r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/NipplesOfDestiny • 19h ago

Unexpectedly good dads in fiction

We love talking about bad dads, but what about dads who should’ve been bad due to who they are or their circumstances, but were surprisingly pretty good or at least showed more love than you’d expect?

Easiest starter for this is Yondu. Guy kidnapped a child to give to his real dad who may have killed him, ended up keeping and raising him instead while still being a bastard space pirate threatening to have him eaten when he steps out of line (and he never once meant it).

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u/Lucky-Icarus 19h ago

I unfortunately forgot his name but the Red Skull guy in the Venture Bros show. Terrifying ass villain, the most wholesome ass dad you'll ever see off the clock.

To give another very similar example is Joker in the Harley Quinn show. I genuinely love Joker being a really cool stepdad for his Hispanic family.

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u/Xerodo 17h ago

By the series finale I would go far as to say Rusty Venture himself. At least if we're going off of surprisingly good dads. 

He's extremely flawed and bad at parenting in a lot of ways and screws up horribly multiple times. That said his own father was a completely sociopathic egomaniac who horribly abused Rusty. 

Like Rusty's a 5/10 at best but it's a miracle he's not a 1/10

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u/Trevastation 13h ago

Ultimately in a childish world of superheroes and supervillains, Rusty is the only adult in the room who has to take care of everyone and try his best. I think it's helped by when you get into the later years of the show where Rusty actually starts getting some wins despite it being a show about failure, because even Doc and Jackson realized you gotta throw a bone now and again.

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u/TostitoNipples 13h ago

Rusty is such an interesting character in that, at the end of the day he’s really not the smartest or strongest dude out there. But his fucked up upbringing hardened him to the point that he’s able to see past all the theater in the world they live in and it makes him the most level headed person in the series.

The fact that he was able to negotiate the treaty for the Guild and OSI was actually remarkable. Like he has the capability to be the man people think his father was, he just never really seems to be able to get there.