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Newsrama ran a feature for Fathers Day highlighting the top 10 Best and Worsts Dads in comics. Can you guess which three X characters made the list? LOL...this shouldnt be too much of a surprise.
Best Dads
5. Cable: On the run from time-traveling mutant Bishop, Cable has protected the Mutant Messiah — a baby he named Hope — by any means necessary. A very cool dynamic that has revitalized the character, because now he has something to fight for. If mutantkind survives, know that it rests not on Cyclop’s Machiavellian plans, but on the parenting chops of Nathan Christopher Summers.
Worsts Dads
8. Cyclops — Cyclops has more issues than Action Comics. (Comics zing!) After he couldn’t get with Jean Grey (not without a shovel in the dead of night, anyway), Scott Summers went for the next best thing: her clone, Madelyne Pryor. But when the Real Deal came back from the dead, Scott left Madelyne — and his newborn baby Christopher — to, um, “check up on Jean and make sure everything was okay.” By joining X-Factor and not telling his wife where he was going. He ended up making up for it in the future by raising young Cable into a freedom fighter, but has since waffled around whether or not he trusts his son’s judgment by sending X-Force after him, just to make sure he’s doing his job right. Between this and his tendency to cheat on his significant other (moving on from redheads to blondes with Emma Frost), Scott Summers’ mutant power is being an optic-blast-powered homewrecker.
7. Magneto — He unwittingly drafted his twin children — as well as many other young impressionable mutants — into his war with humankind, abusing and manipulating their trust at every turn. When push came to shove, he’s put his cause before his kids (even shooting Quicksilver in the knees in the Ultimate Universe). While he did step in to prevent the Avengers from taking down the Scarlet Witch, it’s too little, too late, as his vendetta against the human race would eventually twist and soil the actions of all his children — Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and Polaris.
http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/06/20/the-top-10-best-and-worst-dads-in-comics/
Best Dads
5. Cable: On the run from time-traveling mutant Bishop, Cable has protected the Mutant Messiah — a baby he named Hope — by any means necessary. A very cool dynamic that has revitalized the character, because now he has something to fight for. If mutantkind survives, know that it rests not on Cyclop’s Machiavellian plans, but on the parenting chops of Nathan Christopher Summers.
Worsts Dads
8. Cyclops — Cyclops has more issues than Action Comics. (Comics zing!) After he couldn’t get with Jean Grey (not without a shovel in the dead of night, anyway), Scott Summers went for the next best thing: her clone, Madelyne Pryor. But when the Real Deal came back from the dead, Scott left Madelyne — and his newborn baby Christopher — to, um, “check up on Jean and make sure everything was okay.” By joining X-Factor and not telling his wife where he was going. He ended up making up for it in the future by raising young Cable into a freedom fighter, but has since waffled around whether or not he trusts his son’s judgment by sending X-Force after him, just to make sure he’s doing his job right. Between this and his tendency to cheat on his significant other (moving on from redheads to blondes with Emma Frost), Scott Summers’ mutant power is being an optic-blast-powered homewrecker.
7. Magneto — He unwittingly drafted his twin children — as well as many other young impressionable mutants — into his war with humankind, abusing and manipulating their trust at every turn. When push came to shove, he’s put his cause before his kids (even shooting Quicksilver in the knees in the Ultimate Universe). While he did step in to prevent the Avengers from taking down the Scarlet Witch, it’s too little, too late, as his vendetta against the human race would eventually twist and soil the actions of all his children — Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and Polaris.
http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/06/20/the-top-10-best-and-worst-dads-in-comics/
Cyclops and Magneto really are horrible fathers.
