What was their problem? Didn't they realize that continuing

They did, and that's why they fully intended to stop doing it. And then a tribe of mysterious forest dwelling people came to them begging for help, and they were the only ones who could save them from total destruction. So between the choices of A: telling the tribe to fuck off and letting them die so they could be assured of not being separated from their newborn son and B: going on one last probably totally safe mission and letting their kid stay with his grandparents for a week, they chose the latter.

Is this type of backstory a common thing, because I feel like I have seen it somewhere else.

>>89673171
I have a feeling that it's very common in teen fiction

>>89673171
I don't follow Marvel, but haven't there been some Spiderman stories where Peter's parents were/are spies or something?

>>89673388
That scenario doesn't bring up a moral quandary though because they can't avoid the danger by just quitting the spy business.

>>89672166
what manner of circumstance occurred to deform her skull in the shape of an oblate spheroid

>>89672371
Should have just let the tribe die.
#PaKentWasRight

>>89673171
Adventurer parents (particularly the dad) is a classic trope.

How many fucking shonen have a missing, supposedly badass father character?

>>89674026
It's even better when they're not even dead, just deadbeat

>>89674026
I was referring to the more specific aspect of the parent trying to give up a dangerous life, but eventually making the morally questionable decision to keep helping people at the cost of their children. If it's to save the world or to be a needlessly bad parent, it's not the same.

They didn't intend to stay. I'm guessing they did end up having to stay to protect the Green Eyes from what's his face and his thugs.

>>89673570
Technically yes they could, at least in Marvel-World.

But Peter's parents are very similar in execution.

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>>89674026
>>89674074
>Father never around.
>Children treat him like he's a total deadbeat.
>Rag on him repeatedly throughout the show.
>He comes back.
>He actually loves his children and deeply cares for them.
>It turns out he was only away because he was concocting a master keikaku to defeat the big bad.

>>89672166
Isn't there a Hey Arnold movie happening in the future?

>>89680754
This Thanksgiving. The long, long, long anticipated Jungle Movie.

They had to help the Green Eyes, after all they did.

They probably thought they would be back in a couple of days, but SOMETHING happened.