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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Wants her daughter Angela on her side, but given her psychopathically anti-human disposition, she's effectively alienated her own daughter something fierce.
When portrayed as Snow White's wicked stepmother, she (along with Cinderella's) is one of the definitive examples of the archetype.
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.
Unsurprisingly for a Nazi, she's a terrible mother. Enough so that her daughter chooses to turn on her and join the resistance.
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.
All of the Runaway's parents are terrible, and Janet Stein is no exception.
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.
The definitive Wicked Stepmother, after all
Depending on the episode
The Descendants version. Notably, the Angelina Jolie version is very much NOT this, her love for Aurora being the thing that redeems her.
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...
Foster-Mother in this case, being the source of Credence Barebone's angst and anger...as well as his being an Obscurial.
Killed her own children to spite her husband, so...
Though a far more tragic and sympathetic example than most here, she was, strictly speaking a neglectful mother.
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...
The devil on her son Malekith's shoulder. Also possibly has incestuous feelings for him (squick).
Another bad foster-mother. And, as the sequel cartoon to the film reveals, a bad biological one too.
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.
What else do you call someone who abandoned her own son to save herself?
The reason her son Norman turned out as bad as he did.
Gave birth to a child in Forever Evil.
Got her son killed. A son she conceived by rape no less. 'nuff said.
Mother of Clea
Mother of the heroic Lor-Zod and a general psychopath, so she naturally fits this.
Descendants version, since she has a daughter there
Nothing gets between her and her fanatical devotion to Khorne...including the lives of her children.
Post-corruption, anyway.