There are principally two kinds of film dads who’re so protecting, they’re scary. There’s the dad who jokingly, however not jokingly, refuses to simply accept his teen daughter’s private life. They’re fairly unique to rom-coms. After which there’s the ex-badass-still-badass dad, now retired, who springs into motion when his daughter is kidnapped. Each these varieties can instill concern in folks — the previous in unsuspecting boyfriends, and the latter in dangerous guys silly sufficient to cross him. And each are time-tested archetypes all of us love. These scary protecting dads are our favorites.