For as much as the Marvel Cinematic Universe is bound by shared continuity, its films are infused with daddy issues. The entire arc of the Infinity Saga can be seen as Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) grappling with the legacy of his emotionally distant father Howard (Dominic Cooper when young, John Slattery when older). And Tony's certainly not the only one. During a deleted scene from Thor: Ragnarok, Hulk/Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) tries to relate with a downtrodden Thor (Chris Hemsworth) over his daddy issues. Banner says he was absent for his father's death because he was so wrapped up in science experiments. Clearly, Banner had his own family issues, but they're vastly different from that of other Marvel heroes.

Characters such as Tony have fathers that are dead or dying, MIA, emotionally distant, abusive or downright evil. However, some just make simple, human mistakes in which they believe they're doing the right thing. Black Panther's (Chadwick Boseman) dad was one of these. T'Challa avenged the death of his father T’Chaka (John Kani) after Zemo (Daniel Brühl) – himself a grieving parent – bombs the U.N. in Captain America: Civil War. But T’Challa confronts his father in Black Panther in the Ancestral Plane, disappointed over his isolationist policies and abandoning Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan).

Similarly, Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) becomes estranged from his daughter Hope (Evangeline Lilly) through his stubborn and obsessive behavior. Pym rebuilds their relationship in Ant-Man by voluntarily revealing his secret history with her mother Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer) and how she was lost in the Quantum Realm.

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These flawed MCU fathers are accompanied by outright villainous ones. In Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Daisy Johnson (Chloe Bennet) is the daughter of mad scientist Calvin Zabo (Kyle MacLachlan), aka Mr. Hyde. Although Zabo was once an upstanding family man, he turned morally bankrupt after Daisy was taken from him. Agent Leopold Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) had an absent, alcoholic father, and the immersive virtual simulator The Framework revealed that had he stuck around, he would have made Fitz a psychopathic sadist. Grant Ward (Brett Dalton) also had an abusive family, seeking solace in John Garrett (Bill Paxton) and the authoritarianism of Hydra.

Guardians of the Galaxy's Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) has major daddy issues, too. Ego (Kurt Russell) initially appears to be the ideal dad Star-Lord never had, but his world-ending megalomania reveals that his real father was Yondu (Michael Rooker) all along.

Thanos (Josh Brolin) is the ultimate bad dad. He is ruthlessly abusive towards his adopted daughters Gamora (Zoe Saldana) and Nebula (Karen Gillan), down to making them compete for his “affection." Thanos may say, and even believe, he loves Gamora, but it is always under his terms. He seeks to be the patriarch of the universe, decimating half of all living things under the pretense that he knows what’s best.

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Bruce Banner in Thor Ragnarok

What is unique about Bruce Banner’s backstory in Thor: Ragnarok’s deleted scene is how it flips the usual MCU father-son dynamic. Thor is adjusting to not only the death of Odin (Anthony Hopkins), but how his benevolent perception hid a legacy of imperialism conducted with his banished sister Hela (Cate Blanchett). Thor must process how the All-Father was not the person he admired. On the other hand, Banner was absent from his father's life, being so wrapped up in Gamma-Ray experiments. In Banner's father-son relationship, the onus is on him for putting work above his family. He even sheepishly admits “that was a terrible comparison, it just had nothing to do with what you’re going through.”

It’s debatable how canon deleted scenes are, but it’s worth noting that in the comics, Bruce's dad Brian explains perfectly the Hulk alter-ego. Brian completely fits the bad dad dynamic, being overtly abusive to his son Bruce and wife Rebecca, going so far as killing her. Far from missing his father’s death, the comics’ Bruce accidentally killed Brian during a skirmish over his mother's gravestone. Although accidental, Bruce repressed such memories, and most interpretations state such family trauma caused Bruce’s emotional issues to manifest as the Hulk. Brian Banner has repeatedly returned to haunt his son, including in the current Immortal Hulk series.

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