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Stage Mom

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Stage Mom	comment	Some parents really want their kids to become child stars. And they'll do anything they can to make that happen, up to and including interfering in the kids' work. They'll do this even at the risk of derailing the production, straining their relationship with their kids, or even endangering their kids outright. Sometimes this helps their kids start successful careers, but more likely, it'll actively hurt the kids' chances when they lose gigs because the directors don't want to deal with the parents. And failure usually turns out badly for the kid. A Stage Mom is similar in theme to an Education Mama, but whereas Education Mama usually just wants what's best for her child, the Stage Mom is driven by pure narcissism. She's a massive Control Freak, persecuting other people's children and being incredibly pushy with her own. It's clear that she has self-serving reasons for pushing her kids into show business, wanting to vicariously experience the fame and fortune she dreamed of herself. Sometimes she may be a failed actress or musician and this is the next best thing. The worst cases overlap with The Svengali, exploiting their children for their own gain. The family's financial status greatly plays a part in how the Stage Mom behaves. If the family is poor, she might be pushing her child to have a better life than she had, or less altruistically, she sees their talent as a cash cow to milk for all it's worth. Extra points if the kid's performing career is the family's most stable source of income. If the family is wealthy, the mom might want to project the image that her little darling is perfect in every way. And if she's a successful performer herself, she might be grooming her child in her own image—whether the kid wants it or not—because her own time in the spotlight is up. If she has other children that aren't performers, don't ask about her relationship with them. If the child is an adult who had a more conventional rise to fame, the Stage Mom could still reappear later in life. This usually happens when she realizes that she could manipulate her kid's fame for her own gain. Bonus points if the parent wasn't involved in the kid's life growing up but is now interested in a relationship. Most likely, the kid winds up telling her off for her behavior, she realizes the error of her ways, and the plot is resolved before the episode ends. Although Real Life stage parents can come in both sexes, the fictional portrayal is almost Always Female, hence the trope name. This is because pursuing the performing arts is not seen as very masculine. In fiction, the male version is almost always a Sports Dad (as opposed to a "Stage Dad") who pushes his children into becoming star athletes and gets more worked up during games than the kids actually playing. This variation is particularly focused on living vicariously through his kids and trying to make up for his own failed ambitions. This is a major reason for Dawson Casting in Real Life, as producers really don't like dealing with these people. A subtrope of Vicariously Ambitious.
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Stage Mom / int_117808ca	comment	Pamelyn Ferdin was a child star of the 1960s and '70s, best known for The Beguiled, Lassie, The Paul Lynde Show, and voice acting in Charlotte's Web and the Peanuts cartoons. She was pushed into acting by her mother and wanted to quit by the time she was in her teens, but was forced to continue. She took a part in the 1972 Slasher Movie The Toolbox Murders in the hopes it would be a Star-Derailing Role for her. It wasn't, but she was now eighteen and refused to do it again. She has done occasional voice acting and presenting by her own choice.
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Stage Mom / int_12cd8dd3	comment	In any show about child pageants, all the moms and more than one dad shown will be like this, more often than not to sickening degrees. The show Toddlers & Tiaras is almost entirely dedicated to showing them off. Some of these pageant moms' exploits: One particularly sickening example is the story of Kerry Campbell, who gave her eight-year-old daughter Botox injections. When she was found out, she not only defended this practice (claiming it was never too early to get your child cosmetic surgery to "get rid of the lines") but also claimed that other pageant moms practiced this as well. The fact that the story turned out to be fake did nothing to dispel it. One 5-year-old girl named Carley developed an alter-ego called Darla to cope with her mom's pushing her to win beauty pageants. In other words, the mother's abuse led to her daughter developing dissociative identity disorder. Joel McHale of The Soup fame usually saves his most vicious snark and insults for these particular parents. One such parent was compared unfavorably to Cronos, the Titan famous for eating his children when they were born.
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Stage Mom / int_1367cea0	comment	In Worm, Bambina is a child supervillain whose popularity is managed and leveraged by her mother to make money via illicit sponsors.
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Stage Mom / int_15e0585a	comment	It's Not the End of the World: Debbie's mom is one, who pushes her daughter into everything from tennis lessons to drama lessons.
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Stage Mom / int_16aa3232	comment	There's a "What if" episode of Desperate Housewives in which Gabrielle pushes her youngest daughter to become a child star, despite her absolutely sucking at acting. It ends up with both of them wasting their lives, and her husband and other daughter leaving them.
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Stage Mom / int_17e0915e	comment	Manga Soprano: Akie from 'Because I was visually impaired,My mother said "You're a child I don't want."' [sic] plans to profit off of her blind daughter Sae's artistic career upon finding out she became famous. This is after she abandoned Sae for surviving being pushed in front of a car with only her eyesight lost. Thankfully, Sae herself foiled her plans by drawing one more painting for her art exhibition that exposed her mother's true colors, causing the abusive hag to be arrested.
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Stage Mom / int_1ae5eab5	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL features a child actor who's under his mother's constant control, wrecking any chance for a social life. Things then go From Bad to Worse when he ends up with a mind-warping Number card.
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Stage Mom / int_1b0c5ffe	comment	Better Days talks about the problems of little girls whose mothers pressure them into child pageants.
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Stage Mom / int_1cad7ab9	comment	Spoofed in Roundhouse: the main character had a bitchy rival in talent or other competition, and in response to his "What do you have that I don't?" she brought out her stage mother (castmate David Sidoni), who proceeded to launch into an "I Am" Song.
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Stage Mom / int_2083f5da	comment	In her brief appearance in Single Parents, Douglasâ€™s mother-in-law, Barbara, shows hints of being this in Roseâ€™s youth. She fondly remembers buying her daughter her first set of jazz shoes and stage teeth at age eight, and tries to bond with her granddaughters by taking them to a beauty salon and having them decked out like they were going to be on Toddlers & Tiaras. However, itâ€™s zig-zagged, as Barbara is shown to truly love and want to be there for her motherless grandchildren, even agreeing to Douglasâ€™s terms of staying with them.
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Stage Mom / int_21b21f35	comment	BoJack Horseman: Sarah Lynn's mother had extreme shades of this. At one point, Sarah Lynn asks BoJack where he went to college, a question he doesn't mind her asking, but her mother quickly tells her that college is essentially for losers with no talent. When she expresses a follow-up desire to be an architect, her mother tells her "Mommy didn't do what she did to that Star Search producer for you to be an architect." A callback is made to this multiple times in 3x11, "That's Too Much, Man!" She not only begins talking about architecture but also expresses her feelings on child acting, revealing she hated it: Comes back later when Sarah Lynn's death becomes a major plot point in the final season, where her mother sues Bojack over the emotional damage once it gets public, wins the case, and once again tries to stay in the spotlight. The latter part is mostly in the background, but it all plays into Bojack's downward spiral from that point on. One of BoJack's more unpleasant memories of his already abusive mother, Beatrice, was when she would push him to perform "The Lollipop Song" for her supper club.
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Stage Mom / int_22211d68	comment	The Bones episode "The Girl with the Curl" features a child beauty pageant queen as the Victim of the Week, and one of the prime suspects is her mother, who is universally described as a stage mom. She's not the murderer, but security footage from before the murder shows that the mother was very controlling and abusive. Another mother in the episode is a downplayed stage mom. She's pretty caught up in the pageant scene, but she doesn't seem to be trying to live vicariously through her daughter (as her pageant career was a successful one) and is a more affectionate parent than the victim's mom.
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Stage Mom / int_227431b6	comment	In Runaways, it's been hinted that much of the abuse Chase Stein suffered at the hands of his father stemmed from his father's disappointment that Chase had not inherited his aptitude for science.
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Stage Mom / int_22e860f4	comment	Psych shows us that Shawn and his father have had this relationship for Shawn's entire life — even in the present, where Shawn is over thirty years old. Interestingly, it's not about sports or academics, but detective work. Given the show's irreverent comic nature, this is usually played for laughs.
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Stage Mom / int_24003723	comment	Parodied in an Achewood guest strip with Philippe's mother
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Stage Mom / int_254ea077	comment	Paige never had any interest in becoming a wrestler and only trained at their school for fun. She only had her first match because someone else dropped out on the night of a show - and she was picked to replace her. Since then Saraya Knight confessed to knowing that fans find her daughter attractive and marketed plenty of posters and merchandise to sell. Paige recounts a story of being in a car accident one evening and her father still making her wrestle later. Paige did later develop a passion for wrestling in her own right, and making it to WWE was entirely her decision. However, she had to retire at only twenty-five thanks to injuries catching up with her - and starting training at such a young age was thought to be a contributing factor ESPECIALLY when the stories about her parents being abusive trainers went public.
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Stage Mom / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Homer has shown some elements of being a Stage Dad, but more for Lisa than for Bart. The biggest example is "A Star is Torn", where he manages Lisa in a talent contest and bullies everyone behind the scenes to help her win. But in his first such appearance, he subverted the trope when he signed her up for a beauty pageant, not for his personal glory but because Lisa was feeling insecure about her looks and he thought it would help her self-esteem. (And it worked!) In "Radioactive Man", Milhouse's parents become stage parents when he gets the part of Fallout Boy. They immediately take advantage of Milhouse's newfound fame and wealth and start stocking up on luxury items. Milhouse is much less enthusiastic about his role. Referenced in "The Last Tap Dance in Springfield", where Lisa's tap dance instructor is very blunt with her lack of talent and tells Marge not to live out her dreams through her child. In "Smoke on the Daughter", where Marge has Lisa enroll in a ballet class to make her live out Marge's own failed dream of becoming a ballet dancer. This is particularly lampshaded when Marge describes her vision of "seeing her little Margie dance", much to Lisa's annoyance. Briefly invoked in a flashback scene where a young Homer has an angelic singing voice in the church youth choir, and Abe thinks of how his son's singing could make him millions. Then Homer's voice breaks mid-song, nipping that right in the bud.
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Stage Mom / int_2ba48a26	comment	Castle: The victim in "Pretty Dead" is a lifelong pageant contestant who was pushed into competitions by her mother at the age of nine. After her mother died, she continued with pageants (to her father's slight regret) to feel closer to her mother's memory, sadly turning into an Alpha Bitch in the process.
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Stage Mom / int_2c0b67f1	comment	An episode of Southland has a woman shoot her son's middle school football coach (in front of some cops, no less) for keeping her boy on the bench.
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Stage Mom / int_2d944503	comment	In Young Justice, Bonnie King, mother of Cissie King-Jones (aka Arrowette), is a superhero stage mother, pushing her daughter into becoming a superhero because of her own frustrated ambitions. She seems to care more about fame than her daughter's own safety, and she's been called out for this many times by other heroes: Cissie's first appearance was in Impulse, where her superhero mentor Max Mercury was so disgusted by her mother that he called Child Services. Nightwing got a chance to get in on the action and chew her out (having met her at Tim's parents' conference). Wonder Girl's mother was particularly disgusted with Arrowette's costume, which Bonnie seemed to have picked out to be more flashy than functional and wasn't good at protecting her from injury. (Bonnie didn't take it well and started a Cat Fight). Arrowette's costume change to something more sensible (well, at least relative to what she wore before) seems to imply that Bonnie has backed off a little bit. Cissie herself quit the superhero game out of frustration. Undeterred, Bonnie quickly found a new vocation for her: competitive archery. Cissie qualified for the US Olympic team and eventually won gold, which only got her mother to start scheduling public appearances for her. Ironically, Cissie's mother Bonnie herself had a stage mom who pushed her into competitive archery at a young age and treated her like dirt when she won a silver medal instead of a gold one. Bonnie angrily cut ties to her mother, only to become a lot like her later in life.
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Stage Mom / int_30940081	comment	In Grand Theft Auto V, an actress Franklin meets in the mission "Deep Inside" says that her parents forced her to model for Little Lacy Surprise when she was three, a company that sells lingerie for children. In the previous game merely accessing their website instantly gave the player a max wanted level.
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Stage Mom / int_34a98283	comment	Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright: One of the Talent Star contestants is Chrissy, a Spoiled Brat whose parents are rude to practically everyone they come across and insistent that their daughter is a future star. Her dad is eventually revealed to be one of the culprits running around in a Phantom costume, his motivation being sabotaging the other contestants so that Chrissy could win.
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Stage Mom / int_34e5ea29	comment	Mr. Show: In the episode "Operation Hell on Earth", Bob Odenkirk and David Cross play stage dads to their daughter Superstar after claiming they wouldn't be pushy like their own parents. Their daughter grows up to be disgruntled, eventually hosting a telethon that features others blaming their parents for how they were brought up. In another sketch, a husband and wife with a child in beauty pageants discuss how wrong it is for parents to force their children into pageants; their baby wants to do it. Turns out their baby is a fetus, and they are participating in the "Pre-Natal Pretties" pageant.
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Stage Mom / int_37632092	comment	Hannah's mom in Varsity Blood is determined that Hannah will have the brilliant cheerleading career she never had, starting with getting a cheer scholarship to college. She is so obsessed that she is willing to go along with her boyfriend's plan to murder most of the cheer squad so long as Hannah is not harmed.
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Stage Mom / int_38ce5997	comment	The Boys (2019):Starlight aka Annie January's mother, Donna behaves this way towards her, having groomed her from a toddler to be the perfect All-American superheroine. She was so obsessed with fame and stardom that she signed Starlight up to be given Compound V as a child - she chose her whole life for her. Annie is not happy when she finds out. It's implied "super pageants" are a big thing, with lots of Supe kids likely having pushy parents hoping to make their little darling the next Homelander. To her credit though, Donna eventually realizes she made a big mistake and tries to make amends with her daughter.
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Stage Mom / int_3e3247d4	comment	All of the mothers on Dance Moms.
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Stage Mom / int_400469e	comment	In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin once asked his father if he was attempting to live vicariously through Calvin to make up for his own failures in life. His father shot back that if he was, he'd be trying a lot harder. Calvin manages to deduce his father's disrespect.
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Stage Mom / int_434363ba	comment	The Breakfast Club: Andrew's dad is a male example: Brian's parents live vicariously off of his academic achievements.
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Stage Mom / int_436f9154	comment	The documentary Life After Tomorrow chronicles the lives of the women who played orphans in Annie. A full segment was devoted to talking about the stage moms (and one stage dad); though not all were as horrible as the trope described, some were, and usually her daughter would not continue acting because of it.
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Stage Mom / int_43c9273b	comment	Rose Hovick, mother of burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee and actress June Havoc, became legendary for this trope following Gypsy's 1957 autobiography and the subsequent musical adaptation Gypsy as mentioned above.
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Stage Mom / int_473ad55a	comment	Ice Princess: Tina, who manages the rink where Casey trains, has Gen on a strict training program. During a competition where both Casey and Gen compete, Tina sees Casey may outrank Gen and sabotages Casey's performance by buying her new skates. Unaware of the danger of unbroken-in skates, Casey's resulting long program is riddled with poor jumps and several falls.
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Stage Mom / int_479f38d7	comment	In Shining Song Starnova, Akiâ€™s mother Yumiko has been pushing her daughter to become a successful Idol Singer since she was ten, purely to make herself rich, and doesnâ€™t care what Aki needs to do to reach that point. When a fourteen-year-old Aki came home crying one day because her producer had tried to molest her, Yumiko got angry at Aki for jeopardizing her career, demanded that she go back and apologize, and beat her when she refused to do so.
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Stage Mom / int_47dfc6f	comment	Total Drama: Priya's parents are revealed to have been training her for a possible reboot of the show literally since birth (as in, they gave birth over a cliff so Priya could get her first taste of bungee jumping that way) and actively discourage her real dreams of becoming a doctor in favor of her doing the reality show circuit.
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Stage Mom / int_4a64b81b	comment	In an episode of Small Wonder, Ted and Joan pretend to be a pair of stage parents in an attempt to get Vicki removed from a cereal commercial after they learn that the product is comprised mostly of unpronounceable additives.
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Stage Mom / int_4ca29f1f	comment	In Rising Stars, Joshua Kane is born with the ability to levitate and generate light, which his pastor father exploits in order to build an empire as a televangelist. This makes poor Josh, who is a closet transvestite, utterly miserable.
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Stage Mom / int_4e45b093	comment	In The Big Bang Theory Bernadette's mother is presented as this in Bernadette's younger years, with beauty pageants; when we meet her in the present she has a completely different personality, being mousy and totally under the thumb of her domineering husband.
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Stage Mom / int_4e7bc558	comment	Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail has Hilary, Ash's aunt and Delia's nasty sister-in-law, who wants her sons to become world-famous PokÃ©mon trainers like their cousin. However, Trey and Troy were inspired by his adventures to become archaeologists — something that doesn't sit well with Hilary, who insists that archaeologists never become rich or famous. She tries to blame Ash for all of this, claiming that he's crushed the dreams of other children by overshadowing them... when in reality she's the one trying to crush her sons' dreams.
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Stage Mom / int_4ed7cac8	comment	Nowhere Stars: Shona Tieran's mother forced her to become a child actress in a Magical Girl-themed tv show, something Shona despised doing. Part of the reason she Jumped at the Call to become a Keeper is because she saw it as a way out from under her mother's thumb (children who become Keepers are automatically considered emancipated under the law).
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Stage Mom / int_4f1f3628	comment	The Suite Life of Zack & Cody has a minor character in an episode with a child Beauty Contest. One of the girls refuses to participate and walks out of the contest, insisting she wants to go to science camp instead. Her stage mother shrieks "where did I go wrong?" - and Cody ends up pretending to be this girl to get to know another contestant.
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Stage Mom / int_513f5832	comment	In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Sulu (George Takei) was meant to have a chance encounter, while walking around 20th-century San Francisco, with a kid who would turn out to be his ancestor. Unfortunately, the kid who was to play the part had what Shatner described (in Star Trek Movie Memories) as "the most over-the-top stage mom" he had ever encountered, and she ended up making her kid so stressed out that she made it effectively impossible to actually film the scenes.
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Stage Mom / int_520593fc	comment	The Last Summer: Audrey does a lot of work for a former actress who is pushing her daughter Lilah to go to auditions and such which she doesn't want to. The mom has a house that's a Shrine to Self and obsesses over appearing in Sixteen Candles even though it was merely for a couple seconds in a background role.
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Stage Mom / int_54291151	comment	Littlest Pet Shop (2012): In the episode "Terriers and Tiaras," Blythe briefly becomes a stage mom when she enters Zoe in a dog show.
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Stage Mom / int_54bee1e5	comment	Noni Jean's mother, Macy, in Beyond the Lights is a stage mom, even forcing ten-year-old Noni to throw away the second place trophy she proudly won because she (Macy) thought Second Place Is for Losers. Macy's treatment of her daughter into adulthood results in Noni attempting suicide and a well-deserved calling-out... the latter of which ends with Noni firing her as her manager.
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Stage Mom / int_57430640	comment	In Speed Grapher's first episode, a young would-be ballerina and her stage mom visit the ballet dancer Kazuya Shirogane in his camerino so the girl can show off her dancing skills and become his pupil. Shirogane turns out to be an Euphoric, and ends up breaking the girl's arm while screaming "Not flexible! Not flexible! NOT FLEXIBLE".
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Stage Mom / int_58f28be1	comment	The Godfather has a particularly appalling example: when Tom Hagen visits film executive Jack Woltz, he discovers that Woltz molested a twelve-year-old child actress — and her mother doesn't mind one bit, thinking that he'll be more likely to cast the girl. The scene turns Tom's Offer You Cant Refuse into Laser-Guided Karma, with Woltz's actions almost certainly playing a role in escalating the threat level.
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Stage Mom / int_59068675	comment	Katrina's parents in Ms. Wiz Supermodel become this when they enter her into a local fashion show. They even forcibly pluck her eyebrows and talk about dyeing her hair. She's ten! Thankfully Ms Wiz shows up to expose the organiser of the show as a scam artist.
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Stage Mom / int_59140854	comment	Jessica Jones (2015): Dorothy Walker. She's entirely responsible for Trish's childhood career, pimped her out to pedophile producers like Max Tatum for roles, as well as all of Trish's bruises, drug addictions, and eating disorders. In season 1, there's an implication that her talent agency also sees a lot of these. Adopting Jessica turned out to be something she did to distract critics from issues her stage mom behavior was causing.
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Stage Mom / int_5921531c	comment	Hifumi Togo from Persona 5 has one, but not for her shogi. Instead, Hifumi's mother wants her to be a gravure idol and get the most out of her youth when she could not. It's also because Hifumi's father played shogi to the point that he became extremely ill, and her mother doesn't want her to suffer the same fate, in spite of Hifumi's wishes. It's reached the point that Hifumi's mom has begun rigging Hifumi's matches behind her back, with the intention of having Hifumi suffer a major defeat that forces her to quit playing and become a full-time idol. This has caused Hifumi to gain a lot of resentment from other shogi players, which puzzles her before she finds out about the rigging. Her Mementos mission name references this trope by name.
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Stage Mom / int_592c7d18	comment	Kousei's mother Saki from Your Lie in April wanted him to become famous and perform in Europe, which she couldn't herself do due to illness. She demanded he play the piano to perfection and made him practice for hours, often beating him up for small mistakes. Turns out she actually wanted him to become successful so that he could live on his own when she was gone, as her illness was a fatal one; however, her initially understandable worries became anger and despair, and things went From Bad to Worse.
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Stage Mom / int_59dd6d2d	comment	Center Stage (2000): Maureen's mother Nancy to a horrifying fault. She wasn't able to make it as a dancer, so has put all the pressure, hopes, and dreams on her daughter Maureen—insisting that she loves dance, that it's her ambition to join a company and dance professionally, and even saying she's distracting herself by dating when she needs to be focused on dance. Maureen crumbles hard under the pressure, gives her role to Eva and decides to drop out of ballet altogether, which Nancy has a breakdown about. When Maureen then confronts her mom in the lobby—telling her she's not happy and she's throwing up half of what she eats to remain a dancer—Nancy denies it all, including saying that Maureen is just "watching what she eats".
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Stage Mom / int_5a3533fe	comment	My Name Is Earl features Shelly Stoker, Joy's rival from their child beauty pageant days.note She also happens to be played by the same woman who played Mrs. Beauregard in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, another character like this. Ms. Stoker now has a daughter named Candi whom she's training to be a pageant winner, even though Candi wants to go to school and eventually become a doctor.
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Stage Mom / int_5ae0bec6	comment	WWE's Jack Swagger had a Gimmick of an overachieving child with a Stage Dad, now all grown up and determined to find the same success in wrestling. In order to completely cement him as a Dirty Coward, Swagger ran away while Kane beat up his father — and then justified it by saying he felt vindicated for his father being an overbearing Stage Dad.
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Stage Mom / int_5d5f4f88	comment	In True Love Junai Monogatari, Ryouko's Shimazaki's brother and guardian Tadaki is essentially a Stage Dad who doubles as her manager. It seems to work, as she's the famous Idol Singer Sonoko Takahashi. She explains to the protagonist that he sacrificed almost everything in life so that she could be successful, but he's also extremely demanding and has staged more than one risky Batman Gambit to try to further her career. If the player wants the protagonist to romance this young lady, the conflict must be resolved in her favor.
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Stage Mom / int_5f89c8b8	comment	In PS238, Ultima and Sovereign Powers want their son Tyler to follow them into the family business and become a superhero, ignoring completely that he's a Muggle Born of Superheroes. They push him into a school for superheroes, using their clout as famous heroes to get him enrolled despite him being technically unqualified for entry, and basically ignoring him until he gains superpowers while insisting they'll develop "any minute now". Ironically, Tyler responds to this by taking tutelage under an Expy of Batman whom his parents dislike for "butting his head into metahuman business". Things get even more complicated once Tyler's superpowered clone Toby makes his appearance. Toby has to use his Reality Warper powers to keep Tyler from being disowned (at the cost of losing any chance of being on good terms with Tyler's best friend) and even then Ultima and Sovereign routinely forget about the existence of their unpowered eldest child.
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Stage Mom / int_61903466	comment	A sketch of So Random! has an alumni cheerleader (twice original champion, not that sheâ€™s bragging) drag her less-than-cheerful daughter to try out for the current squad. She ends up taking over the audition and performing herself while her daughterâ€™s in the middle of a cheer, finishing it for her. When the cheer captain gives the thumbs down, the mom consoles her daughter...then pushes her away and asks the captain, â€œWhen do we start?â€�
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Stage Mom / int_61d55f59	comment	Cissie's first appearance was in Impulse, where her superhero mentor Max Mercury was so disgusted by her mother that he called Child Services.
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Stage Mom / int_6365ff3a	comment	Dragon Quest V: Queen Dowager can't rule herself, so she pushes her son towards the throne despite his own wishes, and doesn't care who she tramples on it to make it happen.
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Stage Mom / int_6454c253	comment	Striker of Avengers Academy had a mother like this who gave him his drive to be famous. Even worse, at one point in the series, it's revealed that she allowed him to be sexually abused so that he would get cast in a commercial.
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Stage Mom / int_67ce5a04	comment	In Fire Emblem Fates, Subaki's parents wanted him to be a good retainer for the Hoshidan Royal Family, which is okay. What's not okay is them pressuring their son to be perfect in everything he did, causing him to be a Broken Ace who is seen as pretty much the perfect fighter and retainer, but is actually a Stepford Smiler who is terrified of messing up in anything.
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Stage Mom / int_67dfa016	comment	Velma Von Tussle in Hairspray, among other things, tries to seduce Tracy's dad to get her kicked off the Miss Teenage Hairspray competition, and later tries to tamper with the votes.
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Stage Mom / int_6a26533e	comment	The Big Leap has Tanya Lovewell, the tyrannical mother of Simon and Brittney who's been pressuring them to succeed since birth. As the show goes on it's revealed that this is in part to help the three of them gain financial stability, but her controlling attitude also leads to her tormenting them for getting anything but first place, and a ban on any relationships (or "subplots") unless they're with someone famous enough to elevate "the family brand". She's so invested in making them stars that even Nick and his crew, who make their careers out of meddling with the cast's lives, are afraid of her.
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Stage Mom / int_6c5e0560	comment	In Fushigi Yuugi, Hotohori's mother was completely determined to get her son atop the succession line at any cost, even being willing to kill the real heir if need be. She ends up succeeding in making Hotohori the Crown Prince (and according to a novel she fatally poisoned one of Hoto's half-brothers, though not the Crown Prince), but then she dies and Hotohori is stuck as Emperor, which makes him extremely unhappy. The novels and an OAV reveal that this had repercussions much later: the real Crown Prince, Tendou, came back and confronted Hotohori.
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Stage Mom / int_704decef	comment	One episode of Chaotic featured a father and son who had both won the codes to transfer to Perim. Rather than focus on his own game, the father became one of these with regard to his son, constantly coaching the boy in his games and actually managing to get on even Klay's nerves. Ultimately Major Tom, challenging the father, managed to remind the older player how much fun it was to actually play the game rather than just coach.
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Stage Mom / int_75d0c7a7	comment	Stage Mother is a 1933 film in which the titular stage mother uses blackmail to get her daughter out of a touring revue so she can take the lead in a huge Broadway production.
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Stage Mom / int_76079e33	comment	In xxxHOLiC, Kohane Tsuyuri's mother pushes her to appear on television specials. The girl is clearly uncomfortable with this and only wants her mother's love and approval. The mother denies her almost any affection to keep her powers from being tainted, doesn't refer to her by name, and attacks her and Watanuki when Watanuki questions her on live TV.
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Stage Mom / int_765e2d2c	comment	Felissa Rose of Sleepaway Camp fame describes her mother Joan as a positive example. She acted as her daughter's manager and made sure she was protected and taken care of on sets. The ending for Sleepaway Camp where Angela is revealed to actually be a boy called for Felissa to wear a prosthetic penis, which Joan immediately told the filmmakers would not happen. She also made sure that Felissa wouldn't have to perform any of the murder scenes herself, getting Jonathan Tiersten to double for those scenes, which had the benefit of hiding the twist that Angela is the killer. Joan also acted as a mother on set to all the child actors, all of whom talk positively about the experience.
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Stage Mom / int_768f17be	comment	In The Order (2007), Becky Ryan's dad forced her to become a country music star at a very early age.
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Stage Mom / int_77184a72	comment	Victorious: Wing Lee, the owner of a Chinese later Sushi restaurant, is one of these. When Jade needs money to fund her play, she offers the money on the condition that her daughter gets a part in the play.
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Stage Mom / int_7832b74c	comment	In Steven Universe, it's revealed that Sadie's mother Barb does this every single time Sadie expresses the slightest interest in sports or the performing arts. Played with in that Barb genuinely does love her daughter, but has a bad habit of "taking over everything" and pushing Sadie to do more than she's comfortable with, rather than letting Sadie do it her way. The worst part is that Barb genuinely didn't realize she was actually doing anything wrong until Sadie finally called her out on it.
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Stage Mom / int_78f21f27	comment	More than one similar accusation has been leveled at Billy Ray Cyrus (Miley Cyrus' father and co-star) in regards to the Hannah Montana franchise. Billy Ray says it's the other way round: the executives were the ones abusing and restraining Miley. Then again, he's also blamed atheists for the same thing. Billy Ray might just be cuckoo.
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Stage Mom / int_7b93d367	comment	Averted for the most part on Make It or Break It. Kelly's mom, Kaylie's father, and Lauren's father fit this trope, but the other parents of the main cast are properly supportive without being pushy.
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Stage Mom / int_7c0602e7	comment	the superhero game: Like her canon counterpart, Bonnie King (the mother of Young Justice's Arrowette) is this, with a disgusted Jason dropping the trope name to describe her. Then she proves it when she objects to Cissie attending a superhero training camp simply because it's in the middle of nowhere, rather than someplace where she can show off her skills and be recognized for it. She even demands to know "Where's the money, the marketing, the brand?", and accuses them of having her train in private as "another way of giving my daughter the shaft". Everyone present thinks that she really means "giving me the shaft", and are just as disgusted as Jason with her behavior.
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Stage Mom / int_7c24818f	comment	In wrestling, this happens quite often between wrestling promoters and their sons. Promoters really wanted men who would be loyal to them, and no one would be more loyal than family. The most notorious wrestling stage dad was Fritz Von Erich, who outlived all but one of his six sons.
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Stage Mom / int_7c4e51e1	comment	An episode of Designing Women has Mary Jo allowing her daughter to compete in a kiddie beauty pageant. While Mary Jo resists the urge to become a stage mother she meets one backstage who has three children in three different pageants on the same night. Suzanne, a former pageant queen, exhibits some stage mother tendencies as Mary Jo's daughter's pageant coach.
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Stage Mom / int_7ded6239	comment	Get Ace: Tina's flamboyant father Frederick DeVeer. He gets his daughter all sorts of performance gigs, such as the lead in an opera even though she can't sing. Frederick pushes her to take any star-making opportunity available even if she doesn't want it, not that Tina is shy of the spotlight.
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Stage Mom / int_8085e756	comment	Fifth Formers at St Clare's features Felicity Ray, a talented violinist whose parents forced her to participate in a very difficult music exam, just so that she could have the distinction of being the youngest person to earn its certification. The poor girl is so stressed out that she's verging on a nervous breakdown and started sleepwalking.
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Stage Mom / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider: One episode of Kamen Rider Kiva focused on a girl whose Stage Mom was pressuring her to play the violin when she didn't want to; the title character's Blithe Spirit father encouraged the girl to find her own happiness, which resulted in her becoming an Olympic-level archer years later. Interestingly, the girl's actress returned to the franchise a couple of years later in Kamen Rider Double...except this time, she played the Stage Mom. She hired the services of a Monster of the Week with Overnight Age-Up powers to turn her daughter's "rival" into an old woman; when that girl's mother found out, she hired the Monster to do the same to the first girl. The two mothers get into a shouting match until someone draws their attention to their daughters (who saw each other as friends, not rivals) huddled together and crying in fear, which triggered a My God, What Have I Done? moment in the mothers.
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Stage Mom / int_8597b03b	comment	Mrs. Walker from Once in a Lifetime has elements of this, even though she causes relatively little harm in the course of her championing her daughter Susan.
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Stage Mom / int_85b79d17	comment	The Black Mirror episode "Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too" features Teen Idol Ashley O (played by Miley Cyrus) whose aunt/manager, Catherine, is a particularly sinister example. She pushes Ashley O to succeed at the cost of her mental health, and when that hits a roadblock, she puts Ashley in a coma and sets about replacing her with a Virtual Celebrity version of herself.
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Stage Mom / int_8720f1c3	comment	Jaine Austen Mysteries: Heather Van Sant from Death By Tiara to her daughter Taylor, as is Luanne Summers to her daughter Gigi.
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Stage Mom / int_87684a93	comment	Kotoko Utsugi's mother from Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls was a stage mom who made frequent use of the Casting Couch to get her daughter roles. It didn't matter one bit to her whether the couch's owner wanted her, her underage and very much unwilling daughter, or even both of them together. Anything to get her daughter a role. Kotoko was of course horribly traumatized by the experience, but hey, at least she's a really good actress now!
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Stage Mom / int_88167e68	comment	The Cowsills could well defeat The Beach Boys and The Jackson 5 in the "Band of Relatives with an abusive Svengali dad who pushes them to success but screws up their lives royally" sweepstakes. Inspired by The Beatles, young brothers Bill, Bob, Barry, and John Cowsill formed a band, which was managed by their dad Bud. Bud, a Navy veteran, ran the family like a drill sergeant and had issues with alcohol and philandering. Eventually they got signed to a major label, but, to give them a promotional gimmick, the label (with the full support of Bud) insisted they add their mother Barbara, their kid sister Susan and their younger brother Paul to the band, which horrified the brothers, who wanted to be taken seriously as a rock band. Then at the height of their success, Bud and Bill got into a fight that was so bad, the police were called in, supposedly instigated when Bud caught Bill smoking pot, but really because Bill, the Brian Wilson figure, had his own musical vision for the band, and Control Freak Bud couldn't accept a challenge to his authority. Shortly after that, Bud kicked Bill out of the band, and they predictably collapsed afterwards. And, in true Murry Wilson fashion, Bud made all sorts of bad deals and investments that left the family almost broke. On top of all that, Susan says she was the recipient of unwanted sexual advances from Bud.
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Stage Mom / int_89b7cf47	comment	Two spectacular examples appear in the Rizzoli & Isles episode "Don't Stop Dancing, Girl"; they become the prime suspects after the mother of a rival dancer is murdered.
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Stage Mom / int_89bf8ce	comment	30 Rock: Jenna Maroney's mother Verna showed no concern for her safety back when she was filming commercials at one point forcing her to stand dangerously close to a live alligator. She also used to force Jenna to sing in department stores, so that she could use the distraction to shoplift. Doing so was the one thing Jenna enjoyed about Christmas, and it led to her becoming the Attention Whore she is as an adult. Angie Jordan shows these tendencies to Tracy Jordan, who's not her son but her husband (and a famous Manchild). Tracy's biggest complaint was her attempt to get into a Cat Fight with Liz Lemon, which bothered him so much that he had to behave maturely, which he really didn't want to do.
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Stage Mom / int_8d81f086	comment	In the Monk episode "Mr. Monk and the Critic", Natalie's daughter Julie's performance is given a negative review by a critic, and Natalie transforms into a stage mom obsessed with proving him wrong. She gets it into her head that he killed his girlfriend (who happens to be the Victim of the Week) and goes as far as trespassing on his property and rifling through his garbage for evidence.
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Stage Mom / int_8dfbdff2	comment	Law & Order: An early episode, "Aria", shows a stage mother whose obsession with living through her children had already driven her older daughter away. She thus pushed her younger daughter into porn, hoping that would land her bigger roles. The younger daughter commits suicide out of despair.
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Stage Mom / int_8ec00265	comment	Menudo founder and manager had the members' parents sign away parental rights to avoid dealing with stage parents. Subverted in one instance, per the docuseries Menudo: Forever Young: the father of one member traveled with the group and would interfere with filming and rehearsals. In a subversion, he was not pushing his son, but making sure he and the others ate and took breaks, clashing with founder Edgardo DÃaz who allegedly made the boys work long hours.
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Stage Mom / int_8f3ad036	comment	She's Not So Famous takes place in The '90s and features a younger Chris McLean as a member of a Boy Band. His mother Nancy pushes his music onto strangers and throws a fit if Chris isn't given what he wants. She's also having an affair with his manager, though he's totally aware of this and finds it interesting.
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Stage Mom / int_9044741c	comment	According to Michael Kentworthy, fellow child actor Douglas Emerson — who played his character's best friend in The Blob (1988) — had a pretty typical example of this trope who was always pestering director Chuck Russell to give her son more screen time. One has to wonder how she reacted to her son's character getting killed off by the titular monster. Emerson himself would hit his peak with a major role in Beverly Hills, 90210 before retiring from acting altogether and eventually joining the US Air Force.
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Stage Mom / int_912503b8	comment	"Talent is an Asset" by Sparks plays Albert Einstein's mother as a stage mom.
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Stage Mom / int_92844ddb	comment	Dinosaurs had Fran becoming one of these when Baby becomes a big star in frying pan commercials. It takes a calling out from her best friend Monica and her husband Earl, as well as a bad dream about Baby as an adult, to make her realize that what she was doing was wrong.
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Stage Mom / int_94bde696	comment	Gary Coleman was a pretty sad example. In addition to his adoptive parents having him work long hours on the set of Diff'rent Strokes even beyond the child labor law limits and through his persistent illness due to his failing kidneys, they also misappropriated his earnings from the show, which resulted in him suing them and severing ties with them for the remainder of his life.
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Stage Mom / int_98fbf279	comment	Abraham Quintanilla, the father of late Tejano singer Selena, displayed signs of this, viewing her as a way back into the music business as the family band Selena y Los Dinos (featuring Selena and her siblings) became the main source of family income following the family restaurant going out of business and the family being evicted following the early 1980s oil bust in Texas; and exhibiting a heavy amount of influence over his daughter's public image that continued even after Selena was murdered in 1995; to the point where he received criticism from some circles as having painted her more like a "saint" than a singer.
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Stage Mom / int_994af351	comment	Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Morgan Fey's power as a channeller is so weak, she was passed over to become head of the Fey family in favor of her younger sister Misty, who was a much stronger medium. This means that her niece Maya is now technically head of the family, and calls all the shots. So naturally, the sanest course of action is to frame Maya for murder so that her eight-year-old daughter Pearl, whom Maya declares to be the greatest channeling prodigy the family has yet seen, becomes the head of the clan, thus giving Morgan de facto control for at least the next decade. Only a series of risky gambits from Misty stops this, but it concludes also with Misty's own death.
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Stage Mom / int_9a0cb5f4	comment	Bob's Burgers: In "Gene It On", Linda is shown to have shades of this when Gene becomes a member of the cheerleading team at school, and Linda attempts to use this as an opportunity to live out her own dreams of being a cheerleader back in high school. It doesn't go as far as this trope usually takes it, as Gene quickly puts his foot down and confronts her that her ideas are terrible and she isn't a cheerleader now either. Unsurprisingly, Linda does not take this well.
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Stage Mom / int_9a3356e1	comment	In Stand-In, a pushy mother ambushes clueless new studio head Atterbury Dodd in his office and forces him to watch her young daughter perform a rather risque number (for the '30s). The outraged Dodd tells her to let the little girl have a normal childhood and pushes her out.
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Stage Mom / int_9a67b688	comment	In Case Closed, Conan, Ai, and their friends step in a kidnapping case that has two of these. One is the mother of a boy named Keita, who forces her son to practice endlessly on the piano. The other is the father of the kid's rival, Chiaki, who wants his daughter to win so badly that he kidnaps Keita and tries to kill him so that he won't interfere in Chiaki's career. The father realises how fucked up that is and tries to go the Bath Suicide way; thankfully the children rescue him, Keita is released, the mother apologises to him, and Keita and Chiaki become friends.
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Stage Mom / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Mace Tyrell in A Song of Ice and Fire is a military failure whose one successful campaign was due to the work of Randyll Tarly. Therefore, he pushed each of his sons to become great knights. He put his eldest son Willas in his first tourney before he was ready and up against Oberyn Martell, which ended up getting his leg crushed.
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Stage Mom / int_9d7264f	comment	In an episode of CSI: Miami, a pop star's mother pushed her daughter into a pop music career because she wanted to live on her daughter's success. The girl's manager is even more exploitative, though, and deliberately drives a wedge between them. The mother was Properly Paranoid to put a GPS chip in her daughter, but she ruins her daughter's career by encouraging a Loony Fan to murder her daughter's Body Double.
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Stage Mom / int_9e63932d	comment	Ojamajo Doremi: Onpu Segawa's mother, Miho, is a milder example. She does care for Onpu more than the typical Stage Mom, but she pushes her hard to be an Idol Singer like she used to be. When Onpu falls into a Convenient Coma after using her power against the rules too frequently, Miho has a Heroic BSoD and blames herself for pushing her too hard. In the following season, Miho actually discourages Onpu from taking a job that could boost her career because it happens to be at the location where Miho herself suffered a Career-Ending Injury. Haruka Harukaze, Doremi's Tsundere mother and an ex-pianist, who lost her career due to a Game-Breaking Injury, almost became a Stage Mom. When little Doremi showed some degree of musical talent, she tried to shape her into a good pianist, but Doremi panicked on stage, and Haruka didn't insist afterwards. She felt so guilty about it that when Doremi's little sister Poppu wanted her mom to teach her how to play, it took both her and Doremi's efforts to convince her.
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Stage Mom / int_a0262740	comment	Violet's mother in the 2005 version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory pushes her to win pretty much any competition she enters, including those involving her beloved gum-chewing. We don't see her interacting with (or even acknowledging the existence of) the other kids or parents, but she keeps pushing Violet and plays up to a very indifferent Willy.
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Stage Mom / int_a068f8a1	comment	The Mark Waid Strange miniseries featured pageant mothers who made deals with a demon so that their daughters would win. As one would expect (and because the demon was a huge cheater who decided he didn't have to adhere to the rules of magic), this backfired horribly. Some readers concur that everything in the book except the Deal with the Devil is Truth in Television.
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Stage Mom / int_a2c969dd	comment	Ridgeside Village: The bachelorette, Ysabelle, reveals that she used to be a Child Prodigy ballerina, but her parents pressured her a lot with her dancing, which eventually caused a breakdown on her, which made her to run away from her parents and swear off from dancing.
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Stage Mom / int_a4ee5f7b	comment	The Banana Splits Movie: Jonathan is one. The only reason he brings Parker to the live show is so he can get her an acting job, and he makes her do a routine and sing a risquÃ© song for the thoroughly uninterested Rebecca. He dies along with the majority of the adults in the studio, and Parker tells her mom she's going to quit acting in the end.
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Stage Mom / int_a5bd4b49	comment	George Sampson, the winner of Britain's Got Talent in 2008, should have had a very promising career after his victory in the show. Unfortunately, his career was run into the ground in less than a year, in no small part due to his obnoxious and extremely demanding mother, who was largely responsible for Simon Cowell's company ditching Sampson after they became sick of her. Sampson made a rebound, however, after starring in StreetDance 3D.
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Stage Mom / int_a90d239a	comment	Gloria's mother from Psychonauts abandoned her at Hagatha's Home for Girls for years to focus on her own career, then grew jealous when Gloria's eventual career far eclipsed her own, eventually killing herself in despair.
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Stage Mom / int_a9a0d6af	comment	Joe Jackson, patriarch of The Jackson 5, really, really didn't want his kids to become criminals on the streets of Gary, Indiana. He probably could have found a better way to do this, though, than forcing them into performing. His children have said they suffered hours upon hours of incessant rehearsals after school and on weekends, would be physically abused if they made mistakes, and were strongly discouraged from showing any interest in activities or hobbies removed from the family business. Michael Jackson, one of the youngest (and by far the most successful), had it particularly hard. He indicated that he basically never had a childhood because he spent all of it performing, and that this was a big factor in his turning his home into a private amusement park once he became a star and had enough money to do so. His attempts at recapturing his lost childhood by inviting children over for slumber parties and whatnot got him saddled with child molestation accusations that hounded him for the rest of his life. Even after Michael passed away, Joe did an interview days afterward to pitch a record label project he was involved with, with his words of condolence being colored as the Jackson family losing its biggest star rather than a father having lost his son. Averting this trope was key to Janet Jackson's success. Like her brothers, she was initially managed by Joe, but her first two albums flopped because the public had written her off as just another Jackson riding Michael's coattails (and not even the first girl). But because she was 18 when her second album came out, she was free to control her career as she wished, so she fired Joe as her manager and hired a new one through her record label. He introduced her to the production duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, best known for their work with Prince. They required she move to their hometown of Minneapolis during the production of her third album specifically to keep Joe out of the creative process. Their efforts paid off as Control was the album that made Janet a superstar in her own right.
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Stage Mom / int_abc09ce0	comment	What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Susan Dinwittie is a stage parent for her Former Child Star kids, Andrew and Mandy, to the point where she secretly becomes a master in robotics so she can control the Mystery Machine remotely and buy it back cheap from the gang because it used to belong to the band. She also neglects her third child, The Un-Favourite genius whose work she was only interested in so that she could exploit it. In the end, Andrew and Mandy agreed that their mom had gone way too far, declared they'd never work in show business again, and walked off with their brother.
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Stage Mom / int_b0c66bf6	comment	Erica Sayers of Black Swan, the smothering mother of the main character, who has a lot of issues.
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Stage Mom / int_b34fcac	comment	Vaudeville star George M. Cohan's father is a rare positive example. Cohan, his mother, and his sister were all brought into the act, and encouraged every step of the way; Cohan spoke of how encouraging it was to see his father in the crowd cheering him on for his entire life.
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Stage Mom / int_b6d7f4a8	comment	Celebrity Deathmatch: In the fight between Missy Elliott and BeyoncÃ©, the main joke running throughout the episode concerns Matthew Knowles' controlling Stage Dad tendencies towards his daughter BeyoncÃ©, culminating in The Reveal that he was using a Mind-Control Device to literally control her every move. When Missy finds out, she steals the device and forces BeyoncÃ© to humiliate herself and then bring her the mystery weapon that was hanging in a box over the arena. The fight between Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff has Lindsay's mother Dina Lohan as a guest commentator who constantly excuses her daughter's misbehavior, and attacks the show's commentary team when they criticize Lindsay.
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Stage Mom / int_b78ed0d4	comment	Janet Bunterman in Star Island plays stage mom to Cherry Pye (formerly Cheryl Bunterman), making her daughter a Child Pop Star at a young age despite her lack of singing talent and later desperately trying to cover up her daughter's addictions. It doesn't help that the Bunterman family now lives on Nepotism.
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Stage Mom / int_b7f8a84e	comment	A recurring sketch on Little Britain featured a stage mom who would sabotage other kids' chances and even harm them to get her son even a minor part.
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Stage Mom / int_b7f918cc	comment	In the hospital arc in Candyâ™¡Candy, the eponymous Candy has to deal with the overbearing and bitchy mother of a young piano prodigy who's been hospitalised in the clinic she works in. It turns out that the massive pressure she put on the girl drove her to illness in the first place. Candy figures out what's up and manages to convince the mother to see the error of her ways and seek forgiveness from her daughter.
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Stage Mom / int_b8a652cb	comment	Little Miss Sunshine was all over this; the family itself is okay (if kind of dysfunctional), but all the other parents they see when they finally get to the pageant are quintessential stage moms.
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Stage Mom / int_bb864c14	comment	A proto-example in Shakespeare's Coriolanus, of all things: Coriolanus's mother Volumnia pushed her child son into military service so he could accrue honor and fame in the eyes of Rome. It worked a little too well.
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Stage Mom / int_bd1991ee	comment	Karui in Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox has this problem with her mother, who pushes her to excel in her music studies with the expectation that Karui will become a talented concert pianist someday because the mother had failed in her own endeavors to build a musical career. Karui deeply resents her mother for pushing her own thwarted expectations onto her daughter and takes part in underground oil wrestling in an effort to be in control of something in her own life.
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Stage Mom / int_bd2505b9	comment	All Hail King Julien features the large Tammy and her son Todd. She has him so well-trained that she essentially commands him to perform like a machine.
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Stage Mom / int_bd5e4297	comment	The Wicked + The Divine: Minerva's parents are shown as ruthlessly exploiting their daughter's status as a member of the Pantheon to turn her into a cash cow. It's possible that this may be because they can't deal with her inevitable death. Turns out it's because they're not actually her parents. They're just a random couple that Minerva hired to play the roles who were greedy enough to go along with the charade. It's eventually revealed that Woden is a zig-zagged version of this trope. David Blake arranged for his son, Jon, to become part of the Pantheon against the boy's will so he could reap the benefits of godhood, similar to the way some stage parents push their children into fame so they can enjoy the perks of success. The variation is that Blake keeps Jon, now Mimir, hidden away as a prisoner creating Magitek that allows Blake to pretend to be Woden in public.
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Stage Mom / int_cb6abea3	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! has a brotherly example with Siegfried pushing his younger brother Leon to beat Yugi at all costs, even if it means cheating. Joey lampshades this in the dub.
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Stage Mom / int_d120122a	comment	One episode of Kamen Rider Kiva focused on a girl whose Stage Mom was pressuring her to play the violin when she didn't want to; the title character's Blithe Spirit father encouraged the girl to find her own happiness, which resulted in her becoming an Olympic-level archer years later.
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Stage Mom / int_d14b56d3	comment	An episode of In the Heat of the Night showed a young woman entering a local beauty pageant. Her Rich Bitch mother — who had been pushing her into these contests since she was a little girl — was so determined that she wins that she arranged for someone to drug the girl's chief rival, take nude pictures of her, then threaten to leak the photos to the press unless the girl dropped out of the pageant. The other girl was so devastated and traumatized by the entire thing that she killed herself. The bigger problem was that the two girls were friends, the victim really did want to be a model and was genuinely passionate about it, and the daughter really wanted the victim to win. The daughter is so disgusted by what happened that she dedicates her victory to her friend, whom she calls the "real winner", flings her sash and crown at her mother ("you wanted it so badly, here it is!"), and storms out of the auditorium and presumably out of her mother's life.
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Stage Mom / int_d47f11e0	comment	Nina Tanleven: The Ghost in the Third Row has a toned-down version - Melissa Clayton wants to be a star, and itâ€™s said that her mother really wants her to be a star. The toned-down part comes in that Mrs. Clayton is off-screen the entire book; the most she can be credited with is encouraging Melissa to audition for The Woman in White and stay in it, despite her unending string of complaints about the theater and insults towards her fellow performers and the others around.
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Stage Mom / int_d532d2aa	comment	The appendix from the full version of Unimaa all but says this is the reason why Anya gave up her real life to join Frida's Friends Club, stating that she was forced into a life of ballet against her will.
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Stage Mom / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series, being essentially about competitive monster fighting, naturally has a number of these: Grace tries to push her daughter Serena into Rhyhorn racing, even though she hates it. She decides instead to become a PokÃ©mon performer, which causes no end of fighting between the two. Grace eventually relented, though, and let her pursue her dreams. Tammi the cheerleader, from the Johto league, took this attitude out on her own PokÃ©mon; she became bitchy and demanding to them and furiously berated them for any mistakes. It took a brief Break the Haughty and a harsh call-out from Misty to get her to stop doing this.
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Stage Mom / int_d8c7398f	comment	Pound Puppies (2010): The Kid of the Week is Amy, a child star who plays a Bratty Half-Pint opposite Dog of the Week Pooches on a popular sitcom. Onscreen, she is the dogâ€™s Arch-Enemy, when in reality, Amy is really sweet and kind, and genuinely loves Pooches. Itâ€™s her father who is self-absorbed, barely allowing her free time and even valuing her career over her studies and personal desires. In the end, the dark and brooding producer of the show scares him into allowing Amy more freedom.
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Stage Mom / int_d8cc01de	comment	Big Time Rush has Tyler, the kid from the juice commercials, whose mother tries very hard to get him any kind of casting, which results in him hiding from her all the time.
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Stage Mom / int_d9c602eb	comment	The South Park episode "Dead Celebrities" has the kids take Ikenote or rather, Michael Jackson's soul inhabiting Ike's body for the purpose of living his dream of being a little white girl and finally moving on from his untimely death, to be more accurate to a child beauty pageant where all the parents are like this. When Ike wins, the other parents' reactions range from crying fits to physically abusing their children for not winning.
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Stage Mom / int_dbf18509	comment	The Sony hacks in December 2014 revealed that during Jeopardy!'s 2014 "Kids' Week" games, a Stage Mom caused a stir with host Alex Trebek when she demanded that a round be re-shot. Trebek threatened to quit rather than giving in to her demands. This was the last straw to the already troublesome games, as Jeopardy! hasn't done "Kids' Week" since and the series has all but distanced itself from them.
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Stage Mom / int_dd47577d	comment	Sugar in Total Drama Legacy. In "Aftermath: The Next Generation", Sugar mentions that ever since her daughter Morgan was little, she has signed her up for beauty pageants so she could relive her pageant days through her. And while Morgan enjoyed being in beauty pageants when she was a young child, she now finds them to be very boring.
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Stage Mom / int_ddf7a3e0	comment	This is part of the reason Galactica 1980 did so poorly. Because it was aired during a time-slot that was considered "child-friendly", ABC's Standards and Practices demanded that the show include more children. This, of course, brought a large influx of pushy stage moms, "all of whom ought to be locked up," according to story editor Allan Cole.
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Stage Mom / int_df1e222f	comment	Ma Beagle in one episode of Ducktales 1987, when the Beagle Boys turn out to be a surprisingly popular musical group. She forces them to dress and behave in certain ways, writes all their songs, and generally keeps them busy with recording sessions and public appearances. Though one could argue that she's just being a manager, and it's the Boys' own laziness that makes it a problem. One could also argue that she's generally a Stage Mom in a less literal sense, controlling her sons and forcing them into a life of crime to both support her financially and satisfy her own ego (the same episode has her ultimately destroying their career out of a combination of anger over being fired and shame when the other criminal mothers realize that her boys have gasp gone legit).
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Stage Mom / int_e0266fa8	comment	Station Eleven: It's only relayed secondhand, but Kirsten's mom spends her one meeting with Arthur trying to get another acting job for her eight-year-old daughter. Arthur is left rather soured by the encounter and thinks that she should let Kirsten have more moments of normalcy.
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Stage Mom / int_e290dce3	comment	The original Silk Spectre from Watchmen coached her daughter to take up her profession as a superhero. It led to some of her issues but ultimately is an Aversion as they both have a good relationship.
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Stage Mom / int_e526eccb	comment	In Charisma Doll Kazuma wants Sara to "follow in her footsteps" and have a chance to be a star. Sara doesn't like being a pop idol, because she feels that her androgynous appearance and voice are nothing but a cheap gimmick to get money.
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Stage Mom / int_e936047a	comment	Hey Arnold!: Helga's parents regularly neglect Helga's needs and shower her sister Olga with attention — except they become stage parents, and Olga has become a neurotic Nervous Wreck who thinks Helga has it easier, because while her parents ignore her and it sucks, it's still better than having them obsess over her every move.
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Stage Mom / int_e9c5591a	comment	In Get Him to the Greek, Jonathan Snow is a washed-up Vegas musician and the father of (soon-to-be) washed-up rock god Aldous Snow. The relationship is deconstructed somewhat to reflect Jonathan's macho, northern English roots; he wants financial help from Aldous, but he's much too proud to ask for money directly, exasperating Aldous with his hair-splitting.
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Stage Mom / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: In the aptly named episode "Brian's A Bad Father", Brian becomes one when he meets up with his son Dylan Flannigan and discovers his television connections. He then exploits these (and Dylan's kind nature) to improve his failing writing career in the TV business. He's found out and disowned by the end of the episode, leading him to be kicked off the writing board. Brian and Dylan do reconcile by the end of the episode. Olivia's mother provides the current page quote, complete with Suspiciously Specific Denial and Lampshade Hanging for good measure. In "The Peanut Butter Kid", Stewie lands a part in a commercial. He soon lands more commercial parts and his parents let it go to their heads. They buy luxury goods they don't need and work Stewie to exhaustion. Peter even gives Stewie an energy drink that includes cocaine. Brian plays the voice of reason this time and tries to convince Peter and Lois that they are ruining Stewie's life, to no avail. He convinces Stewie that the life of a child actor is a thankless and brutal one that often leads to a bad end later in life, pointing out former child stars who either ended up in porn or died unpleasant deaths. In the end, Brian and Stewie convince Peter and Lois to stop being stage parents by having Stewie pretend to have a total meltdown during his next commercial shoot.
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Stage Mom / int_ea77c5ab	comment	Captain Tsubasa: Carlos Santana was legally adopted by Barsole Bara, owner of the Bara FC, who only saw him as a tool to profit from. When Carlos turned 17, he revealed in a press conference all the abuse he was submitted to and shamed him publically. Subverted with Rudi Frank Schneider, father of Karl Heinz Schneider. Despite being his coach on the Bayern Munich and the German team (and a former player himself), he genuinely loves and is very proud of his son for choosing to follow in his footsteps of his own volition.
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Stage Mom / int_ec25a849	comment	Beebee Bluff's mother on Doug was a stage mother for one episode, but in the end, Beebee was able to call her out on it and her mother quickly saw the error of her ways.
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Stage Mom / int_ec2c627b	comment	In Sing, one of the auditionees is a kangaroo joey who was dragged along by her mother in her pouch. After they get rejected, her mother insists that she will become a star.
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Stage Mom / int_ed2a7866	comment	In Blazing Generations, a sequel to the Sword Art Online fic I Will Not Bow, Akane Migakuri's mother is more manager than mother and runs her career as the Idol Singer Akimi. When she appears in chapter 65, it's revealed she leaked information on where Akane's attending school to the paparazzi, and is determined to turn the singing competition at school into a publicity stunt for Akane and force her to resume her career at the end of the school year whether Akane likes it or not. In chapter 66, she furiously chews Akane out for dropping out of the competition in favor of Lilly, calling her a "loser girl with no reputation," Akane has finally had enough; she gives her mother a slap, furiously calls her out over her attitude and actions, and fires her as her manager, declaring that the idol business has turned her into a different person and she wants her mom back. After Akane sings the song her late father used to sing with her and then explains that she wants to be the idol she herself envisions, Akane's mother realizes how far she had fallen and breaks down in Tears of Remorse.
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Stage Mom / int_eed7f86d	comment	Downplayed in Ballet Shoes, where all three Fossil sisters go on the stage to earn extra money for their family. Pauline and Posy are happy too, loving acting and dancing respectively. Petrova meanwhile hates dancing and performing, and only does so grudgingly. Sylvia and Nana meanwhile want all the girls to be happy and understand when Petrova gives up performing for her preferred career of becoming a pilot.
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Stage Mom / int_ef48be8b	comment	Barbie: Princess Charm School: While it's not outright stated, it's heavily implied that the main reason Dame Devin is pushing for her daughter to inherit Gardania's throne is so she can live out her dreams of becoming a princess through her — and she's willing to do anything to get it, from sabotaging the other princesses to murdering the original royal family.
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Stage Mom / int_f0a86c12	comment	How I Met Your Mother: In one episode, it's revealed that Barney hired a pair of actors to pretend to be his family. A flashback showed him auditioning actors to play his son. The mother of one of the child actors auditioning complains that her son didn't get the part, mentioning that she slept with Barney. Barney snarks that he had better acting talent than her child.
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Stage Mom / int_f3c3510d	comment	Quite common in Classical Music: A number of well-known classical composers — especially of the Child Prodigy variety — were pushed into playing and composing music from an early age due to their parents' wishes. For example, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister, Maria Anna, toured Europe as little kids playing piano and violin, under the tutelage of their father Leopold, a well-known composer in his own right. There are also darker examples, like Ludwig van Beethoven's father, who was so obsessed with his son becoming the next Mozart that he beat him if he didn't practice enough. But overall, the "child prodigy" notion has become so ubiquitous in classical music circles that fans are often surprised to find out that some of the greatest composers — such as Richard Wagner and Johannes Brahms — didn't start writing music until middle age, and even the so-called "child prodigies", including both Mozart and Beethoven, didn't really hit their stride until at least their late teens. If you were a prepubescent boy in 17th-century Italy, and you showed promise to be a great singer, your parents might have had you undergo a... procedure to turn you into a castrato soprano.translationIt's Italian for exactly what it sounds like. If successful, there was a chance that you could become incredibly wealthy and famous, and had famous opera composers start composing arias specifically for you. Otherwise, you'd end up mutilated and possibly a social outcast for the rest of your life because your parents thought you'd make them incredibly wealthy. Fortunately, with help from the Catholic Church, the practice became defunct by the 19th Century. Even today, it's very common to see kids starting to play the piano or stringed instruments at preschool age. This happens even if there are no expectations for stardom from the parents; it's just that since practically everybody who has a shot at stardom in this field started playing when they were that young, anybody who started later is at a disadvantage. Then some parents try to do the same thing with wind instruments or opera singing, where it isn't a good idea to start so young because those fields pose physical risks that could hurt one's chances at an adult career.
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Stage Mom / int_f4b71edf	comment	In a blog post on SMBC Theater, JP talked about how unnerved he was when he was talking about the show with some others in a diner, and a ten-year-old girl came up to them and told them that her mother told her to tell them that she's an actress. It showcased everything wrong with the trope: mother being pushy and forcing her kid to talk to total strangers, kid doing it only because her mother told her to, mother interested in her kid performing in something that's very much not for kids (to the point that in most sketches, child characters are played by kneeling adults).
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Stage Mom / int_f554e011	comment	In Katawa Shoujo, Shinichi Nomiya is not a parent to anyone's knowledge, but he has this attitude toward Rin Tezuka, the star member of his art club. On Rin's route, he seems to realize that he's nowhere near her or for that matter, Sae's dead husband's level of skill, which he says contributed to his decision to become an art teacher. As a result of seeing Rin's talent, he pushes her to work harder and put her paintings on exhibit, even though she doesn't want to. When she ultimately runs away from the exhibit, Nomiya goes berserk; when Rin comes to him to apologize, he declares that Rin does not have what it takes to be an artist.
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Stage Mom / int_faf8e17a	comment	In A little dinner scandal, when Mirabel and Camilo realize how much Mariano looks like their Abuelo Pedro, they begin to think that Alma paired Isa up with him as a means of recreating her own marriage vicariously through them.
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Stage Mom / int_fb173de	comment	The Phantom of the Opera: Madame Giry becomes one for Meg in Love Never Dies, and resents that the Phantom doesn't appreciate all they've done to help him attain success in America, including whoring Meg out to other men.
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Stage Mom / int_fd4bc897	comment	C.C.'s mother in Beaches. Hillary and C.C. met in 1958, under the boardwalk on the beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Hillary is lost and C.C. is hiding from her overbearing stage mother.
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Stage Mom / int_fdc66d32	comment	Interestingly, the girl's actress returned to the franchise a couple of years later in Kamen Rider Double...except this time, she played the Stage Mom. She hired the services of a Monster of the Week with Overnight Age-Up powers to turn her daughter's "rival" into an old woman; when that girl's mother found out, she hired the Monster to do the same to the first girl. The two mothers get into a shouting match until someone draws their attention to their daughters (who saw each other as friends, not rivals) huddled together and crying in fear, which triggered a My God, What Have I Done? moment in the mothers.
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Stage Mom / int_fe82acf2	comment	Janice Johnston from Journey of the Heart is a downplayed example. Her son Tony is genuinely passionate about music and really wants to be a concert pianist, but Janice pressures him to spend almost all his time practicing and discourages him from having any kind of social life or other interests that would be a distraction.
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I, Tonya / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Ice Princess / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Ladies of the Chorus / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Men, Women & Children / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Om Shanti Om / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Selena / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
7 Days in Hell / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Stage Mother / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Summer Holiday / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The Carriers Are Waiting / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The Godfather / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The Little Rascals / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Troop Beverly Hills / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
V/H/S/99 / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
A Deadly Game of Magic / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Ballet Shoes / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Deenie / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Don't Touch / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Dork Diaries / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
DramaSeries	seeAlso	Stage Mom
Dubliners / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Elemental Masters / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Hannah Swensen / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Jaine Austen Mysteries / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Literature Promise Of A Future	seeAlso	Stage Mom
Little Darlings (Literature) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Nina Tanleven / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Skating Shoes / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Tender Is the Night / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The Boxcar Children / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The Day of the Locust / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The Joy Luck Club / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The Lady From Zagreb / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Venus Prime / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
DancingShoes	seeAlso	Stage Mom
IWasATeenageFairy	seeAlso	Stage Mom
JudyGarland	seeAlso	Stage Mom
Steel	seeAlso	Stage Mom
Cat Street (Manga) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
IDOL × IDOL STORY! (Manga) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The Laughing Salesman (Manga) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
×××HOLiC (Manga)	seeAlso	Stage Mom
Your Lie in April (Manga) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Jagged Little Pill (Music) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Kimono My House (Music) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Sparks (Music) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
W-inds. (Music)	seeAlso	Stage Mom
Adventures in Odyssey (Radio) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Behind the Music / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Big Time Rush / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Como dice el dicho / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Coronation Street / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Crocodile Hunter / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Dance Moms / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Dinosaurs / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
15/Love / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
4400 / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Idol x Warrior Miracle Tunes! / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
In Living Color! / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
In the Heat of the Night / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Kamen Rider Double / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Make It or Break It / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
My Love From Another Star / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
My Name Is Earl / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
One Tree Hill / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Party Down / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Pataclaun / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Pitch (2016) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Power Rangers Dino Charge / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Recht Op Recht / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Rizzoli & Isles / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Sam & Cat / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The Dick Van Dyke Show / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The Goldbergs / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The Jacksons: An American Dream / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The League of Gentlemen / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The Monkees / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The Odd Couple (1970) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The Sarah Silverman Program / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The Thundermans / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Toddlers & Tiaras / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Tomorrow With You / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Gushing About Villains You Like / Sugar Wiki / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
TV Tropes Superhero Team / Sugar Wiki / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Curtains (Theatre) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Gypsy (Theatre) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Love Never Dies (Theatre) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Mozart! (Theatre) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Once in a Lifetime (Theatre) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Delicious (Video Game) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Monster Racers (Video Game) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Psychonauts (Video Game) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The Last Door (Video Game) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The Roottrees Are Dead (Video Game) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Magic-kyun! Renaissance (Visual Novel) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Justice For All (Visual Novel) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Shining Song Starnova (Visual Novel) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The Devil on G-String (Visual Novel) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Ramshackle (Web Animation) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
On Cinema (Web Video) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The Mysterious Mr. Enter (Web Video) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
A Little Town Called Coxwette (Webcomic) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Better Days (Webcomic) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Bittersweet Candy Bowl (Webcomic) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Disney High School (Webcomic) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
NFL Quarterbacks On Facebook (Website) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Ballerina / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Barbie in A Christmas Carol / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Barbie in the Pink Shoes / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Celebrity Deathmatch / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Doug / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Foot 2 Rue / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Galactik Football / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Problem Child / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Sing / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Von Erich Family (Wrestling) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Speed Grapher / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Om Shanti Om / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Free and Easy / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Temptation Island / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
×××HOLiC (Manga) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Backstage Pass (Visual Novel) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom

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