This man is up there.
This man is up there.
Shou Tucker from Fullmetal Alchemist/Brotherhood. That man should not be considered a dad; he's a straight up monster.
He's more complete idiot than anything. Fuck I hated that episode.What's his face in Game of Thrones setting his own daughter on fire just cos the Red Woman told him to.
Jesus I've completely forgot his name.
For me what really makes Clay genuinely terrifying on a personal level is not just his empty moralizing, which serves mainly as a pretense for his self-indulgence and physical terrorizing of his family, it's that when you strip that all away what you're left with is a deeply broken and pathetic human being, who hurts those closest to him due to his inability or unwillingness to hurt those he's truly resentful of.Yeah, I think that's it. Clay is such a scary accurate representation of an abusive father that trying to compare him to someone like Goku or Omniman is really difficult. I can't imagine someone's real life dad abandoning them to go train with space wizards but I don't have to just imagine a dad like Clay Puppington, you know?
Happy Father's Day, y'all!
By this point he had given up on that completely hence his submissivenessHe was trying to overthrow the emperor and rule together with Luke at that point.
I like how Jonas was such as awful father that Rusty's life got considerably better when he was kidnapped and held for ransom.
Even, like, before the kidnappers felt bad that Jonas didn't realise Rusty was missing and threw him a sympathy party.
Didn't Indiana Jones' dad kinda abandon his son? Or am I misremembering the plot of The Last Crusade?
Didn't Indiana Jones' dad kinda abandon his son? Or am I misremembering the plot of The Last Crusade?
Didn't Indiana Jones' dad kinda abandon his son? Or am I misremembering the plot of The Last Crusade?
You could argue that the aliens altered his brain, but he does give up absolutely everybody in his pursuit of them. Not a cool move.Henry Jones does also save Indiana's life at the very end, and there's a moment of genuine heartfelt love between the two. They also slowly reconcile throughout the film as various circumstances bring them closer together. While certainly distant for much of Indy's life, I don't think I'd label him one of the worst fathers all things considered, at least relative to some others.
But speaking of Spielberg, Richard Dreyfuss' character in Close Encounters is probably a contender. Haven't seen the movie in ages though.
Is that a kid in blackface? Fuck me, that IS a kid in blackface. Jesus Christ, was it that hard to just hire a black kid?!? The worst dad is officially whoever was in charge of casting at TNG.
No, that approximate skin tone was used for all Klingons from the movies onward.
Did you see Fire Walk With Me? It's not as black and white as that.While he was actually a bad person in general.
What he did to his daughter was because he was possessed by Bob.
I've always found Tywin Lannister to be a fascinating example of a successful, grounded yet exceptionally shitty father. His children's arcs all, in some way, reflect how much toxicity, trauma and psychological abuse he inflicted on them.
You could make a case that he lifted his his family up from a laughingstock to rulers of the continent, just for it to collapse in hands of his children because of his awful parenting.
Um yes. When it came out.Did you see Fire Walk With Me? It's not as black and white as that.
Um yes. When it came out.
And I've watched it multiple times since then.
I own it and Missing Pieces, the Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, the Secret History of Twin Peaks and the Last Dosier and all of the series and the Return.
And your not wrong. It's not black and white, but the death of Laura Palmer is on Bob and Bob alone.
Leland Palmer was a piece of shit. And Laura Palmer is a truly tragic character.
But Bob killed Laura, not Leland.
Though to be fair both Leland and Sarah pushed Larua so hard that it lead to everything that caused her death (except Bob)
I think the movie showed through Ray Wises excellent performance that it was both of them, just my opinion of course. There were times when he was in cartoony bobmode and other time were he was an exceptionally shitty overinvested father like the dinner scene. I agree that when he was committing the act he was in bobmode but Bob wouldn't have gravitated towrds him if there wasn't already a darkness in him.
I maintain that every single fucking parent in Ace Attorney is either a shit parent or they are dead 🤣
Shadi Smith
-Hides evidence from his lawyer that would've cleared both their names
-Abandons his daughter, entrusting her to that same attorney he ruined. Also because he never discussed any of that with said attorney, he had no way of knowing the attorney would take her in instead of sending her to an orphanage. His plan was entirely meant to exploit and abuse the attorney's altruism for his own convenience
-Shows up seven years later to rig a card game with the express purpose of ruining that attorney again, after he raised his daughter for him which, again, was done solely out of the goodness of his heart
-Beats a woman with glass bottle
-Regularly beats his best friend and only confidant
-Shot his wife (probably) and made no effort to try to locate her when she suddenly went missing
-Got blood on perfectly good poker cards
This guy, is a JERK!!
Shit yeah these def both good choices.Udo Heinemann from Monster
Shou Tucker from Fullmetal Alchemist/Brotherhood. That man should not be considered a dad; he's a straight up monster.
Wolfenstein 2 and Peacemaker are extremely similar and they obviously share the main characters having absolutely terrible fathers.
White Dragon, Peacemaker's father, is a Klan leader and basically KKK Iron Man. He forces Peacemaker and his brother into fights when they were kids so this boxing could be bet on. Peacemaker accidentally killed his brother, causing intense psychological trauma. Afterwards, White Dragon continued to abuse Peacemaker, especially for Peacemaker being bisexual and for Peacemaker having had relationships with black women. White Dragon eventually attempts to kill Peacemaker before being stopped by Peacemaker's best friend/boyfriend Vigilante. Afterwards, White Dragon taunts Peacemaker, saying that Peacemaker will never have the balls to kill him, Peacemaker does while crying.
BJ's father, Rip, married a Jewish woman for her land and badly abused BJ growing up. After the Nazi takeover of the United States, Rip sold out BJ's mother to the Nazis who killed her. Rip then sold out BJ to the Nazis who attempted to kill BJ. BJ kills Rip gladly.
I wanted to quote the pic and agree but noticed that he was already quoted more than most. As bad as many of the dads posted are, the way this plot line played out obviously left a mark on people. Shame it's a bit of a spoiler just having him in the thread…or maybe it's better people have a little fair warning.If you don't know, then just watch full metal alchemist and get in on a generation of anime fan's collective trauma.
Lol, holy shit how have I not seen this until today? I need it.
Also, Yondu. Not as bad as Ego, but I hated how he got the hero's death and the big fireworks show and treated like he was Quill's real father figure when he was also an asshole, just on a smaller scale.
That episode kills me every single time.
Bill's dad was pretty awful too and liked to lock Bill in a rabbit hutch. Idk how many times I rewatched before I heard and realized that detail.Cotton Hill.
And kinda Hank Hill too. Dude loves his dog more than his son. Lol
Daniel Plainview from There Will be Blood
Noah Cross from Chinatown
Satan in Rosemary's Baby (I suppose by definition)
That is fair, but I think that Leland leaving when he realizes he accidently hired his own daughter as a prostitute shows that while he has the darkness in him, he is not the monster that Bob is.
Leland is evil, hell Sarah is evil. But Leland didn't willingly rape and kill his daughter. That was Bob. And I belive the Return made that made it more clear.
Came to post the same thing. No one else tops the list for me.