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top five worst father

5- Bill Adama (Battlestar Galactica) that "do not mistake this for approval" icon is brilliantly accurate. Nothing is ever good enough for Adama, and everything is always about how he feels.

4- Gendo Ikari (Evangelion) They've named the fictional award to bad father for him for a reason.

3- Ozai (Avatar the Last Airbender) to Azula as much as to Zuko

2- Tywin Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire) for Tyrion and for Cersei especially, though I liked how the TV show high lightened to wasn't exactly perfect with Jaime either.

1- Gerald Tarrant (Coldfire trilogy) the most horrible thing is, he was probably a good father, until he, you know, murdered his children.

Date: 17 June 2011 11:19 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] etrangere.livejournal.com
He killed them (and his wife) in order to make a ritual to transform himself into a vampiric creature and thus be immortal. Which he needs to be in order to see to completion his large scale magic-social experiment on the planet he is. Roughly. And you're right offspring killing is relatively common in fiction (and not that rare in real life either) but it stays with me because he's one of the main protagonist and framed as an anti-heroic character, not as a villain.

Otoh, he killed one of his sons, is part of the reason why his other son became mute, and put his daughter on crazy-making super-strength serum
That does sound pretty bad.

How much is character derailment compared to stuff that are true to the character?

Date: 17 June 2011 11:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] runespoor7.livejournal.com
Yeah okay that works. (you had me at "be immortal".)

I tend to think that all the stuff Slade did to his kids is true to his character, except maybe the Kryptonite, and as we don't know for sure how long he intended on letting her have it in her skull... It's Slade. It's not like he doesn't do mindgames. Sometimes he does mindgames by not doing mindgames. At times he's presented as more of an anti-hero than an all-black villain, which works for me.

Nuking Blüdhaven was OOC for Deathstroke. The stuff with Rose?... Debatable. He did get her one of the best teachers around.

Date: 17 June 2011 11:35 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] etrangere.livejournal.com
Interesting.

I love characters who are into mindgames, I'd probably love him too XDD

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