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| 9 | [[caption-width-right:300:Who said you need to be over 18 to act like a mother?]] |
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| 11 | ->'''Janeway:''' I'm not a parent!\ |
| 12 | '''Q:''' Maybe not in the biological sense, but you're certainly a mommy to this crew. Just look how quickly you housebroke that Borg drone. |
| 13 | -->-- ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E17QTwo Q2]]" |
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| 15 | In an {{ensemble|s}} show, especially of the fighting kind, there needs to be someone to hold this RagtagBunchOfMisfits together before they kill each other or wander off into the woods like so many {{Player Character}}s. The Team Mom basically acts as the [[PromotionToParent mother figure]] for everyone else in the group, regardless of age or family relations. Although the role itself is traditionally female, the overprotective dad or older brother can qualify for Team Mom, and the same goes for a CoolBigSis [[CharacterDevelopment who grows]] OlderAndWiser. In many cases, she actually is a parent or older sibling to at least one other character. |
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| 17 | Not always TheLeader in action or adventure, but the leader TheTeam needs in everyday life and practical matters. Quells fights, makes sure everyone cleans behind their ears and eats their greens. Can be pretty bossy. Usually, they're {{gentle|Giant}}, [[TheCutie cute]], kind, and capable of [[ApronMatron stern mothering]] (or papaing, even). |
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| 19 | Often enough, they're TheMedic or TheHeart. May be a NiceGirl, WhiteMagicianGirl, or AllLovingHero. If they're a literal mom and a more physical fighter, might be an ActionMom. They are by definition never [[LonersAreFreaks the loner]], and will in fact tend to be the one who pulls them into the cast's orbit as a SixthRanger. If anyone can break through and bring about a HeelFaceTurn or CooldownHug, it's them. |
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| 21 | While they tend to be less combat capable than their teammates, BewareTheNiceOnes ''most definitely'' applies; if any of their surrogate children or siblings are threatened, they can snap into angry MamaBear mode and kick some ass. Their absence (be it [[HeroicBSOD emotional]] or [[IHaveYourWife physical]]) will most certainly put the team on edge as their ability to function as, well, ''a team'', comes into jeopardy. Thus these instances serve as a [[VetinariJobSecurity reminder of their value]] when the team grows complacent. And by the way? Villains should ''NOT'' [[AndYourLittleDogToo threaten]] or [[KickTheDog harm]] them. Ever. Her family ''[[HeroicResolve will not]] [[UnstoppableRage be pleased]]''. |
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| 23 | She may have to engage in, or on rare occasions be the recipient of, FamilialChiding. |
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| 25 | The Team Mom is frequently shipped with the TeamDad, for obvious reasons. |
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| 27 | See also the aforementioned TeamDad, a role that tends to take a slightly stricter, more disciplinary approach. If these two frequently work together, they serve as the DesignatedParents. The high school counterpart is the CuteSportsClubManager. Related to TheFace. Compare and contrast CoolBigSis, MoralityPet. See also OnlySaneMan, OnlySaneEmployee, HaremNanny, PromotionToParent, AFatherToHisMen, TeamKids, and ApronMatron. May be the person holding the MoralityChain. They often use TheMomVoice. |
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| 29 | Not to be confused with the Creator/{{MTV}} show ''Series/TeenMom''. |
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| 31 | !!Examples: |
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| 35 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 36 | * ''Anime/BangDream'': |
| 37 | ** Lisa Imai makes almost everyone, other than Yukina, into the TeamKids, but in her own band, Roselia, there's [[TheBabyOfTheBunch Ako]], [[ShrinkingViolet Rinko]], and [[ThePerfectionist Sayo]]. She also tends to look out for Afterglow's members, as they all attend her school, she works with [[TheGadfly Moca]], and Afterglow doesn't actually have a TeamMom, with Tsugumi, TheReliableOne, also serving as TheBabyOfTheBunch, though Tomoe does serve as a CoolBigSis to her band. |
| 38 | ** Poppin' Party's drummer, Saaya Yamabuki, has her hands full with [[CloudCuckoolander Tae]], [[BunnyEarsLawyer Kasumi]], and [[ShrinkingViolet Rimi]]. She also looks out for Moca of Afterglow, who's probably the best customer Yamabuki Bakery has. |
| 39 | * Farnese from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''. She's Casca's [[TheCaretaker caretaker]] and has a willingness to take care of everyone's basic needs in Guts' team. |
| 40 | * DragonLady Shenhua from ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' acts as this to her teammates Sawyer the Cleaner and Lotton the Wizard, even letting them live with her. |
| 41 | * Captain Retsu Unohana from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', among the Shinigami, though she's ''really'' not less combat-capable than others. Kon lampshades the trope when he refers to her as "okaasan", aka "mom". |
| 42 | ** There's also a subversion in the Kurosaki family, where the one handling the housework and keeping the family fed and well taken care of is actually an ''eleven-year-old girl'', Ichigo's little sister Yuzu. |
| 43 | ** We also have a villainous example in the Third Espada [[DarkActionGirl Tia Harribel]], who seems to have a quite close relationship with her [[AmazonBrigade all female Fraccion]]. |
| 44 | * Rin Okumura from ''Manga/BlueExorcist'', of all people is this to the rest of the cram students. He acts an [[TheHeart emotional pillar]] for them, sometimes [[TeamChef cooks]] meals for them, will go ballistic if they are attacked, and is surprisingly one of the more even-tempered members. |
| 45 | * Shizuka from ''Manga/BoysOverFlowers'' seems to have formerly filled this role for the F4, [[MoralityChain and her absence may have something to do]] with [[KickTheDog the extreme levels of jerkassery they've fallen to by the beginning of the series.]] |
| 46 | * A male example occurs in ''Manga/Brave10'' with Rokuro. He's always keeping everyone in tea and in line ([[{{Slapstick}} often forcefully]]), but always remaining [[OnlySaneMan rational]] and occasionally offering a pep talk to those who need them in his own way. Naturally, he gets along easily with Kakei, the TeamDad, as both are relatively orthodox people in a [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits cast of eccentrics]]. |
| 47 | * Sanae Nakazawa, Yukari Nishimoto, Yayoi Aoba, Yoshiko Fujisawa, Machiko Machida and (in the videogames) Youko Katagiri from ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa''. Justified trope since they're all [[CuteSportsClubManager the managers of their respective teams]], so they're ''literally'' the team moms. Kumi Sugimoto is an exception: she's an assistant too, but doesn't fill in since she's actually [[NaiveNewcomer a newbie to the sport.]] |
| 48 | ** Also, Tsubasa's mother Natsuko (''specially'' in the first tournament arc) and Hyuga's manager Kaori Matsumoto. |
| 49 | * In ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', Jet Black is an odd masculine CoolOldGuy male version of this trope. Though he has plenty of badass moments, he is very much the Team Mom in domestic concerns aboard the Bebop, especially when it comes to feeding the crew. He's also a good example of a TeamDad as well, particularly when it comes to Spike and Faye. This is at least in part due to a truly ''massive'' lack of competition for the job. Who else is going to do it? Spike? ''Faye?'' '''''Ed?!''''' The second most responsible person on the crew is probably Ein, and he's a dog. |
| 50 | * Francoise Arnoul aka 003 of ''Manga/Cyborg009'', more in the 2001 adaptation than the others. Not only she takes care of baby Ivan/001 as if he was either her child or baby brother and aids Dr. Gilmore when he's gotta take care of the others, but at some point she talks to a disgruntled Jet/002 as if she was lecturing a whiny kid, despite them being the same age (they were both made cyborgs when they were teenagers). {{Lampshaded}} in a 2001 episode where she's kidnapped by a supercomputer with huge MommyIssues, and one of the reasons behind that is speculated to be Francoise's motherly behavior. |
| 51 | * Sora Takenouchi from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' falls into this rather frequently. In episode 26, she had a nervous breakdown about how she feels like she couldn't live up to everyone's expectations of her achieving this role. In that same episode, T.K. tells Sora with her around he doesn't miss his mother as much. |
| 52 | * Nanako Misonoo from ''Manga/DearBrother'' comes as this once in a while, specially [[spoiler: when Kaoru has a fit of pain and Nanako first gets her medicines, then takes care of her. (And she slaps Rei for not really helping her at first, too.)]] |
| 53 | * ''Franchise/DragonBall'': |
| 54 | ** Launch/Lunch, in her darker (or blue) haired form, was easily this for Goku and Kuririn/Krillin in the early series, being motherly and affectionate and the one who did the cooking at Kami house. She apparently taught Goku numbers so he could figure out his age in the World Tournament(in the dub, at least). This naturally contrasts with her aggressive blonde form who has a HairTriggerTemper and only feeds her friends bullets. |
| 55 | ** [[AlmightyMom Actual moms]] Chi-Chi and Blooma/Bulma generally juggle between this depending on the situation. In the anime and non-serial movies Chi-Chi is mainly the one who keeps the heroes in line and even personally makes sure CowardlyLion Kuririn/Krillin gets his ass into gear and flies to battlefield in ''Anime/DragonBallZSuperAndroid13''. In the manga Blooma/Bulma has more moments of this, having not only bathed Goku herself but is the one frequently trying to talk [[WomenAreWiser sense]] into the Dragon Team in the Android Saga. |
| 56 | * ''Manga/EdensZero'': Witch Regret of the Four Shining Stars has a kind and motherly nature that allows her to bring comfort to her crewmates during hard times, and goes into full MamaBear mode when anyone threatens her beloved "family". This gets lampshaded during the Nero 66 arc, where Rebecca calls Witch the crew's mom and Shiki dubbing her the "Mother of Edens" [[spoiler:while honoring her along with those who died in the battle]]. This takes up another meaning in the final arc [[spoiler:where flashbacks from when Witch and her fellow Shining Stars were humans [[{{Foreshadowing}} implies that she may be the mother of the protagonist Shiki Granbell]], which is finally confirmed in chapter 273 by Mother]]. |
| 57 | * Yuka, Kouta's cousin from ''Manga/ElfenLied''. {{Lampshaded}} in the anime, where she's sometimes referred to as the "mother" of the group. Even more when she and Kouta are given custody of Mayu, making her the girl's adoptive mother. |
| 58 | * Mamori Anezaki from ''Manga/Eyeshield21''. She even manages to (sort of) mother [[MagnificentBastard Hiruma]], machine guns and all. What's more, her affection for Sena is ''explicitly'' maternal in nature. |
| 59 | * Fern of ''Manga/FrierenBeyondJourneysEnd'' is a [[TheStoic stoic]] NiceGirl who reins in the rest of the party, especially her [[ChildrenRaiseYou adoptive mother Frieren]] who's an elf with ImmortalImmaturity. |
| 60 | * ''Manga/FruitsBasket'': |
| 61 | ** Tohru Honda is a traditional example, who heals and held the RagtagBunchOfMisfits together with the PowerOfLove. |
| 62 | ** Kyoko Honda nee Katsunuma is a rare loner example, who recruits quite the RagtagBunchOfMisfits, including her own daughter after her husband, Katsuya, healed her with the PowerOfLove. |
| 63 | * Namiko of ''Manga/GAGeijutsukaArtDesignClass''-- {{Lampshaded}} by her version of the ending that said she practically "mothers" the others. |
| 64 | * Colonel Volcott from ''Anime/GalaxyAngel'' takes on this role even though [[GenderFlip he's a guy]]. Since it's played for comedy, he completely fails at being a Team Mom, and ends up being more of a 'team maid' doing all the menial chores. |
| 65 | * In ''Anime/GreatPretender,'' Cynthia is the nicest member of Team Confidence, and is often kind to Makoto. [[spoiler: Even in her Pola Dickens personality, she tries her best to be kind and understanding with him before he knows who she is.]] |
| 66 | * Reki from ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei'', whose job is to look after the children of Old Home, still acts as the de facto leader and voice of reason within her group, and while somewhat gloomy and sarcastic, is generally seen as kind and reliable. [[spoiler:Her reasoning for this, however, is the conflict that drives the later episodes.]] |
| 67 | * ''Manga/{{Haikyuu}}'' has at least two confirmed male Team Moms: |
| 68 | ** Koushi Sugawara is the vice-captain and motherly counterpart to TeamDad [[TheCaptain Daichi Sawamura]]. He is known for being Karasuno's nicest player and is very caring and soothing. He is one of the rare people able to calm Kageyama down and tends to invigorate his teammates when he enters the court, earning the [[InSeriesNickname nickname]] "Mr. Refreshing", courtesy of Oikawa. |
| 69 | ** Morisuke Yaku is Nekoma's mom friend, chastising and pushing his teammates further, but also caring a lot about their well-being. For instance, Yaku teared up when he saw [[NoSocialSkills Kenma]] quickly befriending Hinata. |
| 70 | ** Keiji Akaashi could also qualify with the way he became an expert in dealing with Bokuto's mood swings. |
| 71 | * Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya takes up the role from time to time. Like when she takes care of Kyon after he falls off a cliff during the Mystery Murder, plays with Kyon's little sister and other kids, stays by Kyon's bedside ''for three days'' [[spoiler: when he's hospitalized during ''Disappearance'']] or [[spoiler: watches over the sick Yuki in the beginning of Volume 10.]] |
| 72 | * ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'''s Integra acts this way sometimes in the manga, in particular as contrast to "TeamDad" Alucard in their guidance of Seras Victoria. While he tries to be harsh, lying down the rules and teaching her practical matters in his twisted way, Integra nurtures her in own way, gives {{Cool Down Hug}}s and feeds her (via her own blood) with more diplomacy. At the epilogue, she chides at her like a mother would to a naughty child. |
| 73 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': |
| 74 | ** Male example: Antonio/Spain, who raises Lovino/South Italy almost on his own. |
| 75 | ** Elizaveta/Hungary (who starts as Feliciano/North Italy's CoolBigSis and is promoted to Team Mom when she marries TeamDad Roderich/Austria) |
| 76 | ** Ukraine is less lucky since her younger siblings are ''both'' {{Yandere}}s, but seems to [[CloudCuckooLandersMinder do fine]] with [[CloudCuckoolander Poland]]. |
| 77 | ** China is the Team Mom of the Allies, trying to remain as the OnlySaneMan [[WithFriendsLikeThese as they all struggle]]. This goes double in regards to the Asians since he often tries to give them advice or assert some authority over them... only for them, save for Korea, to see him as [[HelicopterParents overbearing and nagging instead.]] |
| 78 | ** The Team Mom of the Nordics is Sweden: he's levelheaded, serious, good at woodcrafts, and has even adopted two child micronations (Sealand and Ladonia). |
| 79 | ** Among the [[GenderFlip Nyotalia]] girls, female!England seems to fit in here. Not only she's seen wearing a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII nurse uniform and carrying a broom in official art, when [[WeirdnessMagnet Estonia]] meets the Nyotalias she stops female!America from hitting him in a manner that resembles like a mother or caretaker scolding a naughty kid. |
| 80 | * Rias Gremory from ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' acts as this for her demon peerage. She regularly gives out motherly hugs, tells them how [[SoProudOfYou proud she is of them]], and even scolds them on occasion. Not to mention that she will go berserk if [[MamaBear her enemies disparage or threaten them]]. Azazel even calls her out at one point for coddling them too much. And that's all in spite of the fact that most of them are her competition for [[ChickMagnet Issei]]'s affections. |
| 81 | * ''Manga/HozukisCoolheadedness'': Shikimi, a chief of staff of one of Hell's kings like Hozuki, has such a sweet and loving personality that her subordinates remark that she makes them want to call her "Mom". Visitors to the office express the same connection. Her "Mom-ness" goes so far that when someone is confirmed to be lying in her judge's court, the immediate punishment is 100 spankings on the butt administered by Shikimi. |
| 82 | -->'''Hozuki:''' She's one tough mama of a chief of staff. |
| 83 | * Kagome Higurashi in ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}''. As TheLancer in the FiveManBand, she keeps TheHero in line ("SIT, BOY!"), acts like the TagalongKid's ParentalSubstitute, offers [[TheBigGuy The Big Girl]] moral support ''and'' [[ShipperOnDeck ships her with]] TheSmartGuy. |
| 84 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'' gives us a male example in Bruno Bucciarati, a man with a habit of recruiting wayward teenagers to [[TheMafia the familia]] to get them off the streets. He treats them as his children more than subordinates, encouraging them to make the best decisions for themselves and [[MamaBear defending them fiercely in fights]]. It's especially prominent with Narancia, who initially wanted to join the gang after Bruno paid his hospital bills... and immediately got shot down, being told he's too young and that he needs to go home and get his ass back in school. |
| 85 | * Almost every Clan in ''Anime/{{K}}'' has [[GenderInvertedTrope male ones]]. |
| 86 | ** Kuroh for Hakumaitou, who sits the others down and starts cooking for them, even while he's still trying to kill them, and keeps making lunch for them (leading to Shiro's comment that Kuroh is [[ShipTease his wife]]). |
| 87 | ** Kusanagi for HOMRA, the one who makes all of the plans for the group, holds them all together, and knows exactly how to manage them emotionally (like in season 1 episode, 3, when he knows just what to tell Misaki and Rikio to get them to focus on the task and not worry about Mikoto). |
| 88 | ** Iwafune for Jungle - he cooks for the group, keeps them playing nice with each other, and is definitely like a father to Nagare, the Green King. |
| 89 | * In the anime ''VisualNovel/KamigamiNoAsobi'', Kusanagi Yui acts as this for the group of gods from different pantheons. She tries to make them all get along with each other and deals with their shenanigans patiently. She comforts them when they are feeling down and defends them when they get in trouble. She is ultimately TheHeart that ties them together. |
| 90 | * Nozomi in ''Anime/LoveLive'' - she is the one who gets the team together, guiding all of the members into realizing they want to be in the group, and she cares for them emotionally after they're all assembled as well. She also picked the name of the group - there are nine muses, and [[TarotTroubles the cards told her]] there would be nine members. |
| 91 | ** Dia from the SequelSeries, ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine'' - she is initially an ObstructiveBureaucrat because she wants to protect the new wannabe school idols from the harsh reality surrounding the Love Live and at the same time, subtly guiding them on what they actually need to compete such as a composer and sufficient club members. After the club officially formed, she continued supporting them in the background through words and actions such as turning on the generators in Episode 3 and comforting them after their Tokyo performance. After she joined the club, she becomes more of an ApronMatron. |
| 92 | ** In ''Sunshine'' Kanan also fits, as she's a selfless NiceGirl who looks after everyone's well-being even to the point she ignores her own feelings to do so. She's also a CoolBigSis to Chika, You and later even Riko, who admire her maturity and see her as kind of a role model. Kanan is typically kind and mature, and in turn looks after them and offers advice much like a real older sister; her BigSisterInstinct indeed is displayed to the younger members, mostly to the second year trio in general, but she's especially protective of Chika, whom she outright considers a younger sister of hers, also preventing her from performing the special routine the third years originally devised years ago, as not only is it difficult to pull off, it could risk injuring her or worse. |
| 93 | * ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'': |
| 94 | ** The Yagami Family has two Team Moms. Within the Wolkenritter there's Shamal, who performs the most overtly feminine tasks of the group (support spells, food shopping [[[LethalChef but not cooking]]], and her main hobby is gossiping among the neighborhood housewives). Hayate meanwhile serves as one for the Yagami family as a whole, and outright referred to the Wolkenritter as her children [[WiseBeyondTheirYears even back when she was nine]]. |
| 95 | ** Lindy pulls double duty as both this and the BigGood in both the first season and ''A's'', though it's more pronounced in the latter. Considering that she actually is a mother and all of the important characters serving under her are children, it's understandable that she'd naturally fall into the role. Incidentally, out of the six aforementioned children serving under her, only one of them doesn't become her actual child (whether by birth, marriage, or adoption) by the time of ''[=StrikerS=]''. |
| 96 | ** This is a running gag with Victoria in in the ''[=ViVid=] Life'' {{Yonkoma}}, where her friends will often refer to her as having a very motherly personality. It's even a plot point in the second ''Anime/VividStrike'' OVA, where she's the only one whose able to get close to [[NeverBeHurtAgain Rinne]] for this very reason (that, and she's the only competitor who is Rinne's [[TheOjou social equal]]). |
| 97 | * ''Manga/MahouShoujoNoKareinaruYosei'': Shijima Reimei is the youngest of the girls in her dorm, being fourteen when her dormmates, rendered TheAgeless by being retired magical girls, range from the mid-30s to a full millenium. However, the elder magical girls are drunken, voyeuristic, and/or {{Hikkikomori}} layabouts who live off cup ramen and don't do a bit of actual cleaning for themselves. When Shijima takes it upon herself to fulfill these tasks, and in the process learns how to corral her unruly seniors, the other girls start calling her "Shijimama". This extends to other characters who see her in action, such as her school friends Hairi and Nanahoshi and the school principal Noix. |
| 98 | * The ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' series, either from the Universal Century continuity or the numerous [[AlternateUniverse AU series]], seem to REALLY love to apply this trope to their girls: |
| 99 | ** In the original ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'', we have both White Base helmswoman Mirai Yashima and Lieutenant Matilda Ajan. Mirai's place as Team Mom is [[LampshadeHanging acknowledged in canon]] when AcePilot Sleggar tells Cameron Bloom that he should respect Mirai's wishes, since she's the mother of the White Base [[spoiler: and is confirmed when she gets involved with Bright, the TeamDad]]. Frau Bow also was a bit of a Team Mom, though younger and more childish than the other two. |
| 100 | ** Princess [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Marina Ismail]], emphasized when [[spoiler: she mothers a bunch of kids who are refugees from her destroyed Kingdom]] |
| 101 | * ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': |
| 102 | ** Momo Yaoyorozu, overlaps between this and CoolBigSis being the most mature of the Class-A girls she effortlessly gives supportive encouragement and care to her peers (especially to the other girls like Jiro) despite the perversion of Mineta or the douchery of Bakuro. |
| 103 | ** To a lesser extent Ochaco Uraraka is this for her team, specifically during the Cavalry Battle Arc. She’s was the first first to notice when the usually collected Tsuyu Asui was upset and readily gives support to Tenya Ida and Midoriya (although she has a crush on the latter). |
| 104 | ** Surprisingly as seen in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantes'' DressedLikeADominatrix Nemuri Kayama aka Midnight actually has shades of this in her civilian persona, giving motherly support to others like Pop☆Step and Hina despite the latter being a villain. |
| 105 | * ''Manga/{{NANA}}'': Nana "Hachi" Komatsu, who is usually the childish one in most of her relationships, is actually quite motherly towards the members of Blast (with the exception of [[spoiler: Yasu]], who is this type of character too), even before [[spoiler: she finds out she's pregnant]]. Afterwards, it only increases especially in regard to [[spoiler: her taking care of Nana O. after Ren's death]]. [[spoiler: Shin]] even starts referring to her as his mother. |
| 106 | * ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': |
| 107 | ** Tsunade isn't just Team Mom for the titular character and his allies, Tsunade is the Team Mom for all of Konohagakure (Leaf Village) during her time as Hokage and she also manages to be Team Mom ''for other Kages''. |
| 108 | ** Kurenai is a literal Team Mom for Team 8. She even adopted Hinata when her AbusiveParents kicked her out of the Hyūga family. |
| 109 | * ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Chisame fills the role in the Magic World Arc, making sure everybody stays on track and keeping the more CloudCuckooLander characters in check. |
| 110 | * Nami of ''Manga/OnePiece'', although she's a particularly selfish example, she's still [[WomenAreWiser the most responsible of the early crew]]. This ends when Robin pretty much takes over the role of Team Mom over time, even managing to mother Nami herself. |
| 111 | ** WordOfGod confirms this, saying that in regards to family dynamic, Robin is this (which gives some interesting perspective to the mild ShipTease with Franky, who Creator/EiichiroOda said was the TeamDad of the Straw Hats prior to Jimbei taking that role from him.) |
| 112 | * ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'': Kyoya is dubbed Team Mom by self-proclaimed TeamDad Tamaki, and Tamaki ups this a notch by addressing Kyoya as [[HoYay "Mom" or "Mommy" quite frequently]]. Technically, however, Tamaki is more of the Team Mom, while Kyoya is the TeamDad. |
| 113 | * ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}'': Shouma Takakura is a SupremeChef and often does the household chores, making him the perfect HouseHusband. Himari lampshades this in the last episode when she comments that [[spoiler: after their parents disappeared, Shouma pretty much took on the role of their mother.]]; even more, Kanba and Himari also refer to him as a YamatoNadeshiko, aka the pérfect Japanese ''wife''. |
| 114 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': |
| 115 | ** Brock, as the {{Supreme|Chef}} TeamChef, mediator, and voice of reason (at least, until [[CasanovaWannabe a pretty girl shows up]]). |
| 116 | ** Dawn's Togekiss looks to be one of these too, which is {{Lampshaded}} when she looks after Piplup as if it were, well, a little chick. Played terribly straight in the final episode of the ''DP'' saga, [[spoiler: when she comforts Pikachu and Piplup as they cry uncontrollably because Ash and Pikachu have to go back to Kanto.]] |
| 117 | ** In ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite BW]]'', we have Ash's Snivy, who seems to have taken up guiding the more childish Pokemon in the group as its calling. Shown in [[spoiler:''BW'' 57, when it has to save Axew and Scraggy after they accidentally enrage a wild Garbodor in the middle of the night]]. |
| 118 | ** For the ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon Sun and Moon]]'' saga, Mallow is the one who takes up this role as she's always looking out for the other characters, especially Lillie and Lana. |
| 119 | * Go, the Knight of Fire in ''Manga/{{Pretear}}'' takes on the Team Mom role for the Leafe Knights. He's not the team leader, but he's the one consistently making sure that the three child knights (and magical girl Himeno) are fed, napped, and kept out of trouble. Even the more important main knights defer to Go when it comes to field calls for the kids. By the end of the series, Go [[spoiler: (sends the kids away from the main battle so that some remnant of the Knights will survive to carry on the fight.)]] |
| 120 | * ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'': |
| 121 | ** Oishi Shuichiro: Vice-captain of Seigaku's tennis team, he is often nicknamed "Mother Hen of Seigaku" by his teammates for his motherly nature. In the parody where the teammates are portrayed as a large extended family, he's the mother. |
| 122 | ** Jackal Kuwahara from Rikkai also is the Team Mom. More specifically, he's often asked to take care of his BrattyHalfPint kouhai Akaya Kirihara. |
| 123 | * Lussuria of ''Manga/Reborn2004'' refers to '''himself''' as the "Mommy" of the Varia, so much so that his underlings actually call him "big sis". |
| 124 | * ''Literature/RebuildWorld'': The FriendlyShopKeeper Shizuka is this for Elena, Sara, and especially Akira, who she’s like a mix of an adoptive parent and CoolBigSis for. Shizuka shows AngerBornOfWorry, gives lots of advice, orders equipment she doesn’t sell on their behalf, tries to settle conflicts within the group, and acts as TheConfidant. |
| 125 | * ''Franchise/SailorMoon'': |
| 126 | ** Setsuna/Pluto fits this role as a mediator between the idealistic Inner Senshi and the pragmatic Outer Senshi. |
| 127 | ** Among the Inner Seishi, Makoto/Jupiter and Ami/Mercury have shades of this. Mako is the one who takes care more of housekeeping stuff and the Senshi as a whole adore her cooking, and Ami is the more CloserToEarth of the girls and [[OnlySaneMan often keeps her teammates grounded.]] And God ''help'' you [[MamaBear if you look at the other Senshi wrong]]: either of these girls will FUCK YOUR SHIT UP. |
| 128 | ** In the SliceOfLife episodes of the first [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]], Haruna Sakurada was this and a SternTeacher who equally scolded Usagi and her friends, but also showed sincere care for their well-being. (i.e., when she once found Umino and Naru knocked out, her first reaction was to check on them and then try finding help, before she also was caught by the MonsterOfTheWeek.) Too bad she got DemotedToExtra after the ''R'' season. |
| 129 | ** Even ''Luna the Cat'' has the Team Mom ball on her kitten back more than once. This is specially obvious in the early parts of the anime: when Usagi was getting used to the Sailor Senshi deals, Luna had to often scold her like a naughty kid and push her towards action, while also making sure she'd be okay. |
| 130 | * In ''AudioPlay/SaintBeast'', Rey tries to fulfil this role, being the cook, TheHeart, and the mediator, but occasionally fails thanks to his {{foil}} Gai, who is good at bringing out his immature side. |
| 131 | * Despite being the same age as her companions, Aquila Yuna from ''Anime/SaintSeiyaOmega'' basically keeps the team together. Her role becomes further reinforced in the Twelve Houses arc, where she becomes [[CooldownHug the guardian of Kouga's sanity]] and actively tries to make Eden become [[SixthRanger part of the team.]] |
| 132 | * ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'' has a male example in Hakkai, who, while very much combat-capable, explicitly serves as the team's primary support, handling conflicts and being the TeamChef as well as TheMedic. Although one of the reasons everyone listens to him seems to be the [[BadassBookworm fear]] [[{{Yandere}} of]] [[SerialKiller triggering]] [[SuperpoweredEvilSide his]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes anger]]. Regardless, he fits this role in the "family" pretty well, with Sanzo being the Dad,[[note]]he acts more like the Grandpa, despite only being a year older,[[/note]] and Gojyo and Goku being the older and the younger child, respectively; this dynamic gets played up a lot in the audio dramas. |
| 133 | * Fuu in ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'', keeps Mugen and Jin [[TeethClenchedTeamwork from killing each other]], sometimes literally. |
| 134 | * Ibuki of ''Manga/SamuraiHaremAsuNoYoichi'' fits this to a T, as a natural result of PromotionToParent after [[ParentalAbandonment their parents left her and her sisters alone as children.]] |
| 135 | * ''Manga/SchoolLive'' has two of these: |
| 136 | ** Megu-nee, the girl's teacher, is the only adult alive due to the ZombieApocalypse. She acts as a maternal figure to the girls and especially Yuki, who is the most sensitive and immature of the main characters. [[spoiler:She committed a HeroicSacrifice rather early into the apocalypse though. Even in death she managed to be a guidance figure to the group, albeit through Yuki's hallucinations of her.]] |
| 137 | ** Yuuri is in the same age as everyone else but plays the CoolBigSis of the group. [[spoiler:It helps that she is literally an older sister, though she blocked out the memory until dozens of chapters in.]] |
| 138 | %%* Raquel Casull of ''Literature/ScrappedPrincess''. If there is one perfect mother figure who isn't actually a mother, it's her. |
| 139 | * In ''Manga/ASilentVoice'', Shouko is this for the bridge friendship group despite ironically being the one in most need of care herself being deaf. Yet her disability doesn’t stop her being extremely caring figure to everyone and is always willingly to help her friends, to the utter annoyance of AlphaBitch Ueno. Other than Shouko, Sahara has shades of this being the first to try and break up arguments. |
| 140 | * In ''Manga/SoulEater'', we have two examples, one among the students and one among the teachers of the DWMA, both act as TheHeart for their groups: |
| 141 | ** Among the students, specifically the Spartoi, (group containing our main characters), we have Tsubaki Nakatsukasa, the most level-headed and emotionally mature of the students. She's always there to give motherly support to her friends, especially Black☆Star. |
| 142 | ** Among the teachers, we have Marie Mjolnir. As opposed to the other teachers' hardcore attitudes, Marie is downright motherly to her students, and in particular becomes a surrogate mother to Crona. |
| 143 | * Kitty Kitten from ''Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon'' is this to the orphans she took under her wing. To a degree, Lin and Karala fit in too. |
| 144 | %%* Lieutenant Filicia Heidemann from ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky'' fits this trope to a T, crossing it over with MamaBear in the meantime. |
| 145 | * ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' has two ''[[GenderInvertedTrope male ]]''[[GenderInvertedTrope examples]]. Kotetsu tries to "mother" his partner Barnaby and make sure he eats properly [[spoiler: (somewhat ironic considering the fact that Barnaby's an orphan)]], but ends up being more successful in the case of Ivan, Pao-Lin and Karina. The other "mom", Nathan, is more than happy to listen to his fellow superheroes' woes -- lending helpful and worldly advice whenever possible. |
| 146 | * Haise Sasaki from ''Manga/TokyoGhoul :Re'' is TheLeader of the Quinx, and would like to pretend he's stern enough to be their TeamDad. In reality, he admits to being too soft on them and cooks their meals, with the group worrying about being fed when he's too busy with work. It even gets lampshaded, with Saiko calling him "Maman" (the French variant of "Mama"). But just don't mess with his [[CurbStompBattle kids]]. |
| 147 | * Mari is this to the kids in ''Anime/TokyoMagnitude8''. She befriends the siblings after the earthquake and promises to take them home, being their adult supervision throughout the series. Mari herself is a widow with a toddler daughter, so she has experience with kids and is pretty maternal. |
| 148 | * Fai is not only frequently referred to as the team mom in ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' but makes sure everyone knows Kurogane's the TeamDad, too. (Much to [[{{Tsundere}} Kurogane's]] disgust and the {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s delight.) They also double as MamaBear and PapaWolf. |
| 149 | * Flute becomes this in ''Manga/ViolinistOfHameln''. It's even commented on by others, and pointed out that since most of them lost their own mothers at a young age, Flute just sort of naturally becomes a surrogate parent to them. [[spoiler:Flute's own mother]] Queen Horn seems to be this for all of Sforzando. |
| 150 | * The Team Mom in ''Manga/WaGaNaWaUmishi'' is more like the team grandpa, old Gramp. Without him there's a better than 80% chance that the rest of Nanba Salvage would have killed each other by now. |
| 151 | * Yun/Yoon is the Team Mom of the Happy Hungry Bunch in ''Manga/YonaOfTheDawn'' to the point where they jokingly call him "mother," which he finds irritating and a little touching. |
| 152 | * ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga'': Yugiri shares this role in alternating fashion with Sakura. She sometimes acts motherly towards the other girls, showing concern and acting the most mature. This makes sense given that she is the oldest girl at the time of death other than Tae (who is The Unintelligible) and Junko (who's the same age, just two months older) as well as being from the earliest time period. |
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| 155 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 156 | %%* Heather Hudson of ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight''. |
| 157 | * Janet Van Dyne aka ComicBook/TheWasp, while she's certainly more flirty and amorous than Sue below is still a very supportive mother figure for ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'', ever since the 60s. It's taken to a logical extreme in ''ComicBook/SecretWars1984'' where Janet is literally playing Team Mom for Marvel's collective heroes and when it seems like the villains have killed Janet, the good guys (especially She-Hulk) go on an UnstoppableRage. |
| 158 | * Alfred fits the role for the [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bat-Family]], providing basic care-giving and moral support, and occasionally being the only reason that the more obsessive members of the group (particularly Bruce) ''ever'' get any food or sleep. [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick]] actually called him his mom at one point, and [[ComicBook/Robin1993 Tim]] tells him (and only him) all of his secrets and asks for dating advice from him. |
| 159 | * Paulie from ''ComicBook/{{Circles}}'' is very kind and motherly to his friends and the others in his residence. He even prefers to call those who live in the residence his family. |
| 160 | * [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]] often acts as a motherly figure to the other [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Titans]]. It gets to the point where she complains about it overstressing her because she has responsibilities of her own to deal with. Unusually, Donna's actual parenting skills weren't as great. She was a [[ParentalNeglect neglectful mother]] who focused more on being a superhero than her own family. |
| 161 | * Susan Storm from the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' is this literally (having two young children) and figuratively, proving moral and emotional support for the whole team. This was the biggest reason her {{Stripperific}} costume in Tom Defalco's run was a failure that fans and critics alike hated; even the biggest fans of She-Hulk and Power Girl don't see Sue as the type. |
| 162 | * Mother of Champions is this to the ''Great Ten'', serving as a paragon of wisdom and emotional strength. It takes some kind of woman to lose 25 children eight days after they're born and remain in control. She's actually had sex with most of her teammates - but that's because these couplings produce soldiers with even greater abilities. |
| 163 | %%* Both Catherine Cobert and Sue Dibny played this role for the Justice League of Europe. |
| 164 | * The absent-minded cleric Piffany provides the moral center for the group in ''ComicStrip/{{Nodwick}}'' (she's also TheMedic). Her status as a likable, [[TheDitz ditzy]] PuritySue ([[WordOfGod by canon!]]) has her teammates be able to identify who the truly evil people in the setting are by them being mean to her. Gods save you from these {{Sociopathic Hero}}es ''if you make her cry.'' |
| 165 | %%* Nico Minoru of the ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}''. In her case, she actually is the Team Leader in battle, after Alex [[spoiler:betrays the team and then dies]]. |
| 166 | %%* Bane is trying to be this in the new ComicBook/SecretSix series. Seeing him mother assassins is... interesting, to say the least especially given that he's TheBigGuy. |
| 167 | * Franchise/WonderWoman can sometimes invoke this for ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica and ComicBook/JusticeLeague, Diana has been an [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/casscain/images/a/ad/Dcteaser.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110620214706 emotional anchor]] for even the most stoic members and she's broken up fights between heroes multiple times. Even Diana's DarkerAndGrittier revamp in ComicBook/New52 and to a lesser extent Rebirth, she remains a caring figure for the team. |
| 168 | * ''ComicBook/XMen'': |
| 169 | ** ComicBook/JeanGrey has always played Team Mom, whether it be for the original team or later on where Jean had taken multiple levels in badassery. ComicBook/KittyPryde and ComicBook/{{Jubilee|MarvelComics}} especially have appreciated Jean's affection and [[MamaBear strong care]], as has her son [[Characters/MarvelComicsXMan Nate Grey]] (notoriously, she's the only person other than BigBrotherMentor Spider-Man and possibly his actual big brother Cable who has any real influence on him). However, Jean herself has tried her best to defy this trope at times even as early as ''X-Men'' #12 when she had to play nursemaid to the wounded X-Men. Nowadays, she embraces it, but is quite clear that it's not even close to ''all'' of what she is. |
| 170 | --->'''Beast:''' My mother used to kiss me to expedite my recovery.\ |
| 171 | '''Jean:''' I do not happen to be your mother, Mr [=McCoy=]. |
| 172 | ** ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}} is also very much a Team Mom, helped by the fact she was the leader of the X-Men for a lot of the 70s era. Not only was Storm there for Kitty as a maternal figure but she was one of the few people who can make Wolverine detract his claws and cool him down from a Berserker Rage. |
| 173 | ** ComicBook/EmmaFrost has shown to be capable of being a Team Mom for her students, the Hellions, whom she cares for explicitly and was guilt-ridden at their deaths. Emma also cares for Stepford Cuckoos and even ComicBook/{{X 23}} in this manner. |
| 174 | ** Ironically Kitty Pryde once the TagalongKid becomes the Team Mom for ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'' who are the younger versions of the original four X-Men. Kitty especially cares for Jean in the same way older [[FridgeBrilliance Jean cared for her in earlier comics]]. |
| 175 | * When ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}, ComicBook/{{Superboy|1994}}, and ComicBook/{{Impulse}} first started out as ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'', Robin remarked with disgust that they were acting more like Impulse's parents than his teammates. To which Superboy responded "Whoa, hey! I am not the mom, okay? I am NOT the mom!" |
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| 178 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 179 | * ''Fanfic/AdventuresInTheHumanRealm'': Camilla finds herself the de facto mother of half a dozen kids. Despite the workload, she is nothing but nurturing and supportive of them. Hunter, who experienced massive abuse from Belos, is very much appreciative. |
| 180 | * Diana/Wonder Woman seems set to adopt this role for at least a third of the Avengers in ''Fanfic/AvengerGoddess'', considering that she saw Howard Stark as a brother after working with him during the Second World War- and thus sees Tony as a kind of nephew- and also [[spoiler:essentially adopts the future Black Widow when she destroys the Red Room in 1992, with 'Natalia' being the oldest of the current class and quickly coming to see Diana as a mentor]]. |
| 181 | * ''Blog/BetterBonesAU'': Icewing acts as a mother figure to some of the younger Dark Forest trainees, protecting them and in part joining the Dark Forest in the first place to look after her son Beetlewhisker, which later extends to the other cats there. |
| 182 | * ''WebVideo/{{Blixemi}}'': In "What Your Other Favorite Warrior Cat Says About You", Ferncloud fans are portrayed as being the "mother of the group" who always has snacks on hand. |
| 183 | * In ''Fanfic/TheBridge'', Mothra Lea fills the role for the core Terran Defender kaiju comprised of herself, Godzilla Junior, Rodan, and Anguirus. She's the most composed and culture savvy of the four, helping immensely in smoothing relations with the Equestrians; and can quickly call the other three into order. Ironically enough, while they are all around the same mental maturity [[note]]Rodan withstanding as younger[[/note]], she's biologically the ''youngest'' of the lot. |
| 184 | %%* ''Fanfic/Captive/AbyssCronica'': Killer is this for the Kid pirates. |
| 185 | * In ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', this usually alternates between Pepper (to the Avengers as a whole, ensuring that they stay organised and approximately sane - she even helps Harry pick the colours of his room) and Frigga (to everyone in range because she's the Goddess of Motherhood, often of the MamaBear variety to Harry and Diana). However, surprisingly enough, Thor actually has a few traits, usually where his son is concerned, that fit this trope better than TeamDad. |
| 186 | ** Sue Storm is this to her little brother, with her second on-screen appearance being chasing after him at a skating rink as he predictably goes zooming off at uncontrollable speeds. |
| 187 | ** Wanda, usually to Harry for whom she's a ParentalSubstitute (being his godmother), though she's more than willing to extend it to his friends, and [[spoiler: Lorna Dane, her much younger half-sister]], should they need it. |
| 188 | ** Jean Grey, who despite only being seventeen, is this to Harry (her cousin), [[spoiler: Maddie/Rachel (her stolen-at-birth twin sister)]], and just about everyone younger than her, including the younger Xavier Institute students (many of whom were traumatised by an experience with the Red Room, or a near-death experience in Bobby Drake's case) - partly because she's the ''de facto'' Head Girl. Unfortunately, in chapter 49 of the sequel, the pressures of this, her academics and responsibilities as captain of her school soccer (football) team all pile up and cause her to burn out. |
| 189 | * In ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'', Misato becomes this to her squad of teen mecha pilots. She leads them, looks after them and plays the peacemaker when they argue or fight. During the War, she takes Shinji and Asuka in. After the War, [[spoiler:the four fourteen-year-old kids have not relatives or friends left, and she becomes their caretaker, not giving a damn about what other people could think.]] |
| 190 | * ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'' has three: the [[Series/DoctorWho TARDIS]], who is essentially this to the Doctor and his Companions; Sally Watson, who is both an ''actual'' new mom and finds herself taking care of the younger Baker Street Irregulars; and Beth Lestrade, who helps Sally take care of the Irregulars and becomes TheLeader. |
| 191 | %%* Unohana is this towards Squad 4 in bleach canon. In ''Fanfic/{{Downfall|Bleach}}'', she manages to be this [[spoiler: to the arrancar]] in an... odd way. |
| 192 | * In fitting with the Comic Book example above, Sue Dibny is the Team Mom of almost the entire superhero community in ''Roleplay/DCNation''. It helps when you're the political liaison for the Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}} and used to take the senior [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Titans]] out for ice-cream after report cards. |
| 193 | * In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, the first four ''official'' trainee women Assassins are from disparate nationalities and backgrounds. Three are in their late teens or early twenties. The fourth is in her forties and the others soon realise she is the Team Mum, or at least the Team Slightly Crotchety Maiden Aunt, the glue who holds the four together. Over the fifteen months of the Mature Students' Course, Johanna, Emmanuelle and Alice realise they owe a lot to Joan and they each (although none would really openly admit it) consider her to be the best friend they have. |
| 194 | ** in ''Fanfic/ThePriceOfFlight'', the City Air Watch has its oldest pilot, Sergeant Nadezhda Popova, who is over forty and stands out in an organisation where the average age of a Witch-pilot is about twenty. Nadezhda inevitably becomes Mother Hen to the younger girls, and especially to the Fledglings, the youngest of all, the Air Cadets of the Watch. |
| 195 | * It may change in the future, but "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13755768/1/Donna-Noble-and-the-Magic-Castle-Year-1 Donna Noble and the Magic Castle]]" has Donna basically adopt this role after she's de-aged to 11 and sent back to 1991 at the moment of her death, often offering emotional support to Harry, Hermione and Neville once she starts at Hogwarts, aided by her own memories of being the emotionally awkward child who never quite fit in anywhere. |
| 196 | * Riza Hawkeye is heavily implied to have been this for the members of Roy Mustang's unit in the ''Fanfic/ElementalChessTrilogy''. She and Mustang are even playfully described at one point as having been "mommy and daddy to four rowdy little boys," and one of the 'rowdy little boys' admits that it's not entirely wrong. |
| 197 | * In ''Fanfic/EnTempusVeritas'', Martha is an obvious example of this, with Lois immediately asking Martha for any advice on how to be a good parent. However, when Lois is present for Chloe's reunion with Moira, Moira gives her niece her own advice on being a mother. |
| 198 | %% Please do not wick the following work as its page was deleted for violating The Content Policy, thank you. |
| 199 | * Of all people, Vexen is completely this in Fill The Moon; he basically raised the incredibly dysfunctional BadassFamily that was the Apprentices during their time in Radiant Garden, and continues to do so after they all become Nobodies. Once the Organization's ranks begin to swell, he manages to accept the others as surrogate children. [[spoiler:Well, except for Marluxia, but he's his lover.]] |
| 200 | %%* In ''Fanfic/FlyFree'', [[Franchise/OnePiece Robin]] plays this role to Team Seven, and her influence slowly spreads from there. What makes it funny is that the TeamDad is [[Franchise/{{Naruto}} Kakashi]] and the Team (and other genin) very much [[ShipperOnDeck ship the two]]. |
| 201 | * Fluorite becomes something of a mother figure to both the Off-Colors and Pink Diamond in ''Fanfic/FracturesSpaceDimentio'', comforting them and counseling them when they are upset. Pink Diamond even openly refers to her as being like a mother, explaining other what mothers are from her interactions with humans. |
| 202 | %%* In "post-rescue" ''[[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers Galaxy Rangers]]'' scenarios, Eliza Foxx often steps up for this role. Her husband [[AFatherToHisMen added three more "kids" to the roster]] during her absence. |
| 203 | * In ''Fanfic/{{Game Theory|LyricalNanoha}}'', Precia invoked this trope when she created her {{Familiar}}, Linith. Precia herself is simply not capable of providing Fate with the emotional comfort she needs, but she needed Fate to be stable enough to carry out her plans, so she had Linith fill that roll. [[spoiler:Linith later does the same for Nanoha and Vesta as well.]] |
| 204 | * In ''Fanfic/AGreenDragonsHoard'', Nemuri is noticeably nurturing and caring towards her students, wanting to make sure everyone's doing their best. It only takes a couple days for some members of the class to start calling her "Kayamama". |
| 205 | %%* Fluttershy has evolved into this in the ''Blog/ReadingRainbowverse''. |
| 206 | * In the PeggySue fic ''Fanfic/IAmNotGoingThroughPubertyAgain'', Hinata treats Shino and Kiba more like her sons rather than her teammates. Given that Hinata is twenty-five years their senior, and she has a son currently older than them, it wasn't hard for her to get into the role. |
| 207 | * ''Fanfic/JohannaMasonTheyWillNeverSeeMeCry'': |
| 208 | ** District 7 escort Laleney is constantly available to provide support and a voice of maturity for Johanna and Blight, with Johanna calling Lalaney her "Capitol Mom" at least once. |
| 209 | ** District 3 Victor Agnes, in addition to having actual kids, lives in the same house as the shellshocked Wiress, implicitly to give her emotional support (although it’s unclear which of the pair is older) and also invites their District's youngest Victor, orphaned sixteen-year-old Byte, and his little sister to live with them. |
| 210 | * [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander]] in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1460890/1/Living-History Living History]]'' is the only one of the Scoobies to actually take the time to get to know the younger Slayers. As a result, every Slayer not named Buffy, Faith, or Kennedy comes to him with all their problems. More than one character notes he's probably the only thing holding the new Council together. |
| 211 | ** In general, almost every ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' story that takes place after the SeriesFinale portrays Xander as the most nurturing of the Scoobies and the one people trust to look after them. It helps that canon has Xander referred to as both a white knight and the heart of the group. |
| 212 | * In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Izuku is a rare male example of this. He's by far the most empathetic person on the team, a great listener, and a constant source of positivity. He's always there to pick his friends up with a YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre speech and is nurturing towards his lonely and repressed friends Pyrrha, Weiss, and Blake. He also picks up a variety of typically girly hobbies, becoming Team MNVW's best cook and making pastries for special occasions as well as helping Nora fill up on pancakes. |
| 213 | %%* In a ''Series/MajorCrimes'' and ''Series/TheCloser'' fanfic ''Outsiders'', Lucy Leight is pretty much this to her four (one related, three foster-) sisters, and to an extent to the whole Net. The situation gets tricky when Brenda becomes the "fairy godmother" of ''all of them'', including Lucy - it's more or less two Team Moms on duty for the others and a nice dynamic between the two of them. |
| 214 | * In the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' harem fic ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfSeven'', Katie takes on an unconventionally sexual version of this role in Harry's harem, showing concern for Harry and Ginny's physical and emotional well-being even before she becomes an active part of the relationship and offering Harry emotional support during their private sessions. |
| 215 | * Charlene Bellis in the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' fanfic ''Fanfic/SodorsLegendOfTheLostTreasureBadEnding'', being the new controller of the North Western Railway, is naturally this to the engines. One way to get on her bad side is to threaten one of her engines with scrap, [[https://www.deviantart.com/kingofallkongs/art/SLOTLT-Bad-Ending-The-Search-for-the-Mail-Vans-978056724 as Holmes, a diesel working for the Barrow Union of Diesels, learned the hard way when he threatened to scrap Oliver]]. |
| 216 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheSuperStarrChronicles'', [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Clara_Creed_(Earth-616) Clara Creed]] takes up this role to the Brotherhood after she finds out that they have no one watching over them after Mystique seemingly got blown up during the episode "The Cauldron". |
| 217 | * Deconstructed in ''Fanfic/SurvivalATLA''. Katara's mother died when she was young, so she feels the urge to act as a mother figure towards her (older) brother. Katara's strong maternal feelings also extend to children in general as well as her tribe as a whole. This want to protect others at the cost to herself leads to self-destructive eating habits. Katara stops eating meals so that there's more food to go around, but it quickly warps into an eating disorder. |
| 218 | * Jeri Katou in the ''Fanfic/TamersForeverSeries'' is a Team MamaBear, as even when she [[TookALevelInBadass Takes A Level In Badass]] and becomes an ActionGirl she is still the most protective of the tamers. |
| 219 | * ''Fanfic/ThroughHerEyes'': Ruby might be the leader and heart of the team, bringing the girls together and inspiring them to be better, but it is Yang who smooths over jagged conflicts of personality between them and does her best to create a positive teamwork experience and comfortable homelife in the dorm. |
| 220 | ** For JNPR, it is unquestionably Jaune. His earnest desire to help and learn, his blasé reaction to Pyrrha's fame and his insistence on treating his teammates like family he simply hasn't seen for a while all conspired to pull his unrelated group together. While not stated directly, the story implies that between Jaune's experience in a big family and the overall less volatile temperament of it's members, JNPR get by with a lot less drama than RWBY most of the time. |
| 221 | * In Music/{{Vocaloid}} fanon, Meiko tends to take this role when not being a [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl drunkard]]. Due to her shared status as TheLadette, however, she tends to be either a MyBelovedSmother or MamaBear as well. When it's not her, it's usually [[TheStoic Luka]]. |
| 222 | %%* Aeris in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3881487/1/The_Unfamiliar The Unfamiliar]]'' |
| 223 | %%** [[spoiler: Also Jenova. In a weird, creepy way. ]] |
| 224 | * After learning about what goes bump in the night, [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Joyce Summers]] in ''[[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-28404-174/DianeCastle%2BXendra.htm Xendra]]'' acts like a mother to all the Scoobies, even the adults (barring Giles). Since she can't really fight, she mostly supports them by cooking for them and making sure everyone eats right and gets enough sleep. When she learns Wesley stayed up all night translating an old scroll, he's noted as looking like a child whose mother caught him staying up late watching cartoons. It helps that not only is she Buffy's mother but [[spoiler:due to Xendra being The Key, she's also Xander's adopted mother]]. |
| 225 | ** Xander later suggests a [=DRI=] agent call Joyce mom, claiming "All the cool kids are doing it". |
| 226 | * [[RareMaleExample Astis]] in ''Fanfic/YouCanOnlyUseYourOwn'' takes care of [[BrokenBird Chara]] and is probably the kindest of the fallen humans. |
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| 228 | |
| 229 | [[folder:Film -- Animated]] |
| 230 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'', La Muerte Gives off this vibe when she [[spoiler:protects Manolo and his family from her husband when she confronts him on his cheating. There's also her motherly interactions with the Detention Kids as Mary-Beth]]. |
| 231 | * In ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'', Margo is this for her fellow orphans Edith and Agnes. By the sequel she's playing this role to Gru too, and in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe3'' she's even giving advice to Lucy on how to be a good stepmother. |
| 232 | * Master Crane from ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' is described as the "Mother Hen", despite being male. And voiced by Creator/DavidCross. |
| 233 | * In ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', Snow White takes up this role after being taken in by the dwarves. She even tells them, grown (albeit short) men, they'll get no supper till they wash up! |
| 234 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Miriam is the most levelheaded of Mei's friend group, keeping the girls in check, and is the first to reach out to Mei to comfort her when she is depressed about the red panda situation. She is the voice of reason, and most empathetic of the trio of Mei's friends between the hyperactive Abby and the stoic Priya. Miriam also appears to be the most protective of her friends, especially when she suspects something bothers them. |
| 235 | [[/folder]] |
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| 237 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 238 | * In ''Film/Angel1984'', Mae is a feather-boa clad blonde transvestite who watches over Angel and the other young prostitutes like a mother hen. |
| 239 | * ''Film/{{Avatar}}'': Grace settles into this role to Jake and Norm, but especially Jake, who she acts very motherly to after she warms up to him, which is best exemplified when she tucks him in after he falls asleep while making a video recording and when she becomes makes him eat something before he goes into his avatar. |
| 240 | * Sam Gerard in ''Film/TheFugitive'' manages to be both Team Mom and TeamDad: he refers to his team as his 'kids' and is constantly concerned about their well-being, to the extent that this spills over to reassuring and taking care of Richard Kimble (the titular fugitive himself) at the end of the film. |
| 241 | * Balin takes on this role in ''Film/TheHobbit''. So does Dori, but usually when it concerns his youngest brother Ori. |
| 242 | * ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'': |
| 243 | ** Interestingly, Black Widow seems to fall into this role for Avengers more often than not. She's quite the emotional support to Hawkeye, Cap, and even Tony especially in ''[[Film/TheAvengers2012 The Avengers]]'' and ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''. At one point in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', Natasha even complains about having to pick up after "you boys" like they're a bunch of kids and she's the babysitter. It comes to a head in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' where Natasha is literally keeping tabs on everyone and treats the Avengers like they're her family, [[spoiler: so when she dies, the original Avengers become absolutely distraught]]. |
| 244 | ** Gamora similarly is this for ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'', as while Star-Lord, Rocket, Drax, Rocket, and Groot are a bunch of [[ManChild Man children]] she's the OnlySaneMan and can be a supportive figure when she wants. It becomes even more blatant in the ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' where she's very motherly to Baby Groot and Mantis. |
| 245 | * ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'': Nancy provides leadership, emotional support, and protection to the traumatized teenage patients under her care, helping them understand what is happening to them and fight back. |
| 246 | * Jason Scott from ''Film/PowerRangers2017'' is the Team Mom. He's always looking out for the others, his own well-being inconsequential. He's ready to take the blame when things go wrong and is the one most of the others turn to when they're upset. |
| 247 | * Mia in ''Film/{{Rovdyr}}''. She ensures all of the group know the hiking safety rules; defends her bother against Roger's bullying; encourages Camilla to stand up Roger's [[DomesticAbuse abusive behaviour]] (and warns Roger that she's watching him); tends to Camilla's wound after she is scratched by the vagrant; and even angrily confronts their abductors, demanding to know who they are and what they want. That last one was probably a bad idea. |
| 248 | * Tara in ''Film/{{Shrooms}}'', who organises everyone; is the first one to be concerned and arranges a search when Bluto goes missing; and even packs extra tampons for the other women on the trip. |
| 249 | * Princess Leia from ''Franchise/StarWars'', while she started off as the token girl, as the movies went on she becomes more like the Team Mom being the OnlySaneMan compared to more childish Han, Lando and to lesser extent Luke. Hell even in the first movie she put a blanket over Luke when he was traumatized over Obi-Wan's death. It's most blatant in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' and ''Film/TheLastJedi'' where she's a mother figure for Rey, Poe and the whole Rebellion as a whole. |
| 250 | * According to his toy bio, Demolishor from ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' acts as a ''guardian'' to a leaderless group of Decepticons on Earth. Giant. One-wheeled. Rampaging. ''Demolishor.'' |
| 251 | * ''Film/VanHelsing'': Verona is a villainous version. In addition to her desire for actual motherhood, she cares about the safety of Dracula and the other brides and speaks against a few strategies that will endanger them. |
| 252 | * Hal Moore's wife does this in ''Film/WeWereSoldiers'' personally handing the notifications to the families of the fallen. |
| 253 | * Rose becomes this in ''Film/WereTheMillers'', despite initially just getting into the role as a cover. |
| 254 | * ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': |
| 255 | ** As a man with an [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide androgynous personality]], Professor X is a father figure to his surrogate family who also has a prominent "motherly" side. Xavier had already exhibited strong nurturing tendencies in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', and here, he calls his students "my darlings" when he sends them off to bed, and he even uses a ''Film/MaryPoppins'' reference (the joke being that he behaves slightly like a "governess" around the younger children). He is very gentle and caring when he soothes Jean's fears about her death-filled "nightmare" and her telepathy. After Raven becomes his NumberTwo within the X-Men, Charles' "maternal" approach appears more pronounced because Mystique is the drill sergeant who molds the team into soldiers, and he's the one who takes charge of their academic education and their emotional well-being. |
| 256 | ** Ororo is the matriarch of her small band of street urchins. She steals to feed them, and they obey her when she shoos them off so that she can have a private conversation with Apocalypse. |
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| 259 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 260 | * In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', Cassie gives emotional comfort and moral advice to the others… whether they want it or not. Her boyfriend, Jake, is the TeamDad. |
| 261 | * In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' Jerin fills this position for his younger siblings, to the point that the younger ones act as if they're losing their father a second time when they are told that Jerin will leave. |
| 262 | * Vanity, from Creator/JohnCWright's ''Literature/ChroniclesOfChaos'' is universally recognized as team mom, despite being the third youngest member. She cemented her status by [[FeminineWomenCanCook getting fire, food, and dry clothes]] for the team after their previous leader inadvertently dropped them into a river. |
| 263 | * Among the three guides from ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', Beatrice is the one who the protagonist is most dependent on emotionally and intellectually. He occasionally compares this dependence to a child who looks back at his mother either for affirmation or for a sense of security. |
| 264 | * Fitz Kreiner, from the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'', once brought three meals a day to the Doctor's door when the Doctor was mourning the death of a loved one, for almost four whole days. The Doctor never actually ate any of them. He also once carried around a pair of clean socks for days while the Doctor was wandering through a jungle -- when the Doctor reemerges, he finds he does in fact need them. Whenever the Doctor [[RealMenGetShot gets hurt]], it's almost inevitably Fitz's job to [[{{Determinator}} get him to take a break]] and then tend to him. He's also the first character to start treating Trix civilly, even though she stowed away on the TARDIS, and he often functions as TheHeart of the group when the Doctor is making morally-dubious decisions. When the Doctor develops TraumaInducedAmnesia, Fitz ends up with the most functional seniority on the TARDIS. Although the Doctor is also the TeamChef and often protective of the other characters, Fitz is so overly loyal to the Doctor that he doesn't always [[WhatTheHellHero call him on his shit]], and Anji is responsible for the vast majority of the series' [[CloserToEarth sensible decision-making]], see the following exchange, in which Fitz behaves like [[Literature/HarryPotter Molly Weasley]] and the Doctor [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it: |
| 265 | -->A moment later, she heard the footsteps on the stairs and Fitz banged in. He glared at the Doctor. |
| 266 | -->'Here you are! I've been all over the bloody place not knowing what had happened to you. You ever hear of leaving someone a note?' |
| 267 | -->'Sorry, Da,' murmured the Doctor. |
| 268 | * Mina Harker serves this role in Bram Stoker's ''Literature/{{Dracula}}''. It's a little muddled at times, what with her also being the DamselInDistress, but it really shows at the beginning of the third act. With team morale failing, Mina talks to each of the men and convinces them to keep fighting, not just for her sake, but to avenge fallen friends and to cleanse the world of evil. |
| 269 | * ''Literature/EarthGirl'': When the ContaminationSituation occurs, Jarra is alone in charge of three trainees. After evacuating with them, they find that the rest of the class have been evacuated elsewhere. Jarra therefore remains in charge of the terrified trainees, keeping them safe and calm while terrified herself, and making sure they get their medicine when available. |
| 270 | * In Creator/DavidEddings' ''Literature/TheElenium'' series, Sephrenia is this for the Pandion Order, and to a lesser extent the other three Orders. The knights all call her 'little mother', and if you threaten her, you'll have roughly 100,000 highly trained paladins ready to kill you. Even Martel, an exiled Pandion who's one of the main villains of the ''Elenium'' trilogy, still holds that attitude. |
| 271 | * In ''Literature/TheFightForHome'' Fae Kirin becomes this to the crew aboard the RAINE. She encourages the crew to set aside their differences and work together, as well as help keep the general morale and mood of the crew from snapping. |
| 272 | * Mommy fills this role in ''Literature/TheFireUsTrilogy'' for a group of orphans trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. |
| 273 | * There's Molly Weasley of ''Literature/HarryPotter'', who is the mother of seven children. She considers Harry to be like a son, treats Hermione like a daughter and acts as hostess to the whole Order of the Phoenix as well. |
| 274 | ** Among the younger main characters, Hermione herself acts as this, often looking after Harry and Ron's safety and reminding them of things they need to do (occasionally to their annoyance). She's also the oldest of the three, being born ten months before Harry, who was born four months after Ron. |
| 275 | * Cora from ''Literature/TheHeartsWeSold'' takes on this role for the rest of the heartless troop, as she's the oldest. She explains what the deal is to new members, and tries to keep tabs on the others so she can protect them as best she can. [[spoiler:This also extends to ''potential'' members, as she tries to talk Riley out of joining, since Cora thinks it'll ruin her (Riley's) life if she does.]] |
| 276 | * ''Literature/HiveMind2016'': This is explicitly part of Megan's job as Amber's unit administrator. Many telepaths are on poor terms with their families, so the administrator's role includes acting as a parental substitute. She is also TheMedic, fully imprinted as a doctor and counselor, and in charge of the physical and mental health of the entire unit, especially the telepath. |
| 277 | * ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': Effie Trinket, to an extent. Seems more obvious in the movies. |
| 278 | * ''Literature/InDeath'': Dr. Mira. She has explicitly told Eve in ''Judgment In Death'' that she considers her a surrogate daughter. |
| 279 | * Charlotte Branwell from ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices''. Her main function is basically making sure everybody doesn't kill everybody. |
| 280 | * ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'': Edmund Pevensie claims Susan always tries to act like Mother, bossing the two youngest Pevensies around. He's right. Her goal is to keep them safe. |
| 281 | * In the latter two books of the ''Literature/{{Newsflesh}}'' trilogy, Maggie plays this role, offering her friends safe places to stay, cooking for them, refereeing conflicts, watching over their health, and providing substantial financial aid. |
| 282 | * In ''Literature/NineGoblins'', Sergeant Nessilka was the eldest of six children and brings much the same approach to guiding her RagtagBunchOfMisfits. |
| 283 | * Renie Sulaweyo adopts this role to some extent in ''Literature/{{Otherland}}'', acting as the leader, spokesperson, and MamaBear for the RagtagBunchOfMisfits infiltrating the computer network. Of course, she's ''not'' (with a few exceptions) herding around a bunch of kids, and so the others frequently resent this behavior. |
| 284 | * Wendy Moira Angela Darling from ''Literature/PeterPan'' acts as mother to the Lost Boys, advising them, offering comfort when needed, and telling bedtime stories. |
| 285 | * In Robert Asprin's ''Literature/PhulesCompany'' series of books, the female Legionnaire Rose is [[ShrinkingViolet a painfully shy]] soldier who can only communicate when using a radio. She is apparently becomes very good at it and becomes the main communications point of the company, with everyone calling her "Mother" for being the kindly nag that she is, about things like eating and sleeping. She even mothers Phule and ''Brandy''. |
| 286 | * In ''Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall'', Kel takes this role from the start and escalates it through the series. From the leader of a study group in book one to a refugee camp in book four. She's even a full-fledged ParentalSubstitute for Tobe. (She even makes Neal eat his vegetables in their very first year. Neal is ''a few years'' '''older''' than Kel.) |
| 287 | * In ''Literature/{{Spoonbenders}}'', Irene was tasked with playing the part of "the responsible" member of the family, something was made so much worse once her mother died, making her the only responsible member of the family. |
| 288 | * ''Literature/SpotsTheSpaceMarine'' - Magda "Spots" Guitart kicks tail while providing the quiet voice of experience to the squad. |
| 289 | * ''Literature/TeenPowerInc'': Liz got the group together in the first place and is the person most likely to spend her time helping the others or listening to them in earnest. |
| 290 | * ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': In the ''Marie Route'' AlternateTimeline Web Novel series, Marie is made into this. She takes care of a DysfunctionJunction of TheShutIn girls who she plays TheMatchmaker for, acting almost like a special needs teacher making them behave and take care of themselves. As well as treating [[TheBabyOfTheBunch the childlike]] A.I. installed in the Arroganz LikeASonToMe. One of Marie's themes is creating a FamilyOfChoice to replace her abusive blood family, and insulting them will make her really angry. |
| 291 | * Cordelia, in the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'', is this in her role as a Betan Survey Captain, noting that her subordinates frequently disregard orders in favor of their democratically-determined ones. Much of her job consists of mothering a crew of scientists with dubious social skills as they fumble over unexplored planets and each other. On Barrayar, she becomes this to Emperor Gregor and Vorkosigan House, and her social campaigning is her attempt to be this for the entire planet. Unlike other examples of this trope, she is in a position of significant authority, and her Team Mom qualities are mostly an extension of her approach to leadership. Fittingly, her husband is AFatherToHisMen and explicitly described as treating his subordinates like his sons. |
| 292 | * In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', Daisy's main role is to care for the kits and help new mothers with the trials of motherhood. She's a literal team mom. |
| 293 | * Kanga fits this trope in ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'', being [[SmurfettePrinciple the only girl of the main cast]], being [[WomenAreWiser the most sensible of the main cast]] (at least [[AdaptationDisplacement in the Disney adaptations]], in the original books she can be [[SubvertedTrope as reckless as everybody else]]) and being the actual mother of Roo, plus the [[HappilyAdopted adoptive]] mother of Tigger. Rabbit also fills this trope albeit to a much lesser degree, as WordOfGod states that he and Owl were not based on one of the real Christopher Robin's toys, but on what Creator/AAMilne believed Christopher viewed as being his mother and father, respectively. |
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| 296 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 297 | * The ''Series/ThirtyRock'' episode "Khonani" was about how [[AuthorAvatar Liz Lemon]] is this, in addition to being the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]], to her co-workers. |
| 298 | * Alex from ''Series/AshesToAshes2008''. Pretty much her entire role in the third series is to sort out the problems of the other characters, and she is the one who offers advice and a shoulder to cry on throughout. There is the distinct implication throughout the first and second series of a lack of balance in the team when she isn't there which is supported by the way it falls apart after Gene shoots her, and the team members are so protective of her that physical or verbal slights towards her committed by outsiders have resulted in [[TortureForFunAndInformation severe beatings]], death, and an ''eleven-year-old school boy'' being thrown in a cell. Almost [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] twice: |
| 299 | --> *hits man holding a knife to Gene's throat over the head with a crowbar* |
| 300 | --> '''Alex:''' Say hello to [[MamaBear mummy bear]] |
| 301 | ** And: |
| 302 | --> '''Gene:''' I left the children playing |
| 303 | * Male example: Sergeant Carwood Lipton (played by Donnie Wahlberg) from ''Series/BandOfBrothers'', as he most often is the one looking out for Easy Company. |
| 304 | * ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': |
| 305 | ** Penny is occasionally roped into this, as she is too sympathetic to refuse the job. Usually ends up getting stuck with [[ManChild Sheldon]] when no one else wants to deal with him. She's even taken to calling him "sweetie" in a kind, yet extremely patronizing, manner. This was especially emphasized in the episode "The Guitarist Amplification," where Sheldon runs away to the comic book store, because he can't bear hearing Penny and Leonard fighting. And again after Penny and Leonard break up, he acts like a child whose parents just divorced, complete with an ersatz custody battle. |
| 306 | ** Sheldon's mother and to a lesser extent, Howard's mother, play these to the group, including Penny. Sheldon's mother is the one of the few forces that can get Sheldon back to reason while the rest of the group respect and like her for her kindness. Howard's mother is a stereotypical Jewish mom, but she does dote on her son and his friends on occasion. Tearfully lampshaded [[spoiler: when Howard learns his mother died and as Howard and Bernadette head to the funeral, Leonard leads the rest of the group to a toast on how Ms. Wolowitz was a mother to them all.]] |
| 307 | * On ''Series/{{Bones}}'', Cam sometimes fills this role. She even said to Hodgins and Vincent "You know you're both grounded, right?" after they fired a cannon indoors. And rather than firing them, she just bans them from being in the same room without supervision. |
| 308 | ** Recurring character Caroline Julian is a version of this as well. She's one of the oldest major characters, tends to gives stern talking-tos to the younger characters whenever needed, and ([[DeadpanSnarker while it sometimes might not be obvious]]) she cares about the team and really tries to take care of them in her own way. In "[[Recap/BonesS6E1TheMastodonInTheRoom The Mastodon In The Room]]", several characters claim that they are the glue that holds the team together and brought them back together. Brennan points out that it was actually ''Caroline'' that reached out and pulled them all back together. |
| 309 | * ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': While Sergeant Terry Jeffords has elements of TeamDad, he generally plays this role, being more nurturing to his subordinates. In "The Apartment" he even compares himself to a mother hen, with the precinct being his chicks. |
| 310 | -->'''Jeffords''': Jake, you know I love you like I love one of my daughters.\ |
| 311 | '''Peralta''': ''Really''? |
| 312 | * ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'': |
| 313 | ** Joyce Summers on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. She took care of Willow and Xander when sick, soothed a brokenhearted Spike with cocoa and marshmallows (while he was still evil!), and once clubbed Spike unconscious with an axe in an awesome display of MamaBear. |
| 314 | ** ''Series/{{Angel}}'': Cordelia Chase [[TookALevelInKindness in a far cry]] from her Buffy days becomes Team Mom for Angel Investigations being the emotional anchor and glue that keeps the guys together, [[spoiler: and she even becomes a surrogate mother for baby Connor in Season 3]]. Cordelia's absence is also certainly a factor in causing everything to go wrong in the third season. |
| 315 | * Sister Julienne on ''Series/CallTheMidwife''. She is, essentially, the glue that holds Nonnatus House together. |
| 316 | * ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'': Though she yo-yos between MamaBear and BigBrotherInstinct, second-born Piper is this among the Charmed Ones from season four onwards (in fact it's even lampshaded when one of her little sisters asks her to stop mothering them). In seasons 1-3, Prue typically took the motherly role towards Piper and Phoebe, as she had done ever since [[MissingMom their mother died]] when they were children. Piper's taking over of this role is the first indication that she had stepped up into Prue's shoes after the oldest sister's death. |
| 317 | * Deconstructed in ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode [[Recap/CommunityS1E12ComparativeReligion Comparative Religion]]; Shirley usually fulfills the role in a more benevolent fashion, but here she explicitly does so in a passive-aggressive and emotionally manipulative manner designed to guilt trip and browbeat her friends into doing what she wants to do how she wants to with little consideration for their thoughts on the subject. It's also pointed out that she's not ''actually'' their mother, no matter how much she acts like it, and so has no right to do this sort of thing. |
| 318 | --> "You can't talk to me like that. You're not Shirley!" [Beat] "And Shirley's not my Mom!" |
| 319 | * One episode of the British documentary ''Coppers'' was about a Territorial Support Group - a van load of cops who act as mobile backup. Their sergeant was a woman. She said "I don't actually have any children, but I sometimes feel like a parent when I'm with this lot." |
| 320 | * Aaron Hotchner of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' is another male example, although he doesn't fit the role perfectly: if anyone on the team breaks FBI protocol, he'll chastise them for that before he tells them how proud he is. {{Lampshaded}} in an early episode when Elle starts referring to him as "Mom". He gets mad and tells her to stop. Lampshaded again after Rossi has joined the team, with the others referring to him and Hotchner as [[TeamDad Dad]] and Mom, respectively. |
| 321 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'' had Catherine (who usually took the role of CoolBigSis, but she had her "Mom" moments, at least until she was PutOnABus) and now that she's gone, Sara seems to be stepping into the role a bit. |
| 322 | * ''Series/CSIMiami'' had Alexx, who even acted matronly to the ''corpses'' that came her way, or did until she was PutOnABus. |
| 323 | * ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' had Stella (especially to Lindsay) for six years, though Jo Danville kind of took over (especially to Adam) once Stella was PutOnABus. |
| 324 | * Jon Stewart ends up in this role from time to time as a result of being the OnlySaneMan at ''Series/TheDailyShow''. |
| 325 | * Dwayne Wayne's mom (played by Patti Labelle) on ''Series/ADifferentWorld'' mothers all of Dwayne's friends and brings her famous prune cobbler. Lettie and Stevie are this at Gilbert Hall. |
| 326 | * In ''Series/DoctorWho'', the [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirteenthDoctor Thirteenth Doctor]] is this, when she's not being a {{Womanchild}} - she loves biscuits and calls her TARDIS team "[[TotallyRadical fam]]" in the most white-English-mum way possible. |
| 327 | * Despite being male, Ren from ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' fits this pretty well, to the extent that other characters on the show have actually dubbed him the mom of the group. |
| 328 | * ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': |
| 329 | ** Zhaan, by virtue of her background as a priest, often acts as a spiritual guide and the voice of reason among the inhabitants of Moya. During the first season she's the most patient and understanding with FishOutOfWater John Crichton and often advises him on how to win over the rest of the crew. During a speech before her HeroicSacrifice she refers to the crew as "My children. My teachers. My loves." and her death marks a significant shift in the show's tone. |
| 330 | ** Moya herself is one, although being a SpaceWhale LivingShip she can't show it quite as clearly as Zhaan can. She occasionally gets frustrated with the crew's decisions but, as Pilot notes, their presence on board is a great source of comfort and satisfaction for her. The feeling is clearly mutual, Zhaan's sacrifice was to save Moya's life and Crichton explains to Jool that they care for Moya the same way she cares for her own parents. |
| 331 | --->'''Crichton:''' Still worried about your parents after 22 cycles? That's how we feel about Moya. She raised us. |
| 332 | * In ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', Inara fills in this role for ''Serenity's'' crew from time to time, most commonly with River. And Mal is the TeamDad. Their BelligerentSexualTension makes this trope even more apparent, when Inara and Mal argue it comes off as "Oh no, Mom and Dad are fighting again!" |
| 333 | * Greg Parker in ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'' is the more empathetic leader of Team One and definitely cares for the team more openly than team leader/TeamDad Ed who can be strict and harsh on the team if mistakes are made but nevertheless cares deeply for them. Ed is the one who watches Parker's back and keeps an eye out for him, including taking up any slack if Parker misses anything. |
| 334 | * Monica Geller in ''Series/{{Friends}}''. The pilot episode alone has her calming Rachel's anxiety attack, comforting a depressed Ross, telling off Joey, restraining Phoebe's craziness and stopping Chandler from spying on her date. In later seasons, after she marries a much more mature Chandler, the pair act as DesignatedParents for the gang, though he can still be goofy at times. (They're at their most adult when counselling their friends through tangled romantic problems, having established the only stable relationship on the show). |
| 335 | ** Monica's actress, Courteney Cox, also adopted this role for the [[TrueCompanions real life cast]]: In an interview when Matt [=LeBlanc=] had to describe her in one word he immediately responded with 'mom', Matthew Perry acknowledged her particular support during his drug addiction and the whole cast admitted she was the go-to person for advice. |
| 336 | * Blair is the team mom of ''Series/GossipGirl'''s [[TrueCompanions Non-Judging Breakfast Club]], which Nate points out in one episode (though Blair denies it). |
| 337 | -->'''Nate''': You're really sweet with him. Worrying about him, offering him food, it's... downright maternal. |
| 338 | -->'''Blair''': I'm not maternal, I've just been spending too much time with Cyrus and I'm turning Jewish. |
| 339 | * On ''Series/{{Graceland}}'', Charlie serves as the Team Mom for the house, often providing comfort and guidance to the others. This is highlighted in "Bon Voyage", where she's the one who's finally able to convince Mike that he needs to get help for his drug addiction. |
| 340 | * Dr. James Wilson of ''Series/{{House}}''. House's "ducklings" are frequently running to him for help, comfort and guidance when House is making their lives miserable. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in a season two episode where House is out of town and calls Wilson, beginning the conversation with: "''[[HoYay Hi, honey]]. How are the kids?''" |
| 341 | * ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': While Ted is {{Lampshaded}} in-canon as being the TeamDad, he seems to better fit this trope. Both he and Lily spend a lot of time worrying and fussing over the others, making them talk their problems out, bossing them around or doling out much-needed advice. |
| 342 | * ''Series/ICarly'': Carly takes the "parental" role towards the other 3 main characters: to Sam in "iWas a Pageant Girl", to Freddie in "iWill Date Freddie" and to Spencer in a majority of the episodes. "iKiss" had her be a "mom" to all 3 of them in a single episode by motivating Spencer's workout, sympathizing with Freddie and later reprimanding Sam for her on-air attack on Freddie. |
| 343 | * Sal, the protagonist of ''Series/JamAndJerusalem''. As well as actually being a mother to Tash and James, she takes care of everyone in the community, up to and including the vicar. |
| 344 | * Alex Eames (and, also, Megan Wheeler) of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent''. When you consider who their partners are - the completely neurotic Bobby Goren and the madcap Zach Nichols - it's easily understandable. Even Captain Danny Ross isn't above acting like a little boy most of the time. |
| 345 | * ''Series/LazyTown'': Stephanie is one of the smartest residents, cares for the other kids, and often sees through Robbie's schemes and is always eager to help others. |
| 346 | * ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': |
| 347 | ** Ray Palmer spends all of his time making sure the ship and crew are in good working condition, including morale-building activities like trust falls and game nights. |
| 348 | --->'''Zari''': We divvy up cleaning duties by Ray's chore wheel which uses a complex system I pretend not to understand until he eventually does my chores for me. |
| 349 | ** When Sarah's girlfriend Ava joins the crew, she becomes something of a team step-mom, being a more ToughLove version of Ray who does much the same things but complains about it more. Several times she is seen doing chores that other crewmembers should be doing, and she admits that she cleans when she's upset. |
| 350 | * ''Series/{{The Librarians|2014}}'' has this with Colonel Eve Baird, even though her job description as Guardian is to protect her Librarian(s), she does a ''lot'' of mothering. This is lampshaded in the Season 1 finale, where an alternate reality's version of Ezekiel tells her that his Baird was like a mother to him. On the other hand, Cassandra treats Eve as more of a big sister than a mother. Jenkins sometimes takes on the role of TeamDad, especially since [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld his real age makes him several times older than all of them combined]]. |
| 351 | * Gypsy became this for the Satellite of Love crew on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', starting with "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E15TheBeatniks The Beatniks]]" when [[TeamDad Joel]] takes advantage of the fact that both Crow and Servo have inanimate arms and hands to constantly defeat them at Rock Paper Scissors, leading Gypsy [[BerserkButton to go full]] on MamaBear, and [[UseYourHead ram him into unconsciousness]]. |
| 352 | * Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange in ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' is very much the Team Mom. More emphatically, she's a short, sweet, scary, seventy-year-old spy of a Team Mom. Don't get on her bad side. |
| 353 | * Alex of ''Series/NoahsArc'' generally falls into this role, being the warmest and most nurturing one of the group. |
| 354 | * Franchise/PowerRangers: |
| 355 | ** In ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'', Kendrix tries to encourage harmony among her teammates, is protective of them, and does stuff like making a birthday cake for Damon and cleaning a cut on Maya's face. |
| 356 | ** Both Alyssa Enrile/White Tiger Ranger and Princess Shayla from'' Series/PowerRangersWildForce''. Alyssa is even seen reading fairy tales to her friends [[spoiler: and becomes a schoolteacher after the GrandFinale]] |
| 357 | ** Katie, the Yellow Time Force Ranger with her [[TheGlomp legendary hugs]]. |
| 358 | %%** Also Hayley from ''[[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Dino Thunder]]'', Dr. Kat Manx from ''[[Series/PowerRangersSPD SPD]]'' and Udonna from ''[[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce Mystic Force]]'' (albeit being a 'Mom' who provides the teams with new tech/spells as appropriate). |
| 359 | * Carla of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''. Frequently complains about it, but in all honesty, "it's like crack" to her. She's older and definitely more experienced than the rest of the main cast. |
| 360 | * On ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', Mrs. Hudson mothers her eccentric tenants and does put up with a lot going on. Sherlock and John both adore her, and treat her as sons in a healthy family would treat their mother, including being ''very'' protective of her. |
| 361 | ** This was also done previously, in the later episodes of the Granada series of ''Series/SherlockHolmes'' stories featuring Jeremy Brett. The actress who played Mrs. Hudson in those later episodes noted that she and Brett had this sort of relationship in {{real life}}, and it carried over onto the screen. |
| 362 | * ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': Elizabeth Weir is fittingly a world class diplomat, though the team's squabbles are bad enough to challenge her. Sheppard can slip into TeamDad depending on the episode, and the pair are DesignatedParents to the whole expedition. |
| 363 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'' |
| 364 | ** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': [[TheMcCoy Dr. McCoy]], up to and including insisting everyone eat their vegetables. Since he's TheMedic, this is more or less in the job description. |
| 365 | ** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': Captain Kathryn Janeway was likewise both TheCaptain and Team Mom, settling disputes, ordering her officers to get along, and helping "raise" several characters like Kes and Seven of Nine. Openly {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E3BargeOfTheDead Barge of the Dead]]" when B'Elanna encounters her mother in the Klingon afterlife -- wearing a Starfleet uniform and using phrases Janeway had said earlier in the episode. Q calls her on it as well, when trying to dump his own teen rebel son on Janeway in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E17QTwo Q2]]". In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E19FavoriteSon Favorite Son]]", Kim dreams that his mother said she was suspending him from duty (a line that the Captain had given him that day). There's [[ThereAreNoTherapists something about]] this crew.... |
| 366 | ** ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': Since Raffi has nowhere else to channel her maternal instincts after being estranged from her son, she redirects them to a couple of members of ''La Sirena'''s crew. In "Nepenthe", she adopts a motherly role with Jurati after the latter undergoes a fit of anxiety, referring to herself as "Auntie Raffi" when she feeds the younger woman cake and chocolate milk. In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", Elnor is in grave distress over Picard's demise, so Raffi hugs him and permits the young man to [[CryIntoChest weep while he's leaning on her chest]]. |
| 367 | * ''Series/StrangerThings'' |
| 368 | ** Joyce Byers effortlessly fills this role, not only towards the kids but to adults as well (including some government officials). Joyce was especially there for Eleven whom badly needed motherly love, Joyce's voice even calmed her down while she was the MentalWorld. |
| 369 | *** It's also fitting since Joyce's LoveInterest Hopper is TeamDad. |
| 370 | ** Steve Harrington becomes this in season 2 due to his looking after the kids and mentoring of Dustin ([[MoralityPet who also improves him]]) |
| 371 | ** Nancy Wheeler becomes this for the kids in Season 3, effortlessly taking control of the group and breaking up their arguments. She's also ready to protect them [[MamaBear with a shotgun]]. |
| 372 | * Stiles from the show ''Series/TeenWolf'' is considered 'Pack Mom,' by most of the fandom. He helps out other characters in various ways, even if it comes at a cost to him. He is also shown as being protective of many of the members in the show even though, most of the time, he's physically weaker than they are. |
| 373 | * In ''Series/That70sShow'', Eric Forman's mother Kitty mothers everyone in the gang. They need it, since they have abusive or neglectful families. |
| 374 | * Amber of ''Series/TheTribe'' mothers or bosses everyone she comes into contact with. To such an extent that she's the de facto leader of the Mall Rats, no matter who else is technically in charge. |
| 375 | * ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'': Carol is the undisputed Team Mom of Rick's group. She bakes cookies and looks out for everyone, though if ''anything'' (walker or human) threatens them, she'll go on an extreme warpath of ruthlessness just to keep them safe. Carol's MamaBear complex is so deadly she leaves the group just to stop herself from killing. |
| 376 | -->'''Carol''': How do you think I do those things?\ |
| 377 | '''Tobin''': You're a mom. It's not the cookies or the smiles. It's the hard stuff. The scary stuff. That's how you do it. It's a strength. You're a mom to most people here. |
| 378 | * ''Series/TheWestWing'': Leo [=McGarry=], President Bartlet's Chief of Staff, is this to Bartlet's TeamDad. Leo is the one looking out for the younger staff members' wellbeing and the one most likely to step in and tell them to knock it off if they start misbehaving. Best exemplified when [[LikeASonToMe Josh Lyman]] has a PTSD-induced breakdown in the Oval Office. It's Leo who sets him up with a counsellor and waits in the hall until the appointment is over. |
| 379 | [[/folder]] |
| 380 | |
| 381 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 382 | * Victoria of K-pop girl group ''F(x)'' fills this role, being the oldest member of the group (beats the second-oldest member, Amber, by 5 years). The other girls like to call her 'mom' and she often cooks for them, as well. |
| 383 | * Jin of K-pop boy band "BTS" is commonly called mom by fans, even receiving this nickname from the members sometimes, due to his caring and sometimes effeminate nature. |
| 384 | * ''Every'' Music/{{Tsukipro}} unit has a team mom. They even give them presents on Mothers' Day. And yes, they are all male. (Gravi's mom is Aoi, Procella's is Yoru, [=SolidS=]' is Rikka, Quell's is Eichi, Growth's is Kouki.) |
| 385 | * Dorothy the Dinosaur, a secondary character of Australian childrens' group Music/TheWiggles, is the most responsible and mature of the cast as a whole, although as she is stated to be 5 years old in the franchise's context, she obviously still has her childlike moments. |
| 386 | [[/folder]] |
| 387 | |
| 388 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 389 | * Maggie from the ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'' game ''Small Magic'', self-described Grandmother for Hire, easily falls into this role. She demands they take a break from travelling as soon as she notices that the boys are hungry. |
| 390 | * Serinepth Sinderman of ''Podcast/TrialsAndTrebuchets'' shows a lot of motherly concern for her teammates, often seeming more worried for their safety than her own, and frequently having to talk the group out of making rash decisions. |
| 391 | [[/folder]] |
| 392 | |
| 393 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 394 | * On ''Series/FraggleRock'', Mokey Fraggle, the oldest of the Fraggle Five, is this to the other four. |
| 395 | [[/folder]] |
| 396 | |
| 397 | [[folder:Religion]] |
| 398 | * OlderThanFeudalism: In the [[Literature/TheBible Gospel of John]] (19:25-27) Jesus, on the cross and near death, made his mother Mary the Team Mom for the early Christians. And now she's considered Team Mom for the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Churches; the Protestant churches tend to downplay her importance, although some do it more than others (for instance, Marian devotion can get to near-Catholic levels among some [[UsefulNotes/ATouchOfClassEthnicityAndReligion High Church Anglicans]]). |
| 399 | [[/folder]] |
| 400 | |
| 401 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 402 | * Gali from ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' tends to fill this role as [[CloserToEarth the voice of reason]], [[TheHeart peacemaker]] for her teammates. |
| 403 | [[/folder]] |
| 404 | |
| 405 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 406 | * ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar'' has an unnamed offscreen character that clearly fits this trope in one mission. While attacking an enemy base, the radio chatter in the base can be heard. Many speak of the base commander who can be heard to, a woman who is strongly admired and who the soldiers speak of in nothing but admiration for (one even says "The base commander has a daughter. I wonder if she's as beautiful as her mother.") and it's clear that they see themselves as equivalent to her sons. At the end even after defeat she reassures the base that they all fought well. |
| 407 | * BarbarianHero Karlach in ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'' acts as this to the rest of the party, being affectionate toward & [[MamaBear fiercely protective of]] [[AllLovingHero even]] the {{Token Evil Teammate}}s, and even calling herself "Mama K" on one occasion. Shadowheart in particular expresses comfort towards the thought of Karlach [[AmazonianBeauty carrying her to safety]]. If LovableRogue Astarion has a HeelFaceTurn at the end of his storyline she'll act like a proud mother and [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents say she could kiss him, although he'd never allow it]]. |
| 408 | ** OldSoldier [[LegendaryInTheSequel Jaheira]] acts as the team grandma, especially in a Dark Urge playthrough [[spoiler:as he shared the same [[AntiAntichrist affliction]] as her godson]] as she'll gently watch over him through his night terrors [[EnemyWithin (albeit with blades drawn as a precaution)]]. When visiting her home in the Lower City she'll jokingly tell one of her sons that he's been replaced. |
| 409 | * Aoi in ''VideoGame/DigimonSurvive'' is a young YamatoNadeshiko and one of the older members of the group who does her best to look after everyone while scolding them when they act out of line. PluckyComicRelief Minoru occasionally [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this and calls her "mom" sarcastically. |
| 410 | * In ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'', [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Squall Leonhart]] is seen having to look after [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX Zidane]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Bartz]] during their journey, and being the voice of reason on the group. {{Fan art}}ists [[NeverLiveItDown didn't miss the opportunity]]. [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Cecil]] also takes on this role towards [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyII Firion]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Terra]], and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII the Onion Knight]]. It doesn't help Squall any that this characterization extends to ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' as well when it comes to Sora. Considering that his background is coming from an orphanage, and a good deal of the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII original game]] is about parental themes this actually makes perfect sense. |
| 411 | * [[OnlySaneWoman Cleo]] from ''VideoGame/DragaliaLost'' fits this trope to a T. Considering that she’s over [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 300]] and was tasked with watching over [[BigFancyCastle The Halidom]] for all that time, it makes sense. Cleo is always the one to call out her friends whenever they act foolish, [[{{Workaholic}} constantly takes care of her friends, and makes sure that the Halidom is in pristine condition at all times.]] It’s saying something when one of the main developments for her throughout the game is that she doesn’t need to burden herself so much and can let others work alongside her. |
| 412 | * ''Franchise/DragonAge'': |
| 413 | ** Wynne takes this role in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' after joining your group, particularly to [[TheLancer Alistair]] and the player character. Morrigan may even grow annoyed and tell Wynne in party banter to stop acting as if the two are her children. This is particularly true of a mage protagonist; the Circle of Mages takes a TheCorpsIsMother approach, and if the player chooses, the relationship between Wynne and the Grey Warden can develop a distinct mother/child aspect, which Wynne will lampshade. |
| 414 | ** Varric of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' is downright ''nurturing'' towards Merrill and, to a somewhat lesser extent, Bethany; he also takes care of [[spoiler: Anders]] after he starts on his downward spiral. Aveline, meanwhile, is more of the TeamDad. [[PlayerCharacter Hawke]] functions as more of a CoolUncle or Aunt. |
| 415 | * In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Tifa Lockhart is effortlessly Team Mom for [[LaResistance AVALANCHE]] and being motherly and caring to whole party and the first to provide emotional support (especially to the ones who ''really'' need it like Cloud). If that wasn’t enough she even cooks the food for the heroes at 7th Heaven and is the one looking after Marlene when her adoptive father Barret is away. Aerith also has shades of this herself, having looked after little kids in the slums and is very caring to other members of the party like Nanaki aka Red XIII. |
| 416 | * ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': |
| 417 | ** Eyvel of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThracia776'' is the leader of the Fiana Freeblades, and acts as something of a surrogate mother to several characters. |
| 418 | ** Titania of ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Path of Radiance]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Radiant Dawn]]'' is the deputy commander of the Greil Mercenaries, and is regarded as a mother figure by the younger members of the group. |
| 419 | -->'''Boyd:''' Every time I look at you, Titania... I think that you're the prettiest person I've ever seen!\ |
| 420 | '''Titania:''' Uh... Um, thank you, Boyd... But I... Look, you and me, we're-- \ |
| 421 | '''Boyd:''' You're like a really nice mom or something! Um... I mean...\ |
| 422 | '''Titania:''' ... |
| 423 | %%** Micaiah from ''Radiant Dawn'' is also a Team Mom to the younger members of the Dawn Brigade, such as Sothe. |
| 424 | ** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'': |
| 425 | *** Cordelia has some traces of this, being one of the most responsible members of the Shepherds. Gaius even occasionally calls her "Mother" in their supports. |
| 426 | *** The Avatar fits this role like a glove ([[GenderInvertedTrope even if he's male]]), as s/he is the only character that ''all'' the other Shepherds feel comfortable talking to [[spoiler:(even former enemies like Gangrel, Walhart, and Aversa)]]. Best expressed by Noire in her supports with a female Avatar. |
| 427 | *** Among the [[spoiler: [[KidFromTheFuture Kids From The Future]]]] group, the closest seems to be Lucina. Her Harvest Scramble Talk with Cynthia has her scolding and then nurturing the younger girl, like a mom or older sister would do to her child/little sibling. [[spoiler: Even better if Lucina ''is'' Cynthia's actual older sister.]] |
| 428 | ** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', each country gets team moms and each "army mother" does her "job" in different ways: |
| 429 | *** Despite being a MsFanservice and [[TheTease a huge tease]], Princess Camilla easily fills this role for the Nohr faction. She had a PromotionToParent regarding Leo and Elise's early raising in the Nohrian DecadentCourt, is a MyBelovedSmother to the Avatar regardless of gender, is a BenevolentBoss to Beruka and Selena, teases her Takumi by trying to feed him like a kid, and some of her lines towards enemies have her talking down to them as if they were naughty children that she's about to spank. |
| 430 | *** Prince Takumi's retainer Oboro is this for the Hoshido group since she's often seen checking on the group's supplies, taking care of others, and even being a little nagging once in a while. She tells Takumi's older brother Ryoma (himself the TeamDad for Hoshido) that this is her way to show her care and support for the army; if they reach [[RelationshipUpgrade S support]] he will tell Oboro that [[LampshadeHanging he fell in love with her while witnessing how hard she works for others.]] Aside of that she tries to correct Rinkah's JabbaTableManners, tries to give Mozu a makeover, is an excellent seamstress, etc. |
| 431 | *** [[LadyOfWar Reina]] is another Hoshidan who takes on this role when not on the battlefield and does it fairly well, save for [[LethalChef her bad cooking]]. The Avatar even voices this trope in their Supports, remarking it a stark contrast to how they thought she was based on her behavior in battle. |
| 432 | --->'''Avatar:''' Yeah. Usually I think of you as fierce and bloodthirsty, like you are in the field. But after the fighting's over, you put on an apron and it's like you're everyone's mom. |
| 433 | * Canonically, Karan S'jet of ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}'' is the Team Mom of the '''entire Hiigaran race'''. It IS canonical that everyone likes her because she's sincere and compassionate. Not to mention that she's currently piloting a Progenitor battleship which could single-handedly annihilate the entire galaxy. You do '''NOT''' want to antagonize the Hiigarans - Makaan learned that the hard way. |
| 434 | * Done literally with Helga from ''VideoGame/JimmyAndThePulsatingMass'', who is Buck and Jimmy's cheerful mother. Her special skills are labeled as "Mothering" and much of her special moves involve healing party members by being supportive towards them. |
| 435 | * Chizuru Kagura from ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'', both during her brief time in the Women Fighters Team (with King and Mai) ''and'' as the only female in the team she formed with Kyo and Iori. Yes, this {{Miko}} managed to get ''[[FeudingFamilies Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami]]'' to work as a team. Wow. Lampshaded by Kyo himself and Terry Bogard in ''Sky Stage''. If you have them beat [[spoiler: Kusanagi, whom Chizuru sent to them as a test]], he will openly complain that Chizuru is babying the team and Terry will say "she's just worried for our sake". Additionally, Kyo recognizes that the only real reason he's in the "mission" is because Chizuru asked him to. |
| 436 | * Aqua in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', particularly when she meets [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan the Lost Boys]]. She also serves this role in the main protagonists' PowerTrio. At times, the relationship between her, [[TeamDad Terra]], and [[TheHeart Ven]] more closely resembles two-parents-and-their-child than three friends. This is even lampshaded in the original Japanese text when Scrooge gave Ven the passes to Disney Town. As opposed to the translation, where Ven was told "to take two grownups," he was told to "bring his parents." |
| 437 | * ''Franchise/MassEffect'': Shepard can fulfill the role. As a Paragon, [[GenderInclusiveWriting (s)he]] [[LivingEmotionalCrutch sorts out the crew's emotional baggage]] and [[WhatTheHellHero delivers stern lectures]] when those are needed. Conversely, [[AntiHero Renegade]] Shepard is a "don't make me come over there" type of an abusive parent who keeps the "kids" in line with fear. |
| 438 | ** Vetra Nyx in ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'' plays this role for much of the crew of the Tempest, in a "look out for your own" kind of way. She's not significantly older than any of the other crew members, but she had to assume this role for her younger sister Sidera and it translates naturally to her interactions with her allies. |
| 439 | * The Boss of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' is frequently referenced as this in relation to the Cobras, (several of whom happen to be older than her,) making her another of the rare villainous examples. [[spoiler:Or maybe not so villainous.]] She also [[spoiler:gave birth during the landing on Normandy in WWII, making her the ''literal'' Team Mom]]. The fact that she had a romantic/sexual relationship [[spoiler:and a son]] with one of her team members (who ''still'' considered her a maternal figure) is made fun of in ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound''. |
| 440 | * In the interactive romance novel ''VideoGame/{{Moonrise}}'', Ishara hands out snacks, lends people blankets, offers a listening ear, and patches up any injuries with her healing magic. Very mom-like. |
| 441 | * Castti frequently acts like a mother figure in ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII''. She tells Agnea to take better care of her legs and feet in two of their travel banters, causing Agnea to slip up and call her "Mama." Ochette also calls her "Ma" or "Mama," especially after Castti scolds her about eating better in their first Crossed Path chapter. Throné also wonders what it would've been like to have a mother figure like her instead of her actual [[AbusiveParents parental substitutes]]. Finally, this gets lampshaded in one of her flashback scenes, where another member of her apothecary group calls her a "mother hen" who's always fussing over everyone else. |
| 442 | * ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'': |
| 443 | ** In the original ''VideoGame/Persona1'', ex-delinquent Yukino Mayuzumi is seen as a reliable older sister figure by her fellow students, with the Snow Queen Quest making it particularly clear why this would be the case. |
| 444 | ** In ''VideoGame/Persona2: Innocent Sin'', Maya Amano is very much the mother figure of the group, as she's constantly working to keep up the spirits of her mostly teenage teammates over the course of the game. |
| 445 | ** ''VideoGame/Persona3'': |
| 446 | *** As the leader of SEES, Mitsuru Kirijo holds herself responsible for the well-being of the rest of the team -- reinforced by her persona being of the Empress Arcana, which represents motherly qualities. She actually ''expects'' the team to maintain good grades. |
| 447 | *** Yuko Nishiwaki, the Strength Arcana Social Link, is the manager of the track team, and so acts as the team mom. If you follow her Social Link enough, she takes on the same role for a group of fourth-graders, making it clear she has a ''very'' strong maternal instinct in general. |
| 448 | *** ''[[BadassLongcoat Shinjiro Aragaki]]'', of all people, sort of counts when he joins the team. He's a good cook, worries about whether or not everyone's eating properly, tells the protagonist to take care to not get sick... He's practically the ideal HouseHusband. |
| 449 | ** The Protagonist of ''VideoGame/Persona4'' is a RareMaleExample; his responsibilities include being the TeamChef and providing key emotional support to his group of friends, as well as taking care of the house [[spoiler:once Nanako and Dojima are hospitalized]]. |
| 450 | ** ''VideoGame/Persona5'': As the oldest and most responsible member of the Phantom Thieves, Makoto Niijima is constantly looking out for her teammates. This particularly comes into play in her dynamic with Futaba Sakura, the youngest member of the team. |
| 451 | * In ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', Fall-from-Grace's mature, perceptive and compassionate personality make her fit this trope perfectly (although fiery teenager Annah doesn't react well to anything she says or does). |
| 452 | * In a rather darkly comedic example, [[spoiler:Shauna]] from ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'' ends up playing this role [[spoiler:in the Demon Path]], as [[OnlySaneMan everyone else is too mentally unstable to take care of themselves.]] However after her MoralityPet [[spoiler:Trisha (who in this path has been mentally broken after being raped by her adoptive father Hawthorne)]] commits suicide, [[spoiler:Shauna]] basically gives up on life and descends into NietzscheWannabe territory. |
| 453 | * In ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'', Nene acts as the self-imposed Team Mom of the Toyotomi clan--her Gaiden battle even has her showing up during the battle of Sekigahara not aligned with either side so she can beat the snot out of both armies and then lecture them about not getting along with each other. |
| 454 | * ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'': |
| 455 | ** Nanaly Fletch from ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny2''. She cooks for the party and is accommodating enough to take out ingredients [[PickyEater Judas]] doesn't like, mends clothes, and listens to Reala's problems when she's upset. She does all this while being a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak and one of the [[TheBigGuy big people]] on the team. |
| 456 | ** [[BadassNormal Yuri Lowell]] acts as this in ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'', being the one who provides emotional support to the rest of the party and, according to skits and a late-game sidequest, is also the main TeamChef of the group. He doesn't get ShipTease with a TeamDad...unless you count [[HoYay Flynn]], particularly in the UpdatedReRelease where he's a proper party member. |
| 457 | ** [[HouseHusband Jude Mathis]] in ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia'', being the one doing most of the cooking and providing the most emotional support. And yes, he's got OfficialCouple status with the resident TeamDad: [[ActionGirl Milla Maxwell]]. |
| 458 | ** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfArise,'' Kisara is simultaneously Team Mom and TeamDad, played to the point of [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggeration.]] She's the party's most skilled chef ''and'' makes sure to prepare nutritionally balanced meals, scolds the BookDumb Law into eating his vegetables, mends clothing, does laundry, and generally makes sure everyone is taking care of themselves... but she's also unafraid to dish out discipline, and she also provides for the party by being a fisherwoman. Rinwell outright says that in their little [[FamilyOfChoice sort-of family,]] Kisara is the "mom." |
| 459 | * ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles4'' provides a subversion: Brittany has a Potential called "Team Mom," but instead of making her more caring, it improves her anti-tank stats when other women are around. |
| 460 | * Damsel, the {{Tsundere}} Brujah of the Anarchs from ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' explicitly identifies herself as the "den mother" of the other Anarchs, and given how she's the one who gives you missions geared towards looking out for vampire community and trying to help you stay out of trouble (trying to convince you jumping ship from anything to do with [=LaCroix=] and the Camarilla), that title seems like its more than self-appointed. |
| 461 | * ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has Jaina Proudmoore who is something of a champion Team Mom. When the kingdom of Lordaeron fell to the zombie plague, she acted as a mother-figure to the survivors: even though she could have just gone home to Kul Tiras. She was also regarded as something of a mother-figure in Dalaran, particularly after the tragic death of Krasus. Finally, she comes home to Kul Tiras and her own mother, only to find that it needs some mothering sharpish. Oh, yeah, and she is something of a surrogate Mom to King Anduin. The players also generally treat Jaina this way. You'd best not say anything bad about her on the forums or a [=WoW=]-themed youtube video, and disrespectful fan art will get you blacklisted. This despite Jaina also being one of the sexiest characters in the game. |
| 462 | ** Vereesa Windrunner is this to the Alliance-aligned forces in Dalaran. |
| 463 | ** Many Forsaken, and many players, view Sylvanas Windrunner this way. Though it turned out this wasn't really how she felt about things. |
| 464 | ** Alexstrazsa to all the dragons, except the Black Flight. Also, generally treated this way by players. You do NOT mess with or diss Alex. Although again, one of the sexiest and indeed sexualized characters in the game. |
| 465 | ** Tyrande Whisperwind to the Night Elves. and more narrowly, in ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} III'', she was this to her husband Malfurion and his brother Illidan (who hate each other, long story). King Varian also let her act this way towards the entire Alliance on occasion, out of respect for her superior age and considerable skills as a commander. |
| 466 | ** Thalyssra acts as this to the Nightbourne rebellion, and becomes this to the Nightbourne after the rebellion succeeds. |
| 467 | * ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'': Pyra. She acts very motherly towards many others, being very responsible and looking out for them. |
| 468 | [[/folder]] |
| 469 | |
| 470 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 471 | * ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'': |
| 472 | ** [[AmazonianBeauty Sakura]] in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc''. She's the most mature and level-headed of the students and as such usually takes it upon herself to keep everyone else in line. Though she has her own outbursts and is regarded as [[BrawnHilda rather intimidating]] by the others besides her best friend [[PluckyGirl Aoi Asahina]], Sakura still tends to keep her cool even under the pressure of the story's DeadlyGame. She demonstrates her status as this trope by doing such things as volunteering to inspect Chihiro's body in Chapter 2's investigation on the grounds that the other students are too squeamish to do so and breaking up a fight between Kiyotaka and Hifumi. [[spoiler:Even her death was basically her trying to get her friends to stop fighting and work together]]. |
| 473 | ** Mahiru in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' has a tendency to act very motherly, doing her best to look after everyone and scolding them for things like not doing their laundry. While this means she's good at nagging, particularly with the boys, it also means she has a gentle and kind heart beneath her initially [[FieryRedhead brash exterior]], and she genuinely does care very much about the wellbeing of her classmates. She thinks it is very important for all of them to get along and work together, [[spoiler: as she is the only one who thinks of bringing Nagito food while he is tied up in Chapter 2 and doesn't agree with tying him up in the first place despite the [[WellIntentionedExtremist danger]] he poses.]] |
| 474 | ** Kirumi in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'', as the [[NinjaMaid Ultimate Maid]], is already rather used to acting as a caretaker, so it's understandable that she takes on this role among her classmates. This gets to the point that she even outright starts being called "mom" by the rest of the cast (especially [[TheGadfly Kokichi]]), something she later confesses she kind of resents. [[spoiler: She ultimately subverts this after becoming the second murderer, as she was perfectly willing to throw everyone else under the bus to save herself ([[WellIntentionedExtremist albeit for a good reason]]), and tries to emotionally blackmail the others into taking her place on the chopping block.]] |
| 475 | * In ''VisualNovel/EveryDaysDifferent'' GirlNextDoor Yoko keeps her rather fractious group of friends together, usually being the one to smooth over arguments. |
| 476 | * ''VisualNovel/IkemenSengoku'': |
| 477 | ** Hideyoshi constantly acts like a mother hen to the rest of the Oda forces, having them all work at his place to keep an eye on them and scolding the main character at various points for doing dangerous or reckless things like staying out late or running in the hallways. |
| 478 | ** Masamune, a SupremeChef, regularly cooks for [[SenselessPhagia Mitsuhide]] and [[ForgetsToEat Mitsunari]] to make sure they actually remember to eat and also [[AFatherToHisMen acts like a father to his troops]]. |
| 479 | * ''VisualNovel/KoihimeMusou'' has several: |
| 480 | ** Kouchuu fulfils this role for the Shoko faction as both the domestic one among its generals and the one dispensing advice on life. It helps that she's a bona fide ActionMom as well. |
| 481 | ** Kougai is this for the Son family. One of its longest-serving and most respected vassals, she possesses a worldly wisdom as well as a wealth of experience. She's the one that helps their feudal lord and her chief advisor reconcile after a spat. |
| 482 | ** Gi has the calm and collected Kakouen to be the one that apologizes for the antics of her comrades like an embarrassed mother. However, she's sometimes NotSoAboveItAll which can put Kakouen into CoolBigSis territory. |
| 483 | * Jaehee Kang from ''VisualNovel/MysticMessenger'' doubles as both this and the OnlySaneMan of the group; she's very much the most cautious and attentive member of the RFA, and she not only acts as Jumin's BeleagueredAssistant who he very much relies on, but she also tries to make sure everyone keeps up good habits, such like reminding Yoosung that he should be doing homework instead of gaming, and asking you if you've eaten today, and if not, to strive to eat well with her. When Zen hurts his ankle doing his route, she goes to his house to take care of him for the day, and she not only cooks for him, but cleans his place and stocks his fridge with actual food besides just water and beer. During the second secret ending, [[spoiler: she's the one who makes sure that Saeran's prescence isn't made known to his father, the prime minister, who wants him and his brother Seven dead, and she generally acts as the backbone of the situation's damage control.]] |
| 484 | %%* [[ActualPacifist Luna]] of ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' tries to be this to the other DeadlyGame players. [[spoiler:Apart from the child Quark, she's the only one who never betrays anybody.]] Unfortunately, because of her [[spoiler:programming-induced]] lack of honesty about her true identity, she can't help them as much as she'd like. |
| 485 | [[/folder]] |
| 486 | |
| 487 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 488 | * WebAnimation/{{hololive}}: |
| 489 | ** Mio Ookami acts like a Team Mom for much of the JP branch. Collaborations, both online and offline, that involve her often have her actively keep the peace among the other members to make sure things go smoothly. One stream had her acting as both comforting mother and as marriage counselor for Baelz Hakos with regards to her "marriage" with [=IRyS=] (the two have an ambiguous RelationshipRevolvingDoor situation generally PlayedForLaughs). Another stream had Mio lament a bit that her streams pale in terms of creativity or excitement compared to other talents, to which Okayu countered by comparing her to miso soup -- perhaps not the most attention-getting, but [[ComfortFood always a comforting presence]]. |
| 490 | ** Lamy Yukihana for JP Gen 5, a NiceGirl who often helps others in getting over their own fears, such as with Nene during the latter's debut stream, although she won't hesitate to move into stern mode if the situation calls for it, like if her fellow genmates are attacking an NPC for no reason besides ItAmusedMe. This compliments well with fellow genmate Botan Shishiro's TeamDad, and [[DesignatedParents shipping of the two isn't uncommon]] among both fans and other hololive members. |
| 491 | ** Lui Takane for JP Gen 6 [=HoloX=], being (apparently) older than her genmates and frequently acting motherly usually by acting comforting but also putting her foot down as needed, like setting down clear ground rules for [[ThePigPen Chloe Sakamata]] that no bath equals no dinner when the two became housemates. |
| 492 | ** Kiara Takanashi for the EN Gen 1 Myth. She has a keen eye for noticing unspoken distresses from others and makes an effort to assauge them out, such as when Amelia Watson had been inadvertently skipped over by the host during the group's 2021 Anime Expo panel and she made sure to praise Amelia's creativity the rest of the time. She's also done multiple unplanned streams when she noticed that other talents had missed their scheduled starts by oversleeping, both to keep their waiting audience entertained and as a way to take the heat off from the oversleepers to keep things from going out of control among the fans. Kiara also mentioned in another stream that she wants to be helpful to future EN members as Myth, being the company's first English-language group, had no one to help them navigate the challenges of [=VTubing=] for a Japanese company. This pairs well with Calliope Mori's TeamDad and the two are often paired together, with Ina, Gura, and Amelia the children -- Gura even lampshades it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCQm-LsYQco one time the group was playing]] ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' together: |
| 493 | --->(''Kiara and Calli are arguing'') |
| 494 | --->'''Gura:''' Mommy and Daddy are fighting... |
| 495 | --->'''Ina:''' It's OK, we can just hide in the closet until they're done. |
| 496 | ** Fauna Ceres for EN Gen 2 Council. She tends to act motherly towards her viewers as well as others in Council, especially Mumei when trying to negotiate better working conditions for her employment by [[BadBoss Kronii]] in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' and by being present for moral support for Bae when the latter streamed ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' (Bae does not handle horror games well). It fits her Mother Nature theme. |
| 497 | [[/folder]] |
| 498 | |
| 499 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 500 | * ''Webcomic/{{Aecast}}'': Mina of the 22nd Magus Expeditionary Unit. Constantly worries about the strength of the team, both physically and mentally. In chapter 3, she is shown [[spoiler: giving Hannah a [[CooldownHug hug]] after Hannah looks like she's about to break down recalling Valens' death by a [[BodyHorror Shenmal]] and her first subsequent enemy kill.]] |
| 501 | * ''Webcomic/CursedPrincessClub'': President Calpernia, to all members of the Cursed Princess Club. Not only is she the founder and president of the institution, she's also the most mature, level-headed, and competent of all the members. She organizes group activities both inside (sleepovers, prom, daily affirmations) and outside (field trips, volunteering for charitable organizations) the club. She gives the best advice. And she makes it her #1 mission to keep club members happy, healthy, and safe. |
| 502 | * ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Ellen. She acts like a worrying older sister to Tedd and Grace, functions as an emotional crutch for Nanase, resolves an argument between Elliott and Justin, and is generally the main cast's go-to person for mature advice and support. Ironically, she's actually the youngest of the protagonists. (Sort of. between the cloning and the FakeMemories, it's complicated.) |
| 503 | * Joyce from ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'' even asks herself, [[http://www.itswalky.com/d/20030427.html "When did I become the mom?"]] |
| 504 | * ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Princess Zulenna manages to combine this with AlphaBitch by being the main enforcer of the highly political pecking order among the Castle Wulfenbach students, but still looking out for the younger ones, keeping them kempt at the dinner table, telling them not to just believe every story they hear and trying to protect them from the horrors of the highly dangerous world they live in without curtailing their knowledge. |
| 505 | * Zombie from ''Webcomic/HannaIsNotABoysName'' is an odd example, but still counts. He seems cold, but he's always pretty considerate and caring to his allies; going as far as to [[PapaWolf put himself between them and their attackers]] in a bad situation. He works hard to keep the others from hurting themselves, and even cooks for Hanna. |
| 506 | * Kanaya Maryam of ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' is this to the trolls, and makes a point of [[InsistentTerminology helping]] many of them during the arc. This may have something to do with why she's the only troll [[HatesEveryoneEqually Karkat]] completely respects. Later, she extends her performance of this role to the kids too, directly advising and assisting Jade and Rose. It's even reflected in [[MeaningfulName name]], "Maryam" refers to Miriam, or Mary (as in [[Literature/TheBible the Virgin Mary]]), and her screen name, "grimAuxillatrix" is taken from "Virgin Maria Auxiliatrix", and is also derived from auxilium, meaning "assistance" in Latin. |
| 507 | ** This is further reflected with [[spoiler:her ancestor, The Dolorosa (a reference to the Virgin Mary), being the adoptive mother of [[CrystalDragonJesus The Sufferer]], and who herself acted as the Team Mom to the Sufferer's small group of closest followers.]] |
| 508 | ** Despite his foul demeanor, Karkat can also be seen this way, since he's basically the voice of reason in the group and the main thing holding them all together. [[GeniusBonus After all, it's Cancer, not Virgo, that the Western zodiac associates with motherhood.]] He even [[spoiler: calmed down a homicidal Gamzee just by [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005986 patting and shushing him.]]]] |
| 509 | ** Then there's Porrim, yet another Maryam to fill this role - and an alternate universe counterpart to the Dolorosa. Not many people filling this role can pull off [[EthicalSlut sleeping with most of their charges at one point or another]], but Porrim pulls it off with panache. Hilariously, the Sufferer's counterpart, Kankri, ''hates'' being mothered by her and flips out whenever she tries...but still wears the sweater she made him. |
| 510 | * ''Webcomic/{{Marionetta}}'': Dotty. She basically is a surrogate parent for Kamille and Julia, trying to help them adjust to life in the circus. She also is one of the oldest of the circus members and literally calls herself "Mama Dotty". |
| 511 | * Jordan from ''Webcomic/{{Skins}}'' holds the team together and even comes to [[http://lj-phillips.deviantart.com/art/Under-My-Skin-7-Just-Good-Friends-380593841 collect a drunk Vinnie and Rabbit from the bar.]] Ironic she ended up in this role as she's always describing herself as not maternal. |
| 512 | * Rhea is this to [[OurDemonsareDifferent Buwaro]] and [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Keiri]] in ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned''. At one point the two decide to walk a new friend home...and then immediately turn to Rhea to ask if she approves. |
| 513 | -->'''Sammy''': Is she their mom or something? |
| 514 | * In ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'', Mikkel fills this role, being TheMedic and the NumberOne to TeamDad Sigrun. Mikkel patches up wounds, decontaminates, comforts and feeds everyone, and looks after the team in general. His two dad traits are his somewhat brusque demeanor and his never-ending stream of dad jokes. |
| 515 | * Monica seems to fill this role in ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare''. Her motherly exploits include taking responsibility for teaching Bud and Brandi how to be human again, helping Shelly deal with nightmares at 3 am, and breaking up fights between other characters. |
| 516 | * Vandi of ''Webcomic/WhatBirdsKnow'' is this for the trio of girls who venture out into the woods, due to her serious and responsible nature -- itself a product of a youthful PromotionToParent after her mother died in childbirth. |
| 517 | [[/folder]] |
| 518 | |
| 519 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 520 | * Jammer from ''WebVideo/Dimension20'''s "Misfits and Magic" campaign is this to the exchange students, and it's hinted he was also this back home to his basketball team. His specialty is boosting morale and rallying people together, assuring them that if the team sticks together and has each other's backs, everything will be okay. He offers encouragement whenever his friends need it, but is more than willing to throw down with anyone that may hurt them. "Goat house on three, family on six!" |
| 521 | * Captain-General "Little Kitten" in ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'' is a male example to his 'brothers', the Custodians; it's why he was elected Emperor's Caretaker and Captain-General in the first place. Even Whammudes, who bullies him, acknowledges that he looks after the Custodians with as much care as with the Emperor; the example he gives is how he bakes a custom pizza pie for all ten thousand of them every day. His relationship with the TeamDad, the Emperor, is very much platonic father-son, but as the Emperor's favorite, he's less than seriously called the Emperor's wife; Magnus (one of the Emperor's sons) jokingly calls him Stepmother, and one of the other Custodians compares him to a widowed father doing his best for his kids. |
| 522 | ** Saint Celestine seems to be this to the rest of the Imperium. After slaying a powerful demon, she confronts the cultist who summoned it, treating him like a naughty child. The cultist breaks down into tears as he laments his FreudianExcuse, and she comforts him until he apologizes--after which she incinerates him. This is probably a MercyKill, given that she knows there is an afterlife, and the Imperium isn't too big on forgiveness. |
| 523 | * Kajortoq of ''WebAnimation/NoEvil'' takes this role in regards to some of the rest of the cast, most notably towards Corn. |
| 524 | * In ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'', Elyx seems to fill that role for Relic Hunter guild. She seems to be the one keeping her guildmaster's [[spoiler:HairTriggerTemper]] under control and has given a "just shut up" to the team's dumb CasanovaWannabe at moments where him keeping on talking could only make things worse. |
| 525 | * Maria in ''Roleplay/PersonaMillenium'' is considered a maternal figure to at least one person, and is generally responsible for keeping her team together. |
| 526 | * Virginia is this to ''WebVideo/ThePlatoonOfPowerSquadron''. She does her best to keep the others under control, and constantly refers to them as a family (despite Jonas protesting that they are [[InsistentTerminology DEFINITELY NOT]]). |
| 527 | * In ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' North Dakota acts as this for the Freelancers, to the point where the Director even assigns him a timid A.I. with low self esteem because of his nurturing personality. He can be most often seen looking out for his twin sister [[BigBrotherInstinct South]], both on missions and off, and frequently shows concern for the other Freelancers' well-being. He's even been known to worry about other Freelancer's A.I. units. North is an interesting case in that he displays traits of both the Team Mom and the TeamDad. He has the disciplinarian, "lead-by-example" nature of the Dad, but also carries the warmth and nurturing of the Team Mom. It's implied that he became like this due to his [[BigBrotherInstinct desire to watch out for his more reckless sister.]] |
| 528 | * ''Literature/SkippysList'' has examples: |
| 529 | --> 88. Must not refer to 1st Sgt as "Mom". |
| 530 | * ''WebVideo/VivaLaDirtLeague'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB5JWvVCoe8 parodied the person who takes this role in survival games]]. |
| 531 | * ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': |
| 532 | ** Mindbird of the Wild Pack.** Sizemax of the Vindicators.** Spellbinder of Elite League.** Lucille of the Underdogs, who often say "yes mom" to her just to aggravate her. |
| 533 | [[/folder]] |
| 534 | |
| 535 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 536 | * Suzie Chan on ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingChanAndTheChanClan'' is mostly a CoolBigSis, but every now and then she slides into this territory (ex. chiding the kids for spying on Pop in ep 1, mediating a potential argument between Tom and Alan in ep 8). |
| 537 | * ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': |
| 538 | ** [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderKatara Katara]] from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. It's gently mocked in the episode "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheRunaway The Runaway]]", where she initially objects to the idea as it says she's the group downer. But the very reason she became this is a TearJerker; Sokka explains to Toph that after his and Katara's mother died, their family was pretty messed up and Katara dealt with it by taking on a 'motherly' role in the tribe, especially to him. Of course, Katara's ''other'' reaction to her mother's death is something [[HeWhoFightsMonsters else]]. One of the most heartbreaking moments in the series occurs during Sokka and Toph's conversation -- Sokka can't even remember what his mother ''looked'' like anymore, because all he can see when he thinks of motherhood is his sister. His ''younger'' sister. |
| 539 | ** Katara's [[SpinOffspring son Tenzin]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' is a male example of this trope. He ''fusses'' over Avatar Korra and her friends (and [[PapaWolf his own children, of course]]). Heck, he even fusses over his life-long childhood friend Lin Beifong, who is the same age as him. |
| 540 | %%* Helen Bennet from ''WesternAnimation/BionicSix'' is this and the ActionMom, since hers is a BadassFamily. |
| 541 | * The ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' show features two examples: Gaia, who mixes this with AllLovingHero[[note]]Possibly excluding her EvilCounterpart, Zarm, [[MamaBear especially when he attacks the kids directly]].[[/note]] and {{Mentor}}, and Gi, the wielder of the [[MakingASplash Ring of Water]]. Gi's position in the FiveManBand [[LampshadeHanging shows up]] in the first episode, during the kids' first ride in the Geo-Cruiser: |
| 542 | -->'''Wheeler:''' Hey, how come ''you'' get to fly this thing?\ |
| 543 | '''Gi:''' Do ''you'' have a driver's license? |
| 544 | * Sypha from ''WesternAnimation/{{Castlevania}}'', she's the sensible and mature one compared to her bickering ManChild companions Trevor and Alucard, Sypha has to repeatedly break up their fighting and tries to teach them to get along. |
| 545 | * Numbuh 362 of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' is this as the Soopreme Leader of all of the KND, despite being barely a pre-teen: |
| 546 | -->'''Numbuh 362:''' I don't care what level you're on, Numbuh 105, put that video game ''down'', and find out what Knight Brace is doing in Poughkeepsie! Would you guys mind playing Whizbee on the Whizbee deck ''and not on my bridge?!'' |
| 547 | ** In Sector V, Numbuh 5 is this, being the second-oldest of the group and with a good level head on her. It's revealed she becomes Soopreme Leader after 362 retires. |
| 548 | * Jessica Cruz is this on ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'', where she's very caring and nurturing towards her friends [[note]]She defended Karen Beecher when Kara Danvers threw food at her in the pilot[[/note]] and those who are troubled, [[note]]She tried comforting Carol Ferris when she saw how troubled she was over her breakup with Hal Jordan[[/note]] and can be stern while still nurturing.[[note]]She picked up that Kara was faking sickness but is indirect about telling her. [[/note]] She's also very adamant on sticking to nonviolent tactics in her heroics. |
| 549 | * 13-year-old [[ShrinkingViolet Sheila the Thief]] in the ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons1983'' TV series. Not only is she [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl the more feminine of the two girls in the group]] (Diana the Acrobat is a tomboyish CoolBigSis), but the youngest kid in the gang is her little brother [[CuteBruiser Bobby the Barbarian]]. While never stated outright, the way she and Bobby act toward each other seems to imply that she was ''de facto'' raising her little brother even before ending up in the Realm. |
| 550 | * A male example: Edd ("Double-D") from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', who has gone so far as to wipe crumbs from Ed's face and scold Eddy for poor behavior. |
| 551 | * Laney Penn from ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'' fills this role for the eponymous GarageBand, pulling her bandmates down to earth and looking out for them whenever their {{Zany Scheme}}s and wacky antics go too far. This is even lampshaded in the episode "It's in the Card", where she comments in a prerecorded message that she can often be "grumble grumble" and a "mother hen". |
| 552 | * Rowena to Wamba and Rebecca in ''WesternAnimation/IvanhoeTheKingsKnight'', due to being the sole adult female character, a mother figure to Rebecca and less strict than Ivanhoe, who does have his moments. |
| 553 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Kaeloo is this to the rest of the main four. This includes scolding them for bad behavior, telling them to clean their rooms, and taking care of them in general. |
| 554 | * Despite being only six, Maggie in ''WesternAnimation/MaggieAndTheFerociousBeast'' is the most mature and level-headed of her friends. She's good at calming the Beast's tantrums and fears, she's less neurotic than Hamilton, and she's generally good at solving problems, meaning she often helps them out of ruts. |
| 555 | * A RareMaleExample is Mike from ''WesternAnimation/MotorCity'' who leads the [[FiveManBand Burners]] against [[BigBad Kane]] and still finds time to ask about their personal issues, even play match-maker on occasion. For a guy who pulls off crazy stunts both in and out of his CoolCar Mike is surprisingly sensitive. |
| 556 | * Megan, the BadassNormal human girl from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePony''. If she's not around, [[TheSpock Wind Whistler]] fills in. |
| 557 | * In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', this function is typically performed by [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicApplejack Applejack]] (although other characters may fill the role depending on circumstances) making her the second-most-likely (after Rarity) to pick up on the subtle social cues which reveal that somepony is having a hard time. Highlighted in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7DragonShy Dragonshy]]" where she demonstrates saintlike patience with Fluttershy's severe timidness. She is also frequently the one shepherding the Cutie Mark Crusaders around, again with saintlike patience. |
| 558 | * On ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'', Sydney usually plays this role to the other kids, being the wisest of them all and the most level-headed. |
| 559 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', Miss Grotke is one to the entire fourth grade class (to the point where Spinelli looks up to her like a mom more than her own mother), while Gretchen is one to the main six. |
| 560 | * Reggie Rocket in ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' is only a few years older than her brother and friends and often takes on this role whenever she tries to keep them under control (especially [[JerkJock Otto]]) and from doing anything dangerous, which makes sense considering she's the only female of the family. |
| 561 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekProdigy'': Just like her [[Series/StarTrekVoyager live-action counterpart]], Hologram Janeway is the supportive mentor and teacher to the crew of the ''Protostar''. Even more so, since in this series she's looking after a bunch of literal kids instead of wayward Starfleet officers. |
| 562 | * Hera in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' alongside [[TeamDad Kanan]]. The fandom has nicknamed them Space Dad and Space Mom. |
| 563 | * [[Characters/StevenUniverseRoseQuartz Rose Quartz]] of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is very clearly this, a charismatic rebel leader who every member of her squad considered a combination mother, leader and mentor. Sadly she [[DeathByChildbirth gave up her physical form to give birth to Steven]] before the series began, and it becomes increasingly obvious that the team is struggling to cope without her. Pearl tries very hard to be an adequate replacement, even seeing Steven as a surrogate son. For the first season, she comes off as overbearing, but is less so as Steven matures. |
| 564 | * ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': Princess (Peach) Toadstool more of less plays this role in each of the three [[WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow three]] [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3 Mario]] [[WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld cartoons]], being the sole female of the group and being level-headed, guiding [[KidSidekick Toad]] and the others around. It's much more prevalent in ''World'', where Toadstool serves as a maternal figure to the much younger Yoshi and Oogtar. |
| 565 | %%* Maguro of ''WesternAnimation/SushiPack'' often fits this trope. |
| 566 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': Bumblebee for the Titans East. The way she interacts with her teammates makes her come off as being like a concerned mother. Perhaps it's why she ends up becoming the leader of Titans East. |
| 567 | %%* Cheetara from ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985'' and ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'', defaulting to the role as the only adult woman of the group. |
| 568 | * [[Characters/TotalDramaCourtney Courtney]] of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' sees herself as one, but she overdoes it to the point where she's viewed as being obnoxious. |
| 569 | [[/folder]] |
| 570 | |
| 571 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 572 | * 41-year-old Dara Torres of the 2008 U.S. Olympic swim team is often viewed as this by her teammates. To prove she's no slouch, she won three silver medals (just missing gold in the 50 free by 0.01 seconds). |
| 573 | * A mother, Sgt. Jane Strand, will head to war with her son, Pvt. Timothy Strand. In the National Guard, she "assumed the rank of mom to a collection of younger recruits," according to [[http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1232845.html the article.]] |
| 574 | * At a wildlife sanctuary in England, [[http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/jasmine.asp a rescued Greyhound,]] of all things, is surrogate mom to everything from puppies to a barn owl. |
| 575 | * Mary Ann Patten navigated the clipper ''Neptune's Car'' around Cape Horn while being TheCaretaker to her sick husband and being {{pregnant|Badass}} to boot. They talk simplistically, though not without justification, about the rigidity of nineteenth-century customs. But New England sea princesses could be awesome when put to it and they don't make em like that anymore. |
| 576 | * Good UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria was Team Mom to the entire British Empire. Hell, toward the end she was getting to be the Team Mom to the whole of ''Europe''. She was actually known as "the grandmother of Europe" because of how big her family was. World War I reads like the world's biggest, nastiest family spat. |
| 577 | * And a long time before Vicky, UsefulNotes/ElizabethI filled the role in a similar fashion. Electing to remain unmarried throughout her life, Elizabeth characterized herself as being married to England itself, and more than once referred to its people as her children. |
| 578 | * Gina Dalfonzo is the moderator at [[http://thepoint.breakpoint.org/tp-home this site]] and she is almost a classic Team Mom. |
| 579 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Bachelet Michelle Bachelet,]] as the first female President of Chile, is often seen as this by Chilean people. |
| 580 | * Creator/JaneLynch (aka Sue Sylvester) was reportedly this for the entire cast of ''Series/{{Glee}}'', to the point where she calls them her "babies." |
| 581 | * To Creator/QuentinTarantino and much of the cast and crew of his movie, film editor Sally Menke was this. Tarantino himself even referred to her as being a second mother to him. |
| 582 | * In {{Drag|Queen}}, a Drag Mother is both this, and in some cases a ParentalSubstitute, for young queens just starting out. In some cases, this will result in a "Drag Family", where novice queens will take their Drag Mother's last name as part of their own StageNames. [=RuPaul=] in particular is something of a surrogate Drag Mother for most of the drag community, due to her experience in the business and her approachable demeanor. |
| 583 | * German chancellor Angela Merkel actually got the nickname mom/mommy and she had displayed behavior like this trope on some occasions. |
| 584 | * Ousted Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff was sometimes called "Dilmãe" (Dilmom, or Dilmommy) by poorer people. |
| 585 | * Female cats are this to their humans. The reason they bring their owners dead or half-dead animals? That's what cat mothers do to their kittens to feed them and teach them to hunt. The cat is trying to raise her human. |
| 586 | ** Hens when kept as pets can get this way too; when around someone she knows particularly well, a domestic hen will sometimes [[CuddleBug snuggle up to the person]] to keep them warm if they get close enough, as if the human was one of her chicks. Because in her eyes, the human ''is'' one of her chicks. |
| 587 | * Russian gymnast Aliya Mustafina is this to the Russian women's national team, to the point where young teammate Maria Kharenkova explicitly said "she's like a mom to us." Became literal in July of 2017, when Aliya gave birth to a baby girl, Alisa Mustafina-Zaytseva -- and returned to training all of ''three months later''. Now she really ''is'' the Russian team's Team Mom. |
| 588 | * Despite being about a decade older, Billie Jean King served this role to tennis players like Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, whether it concerned their personal lives (Chris's broken engagement with Jimmy Connors as one example) or their tennis careers; even warning them not to fall for the media setting them up for a CatFight. [[CoolOldLady Even the younger generation of women players look up to King]] as a role model who paved the way for women in the sport. |
| 589 | * This concept is so common in social circles and friend groups these days that it has a non-troper colloquialism: Mom Friend. |
| 590 | * Creator/VanessaMarshall fills this role for her voice acting friends and family. She has a caring, supportive attitude and will defend them however she can. Its fitting that one of the best roles she's known for is the similarly tempered [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Hera]]. |
| 591 | * Creator/HattieJacques was this to her ''Film/CarryOn'' co-stars. Everyone adored her, as she provided support and advice. |
| 592 | * S.E. Hinton, writer of ''Literature/TheOutsiders'', was this to much of the cast of its film adaptation, most of whom were teenage boys who had barely left home, to the point where they called her "mom" while on set. Hinton noted in an interview that she looks back on it fondly and that she's still in touch with some of the cast even decades after the film was released. |
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