Agitated fathers, vengeful rather than doting, came forward to claim each dejected hero, pledged attendance at the assize, and offered surety for the pledge.

But there are also more distinctive sources of unease in this series, including vengeful fathers and spooky bachelors with violent designs on little girls.

Interestingly, these monologues help explain the Nicholson character's motivation, making the vengeful father come more vividly to life on the page than he does on the screen.

The X-Files, in Episode 14 of season 7 (Theef), referenced the use of goofer dust by the vengeful father of a woman who died due to poor hospital care.

Again with remarkable resilience, her adoring and vengeful father, the Brahmin priest Nilakantha, rejoices in her passage to eternal life amid the gods.

The new testimony came from a third Filipino maid, who said that the boy had died of an accidental drowning and that the maid had been killed by the boy's vengeful father.

They meet hookers, mole people, and a scheming murderer, all while a vengeful father pursues Mike for bedding his daughter.

In the series finale, "Phoebe" (May 26, 1962), George Macready portrays Cyrus Canfield, a vengeful father searching for his runaway teenaged daughter, played by Floy Dean.

Karl is being pursued by Floyd and Otto Pahmeyer, the brothers of the man he killed, sent by their vengeful father.

I'm very excited to be working on such a dark, twisted tale, this one featuring a homicidal cop, a manipulative widow, a vengeful father, and a happy-go-lucky psychopath.