User blog comment:Looperreallyreallysucks/Pure Evil Proposal - Hiram Lodge/@comment-32039927-20190601233924/@comment-34055410-20190602013554

My issue with that is the fact that Hiram’s “care” for Veronica becomes more and more possessive to the point where he eventually drops it by gleefully proclaiming that he’s preparing to hurt her. I’ve supported the “he cares about his daughter” argument for quite a long time already, but the most recent couple of episodes are what made me question that argument.

With that said, we accepted the 1989 version of the Phantom as PE even though he acts as if he’s protective of Christine and sadistically murdered people who wronged her. But even so, he’s still irredeemable because he’s only “protective” of Christine due to his selfish obsession with her. Same case with Hiram.

There’s also the fact that Hiram tends to inflict abusive punishments on his daughter whenever she crosses him, such as framing her boyfriend for murder, psychologically abusing her in the process, and so on. All of this makes me rule out the “Hiram cares about Veronica” claim.