If this troper ever has a daughter, he plans to play with this trope. First, I'd pretend to be playing it straight, then subvert it in a funny way (like, for example, tell the guy "good luck" and let my facial expression explain what I mean).

This Troper has a male gay friend whose father is a very odd example of this. He has two other sons and doesn't seem to mind when they date any girl at all, but he hates it when my friend has a date. He doesn't seem to mind much that he's is gay, only that apparently all men are horrible, horny people with the exception of his son - and so he has to protect him until he's over 21. The worst part is that all my friend's male friends are now victims of his father's suspicions, even the straight ones.

This Troper has a friend whose girlfriend parents are both this. The couple get to see each other about once every month, and the girlfriend's parents complain that "He spends too much time with you".

This Troper's Dad is like this, which is interesting since he's normally a laid-back almost New Age-y kind of guy, but whenever he meets a new potential boyfriend (of this troper or her sister), suddenly it's "You know, I was in the Air Force" and showing off the hunting rifles...

This Troper's Dad stated quite simply when my Mom brought up the topic of me getting a boyfriend: #QUOTE#"If some punk thinks he's worthy enough to be your boyfriend then I will kill him. Then I'll bring him to life and kill him again. And again. And again. Slowly. ''Painfully''."

When at a friend's house while his little cousin was there, this troper pushed her while he was trying to do something with the tv and she was being annoying. She acted as though hit, and her father pinned me against the couch and said "If you hit her again, I will beat the shit out of you." Big guy, too. This troper now makes sure not to come to said friend's house while the cousin is there.

Apparently, when this tropers oldest sister would bring guys home, (she has never tried it, herself) Daddy would invariabley decide to clean and polish his shot-guns. And bring up the fact that he's a Marine. Also, while I've never seen him do it, my mom tells me he's talked to all of my male friends. I would love to know what this 'talk' was like.

This troper is looking forward to parenthood someday just for the opportunity to embody this trope. I figure any guy who can survive what I've got in store is enough of a badass to be worthy of any daughter I may have.

This is one of the few things keeping me from dating a girl I like...aside from her living many miles away.

This troper, though never having had a boyfriend before, has been told what her dad will say to a prospective boyfriend. He's lying, but that doesn't make it any less scary. #QUOTE#"You know, I was in jail once, and I'm not afraid to go back."

Yeah, well, if I ever do anything that would end up with him getting sent (back?), I probably deserved what he did to me ;3

This troper has an overprotective and oblivious dad. The combination is very bad together.

This troper is disappointed that he has never had the chance to do this to any of his 3 sisters. I live in hope that in 15 years I might be able to pull one of these on a potential friend of his newborn niece.

This troper is disappointed that she will never get to do this. Damn X chromosomes.

This troper would like to remind the above troper of the increasing number of nontradional gender roles in today's world.

This troper in turn would like to remind the above one that not everyone is into liberalism.

This troper would like to remind the above one that informing the town that she caught her daughter's (ex) boyfriend eating kittens is well within the traditional role of a mother. Dads do it with shotguns, moms do it with words.

Just because one is a mother doesn't mean they can't be physically intimidating. This troper is fairly sure she could pull off intimidating pretty well, due to her huge shoulders and fairly muscular frame.

This troper's father took sadistic pleasure in telling me and my sister what he would do should I ever bring a boy home. We have a driveway 1/4th of a mile long with the mailbox at the top of the hill in full view of the narrow highway. He said while cutting the throat of a 400 lb boar, "If you ever bring a boy onto this property before you're 18, I will shoot him before he gets past the mailbox." And he, being a farmer, owns many weapons naturally. And I've seen him use them. Another time he calmly said, "If you bring a boy here, I will invite him for a cup of tea. Made from the bark of a cherry tree. And poison his ass."

As much as that must suck for you, I simply must admit that your dad is awesome.

And I would like to say that he sounds like an ass and too protective.

This troper brought home her loud, rosy-cheeked gay theater parnter just to piss him off. He's admitted to being homophobic.

This troper's dad isn't exactly overprotective, but we like to joke that, the first time a boy comes to the door to pick me up for a date (and he WILL come to the door), my dad, brother, and a few of our friends will be out front of the house with our substantial collection of swords.

Overprotective Older Brother example: this troper's friend, after passing his U.S. Army marksmanship test, bought his younger sister a T-shirt saying "Someone Who Loves Me Is Accurate With His Weapon At 300 Yards". The threat is implied rather than stated outright, but it definitely fits the trope. In a subversion, the sister was grateful rather than annoyed.

I don't know someone like that, but I kind of want that t-shirt because it's amusing.

This troper's dad is more protective when it comes to going anywhere by herself/without adults, but he also freaks when anything remotely sexual pops up on TV or the radio. As this troper's friend put it, "I hate it when dad's try to protect you from things you already know." Many brilliant TV shows have been ruined by this troper's dad proclaiming that it's inappropriate and changing the channel.

The one thing this troper is looking forward to about his daughter hitting puberty is that he will get to do this.

The first person my sister brings back to this tropers house will be in for a world of hurt. Two older brother and one overprotective father have conspired to make his/her stay hell. You know, for S+ G.

This troper's Grandfather apparently used to write down the license plate numbers of her mother's boyfriend's cars. You know, just in case.

Overprotective Stepfather example here. Parental figures, please make sure that you do not get carried away with this. This Troper was grateful for the protectiveness until she wanted to go away somewhere with her boyfriend and said stepfather started guilting her over her dead little brother.

This troper's dad plays up this image; he does the "no boys until you're married" type of routine with her and her sister so often it's stopped being funny, but behind the facade he seems to be okay with the idea of me dating (not that I'm going to). He also acts all astonished when one of us makes any kind of sex-related comment; I know he exaggerates it, but I'm not sure how much. The main area in which he plays it straight is by being a pain in the arse ("being a pain in the arse" is the most concise way to describe it, since he doesn't really exercise his parental authority there) about me being out at night.

This troper's friend claims that he will become this, and that deep down, pretty much every dad is protecive over his little girl whether he shows it or not. She's rather stuck about agreeing with him since her own father is rather lax (though that has more to do with her lack of sociability and interest in doing "teenager things" than it does with him lacking protective instinct).

I highly doubt that I will ever meet this. I am not threatening or intimidating. Any attempt at such makes me look foolish.

A properly cautious parental figure will still be careful. The protective instinct can make even usually oblivious people very, very, (often rightly) paranoid. Maybe even enough to consider ObfuscatingStupidity.

This troper's father has told her that she is not allowed to date until she's 40. It's mostly said in jest, though.

That's more or less what my parent's told me! But then, I got a secret boyfriend when I was 12...but we were just a couple of little, nonexperienced nerds, so we barely kissed. We'd rather talk about HarryPotter.

One of my female friends has this. Her father is heavily suspicious of any teenage boy who comes within one hundred feet of his daughter (including me, though I'm not interested). Being a highschool student and teenage male myself, I find myself thinking "She'll be thanking you in a few years." Just out of cynicism.

This Troper recently went to the United Kingdom and met a young man in the preforming arts studio. I had a crush on him, and eventually asked him out. After a couple of dates, I had to meet his family. His two older sisters were gems, and had a lot of freedom. I believed his father would be laid back because these girls got a lot of privileges. His sisters tried to warn me, but I didn't get the message until after I went to my boyfriend's house. His father was in the living room. He was strict, a tad uptight, and narrowed his eyes whenever I tried to hold his son's hand. When I asked permission to go out with him, the dad made me sign a contract that I would not do anything intimate or too adult. I was mortified, especially since girls are the ones with protective dads. I was even more stunned to learn my boyfriend had to be home by eight. However, we still carry on the relationship. His dad still never lets up...

My brother just had a baby daughter, and already has plans to invite his stepson, our father, and me if I'm in town, over for weaponry cleaning night to coincide with her first date.

Me, I'm a little more meta. I'll just say: "There are people who owe me. Do ''not'' make me call those favors in." His imagination can take care of the rest.

My ex-boss just happened to have his .44 Magnum out on the table being cleaned when his daughter's first date showed up at the house. The chit-chat ended (as the couple were leaving) with "So you'll have her back by ten, right son?" "9:30, yes sir!". In my own case my daughter solved this problem for me by developing an interest in chain-maille and pole-arms (naginata etc.) in High School. I figured it was all to the good if she had a rep for being savvy about (as she put it) "pointy, clangy things". Helped keep my ulcer under control, that did.

What bugged me for a while about this trope, and others like it, is how can someone think so ill of their gender that they see the worst of someone based solely on gender? Then comes the Double Standard that the dad hardly ever is shown be hostile towards the son's female love interests, even encouraging him to do the EXACT SAME THING to someone else's daughter that he was just threatening someone else's son (who may not have even seriously been considering it) for. It's pretty messed up if you ask me, disgusting even. Also makes you wonder what kind of person they were growing up. Do they seriously believe AllMenArePerverts who would just up and sexually assault someone unless they get reminded the obvious of that being a crime. Then to add insult to... well more insult, on television, 8 times out of 10 they are absolutely right and the guy becomes a prick COMPLETELY out of nowhere (and that's if he doesn't turn out to be secretly gay, like the other 1 out of 10). Come on writers how about showing the inverse or something? Oh yeah, according to you, a man would NEVER feel like a relationship is moving too fast, or feels like he is being violated. You disgust me, and now I have picked up an unconscience habit of tuning out or changing the channel when one of these instances come up. That is why this troper will put an end to it with my potential children, I will raise them to be able to make their own decisions, and never do anything or date anyone they know that I won't approve of(or be hesitant in telling me about). I'll trust them until they give me reason to do otherwise. Sorry if I seem really pissed or am taking things too seriously, but this trope is one of the ones that go directly against my FIVE CODES OF LIFE!!!!, so I show a tad more emotion for it than most other things. It's not just this trope either, but others that crop up when MostWritersAreMale.

I'll admit: I'm an utter bastard. I'm looking forward to taking advantage of this trope solely because it allows me to scare the hell out of somebody in a socially acceptable manner.

This troper had a friend who had a girlfriend with a father like this. I lent the boy my AK, bayonet, and two mags of JHP ammunition as well as the line "I'm certified accurate to 400 meters." And of course, since I'm in to guns, I gave him a brief lecture about the basic stuff to know so that he wasn't too freaked. Still scared him that I handed him a fully functioning military assault weapon (it's a bullshit definition, assault weapon, but it sounds cooler than assault rifle.) The next time I have a date with a girl who has an overprotective dad, I'll be sure to pull off the same gambit. I might even give out a complement on a dad's upper.

Usually inverted with this troper's (so laid back he's horizontal) dad. He's basically said that I can get drunk, take drugs and be with any guy just so long as I do it all in the house.

This Troper's dad said that my future boyfriend had better be good at ducking, because both he is a good shot with a rifle. On a more amusing note, he also added that he'd better be careful about making me mad, because I'm a good shot too. Shame that my current crush is female, something that he will NOT be joking about if he ever finds out.

This troper's father used to be absolutely against her dating, but he lived two states away so there wasn't much he could do. Oddly enough...when she did get a boyfriend, he teased her about it and after this troper and said boyfriend broke up, her dad was trying to convince her to get a new one. ...Dads are weird.

When I was six, my dad told me that I was going to be allowed to have a boyfriend when I was fifteen. When I became fifteen, he told me that it would be when I finished college. Now I'm sixteen, but he has been increasing the age until forty... or fifty, I can't remember.

This troper has an Overprotective Younger Brother and an Overprotective Older Friend-Who-Thinks-He-Is-Brother. In addition, she will admit to being an Overprotective Older Sister to the aforementioned little brother- who, much to her relief, still believes that GirlsHaveCooties.

This troper's dad has openly confessed that he will still be worrying about her when she gets to be forty years old. Oh boy.

This troper has two overprotective parents. When my younger sister's ex came to pick her up for their first date, my dad just glanced at him and said "I'm not afraid to go back to prison." Then from the kitchen, we heard my mom call "Neither am I!" And they were not kidding.

This tropers Ex's dad was like this... until he realized that I wasn't like most other guys... but he still was over protective at times, just a bit less...

If what my mom has told me is any indication, my dad averts this. I've never had a boyfriend or girlfriend, so I don't know for sure, but my mom tells me that my dad would pay for my whole wedding if that's what it would take to get me out of the house.