10 Game of Thrones dads who give Father’s Day a bad name

Craster

Here we are at the Olympic medal ceremony for being a godawful father. And the gold goes to…

Seriously, it’s gonna be hard for anyone else on this list to top Craster the wildling for bad dad behavior. Let’s open with a question. Who has it worse: Craster’s daughters or Craster’s sons?

Craster’s sons have a comparatively simple fate: Craster leaves them in the snow as infants so the White Walkers can collect them, take them back to the Land of Always Winter, and transform them into ice monsters bent on destroying humanity. In exchange, the White Walkers leave Craster alone. So essentially, Craster allows his sons to be murdered so he can live his deviant lifestyle in peace. He’s luck DCFS doesn’t operate beyond the Wall.

And yet, what Craster does to his daughters may be somehow worse. After they’ve grown to the age where they can bear children themselves, Craster marries his own kids, and has new kids with them. Most of the people living at Craster’s Keep have been inbred to Casterly Rock and back. And as we saw with Gilly in seasons 2 and 3, the lives Craster’s daughters lead are mean and joyless, and lived in constant fear of bearing Craster a son he’ll take away and sacrifice to the White Walkers. They’re prisoners of one of the most toxic families in all of literature.

So yeah, I’d say Craster deserves a spot on this list. Hell, this list could just be 10 slides about Craster and it wouldn’t be cheating. He’s that bad.