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
OK these people are real but they still deseve to be here the parents of JonBenét Ramsey. Ya they were never convicted but neither was O.J. so
Kronos he friggin ate his children.
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Chuck Greene in Dead Rising 2 is a pretty bad parent, he lets his daughter Katey stay with a stranger, Stacey Forstyhe, while he goes to look for other survivors and he also gives his daughter a tiger called Snowflake as a gift.
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God I hate those books.
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Originally Posted by Crim_the_Cold
I've got one. Spoilers for the books I'm talking about in the next paragraphs.
Darken Rahl from Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series. Classic but not classy bad guy. He's made pacts with the lord of the underworld, convinces children to fall in love with him, kills them by feeding them hot molten lead, and then uses their tortured souls to traverse the afterlife. That is just some of what he does to other people. Richard, his son (unbeknowst to either since Richard is a **** child), is captured during his quest to stop him, tortured to the brink of death several times, and finally has a spell cast on him that makes his friends only see him as their enemy. It is much more detailed than that and that is just the first book. The next book Darken Rahl comes back from the grave, places a curse on Richard which will drag him into the hellish, darkest regions of the underworld, basically right next to the Keeper of the Dead, and continues trying to destroy the world. |
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To be fair. It's not reeeealy his fault exactly. I mean, the guy was kidnapped for years and then kind of brainwashed into it.
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Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
The main character from Oldboy.
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Earl and Joy Hickey from what they showed from pre-pilot flashbacks WOW! They could put the fun back in dysfunctional.
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Al Bundy accually really loved his family, they just drove him insane at the same time. |
Originally Posted by Whisky_Jack
Al Bundy.
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Al handed out a great many Bundy buttkickings in defence of his wife and kids. And had many chances to cheat on Peggy, with some truely HOT women, but never did. Was he a GOOD father? Eh... well, he sure wasn't a BAD one at least. LOL.Peter and Lois Griffen... now THEY are bad parents. Prolly the worst ones you can be, without being evil about it. (Plenty of fictional parents that are just evil, planing on using the child for a scrafice or something. They... IMO are just evil.)
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Beat me to it. That's Cronus / Saturn.|
Originally Posted by Casual_Player
Really? And here I thought this guy was the 'I win' button:
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The Goya is the canonical depiction:
Medea comes in a fairly close second.
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Originally Posted by SwellGuy
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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Apperently it's a classic....
The mother marries her STEPbrother. No blood relation mind you, but still at the time considered an insestuious relanship. She's disowned by her father and mother, a wealthy family, or they are i guess, when you think about it. (he's a stepchild) He dies... forget how... war maybe? car accdent... She's forced to go back home, and the mother and grandmother hatch a scheam to get the grandfather to forgive her, but hidding the fact she had kids (3 of them), by locking them in an attic. The kids went along with it at first, cause it was supposed to end with the grandfather forgiving the mother, writing her back into the will, and dieing... but the grandmother talks her into posining the kids. One dies... the youngest, the other 2 fight back, the grandmother dies... ect ect ect.
It was... intresting is about the best i can say for it. It's supposed to be a classic. *shrug* Had a few really awarked sceens of the sister taking a bath, and her brother just kind of hanging out with her in the bath room chatting it up... having a younger sister, the whole thing just kind of wireded me out...
Differnetly a bad parent. forgot about that movie till you guys brought it up...
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I love the way that a couple people went "Well, let's see, there was this ONE guy who ate his children, and this OTHER guy that married one of 'em" and people are like, "Yeah, yeah, but Al Bundy DRINKS BEER in front of his kids."
Cronos is hard to beat, but if we're restricting ourselves to humans I call Laius of Thebes. I'm sure other people have equally valid stories about how Peter Griffin crippled his his child and left him on a hillside to die.
(I'm not quite sure if we can count Leland Palmer. At the risk of spoiling a 20-year-old show, he was awfully possessed at the time.)
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I vote for Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate. She was evil beyond words.
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Gaia (Cronos's mum) isn't exactly lovely either mind. She convinces Cronos to castrate his dad and then when Uranus is overthrown she's the one who tells Cronos that this own children (Zeus et all) being destined to overthrow him in turn, which is why Cronos eats them (and in fairness they were Gods and got thrown up again without any real harm done).|
Originally Posted by Fulmens
I love the way that a couple people went "Well, let's see, there was this ONE guy who ate his children, and this OTHER guy that married one of 'em" and people are like, "Yeah, yeah, but Al Bundy DRINKS BEER in front of his kids."
Cronos is hard to beat, but if we're restricting ourselves to humans I call Laius of Thebes. I'm sure other people have equally valid stories about how Peter Griffin crippled his his child and left him on a hillside to die. |
That said reading up on this most of the Greek and Roman gods are pretty rubbish parents. Supernanny would not be impressed.
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That only applies in the new one... as far as I know.
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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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Hansel and Gretel's Mom is pretty bad.
George McFly from Back to the Future; it takes a time paradox to stop him from being a wimpy nerd of a father.
Answer: The father that married his own son's adult step-daughter and thus made his son his own grandpa!!!
Many, many years ago when I was just twenty-three,
I was married to a widow, she was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red
And my father fell in Love with her. Soon they too were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law--changed my very life!
My daughter was my mother because she was my father's wife!
To complicate the matter even though it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby he then became a brother-in-law to Dad.
Well, that made him my uncle--made me very sad!
Because if he was my uncle then he also was a brother
To the widow's grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my stepmother.
I'm my own grandpa! I'm my own grandpa!
It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so!
Oh, I'm my own grandpa!
My father's wife then had a son who kept them on the run.
And, of course, he became my grandchild because he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother and this makes me blue
Because although she is my wife, she's my grandmother too!
I'm my own grandpa! I'm my own grandpa!
It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so!
Oh, I'm my own grandpa!
Now if my wife is my grandmother, well, then I am her grandchild,
And every time that I think about this, it nearly drives me wild!
Because now I have become the strangest case that you ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I'm my own grandpa!
I'm my own grandpa! I'm my own grandpa!
It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so!
Oh, I'm my own grandpa!
I was married to a widow, she was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red
And my father fell in Love with her. Soon they too were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law--changed my very life!
My daughter was my mother because she was my father's wife!
To complicate the matter even though it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby he then became a brother-in-law to Dad.
Well, that made him my uncle--made me very sad!
Because if he was my uncle then he also was a brother
To the widow's grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my stepmother.
I'm my own grandpa! I'm my own grandpa!
It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so!
Oh, I'm my own grandpa!
My father's wife then had a son who kept them on the run.
And, of course, he became my grandchild because he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother and this makes me blue
Because although she is my wife, she's my grandmother too!
I'm my own grandpa! I'm my own grandpa!
It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so!
Oh, I'm my own grandpa!
Now if my wife is my grandmother, well, then I am her grandchild,
And every time that I think about this, it nearly drives me wild!
Because now I have become the strangest case that you ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I'm my own grandpa!
I'm my own grandpa! I'm my own grandpa!
It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so!
Oh, I'm my own grandpa!
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Jebus, I still get the creeps every time I even think of the performance she did in that movie.
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Originally Posted by Barata
I vote for Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate. She was evil beyond words.
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Ming the Merciless, he used the boreworms on his daughter.
Sorry if he was already said don't feel like looking through all the pages.
Cancel the kitchen scraps for widows and lepers, no more merciful beheadings and call off christmas!
Queen Bavmorda, she turns her daughter into a pig and not to forget she also tries to kill her too.
Cancel the kitchen scraps for widows and lepers, no more merciful beheadings and call off christmas!
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Originally Posted by Exodus_V
Not sure if she is the worst ever but she was epic phail...whatever happend to the moms that when her children are being attacked she pushes them behind her draws a line in the sand in says "across the line u shall not pass" "i may not know ka-rate but i know ka-razy"...but i forgot the latest Star Wars films were for kids and the toy market
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I don't know. Most of the fictional parents listed here are better than real world parents like Andrea Yates and Susan Smith. Seems to me that there have to be much worse fictional parents.
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