He could never understand what she sacrificed and lost for her powers, and asks her to stop using them. When helping people is the one thing that might bring her some peace.
Also, who just verbally insults their kid all day everyday anytime. It’s like he lives to insult Eve for no reason. I feel as if Eve endured it for so long, was because it’s so small to her and her understanding of the world.
I don’t say parents, because her adopted mom is a victim too. Dealing with her own issues and subject to her husbands personal abuse as well. She could leave, but it could take the voice of some one else or even professionals to realize that.
This back story is such great writing and insight to a major character.
He’s such an ass which hurts even more when he’s right, the thing about Eve not following the rules and it backfiring and almost killing people is a perfect example, like he’s right in that scene but good lord he’s such an asshole while saying it.
I can also understand him not wanting to sell the gold apple because he doesn’t want to live of his daughter’s handouts, but again he says it in the most awful way possible.
In the special we see him crying when his “actual” child died so I thought he couldn’t be THAT bad, but in a few scenes he’s already the shitty dad we know and calling her a freak.
There’s also, yanno, the biblical symbolism of the apple and the undercurrent of the scientist/atheist/godlike powers position Eve has vs. her dad’s religious/conservative/“god-fearing” position. Which Eve is pointedly blind to, having chosen “Atom Eve” as a name ignorant of the double entendre (Adam/Eve)
Its a densely woven metaphor and it’s fuxking great.