Fathers STILL get the rough treatment in media, from being portrayed as too old to understand the modern day, feckless, violent, cold and just plain absent.
And we all see the fatherless behaviour that in reality causes...
So to celebrate a day that often gets overlooked to the female equivalent, what are some of the best representations of fathers you've seen in media?
Anime My daughter left the nest and Returned an S Rank adventurer: Belgrieve or 'the red ogre' is a perfect example of a positive role model I can think of in Anime. He's strict but fair, patient when he needs to be but not a push over, knows when to be emotional and when to think with a clear head. He's such a good role model that even former enemies switch to following his leads and former friends who fell off the right path immediately get back on the path just knowing He's around.
**As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll use my appraisal skill to Rise in the world **: for the time he's on screen, Raven shows he's not just a great warrior and lord but an excellent father, encouraging his son when he can, traching him the right values and when it matters most, just talking to him when he needed it and that attitude extended to all the other members of the cast.
Western Media: I think the diluge of propaganda over the years is making my mind a bit blank on this unfortunately. Had to delve into my brain for this:
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air (1990s): James Avery played uncle Philip PERFECTLY, he was the greatest role model of a good Black father figure so no wonder they character assassinated him in the 'remake'
What are you're picks as to save it going to long, I should mention there are quite a few 'regression father stories' in Manhwa too where a father who makes mistakes raising their child (usually daughter) regresses in time to raise them properly, it's a genre to itself at this point.
Slight tangent: It’ll never happen, but it seems like the world needs a reboot of Family Ties for modern times. The premise of the show worked because it was made in an era where the left were boomer squares and the right were young and cool. We’re back in the same spot again. Steven and Elyse as normie Current Thing enthusiasts and Alex as an edgy dissident right memelord, trying to reconcile their familial love for each other with their differing belief systems, would be pretty damn good in the right hands.
There's literally no way this would ever happen today because leftists take political differences so seriously now that they consider even depicting a potential right wing person as anything less than evil is morally wrong. If it could be made from a right wing point of view that'd be great and might work, but when do you ever see sitcoms made by right wing people? Maybe Tim Allen can tackle it.
Yep, exactly. wE cAnT nOrMaLiZe FaScIsM
It was also pretty fun too because they made Alex's character both respectable and at the same time amusingly meme-worthy, almost in the same scene.
And it worked, wasn't jarring or cringe because it was just earnest fun, leaving all the drama of politics out of it.