History Main / WhatTheHellDad

* Peter to Chris on ''FamilyGuy'', to the point of IncestYay. But it's ''FamilyGuy'', so IncestYay is par for the course.

* Rick Pym in John Le Carré's ''A Perfect Spy'', who uses his son Magnus in many of his scams.

Can lead to WellDoneSonGuy or IncestYay.

* John Winchester on ''{{Supernatural}}''. He raised his kids to fight demons and pretty much skipped out on other aspects of parenting. He would regularly move the family into a new town, enroll his sons in school and then leave for months leaving the teenage Dean in charge. When he came back from monster hunting he would take the boys out of school and move somewhere else.

* Patrick Zala in ''GundamSeed'' treats his son Athrun as though he were any other subordinate. Complete with shooting him for treason.

You've got your cool dad. And then you've got... this guy. He views his son (and this is AlwaysMale, in fiction and in RealLife; [[DoubleStandard girls are precious]]) as an equal and in no real need of monitoring, instruction, or the rest of the whole parenting game. Can border on its own form of abuse. The child ranges from prepubescent to simply not meeting one's cultural definition of adulthood.

You've got your cool dad. And then you've got...this guy. He views his son (and this is AlwaysMale, in fiction and in RealLife; [[DoubleStandard girls are precious]]) as an equal and in no real need of monitoring, instruction, or the rest of the whole parenting game. Can border on its own form of abuse. The child ranges from prepubescent to simply not meeting one's cultural definition of adulthood.

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* Rare female example: Ash's mom from ''{{Pokemon}}''. Actually, any parent in ''Pokemon'', considering that there are probably millions of kids all over the world wandering around the countryside fighting dangerous animals with other dangerous animals.
* Parodied on ''NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
* [[DragonballZ Son Goku]], full stop. With both Gohan and Goten.
* Pretty much any parent on ''{{Digimon}}''.
* On ''FullmetalAlchemist'', after DisappearedDad Hohenheim comes back to see his kids (who are only 15 and 14), he figures they've taken care of themselves long enough that it doesn't really matter if he takes up a fathering role. And so he leaves ''again''!
** Then again his kids are [[{{Badass}} Edward and Alphonse Elric]].
** Anime Hohenheim was pathetic and low in pretty much every arena possible. Al really wanted him to stay, but he didn't listen. His {{Wangst}} reaches really annoying levels when you find out just how much of an asshole he is.
** Manga Hohenheim, on the other hand, met Ed and got summarily rejected, left again. Met Al much, much later and achieved an okay relationship with him with large amounts of communication and lots of comic relief, but in this case he treated both his teenage sons as at-least-equal combatants in the world-saving endeavor that he left them to work on in the first place. Very awkward about the whole father thing.
*** Of course, given what happened to him [[BigBad last time]] he accepted a fatherly role...
**** Ed wouldn't '''really''' make a philosopher's stone!
* Isshin Kurosaki in ''{{Bleach}}'' generally takes this attitude in his relationship with Ichigo. This changes when Isshin encounters Ichigo in shinigami form.
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* ''{{Gigantor}}''. Just, ''{{Gigantor}}''.

* John Winchester on ''{{Supernatural}}''. He raised his kids to fight demons.

* [[Archer]], to the most ludicrous degree.

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* Any parents who let their kids stay at Michael Jackson's after the child molestation accusations.
** Because trusting a friend of yours not to molest your kids despite hearsay is '''wrong'''.
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* Rare female example: Ash's mom from ''{{Pokemon}}''.

* [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Fire Lord Ozai.]] Yes, his son survived what he put him through, with Uncle's help, and yes, his daughter was a highly competent CompleteMonster, but he did not do the parenting thing, and sent them both into great danger very casually. Azula at least he trained personally.

** Anime Hohenheim was pathetic and low in pretty much every arena possible. Al really wanted him to stay, but he didn't listen. His {{Wangst}} reaches really annoying levels when you find out just how much of an asshole he is.
** Manga Hohenheim, on the other hand, met Ed and got summarily rejected, left again. Met Al much, much later and achieved an okay relationship with him with large amounts of communication and lots of comic relief, but in this case he treated both his teenage sons as at-least-equal combatants in the world-saving endeavor that he left them to work on in the first place. Very awkward about the whole father thing.
*** Of course, given what happened to him [[BigBad last time]] he accepted a fatherly role...
**** Ed wouldn't '''really''' make a philosopher's stone!

** Because trusting a friend of yours not to molest your kids despite hearsay is '''wrong'''.

** Anime Hohenheim was pathetic and low in pretty much every arena possible. Al really wanted him to stay, but he didn't listen. His {{Wangst}} reaches really annoying levels when you find out just how much of an asshole he is.
** Manga Hohenheim, on the other hand, met Ed and got summarily rejected, left again. Met Al much, much later and achieved an okay relationship with him with large amounts of communication and lots of comic relief, but in this case he treated both his teenage sons as at-least-equal combatants in the world-saving endeavor that he left them to work on in the first place. Very awkward about the whole father thing.
*** Of course, given what happened to him [[BigBad last time]] he accepted a fatherly role...
**** Ed wouldn't '''really''' make a philosopher's stone!

** Because trusting a friends of your not to molest your kids despite hearsay is '''wrong'''.

* On ''FullmetalAlchemist'', after DissappearedDad Hohenheim comes back to see his kids (who are only 15 and 14), he figures they've taken care of themselves long enough that it doesn't really matter if he takes up a fathering role. And so he leaves ''again''!

You've got your CoolDad. And then you've got...this guy. He views his son (and this is AlwaysMale, in fiction and in RealLife; [[DoubleStandard girls are precious]]) as an equal and in no real need of monitoring, instruction, or the rest of the whole parenting game. Specifically this case is where it borders on abuse. The child ranges from prepubescent to simply not meeting one's cultural definition of adulthood.

You've got your abusive parents. And then you've got...this guy. Not really abusive. Quite the contrary, he views his son (and this is AlwaysMale, in fiction and in RealLife; [[DoubleStandard girls are precious]]) as an equal and in no real need of monitoring. The child ranges from prepubescent to simply not meeting one's cultural definition of adulthood.

* Son Goku, full stop. With both Gohan and Goten.

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