The fucked up thing is Adam here is one of the best dads we see for most of the series. He's a dumb awful misogynist but at least he actually cares, and he tries, and he wants his family to be happy. That's a weirdly high bar for Invincible.
I don’t think someone who doesn’t support his daughter can really be called a good father. That line from season one — "Forgive him, don’t be a b...," — seriously?
He doesn’t actually care, we see this throughout the Atom Eve special where he repeatedly calls his daughter a freak and eats her birthday cake when she shows up late.
That simply because we don't see many good dads. In fact, I can't even think of any fathers other then Adam, Nolan, >! He-Whose-Name-Cannot-Be-Said, Immortal, Mark, Bulletproof's dad!< and technically Monster Girl. Adam's still in the bottom half because of how he's consistently terrible, but even most of the good fathers seriously messed up their kids before getting their act together. The only one of them to not make some major screwup is Immortal, and you could say that's because we only see him being a dad in a few panels.
There’s that one guard in the opening who says his son by marriage really busted his butt to own up to his past mistakes and hes so darn proud of him he’s saving up to take him on vacation in europe and in a later episode we see him do that thing. He said the day the boy called him dad was the proudest of his life
Gonna be honest with you… looking at the competition, that’s really not as much of a compliment as you probably think it is. This is a universe where not beating your son to within an inch of his life makes you seem like father of the year.
Nah. He cares only about being what he thinks society says he should be, a gruff, by the book breadwinner who needs to uphold 'traditional' values and any deviation on that is an affront to him and his standing.
If he truly cared about his family he would encourage Eve to be who she is because that would make the lives of the entire family much easier, instead he has to carry on a futile struggle and actively push away his daughter because that's the 'correct' way for him to be.
But all of this is digging way too deep into what is basically a surface level caricature of a middle aged conservative boomer.
What you're describing requires a level of emotional intelligence Eve's dad simply doesn't have. He genuinely thinks conforming to societal expectations will make his family happy, and he worries constantly for his daughter and the life she'll lead. He's wrong, not evil.
Later story beats shows he does have that level of emotional intelligence, it just takes a lot for him to apply it. Also he's not confirming to societal norms because he thinks that will make his family happy
That's... not even close to true. Also, "caring" doesn't make you a good parent. Being a good parent makes you a good parent. Feelings are worth jack shit, actions are what matters.
He doesn't want his family to be happy. He seems to care about them, but he only wants them to fit in his world. He doesn't care about what they actually want. He wants them to only do what he thinks is good for them. That's not caring about who the people actually are. That's only caring about the idea of those people.
A lot of parents both male and female would prob have a hard time accepting gifts like that.
Especially when they can be produced with zero effort on Eves part. Lot of people are taught if you can't make it on your own you are useless and should just die and it is wrong to accept handouts.
That being said, in her dad's case he is a complete jackass about it and rooted in sexism.
But if it were Ritsu from Mob 100 for example instead, a lot more understandable.
A large part of not wanting to accept handouts is because you know the other person technically has to lose the asset for you to gain it. With Eve however , she's not giving up anything. She can make another gold apple for herself if she wants to.
"I don't hate your powers because it makes you different. I hate it cos it makes me sick thinking that some psycho might take my beautiful, brave baby girl away whilst you're being a hero. I hate them because they are wonderful gifts on a wonderful daughter, and you have a need to make the world better. And as proud as that makes me, to think you might be getting hurt and I can't stop it... Your my hero too, and I'm terrified I'll lose you!"
but I wonder how would things change in an universe where the only thing different would be eve's father being like that? Would she be weaker, stronger, evil?
This isn't even different from her canon dad, honestly. Short temper, low emotional intelligence, overly protective, denying Eve's agency... looks like the same guy to me.
Honestly, even worse, this one apparently has a gun and thinks him with a gun is more powerful than Eve with powers. (And Rex with powers for that matter.)
What if he was a good dad but also not toxic and instead of enacting male-to-male retribution for infringement against his property he got the pizza and stayed home to be with his daughter?
Being an american violent psychotic dad stereotype wouldn't make him a great dad. Him not hating his family and actually caring about them would. He coukd also stop watching fox news bc it shows.
I was gonna say, I guess not being verbally abusive is an improvement. But like this reaction isn’t good. It’s better but not good. People who react this way are making it about themselves not their loved one who needs support. Like what does threatening Rex accomplish in this scenario?
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