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Is Jonas Venture one of if not the worst Father in fiction
- Thread starter AnimaRize
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Maybe Peter Griffin, asks god to do him a favour and wish his daughter out of existence, next episode he tries to marry his son.
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I forgot they are in the same universe. at least rusty isn't a drug addict in and out of rehab, poor action johnny quest
And yet the show still made me feel bad for him somehow.
Clay Puppington from Moral Orel. There's too many things to list.
Yeah. Gendo Ikari is definitely up there in terrible dad country.
We're done here. Literally one of the worst person's in fiction.
All I see is a caring father who wanted to give his daughter a pet in the most efficient way possible.
He's up there
Denethor II, son of Ecthelion II, 26th Steward of Gondor.
He's not worse than Jonas, just far less efficient. Wasted a whole ass offspring on one experiment
The Gendo Ikari Father of the Year Award is only so named because Jonas Venture didn't exist at the time.Cares about his dead wife more than his living son
It's him. Awful, awful person that somehow got other awful people to wake up and realize how awful they were by extension of being near him.
Clay Puppington from Moral Orel. There's too many things to list.
I mean Gendou kind of did the same...he just didn't clone Shinji
Gendo is close but Jonas handled things personally whereas Gendo was distant.
Edit: I'll add that Gendo was in a twisted way trying to reunite with his wife. Jonas was just a malicious piece of shit.
Verona's dad, Brett, from Pale (the web serial novel) stands out to me for being one of the most unpleasant and uncomfortable to read fathers in any story.
He is just a self-obsessed, miserable pile of shit that takes it all out on his teenage daughter in ways that are awful but aren't fantastically over the top like a lot of media, but it makes it so much worse because it's grounded. The amount of sheer pathetic negativity and parentifying he places on his child while diminishing her in every way is absurd, and how he brings it to every scene he's in with Verona creates some of the most uncomfortable moments I've had in reading ever.
He is just a self-obsessed, miserable pile of shit that takes it all out on his teenage daughter in ways that are awful but aren't fantastically over the top like a lot of media, but it makes it so much worse because it's grounded. The amount of sheer pathetic negativity and parentifying he places on his child while diminishing her in every way is absurd, and how he brings it to every scene he's in with Verona creates some of the most uncomfortable moments I've had in reading ever.
Shou Tucker from Fullmetal Alchemist. The "Sewing Life Alchemist", got his job by creating a talking Chimera, basically combining other creatures to create new life, usually an abomination. He's unable to do it again for multiple years and is about to lose his job until the 2 main characters stay with him for a time. Then 1 day he makes another while they're out..then Ed notices that his daughter and dog are missing, putting together that his wife "left" around the same time he made the first one.
Oh my god, that's straight up horrific! Yeah that's a monstrous dad right there. Thanks for the info!
Oh but it gets so much worse. The FIRST Chimera he created using his wife, only spoke once before starving itself to death by refusing to eat.
The only words it ever uttered were, "I want to die."
The only words it ever uttered were, "I want to die."
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I wish people would at least post names of the characters they're posting an image of, if you're not going to say WHY they're a bad father.
Gendo Ikari from Evangelion is a good choice, he absolutely hates his son and sees him as little more than a tool to get his dead wife "back".
Gendo Ikari from Evangelion is a good choice, he absolutely hates his son and sees him as little more than a tool to get his dead wife "back".
Jonas Sr. Is probably one of the worst by far. Jonas is so fucking awful not just as a parent but as a human being that it made me actually have some level of empathy for Rusty even with all the shit he did to Hank and Dean over the years. Even some of the villians seem to be better at being parents and human beings than Jonas Sr....by far.
Points in Jonas' favor:
-Abandoned dozens of members of his son's fan club to die in a poisoned fall out shelter.
-Turned his best friend's corpse into a robot butler, also probably fathered that man's child.
-He once forgot about his son so long that the kidnappers that had taken him felt bad and let him go without a ransom.
-Held a swingers party with Rusty in the house.
-Refused to let his son see a real therapist, and instead became his son's own therapist and explained to him in detail why all of his problems were either wrong or his own fault.
-Dragged his young son around on dangerous adventures full of sex and murder.
-Abandoned dozens of members of his son's fan club to die in a poisoned fall out shelter.
-Turned his best friend's corpse into a robot butler, also probably fathered that man's child.
-He once forgot about his son so long that the kidnappers that had taken him felt bad and let him go without a ransom.
-Held a swingers party with Rusty in the house.
-Refused to let his son see a real therapist, and instead became his son's own therapist and explained to him in detail why all of his problems were either wrong or his own fault.
-Dragged his young son around on dangerous adventures full of sex and murder.
To add to this, after he remembered him after several weeks and the kidnappers gave him back (after throwing Rusty a week long party) Jonas still beat the fuck out of the people on that island.
What's funny to me is Shou Tucker would have to put in some serious work to even come close to Jonas. Like he'd have to turn his daughter back into a human and refuse her with the dog a couple dozen times over a decade while being a belligerent possessive uncaring monster to her while she's normal. Then get all his buddies to join in on the "fun" by doing things like making her murder people in cold blood.
And Rusty had so much fun during that kidnapping/party that the experience is one of the only bright spots in his own childhood.
Not only that, those kids survived down there for decades but all ended up messed up in the head as adults because the only guidance they had were some pre-recordings Jonas had left behind. They ended up worshipping Jonas as some kind of god because of it. Oh and he abandoned his friend down there too in a minaturized state...which he had to fight ants for 30 years to survive.
To the point where the towns people liked/felt so bad for him that they still have a fake event to make him happy even now.
God damn man fuck Jonas.
One of the most brilliant things about the Venture Bros. was the slow turn on Jonas from the early seasons where he just seemed like an ultra brilliant if overbearing father and Rusty was a giant fuck up that just blamed his dad for all his issues... only for it to be revealed over time what a fucking monster Jonas was. Season 7 bringing the Jonas stuff to a head, pun intended, was just amazing stuff all around.
And in The Boys
Denethor II, son of Ecthelion II, 26th Steward of Gondor.
