Problem: As per the description, the trope is defined as "a grandparent with attitude and a young spirit, as much or even more vitality than his/her grandchildren, a captivating nature that makes the children enjoy him/her as a friend, and is a counterpoint to the parents (While the parents are Serious Business the grandparents are all about fun)". The laconic agrees with this, stating: "A grandparent who is friends with their grandchildren and treats them as their equals." So basically, this trope seems to be a grandparent-version of a Cool Uncle.

The problem is, this is not a common use of the term "doting", which usually refers to excessive pride/affection and overindulgence towards the child's desires, even when discipline might be more appropriate, as it is used in Doting Parent. The page even has to explicitly state that Doting Grandparent is not about "grandparents who spoils their grandkids", implicitly acknowledging that the trope name doesn't actually fit the definition.

Here's the wick check for Doting Grandparent.

Out of 50 wicks checked, only 4 of them seem to indicate that the grandparent "treats their grandkids as equals/with respect". Almost half (19/50) are ZCE, while the most common use seems to just boil down to "grandparents love grandkids", which is borderline chairs.

Some possible fixes:

1. Rename the trope. Cool Grandparent would probably be more indicative of what this trope is trying to be, though I'm not sure it's distinct enough from Cool Old Guy or Cool Old Lady to warrant a separate page.
2. Redefine the trope into "Grandparents who spoil their grandkids" and clean up examples that don't fit. However there is some concern that this is redundant to Grandparent Favoritism.
3. Cut the trope. Maybe disambiguate between Cool Old Guy, Cool Old Lady, Granny Classic, Grandparent Favoritism, etc.

1. Film.And Your Name Is Jonah: Jonah's grandfather Francesco (Titos Vandis) immediately bonds with Jonah and likes carrying him around on his shoulders. He's one of the few people Jonah manages to form a connection with without the use of language, and understands him better than his parents do. It's a severe blow when he dies, especially since Jonah doesn't understand the concept of death.
2. ComicStrip.Dennis The Menace UK: Dennis's Grandma is the only adult who Dennis respects rather than his parents and is his best adult friend. An episode of the animated series even revealed she's something of a Generation Xerox to him.
3. Characters.Infinite Stratos Our Darkest Days: She was very close with her grandmother who encouraged her intellectual gifts and supplemented her education with advanced literature.
4. Characters.The Lunar Chronicles: Teaches her young granddaughter to live more simply, work outdoors and in general be less of a spoiled city mouse. She and Scarlet love each other to bits.

1. Characters.The Simpsons Extended Family: Abe has a better relationship with his grandchildren than his own son. Bart in particular seems to be his favorite and there are several episodes which focuses the relationship between them.
2. Literature.Shtum: Georg adores Jonah and jumps at any opportunity to spend time with him. He takes him on walks, bathes him, and talks to him whenever they're alone, sharing family secrets he never mentioned to Ben.

1. Characters.Rune Factory 3: He spoils Monica, despite Shara instructing him not to.
2. Literature.Aunt Dimity: Willis Sr. vis-à-vis Will and Rob. There are many references to this, including a jocular reference to the "law" that grandparents must spoil their grandchildren and being an attorney, Willis Sr. is stickler for obeying the law. He refurbishes the stables at Fairworth House not for his own use (he doesn't ride himself), but so that the twins will ride over for frequent visits.
3. Webcomic.Little Rose: White Diamond seems to fill this role for Rose, even going so far as giving an undeveloped colony for Rose despite the fact that she is, you know, a baby.
4. Characters.The Brave Express Might Gaine: His grandfather, Yuujiro Senpuuji is alive and well, albeit a bit too overboard in (attempting to) spoil Might his own way.
5. Recap.Adventure Time S 7 E 29 Lady Rainicorn Of The Crystal Dimension: Averted, while Lady's parents were happy to give their daughter anything they thought she needed they don't seem to be as willing to cater to their grandson.
6. TheTwilightZone1959.Tropes A To H: In "Long Distance Call", the extremely frail Grandma Bayles adores her grandson Billy. She gives him a toy telephone for his fifth birthday so that he will always be able to talk to her on it. She dies later that day, after mistaking Billy for her son (and his father) Chris. She begins to communicate with him over the toy phone from beyond the grave and convinces Billy to commit suicide so that they can be Together in Death. When Billy is on the brink of death after being found face down in the family pond, Chris talks to his mother over the toy phone and persuades her to let Billy live if she really loves him.

1. Characters.A Korean Odyssey: Seon-mi was not only the only one in her family to not treat her as a Black Sheep, she cared for her enough to return as a ghost to save her from an evil spirit.
2. Characters.Blue Bloods The Reagan Family: Frank has a soft spot for his grandkids. He's especially close to his eldest grandchild and only granddaughter, Nicky.
3. Characters.Chicago PD: The man who terrifies most of Chicago's criminal underworld by reputation alone turns out to be a doting grandpa who's more than happy to go to theme restaurants to spend time with his grandson, Daniel.
4. Characters.Harvey Beaks: Both of them love their grandson a lot, but Miley is especially doting.
5. Anime.Heidi Girl Of The Alps: Like in the novel, Heidi's grandfather, in spite of his aloof nature, adores Heidi, to the point of going back on his plan to sell their newborn goat to rent a house for the winter in Episode 37, "Goat's Baby", after seeing Heidi fall into grief. The narration, at least in the Cantonese dub, explicitly says that this moment shows how much Heidi's grandfather loves her.
6. Characters.One Stormy Night Secret Friends: She loves and cares very deeply about her grandchild.
7. Characters.Doraemon The Parents And Relatives: She always welcomes Nobita whenever he travels back in time to meet her.
8. Characters.Classical Mythology Titans: Provided his granddaughter Medea the means to escape Corinth. Apparently her tendency of murdering her way out of problems was not a deal-breaker for him.
9. Characters.Wario Ware: To Penny, so very much. "You know I support you, no matter what", indeed.
10. Manga.My Girl: Koharu's got three of them! Her maternal grandmother raised her after the death of her mother and her paternal grandparents are very quick to warm up to her.
11. Webcomic.Til Debt Do Us Part: Yejun's step-grandmother was the only person in his new family to treat him with love and care.
12. Fanfic.Champions: Gold's grandfather is the one most comforting and supportive of him out of his family after he returns from the Games. River is also described as affectionate to his grandsons, with realistic feelings about how they would do if they were reaped.
13. Fanfic.Heroic Father Figures: Kazuki cares deeply for Izuku and is supportive of her, often asking her how school is and even teasing her if she has a boyfriend, much to Izuku's embarrassment. He tells her that she could be a hero without a Quirk while telling her she's smart.
14. Characters.Metroid The Chozo: A very benevolent and kindhearted grandfather figure and Parental Substitute for Samus.

1. Characters.Ascendance Of A Bookworm Ehrenfest Nobles: Cornelius informs Rozemyne that Bonifatius actually absolutely adores his only granddaughter, which becomes obvious in his Perspective Flip chapter in Part 3 Volume 5. He keeps his distance because he is known to be rough and forceful, and he is warned that Rozemyne could collapse at any moment if he isn't careful. He would love nothing more than to spend time with her. Rozemyne being abducted at the end of Part 3 triggers his protective instincts and makes him recklessly charge forward to save her. While she is recovering from her injuries between Part 3 and 4, Bonifatius keeps annoying Ferdinand by sending ordonnanz messages every day to ask about Rozemyne's condition.
2. PapaWolf.Anime And Manga: Back in the original series Ox-King was very much a Papa Wolf to his only daughter Chi-Chi, as he would go on a rampage with his ax whenever anyone (e.g the Red Ribbon Army) endangered her or his future son in law Goku. He also made his first appearance begging for Goku to find Chi-Chi after she went looking for the Bansho Fan and did not return. While Ox-King did get Overshadowed by Awesome, even by his own daughter, he still succeeds in being a Doting Grandparent to Gohan especially after the Cell Games when Goku died (again).
3. Recap.Oz S 5 E 2 Laws Of Gravity: Rebadow is determined to save his grandson.
4. VideoGame.Rodea The Sky Soldier: Ion's grandfather Asimov became very protective of Ion after his wife died.

1. Beelzebub.Tropes D To L: Kanzaki's dad towards his granddaughter Futaba. Made even funnier due to the fact he's a Yakuza boss and she treats him like filth.
2. Characters.Agarest Senki
3. Characters.Anne With An E
4. Characters.Baten Kaitos
5. DeconstructedTrope.Western Animation: Doting Grandparent. Nana Domzalski is quite doting towards Toby, but this often embarrasses him.
6. Fanfic.The Mantisinthe Mix: Doting Grandparent: Vronskaya is this to Kai and Izuku.
7. Heartwarming.Boruto: And after learning of the Hyuga Affair and why Hiashi is such a Doting Grandparent, Boruto finally realized what the perfect birthday present would be: A family photo, promising to do so every year just so he could always have a memory of their happy days.
8. HopeSpot.Anime And Manga: Rinne's bullies tell her that they're sorry for what they've been doing and she finds out that her grandfather's health is improving which would allow her to spend more time with him.
9. Podcast.Disc Only Podcast: The intro contains a colored drawing with scrolls featuring Latin words associated with the origin of the podcast, as well as the four guys with their personas: Grandpa Stephen, Rosajon, the 8-Bit Bunny, and Quagsire Tom. The streamer associated with Tom subverts it by having a series of A's instead to denote the screaming Quagsire.
10. Recap.The Sopranos S 6 E 21 Made In America: Phil and Patty, with their two infant grandchildren.
11. SelfDemonstrating.Magneto: Even if she is lamentably powerless, I will not allow any to harm my granddaughter Luna. Indeed, I once swore I would rather die than allow her to suffer a moment's grief.
12. Series.Dinosaurs: Ethyl Phillips to Baby.
13. Series.Man With A Plan: Grumpy Old Man: Joe Burns, except when his grandchildren are involved.
14. Series.Thats So Raven: Raven's Viv. Don't call her Grandma.
15. Skyrim.Tropes N To T: In the Dragonborn DLC, Hermaeus Mora's facade as a friendly Doting Grandfather-like figure slips when he shows us just what he does to people who try to keep secrets from him. The results are not pretty. We also get to see what he really looks like.
16. StepfordSmiler.Anime And Manga: Mari's mother Eriko is Unstable. At first she seemed like a nice, normal mother however it's eventually revealed she is neglectful and has control issues. She went as far as to change her daughters name from "Fumiko" to "Mari" as a child to disassociate her from the recently deceased Doting Grandparent she loathed.
17. VideoGame.Mother 3: Alec.
18. WesternAnimation.The Life And Times Of Juniper Lee: Jasmine Lee to both June and Ray Ray.
19. WesternAnimation.School Of Roars: Wingston's Granny, who lives with him and his Father.

1. Characters.Eighty Six Eighty Six: He wants to be this to Shin, but his grandson's emotional detachment prevents it. An example of this is in a Volume 7 side-story where Seiei gets nervous trying to decide a gift for Shin's birthday, but can't, because the marquis doesn't know what his grandson likes.

1. Characters.Bobs Burgers The Belcher Family: He and Bob have a very strained relationship that, even after they make up in "Father of the Bob", has only improved at a slow pace. He also doesn't seem to like his daughter-in-law that much, looking rather annoyed by her comment on him shrinking with age. However, he adores his grandchildren, dotes on them, gives them money and lets them into his basement when they need stuff, a stark contrast from their maternal grandparents.
2. Characters.Codex Equus Grittish Isles: Her paternal grandfather doted on and spoiled her, having long ago written off the rest of his immediate family, relatives, and descendants as a bunch of vile, greedy, cruel, and unrepentant wastes of space. When he wasn't pretending to be senile, he would give her advice on how to kill off the worst of the Malefias. For her part, she genuinely loved her grandfather back, and when he was murdered by her no-show father for willing his entire inheritance to her, she angrily confronted her father and burned him alive in revenge.
3. Characters.Despicable Me The Gru Family: Despite her emotional abuse of her son she bonds quickly with her granddaughters, even before they're formally adopted.
4. Characters.Family Guy Antagonists: Surprisingly, he gets along well with Chris, Meg and Stewie and is mostly happy to see them whenever he can. He even bonds with Chris, for better or worse, in "Fresh Heir". gkids > son-in-law
5. Characters.Genshin Impact Liyue: Hu Tao has profound respect and admiration for her grandfather who, in return, also loved her a lot; [[spoiler:wishing for her to conduct his funeral. He passed his hat down to her, and she exhausted herself trying to find her grandfather's spirit for days while trying to commemorate his funeral, falling asleep from tiredness, even after the other spirits wandering there laughed at her]]. wanted gkid to bury, not kid
6. Characters.Gilmore Girls Gilmore Family:
   • Emily and Richard adore Rory and put her on a higher pedestal than they do Lorelai.
   • Rory is his only grandchild, but he is a lot more lenient with her than he is with Lorelai or Emily.
7. Characters.The Proud Family Proud Extended Family: He never got to know his grandson, but after seeing him be a natural cowboy, he’s grown fond of him. Oscar couldn’t be happier to have an elder relative that respects him.
8. Characters.The Proud Family Proud Family: "Well Done, Daughter!" Gal: In the reboot, her father belittled and dismissed her attempts to show how skilled she is in rodeo because of her gender. It's tellingly the only thing he ever complimented her on was having Oscar and even then it's a Stealth Insult when he says she did "one thing right" with a less than proud look on his face.
9. Characters.Rugrats: His two sons, Drew and Stu, tend to get on his nerves whenever they argue and/or whenever Stu's inventions malfunction. However, he has a soft spot for his granddaughter, Angelica, and his two grandsons, Tommy and Dil, and will often tell them stories from his youth.
10. Characters.The Simpsons Extended Family: He has shown plenty of times to have more love and respect for his grandchildren than his son and in particular is closest to his oldest grandchild and only grandson, Bart.
11. Characters.Turning Red: Wu is tough on her daughters (to the point that Ming feared her). With Mei, however, she's stern, but not too intimidating. She's quite doting towards her as well.
12. Characters.The Vampire Chronicles: Thomas "Pops" and Rose "Sweetheart" Blackwood see their daughter Patsy (who they had rather late in life) as a disappointment for going wild and country as well as her Teen Pregnancy at sixteen so Quinn became their much favored child.
13. Characters.With Pearl And Ruby Glowing: Possibly. She seems to be closer with Huan than she is with her own kids anyway, but they're similar. It's unclear if this holds true for his siblings as well.
14. Fanfic.After The Jungle Series: "The Spelling Bee II" shows that Helga's parents, Bob and Miriam, have a pretty good relationship with her and Arnold's kids.
15. Film.Riding In Cars With Boys: The relationship between Beverly and her already strict parents was strained to say the least after she became pregnant, but they each adored their grandson, Jason, even into adulthood.
16. Film.The Silver Chalice: Deborra's connection with her grandfather Joseph of Arimethea is resented by the man who is his son and her father.
17. Literature.I Think I Love You: Molly and Greta had the loving, uncomplicated relationship that Petra and Greta never did. After Greta's death, Molly is able to simply grieve, while Petra's grief is mixed with anger.
18. Literature.In Cryptid: Alice has a better relationship with her grandchildren than her children, probably because she left them to be raised by her friends at a carnival while she went dimension-hopping to search for her missing husband.
19. Literature.Shtum: Ben doesn't understand why Georg is so much more open and affectionate with Jonah than he ever was with him.
20. Main.Jerkass To One: The Proud Family: In the reboot, the Prouds meet Suga Mama's father, Pa Towne. He's naturally an ill-tempered man, but he's even less pleasant to his daughter, sometimes going out of his way to verbally demean her. When he shows actual respect to Oscar of all people, he gives the only "compliment" he ever gave his daughter, that she did "one thing" right, namely having a son.
21. Pantheon.Other Relatives: Fond Of His Grandkids
22. Quotes.Wrong Name Outburst:
    Emily: You are becoming more like your mother with every passing day.
    Rory: And you are becoming more like my mother's mother with every passing day.
23. Recap.Criminal Case World Edition Case 26 Dead In The Water: Obaasan constantly mentions her grandchildren, but her own offspring are absent from her dialogue.
24. Recap.Law And Order Special Victims Unit S 3 E 21 Denial: Rose, Grace's mother, prefers her surviving granddaughter Claire over her angry and abusive daughter. Even when interviewed by detectives, she explicitly says that she's only interested in helping Claire. Given what kind of a person Grace is, it's understandable.
25. Recap.Law And Order Special Victims Unit S 10 E 19 Selfish: Both of Ashley's parents, particularly her mother, prefer their young granddaughter over their irresponsible daughter. Her father even explaining that her birth motivated him to stop drinking.
26. Series.Coronation Street: Notoriously grumpy Blanche was more likely to defend Tracy than she was Deirdre, and went out of her way to provide for her. This becomes apparent in 2003 when Tracy became pregnant via a one-night stand; that Christmas sees Blanche gifting her a flat with money that was to go towards Deirdre's inheritance, in the hope that she kept the grandchild instead of giving it to the Croppers. Needless to say, her daughter was understandably furious.
27. Series.Family Matters: Downplayed with Estelle. While she does love and respect her son Carl, she is also quick to scold him when he goofs up royally. She also acts as a respected mentor and mediator whenever he has an issue or disagreement with one of the children, particularly Eddie or Steve, who has a deep shared respect for her as if she were his own grandmother.
28. Series.Gilmore Girls: Emily and Richard adore Rory and put her on a higher pedestal than they do Lorelai.
29. Series.Love Lies And Murder: Played with. While David's parents do love their son, they clearly love their eldest granddaughter, too (with Cinnamon and her grandfather in particular sharing a special bond). It was even his knowledge of David and Patti's affair that eventually caused her to turn on him and put them both in prison.
30. Series.Mamas Family: While it's no secret that Thelma likes her grandchildren more than her children and the people that they married, it was most obvious with the mutually loving and functional relationship she had with Bubba over Eunice. While Eunice was sniping and embittered towards her from the time she was a child, teenaged Bubba was able to transform from a sassy juvenile delinquent to a responsible college man under her guise.
31. Series.Nonno Felice: Felice is a Doting Grandparent to Federico, Eva, and Morena and a complete jerk to his son Franco, even outright telling him that he's a disgrace multiple times and that his children are the only good things he has ever done in his life (though he's mostly just joking and can be kind towards him at times). He's also very nice to his daughter-in-law Ginevra, in contrast to the way he treats his son.
32. Series.Passions: Played with regarding Alastair. He treats everyone he knows like crap including and especially his own family members, but he has taken a shine to eldest grandson, Ethan, a smart and charming lawyer, and feels he is a much more suitable heir to the Crane fortune and business over the alcoholic playboy Julian. That is, until it's revealed that Ethan wasn't his grandson due to a one-time fling that Ivy had with her ex-boyfriend Sam right before her wedding to Julian.
33. WellDoneSonGuy.Western Animation: The Proud Family: In the reboot, Suga Mama's father Pa Towne was a Straw Misogynist who looked down on her just for being a girl and would dismiss her attempts at trying to impress him with her rodeo skills. She has a very notable look of jealousy when he starts showering Oscar with the parental affection she never got from him.

1. Wonder Woman Vol 1: Grandma Heyday much prefers her three orphaned granddaughters to her living son Joel, and even cuts Joel out of her will entirely. In retaliation he plots to kill her and his nieces and the Heyday women are only saved by Wonder Woman's timely intervention.
2. The Wolverine: Ichiro Yashida favored his granddaughter Mariko more than his son, Shingen (resulting in him leaving Mariko everything in his will). This drove Shingen to be deeply resentful of his daughter, to the point of trying to have her assassinated.
3. In An Ember in the Ashes, Elias's grandfather is far more supportive of him than his cruel mother. This is, however, due to his grandfather also being rather sexist and abusive himself; he despises his daughter, Elias's mother, as a result.
4. Seen plenty of times on The Golden Girls with Blanche and Sophia. The latter usually snarks at Dorothy and talks about what a screw up Phil is, but she is always excited to see her grandchildren and even gave money she took from Dorothy to give to her children. The former's Hands-Off Parenting and other selfish tendencies have put a strain on the relationship between her and her children, particularly her eldest daughter Janet, but she loves her grandchildren dearly and their love for her is mutual.
5. Veep: Selina's endlessly critical, sniping, and abusive mother Catherine is still extremely rude to Selina's daughter Catherine; but the younger Catherine's genuine interest in her, grief over her, and actual attempts to give her what she likes (and possibly the fact that she's named after her) means that the billionaire Catherine disinherits Selina and wills her entire estate to the younger Catherine upon her death.
6. The Twilight Zone (1959): In the episode "Long Distance Call," the grandmother is bitter that her son Chris left her to get married and now treats her like she's in the way, but she dotes on her grandson Billy, the only person whom she feels still cares about her. This reaches the point that [[spoiler: after she dies, her spirit communicates with Billy through his toy telephone and tries to persuade him to commit suicide so they can [[TogetherInDeath be together]], not caring that this will leave her son [[OutlivingOnesOffspring bereft.]] Only by pleading for Billy's sake and not his own does Chris convince her to let Billy live in the end.]]
7. The Simpsons: The Days of Future episodes show that much like Abe, Homer will be a much better grandfather to Bart's sons than he was a father to Bart.
8. Subverted in Archer, where Malory Archer is just as terrible to her granddaughter AJ as she is to her son Sterling. In some ways, she's actually worse; Sterling, at least, had some degree of insulation from his mother because she was still an active field agent during his formative years, and thus left him in the care of her butler Woodhouse, whereas AJ was born after Malory retired from the front lines, allowing her to give her far more of her toxic attention.
9. King of the Hill: Cotton Hill considers his son Hank a disappointment, and does not hesitate to say so to his face. He's far more loving towards his grandson Bobby, and on one episode states that he'd take a bullet for him. Interestingly, Cotton has a baby son with his much younger wife whom he dotes on; he calls him "Good Hank".
10. The Proud Family: Suga Mama frequently mocks and insults her son Oscar, but is a Doting Grandparent to Penny. However, she also gets along with her daughter-in-law; she's really only rude to her son.

1. Characters.The Baby Sitters Club 2020: Claudia is shown to think she is Mimi's favorite, as they have a very close relationship. She is shocked to see that Mimi and Janine are close in other ways (Janine speaks fluent Japanese and knows about Mimi's past). subversion of this definition
2. Characters.The Boss Baby: She clearly prefers Tim over Boss Baby, whose corporate attire and attitude reminds her of her old bosses from her steel worker days.
3. Characters.Diary Of A Wimpy Kid:
   • She decorates her refrigerator solely with pictures of Manny and takes any opportunity to babysit him.
   • He openly states Greg is his favorite grandchild, possibly because Greg is the only one who even attempts to put up with his many Cloudcuckoolander habits.
4. Characters.Helluva Dad: Despite having never met Jake in person, Gustav named him his universal heir for being his only male grandchild.
5. Characters.Scenes De Menages: They have two grandsons. They think Corentin is an idiot, but they love that Anthony is as annoying as they are.
6. Characters.With Pearl And Ruby Glowing Water Of The Womb: The Unfavorite: It's not said outright, but he does seem to be this to Oak, who in all fairness does have his reasons for paying attention to Gary, and issues with Blue's father.
7. Literature.Crazy Rich Asians: Shang Su Yi, the matriarch of the family prefers Nick and Astrid over her other grandchildren.
8. Series.Scenes De Menages: Huguette and Raymond have two grandsons. They think Corentin is not the brightest bulb, but love that Anthony is as annoying as they are.
9. WesternAnimation.Lego City Adventures: Sam Grizzled seems to show favoritism towards his grandson Brayden due to their alike personalities and not to mention Sam's initial reluctance to spend time with his granddaughter Poppy and even told her right on her face that he doesn't consider her job to be important or relevant.

1. The Quintessential Quintuplets: A minor example, as it only happens during one chapter, but during New Year, Fuutarou is a little put off by the fact that his grandparents gave his sister Raiha some money while giving nothing to him.
2. Hannah Montana: In her first appearance, Mamaw Stewart heaps attention on Jackson and practically ignores Miley, to Miley's annoyance. After Mamaw chooses to attend Jackson's volleyball game rather than attend Miley's performance for the Queen of England, Miley finally confronts her about this. Mamaw tells Miley that she loves both of them, and justifies her supposed favoritism of Jackson by pointing out that he has so few moments to shine compared to his pop star sister, and needs to have someone who will be there for them during those moments.

1. Characters.End Roll: Inverted. There's a photo album that Russell can examine in the bonus dungeon. Based on the description of his grandmother, it seems that it was the only blood-related family he had a positive relationship with.
2. Characters.Project Sekai Wonderlands X Showtime: Emu's grandfather is her greatest inspiration.

1. Laconic.Grandparent Favoritism: Visit the unabridged version HERE.
2. Main.Doting Grandparent: Compare and contrast Grandparent Favoritism.
3. Main.Dysfunctional Family Index: These grandparents love their grandchildren... because they're more likable or superior to their own children.
4. Main.Elders: When a grandparent adores their grandchild or grandchildren more than their children.
5. Main.Family Tropes: A grandparent who shares a close bond with/had a preference for their children's offspring that they don't (or didn't) have with their children.
6. Main.Parental Favoritism: The friendship version of this trope is Friendship Favoritism and the grandparent equivalent is Grandparent Favoritism (though it's not unheard of for the two tropes to overlap). per current description, is not equivalent
7. Main.Parental Issues: Grandparents who like or give preferential treatment to their children's offspring over their children.