Boyfriend-Blocking Dad in Literature.
- Carmilla: Although Laura never blames her father, there are clear hints that he is afraid of letting go of her. Even though Laura is suffering from loneliness at the castle, her father does not take her to balls, send her to a boarding school, or consciously prepare her for a life outside of the castle. When he tells Laura of the death of Bertha Rheinfeldt, General Spielsdorf's niece whom she was looking forward to meeting, he adds that he is "very glad" that Laura never got to know Bertha, because this way she has been spared the grief of losing a friend. Taken to its conclusion, this reaction indicates that he prefers his daughter not to have friends at all rather than to risk grief from experiencing loss; obviously not a very wise precept.
- Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth! becomes this when he and Jennifer have a daughter named Jane in the Disgaea novels. The most noteworthy proof of this is that he absolutely does not approve of Jane's romantic feelings for Laharl, even though he should know that Laharl would never hurt her and is not interested in a romantic relationship to begin with.
- Fire & Blood: On learning his delinquent daughter Princess Saera has been sleeping with one of his knights, King Jaehaerys I tells the guy responsible, "Stinger" Beesbury that he can choose between a trial by combat or getting his balls chopped off, his face sliced up, and his arms and legs broken, then healed incorrectly just so he can never charm a girl again. Beesbury goes with the former. He has to fight Jaehaerys himself and dies.
- Full Metal Panic!: Mardukas isn't Tessa's genetic father but that doesn't prevent him from issuing threats to Sōsuke against trying anything with her during the time she's at his place. Specifically, the submarine XO threatens to launch Sōsuke from a torpedo tube with a 300 kg explosive if he "commits some shameless act on her". Naturally, poor Sōsuke is scared out of his wits. Not that he'd even try. And the funny thing is, it later turns out that it's Tessa who should be looked at so that she won't try to molest him in his sleep.
- InCryptid:
- Following Fran's death, Jonathan becomes this to Alice, refusing to teach her anything about cryptids and trying to make her have a so-called 'normal' life. This lasts up until she nearly gets killed by a dire boar in "Target Practice", and Alice puts her foot down.
- Gender inverted and ultimately subverted in the short story My Last Name. Verity warns Dominic that her mother is the one to worry about, but both her parents ultimately accept him as their son-in-law.Kevin: Your mother's going to bury him in a shallow grave somewhere on the property. You understand that, don't you?...I mean, I'm the father figure holding a shotgun, so you'd think I'd be the one screaming about despoiling my little girl, but really, I want to go ask the man if he's considered going into Witness Protection before your mother gets her hands on him.
- Done very darkly with Beverley Marsh's dad in Stephen King's It. He beats her up whenever she does something odd (commenting that he worries about her a lot) and when he finds out that she's been spending time with the rest of the Loser's Club, he demands that she take off her pants so he can check her barrier. Thankfully she gets away, but wow.
- Journey To Chaos: When Tiza learns who her parents are, she realizes that Retina's dislike of Nolien, her Love Interest, should have been a dead giveaway.
- Gender Flipped example in Jo's Boys, the third sequel to Little Women: Daisy's father John Brooke died when she was 10, so her mother Meg has to play the overprotective mother who doesn't believe Nat is good enough for her daughter.
- Legacy of the Dragokin: Daniar has a son who is ready and eager to follow in her footsteps as guardian of the realm but she keeps him sequestered in the castle.
- A mild version in those parts of Legacy of the Force written by Aaron Allston. Wedge Antilles has two daughters. He insisted on having them carry two blasters when they were going out and despaired when he found that one of them was dating another pilot, and due to the mission and secrecy he couldn't talk to her.
- Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, even though he isn't Cosette's real father. At first, this is partly from self-preservation, as he believes Marius (who has been exchanging glances with Cosette) is an agent of the police, but once he finds out that they have been secretly meeting he wishes Marius dead. Then inverted as he designates him as his successor in taking care of Cosette and saves him from the Barricade.
- Lolita takes this trope in combination with Crazy Jealous Guy; the reason Humbert Humbert doesn't like his adoptive daughter being with other boys (or men) is that he wants her for himself.
- Mr. Fedora in Marty Pants doesn't like his daughter having boys over. She says if he catches Marty in his house, he'll use his skin and bones to make furniture.
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Gender flipped, but Athena does not approve of Percy's association with her daughter Annabeth, and she makes it apparent should Percy ever sway in his loyalties....
- Sorata's father in The Pet Girl of Sakurasou. Sorata tries to call his mom to ask about the reason behind his sister Yuuko's visit. He gets the wrong number in his first attempt and reaches his dad instead. The father, upon hearing a male voice on the line, immediately declares that he will never give Yuuko to anybody, without realizing it's his son he's talking to.
- A Rose for Emily paints the image of Emily in the background, and her father at the door with her back to her, bullwhip in hand. It is implied this is why she never got engaged.
- To Sail Beyond the Sunset: Averted. Maureen's father encourages her to lose her virginity. When she does a month away from turning 15, he congratulates her and gives advice on living a life of promiscuity.
- In Shakugan no Shana, the villain Sydonay's main motivation is to keep his surrogate daughter Hecate safe and pure. When the villains captured Yuji and had Hecate drain his power, Sydonay protested because she started moaning in pleasure. Later, when Hecate and his leader Snake of the Festival (in Yuji's body) were gone for a while, Bel Peol had to assure him that they weren't having sex behind his back.
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants has Lena's father, who revokes his financial support for her to study art in college when he finds out her summer drawing class involves nude models.
- In Sixth Watch, Anton has enchanted one of his teenage daughter's earrings to protect her against anyone, who wants to harm her. Quite reasonable, right? She has a number of such amulets from both Anton and her mother, as well as the heads of both Moscow Watches. However, Anton has also added a low-level spell to the earring to ward off any boys until her 18th birthday. His daughter suspects this and is extremely annoyed. Anton swears to her that this isn't true and then tells the readers not to judge him, especially if they happen to be fathers with teenage daughters of their own. The spell doesn't appear to be working to ward off Innokenti, who becomes her boyfriend, but this might be because the boy is a potentially Higher Other. Innokenti does, however, want to wait a little longer before they have sex, earning him some respect from Anton, even though it annoys his daughter, who wants to consummate the relationship.
- In Skulduggery Pleasant Desmond tries to do this to Fletcher on Valkyrie's first date. Given his Cloudcuckoolander tendencies it is hilarious.
- In To Kill a Mockingbird, the description of Finch's Landing mentions that its original owner designed the upstairs so that the son's bedroom would be accessible by one staircase, and the daughters' bedrooms only by another... which took you directly through the parents' room.
- Villains Are Destined to Die: The Duke is not happy that Callisto is courting Penelope. He's outright ready to rebel when he finds out that Callisto impregnated Penelope prior to their marriage.
- Savagely deconstructed in The Warrior's Apprentice. Sergeant Bothari is crazily overprotective of his daughter Elena and gets violent when a guy tries to start a relationship with her. It's typical of this trope for the dad to be overprotective because he knows All Men Are Perverts. Well, in Bothari's case, he is a former rapist and she herself is the product of him raping a prisoner-of-war. After Elena finds this out, she is utterly disgusted by him.
- Washington Square subverts this — while the way Catherine's father treats her paramour Morris comes off as him wanting to protect his little girl from a man who's not up to snuff; in reality, he only wants to protect his money from a prospective Gold Digger.
- Simon Worthington in Who's That Girl, the father of Louden Trott's fiancee Wendy, to the point where in the prenuptial agreement Louden has to sign, he has pages full of diagrammed sexual positions Louden and Wendy aren't allowed to engage in.
