How do you discipline a brainwashed kid? If your son has impenetrable skin, how do you teach him to shave and with what? If your daughter is both a mutant and an Avenger, which side do you sit on for things like cross-over events and intramural softball games? Fatherhood is a pretty complicated and often minimalized thing in the Marvel universe.

It's hard enough to raise kids in the collateral damage capital of the universe but then add in the complicated moral and ethical implications of having to parent time-traveling children, vengeful illegitimate kids whose existence was previously unknown until they tried to kill you, or several clone variations of yourself. With those things in mind, here are some of the best and worst fathers that Marvel has to offer.

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10 Howard Stark - WORST

John Slattery Howard Stark

Not only is this guy the quintessential uber-successful distant workaholic father, but he's also just an all-around manipulative dirtbag. Howard Stark had a biological son named Arno that was genetically manipulated and hidden, then he adopted Anthony (Tony) because emotionally and psychologically damaging children seems like a fun past-time for incredibly mind-century rich industrialists and generally powerful men (i.e. Warren Worthington II, Sabastian Shaw, John Braddock, Odin).

9 Luke Cage - BEST

Fatherhood suits Power Man like a bespoke suit, but it has changed his perspective on hero work. A large part of his career has been predicated on getting into danger and now that has a daughter, Danielle Cage, with super-mom Jessica Jones, he's concentrating on domestic stability.

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That doesn't mean he doesn't answer the call when the universe ending or get pulled into some Heroes for Hire style hijinks when his friends are involved, but he'd just rather be looking for a lost sippy cup than trouble these days.

8 Odin - WORST

Odin

Pretty much the epitome of tough-love parenting, Odin's punishments often borders on severe. A common form of discipline in the ol' Odinson homestead usually involved amnesia and getting marrooned in another realm.

He also once adopted a baby frost giant for as a spoil of war so he would have another sibling to pit his biological son against.

7 Peter Parker - BEST

Raised by the gold-standard of comic book father-figures and Marvel matrons, its no wonder Peter Parker is a great dad. Not perfect by any means, Spider-Man often makes some decisions that neglect the feelings of his family but in most timelines or dimensions he's got MJ to keep his fears from becoming irrational and stunting his family.

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The most admirable thing is that Peter always seems to mature past that flaw by letting his children make their own decisions, specifically when it comes to the idea of being a legacy spider on their own.

6 Wolverine - WORST

Logan possibly has more illegitimate children, clones or otherwise, than anyone else is the Marvel multiverse.

Because of his whole loner mercenary lifestyle, this papa is one hell of a rolling stone, leaving corpses and kids in his wake, and most of them have tried to kill him at one point or another. In all fairness to Wolverine, most of his clone kids are specifically designed to be a patricidal weapon of his demise.

5 Capt. George Stacey (Earth-65) - BEST

Georage and Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man comics

Earth-65 is home to some of the most interesting versions of Marvel Characters, one of the most underrated among them Spider-Gwen's dad, George Stacey.

Dedicated cop and dutiful father, these worlds often clash because his daughter is actively being investigated by the police, namely by Det. Frank Castle, a riff on punisher that portrays him as a rogue cop obsessed with black and white morality of the law. Aware of Gwen's secret-identity and the complications it brings, George is a supportive father that attempts to protect from an over-zealous NYPD  Gwen while letting her make her own decisions.

4 Charles Xavier - WORST

Professor Xavier Marvel Comics vs Squid Game

Well, it's not exactly like Xavier has the best track record in the morals and ethics department, but this is just...damn. Not only did he abuse his doctor-patient relationship while working with coma patients in Isreal, but he was doing it with the express purpose of attempting to create a mutant with reality-warping powers, which is exactly what happened. Xavier's son from this abusive coupling turns out to be the one and only David Heller, also known as Legion. It's funny how Xavier can help coma patients for sexual gain, but somehow helping his schizophrenic son before he can completely destroy reality seems a tad inappropriate.

3 Scott Summers - BEST

Being a mutant dad is pretty difficult, but Silm [Universe-616] makes it look easy. Scott represents the best of paternal instincts, caring for his children that are technically both biological and adopted. Father to some of the most powerful mutants across multiple alternate-timelines and dimensions, all of his kids are welcomed into the Summers clan of Earth-616 even if he's not technically their dad.

2 Magneto - WORST

For someone who is all about the future of the mutant race, he doesn't mind over-prioritizing children, the literal future of the mutant race. What some would describe as the over-bearing alpha soccer dad type, Magneto's children never live up to his unrealistic expectations of unquestioning loyalty and strict moral authoritarianism, often breaking under strain of his approval. Though, to be fair, he seems to be a lot more understanding and participatory as a father after the establishment of Krakoa.

1 Reed Richards - BEST

Oh, what difference a rugged beard makes. Or maybe it just took the end of the universe as we know it (again) for Mr. Fantastic to finally apply his superhero superlative to fatherhood.

Either way, after the events of Secret Wars [2015] Richards finally goes on a kind family vacation outside of the known universe so he could finally take his son out to create universes as he promised. Think of it as the super-science version of playing catch. And the truth is that no matter how emotionally distant or lost in his work he becomes, Richards is probably one of the only people qualified to handle his children's vast intellectual needs.

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