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Not all [[Evil Matriarch|Matriarchs are Malicious]], and not all [[Mama Bear
If there's combat to be had, she can take on a brigade on her own, even chasing out ninjas armed with naught but a broom. (Sadly, she'll often be captured and bound).
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Can overlap with [[Mama Bear]], and must be written carefully to avoid [[Flanderization]] into [[My Beloved Smother]]. Compare [[The Patriarch]], whom she may be married to. See also the [[Mammy]].
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== [[Anime]] ==
* Dola the [[Sky Pirate]] captain from ''[[Laputa: Castle in the Sky]]''. Very plump, very matronly, very very iron-willed.
* Chizuru Naba in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' is basically an
** And from the Magic World, we have Mama, who takes the [[Mama Bear]] trope literally, [[Everything's Worse with Bears|being a giant teddy bear]] of a woman who will beat up anyone who abuses the slave girls under her care.
* Sis from [[Now and Then Here and There|Now and Then, Here and There]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[DC Comics|Granny Goodness]]. [[Complete Monster|A real doting sort, this one]]. A [[Shadow Archetype|villainous version]] of this trope. [[Larynx Dissonance|Voiced by Ed Asner]] (in an homage to old Boris Karloff movies) in the DCAU, [[Anthropomorphic Personification|Granny is quite literally child abuse incarnate.]] Her specialty is warping the minds of chidren with [[Cold-Blooded Torture|torture]] and brainwashing to become [[Tyke Bomb
* Abigail "Ma" "the Red Tornado" Hunkel in the [[Justice Society of America]], which back in the 40s was combined with [[Sweet Polly Oliver]].
* Monstress from the Postboot [[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]. She wasn't any older than the others, but she was a ''lot'' bigger, and had a motherly attitude towards her teammates, often calling them "dear."
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* The Badger Mothers in ''[[Redwall]]'' generally fit this, with Bella of Brockhall probably the most so.
* Gytha "Nanny" Ogg from the ''[[Discworld]]'' novels. Her daughters-in-law might have [[Evil Matriarch|a wholly different view of her]], though.
** Lady Sybil, also from ''Discworld'', who has had several [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning Moments of Awesome]] in recent appearances, and was pretty formidable to start
*** It runs in the family. Her Great Aunt once sent a bandit who tried to rob her coach ''crying for his mother.''
* Mother Superior Mary Francis in James Byron Huggins' novel ''Cain''. Frail, aged nun vs. demon-possessed assassin/cyborg/vampire?
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