Line #121 Main/OneBadMother


1	''[[Film/{{Shaft}} Shut yo' mouth!]]''\
2	"I'm only Describing a Trope!"\
3	''We can dig it!''
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5	Have you noticed that the word "mother" is a common villain name? Maybe it's [[FluffyTheTerrible ironic]], maybe it's symbolic, maybe it overlaps with the HiveQueen, but writers seem to think [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast it's a scary word]].
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7	This can also be known as:
8	* An EvilMatriarch of some sort (similar to [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen "queen"]])
9	* A twisted version of a "mother" (spreading TheVirus and considering the victims her "children," for example)
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11	See also AlmightyMom, MonsterIsAMommy, MotherOfAThousandYoung.
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13	Has nothing to do with AbusiveParents. ''Usually''. Also may or may not have to do with YourMom.
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15	!!Examples:
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20	* The Un-Mother on ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}},'' though only in the dub. In Japanese, she's the mythological creature ''mu onna'', which translates into "nothing woman". While the ''mu onna'' '''is''' the ghost of a mother, the word is not in her title.
21	* ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'': The leader of that children pirate crew, Aum Madaura, 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.
22	* ''Franchise/OnePiece'' has the aptly named "Big Mom", real name: Charlotte Linlin, one of the top 4 pirates in the world who are known as the "Four Emperors". She's an insane, ruthless and terrifying glutton who [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen rules her very own nation]]. She also has [[ExplosiveBreeder 85 children]].
23	* In ''Manga/ThePromisedNeverland,'' the apparent OrphanageOfLove where the protagonists live is actually one of several PeopleFarms, and their "Mother/Mama" (real name Isabella) is complicit in handing them over to be eaten by demons. She and the other Mothers remains somewhat sympathetic, however, since they do this for their own survival and ''do'' seem to love their charges, if in a twisted way. Also, each Mother has to produce a child to qualify, [[spoiler:meaning that Isabella is Ray's biological mother, too]].
24	* ''Literature/SoImASpiderSoWhat'' has "Mother", the name Kumoko uses to refer to the {{kaiju}}-sized Queen Taratect who birthed her and later tries to kill her.
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28	* The Mother in ''TabletopGame/{{Risk}} 2210'' is a supercomputer that nukes entire continents. Not a villain, but very scary.
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31	[[folder:Comic Books]]
32	* A variation: Granny Goodness from Franchise/TheDCU.
33	* Ma Dalton from ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke''.
34	* 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.]]
35	* ''ComicBook/{{Kamandi}}: [[DarkerAndEdgier At Earth's End]]'' featured Mother Machine ([[SeriesContinuityError or Machine Mother]]), a supercomputer who kept Kamandi alive and sent him to kill Franchise/{{Superman}}. It's eventually revealed that her program is an [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity insane]] copy of Kamandi's biological mother's mind... [[PlotHole which doesn't make sense]], since the computer apparently caused the apocalypse decades before his birth.
36	* Mothergod was the villain in a CrisisCrossover from Creator/ValiantComics.
37	* Motherbank from ''Sci-Spy''.
38	* The BigBad of the second ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' series is a shapeshifting, extra-dimensional parasite named Mother. She generally takes the form of Teddy's dead mom, and acts like a sweet, doting parent who just wants to eat their child's soul and take over their dimension. Worse, she can brainwash other parents and adults into following her every command.
39	* In ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'', ComicBook/BlackCanary spent time being trained by Lady Shiva's former mentor, a cruel martial arts master called Mother. When she left she took one of Mother's other students, a young girl named Sin, and adopted her. Notably, [[NewParentNomenclatureProblem Sin chose to call Dinah "Sister,"]] since the word "Mother" had bad connotations for her.
40	* The BigBad of ''ComicBook/BatmanAndRobinEternal'' is known as "Mother." She creates child soldiers by subjecting them to mind-shattering trauma and rebuilding them in her own image, having survived something similar herself and decided that MiseryBuildsCharacter.
41	* ''ComicBook/TheBoys'': Averted with Mother's Milk, a ScaryBlackMan and one of the heroes. His name comes from the fact that [[spoiler:he has to periodically drink his mother's breast milk to survive, let alone be a super.]]
42	* One of the villains in ''ComicBook/BloodSyndicate'' is an old woman affiliated with System who uses the codename Mom.
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46	* Mother Gothel from ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', who abducted Rapunzel as a baby to maintain access to her immortality-granting hair and emotionally manipulates her.
47	* The Other Mother, from ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'', is basically the perfect mother to whatever kid wanders into her magical pocket dimension. [[BitchInSheepsClothing Or so she would like you to believe.]]
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51	* ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' film series:
52	** The ship computer in ''Film/{{Alien}}'' was known as MU-THR 182 or MU-TH-UR 6000. It wasn't the villain, but was programmed by the Weyland-Yutani Company (who we all know are evil). If anything, Ash turned out to be a villain.
53	** ''Film/AlienResurrection'' is 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."
54	* Mother from ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' -- if not the {{Trope Maker\|s}}, then definitely a popularizer.
55	* Animal Mother from ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' is presumably an example of the CurseCutShort version.
56	* In the Dan Aykroyd comedy ''Film/DoctorDetroit'', where the ruthless drug dealer was called "Mom."
57	* Ma Fratelli from ''Film/TheGoonies''.
58	* The villains of Creator/DarioArgento's ''Film/Suspiria1977'' and ''Film/Inferno1980'' are known, respectively, as the Mother of Sighs and the Mother of Darkness. The villain of the third film, ''Film/MotherOfTears'', should be obvious.
59	* Ma-Ma, the evil drug lord in control of the city slum that ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' takes place in. Played with in that it's a shortened form of her real full name, '''Ma'''deline '''Ma'''drigal.
60	* A {{tagline}} of ''Film/{{Malavita}}'': "Creator/MichellePfeiffer is OneBadMother".
61	* ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'' has Audrey II (who, despite the feminine name, is male...or as male as a giant [[ImAHumanitarian human-devouring]] plant creature can be); in his VillainSong, he proudly declares himself a "mean green mother from outer space" (although, as with ''Full Metal Jacket'' above, it's likely a CurseCutShort).
62	* ''Film/IAmMother'': Mother is an android who raises a human infant in a remote facility, but Daughter starts to figure out that she may have ulterior motives. [[spoiler:Mother is in fact an artificial intelligence HiveMind which sees humans as flawed, having resolved to wipe them out and create better humans from scratch.]]
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66	* A good guy example in the musclebound female Marine codenamed "Mother" in the Creator/MatthewReilly novel ''Literature/IceStation''. A hint, it's not because she's a maternal figure... though she is one anyway.
67	* Another "ship's computer" in ''Literature/{{Remnants}}''. She's not really evil, but she ''is'' insane after [[GoMadFromTheIsolation untold years of loneliness]] after her creators, the Shipwrights, inexplicably abandoned her. She's hundreds of square miles and practically a massive GeniusLoci (able to create artificial environments, mindless constructs of people and monsters, etc.) The series also features the "Children," a species whom the Shipwrights designed in order to maintain her; they worship Mother as a god, but are only recently trying to reconquer her interior after being exiled for some reason.
68	** Interestingly, one of the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' spin-offs, by [[Creator/KAApplegate the same author]], had had an intermediate villain named "[[SpearCounterpart Father]]."
69	* The Other Mother from ''Literature/{{Coraline}}''.
70	* The ''Literature/AnitaBlake'' series has an ubervampire called "Marmee Noir." Anita dubs her "Literature/MommieDearest."
71	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
72	** Ma Lilywhite in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}''. Her son Medium Dave is a hardened criminal, and her anger remains his worst nightmare years after her death. Based on Mr. Brown the lockpick's testimony, this is entirely warranted: he considers her scarier than [[PsychoForHire Mr. Teatime.]]
73	** It's invoked by Nanny Ogg in ''Literature/LordsAndLadies''. Specifically, "there's a reason they call Nature a Mother." At the time she's also comparing Granny to said Mother, while musing that Granny is actually all three of TheHecateSisters at once.
74	* The entity called "Mother" in ''Literature/{{Revival}}'', by Creator/StephenKing.
75	* The Mother of Flies in the ''Literature/FeralsSeries'', real name Cynthia Davenport.
76	* Doctor Mother from ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', the head of Cauldron, an organization that uses [[SuperSerum Super Serums]] to create parahumans.
77	* Mr. Pendanski from ''Literature/{{Holes}}'' takes the nickname of "Mom" and is a BitchInSheepsClothing, acting nice to all the campers to pretend to be better than the rest of the camp's staff. His true nature shows when he insults and belittles Zero.
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81	* Shelly Winters played the villain "Ma Parker" on the 1960s ''Series/Batman1966'' series.
82	** Who was based on the real life Ma Barker who Winters would also play in a movie.
83	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': The Mother Bezoar in "Bad Eggs".
84	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
85	** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode "The Shakespeare Code"]], there are three evil alien "witches" called Carrionites, of which the older two are both called "Mother" by the third.
86	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]]: The titular Family has Mother of Mine as one of its members.
87	* In the ''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.
88	* ''Series/{{Luke Cage\|2016}}'': "Mama" Mabel was TheQueenpin of Harlem back in the day, and she was [[AbusiveParents several]] [[EvilMatriarch different]] [[{{Fingore}} flavors]] of ''[[TheDreaded scary.]]''
89	* ''Series/OnceUponATime'', being the great adapter of Disney, has its own version of Mother Gothel. In this case, "Mother" turns out to be the inherited title for the leader of her grove of tree nymphs. Her own mother, Mother Flora, was much nicer.
90	* ''Series/PushingDaisies'' has the Norwegians' high-tech van called Mother. They're not villainous per se, but are definitely antagonistic.
91	* The Mother of All in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' is the progenitor of all monster races, and resides in Purgatory, the afterlife where all monster souls go to prey on each other for eternity. She eventually returns to Earth to protect her young by making everyone on the planet one of her children. To make the point even more obvious to Sam and Dean, [[spoiler:she transforms into their deceased mother Mary Winchester to mess with them]].
92	* ''Series/UltramanDecker'' concludes with Decker facing the most powerful monster of the show, and progenitor of the Sphere invasion that lasts the entire series, called Mother Spheresaurus.
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96	* Music/{{Danzig}}'s "Mother", a sarcastic TakeThat about the [[MoralGuardians PMRC]].
97	* Music/PinkFloyd also did a song about "Mother". Shudder.
98	* "Ma Baker" by Boney M, which was based on Ma Barker, though it played up the fictional accounts that she was the ringleader of the Barker-Karpis gang.
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102	* ''TabletopGame/BlackbirdsRPG'': The Allmother is a malevolent DeityOfHumanOrigin who seeks to KillAndReplace everyone with "orphans," monstrous doppelgangers who all possess her personality and act how she would want that person to act. Her name references her MyBelovedSmother tendencies as a massive ControlFreak, as well as her innumerable "children," the Orphans. Ironically she isn't an actual mother, and is noted to have been infertile when she was human, joining the [[GodhoodSeeker Oligarchs]] specifically because she wouldn't be able to forge any direct blood ties to the throne.
103	* The Qedeshah, a bloodline of vampires from ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'', is imbued with a strong mothering instinct. Members of the bloodline with high Humanity and willpower tend to be kind and caring, but as one of these slides down the [[KarmaMeter Humanity scale]], they start to resemble this trope more and more. It doesn't help that they have trouble siring their own children, with all male versions dying in a very unpleasant manner. And you had better hope you don't [[ActionMom hurt one of their "children"...]]
104	* Grandmother, the Big Bad from ''TabletopGame/{{Orpheus}}'', who is an ancient force of Oblivion bent on consuming all of existence. The name actually comes from a misinterpretation of the words "Grand Maw."
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108	* In ''A Hatful of Rain'', Mother is a (male) drug dealer, whereas Father is just Johnny's dad.
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112	* The Mother of Glaaki in ''VideoGame/AnnieLastHope'' is a codename for a virus that facilitates a ZombieApocalypse, released by the BigBad to wipe out an entire city. When confronted as the final boss, said BigBad injects an upgraded Mother of Glaaki serum to turn himself OneWingedAngel.
113	* The last and most powerful boss of ''VideoGame/{{Fishgun}}'' is a sentient, ''building''-sized monster called Strawberry Mommy.
114	* Mother Brain in ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}''.
115	* Mother Brain in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''. Not quite certain why it shares a name with the ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' example.
116	* Mother Brain from ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarII''. Really, that name [[RuleOfThree is almost a trope in itself]]...
117	* The Mother in ''VideoGame/Prey2006''.
118	* Mother of ''[[VideoGame/WildArms1 Wild ARMs]]'' is the BigBad and OmnicidalManiac leader of the demons.
119	* Mother in ''VideoGame/LaMulana''. Justified as she actually is a creator goddess.
120	* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', there are several examples of this, such as the Den Mother and Mother Shariz
121	* The plant-like entity called Mother by the children in ''VideoGame/{{Sanitarium}}''.
122	* ''Franchise/MassEffect'''s Matriarch Benezia qualifies, not just because of her title but also because she was the literal mother of one of the main characters (although it was more a case of [[spoiler:mind control than intentional villainy, though it took a long time to make that clear]].
123	** The Rachni queen you meet on Noveria also calls herself the "mother." [[spoiler:However, [[SubvertedTrope she's not evil]], and can even become your ally if you play your cards right.]]
124	* In ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 4\|GunsOfThePatriots}}'', Snake is in Prague to find the local resistance leader "Big Mama." Who turns out to be [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater EVA]]]], who chose the name in homage to her former leader Big Boss. When first met, she's in a catholic chapel 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]].
125	* Mother Slime in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing''.
126	** Mother hellseals, too.
127	* Mother from ''VideoGame/Siren2'', the creator of the various body-snatching avatars. If she has a real name, we never find it out.
128	* ''VideoGame/{{Galerians}}'' has the supercomputer Dorothy, who is referred to as Mother by her children.
129	* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', you have the extravaganza that is the broodmother. In ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening Awakening]]'' [[spoiler:you meet "The Mother" - the first of her kind]].
130	* Mother from ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'' is one of the leaders of the Blacksnakes, a large criminal organization full of thieves. She's ''much'' more sadistic than Father, frequently whipping the Blacksnakes when they displease her, and she even complains when Throné doesn't scream in pain from this. Mother also runs an OrphanageOfFear, and it's fully shown she punishes [[WouldHurtAChild the children]] they're in the same way. Unlike the somewhat-sympathetic Father, [[spoiler:she never gets her real name revealed]].
131	* Elizabeth Greene in ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' has the in-game codename of "MOTHER."
132	* All of the ruling demons in the latter half of ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'' are "Mother"-type demons, based on over-arching entities like Tiamat and Ouroboros. The final demon is "Mem Aleph," the mother of thought and the "memory of the earth."
133	* '''[[LargeHam Mother]]''' is incredibly '''displeased''' that you have not mentioned [[ThirdPersonPerson her]]! Those '''dogs''' in [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized The]] [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Resistance]] and the so-called '''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes''' might call her Mother '''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Mayhem]]''', but you know that Mother '''LOVES''' you, don't you? '''DON'T YOU'''? [[MindRape Of course you do]]. Because Mother loves you too...
134	* Mother from ''VideoGame/{{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.]]
135	* Mom from ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'', commanded by her Lord to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. She is the FinalBoss. [[spoiler:Her heart is the TrueFinalBoss, but is later replaced as the true final boss by others.]]
136	* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' has a variant with [[GirlScoutsAreEvil the Den Mother]], the boss of the MilkmanConspiracy.
137	* Mother Mallum in ''VideoGame/RuneScape'', queen of the mind-controlling sea slugs.
138	** Mother Mah, a cosmic horror in a high-fantasy setting.
139	* "Mother" is the callsign for the leader of AFO Neptune in the ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor'' reboot. He's one bad mother: that is, badass.
140	* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, the Night Mother is a mysterious figure who leads the Dark Brotherhood, an illegal [[MurderInc assassins guild]] whose members typically take a [[PsychoForHire sadistic glee]] in killing and who practice a ReligionOfEvil, worshiping the "Dread Father" Sithis, the [[GodOfEvil primordial "Is-Not" antithesis of creation]] represented by [[ThePowerOfTheVoid a great void]]. According to legend, the Night Mother was [[DeityOfHumanOrigin once a mortal woman]] who [[OffingTheOffspring sacrificed her five children]] in the name of Sithis, and became the wife of Sithis after her death.
141	* Valentine, the main antagonist of ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear2Overture 2: Overture]]'', [[TheGhost frequently makes mention of]] [[GreaterScopeVillain her "Mother"]] and only exists to carry out her orders. [[VideoGame/GuiltyGearXrd The following installments]], ''Xrd -SIGN-'' and ''Xrd -REVELATOR-'', give a name to this entity (the Universal Will) and expand upon its backstory. [[spoiler:[[DeityOfHumanOrigin Originally]] a robot created to absorb knowledge from [[EldritchLocation the Backyard]] to help advance human progress, [[AIIsACrapshoot it went rogue]] after deeming mankind to be flawed in its current state and later took on a human form -- Ariels, the Sanctus Maximus Populi ([[VillainWithGoodPublicity she's essentially]] ''UsefulNotes/{{the Pope}}'') -- to better understand its creators, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood which only]] [[IrrationalHatred made the problem]] [[KillAllHumans worse]].]] Unfortunately for her children, [[ArtificialHuman the Valentines]], the Universal Will [[LackOfEmpathy cares not for their safety and well-being]], only their efficiency. [[spoiler:When Ariels deems the [[HeelFaceTurn recently reformed]] Ramlethal to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer be of any use]], she conspires to kill her -- and forces her captive sister Elphelt to [[ForcedToWatch watch in horror]].]]
142	* ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance 2'''s "Intercept's Most Wanted" sidequest has the Matron Of Mayhem, or [[FunWithAcronyms MOM for short]], as one of the targets. She's a ViolentGlaswegian with a penchant for using poison gas and causing collateral damage.
143	* ''VideoGame/{{Iconoclasts}}'': The [[EvilOverlord supreme leader]] of [[TheTheocracy One Concern]] calls herself Mother to project a motherly image, but is the BigBad and an EvilMatriarch who rules over a theocratic dictatorship, [[MalevolentMugshot spams her image everywhere]], and uses her protective image for manipulative purposes, all in a similar manner to [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Big Brother]].
144	* In ''VideoGame/CryingSuns'', Mother is the cruel and [[FatBastard horrendously overweight]] leader of the Scrappers. She serves as the boss of Chapter One.
145	* [[AlmightyMom Mommy Mearest]], The Girlfriend's mother in ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'', is one of the [[KnightTemplarParent Knight Templar Parents]] out to stop The Boyfriend from hooking up with her daughter. In addition to being [[OurDemonsAreDifferent a demon]] who's [[CrazyIsCool crazy enough]] to [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext rap battle against the player on the roof of a moving limousine]], she's also [[ThatOneBoss one of the hardest bosses in the game]].
146	* Mother Miranda of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' is [[spoiler: the [[BigBad true mastermind]] behind the events of the game]]. Bonus points for [[spoiler:actually being Eveline's mother]].
147	* In ''VideoGame/{{Ruiner}}'', the supercomputer known as MOTHER is a cruel, sadistic AI that powers Heaven's sprawling security network.
148	* ''VideoGame/LuminousAvengerIX2'' has Mother Computer, an example of AIIsACrapshoot.
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152	* Elizabeth Avery from ''WebVideo/Lonelygirl15'' is usually referred to as simply "Bree's Mom."
153	* The Website/SCPFoundation: [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/SCP-597 SCP-597,]] referred to as "The Mother" by those it enslaves -- well, at first, anyway.
154	* ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSequel'' has Umbridge commonly refer to herself as "Momma" since she wants to view the students as her children. The fact that she believes in the toughest of tough love and is AxCrazy to boot makes this a very bad thing.
155	* The never-seen but always-referenced State, the laws of which loom over the plot of ''Roleplay/{{AJCO}}'', is referred to as 'Mother' by the characters that hail from it.
156	* The eponymous Fluttermama, of the Website/{{Tumblr}} blog [[http://ask-fluttermama.tumblr.com/ Ask Fluttermama,]] is the ''Pattycakes'' version of Fluttershy. Infantilism fetish and Mind Rape are involved.
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160	* Mom in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. One of the closest things the series has to a BigBad, she's a chain-smoking, foulmouthed CorruptCorporateExecutive to the extreme, although she disguises her nasty, LeanAndMean self both literally and figuratively with a kindly public persona and a fat suit that gives her a matronly build. Her company, [=MomCorp=], is the progenitor of every single robot in the world, making her immensely rich and powerful; one episode reveals that she has a remote control that can cause all of those robots to go on a world-conquering rampage at, quite literally, the flick of a switch. She's also a literal mother to three kowtowing sons, and treats them absolutely horribly.
161	* Mother Mae-Eye from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Teen Titans\|2003}}'' animated series.
162	* M.U.T.H.E.R., the crazy ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound\|1994}}''-style master-computer in the bunker from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''.
163	* Ma Beagle from ''Franchise/DuckTales''.
164	* Ma Mayhem from the "Eggbaby" episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''.
165	* Ma Vreedle in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien''. For one thing, [[VisualPun she actually HAS eyes in the back of her head.]]
166	* Mother Talzin from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' is the leader of the Nightsisters, a clan of amazonian witches, [[spoiler: and the biological mother of Darth Maul]], who is a very powerful and extremely dangerous witch.
167	* In ''WesternAnimation/ArcherDreamland'' Sterling's [[EvilMatriarch wicked mother]] Malory [[UniversalAdaptorCast plays]] a crime boss who is not related to him, but is instead actually named "Mother".
168	* [[WhatCouldHaveBeen The original idea for]] ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' had the [[MagicalGirlWarrior Crystal Gems]] come from another dimension (as opposed to [[WizardsFromOuterSpace space]]), having been sent to protect the Earth by a being called "Mother." Eventually it would be revealed that the [[MonsterOfTheWeek monsters]] were actually being sent by Mother, who had changed her mind and now wanted to wipe out humanity.
169	* Mama Binturong in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard''. She is first seen as a mob boss figure with porcupine henchmen who hoards tuliza flowers. After Bunga wilts her stash with his stink, she wants revenge. She shows up at the Tree of Life after the group of Makucha, Chuluun and Ora and takes control of the group when their plans fail. She tries to bluff her way in to the tree by saying she’s hurt but her bluff gets called. Later, she calls in more animals (the porcupines, Makucha’s leap and Ora’s Komodo dragon group) to provide a big army for the final battle. Kion ultimately uses his roar to blow all of them far away-but not before Mama gets several more face fulls of Bunga-stink during various fights.
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173	* Maurice "Mom" Boucher of the Hell's Angels. Yes, he's a man, but making fun of gangsters for their name is [[BullyingADragon usually not a good idea]].
174	* Ma Barker and the Barker Gang. While she was definitely an accomplice who knew about her sons' robberies, 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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