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A mother is one of the most central figures that a character can have growing up, and her influence can have an impact on that character even as an adult. If the character is lucky, that mother will be a loving one, and if he or she is really lucky, she'll be an Action Mom who can kick ass and take names if the character is ever threatened. But if the character is really unlucky and isn't suffering from Parental Abandonment, the character's mother will be an Evil Matriarch, and chances are she will make that character's life a living hell. Can lead to them becoming a Disowned Parent. The Evil Matriarch comes in two forms: Comedic: Usually used in the Dom Com, this variety is usually the mother of one of the two parents on the show who comes to visit every so often, and someone on the cast dreads it. Given the tone of these shows, "evil" tends to be somewhat of a stretch, but the matriarch in question may still be a Jerkass. Usually (though not always) this variety of Evil Matriarch is a helicopter parent, often to an irrational extreme. She might be the Stern Parent of a Stern Parent, Doting Parent pair. Classically, this is a Mother-in-Law situation, but from time to time, the kids themselves, or even the child of the mother is the one that dreads it. In some cases, everyone hates the Evil Matriarch, like in Malcolm in the Middle, where everyone dreads Lois's mother coming to visit. In other cases, her visit is appreciated by everyone but the daughter or son of the Evil Matriarch, like in Family Ties, where the matriarch is evil because her daughter feels she can't live up to mom's perfection. Expect this variety of Evil Matriarch to have Power Hair and other Fashionable Evil. Dramatic: This variety, which shows up in more dramatic media, is truly evil in a traditional sense, and is one of the worst villains one can face, especially if one of the Heroes or Love Interests is one of her children (or if she's married into his or her family as a stepmother). Many such Evil Matriarchs are completely convinced that they, and only they, know what's best for their children, and can be very controlling, manipulative, and perfectly willing to do anything they deem necessary for their children's sake, no matter how evil or destructive it may be. And that's assuming that they actually love (or feel any attachment at all towards) their children in the first place. The most vicious examples of this variety of Evil Matriarch despise their children (or at least the one they've singled out as The Unfavorite) and are often physically or emotionally abusive towards them, and many of them are not above Offing the Offspring. If she's not entirely human, then expect her to be a Hive Queen. If she is also the Queen, expect God Save Us from the Queen!. If she is just a wanted criminal, then she's just a Notorious Parent. The Spear Counterpart of this character type is Archnemesis Dad, and it's actually quite rare for an Evil Matriarch to be paired up with one. If she explicitly isn't paired up with one, then she might be the Cruel Parent in a Loving Parent, Cruel Parent pair. In the off-chance that she's indeed the wife of an Archnemesis Dad, their children are definitely screwed (and in works that aren't averse to violence, things will probably get bloody by the story's end). The inversion is Antagonistic Offspring. See Abusive Parents and Parental Neglect for the more mundane versions. See Offing the Offspring and/or Matricide for what this might lead to if the kids fight back, or Hates Their Parent, for how the kid likely feels about them. If the mother's antics stem from incompetence rather than malice, she's Maternally Challenged. If a villainess tones down or outright abandons her wickedness upon becoming a mother (preventing this trope from applying in the first place), that's Deliver Us from Evil. Abusive Offspring is the inverse, where the child is abusive to the mother. If it's not your mother but her replacement who's making your life a living Hell, see Wicked Stepmother. If the evil mother in question actually has the word "mother" in her villain title, see One Bad Mother. Compare Villainous Mother-Son Duo, for when the mother and her offspring are active partners-in-crime. noreallife |
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Alcmene in Hallmark's made-for-TV movie Hercules. The mother of Hercules received some Adaptational Villainy, attempting to have her son Hercules murdered in his crib while he s still a kid, and after failing that, conspire to make his life a living hell. While she is mostly sympathetic example as result of being raped by Zeus (who brutally raped her in this version, instead of taking the form of her husband to bed her), she is far from a saintly person, serving as a mad high priestess that sacrificed men in the name of Hera. | |
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Stations of the Cross: Maria's mother berates her daughter and leaves her ashamed of her appearance, her growth, and her friendships. The contrast between her religiosity and her monstrosity towards her daughter is only made more clear by the fourth scene where she takes the place of the Virgin Mary, only to act without any of the mercy or compassion characterized by the saint. | |
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Mary Jones, the mother in Precious. She allows her husband to rape their daughter, impregnating her twice. The firstborn child has Down's Syndrome and she sends that child to live with the grandmother. She receives welfare, but only spends it on herself, and puts on this wonderful mother routine when the social worker comes for visits. Even worse still, Mary physically, verbally, emotionally, and also sexually abuses Precious and eventually physically abuses the 2nd baby that Precious gives birth to. | |
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Santeria Decuir in The Gungan Council, a former Sith and the High Priestess of the Nightsisters. Also leads one of the largest families to ever appear on the site. | |
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Marisa Coulter from His Dark Materials wishes to have her daughter live with her, but isn't beyond killing her when she learns her offspring is the chosen one. At least initially. Regardless of how much she tries to redeem by the end of the series, Lyra never stops viewing her as an enemy. | |
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Leyla and Nina's mother in When Darkness Falls. It wasn't the family's father who set up murdering Nina to regain the family's honor, but her. Leyla later explains to a police officer why her mother did this: | |
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In The Northman, this ends up being The Reveal. Queen Gudrun arranged for her own husband and son to die at the hands of Prince Amleth's Evil Uncle, and adds insult to injury by trying to seduce her horrified son during his Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Despite all of this, Amleth couldn't bring himself to harm a woman, especially his own mother and only killed her after being forced to in self-defense. | |
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Vol 1: Queen Clea uses her own daughter as a disposable henchman. | |
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Vol 2: One of the villain Queen Clea's most ardent enemies is her own daughter Ptra, who has teamed up with Wondy to defeat her tyrannical mother. | |
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Played with in Up All Night episode named "Parents". Reagen dreads a visit from her mother, and is annoyed by her. Also, Reagen's mother is proud of how she brought up Reagen and writes a book about it, which annoys Reagen even more. Averted by the end of the episode, because Reagen's mother realizes what she was doing wrong after she has a heart to heart talk with Reagen and becomes more supportive. | |
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Desperate Housewives has several examples of bad parenting, but Gloria Hodge and Barbara Orlofsky really tie for the first place. The former went to awful lengths to make her son remarry his ex-wife, even planning his rape and attempting to kill Bree. The latter's alcoholism and cruel behavior turned her son Eddie into a serial killer. | |
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Kageyama Hiroko (the Countess Werdenberg) from the anime Gilgamesh, despite that she is apparently intended as a tragic and sympathetic character. | |
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The High Priestess from Samurai Jack Season 5 is a truly brutal and chilling example of this trope. She is the leader of an all-female cult that worships Aku, and raised her seven daughters quite literally from birth to be her enforcers. She holds the dubious distinction of being one of the darkest villains in the show due to lacking the comedic quirks and Laughably Evil traits from previous antagonists, and setting the tone for Season 5. | |
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Brigit Stark, Cinder Fall's mother from My Name Is Cinder, was an abusive, gold-digging, sociopath. She drove her husband to suicide for his money, threatened to make Cinder's life miserable if she exposed her true nature, turned her other two children against Cinder, and lived up to that threat by constantly beating and starving Cinder. | |
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Flemeth of Dragon Age is Morrigan's mother and Ambiguously Evil at best, but she and Morrigan don't really like each other and fully expect to come to blows one day. Whatever affection Morrigan still had for her goes out the window when she discovers that Flemeth's immortality comes from possessing the bodies of her own children. After that, Morrigan asks the Warden to (temporarily) kill Flemeth while she makes longer-term plans. The third game complicates this: Flemeth, while still extremely manipulative, tells Morrigan that she could never have possessed an unwilling host, and is willing to let Morrigan (and her son, if he exists) go free. It's heavily implied that Flemeth's treatment of Morrigan is more of Tough Love, judging her sorrowful reaction when Morrigan (particularly if she becomes a mother) angrily states that she will never be the mother Flemeth was to her/calmly telling Flemeth that Kieran will be better off without her just as she was better off without Flemeth. |
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X-Men: Mutant terrorist Mystique. She really does love her children, but Nightcrawler's the only one she hasn't stabbed or shot note she still threw him off a cliff when he was an infant. Emma Frost, depending on which side she's on; she is either with the heroes or fighting against them, or manipulating both sides for personal gain. Minor villain Nanny is a Well-Intentioned Extremist version after being trapped in her egg suit and driven insane by her superiors when she rebelled against their anti-mutant plans. Nanny uses her Orphan-Maker, a mutant child in a suit of power armor, to go around "Saving" mutant children from their human parents so she can provide a better home for them (which includes raising them to become her soldiers). It's hard not to understand her motives when so many human parents do treat their mutant children like pond scum. |
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In "One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes", the mother cannot stand her second daughter because she has two eyes. So, she -together with her other daughters- strikes and insults Two-Eyes, forces her to wear rags and eat leftovers. Tellingly, Two-Eyes eventually forgives her sisters but not her mother. | |
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The Second Wife from Auntie An-mei's childhood in The Joy Luck Club. Let's see, she got the First Wife addicted to opium, leaving her a shell of herself in constant religious agony, rules Third Wife like a puppet, had her husband rape an innocent guest to get him his Fourth Wife, and then arranged for a Fifth Wife whose greatest purpose would be to make Second Wife look better. And when Fourth Wife had a son, Second Wife claimed him for her own. | |
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Gilmore Girls: Once Lorelai Gilmore reluctantly re-opens relations with her mother, Emily Gilmore is quickly revealed not only as a near-definitional example of Type 1 (oh, how Lorelai and Rory dread those family dinners!) but has strong shadings of Type 2, as well. Vengeance is gained when Emily's Type 1 mother-in-law visits. Emily is often portrayed sympathetically, however. Though manipulative, she does really want what's best for her family, and much (though not all) of her and Lorelai's strained relationship comes due to either personality clashes or Values Dissonance rather than hatred. |
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Mother from Wild ARMs definitely qualifies. She's an Omnicidal Maniac who gives birth to a group of children specifically for the purpose of destroying the worlds she visits, and then leaving them to burn with the planet when she's done. It gets worse. She devours her own son for the purpose of possessing him to turn him into a destructive monster like herself. | |
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Also from Marvel, the mother of Patsy Walker, aka Hellcat, Dorothy, had the slightly bad thing of making comics based on her daughter, who hated the notoriety those books brought her... and the outright unforgiving fact that she tried to bargain away Patsy's life in exchange for her own in a Deal with the Devil (well, A Devil), though thankfully, Hellcat's superhero teammates thwarted the demonic possession. | |
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Jane the "Nana from Hell" on The New Normal. She is racist, anti-semitic, and homophobic, as well as condescending and often directly insulting to her granddaughter Goldie and great-granddaughter Shania. When her grandson-in-law Clay cheats on Goldie, she threatens him with a gun. But later she attempts to hook him back up with Goldie when the latter moves to L.A. and decides to become a surrogate mother for a gay couple. | |
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Adelaide French from The Cavaliers Series is the wife of Augustine, the most powerful vampire in existence. As a result, despite having only been turned less than twenty years ago, she commands a lot of power, respect, and even fear amongst The Cavaliers, her husband's secret society. Her human daughter, Harriet French, is the series' main protagonist. Adelaide is desperate to see her daughter turned by an eligible Cavalier and as a result, she forces her daughter's weaker love interest to pretend to hate her and removes her daughter's protection from mind control so that she can be mesmerised into falling for the "right" person. The fact that the "right" person killed her niece and attacked her daughter before knowing who she was doesn't seem to bother her. She's also ruthless about getting what she wants more generally and is scathing of anyone who doesn't live up to her high standards. On the other hand, despite going about things the wrong way, she seems to genuinely love her daughter and believes that she has her best interests at heart. | |
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The Pride in Runaways is made up of six pairs of Archnemesis Dads and Evil Matriarchs. Interestingly, The Pride honestly believe that they are doing the best they can for their children: by destroying the world and allowing the Gibborim to remake it, they will be handing their children paradise. With one exception, the kids don't agree, and their interference ultimately leads to the deaths of all The Pride's members. | |
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Mama Fratelli in The Goonies. She's the head of a family of criminals, including two of her sons. | |
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Evil Matriarch / int_261c8d3f | comment |
Agnes Skinner, Seymour Skinner's mother, from The Simpsons. Downplayed in that she's not evil, just crabby, and even then, it's mostly only to her son. | |
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The Simpsons | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch / int_278df229 | comment |
Another male example: The Warden's father in Superjail!. It should be a good thing he died long before the events of the series and is only shown in flashbacks. Combined with Jerkass. | |
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Superjail! | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_2874ef33 | comment |
Mrs Herriton in Where Angels Fear to Tread will go to any lengths to uphold the family reputation. | |
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Evil Matriarch / int_2b2195d5 | comment |
Regan Hamleigh in The Pillars of the Earth. A kind of Lady Macbeth type, she manipulates husband and son into doing her will. | |
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Angela Petrelli from Heroes. All her actions have shady motivations and she's not above using her children if the end justified the means (even considering killing one son at one point). In light of the events of V3, however, it's difficult to figure out if Angela was always such a Cold Hard Bitch, or became one after she found out that her husband had been mind-controlling her for years, mind-raping her into going along with the aforementioned (narrowly averted) Offing the Offspring. |
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The empress Tatrini Malagash in The Chronicles of Magravandias is respected and feared by all of her sons (and The Empire at large), especially knowing she only has ambitions for one of her younger sons, Bayard. The rest of them know themselves to be expendable if they get in her way without the resources to fight her. | |
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Christine Jones from Home and Away certainly falls into Type 2. She has invaded her daughter's privacy, invaded the privacy of her daughter's teacher, attempted to use her daughter Melody as an example of Miles' apparent corruption of schoolkids (by way of Spring Awakening), taken out an AVO against Geoff, ignored the fact that Melody was raped, institutionalized Melody after her rapist died, withdrew her daughter from the subsequent counseling (causing a nasty case of anorexia), attempted an exorcism, and then kidnapped Melody. Parent of the Year award right there. | |
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Ōoku: The Inner Chambers: Technically speaking, Kasuga was merely Iemitsu the Elder's wet-nurse, but for all intents and purposes she was the evil matriarch behind the throne, who spoiled Iemitsu to the point of smothering, then, when he died without an heir, arranged for the mother of his illegitimate daughter to be murdered, kidnapped his illegitimate daughter, and forced her to pose her father until she could conceive a heir to place on the throne. To that end, she more or less imprisoned Arikoto to be the Glorified Sperm Donor and murders anyone who could reveal an impostor's on the throne. However, she actually has good intentions for going to such extremes: she lived through the Sengoku Period, and lost her family and home in the process, and was desperate to keep Japan from having another civil war. However, she pales in comparison to Tokugawa Harusada, mother of Shogun Ienari. After copious amounts of kicking the dog to get to the top, she abdicates in favor of Ienari to be the power behind the throne without the need to produce heirs. She then proceeds to run the country into the dirt with excessive spending, drives out advisors for petty reasons, poisoned her loyal retainer, suppressed attempts to find a cure for the Redface Pox to keep herself and other women in power, and finally, poisoned her own grandchildren, and it's implied she did that because she was bored. |
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Baldur's Gate: Baldur's Gate II has the drow Matron Mother Ardulace, the political and religious leader of Ust Natha. As a part of her plan, she planned to use the eggs of the silver dragon to bribe a lesser demon lord to aid them in an attack on the elven capital Suldanessellar. She ruled with the usual drow cruelty – for example, when her own daughter appeared to be genuinely in love with a man instead of just using him and ditching right afterwards, she had her tortured until there was nothing left of her other than her ambition. In Baldur's Gate III, the Big Bad of Shadowheart's storyline is "Mother Superior", Viconia DeVir, the head of her Religion of Evil. She raised Shadowheart into a Tyke Bomb and put her through forty years of Training from Hell and abuse after kidnapping her and her real parents. She refused to let her advance in the cult because she was Driven by Envy of Shadowheart being the favorite of their God of Evil, and tries to kill her upon her return. Did we mention she's also a drow? Drow (yet again) Token Evil Teammate Minthara in III had this in her backstory, as her mother tried to kill her when she was younger and to this day she plots to return the favor. She also casually mentions that infanticide is a common practice in their culture, as they live in a horrific Lady Land that deems males worthless and has every third and onward boy in a family killed at birth. |
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Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_2dfdd54c | comment |
Emma Frost, depending on which side she's on; she is either with the heroes or fighting against them, or manipulating both sides for personal gain. | |
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Emma Frost (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_30a5ebfd | comment |
Naruto gives us Kaguya Otsutsuki, the first person in the Ninja World to utilize chakra. In addition to being a tyrannical ruler, she viewed her sons as her property and did not want them to have any independence from her. After discovering they had inherited chakra for her, she sought to destroy them in order to regain the lost chakra, forcing them to seal her away. Before this, however, she created Black Zetsu, who manipulated the Uchiha Clan, who are among her descendants, into creating the Infinite Tsukiyomi, which revived her — essentially making her the Big Bad of the entire series. Upon seeing her descendants, Sasuke and Naruto for the first tie and noting their resemblance to her sons, she weeps out of lingering affection....and then proceeds to try to drain their chakra, declaring her hatred for her sons. | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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Roseanne's mom from Roseanne started out as an Evil Matriarch, but eventually turned into The Ditz as she became a Recurring Character. | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_34b7ce64 | comment |
Michael Wenton-Weakes's mother in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, at least according to Michael. In fact, Lady Wenton-Weakes is simply the opposite of a Beloved Smother; she thinks Michael has been horribly spoiled by his father, and hopes that selling his magazine to someone who might actually make something of it may encourage him to grow up a little. |
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Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_358d8450 | comment |
The 39 Clues: Isabel. Kabra. | |
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Raven Branwen of RWBY, who is Yang's mother and constantly straddles the line between Byronic Hero, Anti-Hero and Anti-Villain. What is certainly true is that she is the queen of a ruthless bandit tribe and a dangerous woman with a Social Darwinist attitude to the world, and she will not even make exception for her own family if they get in her way. | |
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Flashpoint 2: Advent Solaris has Lady Mairghread, Elise's corrupt & abusive aunt — as well as Granny Goodness and Talia al Ghul. | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_37b56f7 | comment |
Baldur's Gate II has the drow Matron Mother Ardulace, the political and religious leader of Ust Natha. As a part of her plan, she planned to use the eggs of the silver dragon to bribe a lesser demon lord to aid them in an attack on the elven capital Suldanessellar. She ruled with the usual drow cruelty – for example, when her own daughter appeared to be genuinely in love with a man instead of just using him and ditching right afterwards, she had her tortured until there was nothing left of her other than her ambition. | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_3932a05b | comment |
The Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute. She uses the Wounded Gazelle Gambit to engage Tamino to kill Sarastro, ostensibly because Sarastro has kidnapped her daughter Pamina. When that fails, she goes to Pamina herself and tells her to murder Sarastro, or forever be disowned. She doesn't even try to help her daughter escape. | |
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Original Big Bad Precia Testarossa is the definitive Evil Matriarch, especially in the TV series where she is nothing but cruelty incarnate when it comes to her daughter Fate. Later adaptations would make her more sympathetic (especially INNOCENT, which completely removed the evil aspect and made her a full on Doting Parent). | |
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Harry Potter: Sirius Black's mother Walburga is heavily implied to have been an Evil Matriarch. Sirius is known to exaggerate, however, her portrayal through her portrait doesn't paint a very good picture of her when it appears in Order of the Phoenix and Deathly Hallows. Essentially, she and the rest of her family disowned any decent people. Narcissa Malfoy first appears to be this. Later books reveal that, while still a bigot, she's much more of a loving mother than she appears. Bellatrix Lestrange alludes to being this if she ever had children. She says that if she had them, she would proudly offer them up as servants (read: child soldiers) to Voldemort. |
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Lucille Bluth of Arrested Development. She's even explicitly described as a matriarch a few times. | |
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Edge of Spider-Verse (2022): Queen Mysteria angrily rails against this trope (in song, no less)... while she's setting a tentacled villain on people at a ball she threw with intent to kill, before obliviously attacking her daughter when she tries to stop her. | |
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Marietta Fortune in Wild at Heart is a particularly deranged example. | |
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Wild at Heart | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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Brian's mother from The Breakfast Club, who vicariously lives through Brian's school achievements while treating him like crap. | |
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The Breakfast Club | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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Whateley Universe: Phase's mother Helen Hilton-Goodkind. When Phase manifests as a mutant, Helen turns Phase over to a Mad Scientist for experimentation. Phase is fully aware that his mother is never going to speak to him again. Jean-Armand, a.k.a. Nephandus, has a mother much like this: while he loves her to death, she's not only controlling and dismissive of her son, she comes across as a total flake, and even he congratulates Nacht and She-Beast on dealing with her. In a much less comedic example, Nacht's mother (who actually killed her birth mother in order to raise her) is pure, absolute evil. |
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Sable's Grimoire has Meave, the mother of Lisha and a manipulative, power-hungry dark elf who treats all of her children as pawns. In the base game she murders her daughter Lim for failing her. In the sequel Man and Elf, she forces her son Hagan—a child—to obey her commands through Mind Control, and plans to enslave Lisha after breaking her spirit through psychological torture. | |
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In-law examples: Peggy's mother and Minh's father in King of the Hill. | |
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24: Live Another Day has Margot Al-Harazi, widow of a terrorist who, alongside her family, is seeking to kill the U.S. President for agreeing to the operation that led to the death of her husband. She is also not above Offing the Offspring. | |
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24 | hasFeature |
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Discworld: Nanny Ogg is not very evil, but she rules over the entire Ogg clan (a massive family whose family tree is described as being closer to a mangrove thicket). She's quite benign and verges on My Beloved Smother for most of her family... except for her daughters-in-law, who cook for Nanny Ogg, clean for Nanny Ogg, and pray to the gods that Nanny Ogg doesn't come home from a vacation and find the slightest thing out of order. Famously, Nanny Ogg has never learned or remembered the names of any of her daughters-in-law. In Hogfather, having an evil mum is the backstory of one of Teatime's thugs. She's dead and he's still more afraid of her memory than he is of Teatime. According to professional lockpick Mister Brown, this is entirely justified: he himself considers Teatime little more than a posturing thug next to her. |
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Luke Ramsey in American Horror Story: Coven has an abusive, overtly-religious mother. In one episode, she forces him to have a bleach enema, and it is probably not the first time. After he accuses his mother of murdering his father, she smothers him to death with a pillow. | |
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American Horror Story | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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Subverted in Coraline. Her mother seems like a Jerkass at first, but that's only until Coraline meets her Other Mother... | |
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Played with in Final Fantasy VII. The main antagonist, Sephiroth, is carrying out of the will of his 'mother', the remains of a woman who belonged to the dead Cetra civilization. Sephy's info is a little out of date: The doctors who discovered the body assumed it was Cetra, as it was found at the site of their old home. The Shinra Power Company hoped to clone "her" and make the Cetra live again, but quickly realized that Jenova wasn't human at all: it's a mimetic monster who took on the guise of the Cetra to prey on them. Undeterred, Shinra sampled Jenova's cells to create a line of super-soldiers, the most successful of which was Sephiroth. | |
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Boys over Flowers: Kaede Domyoji puts the family corporate behemoth before everything, including her children's potential happiness ("There is no place for ridiculous emotions like [love] in the Domyoji Group.") She neglects her son for years (which is implied to be the source of his semi-sociopathic fits of violence) until he gets involved with the Plucky Girl heroine, after which she devotes herself wholeheartedly to sabotaging the relationship by using her massive wealth and connections to blackmail and destroy everyone the heroine holds dear, an exercise she has already previously done with Tsukasa's older sister Tsubaki. When Tsukasa ends up in the hospital with amnesia, she doesn't even display any concern and merely exults in the fact that this will harm his relationship with his girlfriend. | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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Livia from Robert Graves' I, Claudius is the Evil Matriarch ramped up to x1000. She poisons/murders no less than 6 family members (including her husband, Emperor Augustus) in her scheme to set up her son as the next Emperor of Rome. (And she doesn't even do it just for him, she also does it as part of a scheme to become deified after her death, and thus become an immortal goddess, to escape punishment in the afterlife for her crimes.) | |
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In "Snow White" as the Brothers Grimm collected it, the queen actively abandoned the princess in the forest — telling her to get out of the carriage to gather roses and then driving on. In their first edition, they introduced the huntsman to tone it down. After that, they turned to the Wicked Stepmother. | |
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Dr. David Dave's mother from As Told by Ginger. | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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The Binding of Isaac has Isaac's mother, who one day has an epiphany from God (likely due to watching too much Christian broadcasting) and decides to sacrifice her son to the Lord. It's implied that she's done this before with other children. However it's ultimately subverted, as Isaac was an Unreliable Narrator and although his mother was a Troubled Abuser she never tried to kill him and has a complete breakdown after he's Driven to Suicide. | |
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A Wedding (1978): Nettie Sloan employs a doctor who supplies one of her daughters with heroin, forces said daughter's husband to hide the fact that he used to be a waiter and never see his family, and forbids one of her other daughters and her African-American lover from spending time together in public. | |
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Mary Louise in season two of Big Little Lies. She refuses to accept that her son Perry was a wifebeater and a rapist, and harasses his victims Celeste and Jane. It is heavily implied at the end of the season that Perry was continuing the cycle of abuse he endured from his mother growing up. | |
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In Homestuck, Nanna Egbert and Grandpa Harley were raised by Betty Crocker after Grandpa accidentally killed her husband. This sort of thing is exactly why babies should not be allowed to dual-wield flintlock pistols. She apparently wasn't very kind to either of them, and was even harsher on Nanna when Grandpa ran away to explore the world. It turns out that she was the former empress of Alternia. | |
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Tales of the Frog Princess Queen Olivine becomes this after the curse affects her when Chartreuse and Grassina are in their mid teens, and makes their lives miserable and tragic. While she doesn't plot anything evil on a large scale (she's already the queen) she doesn't allow her daughters to attend their father funeral and turns them into animals just to be cruel. On at least one occasion Chartreuse was very nearly caught and killed as a turtle. Oh, and she turns 14-year-old Haywood, Grassina's fiancé, into an otter. For at least fifteen years. And when they finally break that spell, they find Olivine has rigged it so that when he turned back into a man, Grassina would fall under her own curse, turning her into an ugly, evil old hag just like her mother. | |
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Destiny Intertwined: Isrun, Matriarch of Clan Frostspear, is cold, controlling, and domineering, ruling her clan and progeny with an iron grip but showing little emotional concern even if they are harmed in front of her. | |
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In The Caster Chronicles, Lena's mother is Sarafine, who is considered one of the Darkest Casters ever and proves this by very briefly killing Ethan in Beautiful Creatures. Then she gets worse. | |
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Kagura's mother, Shinzen Tennozou, in Speed Grapher. Not only does she constantly belittle and starve her daughter out of resentment because her husband/Kagura's father abandoned her and that was the corollary to her Dark and Troubled Past, she even goes out of her way to show that thanks to her Screw the Rules, I Have Money! mentality, there is virtually nothing anybody can do to help, until Saiga shows up (he has it hard). In this case, it's more like screw the savior; I have money. |
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Oryou Sonozaki in Higurashi: When They Cry, Head of the Sonozaki Family (a Yakuza of some sort). Subverted; she is a complete Jerkass to her granddaughters and not too kind to her daughter as well, but is responsible for far, far less than she's suspected of. Shion's not convinced though. | |
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Higurashi: When They Cry (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
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Maven Black-Briar in Skyrim. She has had employees killed simply because they don't do their job well enough, and actively seeks to blackmail or murder her business rivals. She is grooming her son Hemming to take over the family's business empire, and her connections enable her to have her grandson Sibbi set up with a Luxury Prison Suite and a shorter sentence despite him having commited murder. Maven is essentially The Don, and controls much of her home city of Riften through the Thieves' Guild and The Dark Brotherhood. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas gives us the Affably Evil and matronly Jeannie May Crawford, mayor of the town of Novac, who sells the pregnant wife of Craig Boone, one of the town's guardian snipers, into slavery with Caesar's Legion and gave the Legion information concerning how to sneak past Boone while he was on duty to take his wife. It's implied Crawford did so because Carla, Boone's wife, made it clear she was unhappy with the small town of Novac and wanted to return to New Vegas, where she and her husband had met. Boone will give the player a quest that, if it ends the 'right' way, results in Jeannie May getting a Boom, Headshot! from Boone while standing right next to the Courier. | |
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Eleanor Iselin in Richard Condon's The Manchurian Candidate. Having waaay too much political ambition, she manipulates and discards men, including her neurotic, brainwashed son, without hesitation. | |
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Sons of Anarchy: Gemma Teller Morrow, who supplies her son's junkie ex-wife with heroin (in order to damage her health or kill her, keeping her away from the new baby), smashes a skateboard into the face of a girl she suspects is sleeping with her husband, and just generally manipulates people all over the place. Depending on how you view her motivations, she takes it up to eleven at the end of season six, attempting to drown Jax's wife Tara for allegedly ratting out the MC to the police and wanting to take away Gemma's grandchildren, and when that doesn't work, Gemma settles for stabbing Tara to death in the head with a barbecue fork. Even Gemma doesn't hold a candle in the authority department to the one-shot character Vivica, the matriarch of a group of Gangbangers made up of herself and her sons. When they go behind her back to handle a stolen guns deal so they could use the money to get her a birthday present, she is not happy and immediately Dope Slaps her boys, who are clearly terrified of her. |
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In Turning Red, Wu is somewhere between this, Iron Lady, and a Grande Dame. She's old, very dignified, sets impossibly high standards, and insists absolutely that things be done according to custom. On the other hand, she isn't evil, just rigid and old-fashioned in her view of life. However, she's also surprisingly open-minded: when all the Lee women gather on the astral plane, Wu is the first to acknowledge that Mei has a right to make her own choice about her panda spirit. | |
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In Soul Eater, Medusa Gorgon is this to Crona in a twisted attempt to turn her child into the next Kishin. It all started when Medusa melted the Living Weapon Ragnarok into Black Blood and replaced Crona's blood with him, and it just spiraled down from there. As a form of training, Medusa forced Crona to kill animals and when they didn't comply she would lock them in a dark room with no food or water for as long as a few days until they did. Even when Crona's older, she has such a strong hold on them that she easily manipulated their emotions and desires so that they'd remain loyal and dependent on her out of pure fear. Fortunately in the anime, Crona found the strength to stand against her and officially join the good side. But in the manga, they weren't so lucky. | |
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Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu from Nobody Dies is most certainly this; one of her main goals in life seems to be the prevention of Asuka's ever developing the delusion that she's actually a worthwhile individual. | |
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Olivia Foxworth, the terrifying grandmother from Flowers in the Attic. She convinces her daughter to hide her four children in the attic of the family mansion in order to avoid being erased from the family line of inheritance. The children are starved, beaten, and terrorized by the grandmother, and eventually neglected. It later emerges that Grandmother, in combination with her daughter schemed to kill the children by poisoning their food with arsenic. She is somewhat redeemed in one of the sequels, although this may be partial Canon Discontinuity because it was completed by the ghostwriter who succeeded Andrews after her death. | |
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Silent Hill seems to have a thing for this trope. Dahlia Gillespie and Margaret Holloway could very well be friends with Sofia Lamb, considering their willingness to torture, abuse, and sacrifice their own daughters in ways that makes the devil shiver. By far, the least awful mother in the series is Walter Sullivan's mother, who had the decency of just abandoning him in an apartment, rather than sacrificing him to some God of Evil, Eldritch Abomination, The Devil, or whatever the Order worships. | |
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InCryptid: Ingrid is Sarah Zellaby's biological mother. Seeking a new world for the cuckoos, an invasive predator species, to infest, Ingrid orchestrates an elaborate plot to turn Sarah into an Apocalypse Maiden and tear a hole between dimensions. Uncaring that this would destroy Earth and fry Sarah's mind, Ingrid plans to use her as a sex doll to breed new super-powerful Johrlac queens. Ingrid also reveals that she had Sarah for the sole purpose of creating a Johrlac queen, and was behind the murder of her foster parents that led to Angela adopting her.note Cuckoos normally leave their children as Doorstop Babies with human couples, hence the name. She also ordered the murders of the family who lived in the house that the hive randomly chose as a base of operations. | |
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Serial killer Jacob Goodnight's mother in See No Evil was an insane and extremely religious person, who raised him through abuse to be a "Hand of God". | |
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Hazel Green in College Roomies from Hell!!!: Her children refer to her as 'The Dragon', and she lives up to the name, having them followed by her private agents, using brainwashing, blackmail and intimidation to manipulate them, and having her daughter's would-be boyfriend (and roommate of her eldest biological son) kidnapped, and implanting an explosive tracking device on him. | |
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The mother of The Nostalgia Critic and Ask That Guy with the Glasses, who seems to prefer the manipulative Why Did You Make Me Hit You? kind of abuse to the more physical kind. | |
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By the time of the Everybody Loves Raymond story, the condescending smotherer Marie dwells in a house directly across the street from her son's family and is constantly dropping by on her every whim and fancy. It was actually Raymond and Debra who moved across the street from Marie and Frank, as revealed in a flashback episode. Raymond spent the episode trying to convince Debra not to do it, but gave up in the end. Debra regrets not listening to Raymond. |
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Ultra Fast Pony portrays Granny Smith as the head of the Apple crime family. Aside from the offscreen villainy she presumably engages in as a mob head, she alternates between messing with her granddaughter Apple Bloom's head and peeing on her. She even casually mentions that she used to eat babies. | |
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Olivia Logan in the Logan Series. | |
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Henry's consort Queen Margaret (of Anjou) in Henry VI Part 3. | |
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Tamora, Queen of the Goths, in Titus Andronicus. | |
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Mary Asher from Tribe Twelve might just be one of the most extreme examples of this trope. She gives birth to her son Milo with the intention of sacrificing him to Slender Man rather than actually raise him, forces him to take pills that make him a mindless husk, and ships him off to a mental institution after he attempts to stop taking the pills. And that's just the things she's done to her own son. She also murders Milo's biological and step fathers and tries to burn down her sister's house containing her young nephew Noah out paranoia of them being "Mr. Scars" (the one who's prophesied to kill her), and is generally dismissive and nasty towards anyone. It's no wonder that she is Hated by All of her whole family. | |
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Oonagh of The Sevenwaters Trilogy, formerly an evil stepmother, becomes this once she has a son and granddaughter to manipulate. | |
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The Promised Neverland has "Mothers" who knowingly raise human children to be eaten at People Farms for the demonic-looking creatures ruling over them. The villain of the first arc, Mother Isabella, appeared to be cold and ruthless when dealing with the children's escape attempts but genuinely cared for them in her own convoluted way. | |
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Odalia Blight from The Owl House is a powerful and amoral businesswoman who controls every aspect of her children's lives, including Amity's social life—she interferes with any friendship she deems detrimental to Amity, which is literally any genuine friendship Amity makes, leaving the poor girl stuck in a clique of bullies she can't stand being around until a horrible mistake with Willow's memories causes her to be dragged into Luz's circle of friends. She's also emotionally abusive to her husband, overworking him in Blight Industries under threat of getting the kids involved and showing no regard for his opinions. It's eventually discovered that she knew Emperor Belos was a genocidal witch hunter all along, but went along with the Day of Unity anyway because she thought the Blights would somehow be spared by virtue of their "superiority", and she's downright baffled when this revelation causes her family to sever all ties with her. | |
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The X-Files: The mother of the Peacock family (Ma Barker meets Deliverance) in the episode "Home". | |
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In A Brother's Price, all organized crime is expected to be managed by an evil matriarch, as families are very close, and usually all members of a family are brought to court for a crime one of them committed. Rank is determined by age, the eldest sister in a family is named Eldest and becomes Mother Elder when she has her first child. The evil matriarch in any given family of criminals is therefore the Mother Elder. Strictly enforced discipline, and the fact that criminal individuals are thrown out of lawful families, more or less guarantees that a family that turns to crime will have an evil matriarch in charge. The villains actually murdered their own mothers (who were in on the conspiracy, so likely evil matriarchs themselves) in order to shut them up, as the family "doesn't age well" and tends to senility. The main villain has already one child, and is the Eldest of the family, so she is well on her way to becoming an evil matriarch herself. | |
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The Oresteia. This is the play where a woman and her boyfriend plot to kill her husband, and then her children kill them. | |
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In Tekken 7, it's revealed that not only has Rogue Protagonist Kazuya Mishima's Archnemesis Dad Heihachi been trying to kill him his whole life, but his mother was a Greater-Scope Villain for the entire series as she was a spy from an enemy clan sent to kill Heihachi and was directly responsible for them becoming a Big, Screwed-Up Family. She ended up Becoming the Mask to a degree as she genuinely loved the two, but ultimately puts her clan before her family and betrays them, only realizing in her final moments that it wasn't worth it. | |
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In Chi and Chakra, Nodoka Saotome is a complete Control Freak who expects her daughter Ryoko to obey her every order, or else commit ritual suicide to atone for her "failures". | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_6bef8832 | comment |
In Baldur's Gate III, the Big Bad of Shadowheart's storyline is "Mother Superior", Viconia DeVir, the head of her Religion of Evil. She raised Shadowheart into a Tyke Bomb and put her through forty years of Training from Hell and abuse after kidnapping her and her real parents. She refused to let her advance in the cult because she was Driven by Envy of Shadowheart being the favorite of their God of Evil, and tries to kill her upon her return. Did we mention she's also a drow? | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_6c4031ea | comment |
The Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, who wants to kill Snow White to remain the most beautiful woman in the land. | |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | hasFeature |
Evil Matriarch / int_6c4031ea | |
Evil Matriarch / int_6c5e0560 | type |
Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_6c5e0560 | comment |
Hotohori's mother from Fushigi Yuugi, Lady Motaiko, is a former Gold Digger who did lots of bad things to make sure her son would be chosen as The Emperor. Ironically, she dies before Hoto ascends to the throne. | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_6d5963e6 | comment |
"Hansel and Gretel" also had an evil mother rather than a wicked stepmother in the first edition. | |
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Evil Matriarch / int_6d5963e6 | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_705f01eb | comment |
Deconstructed in Corner Alley 13, wherein drow society is revealed to be so backstabbingly treacherous (the Klingon Promotion being their standard method of electing new leaders) that even the nicest of matriarchs are forced to become vicious tyrants to keep their positions and their heads. The villain of the first arc turns out to be quite sympathetic because of this. | |
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Evil Matriarch / int_708ae58b | comment |
Destania and Cyra, Dan's mother and grandmother from Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures. They do, however, care for their family. | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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Tales of the Branion Realm: Melesandra DeMarian in The Stone Prince is a cold-blooded ruler who terrifies her son and heir by teaching him and her other children (by bloody example) to be as ruthless as her. | |
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Madea of Antwone Fisher to her foster children, to a terrifying degree. | |
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Antwone Fisher | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch / int_729dbf75 | comment |
Janine in the Australian family crime drama Animal Kingdom. | |
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Animal Kingdom | hasFeature |
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Malory Archer, the mother of Sterling Archer, who is the reason why Archer is...Archer. Malory has set up many awful and stupid acts (like killing the Prime Minister of Italy, or not paying her employees enough), and uses ISIS's own money for her excesses. Worst of all, she's trying to pass down her worst traits to her infant granddaughter. | |
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Sharp Objects: Adora Crellin is a Silk Hiding Steel example. While she maintains a soft and breezy personality, she is a controlling and domineering mother and wife. She is also the leading citizen in the small town of Wind Gap and not afraid to throw her weight around. | |
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Sharp Objects | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch / int_7559ae0b | comment |
In the prequels to the Dune series, Duke Leto Atreides' mother, Helena, is generally a thorn in the side of the Atreides household, and hatches a plot to kill her husband, the Old Duke Paulus. She is eventually exiled to the Sisters in Isolation to spend the rest of her life. | |
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Margaret in The Order was a high-ranking member of The Order and a condescending Rich Bitch who plotted to murder prospective members to make room for her Spoiled Brat son who couldn't make it on his own. Which makes it all the more satisfying when she's executed by the same golem she used to do it. | |
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In the Forgotten Realms franchise, Drow society is matriarchal, and Drow are Always Chaotic Evil, resuting in a whole lot of these. This is exemplified in Salvatore's The Dark Elf Trilogy by Drizzt's mother Malice Do'Urden. She's introduced ready to be delivered of Drizzt, immediately whereafter she attempts to sacrifice him to her evil goddess. | |
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Succeeding Hilda would be Sonia from Blazing Blade. Not only is she sadistic and manipulative, but she constantly verbally abuses her adopted daughter Nino, and when she isn't doing that, she's neglecting her instead. It eventually comes to the point where she secretly plots to have Nino killed just after promising to hug her if she completes her mission. To hammer the point home, when Nino confronts her later, she freely admits to having slain Nino's real family when Nino was just a baby, and even says she would have killed Nino too had Nergal not told her to raise her. | |
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Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Evil Matriarch / int_78e27fa7 | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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BioShock 2 has Sofia Lamb. A staunch collectivist that contrasts with Rapture's founder, Andrew Ryan, Sofia Lamb firmly believes in Tall Poppy Syndrome where any modicum of well-being above the common collective must be stamped out of existence. She uses her daughter Eleanor as a symbolic, and possibly literal figurehead for this cause, something that Eleanor is extremely uncomfortable with. Eleanor ends up fighting back incognito using the player character Subject Delta and the newer generation of Little Sisters, and then at the endgame does so in a literal sense. How Delta addresses both the Little Sisters he encounters as well as three other characters that have their own motivations for their backstory and how they treated Delta determines the fate of Sofia Lamb, at her own daughter's hands. | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_79770ac9 | comment |
Hound: In kidnapping Setanta as a baby, Morrigan causes the death of his real mother, Detira. She encourages Setanta to pursue what he's best at since then, referring to herself and him as mother and son. He eventually discovers that she's a cruel and manipulative goddess who wants to destroy his humanity for the sake of war and to restore her to power. | |
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Hound (2014) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch / int_79854642 | comment |
Bernarda Alba from GarcÃa Lorca's play La casa de Bernarda Alba ("The House of Bernarda Alba"). Even in the 1930, when all the values this woman embodied were still living in the deepest of Spain's countryside, she still managed to come as too oppressive, coldhearted, cruel, and smothering (and not only for her old maid), to the point of killing her youngest daughter, Adela, when she openly defies her and tries to run away... and then happily claiming "My daughter, she dies a virgin!" | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_7988cb68 | comment |
Variation with Benezia in Mass Effect, as she is eventually revealed to be indoctrinated by Sovereign. Benezia actually earns triple points for this: Not only is she an evil (alright, convincingly mind-controlled) matriarch, but she is actually called Matriarch Benezia (it's her official title); is a literal mother to one of the main characters (who she tries to kill, still not of her free will); and is even caught conducting mind control and breeding experiments on an insectoid race (which, if successful, would have made her a literal Hive Queen). However, her final words to her daughter Liara after having her mind cleared subvert this, saying that she's always been proud of her. |
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Helena Cassadine from General Hospital. Head of a Greco-Russian almost-royal family, after the death of her not-so-loved husband Mikos, decided to get revenge and started killing for sport. Her unforgettable rivalry with GH's most famous super couple Luke and Laura, began when she cursed them at their wedding in the 80's. She reappeared again in 1996, with all the intentions to make life miserable to everyone in her family, especially her much hated son Stefan and her bastard step-daughter Alexis. Usually, when something evil happens in Port Charles, it's her fault. She stole, lied, cheated, killed, swapped DNA results, and even hibernated her beloved son Stavros (who everyone had thought had died, and thanks to her, appeared very much alive in 2001). Mortal enemy to Luke Spencer who tried to kill her more than once. | |
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General Hospital | hasFeature |
Evil Matriarch / int_7a380f3b | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_7ac43256 | comment |
Duminuss in Super Robot Wars: Original Generation Gaiden. Forcing her children that dedicate their lives to her to MERGE with her despite their own wishes, and later dismissed them as just mere pawns that she can throw away any time.... | |
Evil Matriarch / int_7ac43256 | featureApplicability |
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Super Robot Wars: Original Generation (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Evil Matriarch / int_7ac43256 | |
Evil Matriarch / int_7e90688 | type |
Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_7e90688 | comment |
What Goes Around Comes Around (Miraculous Ladybug): Emilie turns out to have been just as wicked as her husband Gabriel, and wastes no time proving this the moment she wakes up, immediately manipulating her son into entrusting her with the Black Cat Ring. Something she later berates him for as part of her Breaking Speech. | |
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Books of Kings: Queen Jezebel is portrayed as being a bad influence on her sons even after two of them became kings. Queen Athaliah took this to another level, when she tried to have all of her own grandchildren killed. Supposedly, she did that to keep all the power to herself. Only one of her grandsons survived. |
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Batman: Damian Wayne's mother Talia al Ghul falls here during Batman (Grant Morrison), taking control of her son's nervous system to kill his older brother/mentor Dick Grayson and then revealing to Damian that she had begun cloning him when it became clear to her that he was no longer doing what she wanted him to do in Batman & Robin # 12. When Damian asked why she couldn't love him for who he was (showing a rare hint of Woobie-ism), Talia replied "No. I'm too much of a perfectionist" and declared him an enemy of the House of al Ghul, where he spent at least the first three quarters of his life. Oh, and he's ten. Culminates in Offing the Offspring when she allows the clone, Heretic, to brutally kill Damian. Of course she already had hints of this as she raised Damian to think he needed to kill Tim Drake to replace him in his father's household. | |
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Evil Matriarch / int_81692f99 | comment |
Geleth Pa'Dar in the Star Trek novel The Never-Ending Sacrifice. A product of the traditional Cardassia, where life was a struggle for survival on a starving planet, she is utterly ruthless and quite unrepentant about it. At one point, she suggests with total ease and in full seriousness that her son should have her grandson Rugal killed. Rugal ends up in an ongoing battle of wills with Geleth after coming to live in the family home. Finally, just before dying of old age, she shares her secrets with Rugal, which involve casually having an innocent man arrested and executed on false charges. In Star Trek: Forged in Fire, Lady of the House Moj'ih would rather kill her albino baby than allow his condition to bring shame to the family. She is following Klingon custom here; the Honor Before Reason nature of her culture blunts the individual evil to some extent. She still fits the trope, though. |
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Star Trek (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Evil Matriarch / int_81692f99 | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_82fbb6fb | comment |
In Star Trek: Forged in Fire, Lady of the House Moj'ih would rather kill her albino baby than allow his condition to bring shame to the family. She is following Klingon custom here; the Honor Before Reason nature of her culture blunts the individual evil to some extent. She still fits the trope, though. | |
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Star Trek: Forged in Fire | hasFeature |
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The Mouse Queen in The Nutcracker, who is responsible for... well, everything. | |
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TheNutcracker | hasFeature |
Evil Matriarch / int_83e63e1e | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_847f5422 | comment |
In Child Ballad Willie's Lady, Willie's mother, a rank witch, casts spells on his wife so that she can not be delivered of her child but will die. | |
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Child Ballads | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch / int_86312631 | type |
Evil Matriarch | |
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The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: The "bad mother" variety of bad queen, who's regent of her young son while bringing him up dependent on her. She'll maintain all her acts are on his behalf, but obviously does not intend to ever let him truly reign. | |
Evil Matriarch / int_86312631 | featureApplicability |
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The Tough Guide to Fantasyland | hasFeature |
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Queen Brahne from Final Fantasy IX. Sorceress Edea from Final Fantasy VIII. But she's actually under Ultimecia's control all those times. |
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Final Fantasy IX (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Evil Matriarch / int_86814cd2 | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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Girl Genius: Lucrezia Mongfish, aka the Other, who is both the heroine Agatha's mother and the comic's Big Bad. It is heavely hinted that she sired her child just to be a vessel to use for Demonic Possession. Also 'Grandmother', of the extended Valois family. Even the most scheming and murderous of the family seem to be scared of her. She seems fairly benign so far, but the reactions of people around her suggest that this isn't the case. |
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Girl Genius (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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In Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), Sloth is the failed resurrection of the Elric brothers' mother, Trisha. As such, she attempts to kill her previous incarnation's children to assert her own individuality and convince herself that she is not Trisha — all while Wrath, a child Homonculus who's the failed resurrection of Izumi Curtis' unborn son, sees her as a mother figure. She may have decided otherwise right before dying, if her last words are a signal. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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Jack Donaghy's mother Colleen on 30 Rock. He once told her that "there are terrorist cells more nurturing than you." | |
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30 Rock | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_89bfa4bd | comment |
Arguably Lady Macbeth in the Scottish play, even though she apparently is not a mother. | |
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Macbeth (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Evil Matriarch / int_89bfa4bd | |
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Evil Matriarch / int_8adae002 | comment |
Also a case of Meaningful Name. | |
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I, Claudius | hasFeature |
Evil Matriarch / int_8adae002 | |
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On Lost, Jacob and MIB are fraternal twins raised on the island by "Mother", played by Allison Janney. She actually killed their real mother, a shipwrecked pregnant woman, right after they were born. She then lies to them about there being nothing across the sea and stops any attempt by MIB to leave, including killing all the shipwrecked castaways helping him. All so that either Jacob or MIB can take over being guardian of the island. | |
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Lost | hasFeature |
Evil Matriarch / int_8d817ccb | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_8d84363c | comment |
Rome: Atia of the Julii is another ancient Evil Matriarch. She uses sex to get what she wants, verbally abuses her children and everyone around her, arranges the murder of her daughter's ex-husband (whom her daughter still loved), and sabotages her uncle's romance. (Oddly enough, some of these actions might have been prompted by a sincere desire to help her family, but her motivations are, for the most part, selfish.) Servilia, from that same series, isn't exactly a paragon of virtue either. |
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Erica Noughton, Julia's mother on Nip/Tuck: witty, intelligent, and a great person to have a drink with — unless you happen to be her daughter. It's heavily implied that her criticism and emotional absence are responsible for Julia's extreme insecurity. | |
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Evil Matriarch / int_8ef19f57 | |
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Evil Matriarch / int_9004922f | comment |
In Hogfather, having an evil mum is the backstory of one of Teatime's thugs. She's dead and he's still more afraid of her memory than he is of Teatime. According to professional lockpick Mister Brown, this is entirely justified: he himself considers Teatime little more than a posturing thug next to her. | |
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Hogfather | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch / int_90e2f673 | type |
Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_90e2f673 | comment |
Possibly the classic BattleTech example would be Romano Liao. Interestingly, she probably couldn't be considered her son Sun-Tzu's enemy as such...but there's little doubt that growing up as the son of a crazy fanatic holding her Successor State together by such time-proven methods as trusting no one and "purging" whomever she as much as suspected of wrongdoing must have been pretty much Hell for a remarkably rational offspring of that particular branch of the family tree. | |
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Princess Celestia from How I Lost My Mother who in this story is revealed to be the mother of Cozy Glow: whom Celestia had banished just days before Lunas' return along with erasing all knowledge pertaining to her daughter from the public in order to protect Equestria from a vision of Cozy destroying Equestria. Only afterwards did she realize that the Prophecy was of the Self-Fulfilling nature, and that by doing this actually drove her daughter to the brink of insanity; coupled with Celestias' constant attempts to prevent her relationship with Cozy Glow from being discovered through her strict adherence to both Blue-and-Orange Morality and Out of Sight, Out of Mind slowly building up to a point where all of Equestria will eventually turn on her and Luna eventually abandoning her for not being able to change since 1000 years. | |
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How I Lost My Mother (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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Lily van der Woodsen in Gossip Girl (2007) shows this only in shades. However, Lily's mother, Serena's and Eric's grandmother, "Ce Ce Rhodes", definitely leans straight toward this trope. | |
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Gossip Girl (2007) | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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Babylon A.D.: The High Priestess of the Neolite sect destroys the convent where Aurora was brought up in with a missile strike, presumably to destroy evidence of her past that would obscure her status as a modern 'miracle'. | |
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Babylon A.D. | hasFeature |
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Lady Prospera Mercury in Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury is the mother of the protagonist Suletta, and a manipulative, woman who indoctrinated her daughter into acting as a pawn to further her goals to the point that Suletta sees her mother saying Because I Said So as a valid reason to commit murder. And Suletta got off easy; Prospera's favorite child was turned into a Gundam by her (albeit as an Emergency Tranformation). | |
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Davina Atwood First Kill is head of the Atwood family and the legacy vampire community as a whole. She's also cruel and manipulative, even to the family members she claims to like - when Elinor offers to save Davina's reputation by becoming betrothed to another vampire clan, Davina responds by pressuring her to cop to any demands given, including requirements for certain amounts of heirs. | |
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First Kill | hasFeature |
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Tamaki's grandmother Shizune in Ouran High School Host Club looks down on him because he can't live up to her restrictively high standards for her family, and forbids him from seeing his mother. Oh, and Tamaki is the heir because his grandmother bought him, as Tamaki's ill mother Anne Sophie would quickly die in a life of poverty. She may be worse in the anime. To her, Tamaki is nothing but a tool to marry off to the Tonaire family so that they can produce a legitimate heir. This doesn't bother Tamaki in the slightest, as he knows his grandmother despises him and already has dreams beyond the Suoh corporation. |
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Ouran High School Host Club (Manga) | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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And in the film Dumbo, the oldest cow elephant that constantly pesters the titular character is named, "The Matriarch." (In real life, elephant herds are actually led by an elderly cow elephant called a matriarch.) | |
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Dumbo | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All has Pearl's mother and Maya's Evil Aunt, Morgan Fey, who plans to murder her niece Maya (using the spirit of her other daughter, Dahlia Hawthorne) so the Child Prodigy Pearl will become the head of the Fey clan. | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
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Wonder Woman: Vol 1: Queen Clea uses her own daughter as a disposable henchman. Vol 2: One of the villain Queen Clea's most ardent enemies is her own daughter Ptra, who has teamed up with Wondy to defeat her tyrannical mother. |
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Wonder Woman (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Nerissa from W.I.T.C.H. is revealed in season 2 to be Caleb's Missing Mom. He's not happy. | |
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WITCH | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch | |
Evil Matriarch / int_9a14c430 | comment |
Arima's birth mother Ryouko in the manga version of His and Her Circumstances, who not only got pregnant only to get money from her boyfriend's family (not knowing that he was The Unfavorite, but abused her kid to horrible degrees, prompting her boyfriend to take Arima to his eldest brother and his wife (the only Arimas who didn't hate him) so he could have a decent life. | |
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Rose Chasseur in dark Christmas comedy The Ref is the first type. She is such a massive bitch on wheels that even the hardened criminal Gus is appalled at how mean she is, and her own grandchildren take delight in helping Gus tie her to a chair. | |
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The Ref | hasFeature |
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The Pony POV Series has Discord's mother Entropy, the Anthropomorphic Personification of Heat Death. As such, she's an Omnicidal Maniac by job description, and therefore has no care for anything, least of all her children. Hell, she erased one of her children from existence because ___ talked back to her. However, this is ultimately subverted, as it's revealed this was Celestia's somewhat bias interpretation of her. Entropy's actually a bit more complicated than that: She's the End of Suffering, the End of Tyranny, etc. and has ZERO love for murderers and OTHER Omnicidal Maniac types because She doesn't want anything to end before its time. And it turns out she erased ____ because he was trying to kill off Nature's Law, which would've more or less wrecked the universe. |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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The Haunting: Great-grandmother Scholar is largely crotchety, but her darker nature comes out as it's revealed that she neglected and browbeated Great Uncle Cole in an effort to get him to forsake his magic. | |
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The Haunting | hasFeature |
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As mentioned above, Lois' mother Ida in Malcolm in the Middle. She was abusive to Lois and her sister as children and continues to terrorize them and their children in the present day, looking down on Francis for his criminal record and Malcolm for being smart rather than athletic. At one point she attempts to drug a rich old man into agreeing to marry her after pushing his previous girlfriend off the cruise ship they were on, and drugs the entire family (including her infant grandson) with opioids so they'd be in no condition to stop her. However, she does care for her family on some level, as shown when she loses her leg pushing Dewey out of the way of an oncoming truck. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: Hagravens, a species of flightless harpy who were once mortal women that performed a ritual in which they trade their humanity for access to powerful magic, are viewed as this by the Reachmen. Referred to specifically as "matriarchs," Reachmen groups are often found led by a Hagraven. The Night Mother is a mysterious figure who leads the Dark Brotherhood, an illegal assassins guild whose members typically take a sadistic glee in killing and who practice a Religion of Evil, worshiping the "Dread Father" Sithis, the primordial "Is-Not" antithesis of creation represented by a great void. According to legend, the Night Mother was once a mortal woman who sacrificed her five children in the name of Sithis, and became the wife of Sithis after her death. Maven Black-Briar in Skyrim. She has had employees killed simply because they don't do their job well enough, and actively seeks to blackmail or murder her business rivals. She is grooming her son Hemming to take over the family's business empire, and her connections enable her to have her grandson Sibbi set up with a Luxury Prison Suite and a shorter sentence despite him having commited murder. Maven is essentially The Don, and controls much of her home city of Riften through the Thieves' Guild and The Dark Brotherhood. |
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Queen Cersei Lannister from A Song of Ice and Fire. Many of her villainous deeds stem from protecting her children, but mostly from a prophecy about her years ago. She would outlive all of her children who would die as kings and queens, and she would be overthrown by a younger queen, and killed by one of her siblings. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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In The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Beatrice takes her anger over her disatisfying life out on her daughters Ruth and Tillie. | |
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Evil Matriarch / int_9e2f90f4 | type |
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One Piece has Charlotte Linlin aka "Big Mom", one of the Four Emperors. Despite her horrifying physical appearance, she has 39 daughters (one of which is to be married to Sanji as part of a political alliance with the Vinsmoke Big, Screwed-Up Family) and 46 sons, each of which she marries off in order to extend her power. This doesn't stop her from murdering one of her own children on a whim during a hunger-motivated, psychotic episode, plus actively encouraging her young children to be violent and psychotic- even against their own siblings-. Her son Charlotte Opera flat out notes that she'll consciously kill him herself if she finds out that he failed to stop Jimbei. | |
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Jeeves and Wooster: Not quite a matriarch, but it's hard not to think of Bertie Wooster's Aunt Agatha, "who eats broken bottles and turns into a werewolf on the full moon." Nearly all P. G. Wodehouse aunts are like this, but a character who fits the trope more exactly is Lady Julia Fish in the Blandings Castle novel Heavy Weather, who despises (though she loves) her son Ronnie and tries to break his engagement to chorus-girl Sue Brown. |
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Jeeves and Wooster | hasFeature |
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Dogsbody: Kathleen lives with her uncle, his family, and her evil step aunt who works her like a dog, verbally abuses her, and threatens to kill her dog on a regular basis. | |
Evil Matriarch / int_9fa6a1e6 | featureApplicability |
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Dogsbody | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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Queen Bavmorda in Willow is not only an evil queen but a bad mother to her daughter Sorsha. | |
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Willow | hasFeature |
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Jane in a certain anime version of Tarzan, Jungle King Tar-chan. Apparently Jane is a former model who turned into a big fat Gonk after marrying Tarzan. She is lazy, gluttonous, and brutal. Fully willing to unleash hell on Tarzan's groin when he steps out of line. One unconfirmed rumor is where she kills and eats a woman who showed interest in Tarzan. | |
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Tarzan (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Frontier Circus: In "Mighty Like Rogues", a family of thieves joins the T & T Circus and attempts to pick it clean. The main instigator is the mother, who urges her less willing children into crime. | |
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Frontier Circus | hasFeature |
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While Frances Clara Censordoll of Moral Orel physically can't become a mother thanks to her own mother removing her reproductive organs in a form of female castration, she regards herself as the matriarch of the entire town of Moralton. A town she is constantly playing Moral Guardian in. She once even ran for town "mayor-triarch". She withdraws upon realizing her opponent Clay has a massive oedipus complex and plays up to it to become his 'mommy' and manipulate him that way. | |
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Moral Orel | hasFeature |
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Futurama's Mom. (Pictured above.) Bonus points for having the hairstyle of Lady Tremaine. | |
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Futurama | hasFeature |
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Jesse Custer's grandmother from Preacher is this trope taken to ludicrous and horrific extremes. She keeps her family imprisoned on a backwoods hellhole farm with the help of her degenerate and perverted henchmen, locks her grandson in a coffin underwater for weeks, and, of, course, tries to have her daughter killed. | |
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Preacher (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Code Geass gives us Marianne vi Britannia, Lelouch and Nunnally's mother, whom they revered as a saint while never knowing that she had the same ambitions as their father the Emperor. One sidestory novel has a scene in which the Emperor's bodyguard Bismarck witnesses Marianne peacefully interacting with her kids, then is stunned when he sees that her face is completely devoid of motherly love. | |
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Code Geass | hasFeature |
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Vidalia Blackford in Binary Stars seems like a typical aloof businesswoman of a mother to the protagonist, Anastasia, but after she's kidnapped her evil bonafides are made quite clear when she has two of the men keeping tabs on her daughter Thrown Out the Airlock. | |
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Binary Stars (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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Joe Pickett: Brenda Cates in Endangered. She has all of the men in her family bent to her will and willing to commit murder for her. | |
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Joe Pickett | hasFeature |
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Hilda from Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. Tortures her sister-in-law Tiltyu and her daughter Tinny for good measure (and if Tiltyu dies childless, she tortures her other sister in law Ethnia and her daughter Linda), and while she keeps saying it's to punish traitors, deep down, she just enjoys torturing. The result becomes obvious. Tiltyu (or Ethnia) becomes extremely broken and cries everyday until she dies from sickness, and Tinny (or Linda) ends up as a Shrinking Violet. And then, Hilda keeps pressuring her blood daughter and local Dark Magical Girl Ishtar to marry her boyfriend Julius, the Imperial Prince of Grandbell, just so she can get more links and power from the Emperor. And in Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, it's revealed that even her husband Blume does not support child hunts... but she supports it wholeheartedly. But she makes the fatal mistake of underestimating Arthur (or Amid)... and Tinny herself (or Linda). Succeeding Hilda would be Sonia from Blazing Blade. Not only is she sadistic and manipulative, but she constantly verbally abuses her adopted daughter Nino, and when she isn't doing that, she's neglecting her instead. It eventually comes to the point where she secretly plots to have Nino killed just after promising to hug her if she completes her mission. To hammer the point home, when Nino confronts her later, she freely admits to having slain Nino's real family when Nino was just a baby, and even says she would have killed Nino too had Nergal not told her to raise her. |
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The Most Popular Girls in School: Mrs. Van Buren has shades of this since she eagerly helps Shay, Mikayla, and Deandra in their plots to humiliate the Cheerleaders, even lecturing them on the proper way to spike their energy drinks with laxatives and the correct time to do so. Mrs. Zales, Played for Laughs. |
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Mama Cosma, from The Fairly OddParents!, Depending on the Writer. | |
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The Fairly OddParents! | hasFeature |
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Every Last One of Them: While Nichols is the visible head of the family who controls the town, his sister Maggie is the one who is clearly pulling the strings behind the scenes. | |
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Every Last One of Them | hasFeature |
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Magnificent Century: Kösem: Safiye, Ahmet’s grandmother, is a wild schemer who schemes for Mustafa to take the throne, kills Kosem’s father and manipulates Osman into killing Mehmet. | |
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Nothing Special: The first Arc Villain turns out to be Callie's mother, Layla, a wood nymph, who's, well, a little out of sorts with reality. Killing any unfortunate mortals that wander into her woods and using their souls as "decorations". When Callie was conceived, Layla wanted to smother her in moss when she was a baby but Callie's father wouldn't allow it and spirited her away before Layla got the chance. Years later, Layla uses her plants to kidnap him and bring her to her wood which prompts the quest to find him and naturally a confrontation. | |
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The titular character in the 2020 RPG horror game Mother. Once she realizes there’s not enough food for her and her four children, she kills off her children one by one and feeds the dead child to her remaining children. When the player character finds out what happened to their siblings, she attempts to justify her actions by saying it’s better to die by her hands than starve and freeze to death. | |
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Athalie from Muted is the matriarch of the Severin witch family, and abusive to her daughter and niece with unrealistic expectations for them. Her foremost goal is to uphold the family traditions, and to reach that she stops at nothing not even murdering family members and sacrificing her unborn firstborn's soul to a demon for that. In a gut-wrenching scene she admits that she never wanted children, never loved her daughter and only got her because it was expected of her. Apparently, she got that way because her mother was an evil matriarch, too. | |
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Ren Gyoukuen from Magi: Labyrinth of Magic. She claims responsibility for the horrible deaths of her first husband and her two elder sons and later off-handedly wonders if she should kill her daughter as well. All in front of her youngest son, whom she taunts for being powerless to do anything about it. He is very screwed up as a result...and that's almost certainly intentional on her part. She's also The Usurper of an empire and the leader of an organization that wants to summon a God of Evil to kill everyone on the planet. Actually subverted since Gyokuen used to be a kind and good mother in the past, but she was subjected to Demonic Possession by Arba (the leader of the evil organization Al-Thamen and pretty much the Big Bad) and shit hit the fan from then on. And speaking of the devil Arba herself is an exaggeration of this trope. First, she was the mother figure to The High Queen Sheba, then she killed her cold-bloodedly despite Solomon and Sheba believed her so much. Then after Ugo moved the people of Alma Torran to the current world, she comes along with Al-Thamen. Unlike the other Al-Thamen members however, she can maintain almost all of her power (be it magical of physical) ,with possessing her own children, and if her previous vessel have grown too old, she will move to the child of the previous vessel. She prefers women as her vessel, but she can possess men too if she didn't have a daughter at any generation. Truly a wicked mother... |
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The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness: In Outcast, the fourth part of the series, it's revealed that Seshru the Viper Mage is Renn's mother. Seshru gave birth to Renn only so that she could make her newborn her personal tokoroth. After that failed, Seshru wasn't anyhow interested in Renn, who in turn knew of her bloodline since her father's death and refused to study Magecraft due to her mother's legacy as a Soul Eater. It's not before Outcast that Seshru realizes their connection, but she merely sees it as a tool to drive a wedge between the heroes. Not only that, but the sequel series reveals that Seshru managed to create a tokoroth out of Renn's younger half-brother Naiginn who becomes the new Big Bad. | |
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The Immortal Game has Queen Terra, Celestia and Luna's sociopathic mother. | |
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Hannelore's mother in Questionable Content. Her visit is this trope non-stop. | |
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Queen Narissa from Enchanted, who tries to sabotage her son Edward's marriage so that she can remain in power. | |
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Game of Thrones: Cersei Lannister is a deconstruction of one for Lannister-Baratheons until her father The Patriarch arrives in the city. While she genuinely loves her children (despite being an abusive mother) and would do anything to protect or avenge them, some of her actions prove to be a greater threat to the safety of her children than those of her enemies (who are often far more intelligent and competent than she is). In the end her last remaining child commits suicide because of her, but by that time Cersei is too far gone to even care. | |
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The jealously possessive villain mother Madame Sebastian in Notorious. | |
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Carrie's mother Margaret White. A religious fanatic who fiercely abhors everything even slightly related to femininity and female sexuality, and who sees her psychic daughter as nothing but an abomination and a shameful reminder of that one dreadful time when her husband had his way with her. Needless to say, this ends horribly. | |
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Zira, from The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, raises Kovu to exact revenge for Scar, in addition to she herself leading a pride against Simba's. | |
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Baki the Grappler was one of the few unlucky enough to have both this and an Archnemesis Dad. His father was the Ultimate Life Form with his mother In Love with Your Carnage and obsessed with giving him a worthy heir, turning Baki's entire childhood into Training from Hell while being cold and distant with him before disowning him entirely for still not being strong enough, before her Redemption Equals Death. | |
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Both Martin and Gerrys' moms in The Magnus Archives fit this category. Martin's mom emotionally abused him his entire childhood because he looked just like his father, who abandoned them when she got sick. She hated him, and eventually decided herself to move into a care home instead of having to spend any more time with her son than necessary. Mary Keay (Gerry's mom) was even worse. She killed his father after he blinded himself to escape the Magnus Institute before he could even remember him, believing that a dead husband was more useful than a blind one. Throughout Gerry's childhood, she only cared for him as far as he was useful for establishing a powerful supernatural family legacy and was less excited to see him than the Leitner volumes he'd sometimes bring home. She isolated him from the rest of the world, keeping him dependent on her because he didn't know how to live a normal life without all of the strange supernatural things he'd grown up with. Even after she died, Ms. Keay continued to torture her son, having bound herself to the Skin Book and haunting him for years until Gertrude Robinson destroyed her page of the book and freed Gerry from his mother. | |
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During the Alvarez Empire arc of Fairy Tail, Irene Belserion, one of the strongest members of the Spriggan 12, reveals that she is Erza's long-lost mother. She not only serves Zeref during his invasion of Fiore, but she had also attempted to pull a Grand Theft Me on her own daughter, shortly after Erza's birth, and claims to have abandoned her when it didn't work. It turns out that Irene was the first Dragon Slayer, and ultimately turned into a dragon like Acnologia, while pregnant with Erza. After spending several centuries as a dragon, she decided to take over Erza's body to regain her human form. In spite of everything, she becomes at least a little sympathetic when it turns out she was misremembering the circumstances of Erza's abandonment - she actually did love her daughter, and decided against stealing baby Erza's body, before leaving her in case she was ever tempted to try again. | |
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In season 2 of Timeless, Lucy's mother Carolyn turns out to be a high-ranking member of Rittenhouse. She is one of the main villains of the season. | |
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In From the Cold: Svetlana, who it turns out is Anya's mother, becomes her worst enemy, to the point of nearly killing her. She takes her own granddaughter Becca captive too, brainwashing her to kill people. | |
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Hakumei: The only reason Mikoto wants her son Sasuke back is so she can use him as a political pawn. | |
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Riley's Mom in Less is Morgue is both this and The Dreaded. She speaks in Intelligible Unintelligible hyena-speech, has the ability to banish powerful ghosts and demons, and is a terrible mom. Riley describes her as "Sauron with boobs." | |
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Charlie and Alan's mother in Two and a Half Men (as well as one of Charlie's girlfriends, much to everyone else's amusement and horror). | |
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In The Punisher (2004), the Big Bad's wife is this. When one of her sons dies at Castle's hand, she is the first who insists on bloody revenge on Castle's family, to which her husband asks if she's sure before issuing the order. This was Frank Castle the cop, and the son was accidentally killed during a shootout. In the movie-verse, this is actually what turned Frank into The Punisher. | |
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It's no question where Amber in Hairspray got her Alpha Bitch personality from, with her mother Velma shown to be a racist bully. | |
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Spoiled Rich, Diamond Tiara's mother from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. As "Crusaders of the Lost Mark" shows, her psychological abuse is why her daughter acts like an Alpha Bitch. | |
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Jamie's mom from Khaos Komix, what with the way she knew that her son was being molested by his neighbor but didn't do anything about it other than move to a different town. | |
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The King Nobody Wanted: Urrigon paints his late mother as this for the Iron Islands. She shaped her older sons' ambitions of conquest, and engaged in dark magic. Urrigon says she also killed her husband's first wife (by knocking her off a bridge the same way that her son Balon is killed in the books) as part of Euron's InheritanceMurder and stepsons (one of them by exposing him to greyscale, although, according to canon, Euron finished that son off). | |
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The Wire gives us De'londa Brice, who forces her son to become a drug dealer to support her decadent lifestyle. | |
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CSI is fond of this trope, from an episode in the first season where a mother drowns her daughter on a carnival ride, and in the episode 'Forever', where a mother convinces her daughter and boyfriend to commit suicide. | |
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Sword of the Rightful King: Morgause is Arthur's chief rival for leadership of Britain. She has a brood of five sons whom she tries to manipulate into usurping Arthur, though her oppressive tendencies paired with Arthur's charisma estrange all but her youngest son, Medraut/Mordred. | |
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Lillian Cutler in the Cutler Series. | |
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Ragyo Kiryuin from Kill la Kill, the powerful head of the Kiryuin Conglomerate and Greater-Scope Villain of the series. A sinister Evilutionary Biologist that has used her own family in experiments and subjects her daughter to rather.....disturbing displays of affection. Little surprise that Satsuki stabs her in the back. Too bad it didn't take, since she's a Life Fiber-fused monster that can reattach her own head. And then there's what she did to her other daughter, and her husband, and... Ragyo is often considered the reigning champion of 'Anime's Worst Mother'. | |
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Evillious Chronicles: Prim, although this isn't expanded on until the revelations in Praeludium Of Red and Praefacio Of Blue where it becomes apparent she raped the king of Lucifenia and used the resulting child as little more than a spy slave, manipulated every aspect of her son's life to make him a king he didn't want to be (including letting him get possessed by a demon), and triggered 20 years of international warfare just to get back at a former friend, who was already dead halfway through those 20 years. | |
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Pokémon Sun and Moon has Aether President Lusamine, who not only conducted amoral experiments ranging from cryogencally freezing Pokemon to keep them "beautiful" to almost killing poor Nebby when using its power to open up a portal to another dimension, but also was an abusive mother to her children Gladion and Lillie, micromanaging every aspect of their day to day life and disowning them when they start to turn against her. Though in this case, she was also stated to be under the effects of Nihilego's neurotoxins, and Lillie says she was a genuinely good and caring mother before she researched too much into the Ultra Beasts. | |
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In Barbie as the Island Princess, Queen Ariana uses her daughter Princess Luciana as a pawn to get back at her nemesis King Peter. | |
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Diablo III gives us Adria, the Witch of Tristram. Despite being the secondary protagonist's birth mother and a traditional aid to the player character, she allows them to destroy two Demon Lords and their armies before betraying the player, killing several allies and using her own daughter as the vessel for her dark master, Diablo himself, to be reborn as the embodiment of all evil. She performs a double-bluff in some respects, as she is openly a harsh and unpleasant individual, and is not depicted as particularly charismatic or powerful — an average spellcaster at best. She is, however, a cruel liar, and uses her record of trauma and tragedy to draw suspicion away from her true agenda. | |
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Carmen Vega from the Breakout Kings episode "Where in the World is Carmen Vega?". Head of a drug cartel, she arranges the murder of one son so she can get out of prison to attend his funeral, where she stages an escape. She later murders the father of her second son. | |
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Karin's grandmother Elda Marker can come off like this at times, but, given that she's a vampire who spends long periods of time isolated from society (to sleep) and has an intense distrust of humanity because of the massive Trauma Conga Line process she and others went through decades ago... well, she is not very well in her vampire head. | |
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Sheila Broflovski on South Park, at least in earlier seasons. | |
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Ren Sohma, Akito's mother, from Fruits Basket. She's probably one of the worst fictional parents ever. There's also Yuki and Ayame's mother, who had no qualms about abandoning/selling and ignoring them respectively. In a flashback, it was revealed that she and her husband were off "living it up" with the money and status they got from Yuki being Akito's companion — while Yuki was deathly ill. Unlike others of her ilk, she's hinted in the manga to have started to get better, after Ayame completely owns her at the parent conference. |
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Mapleshade from Warrior Cats. What drove her to evil was when, after she was exiled from ThunderClan for having a RiverClan mate, her kits drowned in the river. Her mate blames her for this, and she ends up getting exiled from RiverClan as well. | |
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White Snake (2019): The Master of the Snake Clan pretends to be a benevolent leader, she's actually planning to absorb the energy of all her subjects once the threat of The General and is dealt with. | |
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Pokémon Reset Bloodlines has Heratia, the mother of the Seven Brothers of Orre. Each of them grew up to become a notorious criminal in his own right (barring one who managed to escape from her), but she was way worse to them when they were children, forcing them to learn skills she could use to commit her crimes (like reading complex languages, use of weapons and Pokémon raising), and punishing them whenever they failed. Unsurprisingly, as soon as they saw the chance they killed her in retaliation. | |
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Cora, the mother of the Evil Queen Regina herself, in Once Upon a Time. She has no qualms about putting a child at risk (by causing child Snow's horse to run away) to promote her agenda for her daughter's life, and when Regina wants to actually choose her own husband, Mom kills the man her daughter loves, then Mom strongarms her into marrying a man she's not interested in just because he's King. When Red's mother shows up in season two, she seems like she's nice and supportive. She's not evil per se, but her Proud Warrior Race Girl and Humans Are the Real Monsters attitude puts her in direct contrast with her daughter. Her decision to go Bitch in Sheep's Clothing by killing Snow, who didn't do anything wrong, ends up getting her killed by Red. Rumplestiltskin's mother is shaping up to be this. She is a legendary dark magical being mentioned several times throughout the show before her appearance. Thus far, her crimes include stealing babies on a regular basis, abandoning her child as an infant, laughing in his face and throwing him to the ground when he confronts her as an adult, stealing his and Belle's infant son, raising him away from his parents to be evil and kill Emma, and hospitalizing the Blue Fairy.]] And that's in the span of two episodes. It's likely season 6B will make the list even longer. She's a very literal matriarch too as she is also Neal's grandmother and Henry's great-grandmother, thereby making her indirectly related to the entire cast. |
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An episode of Lois & Clark featured the mother of a deceased criminal known as "Bad Brain Johnson". To try and get her attention, her unfavourite second son built a fully functional mind control machine, to offer her the whole world as a gift. Not only was he met with equal disdain as usual, but not even the machine at full power could force her to tell her son she loved him. | |
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In The Gamer's Alliance, Omaroch's mother is the demonic Grand Duchess who wishes to unite the bickering demon hordes under one banner and use the demons' combined strength to enslave other races. The two clash, as Omaroch wishes to keep his non-demonic friends safe even if it means opposing his mother. | |
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Mayu's mother from Elfen Lied. She shows no empathy towards Mayu when she tells her that her stepfather is molesting her and belittles her because she is jealous of the "attention" her stepfather was giving her, and tells her that she wouldn't care if she vanished. | |
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Mother Gothel from Tangled. She's not Rapunzel's biological mother; rather, she kidnapped Rapunzel for her Fountain of Youth properties, and has kept her hidden in a tower for years while psychologically abusing her and only caring for her hair aka the source of her powers. And that's not even getting into her abandonment of her actual daughter Cassandra as revealed in Tangled: The Series. | |
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Victoria Grayson, the matriarch of the Grayson family, from Revenge (2011) fits the second variety of this trope to a T. | |
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SHODAN from the System Shock franchise obsesses over power. She plans to rule the whole planet in the worst dictatorship possible: The extermination of all human life. | |
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Sorceress Edea from Final Fantasy VIII. But she's actually under Ultimecia's control all those times. | |
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Gyokumen Koushu from Saiyuki took her biological daughter Lirin and gave her up to scientific experimentation in order to try and revive her locked away lover Gyumaoh. She also took her stepson and experimented on him to make him Brainwashed and Crazy. Also, Gojyo's stepmother abused and tried to kill him as a child, forcing her own son to kill her to save Gojyo. | |
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An Alternate Keitaro Urashima: Granny Hina proves to be a complete Manipulative Bitch who only cares about others insofar as she can get whatever she wants out of them. When her plans to trick her grandson Keitaro into taking over the Hinata Inn fall through, she brazenly exploits Haruka's misfortune in order to force her into the role, all so she can continue traveling around the world and doing whatever she pleases. | |
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Stephanie Forrester from The Bold and the Beautiful is a clear example of this trope, having spent 22 years trying to drive Brooke Logan out of her family after Brooke married both her husband and later two of her sons. Her worst crimes include hiring a man to make Brooke look like an unfit parent who eventually ended up raping Brooke (though to be fair, Stephanie had no idea what the man was capable of) and attempting to poison another woman who was pregnant with her son's child, thus making her guilty of attempted murder of her own grandchild. | |
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In Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rebecca Bunch has such a dismal relationship with her mother Naomi that when they look like they are starting to bond her primary thought is "Maybe She's Not Such a Heinous Bitch After All". | |
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While Penny Halliwell from Charmed is on the side of good, she heavily blurs the line of this trope. It's heavily implied she was a stern and strict woman to grow up with, one episode implies that she used her magic to get rid of a boyfriend of Prue's she didn't like. She's also shown to be very bitter and hostile towards men, bordering on emotional abuse: she was even ready to disown her own grandson for not being a girl. This is balanced out by her being heroic on various occasions. | |
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The Ancestress from Barry Hughart's Bridge of Birds. A former imperial concubine, she murdered the emperor and ruled China through their son. When a successful rebel overthrew and killed her son, the rebel spared the Ancestress as well as the dead emperor's daughter. She sets about arranging to breed sons from her granddaughter, so she can force them to retake the crown. | |
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Lady Imperia, the aunt of Prince Gerard, who in The Smurfs (1981) episode "The Clockwork Smurf" attempts to be coronated as queen in her nephew's place. | |
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Hydia from My Little Pony: The Movie (1986). She does nothing but mistreat her daughters, going so far as to even punish them for calling her "mama". Since Reeka and Draggle get quite the Character Development and especially since they seem to be punch clock villains rather than actually evil, it's actually hard not to feel bad for them. (Specially Draggle since she's the one who gets treated worse.) | |
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Livia Soprano from The Sopranos takes pleasure in tormenting people around her, especially her son Tony. She even tries to off him once. Nearly a case of Truth in Television except for the attempted killing part, presumably, as she's based on creator David Chase's own mother. Also a case of Meaningful Name. |
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Fire and Hemlock: Laurel, depicted as a youngish Evil Matriarch who dominates everyone in the extended family based in the mansion where Polly met Tom Lynn. (Tom included; she's said to be his ex-wife.) She's actually the Queen of the Fairies. Which doesn't lessen this trope one bit. | |
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Black Maria (also titled Aunt Maria): While Aunt Maria seems like the sweet lady who runs the local ladies gatherings, she actually tries to groom the narrator, Mig, as an heir. Along the way, she turns Mig's brother into a wolf, brainwashes their mother to not notice his disappearance and act as the housekeeper, has Mig eventually sent to be locked up with the town "orphans" (another one of her plots — they're actually the children of the townsfolk who Maria is trying to control), and eventually it is revealed that she turned her own daughter into a wolf after they had an argument. And the daughter was killed when Maria tried to get Mig's brother shot in a wolf hunt. | |
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Mags Bennett in season two of Justified controls all the marijuana operations in Harlan County, and while she seems like a nice woman, she is actually Affably Evil. If you grow pot without her permission, she will send her sons to force you to put your foot in a bear trap If you do something to hurt her business, she will have a nice chat with you and then give you some of her poisoned moonshine. If one of her sons does something stupid that might expose the murders they committed, she will settle for personally breaking his hand with a hammer. |
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Lady Violet, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, from Downton Abbey is a Machiavellian manipulator willing to go to considerable lengths to keep her family and its honor safe. Although her heart is usually in the right place, she plays up the part of Evil Matriarch for effect. | |
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From Wandaba Style, Furoku Tsutsumo, mother of Teen Genius Susumu, will go to any length to make her son admit that she is right and he wrong when it comes to space travel (she believes in furthering scientific achievement at any cost while he would rather try to find a way to launch a rocket that's environmentally friendly). Over the course of the series, she fakes a moon landing and makes it look like Susumu did it, blackmails his pilots into coming to the moon with her while neglecting to mention that there isn't a return trip, and nearly refuses to accept her son's truce when he comes to rescue them. | |
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In Tengen Toppa Gurren Solvernia, the secondary villain Cinoshisa, Viral's rival in Lordgenome's army, is a ruthless commander. But she's actually Kali Bachika, mother of Kittan, Kiyoh, Kinon, and Kiyal. She betrayed her village to the beastmen but couldn't kill her own children herself, so she abandoned them to die. Later, when she meets Kinon, she can't kill her again. Though her children don't know that Cinoshisa and Kali are the same person. | |
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Combine this with possessiveness reminiscent of a Yandere but without any of the affection and One-Winged Angel and you get the Other Mother from Coraline. | |
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