Worst Moms Ever
While not as common/ubiquitous as lousy and abusive fathers, horrible mothers nevertheless show up in fiction now and again. These are the worst of them.
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Pretended to love her daughter as a means of manipulating her, only to then betray her to Diablo who took her body as a vessel, effectively condemning her.
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Not as bad as many of the others here, granted. But still consistently shown to be unpleasant and verbally and emotionally abusive to her son.
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Moreso in the books than the show, but even in the latter she was a lousy mother however much she may have genuinely loved her kids. Not to mention that her last child's death is basically her own fault (not that she'd ever admit it).
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The Descendants version, who raised her son to believe that all dogs were vicious animals that attack boys who don't behave, instilling in him a fear of dogs.
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Wants her daughter Angela on her side, but given her psychopathically anti-human disposition, she's effectively alienated her own daughter something fierce.
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When portrayed as Snow White's wicked stepmother, she (along with Cinderella's) is one of the definitive examples of the archetype.
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While she seemingly cares about her daughter Morrigan, it is later revealed that Flemeth keeps herself alive by leeching the life-force of her children, and that Morrigan has been set up to be the latest victim of this.
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Unsurprisingly for a Nazi, she's a terrible mother. Enough so that her daughter chooses to turn on her and join the resistance.
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In the versions of the myths where she cast Hephaestus from Mount Olympus just for being born ugly and deformed. So much for a mother's unconditional love.
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All of the Runaway's parents are terrible, and Janet Stein is no exception.
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Cassandra Cain's rather abusive and unloving mother who saw her as more of a living weapon to be forged and used instead of a child to be loved.
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The definitive Wicked Stepmother, after all
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Depending on the episode
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The Descendants version. Notably, the Angelina Jolie version is very much NOT this, her love for Aurora being the thing that redeems her.
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While she does technically love her daughter Lyra, she's also not above manipulating and even harming her, and either way she works for a fascist theocracy that kidnaps and tortures children, so...
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Foster-Mother in this case, being the source of Credence Barebone's angst and anger...as well as his being an Obscurial.
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Killed her own children to spite her husband, so...
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Though a far more tragic and sympathetic example than most here, she was, strictly speaking a neglectful mother.
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Between her and Agnes Skinner, I get the sense that Matt Groening or someone he knows had some really bad experiences with an elderly mother figure...
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The devil on her son Malekith's shoulder. Also possibly has incestuous feelings for him (squick).
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Another bad foster-mother. And, as the sequel cartoon to the film reveals, a bad biological one too.
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Initially a pretty good mom actually, being shown as genuinely loving and even sometimes giving her son good advice in early episodes. But then, like her husband, she got flanderized into a just plain bad parent.
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What else do you call someone who abandoned her own son to save herself?
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The reason her son Norman turned out as bad as he did.
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Gave birth to a child in Forever Evil.
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Got her son killed. A son she conceived by rape no less. 'nuff said.
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Mother of Clea
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Mother of the heroic Lor-Zod and a general psychopath, so she naturally fits this.
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Descendants version, since she has a daughter there
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Nothing gets between her and her fanatical devotion to Khorne...including the lives of her children.
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Post-corruption, anyway.
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