Who is the worst fictional parent of all time?
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Posted on: 2010-10-19 13:57 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
The mother from Malcom in the Middle has to be up there.
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To be fair to those parents, they believed they were protecting their children by burning a child molester (not excusing it...they shouldn't have done it), but it's really hard to envision the consequences of that guy returning as an evil, scarred dream ghost who murders them all years later. That's not exactly rational thinking.|
Originally Posted by Coin
Or what about the parents in Elm Street? Given what they did and then hid it from their kids, sure as hell cost them a lot!
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I'm going to throw my vote in for Jonas Venture, especially after the after-credit revelation from this past episode. There's a reason Rusty is all screwed up, which in turn is why Hank and Dean are all screwed up.
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No, her mother (and father) have to be up there.|
Originally Posted by OzzieArcane
The mother from Malcom in the Middle has to be up there.
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Those two explain a lot about Lois (especially the mother).
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Lois may have had a somewhat hands off approach to her sons but she did love them and care for them. They also turned out OK as well.
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Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA
No, her mother (and father) have to be up there.
Those two explain a lot about Lois (especially the mother). |
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Homer Simpson.
Al Bundy.
Fugaku Uchiha, father of Itachi and Sauske.
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Hands off??|
Originally Posted by Teldon
Lois may have had a somewhat hands off approach to her sons but she did love them and care for them. They also turned out OK as well.
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She controls every aspect of their lives, or attempts to (quite rightly too given how they behave when she isn't around to thwart them).
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| but she did love them and care for them. They also turned out OK as well. |
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Haven't watched enough Married With Children to dispute Bundy, but Homer is a good father. The Simpsons being "TV's dysfunctional family" is untrue. The family is very functional. Sure, Homer is a reckless idiot, but he loves his wife and he loves his kids. You want a family that shouldn't be together at all, look at the Griffins.|
Originally Posted by Whisky_Jack
Homer Simpson.
Al Bundy. |
Which brings me to Peter Griffin. There is no worse father on TV.
I forget the names, but the mother AND the grandmother from VC Andrews' "Flowers in the Attic."
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Al Bundy was often the same. He really did love his wife and kids, and protected them when he needed to. |
Originally Posted by SuperFerret
Haven't watched enough Married With Children to dispute Bundy, but Homer is a good father. The Simpsons being "TV's dysfunctional family" is untrue. The family is very functional. Sure, Homer is a reckless idiot, but he loves his wife and he loves his kids. You want a family that shouldn't be together at all, look at the Griffins.
Which brings me to Peter Griffin. There is no worse father on TV. |
First season had AL and Peg being dysfunctional, but loving. After that, he cringed everytime she made the mention of whoopie and acted as if prison would be better than spending time with his wife.
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Do I smell a 'Worst Parent' draft starting?
I'd put Rusty Venture(*), Darth Vader, and Peter Griffith as top seeds.
(* -- Jonah was nowhere near as bad a parent as Rusty. How many times has Rusty gotten his kids killed? As far as we know, Rusty survived his childhood.)
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In my book it would have to be Edina Monsoon.
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Is that the one where they are trying to kill off the kids because the mother married an unacceptable husband and returns home when he dies?
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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
I forget the names, but the mother AND the grandmother from VC Andrews' "Flowers in the Attic."
Michelle aka Samuraiko/Dark_Respite |
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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I've never run a draft before! Time to get my hands dirty.
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Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
Do I smell a 'Worst Parent' draft starting?
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Was gonna say Gendo Ikari, but Smersh beat me to that one.
Mom from Futurama.
Jecht from Final Fantasy X.
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Gomez Addams. Who lets their kids play with explosives and corpses!
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The best dad ever.
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Originally Posted by Moderator12
Gomez Addams. Who lets their kids play with explosives and corpses!
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total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
Really? And here I thought this guy was the 'I win' button:
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Also: Six years of casual play begins to look an awful lot like one year of hardcore play.
Flemeth, the Witch of the Wilds. Also DCAU Ra's Al Ghul, for identical reasons.
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Al also did do what he could for his kids when he could, he only took the don't care attitude when he couldn't do anything to help. Peg did the same, but she was hella sketchy and was pretty much the screwy one in that relationship, most of the bad traits the kids picked up came from her as she was doing them long before they were. Al tried to at least not do bad things because he knew it would fail and get back at him as he was cursed to always fail at his schemes, he didn't usually do them until some goading from his wife or friends.|
Originally Posted by BlackArachnia
Al Bundy was often the same. He really did love his wife and kids, and protected them when he needed to.
First season had AL and Peg being dysfunctional, but loving. After that, he cringed everytime she made the mention of whoopie and acted as if prison would be better than spending time with his wife. |
I do agree that Peter Griffin beats the Bundy's (an pretty much most the parents listed on this thread) in Parenthood fail hands down, considering how he's pretty much self involved, how badly he treats Meg, how often he forgets his kids names or even their existence.
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Peter Griffin is inconsistent, though. He's actually a good father to Chris. He's horrible to Meg, but just indifferent to Stewie. There's no doubt he's a bad father and a terrible role model, but I don't think he qualifies as the worst because he makes an effort toward at least one of his children.|
Originally Posted by Innovator
I do agree that Peter Griffin beats the Bundy's (an pretty much most the parents listed on this thread) in Parenthood fail hands down, considering how he's pretty much self involved, how badly he treats Meg, how often he forgets his kids names or even their existence.
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Rusty Venture makes an effort with one of his kids, but because he's Rusty the end result is that he screws the kid up worse than if he had done nothing. And Darth Vader...well, 'Join me in the Dark Side' is not appropriate father-son bonding.
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