Father’s Day is always a good opportunity to celebrate fathers — real and fictional. Popular culture has long been a space where society can explore the ideals of fatherhood. The world of animation has been a particularly fertile space for this kind of exploration to take place.
Studios like Disney, Pixar, and Hanna-Barbera have been particularly prolific in their creation of remarkable father figures. These individuals often go the extra mile to provide for their families and children, thus serving as role models and exemplars of what good fatherhood can look like. Master Splinter While Master Splinter may not be the biological father of Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael, he nevertheless takes the Turtles under his care and makes sure they know how to defend themselves.
This aspect of his character remains fairly consistent across his various iterations, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem . Splinter can sometimes be a bit overprotective when it comes to his shelled children, but given the many scrapes they manage to get into — to say nothing of their dangerous feud with the Shredder — this is understandable. Riley’s Father Even though Riley might be the main human character of Pixar’s beloved movie Inside Out , her parents play a small but important role in her life.
It would have been easy for him to lose patience with Riley as she goes through the tempest of young adulthood. Instead, he always reaches out to her with a welcoming .