History Main / MommasBoy

If a guy is excessively devoted to his mother and he's not obviously a [[SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan manly man]], [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide then he will be seen as a sensitive guy]] even if he doesn't act like one. His mother might try to completely dominate his life, to the point of telling him who to marry (and if he disobeys then she'll try to ruin his relationship or at least ruin her life too), turning him into a Momma's Boy: hopeless with women, timid, weak, and lacking the spirit to stand up to his mother. His father will be absent or [[HenpeckedHusband just as browbeaten]]. On the other hand, if he does stand up to her then he's not a Momma's Boy, even though she's still MyBelovedSmother.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has Harry as a positive example towards his godmother, Wanda Maximoff, since his mother is (mostly) dead. After an initial rough patch, he adores her, and they spark off each other very well, with plenty of affectionate banter. Plus, she's one of the few people he invariably listens to. Hell, he'll even lie to Hermione, his best friend and Wanda's biological daughter, for her -- though Harry makes it clear that while he understands the logic behind her choice/why he has to lie, he is ''not'' happy about it. [[spoiler: He then defends Wanda from an enraged Hermione after the latter finds out the truth. While that's probably because Wanda is unwilling to defend herself, feeling she deserves her daughter's fury, it's still striking. It's somewhat deconstructed as Harry eventually acknowledges he was wrong as his own close relationship with Wanda and propensity for keeping secrets clouded his judgement on how much Hermione should've been kept in the dark.]]

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has Harry as a positive example towards his godmother, Wanda Maximoff, since his mother is (mostly) dead. After an initial rough patch, he adores her, and they spark off each other very well, with plenty of affectionate banter. Plus, she's one of the few people he invariably listens to. Hell, he'll even lie to Hermione, his friend and Wanda's biological daughter, for her -- though he makes it clear that while he understands the logic behind her choice/why he has to lie, he is ''not'' happy about it. [[spoiler: He then defends Wanda from an enraged Hermione after the latter finds out the truth. While that's probably because Wanda is unwilling to defend herself, feeling she deserves her daughter's fury, it's still striking.]]

* Shown as positive for the most part with John and his mother in ''Series/MrAndMrsSmith2024''. She's the one thing in his past he refused to give up, even if it puts his cover story with Jane at risk, and he calls her multiple times a day, but a lot of that is because he feels like it's his responsibility to take care of her and because he loves and respects her for being a good mother. Since Jane went no contact with her own remaining parent, she tends to find this behavior weird and vice versa, but his mother later ends up [[spoiler: giving Jane some good advice for their failing marriage.]]

* The ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series resident HalfVampire Alucard is one of these. Most notably the only time we've seen this [[TheStoic normally stoic]] and [[OldSchoolChivalry absolute gentleman]] get not only angry but actually turn cruel is in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' when the Succubus impersonates his mother, reenacts her murder, tries to use it to manipulate him emotionally, and then mocks him for it. Seriously. [[BerserkButton Do NOT mess around with this man's mother]].

* ''Fanfic/TheBridge'' has a positive example with Azusa Gojo and her adoptive son, Godzilla Junior. While she didn't turn him effeminate during her time raising him at Kyoto Institute when he was a youngster, the upbringing and love she showed him is what made him grow up into the BigGood. Twenty years later and they still consider each other mother and son respectively.

* Principal Skinner in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', even drawing references from ''Psycho''. Also, Bart Simpson to a lesser extent. (it's a more MyBelovedSmother kind-of thing.)

* Wallace in the first ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' movie is shown to be this, calling his mother several times during the course of the movie. Daisuke chides him for this, [[FreeRangeChildren although from a realistic standpoint ...]]

* Richard Castle in ''Series/{{Castle}}'' plays with the trope; he's clearly close and devoted to his mother Martha and still lives under the same roof as her despite being a grown man, but it's actually ''her'' having moved in with ''him'' after she lost all her money, and far from her trying to dominate his life, it's usually more that ''he's'' trying to keep ''her'' out of trouble, since she tends towards being rather flighty and irresponsible (which says something, given that Castle himself isn't exactly a pillar of maturity or anything). Nevertheless, the two are clearly quite close.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E99YoungMansFancy Young Man's Fancy]]", Alex Walker had an incredibly close relationship with his mother Henrietta growing up, seemingly because his father abandoned them only two months after he was born. He was so completely devoted to her that Virginia Lane had to wait twelve years, including a year after Henrietta's death, before they could marry. [[spoiler: Alex's love for his mother is so strong that he becomes a young boy again and Henrietta's ghost returns to mother him once again.]]