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{{quote|''"And the good guy doesn't have a mommy, 'cause his mommy died."''|'''Zoe''', ''[[Baby Blues]]''}}
|'''Zoe''', ''[[Baby Blues]]''}}
 
A subtrope of [[Parental Abandonment]]: The mother of a character or characters is missing or absent.
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{{examples}}
== Anime &and Manga ==
* ''[[Slayers]]'': The queen of Seyruun and the mother of [[Genki Girl|Amelia]] and her older sister Gracia was murdered by an assassin that was after the latter princess. {{spoiler|Gracia killed said assassin ''[[Bloody Murder|very messily]]'', [[Break the Cutie|was extremely traumatised due to that]], and left to learn of the world the next day under a ''nom de guerre,'' "Naga the Serpent," and would eventually meet [[Redheaded Hero|Lina]] among other things.}} From the scant amount of times this is mentioned, Amelia is still rather sensitive about it.
* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'': Radical Edward/Françoise has no mother. She's nearly a case of [[Parental Abandonment]] as well, because her father ''forgot'' her in an orphanage for several years, and seems not entirely sure his child is a girl, or what her name is. {{spoiler|Which is why it's so sad when she leaves the Bebop, because Jet was a far better father for her than her real dad.}}
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** Shampoo's father was seen a time or two in the manga, but never her mother, and she is otherwise raised by her great-grandmother.
** Both of Ryoga Hibiki's parents are never around due to an [[No Sense of Direction|improbably bad sense of direction]] and we never meet them. Different from the ''[[Ranma ½]]'' norm because they're all alive and aware of the others' existence and would spend more time together under better circumstances.
** Mousse's mother is neveronly briefly mentioned in the manga and onlythe brieflyanime. In the manga he gets a letter from her (with the return address starting with "Mousse's Mommy" in Japanese); we don't even get that much in the anime.
** The Kuno siblings' mother and Ukyo's mother are never seen or even mentioned.
* ''[[Inuyasha]]'' has three as well:
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== ComicsComic Books ==
* [[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.