The best and worst father/father figure in Naruto

[FourthSmokage]

I'll give worst to Asuma just because smoking is bad, mmmkay.

Wow that's messed up. What about the values and the will of fire that Asuma passed down to Shikimaru and the rest of Team 10? I guess your hatred for smoking has blinded you to all of that.

Hinata's father is the worst

Gai is the best Father Figure, next to Jiraiya

 

[apsri]

Whom do you believe was the best, worst and in between father/father figure? Think carefully and objectively and recall all their actions and how those actions have effected their children's lives. Give me a moment to make a poll.

Jiraiya was one of the best father figures in the series. Iruka was exceptional as well.

As for worst, the Fourth Kazekage is one of the worst fathers. Despite good intentions, Minato is pretty bad as well.

The Fourth Kazekage emotionally scarred his son, and provided him no care or guidance in his childhood. He also basically confirmed to. Gaara his view that he was a monster, and drove him towards insanity.

Minato died on the day his son was born, sealing Kurama into him. He knew that his lineage wouldn't be revealed to him and that he would suffer growing up, as an orphan. Kushina could have perfectly performed the RDS herself, allowing Minato to remain alive.

He did, admittedly, save Naruto when he was about to be consumed by Kurama, but then during the war, he did precious little in the way of keeping Naruto safe. He also lost Yin Kurama, which would have meant Naruto's death had Obito not regained control of his body.

Minato had good intentions, and tried to do what was right, but the fact is, as a father, he failed.

The worst father figures, however, are Orochimaru and Madara. Madara was somewhat a father figure for Obito, although Obito denied this repeatedly. He was a teacher, a protector, and a caretaker for him. Despite the fact that Madara didn't view him as anything more than a pawn, and that Obito didn't view him as anything more than a source of ideas, he was a father figure.

Orochimaru abused Kimimaro, who followed him blindly. Perhaps Zabuza could make this list as well.

EDIT: Fugaku is a good point, actually. He was a terrible father as well. Put so much pressure on Itachi and encouraged rebellion to the point that Itachi agreed with Danzo that genocide of the Uchiha was the only way to prevent civil war. He also neglected Sasuke for the majority of his life, and fuelled an inferiority complex in relation to his brother.

 

[NukaCola]

The best are Maito Gai and his dad Dai
the worst is Hashirama's dad

 

[xcoyote]

Dai imo.
Fugaku and Gaara's dad are definitely the worst.

 

[shelke]

The worst has to go to Minato and Kazekage. Minato cared more about the Village's power balance than his son, ignoring the factors that what this would do to him with no family to support him. The level of nonsense this guy spewed is legendary. Kazekage needs no validation. He deserves this spot.

Fugaku will have to be in-between for me. I accidentally clicked best though. He made some poor choices in regards to Sasuke. He completely neglected him to the point that the poor kid trained for himself. In reality, Itachi was the actual father figure for him, despite being only Six years older than him.

Those scans with Sasuke waiting for Itachi to come home just so he could play with him were ... they had be teary eyed, as Itachi's betrayal was that much more heinous in this regard, as Sasuke looked up to him in every manner a child can possibly think of. In fact, it was the height of betrayal and cruelty on Itachi's part. That's why, despite not being in the polls, I would add Itachi as one of the Worst Father figures as well.

Continuing on Fukagu, whatever he did in regards to Itachi was no cruelty. Itachi chose himself to be the double agent, he chose to betray his kith and kin, he chose to slaughter them, he chose the easy way out, he chose to abide by Danzo's schemes. Fugaku was only looking out for his clan. Even then, he still protected Itachi, as the Clan suspected him and he would have been killed by them sooner or later had Fugaku not protected him. So, he's an in-between dad for me.

The best will have to be Iruka. If it was not for him, Naruto would have lost himself a long time ago. Kakashi sure as hell didn't care much for him as long as Sasuke was around. He saw himself in Sasuke - no matter how many times Kakashi masturbators deny Sasuke's intelligence - which is why he valued only him and no one else. Sakura suffered, and so did Naruto. He taught his signature technique to Sasuke as a sign of his love for him. He was his mirrored image after all and even Obito's, given that he held the eye he himself valued and gained such repute for.

Learning all the secret behind Uchiha Clan, he still tried to kill Sasuke, when he accepted that he was a victim of 'That Time'. This shows that he didn't even bother protecting the one student he cherished the most. He's another worst Father Figure.

 

[Gein]

We all know master Jiraiya will take this