Fathers and their Offspring...

My Favourite Father-Child Relationships in Fiction:

1. Admiral Count Aral Vorkosigan and his son Miles, in the novels by Lois McMaster Bujold, especially The Warrior's Apprentice
   
   
2. Thor and Odin in Marvel's Thor comics - this one is all over the map, and seriously messed up.
   
   
3. Nick Fury and his son Nick Fury, from Marvel's Battle Scars.
   
   
4. Lymond and his son, in Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett. Note how carefully I do not name the boy.
   
   
5. Walter Bishop and Peter Bishop, in Fringe.
   
   
   
   
6. Cyclops and Cable, in X-Men.
   
   
7. Noah Bennet and his daughter Clare, the cheerleader in Heroes.
   
   
8. Atticus Finch and Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird.
   
   
9. Fu Manchu and Shang Chi in Master of Kung Fu. Not that Fu Manchu was ever in the story much, but I liked the idea of him, the contrast between the father and the son.
   
   
10. Admiral Cairo Azarcon and his son Ryan, in Burndive by Karin Lowachee.
    

Ineresting how many characters in fiction either have no children, or have no parents, or have neither parents nor children.