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.
One recent example: Breaking Bad, episode 2 through season 4.
Episode 1 he's the weak, browbeaten, pathetic man from today's culture then gets cancer and "he's awake". After that he's living to his full potential, providing for and protecting his family, bending his wife over instead of getting a handjob on his birthday. "Who's in charge? Me. That's how I live my life."
What does a man do, Walter? A man provides for his family.
This is why in season 5 the writers had Walter literally go "full nazi" and turn into a cartoon villain. Gilligan said in interviews that the audience was over time supposed to see Walter as Bad Man, but they were still on his side - and the reason was they tried to make him hated by making him a Man, a "b-badass d-ddad" in Jr's words. He even adopts Jessie into his family, and protects and nurtures him. To the writers providing for family, being smart and strong and bold, doing the things that are necessary to be a man, are negative things so they were caught flatfooted when the audience liked Walter more.
So in Season 5 they have him renounce everything - he did it all for himself, he's actually an evil racist white supremacist at heart. Bullshit. There's no foundation at all for that before S05.