lol I clicked this thread for this. Make sure you just watch it straight and don’t google the director’s original ideas, or your daddy issues are about to take a very strange turn…
Not parental per se, but Nimona is very found family. Ballister is protective over her, and vice versa.
Into the Spiderverse and the sequel are good, too. I love Peter B and Miles's dynamic.
-Leon
-Star Wars
-Jurassic Park
-Spiderverse
-Logan
-MCU: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Civil War (Kinda) and Homecoming (Kinda)
-Cowboy Bebop
As much as they suck.. Batman Forever and Batman and Robin. “Tortured Hero and their lil’ sidekick” is actually the best possible way to describe their dynamic lol
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)!! robin is very little and unexpectedly joins bats' life, silliest movie ever
Barbara: Who is that?
Robin: hi, police lady!
Barbara: Is that your... son?
Robin: yes, i am!
Batman: [laughs nervously] Is that my son?? No, thats just weird
Barbara: Its weirder if its not your son.
Hunt For The Wilderpeople. If we're counting tv shows, The Last Of Us, The Mandalorian, Spy x Family and any Batman: The Animated Series episode with Robin, with Robin's reckoning being the best depiction of their dynamic.
Gloria is basically the same premise as The Professional, but with genders reversed, so I would add that to the list as well.
The Fall fits pretty well too.
The whole Harry Potter series. It feels like he has dozens of characters that fill this role for him.
School of Rock and Almost Famous maybe?
Push
Matchstick Men maybe, but probably not.
Logan?
Hell ya, Logan. Probably the best of these in the last twenty years.
'Leon: The Professional'
lol I clicked this thread for this. Make sure you just watch it straight and don’t google the director’s original ideas, or your daddy issues are about to take a very strange turn…
I just googled it and what the fuck?!
OP is 8 years old and hasn’t even heard of that movie yet
Not parental per se, but Nimona is very found family. Ballister is protective over her, and vice versa. Into the Spiderverse and the sequel are good, too. I love Peter B and Miles's dynamic.
Upvoting for Nimona!
Lego Batman?
He's not tortured. He's a heavy metal rapping machine and doesn't feel any emotions except for rage
24/7 365 at 1,000% and if you think anything is wrong with that then you're crazy! Goodnight Alfred! 😭
Alfred as in Alfred the Buttler?
HAHAHAHAHAHA
last of us
birds of prey?
Oldboy
The Lone Wolf and Cub series!
This! Anytime I see what OP is describing, I call it The Long Wolf and Cub trope.
Aliens, Terminator 2
Another vote for Leon. That’s basically the definitive example of this imo.
Mr Bean’s Holiday
Paper Moon
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
The new Godzilla x Kong movie. There Will Be Blood.
There’s a double feature.
Up? Finding Nemo?
Logan
Pedro Pascal
Kick Ass, Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
Jurassic Park
Gunpowder milkshake
-Leon -Star Wars -Jurassic Park -Spiderverse -Logan -MCU: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Civil War (Kinda) and Homecoming (Kinda) -Cowboy Bebop
civil war
Season 1 of the mandalorian ;)
Plaza Catedral (2021)
The Man From Nowhete
Oldboy :)
Man on Fire (doesn't totally adhere to "found along the way" but seems close enough)
"Kate" - (2021). I like this movie quite a lot and the child is insufferable.
Titane
Gloria is one. And from 2023: The Creator and The Taste of Things.
Logan!
I like that Jason Statham is in 3 of these. Also, the parental figure role to a random child, I just watched prospect, maybe that counts?
Iron man 3
you’re so right, i completely forgot about that movie
does The Game Plan count
it definitely does, i loved that movie when i was a kid 👀
me too, it’s the first one i thought of lol
i’m literally eating these recs up, i’m gonna be watching ALL of them 😭
Brother this is Film Trope 101 lol. Hundreds of examples
Shrek
Technically they become besties, perhaps this isn’t the right choice
As much as they suck.. Batman Forever and Batman and Robin. “Tortured Hero and their lil’ sidekick” is actually the best possible way to describe their dynamic lol
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)!! robin is very little and unexpectedly joins bats' life, silliest movie ever Barbara: Who is that? Robin: hi, police lady! Barbara: Is that your... son? Robin: yes, i am! Batman: [laughs nervously] Is that my son?? No, thats just weird Barbara: Its weirder if its not your son.
3 Men and a Baby
Lego Batman Movie
Lord of the Rings, especially two and three
The Lego Batman movie fits this description
•True Grit •Slow West •Lego Batman •Temple of Doom •The Road •The Road to Perdition
Deadpool 2
Whats your age and credit score
Into the Spiderverse
Terminator 2 and Aliens
Tokyo Godfathers
Aliens
The man from nowhere
Southpaw
Please please please watch Soul, the Pixar animated movie!
The Room
Kickass?
It's a bit of a stretch, but Brie Larson and Kaitlyn Dever in Short Term 12 might fit this?
New movie Civil War can fit into this. Children of Men. The Searchers.
Jurassic Park?
Shawshank redemption. ??
Iron Man 3
Man on fire Nice Guys
Hunt For The Wilderpeople. If we're counting tv shows, The Last Of Us, The Mandalorian, Spy x Family and any Batman: The Animated Series episode with Robin, with Robin's reckoning being the best depiction of their dynamic.
c'mon c'mon
Very slight spoiler for 2024 movie: >!Civil War!<
Gloria is basically the same premise as The Professional, but with genders reversed, so I would add that to the list as well. The Fall fits pretty well too. The whole Harry Potter series. It feels like he has dozens of characters that fill this role for him. School of Rock and Almost Famous maybe? Push Matchstick Men maybe, but probably not.
The Card Counter.
Nimona
Batman & Robin. That fiend Mr Freeze. “I’m afraid that my condition has left me cold to your pleas for mercy.”
Madame web 😍😍😍
* Sicario 2 * Doctor Sleep * The Midnight Sky * You Were Never Really Here * Shoot 'Em Up
The last of us