Marvel Comics characters perfect for Father’s Day
By Mark Lynch
Image Source: Marvel Digital Comics
On Father’s Day, let’s celebrate the best Marvel Comics dads.
The title of father tends to be something that is overlooked. The love of a mother is a well-documented thing. Mothers tend to be the more loving of the two parents. Although, fathers can be just as loving as mothers. Sometimes more. The love a father tends to be different. It’s usually harsh lessons. Nonetheless, it’s still love. That’s not to say that fathers aren’t emotional. Fathers love their daughters and feel a need to protect them. Fathers love their sons and feel the need to toughen them up. In Marvel Comics, both sides are represented.
Sometimes, fathers aren’t biological. Professor Xavier is also looked as a father by most of the X-Men. There are also the parents who choose a harsher approach to love like Odin. He was though on Thor because he knew that his son could be more than just an arrogant and selfish brute. Marvel Comics has a lot of examples of great fathers. This Father’s day, I’d like to show you five great examples of amazing Marvel Comics dads.
Nathan Summers (Cable)
Daughter: Hope Summers (adopted)
Son: Tyler Dayspring
Looking at Cable, you wouldn’t think he was someone with fatherly tendencies. Cable is all about his mission to protect the future. Before Cable saved the first mutant born since M-Day from the Purifiers, he knew she was going to help save the mutant race. Unlike Cyclops and Sinister (who were also looking for her) Cable wanted her to grow up and make her own decisions. So he took her to the future and raised her to be her own person so she could decide what she wanted to do on her own.
As time went on, Cable began to look at her as more than the messiah of the mutant race. She was his daughter. He treated her like his own blood and she looked at him as her father.
Cable is rough around the edges, but he has a big heart when it comes to Hope. He didn’t teach her to just fight. Cable taught Hope how to be tough. One of the best moments was a lesson on crying. Cable taught her to, “Win first. Cry later.” Cable didn’t tell her that it wasn’t OK to cry. In fact, that he understood the need to. The lesson was to keep her emotions in check and to not let them control her. A lesson Hope still uses.