KARA was very close with her dad. She's like the definition of a daddy's girl. But her dad died shortly after New Krypton happened and she blames herself for his death because, well. Her mom blamed her for his death. Kara has lots of mommy issues which I won't get into unless people are really interested in hearing about them, but not a lot of daddy issues!! Because it's like the one really good and healthy relationship she's had in her life alksdjfadlk
DAISY has three dads, essentially. There's her biological father, Mister Hyde, who she doesn't seem to be a fan of for... obvious reasons. Then she's got her adoptive father. We don't know who he is or what her relationship was, but she was a problem child who couldn't stay in school, turned to shoplifting, and given the chance changed her name from the one her adoptive parents gave her to the one her bio mom gave her, so I think it's safe to say it wasn't great. And then there's Nick Fury.
Nick is really her dad in all the ways that matter. He took her in, straightened her out, and gave her a purpose. Everything that Daisy Johnson is today is due to the fact that Nick saw something in her and decided to nurture it in his own fucked up way. I say fucked up because Daisy, while like a daughter to him, was also for the longest time his soldier and his personal hammer, as he put it. They have a pretty good relationship in that they seem to have a good amount of respect and father/daughter feelings for one another but it's also... kind of dysfunctional because of that. You just don't torture your kid for training if you have a non-fucked up relationship with them. Currently, their relationship is pretty good, but a little more rocky than it was in the past. Daisy's probably never fully going to get over everything that happened with Sebastian, Alex, and J.T. And if she ever found out that Nick was the one who let J.T. fall that would be... bad. But for the most part they have a p good relationship for a strange definition of good.
GWEN loved her dad. And he loved her! But their relationship doesn't seem like it was the best. Captain Stacy seems like he was married more to his job than his family, as when Gwen gets in trouble he literally does everything he can to avoid leaving work to come get her, and then when Gwen's mom leaves, he actually... leaves for a conference even though his daughter needs him :|a He seems to acknowledge the fact that Gwen deserves better parents than she got (he actually says "She deserves better than all this" iirc) but it doesn't really help with the fact that he's not the world's greatest dad.
Gwen, in the beginning, was kind of the definition of a problem child. She'd been expelled from school, she brought a knife to her new school and pulled it on a kid... Her dad didn't really know how to deal with that. He says in a conversation with Aunt May at one point that he's scared of his own daughter. Not for. Of. So there's some definite issues there even if Gwen and her dad did loved each other and seemed to recognize the fact that their relationship could've been better.
There's probably more mommy issues than daddy issues for Gwen as her mom is really a piece of work, but since we don't see her family much, it's hard to tell. It's likely that her parents fought a lot which would warp a relationship a little, and there's a few things that show up in the comic and are soon after forgotten that makes it seem like Gwen was kind of depressed for a while (like her really glib comment asking if she can kill herself on Peter's front lawn, her comment about never acting natural, the whole crying in the dumpsters incident) but it's kind of a toss-up as to how much her relationship with her dad played into that. It's probably not much. Because Gwen holds grudges but loved her dad. However, his absence is probably something that played into it and I totally lost where this comment was going so I'm going to stop now.
CAROL IS THE QUEEN OF DADDY ISSUES. She loved her dad. She loved him and he loved her, and he sparked her interest in planes, and he called her Kitten and it was... a really fucked up relationship. There were good parts to it!! They wouldn't have been able to actually love each other otherwise, but Carol mentions in recent canon that when she digs into her memories of her father the first thing she thinks of is her dad yelling at her. And that says a lot right there without the rest of the story.
She had a very, very, very rocky relationship with her father the older she got. When she was a kid who didn't really understand things it was probably easier, but Carol's fiercely independent and she has her father's temper, so the older she got and the more she could understand what her father did, the worse the relationship got. And what her father did was be a misogynistic asshole, basically. He was a very traditional man who thought that a woman's place was in the kitchen. He refused to help Carol go to college because she, and I quote, "[Didn't] need to go to college to find a good husband." Later on, when Carol was working at Woman magazine, her father refused to even take a look at his daughter's hard work until J. Jonah Jameson "got smart" and put a male editor in place.
In addition to that, Carol's brother Steve was really the apple of her dad's eye. Her younger brother Joe also got a lot of attention from her dad, but Steve... Steve was the shining star of the family in her dad's eyes. And Steve's death is what pushed her father into alcoholism. Carol was still in high school when it happened, so having that be some of her last memories of her father before she went off to join the Air Force couldn't have been easy. This is really important though because everything Carol is, her drive, her determination... It was sparked by this childhood need to be just as good—if not better—than her brothers in her father's eyes. Which is really an impossible goal, and not just because her father would never accept her accomplishments because she was born with a vagina.
Kelly Sue DeConnick gave a one-sentence summary of Carol Danvers in an interview a while back and it was "Crackerjack pilot races to prove dead daddy wrong," and that's pretty much the best description of Carol there is. She's always, always striving for something that'll make her daddy proud. When she visits her father at the beginning of Dark Reign she tells him while he's unconscious about her spy days, how she was saving the world before she had superpowers, and how she was a real super-spy than higher clearance than two of the last three Presidents (even though that's... not really possible...) and she says, "Would that make you proud? No, I don't think it would."
Her relationship with her dad is really kind of tragic because it was awful in some ways, and while it did result in Carol being the woman she is today, she could've been just as driven and determined if she'd actually had encouragement from her father growing up. Instead, she's left with his desire in her to still make her father proud, but since he's dead... Well, that's something she's never going to get from him. And that's really kind of sad.
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DAISY has three dads, essentially. There's her biological father, Mister Hyde, who she doesn't seem to be a fan of for... obvious reasons. Then she's got her adoptive father. We don't know who he is or what her relationship was, but she was a problem child who couldn't stay in school, turned to shoplifting, and given the chance changed her name from the one her adoptive parents gave her to the one her bio mom gave her, so I think it's safe to say it wasn't great. And then there's Nick Fury.
Nick is really her dad in all the ways that matter. He took her in, straightened her out, and gave her a purpose. Everything that Daisy Johnson is today is due to the fact that Nick saw something in her and decided to nurture it in his own fucked up way. I say fucked up because Daisy, while like a daughter to him, was also for the longest time his soldier and his personal hammer, as he put it. They have a pretty good relationship in that they seem to have a good amount of respect and father/daughter feelings for one another but it's also... kind of dysfunctional because of that. You just don't torture your kid for training if you have a non-fucked up relationship with them. Currently, their relationship is pretty good, but a little more rocky than it was in the past. Daisy's probably never fully going to get over everything that happened with Sebastian, Alex, and J.T. And if she ever found out that Nick was the one who let J.T. fall that would be... bad. But for the most part they have a p good relationship for a strange definition of good.
GWEN loved her dad. And he loved her! But their relationship doesn't seem like it was the best. Captain Stacy seems like he was married more to his job than his family, as when Gwen gets in trouble he literally does everything he can to avoid leaving work to come get her, and then when Gwen's mom leaves, he actually... leaves for a conference even though his daughter needs him :|a He seems to acknowledge the fact that Gwen deserves better parents than she got (he actually says "She deserves better than all this" iirc) but it doesn't really help with the fact that he's not the world's greatest dad.
Gwen, in the beginning, was kind of the definition of a problem child. She'd been expelled from school, she brought a knife to her new school and pulled it on a kid... Her dad didn't really know how to deal with that. He says in a conversation with Aunt May at one point that he's scared of his own daughter. Not for. Of. So there's some definite issues there even if Gwen and her dad did loved each other and seemed to recognize the fact that their relationship could've been better.
There's probably more mommy issues than daddy issues for Gwen as her mom is really a piece of work, but since we don't see her family much, it's hard to tell. It's likely that her parents fought a lot which would warp a relationship a little, and there's a few things that show up in the comic and are soon after forgotten that makes it seem like Gwen was kind of depressed for a while (like her really glib comment asking if she can kill herself on Peter's front lawn, her comment about never acting natural, the whole crying in the dumpsters incident) but it's kind of a toss-up as to how much her relationship with her dad played into that. It's probably not much. Because Gwen holds grudges but loved her dad. However, his absence is probably something that played into it and I totally lost where this comment was going so I'm going to stop now.
CAROL IS THE QUEEN OF DADDY ISSUES. She loved her dad. She loved him and he loved her, and he sparked her interest in planes, and he called her Kitten and it was... a really fucked up relationship. There were good parts to it!! They wouldn't have been able to actually love each other otherwise, but Carol mentions in recent canon that when she digs into her memories of her father the first thing she thinks of is her dad yelling at her. And that says a lot right there without the rest of the story.
She had a very, very, very rocky relationship with her father the older she got. When she was a kid who didn't really understand things it was probably easier, but Carol's fiercely independent and she has her father's temper, so the older she got and the more she could understand what her father did, the worse the relationship got. And what her father did was be a misogynistic asshole, basically. He was a very traditional man who thought that a woman's place was in the kitchen. He refused to help Carol go to college because she, and I quote, "[Didn't] need to go to college to find a good husband." Later on, when Carol was working at Woman magazine, her father refused to even take a look at his daughter's hard work until J. Jonah Jameson "got smart" and put a male editor in place.
In addition to that, Carol's brother Steve was really the apple of her dad's eye. Her younger brother Joe also got a lot of attention from her dad, but Steve... Steve was the shining star of the family in her dad's eyes. And Steve's death is what pushed her father into alcoholism. Carol was still in high school when it happened, so having that be some of her last memories of her father before she went off to join the Air Force couldn't have been easy. This is really important though because everything Carol is, her drive, her determination... It was sparked by this childhood need to be just as good—if not better—than her brothers in her father's eyes. Which is really an impossible goal, and not just because her father would never accept her accomplishments because she was born with a vagina.
Kelly Sue DeConnick gave a one-sentence summary of Carol Danvers in an interview a while back and it was "Crackerjack pilot races to prove dead daddy wrong," and that's pretty much the best description of Carol there is. She's always, always striving for something that'll make her daddy proud. When she visits her father at the beginning of Dark Reign she tells him while he's unconscious about her spy days, how she was saving the world before she had superpowers, and how she was a real super-spy than higher clearance than two of the last three Presidents (even though that's... not really possible...) and she says, "Would that make you proud? No, I don't think it would."
Her relationship with her dad is really kind of tragic because it was awful in some ways, and while it did result in Carol being the woman she is today, she could've been just as driven and determined if she'd actually had encouragement from her father growing up. Instead, she's left with his desire in her to still make her father proud, but since he's dead... Well, that's something she's never going to get from him. And that's really kind of sad.