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** The supervillian Glowworm (who is African-American, though his skin color is obscured by his constant PowerGlow) is specifically incensed that his mother saw a comic book that [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain depicted him as a white supremacist]]. Publisher Manny Monkton tries to appeal to reason somewhat by asking how she feels about him robbing banks, and that probably didn't help.
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* ''ComicBook/PlasticMan'': In a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] story, Plastic Man convinced Woozy Winks to give up crime and make a HeelFaceTurn by asking him what his mother would think of him being a criminal.
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* ''ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse'': In ''Spider-Boy Team-Up'', Spider-Boy remarks after he and Spider-Boy 2099 defeat Kang the Time-Conqueror and unmask him as Chronos-Tut the Time Pharaoh that Chronos-Tut has a face only a mother could love, which enrages Chronos-Tut.
-->'''Chronos-Tut:''' Don't you ''dare'' make light of my mother! My mother was a ''saint''!
-->'''Chronos-Tut:''' Don't you ''dare'' make light of my mother! My mother was a ''saint''!
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* The 11th issue of ''Kobalt'' has Kobalt fight a villain named Dozer and taunt his tractor-like appearance by asking if he looks like that because [[YourMom his mother had a fling with John Deere]]. Dozer replies that Kobalt better be careful what he says about his momma, with Kobalt replying that if Dozer's mother looks like him, she likely wouldn't even get a date with a tractor.
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* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': In issue 174, MadScientist Jasper Whyte is convinced to sacrifice himself to stop his creation the Crypto-Man after Thor points out to him that Jasper's mother will be among the lives endangered by the Crypto-Man.
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* [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Sinestro Corps member]] Karu-Sil was taken in by a pack of beasts after her original family died, and while otherwise feral, she's always accompanied by constructs of them.
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* Franchise/{{Batman}} himself is also an example, although he's more a case of Even [[BadassNormal Badasses]] Love Their Mamas. The Dark Knight's entire shtick is inspiring fear in criminals by being as terrifying, fearless, and sometimes [[TheStoic emotionless]] as possible. But bringing Martha Wayne into the conversation will ''immediately'' show off Batman's human and kind side. To cite just a few examples from various stories:
** In ''ComicBook/BatmanTheLongHalloween'', Batman learns that [[IKnowWhatYouFear the Scarecrow]] has escaped Arkham Asylum on Mother's Day, and is utterly furious at the thought of ''anyone'' violating the sanctity of that particular holiday for him. When Batman's hit with a blast of Scarecrow's fear gas, he breaks down utterly and hallucinates his mother as he runs from the police, rushing to her grave and sobbing at it like a frightened child.
** PlayedForDrama in ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth''. When BigBad [[spoiler: Dr. Charles Cavendish]] attacks an already-injured and weakened Batman, [[spoiler: he]] endlessly screams "MOMMY'S BOY! MOMMY'S BOY!" at the Dark Knight. The insult proves to be the final straw for Batman, and he's too stunned by it to fight back, even though [[spoiler: Dr. Cavendish]] is much weaker than he is. [[spoiler: Ultimately, Batman has to beg another psychiatrist, Dr. Ruth Adams, to save him, and she instinctively slashes Cavendish's throat with a razor.]]
** In ''ComicBook/BatmanTheLongHalloween'', Batman learns that [[IKnowWhatYouFear the Scarecrow]] has escaped Arkham Asylum on Mother's Day, and is utterly furious at the thought of ''anyone'' violating the sanctity of that particular holiday for him. When Batman's hit with a blast of Scarecrow's fear gas, he breaks down utterly and hallucinates his mother as he runs from the police, rushing to her grave and sobbing at it like a frightened child.
** PlayedForDrama in ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth''. When BigBad [[spoiler: Dr. Charles Cavendish]] attacks an already-injured and weakened Batman, [[spoiler: he]] endlessly screams "MOMMY'S BOY! MOMMY'S BOY!" at the Dark Knight. The insult proves to be the final straw for Batman, and he's too stunned by it to fight back, even though [[spoiler: Dr. Cavendish]] is much weaker than he is. [[spoiler: Ultimately, Batman has to beg another psychiatrist, Dr. Ruth Adams, to save him, and she instinctively slashes Cavendish's throat with a razor.]]
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* Comicbook/{{Loki}}, for all his DaddyIssues, even has this once in a while. Tyr once got Loki to help him overthrow Asgard by saying Odin had dishonored Frigga (aka Loki's adoptive mother). Loki switched sides the second he found out that wasn't true. Unfortunately unlike the [=MCU=] below Loki’s care for Frigga is one-sided in the comics as she has nothing but emotional abuse and neglect for him.
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* Comicbook/{{Loki}}, ComicBook/{{Loki}}, for all his DaddyIssues, even has this once in a while. Tyr once got Loki to help him overthrow Asgard by saying Odin had dishonored Frigga (aka Loki's adoptive mother). Loki switched sides the second he found out that wasn't true. Unfortunately unlike the [=MCU=] below Loki’s care for Frigga is one-sided in the comics as she has nothing but emotional abuse and neglect for him.
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* Subverted in ''Comicbook/MsMarvel''. After [[ComicBook/CarolDanvers Ms. Marvel]] defeats Moonstone, she ripped away the latter's power source, leaving her to die in 3 days unless she can find it again. Ms. Marvel then puts it on Moonstone's mother's tomb, hoping that this trope would apply and Moonstone would pull a HeelFaceTurn after apologizing to her deceased mother for what she has done. Turns out EvilCannotComprehendGood, so Moonstone reclaimed her power source... and smashed her mother's tomb. [[spoiler:Moonstone ''killed'' her own mother and thought she was a weak failure.]] She never loved her mother or anyone else except herself.
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** This also applies to [[TheBrute Rhino.]] During the ''Fallen Son'' arc mourning ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's death, Spidey is visiting the grave of Uncle Ben and sees Rhino walking through the cemetery. He attacks, thinking he's up to something (despite Rhino pleading that he isn't here to fight), and their fight breaks a gravestone belonging to Rhino's mother... which was the only reason he was there in the first place. When he realizes this, Spider-Man attempts to apologize, but Rhino is, understandably, far too angry to listen.
** The first sign of ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' and ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' villain Sandman's eventual HeelFaceTurn was a Christmas story where he broke out of jail to visit his elderly mom, who had no idea he was a villain. It's later established that he changed his name so his mother wouldn't know he was a crook. Much later, before he apparently dies, he asked Spider-Man to tell his mother he was sorry for not being a good guy.
** The first sign of ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' and ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' villain Sandman's eventual HeelFaceTurn was a Christmas story where he broke out of jail to visit his elderly mom, who had no idea he was a villain. It's later established that he changed his name so his mother wouldn't know he was a crook. Much later, before he apparently dies, he asked Spider-Man to tell his mother he was sorry for not being a good guy.
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** The first sign of''Franchise/SpiderMan'' and ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' villain the Sandman's eventual HeelFaceTurn was a Christmas story where he broke out of jail to visit his elderly mom, who had no idea he was a villain. It's later established that he changed his name so his mother wouldn't know he was a crook. Much later, before he apparently dies, he asked Spider-Man to tell his mother he was sorry for not being a good guy.
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* ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' has an inversion of the trope. [[SociopathicHero Nominally good guy]][=/=]AxCrazy KnightTemplar Rorschach hates his ([[AbusiveParents abusive]]) mother. Upon learning that she died, forced to drink cleaning fluid by her pimp, he comments: "Good." Even Good Men Hate Their Mamas, sometimes.
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* In ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]], when ComicBook/{{Her|culesUnbound}}acles was changed from a god back to a demigod, he wasn't mad about his reduced power, because he was glad to have his mother's blood back in his veins.
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** The supervillian Glowworm (who is African-American, though his skin color is obscured by his constant PowerGlow) is specifically incensed that his mother saw a comic book that [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain depicted him as a white supremacist]]. Publisher Manny Monkton tries to appeal to reason somewhat by asking how she feels about him robbing banks, and that probably didn't help.
** Steeljack's efforts to reform himself are partly an effort to live up to the standards his mother set, and he visits her grave repeatedly.
** The supervillian Glowworm (who is African-American, though his skin color is obscured by his constant PowerGlow) is specifically incensed that his mother saw a comic book that [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain depicted him as a white supremacist]]. Publisher Manny Monkton tries to appeal to reason somewhat by asking how she feels about him robbing banks, and that probably didn't help.
** Steeljack's efforts to reform himself are partly an effort to live up to the standards his mother set, and he visits her grave repeatedly.
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* The 11th issue of ''Kobalt'' has Kobalt fight a villain named Dozer and taunt his tractor-like appearance by asking if he looks like that because [[YourMom his mother had a fling with John Deere]]. Dozer replies that Kobalt better be careful what he says about his momma, with Kobalt replying that if Dozer's mother looks like him, she likely wouldn't even get a date with a tractor.
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* ''ComicBook/HybridForce'': [[BigBad Dr. Insomnia]] may be a MadScientist bent on [[TakeOverTheWorld bending all humanity to his will]], but one thing he used his genetic research to do is save his mother's life. You can imagine how he feels about her [[spoiler:being one of the three defecting protagonists of the comic]].
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* The only thing approaching a soft spot the manipulative and amoral supervillain {{ComicBook/Daken}} from ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers'' seems to have is for his deceased mother, Itsu. He hates his father Wolverine with a passion, yet he seems to have a very loving memory of his mother, in spite of her dying shortly before his birth.
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* Mirror Master, a regular ''[[Franchise/TheFlash Flash]]'' villain, regularly donates money he steals to the orphanage where he was raised.
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* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': Villain Mirror Master, a regular ''[[Franchise/TheFlash Flash]]'' villain, Master regularly donates money he steals to the orphanage where he was raised.
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* In the Creator/CarlBarks story "The Money Champ", Flintheart Glomgold is sad for having betrayed his mother's hopes when he used crooked means on his efforts to become the world's richest duck and feels he must get the title [[SunkCostFallacy so this betrayal won't be in vain]].
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* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story arc ''ComicBook/DayOfTheDollmaker'', features Dollmaker, a psychopathic, delusional child kidnapper and murderer with tons of psychological issues stemming from his father ignoring him and his mother taking him away and later abandoning him. Still, despite hating his father, he does not hold a grudge against his mother (even though she treated him worse than his father ever did).
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* One issue of a Dutch comic ''ComicBook/Agent327'' has the villain defeated by one of his own mooks, after said mook heard the song "Always think kindly of your mother" being used to torture the hero.
* In ''ComicBook/BackToBrooklyn'', Paul Saetta's last words before dying is to ask his brother Bob to take care of their mother. [[spoiler:Too bad their mother is just as bad as Paul, and Bob ends up killing her.]]
* In ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'', Mario serves as Scarecrow's contact in a street gang (it's possible, but never stated he's their leader) doing the groundwork to render Gotham City illiterate 1. for a ransom before he'll undo the effect and 2. to make a social point about education. After escaping an encounter with Batman, he ends up fleeing back to his mother's place, only to find paramedics half-useless in a room where ''she'' has lost the ability to read her medications; they can't, he can't, and then Batman shows up, saves her life and his loyalty to Scarecrow apparently wavers pretty quickly.
* ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'': In "Greetings from... Gotham City", one of the gangsters Batman fights is a dreadlocked brute who does his level best to beat Batman to death with a two-by-four. The last page of the story shows him in his cell sending a nicely-worded postcard to his mom back home apologizing for not being able to make it home for Thanksgiving this year.
* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'':
** Ghorghor Bey is a dreaded warlord who could snap a person in half thanks to his enormous size. However, he dearly loved his late mother, since she was pretty much the only person in his village who loved the half-ogre boy, [[ChildByRape a result of her being raped]] during an ogre attack. He makes a point to [[GraveMarkingScene visit her grave]] when he and his army are marching through the area when he's an adult.
** Wismerhill himself is an AntiHero at best, but his mother was the only person he knew for the first few years of his life since she had to keep her bastard son hidden from her husband, who eventually finds out and kills her. Wismerhill repays him for this (and the abuse he suffered at the lord's hands) years later by hacking off his fingers and letting him fall to his death.
* The only thing approaching a soft spot the manipulative and amoral supervillain {{ComicBook/Daken}} from ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers'' seems to have is for his deceased mother, Itsu. He hates his father Wolverine with a passion, yet he seems to have a very loving memory of his mother, in spite of her dying shortly before his birth.
-->'''ComicBook/{{Ares}}''': I'm wondering what woman in her right mind would crawl in bed with that ferret of a man--\\
'''Daken''': That's my mother you're speaking of! (nobody present was aware that Daken was actually Wolverine's son at the time; their expressions were priceless).
* In ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily'', [[spoiler:this is James Jr's reason for selling Barbara (his sister) out to Joker]].
* ComicBook/DoctorDoom, resident BigBad of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, spent years of his life trying to rescue his mother from Hell after she made an unfortunate DealWithTheDevil during his childhood. [[spoiler:Doom eventually succeeds, due to a clever plan but in the process sacrifices her love for him.]]
* Mirror Master, a regular ''[[Franchise/TheFlash Flash]]'' villain, regularly donates money he steals to the orphanage where he was raised.
* In a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] story, ComicBook/PlasticMan convinced Woozy Winks to give up crime and make a HeelFaceTurn by asking him what his mother would think of him being a criminal.
* In the ''Havok & Wolverine'' miniseries, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} gets into a barfight in Mexico after somebody called his mother a ''puta''.[[note]]whore[[/note]]
-->'''Havok:''' Logan, you [[LaserGuidedAmnesia don't even know]] who your mother '''was'''.\\
'''Wolverine:''' No reason not to treat her with respect.
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* ComicBook/TheHood loves his mother and part of the reason he [[JustifiedCriminal got into crime]] (aside from being able to support his wife and daughter) was to take care of her.
* ''ComicBook/IronMan'' baddie Blacklash[=/=]Whiplash, after hearing of a vigilante targeting supervillains, went on a mad robbing spree in an attempt to amass enough money to take care of his mom once he's killed.
* Coldcast of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueElite'' may be a ScaryBlackMan, but he still cares for his blind mother. [[spoiler:He was also the reason for her blindness; his powers first emerged when he tried to save her from being raped by a gang, and well, he didn't have very good control over all the energy he produced...]]
* ComicBook/LadyDeath is a female example: An undead DarkActionGirl originally conceived a NinetiesAntiHero who would overthrow {{Satan}} for the control of Hell. She is mostly driven to save her mother's soul, who was sacrificed at the hands of LD's [[ArchnemesisDad abusive father]].
* Comicbook/{{Loki}}, for all his DaddyIssues, even has this once in a while. Tyr once got Loki to help him overthrow Asgard by saying Odin had dishonored Frigga (aka Loki's adoptive mother). Loki switched sides the second he found out that wasn't true. Unfortunately unlike the [=MCU=] below Loki’s care for Frigga is one-sided in the comics as she has nothing but emotional abuse and neglect for him.
** In ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'', this is how everything got started... he just wanted Momma Laufey's approval, and it all snowballed into Asgard getting destroyed.
* In ''Lord Havok And The Extremists'', this is the motivation behind Lord Havok's turn to villainy. Born horribly deformed, his father, the Czar of Russia, rejected him while the Czarina harbored him and paid for his education overseas. When he receives word that the Czar killed his mother, the only person who ever cared for him, he returns to Russia to attend the funeral, kill his father, and utterly obliterate his home country as his revenge.
-->'''Lord Havok:''' ''You see, Father,'' I ''can take, too''.
* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'':
** Joe, William, Jack and Averell Dalton love their [[RetiredOutlaw Ma]], and not just because she sends them... iron-enriched... cakes in prison.
** In ''Black Hills'', a DumbMuscle-type named Nebraska Kid is challenged to a swordfight which requires both participants to strip to the waist. He does so reluctantly, revealing a giant flower tattoo with "To My Mommy" written around it. He then warns the people watching that the first to laugh gets it good.
* In ''ComicBook/LukeCageNoir'', we never see it in action so much as get it spelled out for us. Josephine tells Cage that there isn't a lot to like about a creep like Tombstone... but he was always a mama's boy.
* Snivelitch from the ''ComicBook/{{Madballs}}'' comic published by Star Comics (a now-defunct subsidiary of Creator/MarvelComics) must have loved his mother a lot since a picture of her can be seen on his desk in the second issue.
* A couple of Creator/MarvelComics villains use their ill-gotten gains to support their mothers or grandmothers, most notably the Wrecker, an enemy of [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]], and 8-Ball, an enemy of ComicBook/{{Sleepwalker}}.
* Walter in ''ComicBook/TheMask'' Dark Horse comics universe -- we never learn anything about this mysterious mute killer in the series other than that he has a "♥ Mother" tattoo on his right shoulder.
* In the Creator/CarlBarks story "The Money Champ", Flintheart Glomgold is sad for having betrayed his mother's hopes when he used crooked means on his efforts to become the world's richest duck and feels he must get the title [[SunkCostFallacy so this betrayal won't be in vain]].
* Subverted in ''Comicbook/MsMarvel''. After [[ComicBook/CarolDanvers Ms. Marvel]] defeats Moonstone, she ripped away the latter's power source, leaving her to die in 3 days unless she can find it again. Ms. Marvel then puts it on Moonstone's mother's tomb, hoping that this trope would apply and Moonstone would pull a HeelFaceTurn after apologizing to her deceased mother for what she has done. Turns out EvilCannotComprehendGood, so Moonstone reclaimed her power source... and smashed her mother's tomb. [[spoiler:Moonstone ''killed'' her own mother and thought she was a weak failure.]] She never loved her mother or anyone else except herself.
* ''ComicBook/OneHundredBullets'': Remi and Ronnie Rome. Very much so.
* ComicBook/ThePenguin in ''ComicBook/PenguinPainAndPrejudice'' is devoted to his ailing mother.
* Bork, a misguided, mutated criminal, in ''ComicBook/PowerCompany''. Committing robberies to cover for his ailing mother's medical bills, he surrendered only after Batman assured him that she would be taken care of.
* Played straight in ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'' comic. Leon Rastovich was part of a child pornography ring that was busted. He turned over on a lot of his partners for a lighter sentence, but no matter what the prosecution offered him, he never turned on his mother, who was suspected of involvement.
* Marv of ''ComicBook/SinCity'' visits his frail old mother. Later he concedes to sign a confession for the villains when they threaten his mother, though he breaks the lawyer's arm first.
* Bohr in ''ComicBook/{{Sojourn}}''. Even if this [[TearJerker means]] [[spoiler:to MercyKill her]].
* The first Dr. Ivo Robotnik from the ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics''. He had two pictures of his mom, one in his bedroom and one in his office, and once the Freedom Fighters attacked, he said that he couldn't run away as he was holding scissors and his mother always told him that he should never run with scissors.
* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
** Villain Doppelganger is a pitiful mindless creature who knows only rage, confusion, and love for his surrogate mother Shriek, who dotes on him and refers to him as her "son."
** This also applies to [[TheBrute Rhino.]] During the ''Fallen Son'' arc mourning ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's death, Spidey is visiting the grave of Uncle Ben and sees Rhino walking through the cemetery. He attacks, thinking he's up to something (despite Rhino pleading that he isn't here to fight), and their fight breaks a gravestone belonging to Rhino's mother... which was the only reason he was there in the first place. When he realizes this, Spider-Man attempts to apologize, but Rhino is, understandably, far too angry to listen.
* The first sign of ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' and ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' villain Sandman's eventual HeelFaceTurn was a Christmas story where he broke out of jail to visit his elderly mom, who had no idea he was a villain. It's later established that he changed his name so his mother wouldn't know he was a crook. Much later, before he apparently dies, he asked Spider-Man to tell his mother he was sorry for not being a good guy.
* A sibling variation with Terra, of ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' fame. Terra used everyone, hated good, and only cared for herself. The only times she showed true compassion were when she interacted with her long lost older brother.
* Out of all of the ''Terror Titans'', the third Persuader, Elise Kimble, seems to have had a loving relationship with at least one of her parents. Her father utterly adored her, but her mother eventually drove him away, and it was because of her upbringing that Elise became a killer. She actually killed her mom when she found out. When she's reunited with her father years later, he tells Elise that he wanted to take her with him, but she was a dependent, which meant she was worth money to her mother. Her mom threatened to make it look like he was abusing her if he tried to take Elise, so her dad tried to spare her a life of being on the run from the law by leaving. Their happy reunion is cut short when Elise's boss, Clock King, kills her dad right in front of her.
* Daniel "the Battler" Axum from the brief ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'' retool was a colossal, superstrong ex-supervillain and ex-con who made a living out of metahuman fights and spent a lot of his earnings on gifts for his poor mother.
* ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' has an inversion of the trope. [[SociopathicHero Nominally good guy]][=/=]AxCrazy KnightTemplar Rorschach hates his ([[AbusiveParents abusive]]) mother. Upon learning that she died, forced to drink cleaning fluid by her pimp, he comments: "Good." Even Good Men Hate Their Mamas, sometimes.
* An issue of ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' revealed that ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} of all people was this. Having his old mother living in one of the most expensive nursing homes in the world and often visiting her when he wasn't out murdering people. An earlier instance happens when Wolverine calls him "A Motherless piece of--", prompting Creed to slash him down the front, up the back, and send him flying with a final slash for bringing his mother into it.
* In ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]], when ComicBook/{{Her|culesUnbound}}acles was changed from a god back to a demigod, he wasn't mad about his reduced power, because he was glad to have his mother's blood back in his veins.
* Fantomex, an amoral mercenary from the ''Comicbook/XMen'' comic books, who was raised to become a heartless weapon, visits his blind, old mother regularly in her world.
* In ''ComicBook/BackToBrooklyn'', Paul Saetta's last words before dying is to ask his brother Bob to take care of their mother. [[spoiler:Too bad their mother is just as bad as Paul, and Bob ends up killing her.]]
* In ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'', Mario serves as Scarecrow's contact in a street gang (it's possible, but never stated he's their leader) doing the groundwork to render Gotham City illiterate 1. for a ransom before he'll undo the effect and 2. to make a social point about education. After escaping an encounter with Batman, he ends up fleeing back to his mother's place, only to find paramedics half-useless in a room where ''she'' has lost the ability to read her medications; they can't, he can't, and then Batman shows up, saves her life and his loyalty to Scarecrow apparently wavers pretty quickly.
* ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'': In "Greetings from... Gotham City", one of the gangsters Batman fights is a dreadlocked brute who does his level best to beat Batman to death with a two-by-four. The last page of the story shows him in his cell sending a nicely-worded postcard to his mom back home apologizing for not being able to make it home for Thanksgiving this year.
* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'':
** Ghorghor Bey is a dreaded warlord who could snap a person in half thanks to his enormous size. However, he dearly loved his late mother, since she was pretty much the only person in his village who loved the half-ogre boy, [[ChildByRape a result of her being raped]] during an ogre attack. He makes a point to [[GraveMarkingScene visit her grave]] when he and his army are marching through the area when he's an adult.
** Wismerhill himself is an AntiHero at best, but his mother was the only person he knew for the first few years of his life since she had to keep her bastard son hidden from her husband, who eventually finds out and kills her. Wismerhill repays him for this (and the abuse he suffered at the lord's hands) years later by hacking off his fingers and letting him fall to his death.
* The only thing approaching a soft spot the manipulative and amoral supervillain {{ComicBook/Daken}} from ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers'' seems to have is for his deceased mother, Itsu. He hates his father Wolverine with a passion, yet he seems to have a very loving memory of his mother, in spite of her dying shortly before his birth.
-->'''ComicBook/{{Ares}}''': I'm wondering what woman in her right mind would crawl in bed with that ferret of a man--\\
'''Daken''': That's my mother you're speaking of! (nobody present was aware that Daken was actually Wolverine's son at the time; their expressions were priceless).
* In ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily'', [[spoiler:this is James Jr's reason for selling Barbara (his sister) out to Joker]].
* ComicBook/DoctorDoom, resident BigBad of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, spent years of his life trying to rescue his mother from Hell after she made an unfortunate DealWithTheDevil during his childhood. [[spoiler:Doom eventually succeeds, due to a clever plan but in the process sacrifices her love for him.]]
* Mirror Master, a regular ''[[Franchise/TheFlash Flash]]'' villain, regularly donates money he steals to the orphanage where he was raised.
* In a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] story, ComicBook/PlasticMan convinced Woozy Winks to give up crime and make a HeelFaceTurn by asking him what his mother would think of him being a criminal.
* In the ''Havok & Wolverine'' miniseries, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} gets into a barfight in Mexico after somebody called his mother a ''puta''.[[note]]whore[[/note]]
-->'''Havok:''' Logan, you [[LaserGuidedAmnesia don't even know]] who your mother '''was'''.\\
'''Wolverine:''' No reason not to treat her with respect.
:: The sad part is Wolverine’s mother Elizabeth actually abused and rejected him upon seeing pop his claws for the first time.
* ComicBook/TheHood loves his mother and part of the reason he [[JustifiedCriminal got into crime]] (aside from being able to support his wife and daughter) was to take care of her.
* ''ComicBook/IronMan'' baddie Blacklash[=/=]Whiplash, after hearing of a vigilante targeting supervillains, went on a mad robbing spree in an attempt to amass enough money to take care of his mom once he's killed.
* Coldcast of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueElite'' may be a ScaryBlackMan, but he still cares for his blind mother. [[spoiler:He was also the reason for her blindness; his powers first emerged when he tried to save her from being raped by a gang, and well, he didn't have very good control over all the energy he produced...]]
* ComicBook/LadyDeath is a female example: An undead DarkActionGirl originally conceived a NinetiesAntiHero who would overthrow {{Satan}} for the control of Hell. She is mostly driven to save her mother's soul, who was sacrificed at the hands of LD's [[ArchnemesisDad abusive father]].
* Comicbook/{{Loki}}, for all his DaddyIssues, even has this once in a while. Tyr once got Loki to help him overthrow Asgard by saying Odin had dishonored Frigga (aka Loki's adoptive mother). Loki switched sides the second he found out that wasn't true. Unfortunately unlike the [=MCU=] below Loki’s care for Frigga is one-sided in the comics as she has nothing but emotional abuse and neglect for him.
** In ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'', this is how everything got started... he just wanted Momma Laufey's approval, and it all snowballed into Asgard getting destroyed.
* In ''Lord Havok And The Extremists'', this is the motivation behind Lord Havok's turn to villainy. Born horribly deformed, his father, the Czar of Russia, rejected him while the Czarina harbored him and paid for his education overseas. When he receives word that the Czar killed his mother, the only person who ever cared for him, he returns to Russia to attend the funeral, kill his father, and utterly obliterate his home country as his revenge.
-->'''Lord Havok:''' ''You see, Father,'' I ''can take, too''.
* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'':
** Joe, William, Jack and Averell Dalton love their [[RetiredOutlaw Ma]], and not just because she sends them... iron-enriched... cakes in prison.
** In ''Black Hills'', a DumbMuscle-type named Nebraska Kid is challenged to a swordfight which requires both participants to strip to the waist. He does so reluctantly, revealing a giant flower tattoo with "To My Mommy" written around it. He then warns the people watching that the first to laugh gets it good.
* In ''ComicBook/LukeCageNoir'', we never see it in action so much as get it spelled out for us. Josephine tells Cage that there isn't a lot to like about a creep like Tombstone... but he was always a mama's boy.
* Snivelitch from the ''ComicBook/{{Madballs}}'' comic published by Star Comics (a now-defunct subsidiary of Creator/MarvelComics) must have loved his mother a lot since a picture of her can be seen on his desk in the second issue.
* A couple of Creator/MarvelComics villains use their ill-gotten gains to support their mothers or grandmothers, most notably the Wrecker, an enemy of [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]], and 8-Ball, an enemy of ComicBook/{{Sleepwalker}}.
* Walter in ''ComicBook/TheMask'' Dark Horse comics universe -- we never learn anything about this mysterious mute killer in the series other than that he has a "♥ Mother" tattoo on his right shoulder.
* In the Creator/CarlBarks story "The Money Champ", Flintheart Glomgold is sad for having betrayed his mother's hopes when he used crooked means on his efforts to become the world's richest duck and feels he must get the title [[SunkCostFallacy so this betrayal won't be in vain]].
* Subverted in ''Comicbook/MsMarvel''. After [[ComicBook/CarolDanvers Ms. Marvel]] defeats Moonstone, she ripped away the latter's power source, leaving her to die in 3 days unless she can find it again. Ms. Marvel then puts it on Moonstone's mother's tomb, hoping that this trope would apply and Moonstone would pull a HeelFaceTurn after apologizing to her deceased mother for what she has done. Turns out EvilCannotComprehendGood, so Moonstone reclaimed her power source... and smashed her mother's tomb. [[spoiler:Moonstone ''killed'' her own mother and thought she was a weak failure.]] She never loved her mother or anyone else except herself.
* ''ComicBook/OneHundredBullets'': Remi and Ronnie Rome. Very much so.
* ComicBook/ThePenguin in ''ComicBook/PenguinPainAndPrejudice'' is devoted to his ailing mother.
* Bork, a misguided, mutated criminal, in ''ComicBook/PowerCompany''. Committing robberies to cover for his ailing mother's medical bills, he surrendered only after Batman assured him that she would be taken care of.
* Played straight in ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'' comic. Leon Rastovich was part of a child pornography ring that was busted. He turned over on a lot of his partners for a lighter sentence, but no matter what the prosecution offered him, he never turned on his mother, who was suspected of involvement.
* Marv of ''ComicBook/SinCity'' visits his frail old mother. Later he concedes to sign a confession for the villains when they threaten his mother, though he breaks the lawyer's arm first.
* Bohr in ''ComicBook/{{Sojourn}}''. Even if this [[TearJerker means]] [[spoiler:to MercyKill her]].
* The first Dr. Ivo Robotnik from the ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics''. He had two pictures of his mom, one in his bedroom and one in his office, and once the Freedom Fighters attacked, he said that he couldn't run away as he was holding scissors and his mother always told him that he should never run with scissors.
* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
** Villain Doppelganger is a pitiful mindless creature who knows only rage, confusion, and love for his surrogate mother Shriek, who dotes on him and refers to him as her "son."
** This also applies to [[TheBrute Rhino.]] During the ''Fallen Son'' arc mourning ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's death, Spidey is visiting the grave of Uncle Ben and sees Rhino walking through the cemetery. He attacks, thinking he's up to something (despite Rhino pleading that he isn't here to fight), and their fight breaks a gravestone belonging to Rhino's mother... which was the only reason he was there in the first place. When he realizes this, Spider-Man attempts to apologize, but Rhino is, understandably, far too angry to listen.
* The first sign of ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' and ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' villain Sandman's eventual HeelFaceTurn was a Christmas story where he broke out of jail to visit his elderly mom, who had no idea he was a villain. It's later established that he changed his name so his mother wouldn't know he was a crook. Much later, before he apparently dies, he asked Spider-Man to tell his mother he was sorry for not being a good guy.
* A sibling variation with Terra, of ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' fame. Terra used everyone, hated good, and only cared for herself. The only times she showed true compassion were when she interacted with her long lost older brother.
* Out of all of the ''Terror Titans'', the third Persuader, Elise Kimble, seems to have had a loving relationship with at least one of her parents. Her father utterly adored her, but her mother eventually drove him away, and it was because of her upbringing that Elise became a killer. She actually killed her mom when she found out. When she's reunited with her father years later, he tells Elise that he wanted to take her with him, but she was a dependent, which meant she was worth money to her mother. Her mom threatened to make it look like he was abusing her if he tried to take Elise, so her dad tried to spare her a life of being on the run from the law by leaving. Their happy reunion is cut short when Elise's boss, Clock King, kills her dad right in front of her.
* Daniel "the Battler" Axum from the brief ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'' retool was a colossal, superstrong ex-supervillain and ex-con who made a living out of metahuman fights and spent a lot of his earnings on gifts for his poor mother.
* ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' has an inversion of the trope. [[SociopathicHero Nominally good guy]][=/=]AxCrazy KnightTemplar Rorschach hates his ([[AbusiveParents abusive]]) mother. Upon learning that she died, forced to drink cleaning fluid by her pimp, he comments: "Good." Even Good Men Hate Their Mamas, sometimes.
* An issue of ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' revealed that ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} of all people was this. Having his old mother living in one of the most expensive nursing homes in the world and often visiting her when he wasn't out murdering people. An earlier instance happens when Wolverine calls him "A Motherless piece of--", prompting Creed to slash him down the front, up the back, and send him flying with a final slash for bringing his mother into it.
* In ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]], when ComicBook/{{Her|culesUnbound}}acles was changed from a god back to a demigod, he wasn't mad about his reduced power, because he was glad to have his mother's blood back in his veins.
* Fantomex, an amoral mercenary from the ''Comicbook/XMen'' comic books, who was raised to become a heartless weapon, visits his blind, old mother regularly in her world.
