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== Comics ==
* [[Batgirl 2000 (Comic Book)|Cassandra Cain]]'s mother passed her to her father literally at birth, who in turn shot the midwife dead and took the infant to be trained as the [[Charles Atlas Superpower|ultimate]] [[Tyke Bomb|assassin]] in isolation from spoken language. Given that said mother became known as [[Blood Knight|Lady Shiva]], it is hard to imagine that her influence would have helped... and the kid seemed to have turned out emotionally together enough to [[Street Urchin|run away from home]] [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|rather than kill...]] [[The Atoner|again]].
* [[Batwoman]] lost her mother in a hostage situation when she was a kid. {{spoiler|She also lost her twin sister...or so she thought.}}
* Matt Murdock, aka [[Daredevil]], was raised entirely by his father (this turned into [[Parental Abandonment]] when the guy was murdered in the first issue of Matt's series). His mother went completely unmentioned for over twenty years before finally showing up out of the blue; turns out that she abandoned her child to become a nun.
** Darkdevil, Daredevil's [[Legacy Character]] in ''[[Spider-Girl (Comic Book)|Spider-Girl]]'', also has a missing mom and a dead dad. It's implied that Mom is still in jail for killing her abusive father. At least, that's what Darkdevil hopes.
* In [[The DCU]], Roy Harper once broke an [[Lotus Eater Machine|illusory world]] by asking about his mother -- she's so comprehensively missing that the illusion couldn't summon anything from his mind to fill in the details.
* Since there are [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] in ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'', the following are only a few examples. Elizabeth Howlett committed suicide after [[Wolverine|her son]] killed [[Abusive Parents|Thomas Logan]]. Katherine Summers was killed by [[Evil Overlord|D'ken]] of the Shi'ar empire. Rogue's biological mother would [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]] when Rogue was a small child, leaving her traumatized and in the care of her strict aunt. Edie Eisenhardt would be killed in a concentration camp, leading to [[Magneto]]'s [[Start of Darkness]]. His wife Magda fled into the wilderness after giving birth, continuing the pattern. Nightcrawler was probably better off not being raised by his real mother, [[X-Men/Villains/Characters/Villains|Mystique]].
* Peppermint Patty from ''[[Peanuts]]'' is raised only by her father, and it's hinted that her mom is dead. (When Marcie [http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1973/09/27 asks her] why she can't stay with her mother when her father is out of town, Patty simply says: "I don't have a mother, Marcie!")
* The children in ''[[Baldo]]'' are cared for by their father and great-aunt, after having lost their mother in a car accident.
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== Fairy Tales ==
* The mothers of the title characters of "[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]" and "[[Cinderella (novel)|Cinderella]]" have no role other than dying to leave their respective daughter to the [[Wicked Stepmother]].
** In the earliest version published by [[The Brothers Grimm (Creatorcreator)|The Brothers Grimm]], Snow White has no step-mother - the horrific treatment she receives comes directly from ''her own biological mother''. Ditto for [[Hansel and Gretel]]. It's likely that such stories wound up axing the real mother and putting a step-mother in their place because the concept of a mother conspiring against her own children came to be seen as too disturbing.
 
 
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