Greetings nerdy list afficionados and well we’ve been looking at pregnant characters
a lot and it’s time to look at parents.
Parents of all types and that includes villains a surprisingly amount of villains are parents
specifically dads.
There’s a lot of them it’s clearly a good dynamic narratively or they wouldn’t keep
doing it.
I’m Sasha and these are the Top 10 Supervillains who are dads.
Number 10 - Homelander – He’s low cause this is being a dad in name only and also
cause to the public he’s a hero only we the viewer and the boys know the truth that
he’s dark twisted narcissistic person who will melt your head and drink your milk.
Homelander was told that he was infertile that children were impossible however over
the course of the series he learns that he impregnated becca butcher after their encounter.
He is first told that the child died but then comes to realize that he is being lied to
which culminates in the season finale.
Cover your ears and back away for a moment if you don’t want spoilers.
The child survived and has been quietly being raised by Becca in Suburbia Homelander brings
billy butcher her husband along with him to go meet the child, who he then tells proudly
he is his father.
Super daddy I didn’t start it the internet started it.
Number 9 – Deadshot – Floyd Lawton is also a dad a fact some learned in suicide
squad where it went for just cause he’s an assassin doesn’t mean he’s a bad dad.
However did you know that deadshot is a father many times over we were first introduced to
eddie Lawton in the 1988 deadshot series.
He ended up being killed when his own mother hired a gang member to sodomize him so he
would be motivated to kill his father for this deadshot crippled her.
It was in 2005 when he got another mini series it would be revealed that he had a daughter
zoe being raised in a drug filled part of star city.
Floyd decides that this time he’s going to be more involved by cleaning up her neighborhood
cause he know he can’t count on ollie to do it he’s too busy lecturing people up
on the justice league watch tower.
He actually had to convince green arrow to patrol the area more often.
He also had a daughter Suchin Lawton in the new 52 but that was never elaborated upon
really.
As for zoe he felt it best to do what he could from affair she had been the result of a liason
with a prostitute and he knew with his life he wasn’t going to give her any kind of
stability.
He babysits her a few times and comes to love her but when he is attacked in her presence
he finds he cannot kill in front of her so he vows to never see her or the mother again.
Number 8 – Sinestro – Sinestro’s backstory has grown more and more fleshed out as the
years have gone on the entire green lantern mythos is like that before he became a despot
he was married and had a daughter soranik who would come to be disgusted by what her
father represented as well the uniform he wore for he presented it as if it was the
green lantern rings and corps that gave him the authority to rule the planet.
So when she was selected to be a green lantern she would rail against it.
But would ultimately come to see the corps as a force for good.
Sinestro is extremely proud of his daughter but will also manipulate her to his own ends
such as when he got her to lead his corps the sinestro corps wielding the colour yellow
the colour of fear.
Under the guise that he had changed it was all different now but really it’s so that
her good reputation could make the corps accepted throughout the galaxy so they would have their
guards down when he seized control again.
That’s ice cold using your kids love for you against them.
Number 7 - Lex Luthor – Clone Dad still counts.
So Lex wanted to create a Superman who he could control and what better way to do that
than using the immense resources at your disposal for cloning.
The pure kryptonian clones would prove unstable so they needed a counter balance of human
dna and who better to provide.
And hence we would have our revised origin for Connor Kent or Kon El.
In comics at first the dad angle wasn’t too played up until Connor wasn’t sure exactly
whether he was good or evil and when he swung towards bad for a bit he lost his hair.
The dad angle would be far more played up in the animated verse both young justice and
the dc original universe movies wherein Lex would be distant and in the case of the animated
films dangerous but would take some responsibility for Connor at the start of young justice he’s
way more willing to talk to him than Clark.
Clark takes awhile to get ok with the clone angle there.
I’m here for it arch enemies sharing a kid.
Yes more please.
Number 6 - Green Goblin – The green goblin is Norman Osborn and he was known as a dad
to harry Osborn peter parker’s high school friend and or classmate depending upon the
continuity.
Norman Osborn’s parental status does play in to his character how he views his son and
Peter and his business all are key factors in hi character.
And of course end up shaping harry as well and then oh original sin happened and then
you would have two more Osborn children via gwen stacy with a retcon that made the world
sit up and go ew why and also this is why you have to not lock writers in a room without
letting them see their loved ones.
They would end up being raised by norman and they were the reason he had killed gwen not
peter cause agency allegedly.
These children would be raised to hate peter but would eventually learn the truth of their
histories.
Norman is not a good dad nope.
Number 5 – Darkseid is…a dad several times over.
Darkseid is actually the biological father of Orion whom he traded with the new gods
of new genesis in one of their periods of peace.
He’s also the father of Kalibak, Grayven and Grail.
The exchange of orion would halt the catrastophic war netween the two worlds and he would be
given scott free mr miracle.
Darkseid is a very cold father just as he is a cold ruler befitting of someone reigning
over a hell world.
He has little attachment to his sons and shows them no affection but I mean no one on apocalypse
is having a good time everyone is suffering.
Darkseid as a father is just a statement of fact it isn’t really and action but more
like notes written in an epic.
Darkseid was a baby at the start of rebirth so that was a thing.
Baby darkseid on a quest to become adult darkseid.
Number 4 – Thanos – Along the same vein we have Thanos, Now Thanos’ fatherhood plays
a bit more into plot events especially in the mcu.
Also if you think darkseid and thanos look a like you’re not wrong Jim Starlin was
“inspired” by Jack Kirby’s new gods when he designed the character.
From a young age Thanos became interesting in the philosophy of nihilism and the beauty
of death this resulted in him trying to create a life for himself death would admire one
of the things he did was have a lot of kids, and he is also an adoptive father and he tends
to use his children for him own aims.
Such as gamora who he adopted to train to kill his enemy adam warlock.
In the comic verse nebulae is actually his granddaughter.
So is Thanos a good dad no?
He ranges from absent to manipulative so no actually that would be a no.
Number 3 - Vandal Savage – Vandal Savage is an immortal corrupted by a strange meteorite
that fell to earth during the cave man era.
He would become intelligent and long lived biding his time amassing power working in
the shadows Fun fact he debuted in green lantern comics which most people wouldn’t associate
him with now.
Savage doesn’t think highly of people at all he was from earth 2 but the existence
of earth one was revealed to him years in the past so he readied himself to go there.
Savage is known to have children and aside for one he seems to hold no affection for
them that one is scandal savage.
He is more than willing to cannibalize his own children he’ll eat people Lex thinks
he was the first cannibal.
This is cause his immortality appeared to be waning so he needed a way to recharge.
And his own kids or clones were a perfect source of life energy.
No father’s day gifts for a dad who might eat you.
Number 2 - Ra’s Al ghul – Another near immortal ra’s has far more of a connection
with his children.
And in it way that’s more insidious his daughter talia is entirely loyal to him and
yet he will use his children as vessels if needs be and feel very little regret about
it in fact more taking the stance that they should feel grateful to him.
He also has them to strengthen bonds with regions and people such as his son Dusan al
Ghul when you have a seeming eternity you start to play a very long game.
Ra’s manages to engender enthusiasm for his cause in his children and that makes them
far more dangerous.
There’s also some eugenics mindset in there you know the best through breeding it’s
why he was so keen for Talia and Bruce to get together and it was part of what influenced
Talia to make sure it happened.
With these immortals characters the best part is you can just pull kids out of the woodwork
and it makes sense seems legit cause when did this happen wibbley wobbley timey wimey.
Number 1 - Deathstroke – Yes Slade Wilson himself his whole existence opens up revolving
around him being a dad.
Slade only debuts in the 80s and in the very first issue his son dies.
Grant Wilson is enhanced by the hive to take on the teen titans but it goes wrong and he
dies it is this that sets Deathstroke on a vendetta against the teen titans for some
time and he would just continue to be entangled with them his second son Jericho would end
up joining the team and his daughter rose aka ravager who at first would ally herself
with him would also end up with the Titans it’s just a very frustrating time for deathstroke
kids dying or rebelling by joining the titans…and then dying.
Fun fact deathstroke has some ongoing comic runs that are actually pretty good.
Slade Wilson he’s a dad and it’s been really depressing for him when your assassinating
life is more fulfilling it’s all gone wrong and you need to try to adopt kids who already
have dads.
Leave dick alone.
He doesn’t want Ric.
I’m Sasha