Boyfriend-Blocking Dad in Live-Action Films.
- In 10 Things I Hate About You, Kat and Bianca's father is an obstetrician who obsesses about his daughters' chastity. Unlike in the play Taming of the Shrew from which the film is loosely adapted, his motivation for requiring his shrewish daughter to enter a romantic relationship first is that he hopes both will remain chaste. Although he's a little too late in one case...
- 22 Jump Street has Captain Dickson going ballistic upon finding out that Schmidt, one of his workers, engaged in sexual activity with his daughter Maya (which Schmidt didn't know at the time), destroying a buffet and tasing Schmidt in the nuts.Schmidt: (to Schmidt) I think it's bizarre that I haven't cut your motherfuckin' nuts off.
- In 50 First Dates, when Henry tries to get close to Lucy, her father and brother naturally assume he just wants to have consequence-free sex with her, possibly even multiple times, given her Laser-Guided Amnesia. This is justified, given Henry's reputation as The Casanova, and the fact that it's extremely difficult to have a relationship with a woman, who forgets all about it the following morning. However, this is subverted later, when Lucy's father actually starts to try to get them together.
- Bruce Willis and his shotgun in Armageddon (1998).
- In Bad Boys II, Marcus' daughter is being picked up at her home by her boyfriend Reggie. Despite specific instructions from his wife to not go into the overprotective "Her daddy is a policeman, so watch out!" routine, he immediately proceeds to lay down the law punctuated with threats of violence
. (Language warning). The scene then Crosses the Line Twice when his partner Mike pretends to be a family friend who just got out of prison, and chimes in with his own outright psychotic threats, including pointing a gun at Reggie's face and then threatening that he will rape him if Reggie exceeds the dating boundaries note :Mike Lowery: You ever made love to a man?
Reggie: (horrified) No.
Mike Lowery: You want to?
Reggie: (almost crying) No sir... - Mitchell in Blockers is completely in denial about how grown up his daughter Kayla is, and immediately distrustful of her prom date Connor, to the point where when he thinks they've had sex he throws Connor through a wall.
- Although he does warm up to his daughter's boyfriend by the end of the movie, Beldar from Coneheads can be quite the Overprotective Dad too, in his own peculiar way, backed up by Super-Strength:[Beldar tears open the roof to Ronnie's car]
Ronnie: H-hi, Mr. Conehead.
Beldar: I find you unacceptable!
Ronnie: Yes, sir.
Beldar: If I did not fear incarceration from human authority figures, I would terminate your life functions by applying sufficient pressure to your blunt skull so as to force its collapse!
Ronnie: Th-thank you. - Chanthaly: Chanthaly's father won't even let her leave the house due to her heart-based disease.
- Inverted in the Slasher Movie Cherry Falls: In this scene, Sheriff Brent Marken asks his virginal daughter Jody to go all the way because the serial killer he's after only targets virgins.
- Circus World: Matt has an apoplectic fit when he sees Toni kissing Steve, then takes him aside to tell him he is not good enough for his adopted daughter and threatens to sock him.
- Clueless has the dad drop this little hint to a guy taking his daughter out:Mel: Anything happens to my daughter, I've got a .45 and a shovel. I doubt anybody would miss you.
- College Road Trip. Giving a nice greeting to a male study partner of the protagonist's daughter seems to cause him physical pain.
- The father from Critters is a low-key example, glaring at her daughter's new boyfriend all through dinner and dismissing his flashy sports car as a "fancy toy". Also a severe case of fatherly denial, as he's floored when his wife reassures him she'd told their daughter the facts of life "years ago"... this, while said daughter is busily making out with her date in the barn.
- In Disney's My Date with the President's Daughter, when Duncan is about to take the title girl out (he had no idea who she was when he asked her out), her father comes in and tells him to have her back by 10 PM. He even threatens to institute the draft if anything happens to his daughter (of course, if Duncan knew anything about how US government works, he'd know the President doesn't have that power). He also sends two Secret Service agents with them. At the end of the film, he seems to have mellowed a little and even shows up at Duncan's school to tell him he's ok with them dating and has accepted that his daughter is just a regular teenager. Then, when Duncan takes Hallie out again, the camera pulls back to reveal their car flanked by four Secret Service vehicles with a helicopter providing aerial support.
- Less egregious than other examples, Dr. Houseman from Dirty Dancing is still pretty damn strict.
- Eighth Grade: Mark to his daughter Kayla. Mark spies on Kayla from afar when she is hanging out at the mall with new friends, embarrassing her.
- Girl Happy: Big Frank is horrified at the prospect of Valerie spending spring break at Fort Lauderdale at the mercy of "30,000 sex-starved boys" (Rusty's words), so he enlists Rusty to watch over her.
- In Herbie: Fully Loaded, Ray Peyton Sr. is dead set against his daughter Maggie being a racer, as much as she wants to follow in his footsteps. This is for two understandable reasons; one, because she had gotten into a bad car accident while street racing years ago, and two:Ray Peyton Sr.: Because you're the spitting image of your mother. And I can't lose her twice.
- The father in this German film adaptation of the fairy tale "Jorinde and Joringel" does not approve of his daughter's relationship with Joringel and uses violence against him a number of times note .
- The alpha male raptor from Jurassic Park III. He worries a lot about the alpha female's eggs being stolen by Billy. When Alan uses the resonance chamber to confuse the Raptors, the very confused alpha male tries to attack him but is stopped by the alpha female who asks him to return to their range, when the alpha female hears the helicopters approaching, the alpha male and his mate leave the scene with their recovered eggs and making passes with the humans.
- In the French silent film La Roue, Sisif doesn't like other men looking at Norma nor does he like her dressing in a way that's likely to get their attention. He has his reasons.
- Inverted with Charlie and his grandmother in Letters to Juliet. Charlie was raised by his grandmother and is protective of her. The main reason he is so vocal about his disapproval of searching for Lorenzo is because he doesn't want his grandmother hurt by a man who may or may not be alive.
- There's a Lifetime Movie of the Week that features Robert Urich as an overprotective father who takes it to the extreme. He kills his daughters' husbands for the life insurance money. Gwyneth Paltrow plays one of the daughters.
- John McClane in Live Free or Die Hard is this, even though his daughter is well in her twenties and doesn't want anything to do with him.
- Subverted in the Colin Firth plot in Love Actually; when Firth travels to Portugal to ask the woman he loves to marry him, he encounters her father... who, thinking that he's wanting to marry her (less attractive) sister, has no problem — and when she indignantly asks him whether he'd sell his daughter to a perfect stranger, blithely replies "Selling? I'll pay him." Even when the misunderstanding is clarified, he still isn't particularly bothered that a complete stranger (to him) wants to propose to his daughter completely out of the blue.
- Jack Byrnes (played by Robert DeNiro) of the movie Meet the Parents. He goes so far as to force his daughter's boyfriend to take a polygraph test. In the middle of the night. This is a common theme throughout the entire movie and both sequels. At the end of every movie, he learns that he was wrong... only to get Aesop Amnesia in the next film.
- Lancelot in Monty Python and the Holy Grail "rescuing" Galahad from the "clutches" of the girls of Castle Anthrax. Though the fact that Galahad was Lancelot's son was never mentioned in the film, it can be assumed that he was intended to be (as in the source material) as the Pythons knew their Arthuriana.
- In the Rom Com New in Town, Harry Connick Jr. plays one, especially when his little girl is going to her first dance.Ted: Just remember: anything you do to her, I do to you. (insert menacing glare)
- No Blade of Grass. As they're facing the collapse of civilisation, Mary asks her boyfriend to "make her a woman". He refuses saying she's only sixteen and her father will shoot him. Mary says that he won't...but her mother probably will. The joke becomes less funny when she and her mother are raped later on and her father does kill those responsible.
- Morgan in The Old Dark House (1963) is violently protective of his daughter Morgana. This is rather unfortunate for the protagonist, whom Morgana has the hots for.
- In Paddington (2014), Mr. Brown is a variation of this trope — he's not overprotective in a romantic sense (he appears to have no objection that we see to his daughter dating or the boys she dates), but in a "must protect my kids from every physical threat possible, even if it only exists in my head" sense. And interestingly, his overprotectiveness mainly kicks in around his son rather than his daughter, because he's reckless and she's sensible. He eventually grows out of this mindset by the end of the film.
- In the Ice Cube film The Players Club, Blue, the local DJ at the stripper club the protagonist, Diana, works at comes to pick her up for a date. While he waiting for her to get ready, he meets her dad who just happens to be practicing his marksmanship with a gun. As you can imagine, the scene is far from comfortable to Blue.
- Nathan Wallace in Repo! The Genetic Opera takes this to some scary extremes with his daughter, Shilo. When the story begins, she's been locked in her bedroom for 17 years. It seems like he has good reason for this, as she has a rare blood disease. Until it turns out that she doesn't, and he was actually poisoning her so he could keep her with him and away from the outside world. Though with it becoming a complete Crapsack World, can you really blame him?
- Roustabout: Joe is extremely hostile to the idea of Charlie being with his daughter Cathy and the two men frequently come to blows over it.
- Abraham in Selena is very much this, disapproving of Selena becoming involved with Chris and initially shunning their marriage.
- Roger Ebert once condemned the Tony Danza movie She's Out of Control for dragging this into Squick levels.
- In Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot is fiercely protective of the virtue of his daughters, Shuah and Maleb. When Prince Astaroth taunts him with the revelation that he has seduced both of them, Lot flies into a murderous rage and fights a Duel to the Death with Astaroth, ignoring the pleas for mercy from his daughters and from Astaroth himself as he plunges his sword into his opponent's chest. Incidentally this is Adaptational Heroism; in the Bible Lot actually offered his daughter's to the mob to rape instead of his guests.
- The Sound of Music: Once he starts paying attention to his children, Captain Von Trapp edges into this on occasion. Most notably, he's very, very upset when he finds out that Max had intended to have the children perform publicly in a music festival (though he's ultimately forced to go along with it). Even before this, eldest daughter Liesl feels she has to sneak around to be with her boyfriend, and can only see him when he happens to be in the area. It's not entirely clear what the basis for the secrecy is, but it's safe to say that she didn't expect her father to react well.
- Adrian Toomes, played by Michael Keaton, is one of these in Spiderman Homecoming, although he isn't so overprotective that he denies Liz any freedom. He clearly loves Liz deeply, and the main reason he went into villainy was to be able to continue to provide for her and his wife. Liz isn't surprised at all when Adrian jokingly says he has to give Peter "the Dad Talk" when dropping them off at the Homecoming dance (it's really to confront Peter, whom he figured out is Spider-Man during the drive). He'll kill you if you threaten Liz or try to prevent him from providing for her, but if you save her life he will not forget it.
- Steam: Elizabeth's dad Frank is very controlling, with her mom going along on it. He micromanages everything she does, particularly trying to prevent Elizabeth sleeping with men (as they're conservative Catholics), though she actually only likes women, but given his beliefs he wouldn't approve of that either. Elizabeth finally pushes back on this, happier to stay in a jail cell than be bailed out by him.
- Superdad: Charlie will do anything to keep his daughter from her boyfriend and the rest of their friends, including having a college give her an acceptance letter so that she moves away from them.
- Sweet Hostage: Before Doris Mae's kidnapping, her dad grills her about what she did on her date last night and threatens to shoot any man who comes near her.
- In the 2008 Liam Neeson film Taken, Neeson's character Bryan Mills comes across as this at first, with the rules he tries to impose for his daughter's safety. She's annoyed by them and thinks he's too strict, as does his ex-wife. Shortly after, he is proven right when he has to storm his way through the Paris Underworld to try and save his daughter from sex-traders. Mills, an ex-CIA agent, fights off thugs left and right with mostly hand-to-hand combat and even ties one of the unfortunate traders to a chair, sticks a long nail into each leg, hooks a jumper cable to each leg nail and to the house's wiring, and shocks him so he reveals who he and his group sold his daughter to. After the interrogation, he leaves him in the chair, to have volts and volts of electricity flow through his body until "it is shut off for lack of payment on the bill." Mills did say that he would kill him after finding him, and kill him he did!
- Thelma: Thelma's dad and mom regularly look over her schedule and he calls her every night to make sure that she eats or doesn't give in to hedonistic practices. They may be protective and watch carefully over their daughter but they are shown to be emotionally distant.
- Troll 2: "If my father knew you were here, he'd cut off your little nuts and eat them. He can't stand you."
- Twice-Told Tales: Taken to psychotic levels by Giacomo Rappaccini in "Rappaccini's Daughter". Many years ago, Rappaccini abruptly quit academia and became a recluse after his wife ran away with a lover. Rappaccini has treated his daughter Beatrice with an exotic plant extract that makes her touch deadly; he does this to keep her safe from unwanted suitors, but it makes her a prisoner in her own home.
- Subverted in The Wackness. It looks as if Squarez is rearing to rip Luke a new one when he finds out that he and his stepdaughter Stephanie are dating; however, it's actually Luke that he's worried about, warning him that Stephanie is likely to dump him once her friends return from vacation. Considering the fact that he's Luke's friend, therapist, and that Luke hinted at considering suicide, it's not as strange as it seems.
