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Fictional patricides

  • Wolverine (character)Wolverine, the Marvel Comics superhero, shares his everyday name with a mountain. Writer Chris Claremont took the name Logan from Canada's Mount Logan for an issue of X-Men in 1977. He liked the idea of the tallest mountain naming the…
  • Kylo RenKylo Ren kills his own father, Han Solo, on Starkiller Base. He later turns back and becomes Ben Solo again.
  • Solid SnakeHideo Kojima once planned for Solid Snake to die in Metal Gear Solid. Disappointed staff led him to change it.
  • PalpatinePalpatine's first name stayed off screen for decades. Fans learned it was Sheev only in the 2014 novel Tarkin.
  • Cassandra CainCassandra Cain is a DC Comics superheroine who first appeared in Batman #567, published in July 1999. Writer Kelley Puckett and penciler Damion Scott are generally credited with inventing her. They gave her a trait that is rare among comic…
  • Ramsay BoltonIn 2016, The New York Times called Ramsay Bolton arguably the most hated man on television. The paper also named him the signature Game of Thrones villain, a position that Joffrey Baratheon had held before him. Ramsay is a fictional…
  • Sabretooth (character)Sabretooth, the Marvel Comics villain whose real name is believed to be Victor Creed, makes a point of finding Wolverine on his birthday. Writer Chris Claremont described the ritual in his own words. On every one of his birthdays, he said,…
  • HulkThe Hulk is a Marvel Comics superhero who lives as two people in one body, and the two typically resent each other. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created him, and he first appeared in the debut issue of The Incredible Hulk in May 1962. One half…
  • Guts (Berserk)Guts, the hero of the manga Berserk, was born from his hanged mother's corpse. His adoptive father later sold him.
  • Hush (character)Hush is a DC Comics supervillain who first appeared in Batman #609 in January 2003. Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee created him for the twelve-issue storyline Batman: Hush. He was designed as a mirror held up to Batman. His background runs parallel…

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