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Raising children is one of the most daunting challenges a parent can face. You have to supply material needs like food and shelter, as well as providing a moral education by teaching through example. You can see where this would be problematic when a parent supplies the latter by breaking kneecaps or [[The End of the World as We Know It|threatening global annihilation.]]
 
Some parents make ends meet through frowned-upon trades like [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold|prostitution]], others turn to crime, some ''master'' crime and become [[The Don]], and there's more than a few [[Super Villain|Super Villains]]s who start families... ''[[Surprise Pregnancy|intentionally]].'' The thing is, not every villain turned parent is a sociopath who chastises [[Overlord, Jr.]] for [[Inadequate Inheritor|not being evil enough]]. Quite a few realize the choices they have made and that the life they lead is a fundamentally destructive one and don't want their child to [[Legacy Character|mimic them]] as a [[Generation Xerox|family legacy.]]
 
What ends up happening is that the dad (and it's usually the dad who's the villain) hides his villainy one way or another. The easiest and hardest is to give the child up for adoption or abandon the mother. Non-deadbeats create a [[Secret Identity]] where they have a mundane, even boring job. If he doesn't bother hiding his nasty day job, he will either whitewash it to not seem villainous (replace "mob hit" with "rat infestation", for example) or say "do what daddy says, not what daddy does" without a trace of shame. If he's possessive and/or overprotective and has the means to, his children may become a [[Lonely Rich Kid]] [[Mafia Princess]] who is trapped in a [[Gilded Cage]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'', {{spoiler|Albert Maverick encouraged (and even downright manipulated) Barnaby and persuaded him to take up a career as a superhero}} -- despite—despite being rather morally bankrupt himself. He does have his reasons for it, though; {{spoiler|he owns the media empire that capitalizes on documenting and marketing the exploits of superheroes. What better superhero to sell out than a [[Bishounen|good-looking]] [[The Ace|ace persona]] who considers you the only family he has left and is thus okay with enduring all the bureaucratic rubbish the job puts him through because it makes you happy?}}
 
 
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