This Tri-Goggle wearing super-spy isn’t just Fourth Echelon’s brightest asset, but a great father too. I say great because he spent an entire game rescuing his presumed-dead daughter in Splinter Cell: Conviction, which sort of made up for the fact his occupation sort of got her targeted in Double Agent.
Sam Fisher's status as one of the medium's greatest dads isn't necessarily down to the fact that he's a good father, even if rescuing your daughter from a corrupt government agency is a pretty impressive feat. It's more the fact that he's a great character who also happens to be a dad, and that Ubisoft's occasional segues into discussing Sam's family life help to flesh out the character.
Plus, who wouldn't want Sam Fisher to be their dad? Sure, the threat of kidnapping isn't too great, but on the upside you have a super-spy for a parent and you'd probably be able to pinch his goggles from time to time. A fair enough trade, arguably.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
