History ParentalSubstitute / LiveActionFilms

* The role M plays as a surrogate mother to the [[ConvenientlyAnOrphan orphaned]] Franchise/JamesBond is lampshaded repeatedly in the Daniel Craig films, and is a central theme in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''. [[spoiler:The BigBad is a former {{MI6}} agent that M handed over to the Chinese after he turned RogueAgent; he's now seeking revenge on his 'mother' for having betrayed him.]]

** Harley Keene from ''Film/IronMan3'' begins to see Tony in this light since his own father left to go to a 7-Eleven to get scratchers and [[ParentalAbandonment never came home]]. Mr. Stark tries to act aloof the kid but is fooling nobody as he goes PapaWolf when TheDragon Eric Salvin ''dares'' to try and hold Harley hostage in front of him, at the end of the movie Tony leaves a huge presence at Harley's house as thanks. [[spoiler: In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' Harley even makes an appearance at Tony's funeral]].

* In ''Film/BladeRunner2049'' Lieutenant Joshi can't help but be a mother figure to protagonist K despite the latter being Replicant, when TheGovernment comes hunting for K [[MamaBear she protects him]] at the cost of her life.

** Dr. Abraham Erskine to Steve Rogers in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', the good doctor notably is the emotional and guiding anchor for Cap in his early steps to becoming the living legend. Erskine the goodness greatness in Steve despite the military writing him off as a feeble weakling and is responsible for putting him off for the SuperSoldier project, [[spoiler: when Erskine is killed by a HYDRA agent Steve looks completely gutted and flies off the assassin]].
** In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', and more so in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', we see that Maria Hill and Natasha Romanoff a.k.a. Black Widow sees Nick Fury as a father figure and are the two agents who are most loyal to him in S.H.I.E.L.D. [[spoiler: When Nick Fury seemly dies in ''Winter Soldier'', both Widow and Hill become uncharacteristically stricken with sadness to the point of crying. Also, during the FinalBattle when Natasha electrocutes herself, Fury [[PapaWolf runs over to her with concern]], showing care goes both ways]].

** Played straight between Wolverine and Professor X in ''Film/{{Logan}}'' as at this point in the BadFuture where all the aforementioned X-Men are dead and Charles the man who accepted Logan giving a home, a family and a cause ''is the only thing'' Logan gives a shit about. Seriously Wolverine in this movie is willingly to drive away and abandon a 11 year old girl to a pack military murderers because -so long as Charles is safe- ''he simply doesn't care''. [[spoiler: When Charles is killed in some horrific irony by Logan's EvilTwin X-24 Wolverine despairs and cradles the dying Charles repeating that "it wasn't him" and then goes ballistic on his clone, after that X-23 has to drag Logan around since losing the Professor has made him lose [[DeathSeeker all will to live]]. Also prior to Charles's death Logan kept the secret the fact Charles accidentally killed all the X-Men and he let amnesic Charles blame him for their misfortunes simply but regardless of happened Charles is the only family Logan had at that point]].

* ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'': [[CoolTeacher Inspiring English teacher]] Mr. Keating seems to play this role for Neil, whose real father is cold, unsupportive, and controlling. While Neil's father tells him he is not allowed to act in a play, Keating encourages Neil to pursue his dreams of being an actor.

** Dr Abraham Erskine to Steve Rogers in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', the good doctor notably is the emotional and guiding anchor for Cap in his early steps to becoming the living legend. Erskine the goodness greatness in Steve despite military writing him off as a feeble weakling and is responsible for putting him off for the SuperSoldier project, [[spoiler: when Erskine is killed by a HYDRA agent Steve looks completely gutted and flies off the assassin]].
** In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', and more so in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', we see that Maria Hill and Natasha Romanoff a.k.a. Black Widow see Nick Fury as a father figure and are the two agents who are most loyal to him in S.H.I.E.L.D. [[spoiler:When Nick Fury seemly dies in ''Winter Solider'', both Widow and Hill become uncharacteristically stricken with sadness to the point of crying. Also, during the FinalBattle when Natasha electrocutes herself, Fury [[PapaWolf runs over to her with concern]], showing care goes both ways]].
** Harley Keene from ''Film/IronMan3'' begins to see Tony in this light since his own father left to go to a 7-Eleven to get scratchers and [[ParentalAbandonment never came home]]. Mr Stark tries act aloof the kid but is fooling nobody as he goes PapaWolf when TheDragon Eric Salvin ''dares'' to try and hold Harely hostage in front of him, at the end of the movie Tony leaves a huge present at Harley's house as thanks.
** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': [[NobleDemon Yondu]] [[OneManArmy Udonta]] adopted Peter Quill instead of handing him over to [[spoiler:his biological father]], who Yondu calls a jackass. And despite his trollish behavior, Yondu admits that he's glad he adopted Peter and does genuinely care for him... in his own bizarre way. This comes to a head in [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 the second film]], when it turns out the real reason Yondu kept Peter around all those years was [[spoiler:to keep him safe from his father]]. We see a brief flashback of Yondu teaching him to shoot, and Peter belatedly realizes that Yondu is exactly the ActionDad he always dreamed of before he was abducted.
** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'': The entire crew acts as this to Baby Groot to various degrees. Groot and Peter listen to music together, while Gamora looks out for Groot's safety ("Put your seatbelt on!") and takes a moment out of a fierce battle to acknowledge his wave. In the same movie Drax becomes a father figure to Mantis as she reminds him of his deceased daughter.
** ''Film/AntMan'': Downplayed compared to other examples, but Scott Lang comes to view Hank Pym in this light, especially when Scott points put he and Hank are NotSoDifferent when it comes to their respective daughters. Hell, Scott and Hank's connection is still enough to inspire burning jealously from the movie's antagonist Darren Cross a.k.a. Yellow Jacket, whose tries to murder Scott just for being accepted by Hank in way [[WellDoneSonGuy he wasn't]].
** Beginning in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', Peter Parker a.k.a. Spider-Man gradually starts to view Tony Stark as a father figure, having admiration for him since Tony saved him as a kid in ''Film/IronMan2'', with Tony in turn becoming protective of him -- telling Peter to leave the battlefield after Giant-Man knocks him down. In ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', Tony lets it slip he wants to be there for Peter since his own father Howard didn't give him the support he craved. But Tony understands his own flaws, and when Spidey tries "I just wanna be like you" after nearly endangering civilians, Tony retorts "I want you to be better." [[spoiler:By the time of ''Infinity War'', all pretense has been thrown away and when Peter starts [[DisintegratorRay disintegrating]] and desperately clings onto to Tony. When he disappears completely, [[TearJerker Tony looks down at his own hands and when he sees he isn't going with Peter]] as well, he [[ManlyTears breaks down]] weeping]]. In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', the shoe is on the other foot.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' also gives a twisted example in the form of [[HeroKiller Thanos]] who is the kidnapper/adoptive father of Ebony Maw, Obsidian Cull, Corvus Glaive, Promixa Midnight, Nebula and Gamora. Thanos has the closest relationship with Gamora ever since she was a girl to extent where she can’t help but have [[DaddysGirl emotions towards him]] though Thanos is still emotionally abusive and manipulative to her. Fans have noted Thanos seems to want to invoke this with everyone who encounters him as according to Ebony Maw during multiple massacres “you are all the children of Thanos” (even in death). Thanos also calls people e.g Scarlet Witch “my child” and he even brushes her hair in a PetTheDog moment... [[spoiler: after she just been forced to destroy her lover Vision in attempt to stop Thanos getting the Stone.]]

* In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', Owen Grady is this to, shockingly enough, four ''Velociraptors''. It's mentioned in ''Literature/{{The Lost World|1995}}'' by Malcolm that the main reason why Jurassic Park's dinosaurs are so violent and sociopathic is because they had no parents to model their behavior off of, which led to them acting purely on instinct. Owen solves this issue (to an extent) by raising the raptors himself and providing them with a framework for healthy, effective pack behaviors. He's both their alpha and their father-figure, in a sense, and the ''only'' person they won't kill on sight.
* Done rather subtly with Hart and Eggsy in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService''. Hart coaxes Eggsy into joining the Kingsman to follow in his father's footsteps, but over the course of the film its show that it's Hart to whom Eggsy looks for approval. [[spoiler:The ending even implies that Eggsy ultimately inherits Hart's codename, Galahad, not his father's would-be codename of Lancelot (which was claimed by Roxy). After all, in the legends, Galahad was Lancelot's son...]]

** Beginning in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', Peter Parker a.k.a. Spider-Man gradually starts to view Tony Stark as a father figure, having admiration for him since Tony saved him as kid in ''Film/IronMan2'', with Tony in turn becoming protective of him like telling Peter to leave the battlefield after Giant-Man knocks him down. In ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', Tony lets it slip he wants to be there for Peter since his own father Howard didn't give him the support he craved. But Tony understands his own flaws, and when Spidey tries "I just wanna be like you" after nearly endangering civilians, Tony retorts "I want you to be better." [[spoiler:By the time of ''Infinity War'', all pretense has been thrown away and when Peter starts [[DisintegratorRay disintegrating]] and desperately clings onto to Tony. When he disappears completely, [[TearJerker Tony looks down at his own hands and when he sees he isn't going with Peter]] as well, he [[ManlyTears breaks down]] weeping]].

** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'': The entire crew acts as this to Baby Groot to various degrees. Groot and Peter listen to music together, while Gamora looks out for Groot's safety ("Put your seatbelt on!") and takes a moment out of a fierce battle to acknowledge his wave. In the same movie Drax becomes a father figure to Mantis as she [[CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming reminds him of his deceased daughter]].

** Played straight in the most [[CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming beautiful]] and [[TearJerker heart breaking]] manner between Wolverine and Professor X in ''Film/{{Logan}}'' as at this point in the BadFuture where all the aforementioned X-Men are dead and Charles the man who accepted Logan giving a home, a family and a cause ''is the only thing'' Logan gives a shit about. Seriously Wolverine in this movie is willingly to drive away and abandon a 11 year old girl to a pack military murderers because -so long as Charles is safe- ''he simply doesn't care''. [[spoiler: When Charles is killed in some horrific irony by Logan's EvilTwin X-24 Wolverine despairs and cradles the dying Charles repeating that "it wasn't him" and then goes ballistic on his clone, after that X-23 has to drag Logan around since losing the Professor has made him lose [[DeathSeeker all will to live]]. Also prior to Charles's death Logan kept the secret the fact Charles accidentally killed all the X-Men and he let amnesic Charles blame him for their misfortunes simply but regardless of happened Charles is the only family Logan had at that point]].

** In ''Film/TheAvengers'' and more so in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' we see that Maria Hill and Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow see Nick Fury as a father figure and are the two agents who are most loyal to him in S.H.I.E.L.D. [[spoiler: When Nick Fury seemly dies in Winter Solider both Widow and Hill become uncharacteristically stricken with sadness to point of crying, also during the FinalBattle when Natasha is electrocutes herself Fury [[PapaWolf runs over to her with concern]] showing care goes both ways]].

** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': [[NobleDemon Yondu]] [[OneManArmy Udonta]] adopted Peter Quill instead of handing him over to [[spoiler: his biological father]], who Yondu calls a jackass. And despite his trollish behavior, Yondu admits that he's glad he adopted Peter and does genuinely care for him... in his own bizarre way. This comes to a head in [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 the second film]], when it turns out the real reason Yondu kept Peter around all those years was [[spoiler:to keep him safe from his father]]. We see a brief flashback of Yondu teaching him to shoot, and Peter belatedly realizes that Yondu is exactly the ActionDad he always dreamed of before he was abducted.
** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2:'' The entire crew acts as this to Baby Groot to various degrees. Groot and Peter listen to music together, while Gamora looks out for Groot's safety ("Put your seatbelt on!") and takes a moment out of a fierce battle to acknowledge his wave. In the same movie Drax becomes a father figure to Mantis as she [[CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming reminds him of his deceased daughter]].
** ''Film/AntMan:'' Downplayed compared to other examples but Scott Lang comes to view Hank Pym in this light, especially when Scott points put he and Hank are NotSoDifferent when it comes to their respective daughters. Hell Scott and Hank's connection is still enough to inspire burning jealously from the movie'a antagonist Darren Cross aka Yellow Jacket whose tries to murder Scott just for being accepted by Hank in way [[WellDoneSonGuy he wasn't]].
** Beginning in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' Peter Parker aka Spider-Man gradually starts to view Tony Stark as a father figure having admiration for him since Tony saved him as kid in ''Film/IronMan2'', with Tony in turn becoming protective of him like telling Peter to leave the battlefield after Giant-Man knocks him down. In ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' Tony lets it slip his wants to be there for Peter since his own father Howard didn't give him the support he craved, but Tony understands his own flaws and when Spidey tries "I just wanna be like you" after nearly endangering civilians Tony retorts "I want you to be better". [[spoiler: By the time of ''Avengers Infinity'' all pretense has been thrown away and when Peter starts [[DisintegratorRay disintegrating]] and desperately clings onto to Tony, when he disappears completely [[TearJerker Tony looks down at his own hands and when Tony sees he isn't going with Peter]] as well he [[ManlyTears breaks down]] weeping]].
* In ''Film/{{Highlander}}'', Connor [=MacLeod=] is this to his assitant Rachel, who he adopted as a child. However, since Connor is an ageless Immortal and Rachel was orphaned in World War II, this means an outwardly thirty-something man is a father figure to an elderly woman.
* In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', Owen Grady is this to, shockingly enough, four ''Velociraptors''. It's mentioned in ''[[Literature/TheLostWorld1995 The Lost World]]'' by Malcolm that the main reason why Jurassic Park's dinosaurs are so violent and sociopathic is because they had no parents to model their behavior off of, which led to them acting purely on instinct. Owen solves this issue (to an extent) by raising the raptors himself and providing them with a framework for healthy, effective pack behaviors. He's both their alpha and their father-figure, in a sense, and the ''only'' person they won't kill on sight.
* Done rather subtly with Hart and Eggsy in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService''. Hart coaxes Eggsy into joining the Kingsman to follow in his father's footsteps, but over the course of the film its show that it's Hart to whom Eggsy looks for approval. [[spoiler:The ending even implies that Eggsy ultimately inherits Hart's codename, Galahad, not his father's would-be codename of Lancelot (Which was claimed by Roxy). After all, in the legends, Galahad was Lancelot's son...]]

* Siblings Éomer and Éowyn from ''Film/LordOfTheRings'' look at their uncle Théoden as this. Frodo has his Uncle Bilbo and Gandalf, too.
** ''Film/TheHobbit'' has Thorin and his nephews, Fíli and Kíli.

** Beginning ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' Peter Parker aka Spider-Man gradually starts to view Tony Stark as a father figure having admiration for him since Tony saved him as kid in ''Film/IronMan2'', with Tony in turn becoming protective of him like telling Peter to leave the battlefield after Giant-Man knocks him down. In ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' Tony lets it slip his wants to be there for Peter since his own father Howard didn't give him the support he craved, but Tony understands his own flaws and when Spidey tries "I just wanna be like you" after nearly endangering civilians Tony retorts "I want you to be better". [[spoiler: By the time of ''Avengers Infinity'' all pretense has been thrown away and when Peter start [[DisintegratorRay disintegrating]] Tony cling onto him, when he disappears completely [[TearJerker Tony looks down at his own hangs and when Tony sees he isn't going with Peter]] as well he [[ManlyTears breaks down]] weeping]].

** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'':
*** [[NobleDemon Yondu]] [[OneManArmy Udonta]] adopted Peter Quill instead of handing him over to [[spoiler: his biological father]], who Yondu calls a jackass. And despite his trollish behavior, Yondu admits that he's glad he adopted Peter and does genuinely care for him... in his own bizarre way. This comes to a head in [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 the second film]], when it turns out the real reason Yondu kept Peter around all those years was [[spoiler:to keep him safe from his father]]. We see a brief flashback of Yondu teaching him to shoot, and Peter belatedly realizes that Yondu is exactly the ActionDad he always dreamed of before he was abducted.
*** On a darker note, the Mad Titan Thanos has abducted countless children across the galaxy and augmented them to be his slave soldiers. Gamora eventually escaped, while Nebula does refer to Thanos as her father, but still jumps at the chance to kill him. In [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 the second film]], Gamora begins to embrace Nebula as a sister more, especially when she realizes how much worse she made Nebula's childhood.
*** In [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 the second film]] the entire crew acts as this to Baby Groot to various degrees. Groot and Peter listen to music together, while Gamora looks out for Groot's safety ("Put your seatbelt on!") and takes a moment out of a fierce battle to acknowledge his wave. In the same movie Drax becomes a father figure to Mantis as she [[CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming reminds him of his deceased daughter]].
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' shows that Gamora suffers from a StockholmSyndrome and cannot help but view Thanos as her father surrogate since he raised her to be what she is, despite her anger over his atrocities (including massacring her planet). [[spoiler:At one point in the film Gamora "thinks" she killed Thanos by stabbing him in the neck and upon seeing him bleed out she bursts into a sobbing mess before Thanos reveals it was illusion. Thanos also cares for his "little one" more than anything... [[KillTheOnesYouLove except]] the mind stone]].
** Downplayed compared to other examples but Scott Lang comes to view Hank Pym in this light in ''Film/AntMan'' especially when Scott points put he and Hank are NotSoDifferent when it comes to their respective daughters. Hell Scott and Hank's connection is still enough to inspire burning jealously from the movie'a antagonist Darren Cross aka Yellow Jacket whose tries to murder Scott just for being accepted by Hank in way [[WellDoneSonGuy he wasn't]].

** Odin and Frigga to Loki in ''Film/{{Thor}}'' since he was abandoned as a Ice Giant baby, learning [[ObliviousAdoption this]] Loki [[SanitySlippage went crazy]] and denounced his surrogate father, mother and brother... though he still loved Frigga as seen in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. Regardless of his antagonism Loki still cares for his adopted family and didn't even hurt Odin when seizing the Throne.

** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' shows that Gamora cannot help but view Thanos as her father surrogate since he raised her to be what she is to this day and despite her anger over his atrocities (including massacring her planet) she digresses into DaddysGirl when on screen with him. [[spoiler: At one point in the film Gamora "thinks" she killed Thanos by stabbing him in the neck and upon seeing him bleed out she bursts into a sobbing mess before Thanos reveals it was illusion showing despite all he's done she still loves him. The feeling is mutual as Thanos cares for his "little one" more than anything... [[KillTheOnesYouLove except]] the mind stone]].

** Downplayed compared to other examples but Scott Lang comes to view Hank Pym in this light in ''Film/AntMan'' especially when Scott points put he and Hank are NotSoDifferent when it comes to their respective daughters. Hell Scott and Hank connection is still enough to inspire burning jealously from the movie'a antagonist Darren Cross aka Yellow Jacket whose tries to murder Scott just for being accepted by Hank in way [[WellDoneSonGuy he wasn't]].

** Played in the most [[CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming beautiful]] and [[TearJerker heart breaking]] manner between Wolverine and Professor X in ''Film/{{Logan}}'' as at this point in the BadFuture where all the aforementioned X-Men are dead and Charles the man who accepted Logan giving a home, a family and a cause ''is the only thing'' Logan gives a shit about. Seriously Wolverine in this movie is willingly to drive away and abandon a eight year old girl to a pack military murderers because so long as Charles is safe ''he simply doesn't care''. [[spoiler: When Charles is killed in some horrific irony by Logan's EvilTwin X-24 Wolverine despairs and cradles the dying Charles repeating that "it wasn't him" and then goes ballistic on his clone, after that X-23 has to drag Logan around since losing the Professor has made him lose all will to live. Also prior to Charles's death Logan kept the secret the fact Charles accidentally killed all the X-Men and he let amnesic Charles blame him for their misfortunes simply but regardless of happened Charles is the only family Logan had at that point]].

* In ''Franchise/TheAvengers'' film franchise, Tony Stark acts as this to Peter Parker. [[spoiler: This makes it much much more heart-breaking when Peter disintegrates in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', crying that he doesn't want to leave as he dies in Tony's arms]].

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'':
** [[NobleDemon Yondu]] [[OneManArmy Udonta]] adopted Peter Quill instead of handing him over to [[spoiler: his biological father]], who Yondu calls a jackass. And despite his trollish behavior, Yondu admits that he's glad he adopted Peter and does genuinely care for him... in his own bizarre way. This comes to a head in [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 the second film]], when it turns out the real reason Yondu kept Peter around all those years was [[spoiler:to keep him safe from his father]]. We see a brief flashback of Yondu teaching him to shoot, and Peter belatedly realizes that Yondu is exactly the ActionDad he always dreamed of before he was abducted.
** On a darker note, the Mad Titan Thanos has abducted countless children across the galaxy and augmented them to be his slave soldiers. Gamora and Nebula are the only ones we see; Gamora never viewed Thanos as her real father and eventually escaped, while Nebula does refer to Thanos as her father, but still jumps at the chance to kill him. In [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 the second film]], Gamora begins to embrace Nebula as a sister more, especially when she realizes how much worse she made Nebula's childhood.
** In [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 the second film]] the entire crew acts as this to Baby Groot to various degrees. Groot and Peter listen to music together, while Gamora looks out for Groot's safety ("Put your seatbelt on!") and takes a moment out of a fierce battle to acknowledge his wave.

*** Wolverine promises that he'll take of Rogue.

* In ''Film/{{Highlander}}'', Connor [=MacLeod=] is this to his assitant Rachel, who he adopted as a child. However, since Connor is an ageless Immortal and Rachel was orphaned in World War II, this means an apparently thirty-something man is a father figure to an elderly woman.

* In ''Film/{{Highlander}}'', Connor MacLeod is this to his assitant Rachel, who he adopted as a child. However, since Connor is an ageless Immortal and Rachel was orphaned in World War II, this means an apparently thirty-something man is a fther figure to an elderly woman.

** This is also a central theme in ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', [[spoiler:where, years before the events of the film, it's revealed that Hannes Oberhauser, the BigBad's father, acted as a substitute parent for 007 after he [[ParentalAbandonment lost his real parents in a climbing accident]] in the French Alps. Hannes begins [[LikeASonToMe to treat 007 as a second son]], but it also causes [[BigBad Franz Oberhauser]] to be [[TheResenter resentful and]] [[DrivenByEnvy envious]] of the attention Bond is receiving. Because of this, Franz commits {{Patricide}} out of pure malice in a staged avalanche, and [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 goes on to menace]] [[Film/QuantumOfSolace Bond's life in various]] [[Film/{{Skyfall}} ways possible]] [[Film/{{Spectre}} in later years]]. Hence the reason why Oberhauser, now calling himself Ernst Stavro Blofeld, has a [[CainAndAbel totally dysfunctional relationship]] with his foster brother.]]

** [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesProfessorCharlesXavier Charles Xavier]] plays this role to all of the X-Men, but it's most notable in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' with a young Hank and the teenaged Alex and Sean, all of whom remain loyal to him before and after Cuba. [[spoiler:The mere mention of Sean's death in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' makes Charles visibly distraught, which is in direct contrast to all of the other names that Erik throws at him.]] Being a father figure to Jean Grey is explored in more detail in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', and Quicksilver decides to stay with the Professor instead of getting to know his estranged father.

* In ''Franchise/TheAvengers'' film franchise, Tony Stark acts as this to Peter Parker. [[spoiler: This makes it much much more heart-breaking when Peter in disintegrates in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', crying that he doesn't want to leave as he dies in Tony's arms]].

* In ''Franchise/TheAvengers'', Tony Stark acts as this to Peter Parker. [[spoiler: This makes it much much more heart-breaking when Peter in disintegrated in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', crying that he doesn't want to leave as he dies in Tony's arms]].

* In ''Film/StVincent'',Vincent becomes a father-figure to Oliver, whose own father isn't exactly a nice guy.

* In ''SecondHandLions'', young Walter ends up getting raised by his two great uncles, Hub and Garth.

** This is also a central theme in ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', [[spoiler:where, twenty years before the events of the film, it's revealed that Hannes Oberhauser, the BigBad's father, acted as a substitute parent for 007 after he [[ParentalAbandonment lost his real parents in a climbing accident]] in the French Alps. Hannes begins [[LikeASonToMe to treat 007 as a second son]], but it also causes [[BigBad Franz Oberhauser]] to be [[TheResenter resentful and]] [[DrivenByEnvy envious]] of the attention Bond is receiving. Because of this, Franz commits {{Patricide}} out of pure malice in a staged avalanche, and [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 goes on to menace]] [[Film/QuantumOfSolace Bond's life in various]] [[Film/{{Skyfall}} ways possible]] [[Film/{{Spectre}} in later years]]. Hence the reason why Oberhauser, now calling himself Ernst Stavro Blofeld, has a [[CainAndAbel totally dysfunctional relationship]] with his foster brother.]]