History PapaWolf / Literature

** By the time of [[LegacyOfTheForce a civil war between Corellia and what used to be the New Republic]], Wedge Antilles is [[BadassGrandpa about sixty years old]] and has a pair of twenty-something daughters, Syal and Myri. Myri gets to stay with him on the Corellian side, where he spends about half of the series, but Syal is on the other side. And Wedge respects this, although it saddens him. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments He's very close to his daughters]], and very protective of them.

* Buster Beasely in ''[[SixteenThirtyTwo 1635: The Dreeson Incident]]''. [[spoiler: "I'm coming, Princess Baby!" To the rescue, that is. And does he ever, on a Harley and with a .45 and a knife.]]

** This is beautifully demonstrated when, being the CompleteMonster that she is, Dolores Umbridge shakes Marietta Edgecombe violently in an effort to make her spit out enough info to get Harry expelled. Dumbledore magically pushes her away, jumping suddenly from [[TranquilFury calm and polite to highly angry]]. "I cannot allow you to manhandle my students, Dolores."

* Henry Grimm, in the later ''The Sisters Grimm'' novels by Michael Buckley, [[spoiler: attacks Grendel (Yes, that Grendel) unarmed, and wins. He also beats up his much-loved brother]] in both cases to protect his daughters.

* Good ol' Jim Davenport in ''Triggerfish Twist''. Lets everyone push him around. But [[spoiler: point a gun at his child and you will be very, very sorry, but not for very, very long.]]

* In Tim Dorsey's novel ''Electric Barracuda'' [[spoiler: it turns out that Serge Storms is a father. Hint to the child molester on the playground: you really don't want to try to entice the child of a serial killer.]]

* ''Literature/TheJungleBook'': Akela, who acts as a father for Mowgli despite not necessarily his adoptive father. And is a literal wolf. [[BigGuy Baloo]] and [[BadAss Bagheera]], too (despite being a bear and a black panther, respectively). Akela stood up for him when he was brought to the pack as an infant (after [[MamaBear Raksha]] saved him from Shere Khan), Bagheera bought his life and protected him ever since, and Baloo taught him the ways of the Jungle - and when he's kidnapped by the monkeys, they join with [[OldMaster Kaa]] to make it a day and a night the poo-flinging rabble will not live to regret...

* AmeliaPeabody: Dr. Radcliffe Emerson, Egyptologist-detective husband of Amelia Peabody, who is always short-tempered and becomes absolutely volcanic at any threat to his family. Since he is regularly described by his narrator-wife as "Herculean" in build, the results are impressive. For that matter, his son Ramses inherits this trait. Guess what? Their wives are definite {{Mama Bear}}s; it's a close-knit family.

** What about Michael? He's a sword-wielding knight of God. He has a daughter who is [[spoiler:about to be executed by the White Council Elders, who are powerful enough that even if you manage to kill just ''one'' of them, it would release a death curse which would be the magical equivalent of head butting the trigger of a 10-mega-ton nuclear warhead.]] He is exhausted and heavily wounded from battle. Yet, without the slightest hesitation, he immediately prepares to take them all on at once. Even knowing that afterward, should he somehow miraculously survive, he would forever more be on the run from every single [[spoiler:white court wizard]] in the entire world.

** In ''Changes'', the Red Court of vampires takes his daughter with the intent of [[spoiler: sacrificing her to fuel a massive curse that will kill her entire bloodline.]] He responds by [[spoiler: Joining forces with Mab and becoming her Knight, sacrificing two people on altars, and ''genociding the entire freaking Red Court''.]] ''Don't fuck with Harry Dresden's family.''

*** Not to mention in ''Proven Gulty'', when he teamed up with MamaBear Charity to [[spoiler:''storm the freaking Winter Court'' in order to save Molly]].

** And Harry's Uncle Vernon who- though he often falls into the categories of AbusiveParents (toward Harry, of course), [[Muggle]] ''and'' BumblingDad - is very protective of his own wife and son and is even willing to shield them from Hagrid.

** As soon as he finds out Margo's his granddaughter, Kit becomes very protective of her. Skeeter, having tried to scam Margo before anyone knew, walks very, very shy around both ever after.
* The short story '''Monsters Tearing Of My Face''' has a particularly gruesome one. At the climax of the story, the little girl who drew the true picture of blue monsters tearing off her face turns out to really be a blue monster in a human disguise...when her mother tears it off of her, while her father tears the flesh from the bones of the foster parents who were about to rape her.

* Despite his relationship with Rue is never defined, Thresh is one towards her in ''TheHungerGames''. When [[spoiler: he overhears Clove taunting Katniss about Rue's death]], his BerserkButton is pressed, actually breaks his [[TheStoic calm demeanor]] and ''shouts'' furiously and it didn't go well for [[spoiler: Clove]].

* In ''DresdenFiles'', although Harry is grown, and was his apprentice for only two years, Ebenezar [=McCoy=] is capable of this on occasion. In ''Summer Knight'', he is so indignant that Harry is to carry out Mab's request without even knowing it that it takes Harry two tries to get through that, yes, he does know it. [[spoiler:And he dropped a Russian satellite on the headquarters of a vampire who had threatened and fought with Harry.]]

* This is the entire premise behind [[JohnGrisham John Grisham's]] ''A Time To Kill.'' After a brutal first chapter detailing the rape of his 10-year-old daughter by a couple of rednecks, Carl Lee Hailey (played by none other than SamuelLJackson in TheMovieofTheBook) goes berserk on the two and opens fire on them with an assault rifle (even though they were already on trial), catching a court deputy in the process. [[spoiler:The deputy forgives him, as does the jury when they acquit him of murder charges by reason of "temporary insanity."]]
* Woe betide whoever dares to abduct [[StephenKing Popsy's]] grandson.

* Sam Vimes in ''[[Discworld/{{Thud}} Thud!]]''. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis THAT! IS!! NOT!!! MY!!!! COW!!!!!]]

* An OlderThanRadio example comes from Hector Malot's ''Sans Famille''. The travelling musician Vitalis practically purchased lead character Remi Barberin as his apprentice, but he genuinely cared for the boy and became his [[OldMaster mentor and example]]. His "Papa Wolf" side shows more strongly when [[spoiler:he discovers that the old man whom he was going to ask to look out for Remi in the winter actually abuses his protegees and forces them to steal for him]], and later when [[spoiler:he protects Remi from dying in a snowstorm... in a HeroicSacrifice]]. And he was also hinted to be one in his first apparition, when he "buys" Remi... after witnessing how horribly his abusive stepfather Jerome treats him, therefore choosing to "purchase" Remi half to have an apprentice and half to protect him.

* In ''{{Danny The Champion of the World}}'', it's revealed that Danny's father's main reason for disliking Hazell is because he threatened Danny. Later on, [[spoiler:when Danny gets caned by his teacher, his father threatens to go down to the school and beat the teacher.]]
* Becomes a major turning point in ''TheOutsiders''. Johnny [[spoiler:stabs a Soc who was going to kill Ponyboy.]] Beware the nice ones, oh GOD {{beware the nice ones}}!
** Let's not forget Dallas' reaction to [[spoiler:Finding out Johnny was dying from his burns.]] Mind you, by this point the reader already knows how dangerous Dallas can be, but seeing him threaten to put [[spoiler:the doctor]] in the emergency room for barring him access to [[spoiler:Johnny's hospital room]] seems to be a bit of a case of {{Disproportionate Retribution}}.
* A slightly twisted variant occurs in ''[[{{Dexter}} Dexter By Design]]'': Dex, of course, is already a {{serial killer}} masquerading as Just a NiceGuy, but it wasn't until relatively recently that he decided that he had feelings of love-ish for his stepfamily and foster sister (or, you know, ''anyone''). So, when a rival slasher decides to mess with [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Domestic Daddy Dexter]] by stabbing Debbie and trying to kidnap his stepkids, out comes [[OverlyLongGag Deadly Defensive Dexter]].

* There are some of these in the StarWarsExpandedUniverse.

** Papa Wolves are fairly prevalent in this series: Sirius Black does ''not'' like seeing Harry hurt, and neither does Remus Lupin.
** Mess with [[JerkAss Draco Malfoy]] when he's at school, and the next person you'll have to deal with is his favourite teacher and godfather-of-sorts Severus Snape, or worse still, Lucius Malfoy, his actual dad, with the power of the school governors, as well as the Ministry of Magic behind him (and not to mention, Lucius's love for his family is pretty much [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes his]] ''[[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes only]]'' [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes good trait]]).
** Arthur Weasley, while usually overshadowed by his MamaBear wife, in ''[[HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'', threatened Kingsley Shacklebolt (trained Auror, later takes on ''freakin' Voldemort'') to his face when he heard that one of his sons had been badly injured and Kingsley was trying to question him.
** Xenophilius Lovegood was ready to [[DespairEventHorizon hand Harry to the Death Eaters]] if it meant having Luna back.

* Good ol' Jim Davenport in ''Triggerfish Twist''. Lets everyone push him around. But [[spoiler: point a gun at his child and you will be very, very sorry, but not for very, very long.]]

* Buster Beasely in ''[[{{SixteenThirtyTwo}} 1635: The Dreeson Incident]]''. [[spoiler: "I'm coming, Princess Baby!" To the rescue, that is. And does he ever, on a Harley and with a .45 and a knife.]]

* In Felix Salten's ''Bambi's Children'' (yes, it's that Bambi), he sees a poacher taking aim at his son, and attacks.

* Aral Vorkosigan does this rather cleverly for Miles in ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga''. He convinces the council of counts to charge Miles with treason rather then raising a private army in ''The Warriors Apprentice'', knowing that the penalty for both is death but actual treason was in fact impossible to prove(he was guilty of raising a private army; that is he got out of a tight situation by manipulating his enemies into defecting to him).

* AdrianMole, upon finding that his little sister [[spoiler:has been knocked up by her boyfriend.]]

* In ''[=~Charlotte's Web~=]'' the Gander threatens Templeton the Rat with serious bodily harm if he even thinks about bothering one of his goslings.

* Lieutenant Panga in ''Literature/SomeoneElsesWar'' will do anything, absolutely anything, to keep the children around him safe.

* Sam Vimes in ''[[Discworld/{{Thud}} Thud!]]''. [[ThisIsSPARTA THAT! IS!! NOT!!! MY!!!! COW!!!!!]]

* Aral Vorkosigan does this rather cleverly for Miles in VorkosiganSaga. He convinces the council of counts to charge Miles with treason rather then raising a private army in ''The Warriors Apprentice'', knowing that the penalty for both is death but actual treason was in fact impossible to prove(he was guilty of raising a private army; that is he got out of a tight situation by manipulating his enemies into defecting to him).

*** Speaking of Mandos, Boba Fett in ''Bloodlines'' is this. So is Han. [[BetterThanItSounds They team up.]]

** Aral does this less subtly in ''Barrayar'' by ordering his private HeroicSociopath, Bothari to protect Miles against Aral's ''own father''. This caused an estrangement between them that lasted several years.

* Shellheart of ''{{Warrior Cats}}'': ''Crookedstar's Promise'' is a Papa Cat, defending Crookedkit from ''his own mate''. When she coldly tells him she blames her son for what happened to him, Shellheart is quick to defend him and breaks up with her. And when Rainflower tells Oakheart that Crookedstar would never be as good as him, Shellheart defends him with this:

* ''Mists of Everness'' by JohnCWright: [[BadassNormal Peter Waylock]]. Don't harm his son. Don't harm his son and pretend innocence. And don't beg for mercy, because Peter Waylock is a PersonOfMassDestruction and [[TranquilFury you won't get any.]]
* The father in Cormac [=McCarthy's=] ''The Road'' is exclusively defined as his role as this.

* Individual names are not given but in Harry Turtledove's ''Worldwar Tetralogy'', the Alien Fleetlord is amazed at reports of suicidal Tosevite (read: Human) attacks by both genders on his forces. Its stated that the few humans that actually survive indicate their actions are because of harm done to a Mate or Hatchling by his forces

* In ''Danny, The Champion of the World'', it's revealed that Danny's father's main reason for disliking Hazell is because he threatened Danny. Later on, [[spoiler:when Danny gets caned by his teacher, his father threatens to go down to the school and beat the teacher.]]
* Adrian Mole, upon finding that his little sister [[spoiler:has been knocked up by her boyfriend.]]

* The man from ''The Road''.

* In the BackStory of JohnCWright's ''The Golden Age'', Helion had stayed on the Solar Array long past the point of safety to protect his son -- and his ship, but the priority was clear:

* Buster Beasely in ''1635: The Dreeson Incident''. [[spoiler: "I'm coming, Princess Baby!" To the rescue, that is. And does he ever, on a Harley and with a .45 and a knife.]]

* [[TheActsOfCaine Caine]]. Even if you're a god, fucking with Faith will get your ass beat.

* Charles Leeds, the husband and father of the second family of victims in ''RedDragon'', had his throat slashed in his sleep by Francis Dolarhyde. As he and his wife lay bleeding to death, Dolarhyde went down the hall to kill the children. With his throat cut open, artery spraying his lifeblood on the wall with every step he took, Leeds ran down the hallway after the killer and fought with him to protect his children.

* One of the recurring themes in ''TheCatcherInTheRye'' was Holden Caulfield's desire to protect children from the bad things in the world.

* In Tim Dorsey's novel ''Electric Barracuda'' [[spoiler: it turns out that Serge Storms is a father. Hint to the child molester on the playground: you really don't want to try to entice the child of a serial killer.]]

* [[JungleBook Akela]], who acts as a father for Mowgli despite not necessarily his adoptive father. And is a literal wolf.
** [[BigGuy Baloo]] and [[BadAss Bagheera]], too (despite being a bear and a black panther, respectively). Akela stood up for him when he was brought to the pack as an infant (after [[MamaBear Raksha]] saved him from Shere Khan), Bagheera bought his life and protected him ever since, and Baloo taught him the ways of the Jungle - and when he's kidnapped by the monkeys, they join with [[OldMaster Kaa]] to make it a day and a night the poo-flinging rabble will not live to regret...