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In an [[Ensembles]] show, especially of the fighting kind, there needs to be someone to hold this [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] together before they kill each other or wander off into the woods like so many [[Player Character|Player Characters]]. Almost [[Always Female|always a female]], [[Team Mom]] basically acts as the [[Promotion to Parent|mother figure]] for everyone else in the group, regardless of age or family relations. That said, the [[Overprotective Dad]] or older brother can qualify for Team Mom, and the same goes for a [[Cool Big Sis]] [[Character Development|who grows]] [[Older and Wiser]]. In many cases, she actually is a mother or older sister to at least one other character.
Not always [[The Hero|the leader]] in action or adventure, but the leader the team needs in everyday life and practical matters. Quells fights, makes sure everyone cleans behind their ears and eats their greens. Can be pretty bossy. Usually, they're [[Gentle Giant]], [[The Cutie|cute]], kind, and capable of [[Apron Matron|stern mothering]] (or [[Overprotective Dad|papaing]], even).
Often enough, she's [[The Medic]] or [[The Heart]]. May be a [[Nice Girl]], [[White Magician Girl]], or [[The Messiah]]. If she's a more physical fighter, expect her to be a [[Black Magician Girl]] or a [[Lady of War]] (and maybe an [[Action Mom]], if she's got her own kids aside of the group members). They are by definition never [[Loners Are Freaks|the loner]], and will in fact tend to be the one who pulls them into the cast's orbit as a [[Sixth Ranger]]. If anyone can break through and bring about a [[Heel Face Turn]] or [[Cooldown Hug]], it's the [[Team Mom]].
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* Lieutenant Filicia Heidemann from ''[[Sora no Woto]]'' fits this trope to a T, crossing it over with [[Mama Bear]] in the meantime.
* Formerly the page image: [[Idol Singer|Sarah]] [[Landlord|Dupont]] in ''[[Kaleido Star]]'', despite sometimes acting [[Adult Child|even]] ''[[Adult Child|more]]'' [[Adult Child|childish than her proteges]].
* Brock from the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime is a [[Rare Male Example]].
** And Dawn's Togekiss looks to be one of these too, which is [[Lampshaded]] when she looks after Piplup as if it were, well, a little chick.
*** Played terribly straight in the final episode of the DP saga, {{spoiler|when it comforts Pikachu and Piplup as they cry uncontrollably because Ash and Pikachu have to go back to Kanto.}}
** In BW, we have Ash's Snivy, who seems to have taken up guiding the more childish pokemon in the group as its calling. Shown in {{spoiler|BW 57, when she has to save Axew and Scraggy after they accidentally enrage a wild garbodor in the middle of the night.}}
* Another male example is the male [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] Oishi Shuichiro of ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]'' -- Vice-captain of Seigaku's tennis team, he is often nicknamed "Mother Hen of Seigaku" by his teammates for his motherly nature. In the parody where the teammates are portrayed as a large extended family, he gets to be the mother, predictably.
** Jackal Kuwahara from Rikkai also is the [[Team Mom]]. More specifically, he's often asked to take care of his [[Bratty Half-Pint]] ''[[Senpai Kohai|kouhai]]'' Akaya Kirihara.
** A third male example would be Koujirou Saeki from Rokkaku.
* Nami of ''[[One Piece]]'', although she's a particularly selfish example. This ended when Robin pretty much took over the role of [[Team Mom]] over time, even managing to mother Nami herself.
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** In the original ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', we have both White Base helmswoman Mirai Yashima and Lieutenant Matilda Ajan. Mirai's place as [[Team Mom]] is [[Lampshade Hanging|acknowledged in canon]] when [[Ace Pilot]] Sleggar tells Cameron Bloom that he should respect Mirai's wishes, since she's the mother of the White Base {{spoiler|and is confirmed when she gets involved with Bright, the [[Team Dad]]}}. Frau Bow also was a bit of a Team Mom, though younger and more childish than the other two.
** In ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'', Mirai is succeeded by [[Action Girl|AEUG female pilots]] Emma Sheen and Reccoa Londo ( {{spoiler|though the latter has a [[Face Heel Turn]]}}). The [[Team Mom]] torch is then passed on [[Chinese Girl]] Fa Yuiri in ''Gundam ZZ'', and to [[Ace Pilot]] Marvette Fingerhut in ''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam|Victory Gundam]]''. {{spoiler|Who is actually pregnant with ''her'' child at the end of the series. Too bad the baby's father, Oliver Inoue, had already been killed through [[Heroic Sacrifice]].}}
** If we go to AU Gundams, [[G Gundam]] sometimes places [[Hot Scientist|Rain Mikamura]] in this role.
** In [[Gundam Wing]] we have [[Action Girl|Action Girls]] Lucrezia Noin and Sally Po, as well as circus girl Catherine Bloom. They're joined by {{spoiler|the no-longer psychotic Lady Une}} in ''Endless Waltz'', and by {{spoiler|the [[Older and Wiser]] Hilde Schbeiker}} in the ''Frozen Teardrop'' novels.
** Murrue Ramius was not just [[The Captain]], but also Team Mom for the ''Archangel's'' teenaged pilots and [[Bridge Bunnies]] in ''[[Gundam Seed]]''. Her [[Number Two|second-in-command]] [[Sergeant Rock|Natarle Badgiruel]] wasn't too happy with this, but Murrue's example nevertheless prompted Natarle to act as a [[Team Mom]] to [[Fallen Princess]] Fllay Alster when she became ''her'' bridge bunny in the ''Dominion''.
** {{spoiler|Leesa Kujoh aka}} Sumeragi Lee Noriega from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' pretty much fits this to a T, in addition to her role as the the captain of Ptolemaios.
*** Also Princess Marina Ismail, emphasized when {{spoiler|she mothers a bunch of kids who are refugees from her destroyed Kingdom}}
* Sakura Kakei from ''[[GetBackers]]'', who is the [[Team Mom]] for several street gangs she's joined.
* The [[Team Mom]] in ''[[Wa Ga Na Wa Umishi]]'' is more like the team grandpa, old Gramp. Without him there's a better than 80% chance that the rest of Nanba Salvage would have killed each other by now.
* Shamal from ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As]]''. Notable in that she's the [[Team Mom]] of the ''[[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]''...at least, that's how they start out.
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* Francoise Arnoul aka 003 of ''[[Cyborg 009]]'', more in the 2001 adaptation than the others. Not only she takes care of baby Ivan/001 as if he was either her child or baby brother and aids Dr. Gilmore when he's gotta take care of the others, but at some point she talks to a disgruntled Jet/002 as if she was lecturing a whiny kid, despite them being the same age (they were both made cyborgs when they were teenagers). [[Lampshaded]] in a 2001 episode where she's kidnapped by a [[Mailer Daemon]] with huge [[Mommy Issues]], and one of the reasons behind that is speculated to be Francoise's motherly behavior.
** The Psychic Assassins arc gives us Mai, the [[Team Mom]] for the ''[[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]''.
* Yuka, Kouta's cousin from ''[[Elfen Lied]]''. [[Lampshaded]] in the anime, where she's sometimes referred to as the "mother" of the group.
** Even more when she and Kouta are given custody of Mayu, making her the girl's adoptive mother.
* [[The Medic|Megumi]] [[Noblewoman's Laugh|Takani]] from ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]''.
** Also, [[Ill Girl]] Sayo Magdaria in the anime.
* Kurenai Yuuhi from ''[[Naruto]]'', [[Parental Substitute|especially towards]] [[Fragile Flower|Hinata]], and {{spoiler|is also literally a mom now, being pregnant with the deceased [[Team Dad]] Sarutobi Asuma's child}}.
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* Mega in ''[[Transformers Super God Masterforce]]'' is a rare villainous example.
* Cordelia in ''[[Romeo X Juliet]]'', despite being only two years older than Juliet. {{spoiler|She becomes a literal mom in the epilogue.}}
* On her most focused days, Midori Sugiura from ''[[Mai-HiME]]'' fills this role.
* Yukine of ''[[Clannad]]'', who plays this role for {{spoiler|both her brother's gang and their rival gang}}.
* Tea Gardner/Anzu Mazaki from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!''
* Mamori Anezaki from ''[[Eyeshield 21]]''. She even manages to (sort of) mother [[Magnificent Bastard|Hiruma]], machine guns and all.
** What's more, her affection for Sena is ''explicitly'' maternal in nature.
* Sanae Nakazawa, Yukari Nishimoto, Yayoi Aoba, Yoshiko Fujisawa, Machiko Machida and (in the videogames) Youko Katagiri from ''[[Captain Tsubasa]]''. Justified trope since they're all [[Cute Sports Club Manager|the managers of their respective teams]], so they're ''literally'' the team moms. Kumi Sugimoto is an exception: she's an assistant too, but doesn't fill in since she's actually [[Naive Newcomer|a newbie to the sport.]]
** Also, Tsubasa's mother Natsuko (''specially'' in the first tournament arc) and Hyuga's manager Kaori Matsumoto.
* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' has a male and two females in the [[Team Mom]] role. The male is Antonio/Spain, who raises Lovino/South Italy almost on his own. The females are Elizaveta/Hungary (who starts as Feliciano/North Italy's [[Cool Big Sis]] and is promoted to [[Team Mom]] when she marries [[Team Dad]] Roderich/Austria) and Ukraine (who is less lucky since her younger siblings are ''both'' [[Yandere|Yanderes]])
** England tries to be this for the Allies, but whether it works or not...
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* Mia Kouji/Nasuti Yagyuu from ''[[Ronin Warriors]]''.
* Vega in ''[[GEAR Fighter Dendoh]]'', {{spoiler|literally}}.
* In ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' we have two. Kyoko Honda nee Katsunuma (a rare loner example, who {{spoiler|because of her past she recruits quite the [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]], including her own daughter after her future husband, Honda Katsuya, healed her with the [[Power of Love]]}}) and Kyouko's daughter Honda Tohru (a more traditional example, who also heals and held the [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] together with the [[Power of Love]]).
* Isabella Yamamoto in ''[[Paradise Kiss]]''... who's actually a [[Transsexualism]].
* Older example: Megumi Ouka from ''[[Voltes V]]''.
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** This is at least in part due to a truly ''massive'' lack of competition for the job. Who else is going to do it? Spike? ''Faye?'' '''''Ed?!''''' The second most responsible person on the crew is probably Ein, and he's a damned dog.
* Fuu in ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'', keeping Mugen and Jin to bitch/kill each other.
* Kagome Higurashi in [[Inuyasha]]. As [[The Chick]] ''and'' [[The Lancer]] in the [[Five-Man Band]], she keeps [[The Hero]] in line ("SIT, BOY!"), acts like the [[Tagalong Kid]]'s [[Parental Substitute]], offers [[The Big Guy|The Big Girl]] moral support ''and'' [[Shipper on Deck|ships her with]] [[The Smart Guy]].
* Lussuria of ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn|Reborn]]'' refers to '''himself''' as the "Mommy" of the Varia, so much so that his underlings actually call him "big sis" * shudder* .
* Namiko of ''[[GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class]]''-- [[Lampshaded]] by her version of the ending that said she practically "mothers" the others.
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* Believe it or not, ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' takes up the role from time to time. Like when she takes care of Kyon after he falls off a cliff during the Mystery Murder, plays with Kyon's little sister and other kids, stays by Kyon's bedside ''for three days'' {{spoiler|when he's hospitalized during ''Disappearance''}} or {{spoiler|watches over the sick Yuki in the beginning of Volume 10.}}
* Marie Mjolnir from [[Soul Eater]].
* [[Nana|Nana "Hachi" Komatsu]], who is usually the childish one in most of her relationships, is actually quite motherly towards the members of Blast (with the exception of {{spoiler|Yasu}}, who is this type of character too), even before {{spoiler|she finds out she's pregnant}}. Afterwards, it only increases especially in regard to {{spoiler|her taking care of Nana O. after Ren's death}} in the current story arc. {{spoiler|Shin}} even starts referring to her as his mother.
* Both Captain Misumi Tanaka and Maki Anou in [[Bokurano]].
* In [[Mahou Sensei Negima]], Evangeline, of all people, has been known to act like this. Of course, [[Noble Demon|she will vehemently deny this if you bring it up.]]
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* Ayako Matsuzaki in ''[[Ghost Hunt]]'', with Bou-san as [[Team Dad]].
* Shizuka from [[Hana Yori Dango]] seems to have formerly filled this role for the F4, [[Morality Chain|and her absence may have something to do]] with [[Kick the Dog|the extreme levels of jerkassery they've fallen to by the beginning of the series.]]
* Karen Kasumi from [[X 1999]], with Seiichiro Aoki as the [[Team Dad]].
* Himari Takakura from [[Mawaru Penguindrum]], despite being the youngest of the Takakura household. Not to mention, she mothers ''penguins'' around too.
* Ibuki of [[Asu no Yoichi]] fits this to a T, as a natural result of [[Promotion to Parent]] after [[Parental Abandonment|thier parents left her and her sisters alone as children.]]
* In ''[[Saint Beast]]'', Rey tries to fulfil this role, being the cook, [[The Heart]], and the mediator, but occasionally fails thanks to his [[Foil]] Gai, who is good at bringing out his immature side.
* In ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', Erza fits this role among [[Five-Man Band|Team Natsu]] as well as [[The Big Guy]]. As far as the entire guild goes, [[Silk Hiding Steel|Mirajane]] shares this role with her, but she's also their cover girl.
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** {{spoiler|Also, arguably Jenova. In a weird, creepy way. }}
* Of all people, Vexen is completely this in [[Fill the Moon]]; he basically raised the incredibly dysfunctional [[Badass Family]] that was the Apprentices during their time in Radiant Garden, and continues to do so after they all become Nobodies. Once the Organization's ranks begin to swell, he manages to accept the others as surrogate children. {{spoiler|Well, except for Marluxia, but he's his lover.}}
* In "post-rescue" ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers|Galaxy Rangers]]'' scenarios, Eliza Foxx often steps up for this role. Her husband [[A Father to His Men|added three more "kids" to the roster]] during her absence.
* In fitting with the Comic Book example above, Sue Dibny is the [[Team Mom]] of almost the entire superhero community in [[DC Nation]]. It helps when you're the political liaison for the [[Justice League]] and used to take the senior [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Titans]] out for ice-cream after report cards.
* Jeri Katou in the ''[[Tamers Forever Series]]'' is a Team [[Mama Bear]], as even when she [[Took a Level In Badass|Takes A Level In BadAss]] and becomes an [[Action Girl]] she is still the most protective of the tamers.
* In [[Vocaloid]] fanon, Meiko tends to take this role when not being a [[Bottle Fairy|drunkard]]. Due to her shared status as [[The Ladette]], however, she tends to be either a [[My Beloved Smother]] or [[Mama Bear]] as well. When it's not her, it's usually [[The Stoic|Luka]].
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== Literature ==
* [[Tortall Universe|Kel]] takes this role from the start and escalates it through the series. From the leader of a study group in book one to refugee camp in book four. She's even a full-fledged [[Parental Substitute]] for Tobe.
* There's Molly Weasley of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' who is the mother of seven children. She consider Harry like a son, treats Hermione like a daughter and acts as hostess to the whole Order of the Phoenix as well.
* Wendy Moira Angela Darling from ''[[Peter Pan]]'' (currently pictured above), which makes this [[Older Than Radio]]. You know when Maggie in ''[[Hook]]'' berates Dustin Hoffman for "needing a mother very badly"? It effectively harks back to the original novel.
* ''[[Narnia|The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe]]'': Edmund Pevensie claims Susan always tries to act like Mother, bossing the two youngest Pevensies around. He's right. Her goal is to keep them safe.
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'Sorry, Da,' murmured the Doctor. }}
* Cassie in ''[[Animorphs]]''.
* Vanity, from [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[Chronicles of Chaos]]'' is universally recognized as team mom, despite being the third youngest member. She cemented her status by [[Feminine Women Can Cook|getting fire, food, and dry clothes]] for the team after their previous leader inadvertently dropped them into a river.
* Antonia is this to the Theodoran Cohort in [[Belisarius Series]].
* Mommy fills this role in ''[[The Fire-us Trilogy]]'' for a group of orphans trying to survive in a post-apocolyptic world.
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** Also [[The McCoy|Dr. McCoy]] on ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' - up to and including insisting everyone eat their vegetables. Since he's [[The Medic]], this is more or less in the job description.
* Lucy on ''[[Hey, Dude!]]''.
* Joyce Summers on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]''. She took care of Willow and Xander when sick, soothed a brokenhearted Spike with cocoa and marshmallows (while he was still evil!), and once clubbed Spike unconscious with an axe in an awesome display of [[Mama Bear]].
* ''[[iCarly]]'': Carly takes the "parental" role towards the other 3 main characters: to Sam in ''iWas a Pageant Girl'', to Freddie in ''iWill Date Freddie'' and to Spencer in majority of the episodes. ''iKiss'' had her to be a "mom" to all 3 of them in a single episode by motivating Spencer's workout, sympathising with Freddie and later reprimanding Sam for her on-air attack on Freddie.
** Mrs. Benson also fills in this role, most especially in ''iGo to Japan''.
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* [[Super Sentai]] example: Miyuki, aka [[Action Mom|MagiMother]] from [[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]. However, [[Sacrificial Lion|after falling in battle]], her daughter [[Generation Xerox|Urara]] [[Promotion to Parent|takes her position.]]
* Madeline Westen, of [[Burn Notice]], is the literal (to Michael and Nate) and figurative (to everybody else) Team Mom.
* In ''[[That '70s Show]]'', Eric Forman's mother Kitty mothers everyone in the gang.
* Monica Geller in ''[[Friends]]''.
* Dwayne Wayne's mom (played by Patti Labelle) on ''[[A Different World]]'' mothers all of Dwayne's friends and brings her famous prune cobbler. Lettie and Stevie are this at Gilbert Hall.
* Alex Eames (and, also, Megan Wheeler) of [[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]. When you consider who their partners are - the completely neurotic Bobby Goren and the madcap Zach Nichols - it's easily understandable. Even Captain Danny Ross isn't above acting like a little boy most of the time.
* Amber of ''[[The Tribe]]'' mothers or bosses everyone she comes into contact with. To such an extent that she's the de facto leader of the Mall Rats, no matter who else is technically in charge.
* Blair is the team mom of ''[[Gossip Girl]]''s [[True Companions|Non-Judging Breakfast Club]], which Nate points out in one episode (though Blair denies it).
{{quote|'''Nate''': You're really sweet with him. Worrying about him, offering him food, it's... downright maternal.
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* In ''[[Firefly]]'', Inara fills in this role for ''Serenity's'' crew from time to time, most commonly with River.
* On [[Leverage]], "Sophie" fills this role to a tee.
* Mr. Schue on ''[[Glee]]'' is a male-example. Even more rare is that he is also the main character.
* ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'': the title character, besides being Luke's adopted mother.
* Alex from ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]''. Pretty much her entire role in the third series is to sort out the problems of the other characters, and she is the one who offers advice and a shoulder to cry on throughout. There is the distinct implication throughout the first and second series of a lack of balance in the team when she isn't there which is supported by the way it falls apart after Gene shoots her, and the team members are so protective of her that physical or verbal slights towards her committed by outsiders have resulted in [[Gene Hunt Interrogation Technique|severe beatings]], death, and an ''eleven-year-old school boy'' being thrown in a cell. Almost [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] twice:
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** And rather than firing them, she just bans them from being in the same room without supervision.
* One episode of the British documentary ''Coppers'' was about a Territorial Support Group - a van load of cops who act as mobile backup. Their sergeant was a woman. She said "I don't actually have any children, but I sometimes feel like a parent when I'm with this lot."
* Billie in "Here Come the Double Deckers!" often assumes this role towards the other kids in the gang, particularly towards Tiger, the youngest member and her fellow female.
== Religion ==
* In the Gospel of John (19:25-27) Jesus, on the cross and near death, made his mother Mary the [[Team Mom]] for the early Christians.
** And now she's considered [[Team Mom]] for the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Churches; the Protestant churches tend to downplay her importance.
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'''Boyd:''' You're like a really nice mom or something! Um... I mean...
'''Titania:''' ... }}
** Micaiah from ''Radiant Dawn'' is also a [[Team Mom]] to the younger members of the Dawn Brigade, such as Sothe.
* The Boss of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater]]'' is frequently referenced as this in relation to the Cobras, making her another of the rare villainous examples. {{spoiler|Or maybe not so villainous.}}
** She also {{spoiler|gave birth during the landing on Normandy in WWII, making her the ''literal'' [[Team Mom]]}}.
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* Chizuru Kagura from ''[[The King of Fighters]]'', both during her brief time in the Women Fighters Team (with King and Mai) ''and'' as the only female in the team she formed with Kyo and Iori. Yes, this [[Miko]] managed to get ''[[Feuding Families|Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami]]'' to work as a team. Wow.
** When Chizuru wasn't in the Women Fighters Team, King took up the role. Well, that's what working with [[Cute Bruiser|Cute Bruisers]] and a [[Ms. Fanservice]] will do to you. That, and she already had experience after getting a [[Promotion to Parent]].
** Diana is the team mom to Kula and K's group after her [[Heel Face Turn]].
* In ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'', Fall-from-Grace's mature, perceptive and compassionate personality make her fit this trope perfectly (although fiery teenager Annah doesn't react well to anything she says or does).
** But the player characters in ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' don't NEED a [[Team Mom]] to keep them together, as they are all {{spoiler|tied to the main character by their torment. Of the 7 possible playable characters besides the main character, 3 of them are actually the main character's slaves (although the player/main character doesn't know this at first), 2 of them follow his orders because they are creatures of law and logic, and 2 of them are in love with him. So having a [[Team Mom]] to keep them together is somewhat moot.}}
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* Bumblebee for ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' East: "That's a supercomputer, not a footstool!"
* 13-year-old [[Shrinking Violet|Sheila the Thief]] in the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (animation)|Dungeons and Dragons]]'' TV series. Not only she's [[Tomboy and Girly Girl|the more feminine of the girls in the group]] (Diana the Acrobat is a tomboyish [[Hot Amazon]] and [[Cool Big Sis]]), but the youngest kid in the gang is her little brother [[Cute Bruiser|Bobby the Barbarian]].
** While never stated outright, the way she and Bobby act to each other imply that she was de facto raising her little brother even before ending up in the Realm.
* Gi, college student, oldest Planeteer, and wielder of the [[Making a Splash|Ring of Water]] from ''[[Captain Planet and the Planeteers]]''. Gaia also mixes this with [[The Messiah]] and [[Mentors|Mentor]]. Gi's position in the [[Five-Man Band]] [[Lampshade Hanging|shows up]] in the first episode, during the kids' first ride in the Geo-Cruiser:
{{quote|'''Wheeler:''' Why do you get to drive?
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* 41-year-old Dara Torres of the 2008 U.S. Olympic swim team is often viewed as this by her teammates. To prove she's no slouch, she won three silver medals (just missing gold in the 50 free by 0.01 seconds).
* A mother, Sgt. Jane Strand, will head to war with her son, Pvt. Timothy Strand. In the National Guard, she "assumed the rank of mom to a collection of younger recruits," according to the [http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1232845.html article].
* In labs, especially large labs, there will usually be somebody to fill this role.
* "Guild mother," anyone?
* At a wildlife sanctuary in England, [http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/jasmine.asp a rescued Greyhound], of all things, is surrogate mom to everything from puppies to a barn owl.
* Captain's Wives sometimes did this for nineteenth-century sailing ships.
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* Jane Lynch (aka Sue Sylvester) is reportedly this for the entire cast of ''[[Glee]]'', to the point where she calls them her "babies."
* To [[Quentin Tarantino]] and much of the cast and crew of his movie, film editor Sally Menke was this. Tarantino himself ever referred to her as being a second mother to him.
* Some female webforum staffers, especially those older than most other participants of their webforums, are perceived as this...
* Joining a volunteer organization for children involves becoming either this, a [[Team Dad]], a [[Cool Big Sis]] or [[Big Brother Mentor]].
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