History MissingMom / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': Chuckie's mom Melinda long went unmentioned, until [[TearJerker the Mother's Day episode]], which [[NeverSayDie all but said]] that she was an IllGirl who died when he was only a year old at most. Chuckie and his father are seen visiting her grave in a later episode; shortly after, Chuckie's dad remarried and his new wife, Kira, [[HappilyAdopted adopted]] Chuckie.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' episode "Hopping Mall", Sprig confides to Anne that his mother passed away when he was younger.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': WordOfGod states that this is the case with Wendy Corduroy's mother, with Wendy being the oldest of four children. She's not mentioned in the show unless you count the [[ComicBook/GravityFallsLostLegends bonus comics.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': WordOfGod states that this is the case with Wendy Corduroy's mother, with Wendy being the oldest of four children.

** For that matter, [[BetaBitch Sabrina]]'s, Alix’s and Myléne’s mothers hasn't appeared either, although Sabrina’s mother and her father seem to be close.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatNorth:'' Kathrine Tobin, Beef's wife and the Tobin kids' mother, abandoned them sometime before the events of the series to live in Pennsylvania to be with her lover, Marcus. Unlike other examples of this trope, her kids don’t really miss her.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': [[spoiler: Della Duck, Donald Duck's twin sister and the mother of Huey, Dewey and Louie, disappeared shortly before the triplets' hatched, leaving Donald to raise them. What exactly happened to her is the B-plot of Season One as we learn that Della, a duck with an adventurous streak, stole the experimental rocketship ''The Spear of Selene'' and got lost in a space storm. Unbeknown to Scrooge and Donald at the time, Della actually crashed on the Moon and spent the past ''decade'' trying to get home. Midway through Season Two, she actually does and is reunited with her sons]].

* On ''WesternAnimation/MikeTheKnight'' - ''Journey to Dragon Mountain'', [[spoiler:Mike's dragon companion, Squirt, discovers both his missing mom and his DisappearedDad, and has a baby sister hatch as well from an EggMacGuffin]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' completely ignores the mother of Dot and Enzo Matrix. Their father gets a small mention in season 2 and comes back as a self-aware null in season 4, but no mention of the mother at all. Then again, their father is the ''only'' parental figure to appear in this show, so everyone else is missing their mothers as well.

* Lion-O and Tygra in ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'' had king Claudus for a dad. [[spoiler:Lion-O's biological mother--Tygra's adoptive mother--died giving birth to the former.]]

* Caleb of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' starts the series an orphan, only for his father to reappear halfway through season 1 and [[spoiler: his mother to turn up as the BigBad of season 2]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'': Dad Tiger has a father, Grandpere Tiger, but no mother is ever mentioned.
** O the Owl is missing not just his mother but both of his parents.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatNorth:'' Kathrine Tobin, Beef's wife and the Tobin kids' mother, abandoned them sometime before the events of the series to live in Pennsylvania to be with her lover, Marcus.

* * Cricket and Tilly Green of ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' were originally this, as they are shown living with their father and grandmother with no mention of their mother. Later, Tilly off-handedly mentions they are waiting for her to come back, though from where is not stated. [[spoiler:As of the events of the episode "Phoenix Rises", their mother, Nancy, has returned, apparently from prison, and become a recurring character]].

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraRoyalDetective'': The mother of the titular character Mira has not yet been seen nor mentioned.

** [[AChildShallRuleThem Queen Aanya's]] mothers when they do a HeroicSacrifice [[spoiler: while fighting Thunder]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLongLongHoliday'', Ernest and Colette's mother is convalescing in Switzerland to cure her tuberculosis for most of the series, leaving the children to be RaisedByGrandparents over the next few years (set during WorldWarII, their father enlisted in the French Army, was a [[NaziGermany German]] P.O.W., and later [[spoiler: escaped imprisonment and joined the [[LaResistance French Resistance]]]], so he was also [[ParentalAbandonment absent]] through most of the series).

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLongLongHoliday'', Ernest and Colette's mother is convalescing in Switzerland to cure her tuberculosis for most of the series, leaving the children to be RaisedByGrandparents over the next few years (set during WorldWarTwo, their father enlisted in the French Army, was a German P.O.W., and later [[spoiler: escaped imprisonment and joined the French Resistance]], so he was also [[ParentalAbandonment absent]] through most of the series).

* Keo from ''WesternAnimation/YakkityYak'' only lived with his dad.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'', Carolina's mother is absent without explanation.

* On ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', Dib and Gaz have a father, world-famous scientist Professor Membrane, but no mother is ever mentioned. WordOfGod says that before the show was cancelled, the creators were considering an episode where Dib finds out he is an ArtificialHuman, which may indicate he has no mother. Where Gaz is supposed to have come from in this scenario is unknown. The fandom seems fairly divided on the issue; some give them a mother (usually deceased), some make them experiments (Dib is usually said to be [[TrulySingleParent a clone of his father]]), and some try to reconcile the two theories.

* ''WesternAnimation/KidVsKat'': Coop & Molly Burtonburger's mother is never seen or heard of. What happened to her is unknown.

* Contrary to popular belief, ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' never justifies the absence of Max Goof's mother. She is simply absent without explanation. (Most fans believe that she is dead, but the oft-cited quote "[[GodNeverSaidThat up there amongst the stars]]" is spurious.) The ''[[WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie Goofy Movies]]'' also [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome quietly disposed of]] PJ's mom, Peg.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Wendy Corduroy is the oldest of fou.

* ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': Kipo's mother died of an illness when Kipo was very young.

* ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers'': Eva goes from a kid with a Missing Mom to a complete ParentalAbandonment case as Don Wei abandons her to boarding school after the death of her mother. [[spoiler:The series ends with a revert back to Missing Mom as Don Wei realizes Molly is his child and tries to do better as a father.]]

* On ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse,'' [[HalfHumanHybrid Steven]]'s mother, [[AllLovingHero Rose Quartz]], suffered a supernatural DeathByChildbirth, [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence giving up her physical form]] to bring him into the world. She comes up enough to count as a PosthumousCharacter, and Steven admits having mixed feelings about it likely ranging from a longing to have personally known her to anger for her leaving him in the aftermath of a series of problems despite him not existing if she hadn't.

* On ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse,'' [[HalfHumanHybrid Steven]]'s mother, [[AllLovingHero Rose Quartz]], suffered a supernaturally DeathByChildbirth, [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence giving up her physical form]] to bring him into the world. She comes up enough to count as a PosthumousCharacter, and Steven admits having mixed feelings about it likely ranging from a longing to have personally known her to anger for her leaving him in the aftermath of a series of problems despite him not existing if she hadn't.

** In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'', the absence of Kade, Dani, Graham and Cody's mother is never explained.

* In the original ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'' cartoon, no mention is ever made of Spike's mother.
* Averted with Sari Sumdac of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''. It looks at first like she has one of these, but it later turns out that [[spoiler: she's a HalfHumanHybrid RobotGirl, part human and part Cybertronian. The human part comes from the male Isaac Sumdac, and the cybertronian part doesn't come from gender-based sexual reproduction, so no female was actually involved in her production]].
** In an official bio, it is blatantly stated the she was adopted, it is likely this is what Sumdac told everyone to explain him randomly having a baby one day.

* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' has this: Stella's mom divorced with her father, Musa's mom was a very famous singer who died when she was a little girl (and she terribly misses her), and for Roxy, [[spoiler: her mother is revealed to be Morgana, the Queen of Fairies]]. That explains how she gets her powers.

* ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'': Tails' mom is mentioned twice, though she is never seen with [[ParentalSubstitute Sally]] filling in the role. The first time is for comedic effect where Tails yells "HiMom" to a surveillance orb. The second is PlayedForDrama where he cries while telling Sonic he misses her.