Follow-up to last week's discussion topic

[lynnenne]

Hello, and welcome to your weekly Sunday discussion post! Last week's topic about Thanos as an abusive parent got a lot of discussion. Following up on that topic, who are the other abusive parents in the MCU? (Parental figures also qualify.) I honestly don't know the comics backstory for many of the characters, so I'd love to hear your take on some of the protagonists and the upbringings they had to survive.

(Spoilers in comments, as usual, along with possibly triggery subject matter.)

Comments

[sholio]

The MCU has quite a few terrible parents - in fact it might be shorter to count up the ones who canonically aren't terrible! (.... T'Chaka and Ramonda. Though even T'Chaka was a fairly awful uncle. Oh wait, and the Ant-Man movies have a few decent parents!)

I think Ego might take the prize for Worst MCU Dad other than Thanos, though.

[silverflight8]

I think Scott Lang really shaped up well! Watching him and his daughter interact in Ant-Man and the Wasp was a treat, they were adorable.

But agree. So many terrible parents.

[lynnenne]

I love the moment in Endgame where Scott finds Cassie after five years of being thought dead. "You're so big!" Awwwwww.