As you get set to give dad another stinking tie or vocalizing , rampart - mounted bass part , we ’re count at the most caring — and the most callously destructive — father figures in flick , comics , and TV .
THE BEST
KYLE REESE
The Terminator
He might ’ve been an absentee dad — almost as absentee as you could get , given that he was a dead fourth dimension - traveler for much of John Connor ’s adolescence — but he put Sarah Connor on the path towards the future and armed her with knowledge ( and knocked her up ) .
WILLIAM ADAMA
Battlestar Galactica
To be fair , much of the reason why Lee and Bill Adama had such a strained human relationship is because Lee was a self - significant dick . But over the course of the series , Adama the Elder proved his worth , to both his son and his fleet , sentence and metre again .
RAY FERRIER
state of war of the Worlds
Yes , Tom Cruise was in the middle of his bat - darn - crazy phase when this came out , so it ’s easy to draw a blank that he was playing a dude path over his head who still handle to see his children safely through an alien invasion .
JONATHAN KENT
Superman
As Kal - El ’s adopted beginner — the man who strike upon his exotic ward the tranquil , decent , midwestern strength that would service Clark Kent so well — Pa Kent bear witness that blood does not necessarily a father make .
LETO ATREIDES
sand dune
He was a near valet — attentive to his choir , as generous with his time to his Word , or as generous as a Duke of the Landsraad can be — he just prefer badly when it fall to genuine estate .
BOB PARR
The Incredibles
When some daddy hit a mid - life crisis , they buy expensive cars , take up boating , or cheat on their wives . But the man once know as Mr. Incredible only rediscover the joy of superheroism — and shares them with his family .
BENJAMIN SISKO
Star Trek : Deep Space Nine
A exclusive Padre , parent a kid in a space station on the edge of a wormhole , the kind of blank - time anomaly that kick out evil every week ? It ’s awesome that Jake Sisko was n’t turn tricks in a cargo hold for synthahol money .
JOHN WINCHESTER
Supernatural
I ’ve never seen the show ( I sleep with , jihad me ) , so this is what Annalee Newitz had to say : “ Sam and Dean ’s huntsman male parent John taught the boy everything they sleep together about destroy iniquity , but also force them to spend their childhoods on the run , always moving from township to Ithiel Town . When Dean ’s life hung in the balance at the beginning of season 2 , John made a batch with Azazel : his person for Dean ’s . ” Awwww … how sugared .
RICK GRIMES
The Walking Dead
This poor survivor of a zombie Book of Revelation has had to put up with a whole lot since his world ended . We ca n’t even tell you the bulk of it for fear of spoiling too much — let ’s just say that tying shoes has fix difficult — but through it all he ’s tried to be a good father to his son , Carl .
JIM GORDON
Batman
He ’s a human race with a lot on his shoulders : Commissioner Gordon does as much to fight law-breaking in Gotham as Batman , but he does n’t get to pass over the paperwork . And he still carries the wounds of his encounter with the Joker that left his girl in a wheelchair . The fact that he raised a saucy , recollective womanhood all by himself oughta earn him a statue .
JACK CARTER
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What ’s it like being the sheriff in a town full of screw - escaped whiz ? Probably a lot like being a dad — which Jack Carter is , to his now - college long time girl , Zoe — or a shepherd .
THE bad
JAMES T. KIRK
Star Trek II : The Wrath of KhanHe ’s a with child starship air force officer , no two ways about it , but Kirk did n’t even acknowledge what his son look like .
MAGNETO
X - Men
ANAKIN SKYWALKER
The Star Wars saga
It accept him a foresighted sentence — okay , a really long clock time — to do the right thing , but he did sacrifice himself to preserve both his child and the macrocosm . Of course , he killed uncounted billion of people before then .
NOAH BENNET
bomber
He tried to be a good dad — making it home for dinner , taking an interest in his adopted daughter Claire ’s extramarital activities — but those ten of lying to his kinsperson about his gig as a mutant hunting watch took their toll .
ARTHUR PETRELLI
But this guy get to Noah Bennet see like a Boy Scout scout group loss leader . The pitiless headspring of the Pinehurst Corporation , Papa Petrelli was break to build up an regular army of supervillains if it was the last matter he did . And , thanks to his child — Peter and Nathan — as well as Sylar , it was .
MICHAEL DAWSON
Lost
Here ’s a hombre who in reality tried his upright to be a good father , to keep his son , Walt , dependable from the danger of the Island . But he made bad choice after bad choice ; it got so forged that Walt wo n’t even speak to him .
WALTER BISHOP
Fringe
He slip another man ’s son and raised him — badly — as his own . It nonplus a minuscule tricksy because he pass into an alternate universe and stole from “ himself , ” but still .
RUSTY VENTURE
The Venture Brothers
This former baby science adventurer develop up hating his life story and , as an grownup , has transfer that hate onto his dimwitted boy , Hank and Dean .
RA ’S AL GHUL
There ’s no denying that this villainous ressurrectionist loves his girl , Talia — who eventually had a child with the Dark Knight . But he also raised her to take over as the head of the League of Assassins . So you ’ve got ta question his mind .
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