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AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
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#59126: Jun 18th 2017 at 8:31:40 PM

Didn't TFS kind of portray Piccolo's treatment of Gohan in the Saiyan saga as being abusive and traumatic? Like, yeah, I know how Lani went on a spiel about how Goku is the worst anime dad so there's definite bias behind them, but I can't say their portrayal is 100% supportive of Piccolo being the better parental figure.

But yes, the constant jokes about it are kind of old at this point.

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#59127: Jun 18th 2017 at 8:36:48 PM

They kind of forgot that joke and abandoned it for "Goku is the worst and actively hates Gohan" and "Piccolo is the best dad", especially in the Broly movie where Piccolo randomly gives a shit about where Gohan goes to school and Goku doesn't give a shit about Gohan's impending death.

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AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
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#59128: Jun 18th 2017 at 8:41:14 PM

But they kept that aspect up by showing how Future Gohan following Piccolo's teaching style in History of Trunks is not good and kind of fucked up.

Eh, probably just comes and goes with them, I suppose.

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#59129: Jun 18th 2017 at 8:46:55 PM

Goku is the worst anime dad?

Now thats all kinds of absolute bullshit.

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#59130: Jun 18th 2017 at 8:48:20 PM

I feel like Goku not contacting people while dead after the Cell Saga was because he fully intended to stay dead permanently. If Babidi hadn't interfered, Goku probably would've left at the end of his allotted day and just stayed dead forever. Dead people with no plans to come back don't tend to communicate regularly with the living.

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#59131: Jun 18th 2017 at 8:49:23 PM

Perhaps Lani hasn't heard of this one guy called ENDEAVOUR.

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#59132: Jun 18th 2017 at 8:50:35 PM

Who?

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LordVatek Not really a lord of anything Since: Sep, 2014
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#59133: Jun 18th 2017 at 8:52:03 PM

Or you know. OVA Bardock, Paragus, and King Cold.

edited 18th Jun '17 8:52:54 PM by LordVatek

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Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#59134: Jun 18th 2017 at 8:52:06 PM

[up][up]Guy from My Hero Academia. And yeah, while I would never put Goku on a list of good anime dads, he is nowhere close to making the worst dad list. There's some real shitbags out there.

edited 18th Jun '17 8:52:15 PM by Moth13

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#59135: Jun 18th 2017 at 8:52:09 PM

Character from My Hero Academia and terrible father.

edited 18th Jun '17 8:54:07 PM by LSBK

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#59136: Jun 18th 2017 at 8:52:45 PM

A dad from My Hero Academia.

Trust me, he is the worst.

Basically he married and impregnated a woman with powers complimenting his own for the sole purpose of creating a son who would be more powerful than All Might. He also abused said son once he was born. And half of his son's body is covered in burn scars.

edited 18th Jun '17 8:54:35 PM by SonOfSharknado

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#59137: Jun 18th 2017 at 8:54:44 PM

King Cold is definitely evil, but I'm not actually sure you can call him a bad father. More like Frieza is a terrible son.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#59138: Jun 18th 2017 at 8:55:23 PM

A lotta terrible fathers there are...

That it's so obviously an exaggeration to say Karrot is worst anime papa...

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AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
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#59139: Jun 18th 2017 at 8:56:11 PM

Well shit that's downright evil.

As much as I like Lani as a writer and a voice actor, he done fucked up on that assessment.

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Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#59140: Jun 18th 2017 at 8:58:06 PM

However Goku is still a terrible dad.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#59141: Jun 18th 2017 at 8:58:33 PM

A bit of what Sharknado said was off, but that's the gist of it. Although a fairly popular fan theory is that one of the villains in the series, is actually another one of Endeavor's kids, driven to where he is, and what he's doing because of disillusionment with his father being called a "hero".

edited 18th Jun '17 8:59:43 PM by LSBK

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#59142: Jun 18th 2017 at 8:59:01 PM

Krillin's still best dad, though.

edited 18th Jun '17 9:00:01 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
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#59143: Jun 18th 2017 at 8:59:02 PM

Though the son got his burn scars after his mom threw scalding hot water on him though thats because she was so horribly emotionally abused that she had a mental breakdown & afterwards he put her in a mental hospital & ignored her for years as she fufilled her purpose so he was done with her.

Another recent example from said series is new big bad Overhaul.

[up][up][up] Hes not that bad.

edited 18th Jun '17 9:00:49 PM by slimcoder

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#59144: Jun 18th 2017 at 9:00:25 PM

I'd say that Overhaul is much worse than Endeavor, actually.

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#59145: Jun 18th 2017 at 9:01:33 PM

How can you all be forgetting the one who is truly the worlds greatest dad: Gendou Ikari?

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#59146: Jun 18th 2017 at 9:01:57 PM

King Cold is definitely evil, but I'm not actually sure you can call him a bad father. More like Frieza is a terrible son.

He certainly didn't seem to care too much about Frieza's death.

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#59147: Jun 18th 2017 at 9:02:10 PM

Mr. Satan is both best dad and best granddad.

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#59148: Jun 18th 2017 at 9:02:58 PM

Even when it comes to being a piece of shit, Endeavour can't be #1.

Also, just pointing out that Goku died for his son.

TWICE.

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#59149: Jun 18th 2017 at 9:07:11 PM

I like to think that losing the rest of his time on earth to show Gotendo SSJ3, counts as a 3rd death.

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#59150: Jun 18th 2017 at 9:07:43 PM

Even when it comes to being a piece of shit, Endeavour can't be #1.

Oh man! I'd forgotten that detail!evil grin

But yeah, Goku as worst dad is really dumb. As much as I enjoy some of the things DBZA has down (POWERLEVELS ARE BULLSHIT!}, they've been responsible for reinforcing or flat out creating some misinformed interpretations within the fandom.

Or just making some situations of certain characters even worse than before.

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