History MissingMom / Film

** In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' we see the eponymous panda and his father, and no mother. And we don't even get to know what happened to her. According to ''[[AllThereInTheManual The Art of Kung Fu Panda]]'', the directors originally intended to put Po's mother into the story, but decided in the end that it distracted from the main story and wasn't very interesting. The fact they didn't want to make Po seem special for having a goose father, and that they wanted [[TheUnreveal to play silly buggers]] with the audience about the ObliviousAdoption may also have had something to do with it. It's finally revealed in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'' that both of Po's biological parents were seemingly killed by Lord Shen during his attempted genocide of the panda species. The SequelHook at the end shows that [[spoiler: Po's dad survived, but it's implied that his mother pulled a HeroicSacrifice to save Po and is most likely dead]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ArloTheAlligatorBoy'': Though the film is about Arlo in search of his father, we never get to see what his mother looked like, or whatever happened to her. According to Edmée, it's implied Arlo's mother passed away before the film. Her whereabouts have yet to be answered in [[WesternAnimation/IHeartArlo the series.]]
* Several in the Franchise/{{Barbie}} [[WesternAnimation/{{Barbie}} film franchise]]:

* ''Film/{{Shelter|JonahMarkowitz}}'': Zach and Jeanne's mother. Everyone speaks of her in the past tense, implying that she is dead. It is also more or less stated that she burned out taking care of her addicted husband and her children.

* ''Film/Aquaman2018'':
** Atlanna to Arthur and Orm. She is among the few things that bound them together, and her execution impacted them deeply. [[spoiler:Until the third act, where it is revealed that she is still alive.]]
** While Mera's father, Nereus, has an important role, her mother is never mentioned.

* ''Film/Shazam2019'': Billy spends every possible moment looking for his mother, whom he got separated from at a street fair at a very young age. He abandons several presumably good foster homes to look for her, despite a social worker telling him it's not worth the effort. [[spoiler: She was right, as Billy's mother was a scared teenage mom whose boyfriend abandoned her. She deliberately abandoned Billy once she saw that he had been successfully turned over to the police. When Billy finally tracks down his birth mother and learns the truth, it serves as [[CharacterDevelopment the moment when he not only embraces his secret identity seriously but also fully accepts the foster family he's been placed with as his own]].]]

* ''Film/FriendsWithBenefits'': Dylan's mother left his father 10 years before the movie.

* ''Film/AbsolutePower'': Luther's wife, Kate's mother, died in the past. It becomes a plot point when Luther swears he's telling the truth about President Richmond by saying he's swearing to this on her grave. Kate knows he would never do that and lie, so it convinces her.

* ''{{Film/Shelter}}'': Zach and Jeanne's mother. Everyone speaks of her in the past tense, implying that she is dead. It is also more or less stated that she burned out taking care of her addicted husband and her children.

* ''{{Film/Mythica}}'': Dagen's mother hung herself when he was a little boy to escape the life of a sex slave, and Marek's died giving birth to her.

* ''Film/{{Ophelia}}'': Ophelia's mother died when she was very young. This is part of the reason Gertrude takes her on as her one of her ladies, as Polonius admits he's clueless as to how to raise a girl.

'''Jasmine, Ariel, Pocahontas, Belle, Cinderella, Snow White, Elsa & Anna:''' ''(Excitedly while posing)'' Neither do we]]!

** The title character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' also has a dead mother and receives a necklace in memory of her. According to Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}, though it's not outright stated in the film, the mother's spirit is the source of the DramaticWind that follows the heroine throughout.

* ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' begins with a Missing Mom as Harry Tasker raises his daughter Grace with a bunch of oil rig roughnecks, but [[spoiler: it turns to an adult-onset ParentalAbandonment as [[HeroicSacrifice/LiveActionFilms Harry dies saving the earth from a giant meteor the size of Texas]]]]. We find out from Grace that mom left.

* ''Film/EverAter'' is another ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' retelling, so naturally Danielle's mother Nicole is dead. She presumably [[DeathByChildbirth died in childbirth]], since Danielle never knew her; being raised from birth by her father alone partly explains Danielle's tomboyish personality. She uses Nicole's name as a pseudonym when she disguises herself as an aristocrat, though, and later wears her wedding dress and [[TheGirlWhoFitsThisSlipper slippers]] to the royal ball.