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5. THANOS THE MAD TITAN<\/strong><\/p>\n Maybe Thanos<\/a> was<\/em> a little tough on Nebula when she refused to show him her map to the Soul Stone. But you gotta teach your kids about honesty and obedience somehow. How else will they learn to respect you enough to close the eyelids on your freshly severed head when you die?<\/p>\n 4. EGO THE LIVING PLANET<\/strong><\/p>\n Besides, this Celestial\u2019s offspring, Peter \u201cStar-Lord\u201d Quill<\/a>, experienced some great side benefits because of Dad\u2019s relentless drive to fill the cosmos with himself. There are the \u201crugged good looks,\u201d for one. And the ability to handle an Infinity Stone without dying – that\u2019s another. And it wasn\u2019t just from his human mother Meredith that Quill got his love of great music. Any ageless, primordial being who can appreciate “Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl)\u201d can\u2019t be all bad, right?<\/p>\n 3. LUCIUS MALFOY<\/strong><\/p>\n Draco went to Hogwarts anyway. But didn\u2019t Lucius volunteer his time to its Board of Governors, and buy brand-new Nimbus 2001 broomsticks for Slytherin\u2019s Quidditch team? He even gave Ginny Weasley the diary of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. That\u2019s the generosity you\u2019d expect from a pure-blooded wizarding father!<\/p>\n 2. DARTH VADER<\/strong><\/p>\n And before you call Darth Vader<\/a> a dark father for torturing his own daughter with a mind probe and blowing up her adoptive parents and planet – he didn\u2019t know she was his kid! <\/em>You\u2019ll give Luke and Leia a pass for their kissy-kissy, but not cut Dad any slack? He finds your double standard disturbing!<\/p>\n 1. HOMER SIMPSON<\/strong><\/p>\n For the last 30 seasons (all of them to be available on Disney+<\/a> when it launches), Homer Simpson has been proving he\u2019s the World\u2019s Greatest Dad (just like it says on the mug of gummy worms he bought in season 14 to help him catch a gummy fish).<\/p>\n He\u2019ll do whatever it takes to provide for his family. And we\u2019re not just talking about working in the notoriously dangerous Springfield Nuclear Power Plant (granted, no small amount of that danger\u2019s due to Homer mashing the wrong button on his T-437 Safety Console, but\u2026). He\u2019s gone into the snow plow business. He\u2019s charged neighborhood kids for trampoline time and elephant rides. And he may be the only cartoon character who\u2019s ever voiced another <\/em>cartoon character (ruff, ruff, Poochie, the rockin\u2019 dog!).<\/p>\n We can\u2019t think of any better way to end this tribute to pop culture\u2019s greatest dads than to let Homer Simpson<\/a> himself have the last word (from season 12):<\/p>\n \u201cThe key to parenting is don\u2019t overthink it. Because overthinking leads to \u2026 what were we talking about?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Okay, okay – obviously this Father\u2019s Day f\u00eate is more than a little facetious. But what\u2019s no joke is that Entertainment Earth is your one-stop shop for all the pop culture merchandise any Pop in your life would be thrilled to receive on Dad\u2019s big day.<\/p>\n
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Like the old saying goes: If you love someone, drag them to the Soul Stone altar on Vormir and toss them off the cliff. You may say good fathers shouldn\u2019t play favorites (and Gamora might agree), but you saw those tears trickling down the Mad Titan\u2019s big purple cheeks. When the day inevitably comes for the kids to leave home – and maybe even your universe\u2019s main timeline – it\u2019s always emotional.<\/p>\n
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You know those cheesy Father\u2019s Day cards with messages like, \u201cDad, You Are The World To Me\u201d? Well, when your pop\u2019s a living planet like Ego<\/a>, you can send that card and mean <\/em>it! His name may make you think he\u2019s self-centered, but every dad needs some \u201cme\u201d space. Ego\u2019s just happens to fill all <\/em>space.<\/p>\n
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If you\u2019re a well-connected dad like Lucius Malfoy<\/a>, of curse – uh, we mean, of course<\/em> – you\u2019re going to use those connections to make sure your kid enjoys an edge. He could\u2019ve gotten Draco into Durmstrang, where Igor Karkaroff, Lucius\u2019 friend from his old Death Eater days, would have given the boy a \u201cfar more sensible\u201d education than he\u2019d ever get at Hogwarts. As recent headlines prove, even Muggles see the sense in pulling strings to get their kids into the best schools!<\/p>\n
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What dad doesn\u2019t<\/em> want to see his son follow in his big, booted, galaxy-oppressing footsteps? The biggest, best paternity reveal in movie history<\/a> proves even fathers who are more machine than man dream of their boys going into the family business. He even got Luke a face-to-face job interview with the Emperor. Ungrateful kid could\u2019ve had all the power converters he wanted, and more!<\/p>\n
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