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  • Angst? What Angst?: All the Mithraic children that Mother kidnapped from the Ark are remarkably chill about Mother having violently massacred their entire culture, including their families. The more religious of them chafe at her pushing them to give up their faith, but otherwise show little trauma and certainly don't treat Mother with the hate and fear one might expect.
  • Complete Monster: Season 1: Otho was a Mithraic cleric who raped multiple women and girls while they were in hypersleep on the Ark, until the Mithraics learned about his crimes and sentences him to death. Escaping his punishment when Mother destroys the Ark, Otho attaches a severed android head onto his Explosive Leash to prevent his helmet from killing him and when discovered by Caleb and his soldiers, Otho exploits Caleb's Sanity Slippage to convince Caleb to spare him; Otho would attempt to kill Mother on Caleb's command by burning her alive. Otho would encounter Mother again where she would drain blood from him until Otho reverses the procedure, significantly weakening Mother while gaining Super-Strength, which Otho would use in an attempt to kill all of the children under Mother's care before strangling Tempest, the girl Otho impregnated when he raped her.
  • Narm: Mother's method of flying resembles the infamous T-pose used by unanimated humanoid 3D models.
  • Narm Charm: It can also mean that each time she T-poses, she's asserting her dominance over the Mithraics, who run in terror when she flies towards them.
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • The sheer amount of violence Mother unleashes just in the first episode qualifies, her screams splattering any unlucky Mithraic caught on them.
    • Mother's true Necromancer form, a brass humanoid that's nearly indestructible and can quickly destroy anything standing in her way.
  • Squick:
    • Marcus's nightmare where he rips off his face in really graphic detail.
    • Mother giving birth to a snake-lamprey via her mouth, which proceeds to fly around and then suckle on her blood like a parasite.
    • Vrille's skull face.
  • Visual Effects of Awesome: The quality and scale of the special effects easily rivals modern theatrical sci-fi blockbusters.

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