Missing Mom: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Clannad]]'', Tomoya Okazaki lost his mother when he was young, and the grief caused his father to become an alcoholic bum in the process.

** In After Story, {{spoiler|the main character works to keep it from repeating with Ushio after getting a wake-up-call. That's because Nagisa, Ushio's mother, [[Death by Childbirth|died in childbirth]].}}

** The Tendo sisters' mother died when they were little, which especially affected Akane (and apparently Nabiki in the manga); Kasumi got a [[Promotion to Parent]] (or at least, homemaker) and Soun appears to have never gotten over it. (The Tendos' ongoing grief is played remarkably straight for a comedy series.)

** Ranma left to train with his father at such a very young age that until his [[Hot Mom]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|Nodoka]] showed up to visit he'd forgotten he ever ''had'' one.

** The sequel novel ''Frozen Teardrop'' does it thrice over: {{spoiler|for Heero (his parents were [[Hitman with a Heart]] Odin Lowe and OZ spy Aoi Clark, who raised Heero in his very early years alongside her [[Second Love]] and husband; when they both died, Odin Lowe took little Heero back in), Treize (his mother Angelina [[The Ophelia|went completely mad]] after her husband Ein Yuy was horribly killed and she was kidnapped by her family, [[Star-Crossed Lovers|who never approved of their marriage.]] She and her ''other'' son/Treize's former [[Number Two]] Vingt died in the crossfire when the real Heero Yuy was assassinated), and Duo II (his adoptive mother Hilde Scheibaker died some time before the story began, leaving her husband "Father" Duo Maxwell to raise the kid alone).}}

* The death of Kei Enjouji's mother Hotaru in [[Kizuna]] is an extremely important plot point, since she leaves behind a letter in which she reveals the secret behind Enjouji's heritage: {{spoiler|he is actually the [[Heroic Bastard]] of Hotaru's former lover, the [[Yakuza]] boss Takeshi Sagano.}}

* Ur from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' to her daughter Ultear, though it wasn't intentional. {{spoiler|She took said daughter to some scientist tam because Ultear was an [[Ill Girl]] in serious risk, but [[Complete Monster|they]] [[Moral Event Horizon|kidnapped her instead and told Ur she was dead]].}}

* In ''[[Happy Yarou Wedding]]'', Yuuhi grew up without a mother and had a very lonely childhood. When he starts working as a nanny to Shouta, whose mom is also dead, he sees too much of his own past in him and becomes determined to be the perfect parent to Shouta.

* ''[[Step by Step]]'': Frank Lambert's wife abandoned him and their three children (J.T., Al, and Brendan). Although it is implied that she is still very much alive, she disappeared to parts unknown and has no contact with her children, leaving step-mother Carol Foster to fill the void.

* ''[[Little House on the Prairie (TV series)|Little House On the Prairie]]'': In the 1981-1982 season opener, where the Olesens adopt Nancy (an orphan with a severe behavior disorder), Nancy gives a sob story about being abandoned by her mother. In truth, her mother suffered from a condition today known as preecclampsia, and died while giving birth to Nancy. (Since Nancy's biological father was unknown -- remember, the series is set in the 1800s, more than 100 years before the advent of DNA testing -- she was sent to an orphanage.) Her unstable life and frequent moving to different orphanages resulted in her behavior problems and "missing mom" story, which she maintained for years until -- of all people -- series anti-hero Mrs. Olesen (her adopted mother) made her come to terms with the truth.

* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'':

** Hiro Nakamura's mother Ishi is absent. {{spoiler|We find out she's dead later on, and that it completely shattered Hiro's father Kaito. Further, in the novel ''Saving Charlie'', we find out that Kaito being devastated by Ishi's loss is why he's so emotionless and hard now. When the adult Hiro gets his memories reverted to that of his 10-year-old self, he visits his dead mother via [[Time Travel]]: Ishi turns out to have been [[Healing Hands|a healer]], who uses her powers to heal Hiro's memories and give him the [[MacGuffin]].}}

* ''[[Fallout 3]]'' has them in spades:

** The Player, Harden Simms, Amata, Angela Staley, Sarah Lyons, Brian Wilks, Sydney, Derek Pacion

** She is at least said to be in a city that the player doesn't visit. Tyrell and Karis' mothers aren't even named.

*** Karis however does make references to her parents in the plural sense, so her mother is at least implied to be present in her life even if the player doesn't know who she is.

* ''[[Jonny Quest]]'''s mother is absent, presumably dead.

** The first TOS episode states that Jonny's mom died -- from what is unknown.

*** According to comic-book side story (drawn and written by Wendy Pini of [[Elf Quest]] fame back in the mid 80s) she died of illness (presumably cancer).

*** Apparently the details of her disappearance in ''[[The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest]]'' would have been dealt with in the third season. The one which never happened.