Today is Father’s Day, that glorious celebration of fatherly love and appreciation for all the great things that dads do. While comic books are filled with amazing parents, some comic book fathers aren’t all that great. In fact, some heroes and villains are downright terrible parents and should never had kids in the first place. Here are five of the worst pops in comics:
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Cyclops
Cyclops is the leader of the X-Men current possessor of the Phoenix Force, but he’s also a deadbeat dad and a neglectful father to his son, Nathan. Cyclops abandoned Nathan shortly after his birth to shack up with his recently resurrected girlfriend, Jean Grey, and hang out with his childhood friends in X-Factor. Not exactly model father behavior. By abandoning Nathan and his wife Madelyne Pryor, Cyclops is indirectly responsible for Nathan’s kidnapping by Mr. Sinister and Madelyne Pryor going insane and becoming the Demon Queen. After Pryor was killed while trying to sacrifice her son to demons, Cyclops gained custody of Nathan and starts taking him on X-Factor missions…because that’s what responsible parents do. After Apocalypse infects Nathan with a techno-organic virus, Cyclops reluctantly sent Nathan into the future to stop the disease’s progress and later travelled into the future to raise Nathan and teach him how to control his powers. Nathan later returned to the present day as Cable, a gun-wielding hardcore mutant with bulging muscles and a deep, deep love of pouches. Cyclops never had the heart to tell Cable how ridiculous his costume looked, further proving his severe lack of parenting skills.
Wolverine
Deathstroke
Norman Osborn
Ra’s al Ghul
Who do you think are the worst dads in comics? Start the guilt trips in the comments below!
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