Seen In: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Spectre, Cinderella, Ant-Man, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Inside Out, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Creed, Terminator Genisys Yet another old favourite was ramped up a level in 2015, with even heroes and villains we've been watching on screen for years suddenly having to deal with father issues. Perhaps the worst offender in this regard was James Bond, whose long term enmity with Ernst Stavro Blofeld was revealed to be less about the latter's scheming to hold the world to ransom from a hollowed out volcano lair and more about how his daddy loved Bond more than him. In this context, virtually all of the protagonists of the new Star Wars being taken from, abandoned by, or taking a different path from their parents, doesn't seem so bad. Star Wars characters have always had to grow up without fathers anyway. Star Wars was far from the only Disney picture of 2015 in which bad or absent fathers caused many of the story's events. Cinderella's departed and deceased father has, of course, always been the inciting event for that story, but the same trope showed up repeatedly in the Disney owned Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ant-Man gave us two Ant-Men struggling to maintain a close relationship with their respective daughters, while Avenger Tony Stark still has issues with both his deceased father and his robot "offspring". Pixar's Inside Out, meanwhile, told an emotional story of a pre-teen's struggles with her father relocating the family and then being too wrapped up in his work to notice what's going on with her. The heroes of both Kingsman and Creed have dads that died when they were kids, leading them down a criminal path, but are eventually rescued from their tough upbringing by finding a father figure in their late dad's friend. Ultimately, both are motivated by emulating the heroics of a parent they never knew. The nature of the confused and confusing relationship between future best buddies/past father and son Kyle Reese and John Connor, though, has gone beyond all understanding by the new fifth Terminator film.
