History LukeIAmYourFather / ComicBooks

* In ''Mélusine'', [[spoiler:[[WitchSpecies Mélusine]] learns from her mother that [[OurFairiesAreDifferent Mélisande]] was never her cousin, but her twin sister. On top of that [[StarcrossedLovers Mélusine's mother is a fairy who disguised herself as a witch so she could marry Mélusine's father, a witch]]. These revelations lead to war between Witches and Fairies.]]

* ''Gen-Active'' revealed A. Sublime of ''[=DV8=]'' isn't adopted, and B. her biological father is Michael Cray, alias Deathblow, one of the most prominent figures in the Wildstorm universe. Notably, it's revealed to the ''reader'', but not necessarily the characters -- Sublime's mother doesn't seem to remember his name.

!!DC
* In ''Batman/Huntress: Cry for Blood'', ComicBook/{{Huntress}} gets an old photo of her deceased mother, Maria Bertinelli, ''in flagrante delicto'' with mob boss (and rival to mob boss Franco Bertinelli, Maria's husband) Santo Cassamento, and demands to know what they were doing in that hotel room together. His answer: "Isn't it obvious? We were conceiving you, Helena Rosa." Even worse: when he was instructed to kill the rival mobs, the Bertinelli, he saw a chance to MurderTheHypotenuse, and instructed his henchman to kill all the family "except the sister" (meaning, María Panessa, sister of the mob leader Tomasso Panessa). But the henchman, who was not used to the usual mob words, saw a regular family (a man, a woman, a male child and a female child) [[ExactWords and spared the female child, the "sister"]] (yes, Helena). You can be sure that, after hearing this, no threats or manipulations could possibly keep Cassamento alive for very long. [[AndThisIsFor The blood cries for blood]].
* The plot of ''ComicBook/BatmanRIP'' essentially involves multiple {{Mind Rape}}s piled on top of each other to see how many it takes to make Batman crack. The cherry on top? Enigmatic villain Simon Hurt claims that he is actually Thomas Wayne, and that he faked his own death after hiring Joe Chill to kill his faithless whore of a wife. The truth of his story hasn't been determined, but Bruce decides to reject it at the end of the arc. [[note]] This was later revealed to be a lie; Simon Hurt was actually a distant relative of Thomas Wayne, who'd achieved immortality through satanic rituals.[[/note]]
* In ''ComicBook/BoosterGold One Million'', it is revealed to the audience -- but not to any of the other characters -- that Booster's mentor Rip Hunter is actually Booster's son.
* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'':
** In nine issues, ''ComicBook/BrightestDay'' has already had three separate revelations about familial bonds between heroes and villains.
** In ''Green Lantern Corps #35'', Sinestro tells Soranik Natu that she is his daughter. He left her in the care of her foster family to keep her away from the dangers of being associated with him; making this one of the only semi-decent things he's ever done in his life. Since it's ''[[BigBad Sinestro]]'', it's not clear if he's lying or not, but the last page of ''Green Lantern'' #36 makes it pretty obvious that he's telling the truth.
* A ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'' mini-series in the '80s started with the premise that R. J. Brande, the team's billionaire sponsor, was dying, and in order to save him, the Legionnaires had to figure out which one of them was secretly his child -- an idea that had never been even hinted at before. It finally turned out to be Durlan shapeshifter Chameleon Boy; Brande was revealed to also be a Durlan who'd contracted a disease that [[ShapeshifterModeLock froze him into human form]].
* Rose Walker's grandfather in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' is Desire, who impregnated the comatose Unity Kinkaid during Dream's imprisonment.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** Subverted with super-villain Lesla-Lar, who claims to be ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s long-lost twin sister in ''ComicBook/StrangersAtTheHeartsCore''. However, Supergirl points out they ''cannot'' be sisters (Lesla was born several years before Kara's parents met each other) and guesses Lesla has became crazy ''[[ComicBook/TheGirlWithTheXRayMind after being disintegrated]]'' and spending years surviving as a bodyless, wandering spirit.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in Creator/PeterDavid's ''Supergirl'' #57:
--->'''Buzz:''' Dominique... I am your father... Oh, I'm certain ''that'' didn't sound too "Darth Vader".
** In ''ComicBook/Supergirl2011 #24'', super-villain Cyborg Superman gets his memories back... and remembers what he is Supergirl's father. Several months later, in ''ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth #2'' he tells Kara he is her father (who she had previously thought dead).
** ''ComicBook/LastSon'': Chris Kent, Superman's adopted son, was found in a rocket similar to his. It was revealed during an invasion that the rocket was sent from the PhantomZone, and he was the son of Zod and Ursa.
* Lilith from the ComicBook/TeenTitans knew nothing about her past. Nothing at all. Until [[ComicBook/TheOriginOfLilith her mother kidnapped her]], to rule Olympus together. Her identity? Oh, nothing important: it was Thia, a Titan of Myth and goddess of the sun. Which implies that Lilith is a demigoddess.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1987}}'' Vol 2: Diana is quite distressed when Ares informs her that he's her grandfather, given their long history of fighting each other and Ares' very violent nature. Ares himself only recently learned of the fact, as his parentage of Hippolyta had been hidden from him. While Ares never becomes a "good" guy, he does occasionally go out of his way to prevent Diana's death due to this revelation.
** Pre-Flashpoint, ([[ComicBook/WonderWoman2006 Vol 3]]) Diana was told that one of the [[EldritchAbomination Hechatonkaires]] was her "father": the clay that was used to create her came from his imprisoned body. Whether or not this counts is up for debate, but the Hechatonkaires in question latched onto the idea as another reason to hate her.
** In [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2011 The New 52]], she learns that the whole clay story is a lie, and she's the daughter of Hippolyta and Zeus.
* ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'': Cassandra Cain was "[[TrainingFromHell raised]]" by the assassin David Cain, never knowing the identities of her true parents. In the final arc of the Kelley Puckett run of ''ComicBook/Batgirl2000'', she finally comes to the realization that Cain ''was'' her real father, but her mother's identity is left unknown until the final arc of the entire book, where she confirms, as she has suspected for some time, that ComicBook/LadyShiva is her mother. Her Post-Flashpoint counterpart knew that David was her father the entire time, but it is only during the ''League of Shadows'' arc in ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth'' that Shiva reveals that she is Cassandra's mother, sending Cass into a HeroicBSOD.
* ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'': The demon Barbatos claims that he manipulated Bruce Wayne's entire life to get him on the path to become Batman. He claims this makes him Batman's true father.
* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' has a particularly twisted example of this. Laurie, the second Silk Spectre, knows from a tell-all book written years earlier that the recently-deceased Comedian [[AttemptedRape tried to rape her mother]], the first Silk Spectre. Then Laurie finds out that after the near-rape, her mother had consensual sex with him anyway, and that the Comedian is in fact her father.

!!Marvel
* Eighteen years after their creation, it was revealed that [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]] ComicBook/ScarletWitch and ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} were actually the children of their former leader, long-time ComicBook/XMen antagonist ComicBook/{{Magneto}}. Their feelings over this revelation were mixed, to put it mildly. Still, as Magneto is a DramaQueen, he did not told this ''directly''. He told that Luna was his granddaughter, and let them react to that.
** Polaris, of the X-Men, was revealed early on to be Magneto's daughter, too. But then that was revealed to actually be a plot by the villain Mesmero, who was using a Magneto robot to make that claim. Then later it was again revealed that she ''is'' his daughter... then once again not. Currently, she is once again revealed to be Magneto's daughter... ugh.
* Hiro-Kala knew that he was the son of ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk''. He didn't know that Bruce Banner was the Hulk. So when they first met, the following exchange happened:
-->'''Hiro-Kala:''' Who are you?\\
'''Banner:''' Your... your father.\\
'''Hiro-Kala:''' Hmp. I don't think so.\\
'''Banner:''' Yeah, [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry I'm not too happy about it either.]]
* During John Ostrander's run of ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'', Jigsaw has kidnapped the member's of a mafia family that Frank has fallen in with. While talking with the oldest sister, he tells them why he's doing this; he and Frank are cousins. When they were kids, Frank was always showing him up, and everyone loved him. When she asks him if it's true, he says nah. He was just lying to pass the time.
* A pivotal turning point in the original ''ComicBook/SpiderMan2099'' run featured Miguel O'Hara (Spider-Man) discovering that the main antagonist of the series and head of the megacorp Alchemax, Tyler Stone, was in fact his father. This derailed the current plotline for quite a few issues as Miguel wrestled with his hatred of the man. The trope was lampshaded near the end of the title's run, when Tyler attempted to shock Miguel into following his orders by dropping the bombshell of his parentage, only to have Miguel, who by this point had come to terms with the fact, casually sip his coffee and then smugly and calmly reveal that he knows.
-->'''Tyler Stone:''' And you will do it... because I'm your father.\\
'''Miguel O'Hara:''' ''[sips coffee]'' Yeah, I know.\\
'''Tyler Stone:''' You... you know?\\
'''Miguel O'Hara:''' Yeah. Now get out of my office... '''dad.'''
* Mr. Sinister pulls a particularly unpleasant Luke, I Am Your Father on Gambit in ''[[ComicBook/XMen X-Men: The End]]'' when he reveals that Gambit is a clone created from Sinister's original DNA mixed with that of [[TangledFamilyTree Scott Summers]]. Thankfully, this probably isn't canon -- the Summers have a messed-up history as it is.
* Speaking of the Summers family, several years after his introduction, ComicBook/{{Cable}} was retconned as being Nathan Summers, ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}' baby son who he'd previously been forced to send into the future to save his life. What happened was in the BadFuture Baby Nathan grew up oblivious to his parentage and eventually time-traveled back to the present, though by that point [[SupernaturallyYoungParent he was older than his father]].
* ComicBook/TheMightyThor gets this in ComicBook/TheAvengers (2021) "Enter the Phoenix" arc. The mutant [[NubileSavage cavewoman]]/[[CosmicEntity Phoenix Force avatar]], Firehair tells Thor that Odin hid the truth and she's his real mother. [[{{Understatement}} Thor does not take this well]], and Tony, who's had his share of unsettling parental reveals, mumbles, "Why can none of us just have nice, normal parents?"
* In their Star Comics' imprint ''ComicBook/PlanetTerry'' series, the BigBad Vermin the Vile gets Terry, who has been searching for his parents throughout the galaxy, to believe that he is actually Terry's father. However, it is later revealed that a villain known as The Hood, who is about the same age as Terry, is actually Vermin's real long-lost son.

* The plot of ''ComicBook/BatmanRIP'' essentially involves multiple {{Mind Rape}}s piled on top of each other to see how many it takes to make Batman crack. The cherry on top? Enigmatic villain Simon Hurt claims that he is actually Thomas Wayne, and that he faked his own death after hiring Joe Chill to kill his faithless whore of a wife. The truth of his story hasn't been determined, but Bruce decides to reject it at the end of the arc. [[note: This was later revealed to be a lie; Simon Hurt was actually a distant relative of Thomas Wayne, who'd achieved immortality through satanic rituals.]]

* The plot of ''ComicBook/BatmanRIP'' essentially involves multiple {{Mind Rape}}s piled on top of each other to see how many it takes to make Batman crack. The biggie? Enigmatic villain Simon Hurt claims that he is actually Thomas Wayne, and that he faked his own death after hiring Joe Chill to kill his faithless whore of a wife. The truth of his story hasn't been determined, but Bruce decides to reject it at the end of the arc.

* In ''[[ComicBook/BoosterGold Booster Gold One Million]]'', it is revealed to the audience -- but not to any of the other characters -- that Booster's mentor Rip Hunter is actually Booster's son.
* In nine issues, ''ComicBook/BrightestDay'' has already had three separate revelations about familial bonds between heroes and villains.
* In ''[[Franchise/GreenLantern Green Lantern Corps #35]]'', Sinestro tells Soranik Natu that she is his daughter. He left her in the care of her foster family to keep her away from the dangers of being associated with him; making this one of the only semi-decent things he's ever done in his life. Since it's ''[[BigBad Sinestro]]'', it's not clear if he's lying or not, but the last page of ''Green Lantern'' #36 makes it pretty obvious that he's telling the truth.

* ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}:
** Subverted with super-villain Lesla-Lar. After being disintegrated, her consciousness lived on. This messed with her mind to the point where she thought Supergirl was her sister. When she made this claim, Kara replied she had no siblings.

** In ''Supergirl vol 6 #24'', super-villain Cyborg Superman gets his memories back... and remembers what he is Supergirl's father. Several months later, in ''Supergirl vol 7 #2'' he tells Kara he is her father (who she had previously thought dead).
* Chris, Franchise/{{Superman}}'s adopted son, was found in a rocket similar to his. It was revealed during an invasion that the rocket was sent from the Phantom Zone, and he was the son of Zod and Ursa.
* Lilith from the Comicbook/TeenTitans knew nothing about her past. Nothing at all. Until [[ComicBook/TheOriginOfLilith her mother kidnapped her]], to rule Olympus together. Her identity? Oh, nothing important: it was Thia, a Titan of Myth and goddess of the sun. Which implies that Lilith is a demigoddess.

* [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]] was "[[TrainingFromHell raised]]" by the assassin David Cain, never knowing the identities of her true parents. In the final arc of the Kelley Puckett run of the book, she finally comes to the realization that Cain ''was'' her real father, but her mother's identity is left unknown until the final arc of the entire book, where she confirms, as she has suspected for some time, that ComicBook/LadyShiva is her mother. Her Post-Flashpoint counterpart knew that David was her father the entire time, but it is only during the ''League of Shadows'' arc in ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth'' that Shiva reveals that she is Cassandra's mother, sending Cass into a HeroicBSOD.

* A ''Comicbook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'' mini-series in the '80s started with the premise that R. J. Brande, the team's billionaire sponsor, was dying, and in order to save him, the Legionnaires had to figure out which one of them was secretly his child -- an idea that had never been even hinted at before. It finally turned out to be Durlan shapeshifter Chameleon Boy; Brande was revealed to also be a Durlan who'd contracted a disease that [[ShapeshifterModeLock froze him into human form]].

* Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}:

* ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' has a particularly twisted example of this. Laurie, the second Silk Spectre, knows from a tell-all book written years earlier that the recently-deceased Comedian [[AttemptedRape tried to rape her mother]], the first Silk Spectre. Then Laurie finds out that after the near-rape, her mother had consensual sex with him anyway, and that the Comedian is in fact her father.

* Eighteen years after their creation, it was revealed that [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] ComicBook/ScarletWitch and ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} were actually the children of their former leader, long-time Comicbook/XMen antagonist ComicBook/{{Magneto}}. Their feelings over this revelation were mixed, to put it mildly. Still, as Magneto is a DramaQueen, he did not told this ''directly''. He told that Luna was his granddaughter, and let them react to that.

* Hiro-Kala knew that he was the son of ''Comicbook/IncredibleHulk''. He didn't know that Bruce Banner was the Hulk. So when they first met, the following exchange happened:

* Mr. Sinister pulls a particularly unpleasant Luke, I Am Your Father on Gambit in ''[[Comicbook/XMen X-Men: The End]]'' when he reveals that Gambit is a clone created from Sinister's original DNA mixed with that of [[TangledFamilyTree Scott Summers]]. Thankfully, this probably isn't canon -- the Summers have a messed-up history as it is.

* ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'':
** Knuckles' girlfriend Julie-Su discovers that she's the half-sister of Dark Legion leaders Kragok and Lien-Da, which also makes her a descendant of Knuckles' ancestor Dimitri (making her and Knuckles ''very'' distant cousins). And sometime later, it's revealed that Remington is Kragok's son.
** In a dark alternate universe, 30 years in the future, Lara-Su was raised to believe her father Knuckles had been killed by Constable Remington. However, after she goes back in time (and travels to the wrong dimension too), her mother Julie-Su finally tells her that, in fact, Knuckles wasn't killed by Remington, but went insane with Chaos Powers and became the dreaded leader of the Dark Legion and by extension tyrant of the entire planet, Enerjak.
* The original ''ComicBook/{{Gen 13}}'' had more of a "Luke You Are His Father", with Burnout and team mentor Lynch simultaneously learning that the former is the latter's long lost son.

* ComicBook/TheMightyThor gets this in ComicBook/TheAvengers (2021) "Enter the Phoenix" arc. The mutant [[NubileSavage cavewoman]]/[[CosmicEntity Phoenix Force avatar]], Firehair tells Thor that Odin hid the truth and she's his real mother.

* In ''ComicBook/GreenLanternCorps #35'', Sinestro tells Soranik Natu that she is his daughter. He left her in the care of her foster family to keep her away from the dangers of being associated with him; making this one of the only semi-decent things he's ever done in his life. Since it's ''[[BigBad Sinestro]]'', he could be lying.
** The last page of ''Green Lantern'' #36 makes it pretty clear that he's telling the truth.

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* ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' has a particularly twisted example of this. Laurie, the second Silk Spectre, knows from a tell-all book written years earlier that the recently-deceased Comedian [[AttemptedRape tried to rape her mother]], the first Silk Spectre. Then Laurie finds out that after the near-rape, her mother had consensual sex with him anyway, and that the Comedian is in fact her father.