler:Silver discovers that he's the biological son of the Knight of Dawn, who lead an invading human army that tried to take over fairy territory and who eventually killed Malleus's mother. Finding out he's the direct offspring of his foster family's worst enemy briefly sends Silver into HeroicBSOD.]]
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* ''Series/PeakyBlinders'': Arthur Shelby discovers that his MissingDad Artur Sr. is still alive and back in town. Despite warnings from the rest of the family, Arthur tries to reconcile with his father believing that the man had a HeelFaceTurn. However, Arthur Sr. is still as rotten as ever and he cons his son out of a large sum of money and then leaves town once again. A despondent Arthur tries to kill himself. A subversion comes from the fact that the Shelbys, being gangsters and killers themselves, do not have an issue with Arthur Sr being a thief but they find it unforgivable that he has no problem stealing from his own family.

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* ''Series/PeakyBlinders'': Arthur Shelby discovers that his MissingDad DisappearedDad Artur Sr. is still alive and back in town. Despite warnings from the rest of the family, Arthur tries to reconcile with his father believing that the man had a HeelFaceTurn. However, Arthur Sr. is still as rotten as ever and he cons his son out of a large sum of money and then leaves town once again. A despondent Arthur tries to kill himself. A subversion comes from the fact that the Shelbys, being gangsters and killers themselves, do not have an issue with Arthur Sr being a thief but they find it unforgivable that he has no problem stealing from his own family.
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* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': In "[[Recap/CheersS4E10 The Bar Stoolie]]", Cliff's DisappearedDad shows up after being missing for years. They have a great time bonding until Cliff's dad confesses that he's on the run for real estate fraud. Cliff refuses to follow his father to Australia.

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* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': In "[[Recap/CheersS4E10 "[[Recap/CheersS4E10TheBarStoolie The Bar Stoolie]]", Cliff's DisappearedDad shows up after being missing for years. They have a great time bonding until Cliff's dad confesses that he's on the run for real estate fraud. Cliff refuses to follow his father to Australia.
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** ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeVTheEmpireStrikesBack'': Luke Skywalker [[LukeIAmYourFather learns]] that his father Anakin, whom he sought to emulate as a Jedi, has become the infamous Darth Vader, having fallen to the Dark Side of the Force and become an evil killing machine who strikes terror into the heart of nearly the entire galaxy. Devastated beyond belief at this horrible news, Luke's only hope is to turn his father good again. In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', Luke has the task of sharing this information with his [[SeparatedAtBirth recently revealed twin sister Leia]], who doesn't take it much better than he did.
** ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeIXTheRiseOfSkywalker'' has an example of Unpleasant ''Grand''parent Reveal when [[spoiler:Rey learns that she's [[TheEmperor Palpatine's]] granddaughter]].

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** ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeVTheEmpireStrikesBack'': ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'': Luke Skywalker [[LukeIAmYourFather learns]] that his father Anakin, whom he sought to emulate as a Jedi, has become the infamous Darth Vader, having fallen to the Dark Side of the Force and become an evil killing machine who strikes terror into the heart of nearly the entire galaxy. Devastated beyond belief at this horrible news, Luke's only hope is to turn his father good again. In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', Luke has the task of sharing this information with his [[SeparatedAtBirth recently revealed recently-revealed twin sister Leia]], who doesn't take it much better than he did.
** ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeIXTheRiseOfSkywalker'' ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' has an example of Unpleasant ''Grand''parent Reveal when [[spoiler:Rey learns that she's [[TheEmperor Palpatine's]] granddaughter]].
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* ''Literature/{{Dogman}}'':
** Petey’s Dad, Lil Petey’s Grampa is an evil, selfish, arrogant, careless, abusive, and irresponsible father, by having no love for Petey whatsoever and had abandoned him when Petey’s mom was sick, when he came back all he did was being mean to his son, then when Petey left to help Dogman from the villains, Grampa stole all of valuable stuffs. In his next parents from the book, he went to jail for stealing all of his son valuables then put skeeping gas a him when he and his grandson come to visit him Not long after, he disguises himself as Petey, making Petey look like himself. By the next book Petey confront his father say he is done hating him but it doesn’t mean he will love him either, all he can do is to forgive his father even though Grampa didn’t want his forgiveness and was very mad on why would Petey ever forgive him when he was never there for Petey that was last time they ever talk to each other.He is also shown to be incredibly rude to his grandson Lil Petey.
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** Finn's father is initially a complete mystery, but, when it's revealed that he's alive in "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS6E2EscapeFromTheCitadel Escape from the Citadel]]", Finn is very eager to meet him. He has high hopes that he'll be some kind of hero like Finn himself, despite the fact that it's revealed he is in an inter-dimensional prison. However, it turns out that he's a selfish coward who scams and takes advantage of people as he bums around space, and Finn is devastated to find that he was abandoned and that his father doesn't seem to care about him at all.

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** Finn's father is initially a complete mystery, but, when it's revealed that he's alive in "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS6E2EscapeFromTheCitadel Escape from the Citadel]]", Finn is very eager to meet him. He has high hopes that he'll be some kind of hero like Finn himself, despite the fact that it's revealed he is in an inter-dimensional prison. However, it turns out that he's a selfish coward who scams and takes advantage of people as he bums around space, and Finn is devastated to find that he was abandoned and that his father doesn't seem to care about him at all. Granted, most of his dad's jerkish behavior ''does'' come from brain damage, but still.
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** A variant. Just before the two-year anniversary of his mother's "[[NeverFoundTheBody death]]," Marco discovers that his mother is actually the [[GrandTheftMe host body]] of [[MagnificentBitch Visser One]], who [[DeathFakedForYou faked the death]] when she was reassigned off-planet. Marco had actually been planning to quit the team but stayed on with the goal of eventually freeing his mom from the [[PuppeteerParasite Yeerks]]. [[spoiler:He succeeds forty books later]].

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** A variant. Just before the two-year anniversary of his mother's "[[NeverFoundTheBody death]]," Marco discovers that his mother is actually the [[GrandTheftMe host body]] of [[MagnificentBitch Visser One]], One, who [[DeathFakedForYou faked the death]] when she was reassigned off-planet. Marco had actually been planning to quit the team but stayed on with the goal of eventually freeing his mom from the [[PuppeteerParasite Yeerks]]. [[spoiler:He succeeds forty books later]].
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* ''Literature/TheGreatGillyHopkins'': In the final chapter, Gilly finally meets her long-lost mother in the final chapter... only to learn that her mother doesn't care about her ''at all'', and only came to visit her at all because Gilly's grandmother basically bribed her to. This leads Gilly to a near breakdown, although her former foster mother convinces her to give her grandmother -- who really does love her -- a chance anyway.

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* ''Literature/TheGreatGillyHopkins'': In the final chapter, Gilly finally meets her long-lost mother in the final chapter...mother... only to learn that her mother doesn't care about her ''at all'', and only came to visit her at all because Gilly's grandmother basically bribed her to. This leads Gilly to a near breakdown, although her former foster mother convinces her to give her grandmother -- who really does love her -- a chance anyway.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'': In "Like Father Like Libby", after six whole years of not being able to see him, Libby finally meets her father Matias, only to her to quickly learn that the only thing he cares is about making his book a trilogy.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'': In "Like Father Like Libby", after six whole years of not being able to see him, Libby finally meets reunites with her father Matias, only to for her to quickly learn that the only thing he cares is about making he's more interested in his book a trilogy.writing career than his family.

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* ''Fanfic/AlternateTKOSeries'': ''The Choice'' has Professor Venomous reveal that he was Terbio's father, Laserblast. This only serves to make Terbio resent him even more for how he abandoned their mother to raise him and his older brother by herself.
* ''Fanfic/CellarSecrets'': A variant in that Satsuki and Nui find out that, not too long after he left the family, Souichiro died as opposed to having found out that he had done something horrible. However, while they knew he died, they don't find out ''how'' he died, until chapter 21, where we find out that he died in a [[spoiler: car accident]], leaving Satsuki to be relieved that he died rather quickly (his neck was broken) and not because what she would have thought previously.



* ''Moving Forward'', a ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' fanfiction: Orihime's long-absent father shows up on her doorstep but he isn't there for a heart-to-heart talk. He is there to take her home so he can get her mother's life insurance, and he is ready to use force to make her come with him.
* ''Fanfic/CellarSecrets'': A variant in that Satsuki and Nui find out that, not too long after he left the family, Souichiro died as opposed to having found out that he had done something horrible. However, while they knew he died, they don't find out ''how'' he died, until chapter 21, where we find out that he died in a [[spoiler: car accident]], leaving Satsuki to be relieved that he died rather quickly (his neck was broken) and not because what she would have thought previously.

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* ''Moving Forward'', a ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' fanfiction: Orihime's long-absent father shows up on ''Fanfic/CrimsonAndEmerald'': After seeing Inko's wedding photos, Toshinori identifies her doorstep but he isn't there husband Hisashi as being none other than ''[[BigBad All for a heart-to-heart talk. He One]]''. Inko is there to take her home so he can get her mother's life insurance, and he is ready to use force to make her come with him.
* ''Fanfic/CellarSecrets'': A variant in that Satsuki and Nui find out that, not too long after he left the family, Souichiro died as opposed to having found out that he had done something horrible. However, while they knew he died, they don't find out ''how'' he died, until chapter 21, where we find out that he died in a [[spoiler: car accident]], leaving Satsuki to be relieved that he died rather quickly (his neck was broken) and not because what she would have thought previously.
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* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBoilingPoint'': Skara's father is initially believed to be Warden Wrath, but eventually, we find out the truth: [[spoiler: Warden Wrath's her ''adoptive'' father, while her biological father is ''Alador Blight'', '''''Amity's father'''''.]]

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* ''Fanfic/{{Incarnate}}'': Sunset Shimmer is RelatedInTheAdaptation here to none other than Princess Celestia herself, with [[spoiler:Mirror Sombra]] as her sire. All of this was [[LockedOutOfTheLoop kept from her]] until circumstances ''force'' the truth out into the open; to make matters worse, the latter half of her heritage spurs Starswirl to [[ItIsDehumanizing refer to her as "it"]], much to Celestia's utter outrage.
* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBoilingPoint'': Skara's father is initially believed to be Warden Wrath, but eventually, we find out the truth: [[spoiler: Warden [[spoiler:Warden Wrath's her ''adoptive'' father, while her biological father is ''Alador Blight'', '''''Amity's father'''''.]]father''''']].


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* ''Moving Forward'', a ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' fanfiction: Orihime's long-absent father shows up on her doorstep but he isn't there for a heart-to-heart talk. He is there to take her home so he can get her mother's life insurance, and he is ready to use force to make her come with him.


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* ''Fanfic/SuperKoopalings'': In ''A Jasper in the Rough'', the koopalings learn that their biological father [[spoiler:threw their eggs into a river]].
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* ''Literature/WingsOfFire': The protagonists of the first arc' each look for their parents in the books they star in, and almost all of them end up disappointed in some way. Clay finds out that, in his tribe's culture, parents don't take care of their children at all and just abandon them at birth, although at least he has siblings who care about him. Tsunami finds out that, while her mother genuinely cares for her and isn't a full-out villain, she has some [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen very questionable morals]], not to mention being [[MyBelovedSmother very overprotective]], and that [[spoiler:she killed her own father without realizing it]]. Glory ends up in a similar scenario to Clay where her tribe turns out to not care for family, with the added aspect that, from what she knows about that tribe, her parents probably fit the stereotypes she's [[StopBeingStereotypical spent her life trying to prove wrong]]. Starflight's mother is dead and his father is a MadScientist who treats the captured [=RainWings=] horribly. Only Sunny, who never felt she needed good parents to be happy, ends up [[SweetAndSourGrapes having parents who aren't disappointing]].

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* ''Literature/WingsOfFire': ''Literature/WingsOfFire'': The protagonists of the first arc' each look for their parents in the books they star in, and almost all of them end up disappointed in some way. Clay finds out that, in his tribe's culture, parents don't take care of their children at all and just abandon them at birth, although at least he has siblings who care about him. Tsunami finds out that, while her mother genuinely cares for her and isn't a full-out villain, she has some [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen very questionable morals]], not to mention being [[MyBelovedSmother very overprotective]], and that [[spoiler:she killed her own father without realizing it]]. Glory ends up in a similar scenario to Clay where her tribe turns out to not care for family, with the added aspect that, from what she knows about that tribe, her parents probably fit the stereotypes she's [[StopBeingStereotypical spent her life trying to prove wrong]]. Starflight's mother is dead and his father is a MadScientist who treats the captured [=RainWings=] horribly. Only Sunny, who never felt she needed good parents to be happy, ends up [[SweetAndSourGrapes having parents who aren't disappointing]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'': In "Like Father Like Libby", after six whole years of not being able to see him, Libby finally meets her father Matias, only to her to quickly learn that the only thing he cares is about making his book a trilogy.
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* ''Manga/EdensZero'': Homura Kōgetsu's mother left her when she was a little girl to raise money with the promise of coming back, leaving the girl to fend on her own until Valkeryie found her and became her teacher and ParentalSubstitute. After coming to believe that Homura can only be happy with her actual mother, Valkeryie left to find and bring her back. [[spoiler:It's then revealed that Homura's mother, Kurenai, was really a [[BitchInSheepsClothing deceptive]] ManipulativeBitch, tricking Valkeryie to take her spot in the labor camp of Sun Jewel while she killed the current crime lord and took his place as a more ruthless tyrant. She would even send out the Stone monsters out of the cave onto the various miners, forcing Valkeryie to perform a LastStand to save them at the cost of her life. After recovering from both the truth of her teacher's death and her mother's true nature, Homura came to realize that Kurenai didn't care for her when she failed to recognize a stuffed animal she gave Homura as a promise to her return. Homura declares that she doesn't feel anything for her mother besides thanks for bringing her into the world, and tells her to leave Sun Jewel and never cross her path again]].
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* ''Literature/Redwall'': In ''Outcast of Redwall'', Veil is the son of the warlord Swartt Sixclaw, though neither attempts to do anything about it. It's only the older members of his horde that see the resemblance (and of course, the fact that both have an extra claw on their hand).

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* ''Literature/Redwall'': ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': In ''Outcast of Redwall'', Veil is the son of the warlord Swartt Sixclaw, though neither attempts to do anything about it. It's only the older members of his horde that see the resemblance (and of course, the fact that both have an extra claw on their hand).
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* ''Film/MilionDollarBaby'': After yelling at Frankie for saying unkind words about her trailer-trash family, Maggie is forced to realize that he's right- after she ends up tetraplegic, her family do come visit her in Los Angeles... after spending the day at Disneyland.

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* ''Film/MilionDollarBaby'': ''Film/MillionDollarBaby'': After yelling at Frankie for saying unkind words about her trailer-trash family, Maggie is forced to realize that he's right- after she ends up tetraplegic, her family do come visit her in Los Angeles... after spending the day at Disneyland.
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* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'': Jake never knew his father, but his mother had told him "I'm sure he loves you and is thinking about you." During the game, Jake finds out that his father was actually [[spoiler:[[BigBad Al]][[AGodAmI bert]] [[MadScientist Wes]][[DiabolicalMastermind ker]]]]. Jake is disgusted by his father's actions and hates the idea of becoming like him.

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* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'': Jake never knew his father, but his mother had told him "I'm sure he loves you and is thinking about you." During the game, Jake finds out that his father was actually [[spoiler:[[BigBad Al]][[AGodAmI bert]] Albert]] [[MadScientist Wes]][[DiabolicalMastermind ker]]]].Wesker]]]]. Jake is disgusted by his father's actions and hates the idea of becoming like him.

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