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* In ''[[The Tenth Kingdom]]'', this is rather masterfully pulled off. {{spoiler|Virginia finds out her mother is alive, and is actually pretty much the person responsible for her and her father getting pulled into the plot. She already knew that her mother had left, but she didn't know that she'd wound up as a wicked step-mother in a parallel fairy-tale world.}} This leads to a rather realistic rant after she finds out.
* One important motive for [[The Adventures of Shirley Holmes|Shirley Holmes]] is to solve the mystery of her Mother's disappearance. {{spoiler|And she does, eventually.}}
* In ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined(2004 TV series)Battlestar Galactica]]'', Lee's mother is presumed dead when the Cylons attack. She is later shown to have been {{spoiler|an alcoholic and bipolar, therefore having strained relationships with her sons.}}
** Likewise, Kara Thrace's mother was so abusive that she {{spoiler|once broke all of Kara's fingers by slamming her hand repeatedly in a door. She later refused to congratulate Kara's graduation, focusing on her mistakes instead.}} This made Kara so angry that {{spoiler|she never went to see her mother as she was dying of lung cancer.}}
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' loves this: