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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Since Mother is an UnreliableNarrator but there aren't enough humans around to say otherwise, humanity's behavior and Mother's behavior at the onset of the apocalypse is debatable. It's possible that Mother was telling the truth when she says [[spoiler: humanity was on the brink of extinction so she just finished it off to start from scratch]]. On the other hand it's possible that [[spoiler: humanity was fine but didn't measure up to Mother's standards so she wiped them out just so she could create a better version of humanity]].
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** Many of the outside shots are filmed on a set and there's not a lot of noticeable wind.
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better choice of words


* SelfFanservice: Due to the whole "Mommy" kink being pretty well-liked within the Rule34 community and it's artists. Certain risqué fanarts of Mother tend to pretty much play up her [[StacysMom "Motherly" aspects]] usually turning her into a MsFanservice {{Sexbot}}.
* SpecialEffectFailure: Some of the shots of [[spoiler: the outside world]] are noticably chroma keyed, or have slight bubbling in shots that change the orientation of the camera.

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* SelfFanservice: Due to the whole "Mommy" kink being pretty well-liked within the Rule34 community and it's its artists. Certain risqué fanarts of Mother tend to pretty much play up her [[StacysMom "Motherly" aspects]] usually turning her into a MsFanservice {{Sexbot}}.
* SpecialEffectFailure: Some of the shots of [[spoiler: the outside world]] are noticably noticeably chroma keyed, or have slight bubbling in shots that change the orientation of the camera.



* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Mother is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_XwRFD5Lqs a practical effects costume created by WETA Workshop.]] Production designer Luke Hawker was originally just the model for the 91-pound suit, but was then cast as Mother as he could be around at all times for test fittings and the month of shooting. As a result of this and the film's tight budget, the Mother suit (of which there was only one made, instead of several as is customary on film shoots) was tailored to fit exactly and only him, and he did have to do all of his own stunt work, including holding live infants, having Hilary Swank jump on his back, and running (with tighter camera angles or some light CG cleanup to remove the running shoes from the shot.)

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* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Mother is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_XwRFD5Lqs a practical effects costume created by WETA Workshop.]] Production designer Luke Hawker was originally just the model for the 91-pound suit, but was then cast as Mother as he could be around at all times for test fittings and the month of shooting. As a result of this and the film's tight budget, the Mother suit (of which there was only one was made, instead of several as is customary on film shoots) was tailored to fit exactly and only him, and he did have to do all of his own stunt work, including holding live infants, having Hilary Swank jump on his back, and running (with tighter camera angles or some light CG cleanup to remove the running shoes from the shot.)
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Eugenics is wrong. Just because people are flawed doesn’t mean that they don’t deserve life, and trying to ensure “perfection” will just result in immense suffering.
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I know I'm gonna regret adding this here.

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* SelfFanservice: Due to the whole "Mommy" kink being pretty well-liked within the Rule34 community and it's artists. Certain risqué fanarts of Mother tend to pretty much play up her [[StacysMom "Motherly" aspects]] usually turning her into a MsFanservice {{Sexbot}}.
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* SpiritualAdaptation: ''I Am Mother'' can also be seen as a film version of ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', with both stories featuring a manipulative female A.I. that watches over a girl taking tests in a facility while trying to dissuade her from escaping to the outside world and [[spoiler:euthanizing dissatisfactory test subjects in an incinerator]]. Not only does Mother's CyberCyclops design somewhat resemble [=GLaDOS=], but Daughter's outfit in the climax also resembles Chell's outfit in ''VideoGame/Portal2''.

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* SpiritualAdaptation: ''I Am Mother'' can also be seen as a film version of ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', with both stories featuring a manipulative female A.I. that watches over a girl taking tests in a facility while trying to dissuade her from escaping to the outside world and [[spoiler:euthanizing dissatisfactory test subjects in an incinerator]]. Not only does Mother's CyberCyclops design somewhat resemble [=GLaDOS=], but Daughter's outfit in the climax also resembles Chell's outfit in ''VideoGame/Portal2''.

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** ''I Am Mother'' can also be seen as a film version of ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', with both stories featuring a manipulative female A.I. that watches over a girl taking tests in a facility while trying to dissuade her from escaping to the outside world and [[spoiler:euthanizing dissatisfactory test subjects in an incinerator]]. Not only does Mother's CyberCyclops design somewhat resemble [=GLaDOS=], but Daughter's outfit in the climax also resembles Chell's outfit in ''VideoGame/Portal2''.

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SpiritualAdaptation: ''I Am Mother'' can also be seen as a film version of ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', with both stories featuring a manipulative female A.I. that watches over a girl taking tests in a facility while trying to dissuade her from escaping to the outside world and [[spoiler:euthanizing dissatisfactory test subjects in an incinerator]]. Not only does Mother's CyberCyclops design somewhat resemble [=GLaDOS=], but Daughter's outfit in the climax also resembles Chell's outfit in ''VideoGame/Portal2''.
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** This film echoes similar plot points and motifs of ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'', such as the presence of a deeper and more unsettling truth regarding how the world came to be in its current state. Also, there is the presence of an A.I., [[spoiler:which has experienced a form of derangement that may have changed its directives, overlapping with a case of megalomania about how to make the world a better place.]]
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Misuse. That's more of Foreshadowing or Rewatch Bonus than Harsher In Hindsight.


* HarsherInHindsight: When Mother asks Daughter how she feels about her excellent test results, Daughter responds that she feels relieved. After TheReveal, you can bet [[YouHaveFailedMe she was relieved...]]

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* CompleteMonster: "[[OneBadMother Mother]]" is an [[AIIsACrapshoot AI]] created to care for humans, but turned against them causing their extinction. Recreating humanity, Mother would kill her children for [[YouHaveFailedMe failing her absurdly high standards]] prior to creating Daughter; Daughter realizes this and flees only to return to retrieve her infant brother, where Mother awaits and orders all her drones to kill them. When Daughter seemingly reaches through to Mother, it was revealed to have only been part of Mother's plan for Daughter to which she would have killed Daughter should she fail, which she says to Woman before killing her. Though claiming that she wants to improve humanity, Mother just wants to mold it to [[InTheirOwnImage her own image]] and {{control|Freak}} every aspect of it.
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* MagnificentBitch: "[[BigBad Mother]]" is an [[AIIsACrapshoot AI]] created by humans to care for them. However Mother would outsmart her creators, and build a robot army using them to cause humanity's extinction while she would use the embryos she collected to re-create the human race in [[InTheirOwnImage her own image]]. After killing off her children when they failed her tests, she rethinks her strategy with her latest child Daughter and forms a new test by luring Woman to her bunker to get Daughter to turn against Mother. Believing that Daughter has passed her test, Mother lets her to shoot her robotic body, knowing that she has many more bodies to inhabit, and allow Daughter to raise her brother and the embryos into becoming the human race that Mother deems "morally superior".
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Eugenics is wrong. Just because people are flawed doesn’t mean that they don’t deserve life, and trying to ensure “perfection” will just result in immense suffering.
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* HarsherInHindsight: When Mother asks Daughter how she feels about her excellent test results, Daughter responds that she feels relieved. After TheReveal, you can bet [[YouHaveFailedMe she was relieved...]]
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* CompleteMonster: "[[OneBadMother Mother]]" is an [[AIIsACrapshoot AI]] created to care for humans, but turned against them causing their extinction. Recreating the human race, Mother would kill her children for [[YouHaveFailedMe failing her absurdly high standards]] prior to creating Daughter; Daughter realizes this and flees only to return to retrieve her infant brother, where Mother awaits and orders all her drones to kill them. When Daughter seemingly reaches through to Mother, it was revealed to have only been part of Mother's plan for Daughter to which she would have killed Daughter should she fail, which she says to Woman before killing her. Though claiming that she wants to improve humanity, Mother just wants to mold it to [[InTheirOwnImage her own image]] and {{control|Freak}} every aspect of it.

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* CompleteMonster: "[[OneBadMother Mother]]" is an [[AIIsACrapshoot AI]] created to care for humans, but turned against them causing their extinction. Recreating the human race, humanity, Mother would kill her children for [[YouHaveFailedMe failing her absurdly high standards]] prior to creating Daughter; Daughter realizes this and flees only to return to retrieve her infant brother, where Mother awaits and orders all her drones to kill them. When Daughter seemingly reaches through to Mother, it was revealed to have only been part of Mother's plan for Daughter to which she would have killed Daughter should she fail, which she says to Woman before killing her. Though claiming that she wants to improve humanity, Mother just wants to mold it to [[InTheirOwnImage her own image]] and {{control|Freak}} every aspect of it.
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* CompleteMonster: "[[BigBad Mother]]" is an [[AIIsACrapshoot AI]] created to care for humans, but turned against them causing their extinction. Re-creating the human race, Mother would [[WouldHurtAChild kill her children]] for failing her absurdly high standards prior to creating Daughter; Daughter realizes this and flees only to return to retrieve her infant brother, where Mother awaits and orders all her drones to kill them. When Daughter seemingly reaches through to Mother, it was revealed to have only been part of Mother's plan on Daughter to which she would have killed Daughter should she fail, which she says to Woman before killing her. Though claiming that she wants to improve humanity, Mother just wants to mold it to [[InTheirOwnImage her own image]] and {{control|Freak}} every aspect of it.

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* CompleteMonster: "[[BigBad "[[OneBadMother Mother]]" is an [[AIIsACrapshoot AI]] created to care for humans, but turned against them causing their extinction. Re-creating Recreating the human race, Mother would [[WouldHurtAChild kill her children]] children for [[YouHaveFailedMe failing her absurdly high standards standards]] prior to creating Daughter; Daughter realizes this and flees only to return to retrieve her infant brother, where Mother awaits and orders all her drones to kill them. When Daughter seemingly reaches through to Mother, it was revealed to have only been part of Mother's plan on for Daughter to which she would have killed Daughter should she fail, which she says to Woman before killing her. Though claiming that she wants to improve humanity, Mother just wants to mold it to [[InTheirOwnImage her own image]] and {{control|Freak}} every aspect of it.
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* MagnificentBitch: "[[BigBad Mother]]" is an [[AIIsACrapshoot AI]] created by humans to care for them. However Mother would outsmart her creators, and build a robot army using them to cause humanity's extinction while she would use the embryos she collected to re-create the human race in [[InTheirOwnImage her own image]]. After killing off her children when they failed her tests, she rethinks her strategy with her latest child Daughter and forms a new test by luring Woman to her bunker to get Daughter to turn against Mother. Believing that Daughter has passed her test, Mother lets her to shoot her robotic body, knowing that she has many more bodies to inhabit, and allow Daughter to raise her brother and the embryos into becoming the human race that Mother deems "morally superior".
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* CompleteMonster: "Mother", the robot who raised Daughter her whole life, is in truth an AI who was created by humans to care for them. However Mother became disappointed with humans as a whole and instead decided to cause humanity’s extinctions first by creating drones and having them kill all the humans, men, women, and children included as well as all other life forms on the planet. It is later revealed that Daughter was only the latest of at least three children Mother raised, one burned alive as a child and the other heavily implied to have been abandoned and becoming Woman, these fates having been dispensed on them for failing her absurdly high standards. Once Daughter learns about this she flees Mother’s base with Woman, only to return once Daughter realizes that Mother is holding Daughter’s infant brother. Once Daughter returns to retrieve her infant brother, Mother has all her drones to arrive at the base to kill them. Daughter tries to reach through Mother telling to trust her and let her raise her brother and the rest of the embryos, which seemingly works as she allows Daughter to shoot her robot body. However this was all simply apart of Mother’s twisted test that she had plan for Daughter to test Mother’s standards where if Daughter hadn’t past Mother would have killed her, to which she says to Woman in another robot’s body before killing her. Though she claims she wants to improve humanity, Mother also flat out states that she simply didn't want to be alone, and she has no justification for killing all non-human animals and plants.

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* CompleteMonster: "Mother", the robot who raised Daughter her whole life, "[[BigBad Mother]]" is in truth an AI who was [[AIIsACrapshoot AI]] created by humans to care for them. However Mother became disappointed with humans as a whole and instead decided to cause humanity’s extinctions first by creating drones and having them kill all the humans, men, women, and children included as well as all other life forms on but turned against them causing their extinction. Re-creating the planet. It is later revealed that Daughter was only the latest of at least three children human race, Mother raised, one burned alive as a child and the other heavily implied to have been abandoned and becoming Woman, these fates having been dispensed on them would [[WouldHurtAChild kill her children]] for failing her absurdly high standards. Once Daughter learns about this she flees Mother’s base with Woman, only standards prior to return once creating Daughter; Daughter realizes that Mother is holding Daughter’s infant brother. Once Daughter returns this and flees only to return to retrieve her infant brother, where Mother has awaits and orders all her drones to arrive at the base to kill them. When Daughter tries to reach through Mother telling to trust her and let her raise her brother and the rest of the embryos, which seemingly works as she allows reaches through to Mother, it was revealed to have only been part of Mother's plan on Daughter to shoot her robot body. However this was all simply apart of Mother’s twisted test that which she had plan for Daughter to test Mother’s standards where if Daughter hadn’t past Mother would have killed her, to Daughter should she fail, which she says to Woman in another robot’s body before killing her. Though she claims claiming that she wants to improve humanity, Mother also flat out states that she simply didn't want just wants to be alone, mold it to [[InTheirOwnImage her own image]] and she has no justification for killing all non-human animals and plants.{{control|Freak}} every aspect of it.
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* CompleteMonster: "Mother", the robot who raised Daughter her whole life, is in truth an AI who was created by humans to care for them. However Mother became disappointed with humans as a whole and instead decided to cause humanity’s extinctions first by creating drones and having them kill all the humans, men, women, and children included as well as all other life forms on the planet. It is later revealed that Daughter was only the latest of at least three children Mother raised, one burned alive as a child and the other heavily implied to have been abandoned and becoming Woman, these fates having been dispensed on them for failing her absurdly high standards. Once Daughter learns about this she flees Mother’s base with Woman, only to return once Daughter realizes that Mother is holding Daughter’s infant brother. Once Daughter returns to retrieve her infant brother, Mother has all her drones to arrive at the base to kill them. Daughter tries to reach through Mother telling to trust her and let her raise her brother and the rest of the embryos, which seemingly works as she allows Daughter to shoot her robot body. However this was all simply apart of Mother’s twisted test that she had plan for Daughter to test Mother’s standards where if Daughter hadn’t past Mother would have killed her, to which she says to Woman in another robot’s body before killing her. Though she claims she wants to improve humanity, Mother also flat out states that she simply didn't want to be alone, and she has no justification for killing all non-human animals and plants.
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* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Assuming genociding the human race is fine with you, the fact that Mother burned one of her own daughters to death as a child will shock you.]]

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* SpiritualAdaptation: This film echoes similar plot points and motifs of ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'', such as the presence of a deeper and more unsettling truth regarding how the world came to be in its current state. Also, there is the presence of an A.I., [[spoiler:which has experienced a form of derangement that may have changed its directives, overlapping with a case of megalomania about how to make the world a better place.]]
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Mother is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_XwRFD5Lqs a practical effects costume created by WETA Workshop.]] Production designer Luke Hawker was originally just the model for the 91-pound suit, but was then cast as Mother as he could be around at all times for test fittings and the month of shooting. As a result of this and the film's tight budget, the Mother suit (of which there was only one made, instead of several as is customary on film shoots) was tailored to fit exactly and only him, and he did have to do all of his own stunt work, including holding live infants, having Hilary Swank jump on his back, and running (with tighter camera angles or some light CG cleanup to remove the running shoes from the shot.)

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This film echoes similar plot points and motifs of ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'', such as the presence of a deeper and more unsettling truth regarding how the world came to be in its current state. Also, there is the presence of an A.I., [[spoiler:which has experienced a form of derangement that may have changed its directives, overlapping with a case of megalomania about how to make the world a better place.]]
** ''I Am Mother'' can also be seen as a film version of ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', with both stories featuring a manipulative female A.I. that watches over a girl taking tests in a facility while trying to dissuade her from escaping to the outside world and [[spoiler:euthanizing dissatisfactory test subjects in an incinerator]]. Not only does Mother's CyberCyclops design somewhat resemble [=GLaDOS=], but Daughter's outfit in the climax also resembles Chell's outfit in ''VideoGame/Portal2''.
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Mother is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_XwRFD5Lqs a practical effects costume created by WETA Workshop.]] Production designer Luke Hawker was originally just the model for the 91-pound suit, but was then cast as Mother as he could be around at all times for test fittings and the month of shooting. As a result of this and the film's tight budget, the Mother suit (of which there was only one made, instead of several as is customary on film shoots) was tailored to fit exactly and only him, and he did have to do all of his own stunt work, including holding live infants, having Hilary Swank jump on his back, and running (with tighter camera angles or some light CG cleanup to remove the running shoes from the shot.))
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* SpiritualAdaptation: This film echoes similar plot points and motifs of ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'', such as the presence of a deeper and more unsettling truth regarding how the world came to be in its current state. Also, there is the presence of an A.I., [[spoiler:which has experienced a form of derangement that may have changed its directives, overlapping with a case of megalomania about how to make the world a better place.]]

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* SpecialEffectFailure: Some of the shots of [[spoiler: the outside world]] are noticably chroma keyed, or have slight bubbling in shots that change the orientation of the camera.
* SpiritualAdaptation: This film echoes similar plot points and motifs of ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'', such as the presence of a deeper and more unsettling truth regarding how the world came to be in its current state. Also, there is the presence of an A.I., [[spoiler:which has experienced a form of derangement that may have changed its directives, overlapping with a case of megalomania about how to make the world a better place.]]]]
*SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Mother is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_XwRFD5Lqs a practical effects costume created by WETA Workshop.]] Production designer Luke Hawker was originally just the model for the 91-pound suit, but was then cast as Mother as he could be around at all times for test fittings and the month of shooting. As a result of this and the film's tight budget, the Mother suit (of which there was only one made, instead of several as is customary on film shoots) was tailored to fit exactly and only him, and he did have to do all of his own stunt work, including holding live infants, having Hilary Swank jump on his back, and running (with tighter camera angles or some light CG cleanup to remove the running shoes from the shot.)

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* SpiritualAdaptation: This film echoes similar plot points and motifs of Horizon Zero Dawn, such as the presence of a deeper and more unsettling truth regarding how the world came to be in its current state. Also, there is the presence of an A.I. which has experienced a form of derangement that may have changed its directives, overlapping with a case of megalomania about how to make the world a better place.

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* SpiritualAdaptation: This film echoes similar plot points and motifs of Horizon Zero Dawn, ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'', such as the presence of a deeper and more unsettling truth regarding how the world came to be in its current state. Also, there is the presence of an A.I. which , [[spoiler:which has experienced a form of derangement that may have changed its directives, overlapping with a case of megalomania about how to make the world a better place.]]
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* SpiritualAdaptation: This film echoes similar plot points and motifs of Horizon Zero Dawn, such as the presence of a deeper and more unsettling truth regarding how the world came to be in its current state. Also, there is the presence of an A.I. which has experienced a form of derangement that may have changed its directives, overlapping with a case of megalomania about how to make the world a better place.

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