Superhero media is a hazardous place to be a father…
…Either you or your kid keeps getting kidnapped and you have to save each other…
…someone changes the timeline and suddenly you’ve accidentally poofed your child out of existence…
…your kids get ret-conned for film license purposes so that they’re no longer your kids…
…they turn out to be super-villains even though you thought they were dead…
It ain’t easy!
(This post may have some mild SPOILERS for various superhero-y dealies.)
Still, some father-figures manage to be super both in and out of costume, and here’s five:
1. Phil Coulson (MCU)
In Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, Agent Coulson becomes a father-figure to hacker Skye, who is later named Daisy or Quake, because superheroes.
It’s no secret that Daisy is Coulson’s little princess, with other characters constantly pointing out that she’s kind of in his emotional blind-spot because ‘she’s like his daughter.’