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* "Mother" is the callsign for the leader of AFO Neptune in the VideoGame/MedalOfHonor reboot. He's one bad mother: that is, {{Badass}}.
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* There is a song by Danzig called "Mother".
* Pink Floyd also did a song about "Mother". Shudder.

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* There is a song by Danzig {{Danzig}} called "Mother".
* Pink Floyd PinkFloyd also did a song about "Mother". Shudder.
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** But played straight in the DanAkroyd comedy ''DoctorDetroit'', where the ruthless drug dealer was called "Mom".

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** But played straight in the DanAkroyd comedy ''DoctorDetroit'', ''Film/DoctorDetroit'', where the ruthless drug dealer was called "Mom".
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** But played straight in the DanAkroyd comedy ''DoctorDetroit'', where the ruthless drug dealer was called "Mom".
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* ''MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'' has Ren Gyokuen, the mother of Ren Hakuryuu and Ren Hakuei. She is also [[spoiler: TheUsurper of the Kou Empire and third Emperor, and a member of [[NebulousEvilOrganization Al-Sarmen]], and quite the EvilMatriarch]].

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* ''MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'' ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'' has Ren Gyokuen, the mother of Ren Hakuryuu and Ren Hakuei. She is also [[spoiler: TheUsurper of the Kou Empire and third Emperor, and a member of [[NebulousEvilOrganization Al-Sarmen]], and quite the EvilMatriarch]].
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* Ma Lilywhite in [[Discworld/{{Hogfather}}]]. Her son Medium Dave is a hardened criminal thug, and her anger is his worst nightmare.

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* The ship computer in ''Film/{{Alien}}'' was MU-THR 182 or something like that. And it wasn't the villain, nah, it was just programmed by the Weyland-Yutani Company (who we all know are eeeeeevil). If anything, Ash turned out to be a sort of villain.
** Pretty sure the titular Alien was the villain. Ash was just a tool. And "Mother" was just prioritizing the mission goal over the crews' lives.
** If anything, the Company was the villain. Ash was just a slave.
*** The 4th movie, Resurrection, was set much later and "Mother" has been replaced with a new OS, "Father". This trope is played with when someone takes over the computer and a female voice announces to the evil scientist "Father's dead, asshole."

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* The ship computer in ''Film/{{Alien}}'' was MU-THR 182 or something like that. And it wasn't the villain, nah, it was just programmed by the Weyland-Yutani Company (who we all know are eeeeeevil).evil). If anything, Ash turned out to be a sort of villain.
** Pretty sure the titular Alien was the villain. Ash was just a tool. And "Mother" was just prioritizing the mission goal over the crews' lives.
** If anything, the Company was the villain. Ash was just a slave.
*** The 4th movie, Resurrection,
''Film/AlienResurrection'', was set much later and "Mother" has been replaced with a new OS, "Father". This trope is played with when someone takes over the computer and a female voice announces to the evil scientist "Father's dead, asshole."
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* In ''VideoGame/DragonAge'', you have the extravaganza that is the broodmother. In ''Awakening'' [[spoiler: you meet "The Mother" - the first of her kind.]]

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* In ''VideoGame/DragonAge'', ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', you have the extravaganza that is the broodmother. In ''Awakening'' ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening Awakening]]'' [[spoiler: you meet "The Mother" - the first of her kind.]]
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* M.U.T.H.E.R., the crazy ''{{Earthbound}}''-style master-computer in the bunker from ''TheVentureBrothers''

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* M.U.T.H.E.R., the crazy ''{{Earthbound}}''-style master-computer in the bunker from ''TheVentureBrothers''''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''
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* ''{{Kamandi}}: [[DarkerAndEdgier At Earth's End]]'' featured Mother Machine ([[SeriesContinuityError or Machine Mother]]), a supercomputer who kept Kamandi alive and sent him to kill {{Superman}}.
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* Mom in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''

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* Mom in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. She is mother to the robots.
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* In the ''{{Lost}}'' episode "Across the Sea," we meet the island's previous protector, known only as Mother. As the writers acknowledge, her bad parenting 2,000 years before the events of the series has led to pretty much everything bad that ever happened on the island.
* [[{{Supernatural}} The Mother of All]]

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* In the ''{{Lost}}'' ''Series/{{Lost}}'' episode "Across the Sea," we meet the island's previous protector, known only as Mother. As the writers acknowledge, her bad parenting 2,000 years before the events of the series has led to pretty much everything bad that ever happened on the island.
* [[{{Supernatural}} [[Series/{{Supernatural}} The Mother of All]]
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** There is also the leader of that children pirate crew, Aum Madaura, who kidnapped children and used her magic tool "Holy Mother Halo Fan" to make them think she's their mother. In reality she did not care about the children and only saw them as tools for taking over the world by becoming the "mother" of the world's future leaders.
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* The ''AnitaBlake'' series has an ubervampire called "Mother Gentile".

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* The ''AnitaBlake'' series has an ubervampire called "Mother Gentile"."Marmee Noir". Anita dubs her "MommieDearest".
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* Mom in ''{{Futurama}}''

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* Mom in ''{{Futurama}}''''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''



* Ma Beagle from ''DuckTales''.

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* Ma Beagle from ''DuckTales''.''WesternAnimation/DuckTales''.
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* Mom from ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'', commanded by her Lord to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. She is the FinalBoss. [[spoiler:Her heart is the TrueFinalBoss.]]

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* Mom from ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'', commanded by her Lord to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. She is the FinalBoss. [[spoiler:Her heart is the TrueFinalBoss.TrueFinalBoss, but is later replaced as the true final boss by others.]]
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* In ''[[StrangeJourney Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey]]'', you have the four mothers Maia Ouroboros, Tiamat, Maya, and [[FinalBoss Mem Aleph]]. Especially notable in that Tiamat is stated to have given birth to all of the demons in the game, and Mem Aleph is the mother of all life on Earth.
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* The villains of Dario Argento's ''Film/{{Suspiria}} and ''Film/{{Inferno}}'' are known, respectively, as the Mother of Sighs and the Mother of Darkness. The villain of the third film, ''MotherOfTears'', should be obvious.

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* The villains of Dario Argento's ''Film/{{Suspiria}} ''Film/{{Suspiria}}'' and ''Film/{{Inferno}}'' are known, respectively, as the Mother of Sighs and the Mother of Darkness. The villain of the third film, ''MotherOfTears'', should be obvious.
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* The villains of Dario Argento's ''Film/{{Suspiria}} and ''Film/{{Inferno}}'' are known, respectively, as the Mother of Sighs and the Mother of Darkness. The villain of the third film, ''MotherOfTears'', should be obvious.
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* ''MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'' has Ren Gyokuen, the mother of Ren Hakuryuu and Ren Hakuei. She is also [[spoiler: TheUsurper of the Kou Empire and third Emperor, and a member of [[NebulousEvilOrganization Al-Sarmen]], and quite the EvilMatriarch]].
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* There's the musclebound female Marine codenamed 'Mother' in MatthewReilly novels. A hint, it's not because she's a maternal figure... though she is one anyway.

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* There's A good guy example in the musclebound female Marine codenamed 'Mother' in MatthewReilly novels. A hint, it's not because she's a maternal figure... though she is one anyway.
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* The witch from "Literature/{{Rapunzel}}" is traditionally named Mother Gothel. In ''{{Tangled}}'', she's a MyBelovedSmother who psychologically manipulates her daughter into staying with her for life so that her source of immortality (Rapunzel's hair) will always be close.
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* A storyline in ''ComicBook/GreenLantern Corps'' introduced the progenitor of Mongul's infamous [[LotusEaterMachine Black Mercy plants]], whom the Lanterns name "Mother Mercy". [[spoiler:Subverted as Mother Mercy is actually good: she isn't happy about Mongul using her children the way he does, helps the Lanterns defeat him, and is even inducted into the Corps herself.]]
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** If anything, the Company was the villain. Ash was just a slave.
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* In ''MetalGearSolid4'', Snake is in Prague to find the local resistance leader ''Big Mama''. Who turns out to be [[spoiler:[=EVA=]]], who chose the name in homage to her former leader ''Big Boss''. When first met, she's in a catholic chappel in front of a large Mary Statue and her troops are all war orphans she has taken in and trained as soldiers. Also, she reveals [[spoiler:that she was the volunteer who gave birth to the clones of Big Boss, making her the closest thing Snake has to a mother]].
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* Ma Barker and the Barker Gang.

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* Ma Barker and the Barker Gang. In reality, it's more likely that J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI made up the idea that she was the mastermind to excuse killing her in the crossfire of a shoot-out against the gang.
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* Ma Mayhem from the "Eggbaby" episode of BatmanBeyond.

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* Ma Mayhem from the "Eggbaby" episode of BatmanBeyond.''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''.
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* Shelly Winters played the villain "Ma Parker" on the 1960s ''{{Batman}}'' series.

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* Shelly Winters played the villain "Ma Parker" on the 1960s ''{{Batman}}'' ''Series/{{Batman}}'' series.



* Mother from ''D2'', a supercomputer that resembles a giant silver pregnant woman seen crotch-first (complete with legs in stirrups). [[spoiler: Adding to it, a distinctly yonic slit appears on it as you fight it -- while it screams to be killed and makes no effort to stop you. One of the most disturbing moments in a very disturbing game.]]

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* Mother from ''D2'', ''[[DTrilogy D2]]'', a supercomputer that resembles a giant silver pregnant woman seen crotch-first (complete with legs in stirrups). [[spoiler: Adding to it, a distinctly yonic slit appears on it as you fight it -- while it screams to be killed and makes no effort to stop you. One of the most disturbing moments in a very disturbing game.]]

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