Line #79 MissingMom/WesternAnimation


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9	* ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'' takes place at a monster boarding school, so parents don't usually make an appearance. Of the main characters, Headmaster Gromble's mother is seen (he's a MommasBoy), and both of Oblina's parents [[MyBelovedSmother are]] [[HenpeckedHusband introduced.]] Krumm mentions having both parents but Horvak seems to be the only one who lives nearby (unless his mother doesn't [[StayInTheKitchen work on the mold farm.]]) Ickis' father Slickis means well, but is often [[ParentsAsPeople too busy to attend to his son's needs]] and Slickis' wife is never shown. Not surprisingly, nearly all of the characters have ParentalIssues.
10	* On ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', only Marceline's father and her [[ParentalSubstitute surrogate father]] [[spoiler: Simon Petrikov]] are ever seen, with her mother only having appeared in a flashback in the "Stakes" arc. Considering that the [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld immortality]] of all the others is the only reason they're even on the show, this is justified.
11	** While Finn eventually met his DisappearedDad, his mother has still only been seen in an AlternateUniverse. [[spoiler: This is eventually subverted as of the Islands miniseries, where Finn finally meets his mother.]]
12	** Unlike the other two, [[PlayingWithFire Flame Princess]]' mother has never even been mentioned, [[spoiler: not even after she usurps her father's throne]], and she even has older and younger siblings to further complicate matters.
13	* Mr. Chan in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingChanAndTheChanClan'' appears to be a single father, as no mention is ever made of the childrens' mother. Popular fan theory is that he's a widower. (Not that farfetched, actually: Literature/CharlieChan actually ''is'' a widower in the original books.)
14	* On ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad,'' Hayley mentions that Jeff's mother walked out on him [[FridgeLogic before he was born]]. Stan is understandably confused.
15	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' In the episode "Hopping Mall", Sprig confides to Anne that his mother passed away when he was younger. It was revealed in "After the Rain" that Sprig and Polly's parents died in a heron attack.
16	** During “The Core And The King”, Andrais Leviathan is revealed to have an abusive father named Aldrich but the episode never explains who Andrais’ mother is and never reveals what happened to her.
17	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', Archie Vanderloo is a single father to twins Ansel and Angie. It is never stated what happened to their mother.
18	* WesternAnimation/AugieDoggieAndDoggieDaddy, the Creator/HannaBarbera father and son duo. But where is the mother of the family?
19	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' could practically have its own entry!
20	** Aang had Monk Gyatso as father figure (and has the spirit of Roku, plus King Bumi as current day father figures), but there was no indication of a mother in his BackStory to date.
21	*** During the opening of his fourth chakra in "The Guru", Aang confronts his guilt about abandoning his people a century before and there is [[http://piandao.org/screenshots/earth/earth19/earth19-500.jpg a woman]] shown sitting to the right of Monk Gyatso. She doesn't look like [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/avatar/images/c/c8/Yangchen001.png Avatar Yengchen]], so most fans who noticed it assume she is in fact Aang's mother.
22	** Katara and Sokka begin with a Missing Mom, but end up as a ParentalAbandonment case as their father leaves to fight the Fire Nation, leaving Gran-Gran Kanna to raise them instead.
23	** Toph is a forced inversion. Her parents were both present, but emotionally and supportively absent. They were overprotective to the point of the outside world not knowing that Toph existed. And they left her caretaking to servants, so they never realized until the Avatar showed up that she was a master earthbender. Upon finding this out, seeing that their child was not only ''[[CuteBruiser not]]'' [[CuteBruiser helpless]] but able to hold her own against much bigger, older and seemingly stronger opponents, Mr. Bei Fong reacted by tightening the yoke of overprotectiveness. His wife did nothing but go along with it, which resulted in Toph abandoning them and running away.
24	** Teo, the son of the MadScientist occupying the Northern Air Temple is also missing his mother, killed in the same natural disaster that left him a paraplegic.
25	** Zuko and Azula are a variant on the theme, because although their mother Princess Ursa left, Azula fits the trope played straight, as Lord Ozai's favored child. Ozai disfigured and banished Zuko, leaving him to be raised by surrogate father figure Iroh.
26	*** [[spoiler: Let's be fair here: Ursa didn't ''leave'' exactly, she was exiled for ''saving Zuko's life.'']]
27	** Jet is a straight ParentalAbandonment case, and this would appear to be the case for his entire treehouse-dwelling group of freedom fighters.
28	** Princess Yue of the Northern Water Tribe had a mother once: we see her in FlashBack. By the time Team Avatar arrives at the North Pole, though, she is nowhere to be found.
29	** Iroh's wife, the mother of his son Lu Ten is never mentioned. But it's a safe assumption she's dead as Lu Ten's death is regarded as the end of Iroh's bloodline.
30	** The sequel, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', offers a new bunch of Missing Moms. Mako and Bolin's [[ParentalAbandonment parents were killed]], while Asami's mother died when she was young [[spoiler: at the hands of Firebenders]]. Averted with Korra herself, though.
31	* On ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', aside from {{Franchise/Batman}} himself, Comicbook/BlackCanary I died [[HeroicSacrifice rescuing people from a fire]] when Black Canary II was a child, asking her teammate Wildcat to [[TakeCareOfTheKids take care of her daughter]].
32	* Cricket and Tilly Green of ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' were originally this, as they are shown living with their father and grandmother with no mention of their mother. Later, Tilly off-handedly mentions they are waiting for her to come back, though from where is not stated. [[spoiler:As of the events of the episode "Phoenix Rises", their mother, Nancy, has returned, apparently from prison, and become a recurring character]].
33	* The 2006 revival of ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' reveals in the three-part episode "Once Upon a Time on Earth" that Stoker has a daughter named Spitfire, but her mother is nowhere to be seen and isn't even mentioned.
34	* Nutsy from ''WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill'' happens to have a dead mother, as she reveals it in the Mother's Day episode.
35	* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'':
36	** Bob's mother was not mentioned at all until the seventh season, when it is revealed that she died when Bob was very young.
37	** Also, Jimmy Pesto is a single father. "The Belchies" implies that he's divorced, when Andy and Ollie run up to him at the end and he just remarks "I though you were at your mother's."
38	* Reggie Bullnerd from ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' basically is seen with his father in the second, third, and fourth seasons. The whereabouts of his mother is still unknown. Since she's been mentioned a few times, she probably isn't too far away.
39	* In ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', Gadget's DisappearedDad is stated to be "lost" and "never coming back", possibly [[NeverSayDie implying death]]. Her mother, on the other hand, is never mentioned.
40	* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' has two:
41	** Antea Hopper, Aelita's mother, was [[spoiler: kidnapped by the "Men in Black"]] some time before the series timeline. Her fate remains uncertain.
42	** Sissi's mother is never seen or mentioned at all. WordOfGod states that she is alive, but living away from Sissi and her father.
43	** Averted by Jeremie's mother. She is the only Lyoko Warrior parent who remains unseen at the end of the series, but she is mentioned just enough for us to know that she is not this trope.
44	* In ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'': Dad Tiger has a father, Grandpere Tiger, but no mother is ever mentioned.
45	** O the Owl is missing not just his mother but both of his parents.
46	* On ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom,'' everyone seems to have two parents except for [[WellIntentionedExtremist Valerie]], who is explicitly shown living alone with her father. Her mother's whereabouts are never mentioned.
47	* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'', [[DumbBlonde Brittany]] was raised by her father and stepmother, a TrophyWife with whom she seems to have a sisterly relationship. [[AllThereInTheManual According to a tie-in book]], Brittany's mom left the family to move to Hollywood ("where people are relatively sane") shortly after the birth of Brittany's little brother Brian.
48	* In ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', Gosalyn is adopted by only a father (who is Darkwing). Gosalyn has no surrogate mother because, obviously, Darkwing isn't married. As far as her actual mother, it's mentioned that her grandfather was her last living relative, so her parents died at some point before he did.
49	* Pretty much everyone in ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth'' -- King Features' answer to the JLA that teams up ComicStrip/FlashGordon, ComicStrip/ThePhantom, ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician and his sidekick Lothar along with their children Rick, Jedda, K'Shin & Lothar Jr -- suffered from this. Rick is orphaned in the very first episode [[spoiler:when his mother, assumed to be but never named as Dale Arden, dies resisting Ming's mind probes. Though they somehow manage to rescue her essence to power the Defenders' super computer, she is never mentioned again nor are Flash or Rick ever shown interacting with the computer as though it held emotional value for them]]. Jedda's mother is never mentioned at all, nor is LJ's (though one might presume that the absent women were Diana and Karma, their father's respective lovers from the source comics), while K'Shin was an orphan adopted by Mandrake.
50	* On ''WesternAnimation/DocMcStuffins'', the Jack-in-the-Boxes Big Jack and Little Jack are a father-and-son team, but there's no mother.
51	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'':
52	** Patti Mayonnaise's mother is revealed to have died in a car accident when Patti was nine. (This is also the reason why Patti's father is in a wheelchair.) Patti visits her mother's grave in one episode. At the end of the series, her father gets married a second time, to Ms. Krystal.
53	** Willy White's mom has also never been shown in the series, but since his dad (who was the mayor of Bluffington for most of the Nickelodeon series) has mentioned her in various episodes, she's not too far away.
54	* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'':
55	** Callum and Ezran's mother died prior to the start of the series [[spoiler: in a HeroicSacrifice to save Viren]].
56	** Soren and Claudia's mother divorced their father and moved away prior to the start of the series, leaving Lord Viren a single parent.
57	** Aanya's mothers when they do a HeroicSacrifice [[spoiler: while fighting Thunder]].
58	** Ellis' mother is never seen nor mentioned, while her father is seen only briefly.
59	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'':
60	** In the first episode ("Don't Give Up The Ship"), Huey, Dewey and Louie's guardianship is passed from their Uncle Donald to their Great Uncle Scrooge. Their mother and father aren't mentioned.
61	** In the third episode, ("Three Ducks of the Condor"), Mrs. Beakley and her granddaughter Webbigail Vandequack are introduced. It's never explained what happened to Webby's mother and father.
62	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': [[spoiler: Della Duck, Donald Duck's twin sister and the mother of Huey, Dewey and Louie, disappeared shortly before the triplets' hatched, leaving Donald to raise them. What exactly happened to her is the B-plot of Season 1 as we learn that Della, a duck with an adventurous streak, stole the experimental rocketship ''The Spear of Selene'' and got lost in a space storm. Unbeknown to Scrooge and Donald at the time, Della actually crashed on the Moon and spent the past ''decade'' trying to get home. Midway through Season 2, she actually does and is reunited with her sons]].
63	* There's actually quite a few on ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''. Wanda, Chester, Wendell (Dr. Bender's son), and Trixie have no mothers onscreen despite their fathers appearing. Trixie mentioned her mother in her first appearance, but she has never appeared on screen, even when all the parents in Dimmsdale meet, leading some fans to believe this was a {{retcon}}. Wanda's mom was also mentioned in "Blondas Have More Fun".
64	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFutureIsWild'' animated series. It was suspected by fans that C.G.'s mother died, leaving her husband to look after their Daughter by himself, before C.G. left for her mission and meet Ethan, Emily, Luis and Squibby, though how she died is up to interpretations. In anyway, how C.G.'s mother died might explain why C.G.'s father is overprotective and strict of his Daughter.
65	* Contrary to popular belief, ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' never explains the absence of Max Goof's mother. She is simply absent without explanation. (Most fans believe that she is dead, but the oft-cited quote "[[GodNeverSaidThat up there amongst the stars]]" is spurious.) ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' also [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome quietly disposed of]] PJ's mom, Peg, but considering that Pistol is also absent, most fans assume that [[OffscreenBreakup it was a divorce instead]].
66	* ''Music/{{Gorillaz}}'''s Murdoc Niccals was a DoorstopBaby, abandoned at his father's house. According to him; "Oddly, everyone knew who my father was, but no-one quite knew who my mother was. Although there were a lot of vivid suggestions." The most prevalent rumour is that she was an inmate at "the Belphegor Sanatorium for the sick, the needy, and the incredibly bored".
67	* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': WordOfGod states that this is the case with Wendy Corduroy's mother, with Wendy being the oldest of four children. She's not mentioned in the show unless you count the [[ComicBook/GravityFallsLostLegends bonus comics,]] and even there just in background references.
68	** While it’s not brought up like his DisappearedDad, Soos’s mother isn’t around, as he was raised by his Abuelita.
69	* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatNorth:'' Kathleen Tobin, Beef's wife and the Tobin kids' mother, abandoned them sometime before the events of the series to live in Pennsylvania to be with her lover, Marcus. Unlike other examples of this trope, her kids don’t really miss her because of [[AbusiveParents how bad of a parent she was]], with Judy claiming that life actually improved after Kathleen left.
70	* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'''s finale ''WesternAnimation/{{Underfist}}'' parodies this trope when Hoss Delgado lies about his mother having passed away so people won't know he still lives with her at 48 years old.
71	* WordOfGod says that on ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'', Trina and Corey are HappilyAdopted by a single father, leaving both of them without an adopted mother or a known biological mother.
72	* In ''WesternAnimation/HerselfTheElf'', the protagonist's father is mentioned (the elf king who died recently) but nothing about her mother or whether she had one at all. Similarly, on the antagonist side we have an evil King Thorn and his daughter the wicked Creeping Ivy but no mention of a mother.
73	* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'':
74	** Arnold's mother Stella ''and'' his father Miles are missing. ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnoldTheJungleMovie'' reveals that they [[spoiler:contracted the illness that they were trying to cure and were alive, but comatose. Arnold and his friends brought them out of it]].
75	** Lila Sawyer lives with a single father and no mention is made of a mother.
76	** Mr. Hyunh has a daughter named Mai, but his wife and her mother was never seen or mentioned during the flashback in Vietnam when he was forced to give her up for adoption so she could have a better life while the war was going on, she presumably died at some point.
77	* ''WesternAnimation/AHollywoodHoundsChristmas'': When we meet Michael's family, we see it's him, Cuz, Rosie, and Michael's dad. Michael's mom is never seen in the cartoon.
78	* On ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', Dib and Gaz have a father, world-famous scientist Professor Membrane, but no mother is ever mentioned. WordOfGod says that before the show was cancelled, the creators were considering an episode where Dib finds out he is an ArtificialHuman, which may indicate he has no mother. Where Gaz is supposed to have come from in this scenario is unknown. The fandom seems fairly divided on the issue; some give them a mother (usually deceased, often a scientist who died in a lab accident), some make them experiments (Dib is usually said to be [[TrulySingleParent a clone of his father]]), and some try to reconcile the two theories.
79	** Similarly, Zim has no mom or dad in the series itself, but some in the fandom have experimented with the creation of biological parents for him.
80	* ''WesternAnimation/JadeArmor'': Lan Jun's mom has been missing for ten years [[spoiler:after sacrificing herself to stop the Crimson Lord. She is later revealed to have become an EnergyBeing trapped in the city's power grid.]]
81	* In ''WesternAnimation/JakersTheAdventuresOfPiggleyWinks'', Ferny's mom is dead, although it's unknown how she died.
82	* On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', Beezy only has his father, Lucius, with the identity of his mother being the grounds for a great deal of FanficFuel. In fact, this seems to be the case with every member of the Heinous family, as Lucius' mother never appears in flashbacks of his childhood (Beezy mentioned having a grandmother in "Cellphone-itis", but that's it). Incidentally, the original concept ''did'' have Beezy's mom/Lucius' wife, but in the final product, she's Lucius' RichBitch girlfriend Jez.
83	* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest''. Jonny's mother is absent because she's dead. Hadji's mother isn't mentioned at all.
84	** The first TOS episode states that Jonny's mom died -- from what is unknown.
85	** The first of the two 90's TV movies (''Jonny's Golden Quest'') that preceded ''Real Adventures'' revealed that [[spoiler: Dr. Zin killed Jonny's mom]], although it has since been filed under the CanonDiscontinuity heading.
86	*** According to comic-book side story (drawn and written by Wendy Pini of ''Comicbook/ElfQuest'' fame back in the mid 80s) she died of illness (presumably cancer).
87	*** Apparently the details of her disappearance in ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'' would have been dealt with in the third season. The one that never happened.
88	* ''WesternAnimation/JoshuaJones'':
89	** Fiona's mother is never seen or mentioned in the series, though her father is around. Since Mr. Cashmore never mentions having a wife, he is possibly divorced or widowed.
90	** Mrs. Karia's father Bapu lives with her and her son Ravi, but her mother is never mentioned.
91	* On ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'', June's dad has appeared in one episode and one of the tie-in comics in ''Magazine/NickelodeonMagazine'', however there was never an appearance or mention of her mother.
92	* ''WesternAnimation/KidVsKat'': Coop & Millie Burtonburger's mother is never seen or heard of. What happened to her is unknown.
93	* ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': Kipo's mother died of an illness when Kipo was very young. [[spoiler:This is later subverted, as it turns out she transformed into a [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Mega-Mute]] shortly after Kipo's birth and has been stuck in the form ever since.]]
94	* WesternAnimation/{{Kissyfur}}'s mother died before the series premiere, so he is raised by his father Gus.
95	* ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheDragon'': Played with, as the twins Ang and Ling are a ParentalAbandonment case. Both parents are dead, and they end up being raised by Master Chin. It then turns out that their mother, believed dead, is alive with a case of amnesia. And finally, inverted, because the twins' father really ''is'' dead.
96	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'': Beshte's mother never shows up, nor is she mentioned, even in the episodes featuring Beshte's dad.
97	* In ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'', Blythe's mother is never seen and isn't even talked about before the fourth season, where it all but states that she passed away. Had the show been renewed for a fifth, it would've delved more into what happened to her.
98	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLongLongHoliday'', Ernest and Colette's mother is convalescing in Switzerland to cure her tuberculosis for most of the series, leaving the children to be RaisedByGrandparents over the next few years (set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, their father enlisted in the French Army, was a [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany German]] P.O.W., and later [[spoiler: escaped imprisonment and joined the [[LaResistance French Resistance]]]], so he was also [[ParentalAbandonment absent]] through most of the series).
99	** Lily mentions living with her father, but her mother is never seen nor mentioned.
100	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
101	** WesternAnimation/PorkyPig had a daughter in two ''Looney Tunes'' projects: In 2003's ''My Generation G-G-G-Gap'', he has a BrattyTeenageDaughter named Peta, and in 2006's ''[[YetAnotherChristmasCarol Bah, Humduck]]! A Looney Tunes Christmas'', he plays the Bob Cratchit role, with a young daughter named Pricilla standing in for Tiny Tim. Though Petunia Pig is a safe assumption to be the mother, she is not seen or mentioned in either cartoon. Contrast with 1979's ''Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol'', where Petunia ''does'' portray Porky/Bob Cratchit's wife, but doesn't have any speaking lines (and Tiny Tim is played by ''[[BellisariosMaxim Tweety]]''.)
102	** Sylvester the Cat and his son star in the Robert [=McKimson=]-directed cartoons where Sylvester mistakes Hippety Hopper the kangaroo as a giant mouse. No mom seen, none mentioned.
103	* In ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'', Carolina's mother is absent without explanation, as is Milo's mother.
104	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyB'', Penny seems to be living alone with her dad. We've never seen Gwen's mom either, but since Gwen has five younger siblings, including one who's still an infant, one suspects that she can't be that far away.
105	* In ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg'', Lu's father Wendel is a major recurring character, but her mother is never seen or mentioned.
106	* On ''WesternAnimation/MikeTheKnight'' -- ''Journey to Dragon Mountain'', [[spoiler:Mike's dragon companion, Squirt, discovers both his missing mom and his DisappearedDad, and has a baby sister hatch as well from an EggMacGuffin]].
107	* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'':
108	** [[BrokenAce Adrien]]'s mother disappeared about a year before the series begins, with no explanation. He also says that his father, [[ParentalNeglect Gabriel]], was a "different man" before she vanished, while now the two have a very strained relationship. The question of what happened to her is implied to be plot-important, especially since [[spoiler:she seems to have a connection to the [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing Peacock]] [[TransformationTrinket Miraculous]].]]
109	** [[AlphaBitch Chloé]] is a spoiled daddy's girl, but her parents have been separated since she was a toddler, with her mother Audrey going to New York to advance her career and rarely returning to Paris. Granted, when she ''does'' return… let's just say [[AbusiveParents Chloé would probably be much better off without Audrey in her life]].
110	** For that matter, [[BetaBitch Sabrina]]'s, Alix's and Mylène's mothers haven't appeared either, although Sabrina's mother and her father seem to be close.
111	* ''WesternAnimation/MiraRoyalDetective'': The mother of the titular character Mira has not yet been seen, aside from pictures in her home. It's been heavily implied throughout the show she's passed away.
112	* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': Subverted with Trini's mother, Joy. Throughout most of season one, she is absent, but then the "Molly and the Great One" special reveals that she was serving in the army. Joy then goes on to make a few appearances here and there when she's on leave.
113	* ''WesternAnimation/MoonbeamCity'': Both Pizzaz and Chrysalis are missing their mothers. As is Dazzle ([[UnreliableNarrator maybe]]). Chrysalis' father, Blade, implies that his wife is dead with, "Your mother would be so proud", while Pizzaz's mother is simply not seen or mentioned in any way by anyone in her family, even regarding Pizzaz's upbringing or her father's impending death.
114	** Dazzle states directly to Chrysalis that his mother died when he was a child, but knowing Dazzle's love of false embellishment, it's possible that [[spoiler:he was only saying it for self-absorbed dramatic purpose]].
115	** Also, given that Chrysalis' father, Blade, is himself a CloudCuckoolander, her mother might still be around. Though Chrysalis fails to disagree with his implication, so she may actually be gone.
116	* Julie Kane's mother (who apparently had her with Abraham Kane) is nowhere to be seen in ''WesternAnimation/{{Motorcity}}''. Also Tennie lives with her father and her mother is absent.
117	* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyMakeYourMark'', Misty Brightdawn is raised by her abusive adoptive mother Opaline, the BigBad of the show, with Misty's birth parents nowhere to be seen. Misty's birth father is then revealed to be [[spoiler:Alphabittle]] in "Family Trees", but her birth mother is never seen or mentioned.
118	* ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers'': Eva goes from a kid with a Missing Mom to a complete ParentalAbandonment case as Don Wei leaves her to boarding school after the death of her mother and proceeds to never acknowledge her existence for ten years. [[spoiler:The series ends with a revert back to Missing Mom, after Don Wei figures out Molly is Eva, and tries to do better as a father.]]
119	* The title character of the ''Jamal the Funny Frog'' shorts from ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' has a father and a younger sister, but no mother.
120	* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'':
121	** Luz and Amity are the only members of the Hexsquad who are actually shown to have mothers. Gus's dad is depicted as a single father with no mention of a spouse, Willow is the daughter of a gay couple who are implied to be [[HomosexualReproduction her biological parents]], and both Hunter and Vee are [[spoiler:{{Artificial Human}}s whose closest parant analog is Belos.]]
122	** [[spoiler:Despite the mystery of his father's identity being a major plot point throughout Season 2, there is absolutely no mention at all of King's biological ''mother'', in which Eda already fills such a maternal role through adoption. Justified, as the final episode reveals that Titans can apparently reproduce asexually]].
123	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pelswick}}'' has a single father who is occasionally shown dating. There is no mention of what happened to the mother.
124	* On ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', no explanation is ever given for what happened to Ferb's biological mother (or Phineas and Candace's [[DisappearedDad biological father]], for that matter). Their happy blended family makes this something of a non-issue, however.
125	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'':
126	** An example that's pretty extreme: their Missing Mom doesn't exist. No woman necessary! Professor Utonium [[ArtificialHuman mixed them up]] out of pure [[AppliedPhlebotinum phlebotinum]].
127	** The Rowdyruff Boys are the identical example. No woman necessary! Mojo Jojo, lacking Chemical X, made his [[AppliedPhlebotinum phlebotinum]] out of...more mundane and disgusting substances. If you interpret it differently, it could be argued that their mother is [[spoiler:Mojo Jojo]]. Or [[spoiler:the toilet]].
128	** The Professor tried to get them a mother figure. It didn't end well.
129	** An issue of [[ComicBook/ThePowerpuffGirls the comic book]] had the girls excitedly discussing what kind of mommy they'd want and who'd be right for the Professor and the Prof couldn't get a word in edgewise. At the story's end, they tell the Professor to not rush at finding a mom for them.
130	* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': Mitchell's dad is always seen, but his mom is never shown. Her voice was heard in “Mindy’s Moon Bounce House” and she was mentioned in "Detective Mindy", but that's it.
131	* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' completely ignores the mother of Dot and Enzo Matrix. Their father gets a small mention in Season 2 and comes back as a self-aware null in Season 4, but no mention of the mother at all. Then again, their father is the ''only'' parental figure to appear in this show, so everyone else is missing their mothers as well.
132	* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' only showed Mr. Maellard as Pops' father, his mom is unknown as well. Although, "Skips vs. Technology" showed us a flashback of what appears to be a younger version of Pops' parents.
133	* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'': The first Mrs. Raymundo Rocket was finally revealed to have died in one of their telemovies very late in the run. Ray re-married, but the series ended practically immediately afterwards (as in, there was one full regular episode with the new wife as stepmom).
134	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': Chuckie's mom Melinda long went unmentioned, until [[TearJerker the Mother's Day episode]], which [[NeverSayDie all but said]] that she was a DelicateAndSickly woman who died when he was only a year old at most. Chuckie and his father are seen visiting her grave in a later episode; shortly after, Chuckie's dad remarried and his new wife, Kira, [[HappilyAdopted adopted]] Chuckie.
135	* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'': Back when Fred was believed to be Mayor Jones' son, he believed his mother passed away when he was little. Mayor Jones had a picture of some woman in an ad to further the masquerade. [[spoiler:And then Judy Reeves (and Brad Chiles) appears . . .]]
136	* Dolly the ''Dolichorhynchops'' in ''WesternAnimation/SeaMonstersAPrehistoricAdventure'', whose mother was killed by a ''[[ThreateningShark Cretoxyrhina]]''.
137	* Of all the parents seen in ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretWorldOfBenjaminBear'', one that isn't is Mrs. Biggleboar.
138	* The Big Bad Wolf from The Three Little Pigs ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies'' shorts has triplet sons (he has a fourth son who is friendly in the comics and a ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' short), but their mother is never seen or mentioned.
139	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
140	** Homer's mother Mona left to become a political activist, and was on the run from the law until the events of the 19th-season episode "Mona Leaves-A"...which killed her off. [[CallingTheOldManOut Right after she and Homer have a fight]] and before [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye Homer could apologize to her]].
141	** Krusty's mother is not mentioned, not even in the flashback of his boyhood in "Like Father, Like Clown". The episode "Walking Big And Tall" implies that she died when he was a kid.
142	** A few one-time children have been shown or mentioned to have fathers, but not mothers: Samantha Stanky, Allison Taylor, Shelby, Spud, and Colin.
143	* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': The series finale reveals that Princess Amber and Princes James's biological mother, Queen Lorelei, died giving birth to them. [[spoiler:She was infertile (meaning she couldn't give birth to children), so King Roland made a wish in a wishing well, and that's when Amber and James were born. But Lorelei's physical stability was so bad that she couldn't handle the complications, so she died.]]
144	** Many of the young royals' fathers made appearances, but their mothers weren't seen nor were they mentioned.
145	* ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'': Tails' mom is mentioned twice, though she is never seen with [[ParentalSubstitute Sally]] filling in the role. The first time is for comedic effect where Tails yells "HiMom" to a surveillance orb. The second is PlayedForDrama where he cries while telling Sonic he misses her.
146	** Also in ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'':, Sonic's mother and father are not present either.
147	* ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'': At the very least, Sonic and his siblings Sonia and Manic ''think'' that their biological mother, Queen Aleena, is missing, hence why they must go on their quest to find her.
148	* {{Averted\|Trope}} partially in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan:'' Peter's parents are still dead, but Harry's mom is alive, unlike in most other continuities. {{Word Of\|God}} Creator/GregWeisman says that it just seemed odd to him for all of the friends to be from single-parent families. It might as well be in here too, since Harry's mom seems to be emotionally distant.
149	* ''WesternAnimation/SpeedRacerTheNextGeneration'': Speed and X's mother is never seen or really brought up, though the smart money is on her being Trixie. [[spoiler:It's later confirmed that yes, Trixie IS the mother. She also turns out to be the BigBad.]]
150	* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', Mr. Krabs' wife and Pearl's mother is never seen but sometimes mentioned; she may either be dead or divorced. It is also possible that Mr. Krabs was never married and just adopted Pearl (which would make a ''lot'' [[ArtisticLicenseBiology more sense]]).
151	* Virgil's mother on ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' died when he was little. He tried to save her in a TimeTravel episode [[TearJerker/StaticShock but wasn't successful]]. Another episode deals with the family preparing a memorial service in her honor. We see that Virgil still has trouble dealing with her death. By the end of the episode, he seems to have come to terms with it, and we see that [[SurrogateSoliloquy the entire story's narration was him telling it to her]].
152	* On ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse,'' [[HalfHumanHybrid Steven]]'s mother, [[AllLovingHero Rose Quartz]], suffered a supernatural DeathByChildbirth, [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence giving up her physical form]] to bring him into the world. She comes up enough thanks to the show's MythArc to count as a PosthumousCharacter, and Steven admits having mixed feelings about it ranging from a longing to have personally known her to anger for her leaving him to deal with the ''long'' series of problems she caused prior to his conception.
153	** Both the Fryman and Pizza families seem to have [[AmbiguouslyAbsentParent a single father with no mother mentioned]] except for a DeletedScene mentioning Mrs. Fryman.
154	* The mother of the protagonists of ''WesternAnimation/StreetSharks'' is never seen and her absence is hardly mentioned at all. All that is known is that she gave their father a watch for his birthday, which he valued greatly (implying that she was dead).
155	* In ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'' both Ilana and Lance's mothers are absent. Unlike his DisappearedDad, Lance's mother is never brought up. During a WholeEpisodeFlashback, we see a woman who might be Ilana's mother, although this is unanswered.
156	* Lion-O and Tygra in ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'' had king Claudus for a dad. [[spoiler:Lion-O's biological mother -- Tygra's adoptive mother -- died giving birth to the former.]]
157	* In the original ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985'', Lion-O's mother is never so much as mentioned, even though his father appears twice.
158	* In ''WesternAnimation/TimothyGoesToSchool'', Claude and the Franks appear not to have mothers.
159	* In ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'', Spike the bulldog has a son but his mate is nowhere to be seen.
160	* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
161	** In ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', no mention is made of Spike Witwicky's mother. The show's writer's bible states that Spike's father Sparkplug is a widower.
162	** Averted with Sari Sumdac of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''. It looks at first like she has one of these, but it later turns out that [[spoiler: she's a HalfHumanHybrid RobotGirl, part human and part Cybertronian. The human part comes from the male Isaac Sumdac, and the cybertronian part doesn't come from gender-based sexual reproduction, so no female was actually involved in her production]].
163	*** In an official bio, it is blatantly stated the she was adopted, it is likely this is what Sumdac told everyone to explain him randomly having a baby one day.
164	** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'':
165	*** The absence of Kade, Dani, Graham and Cody's mother is never explained.
166	*** Frankie Greene gains a stepmother when her father Ezra marries Ana Baranova, but it is never explained what happened to her birth mother.
167	** The human allies to the Autobots in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRobotsInDisguise2015'' are father and son Denny and Russel Clay. Russel's mother is never so much as mentioned.
168	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'', the mother of Hank and Dean was unknown until the seventh season when the Action Man tells Hank that their mother was an actress who Rusty scared off by being obsessive and emotionally smothered her until she stopped taking his calls, changed her name, and moved to another state. It's unclear at what point she had the boys or why she decided to leave them with their father however. In TheMovie it's revealed [[spoiler:that this was [[UnreliableNarrator a misunderstanding]]; their mother was the ''daughter'' of the woman Action Man thought it was, and she never actually gave birth to the boys, as Rusty simply used her eggs to make them in-vitro with an artificial womb]].
169	* ''WesternAnimation/TheWackyAdventuresOfRonaldMcdonald'' character Franklin's father is a scientist named Dr. Quizzical, but absolutely no mention is made of his mother.
170	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wildfire}}'': Sara's mother died within one year of marriage because of a curse cast by Diabolyn. Sara and her father left Dar Shan so the curse won't reach them.
171	* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' has several missing mothers:
172	** Stella's parents are divorced, and her mother Luna is seen only in flashbacks for the first several seasons; Stella seems to live only with her doting father when not at school. Stella is upset about the divorce, especially at first, but doesn’t seem affected by her mother's absence, not even bringing her up when her father completely rejects her due to brainwashing.
173	** Musa's mother Matlin died when she was a young girl. Not only does she miss her, but her father's changed relationship with music after Matlin's death complicates her own relationship with him.
174	** Roxy lives with single dad Klaus with no mention of a mother until [[spoiler: her mother is revealed to be Morgana, the Queen of Fairies.]]
175	** WordOfGod attributes Riven's distrust to his mother leaving him as a child, though it’s not stated in the show.
176	* Caleb of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' starts the series an orphan, only for his father to reappear halfway through Season 1 and [[spoiler: his mother to turn up as the BigBad of Season 2]].
177	* ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'': We never find out who The Butcher's mother is. Also, Eileen has mentioned her mother in a few episodes, but she was never seen.
178	* ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': [=JunJun=] and Kaya live with their father and grandmother, but their mother is neither seen nor mentioned.
179	* Keo from ''WesternAnimation/YakkityYak'' only lived with his dad.
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