History Main / AlmightyMom

* Adah from ''Literature/TheRedTent''. Don't underestimate her just because her [[IllGirl health is failing]] in her old age!

A SubTrope of MamaBear, and often a characteristic of the TeamMom and the ApronMatron. Compare OneBadMother and NeverMessWithGranny for the older version. See also MyBelovedSmother, which this can often seem from the [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents embarrassed offspring's perspective]].

* ComicBook/JeanGrey is usually this for the X-Men, in her capacity as TeamMom. She is loving, compassionate, motherly, and one of the most powerful psychics ever to exist - when she's ''not'' wielding the Phoenix Force. Accordingly, even the gods themselves will probably not be able to save you if you threaten her students, or, worse, her children, who all listen to her. It doesn't matter that one is [[ComicBook/RachelSummers a time-travelling psychic as strong as she is (potentially stronger) and the supposed 'One True Phoenix']], another is [[{{ComicBook/Cable}} a time-travelling soldier at least twice her age capable of taking down Apocalypse through sheer martial skill and stubbornness]], and [[ComicBook/XMan the youngest]] is a fully-fledged RealityWarper who [[DimensionLord created and]] [[FisherKing became his own reality]] - and all of them are impossibly stubborn. Even if they don't obey, she is literally the one person they will all listen to, whether they want to or not.

Subtrope of MamaBear, and often a characteristic of the TeamMom and the ApronMatron. Compare OneBadMother and NeverMessWithGranny for the older version. See also MyBelovedSmother, which this can often seem from the [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents embarrassed offspring's perspective]].

* ComicBook/JeanGrey is usually this for the X-Men, in her capacity as TeamMom. She is loving, compassionate, motherly, and one of the most powerful psychics ever to exist - when she's ''not'' wielding the Phoenix Force. Accordingly, even the gods themselves will probably not be able to save you if you threaten her students, or, worse, her children, who all listen to her. It doesn't matter that one is [[ComicBook/RachelSummers a time-travelling psychic as strong as she is and Phoenix host]], another is [[{{ComicBook/Cable}} a time-travelling soldier at least twice her age capable of taking down Apocalypse through sheer martial skill and stubbornness]], and [[ComicBook/XMan the youngest]] is a fully-fledged RealityWarper - and all of them are impossibly stubborn. Even if they don't obey, she is literally the one person they will all listen to, whether they want to or not.

%%* Rare male example: Franchise/{{Batman}}'s Alfred Pennyworth.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'', Abuelita Elena and Mama Imelda, the matrons of the Rivera household in the Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead respectively, are effectively in charge of their households, refusing to take no for an answer and being ridiculously stubborn about their music-hating principles.

** Aunt May does this to Tony Stark and Reed Richards in ''[[ComicBook/JMSSpiderMan Spider-Man: The Other]]'', when they want Peter to take more tests instead of going out with Mary Jane. The two most brilliant men in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse are no match for Aunt May's stern reprimand.

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* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'''s Delia Ketchum gets to be this in the third movie, ''Anime/Pokemon3: Spell of the Unown'', when she stands up to Entei. It is a failed effort, but she gets points for trying.

%%Ragyo Kiryuin from ''Anime/KillLaKill'' was deemed a non-example per https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13543987200A54420100&page=755#comment-18866. Please do not add her back without permission. Also, her AmbiguouslyBi entry is unnecessary.

* Hinata [[spoiler: Uzumaki]] (née Hyuga) has grown into this in the ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'' anime, a ''far'' cry from her ShrinkingViolet self from [[Manga/{{Naruto}} the original series]]. [[NiceGirl While she's still as sweet]] [[ProperLady and caring as during her youth]], [[BewareTheNiceOnes her angry outbursts]] can outright ''terrify'' her husband and son when they're loafing around or fighting each other.

* ''Anime/KillLaKill'': Ragyō Kiryūin is a stellar example. No matter how powerful and charismatic her daughter, Satsuki, is, Ragyo is ''always'' a full tier above her, overstripping her in both power and authority, the former of which she displays consistently through the latter part of the series. Even when [[spoiler:Satsuki rebelled and Ryuko was revealed to be her daughter as well]], she has absolutely no problem putting ''everyone'' [[spoiler:including both her daughters]] back in their place. The downside is, she's also [[BigBad the villain]]. And a [[AbusiveParents horrible mother]].
* AmbiguouslyBi: It's known that she had children with Soichiro. However, she also [[ParentalIncest molests Satsuki]] and later [[spoiler:Ryuko]], so she has engaged in physical relationships with both sexes. What keeps it ambiguous is the fact that it is never made clear if she saw her relationship with Soichiro as anything more than a chance to create offspring to experiment on.

* Nita's mom in the ''Literature/YoungWizards'' series stops her daughter from making a DealWithTheDevil, and tells off [[BigBad the Lone]] [[{{Satan}} Power]].

* Crono's mom in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' seems to have quite strong character when she scolds [[NubileSavage Ayla]] over her provocative clothing. She's also no the least bit intimidated when she meets the [[ExBigBad rather menacing-looking]] [[DefeatMeansFriendship Magus]].

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', [[FatIdiot Heffer]] has sold his soul for a chance to be on a game show, and has to spend eternity in [[GoshDangItToHeck Heck]]. His grandmother (who he had been told was in Heaven) is down there, and she doesn't want to spend eternity with her grandson, because she doesn't like him. She tells off [[FluffyTheTerrible Peaches]], and Heffer is allowed to go home scot-free. [[spoiler: Peaches gets in big trouble with his beanie-wearing boss for listening to her, though]]

* ''Anime/KillLaKill'': Ragyo A stellar example. No matter how powerful and charismatic her daughter, Satsuki, is, Ragyo is ''always'' a full tier above her, overstripping her in both power and authority, the former of which she displays consistently through the latter part of the series. Even when [[spoiler:Satsuki rebelled and Ryuko was revealed to be her daughter as well]], she has absolutely no problem putting ''everyone'' [[spoiler:including both her daughters]] back in their place. The downside is, she's also [[BigBad the villain]]. And a [[AbusiveParents horrible mother]].

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Fluttershy can act like this towards her animals or monsters when she gets assertive. Her staring down a cockatrice while lecturing it as if she was its mother was an example.

* Hippolyta, ComicBook/WonderWoman's mother and Queen of Themyscira, has shown she's not afraid to mouth off to or stand up beings such as the Olympians, including Zeus, when it comes to her daughter.

* ComicBook/LoisLane as of ''ComicBook/SupermanRebirth''. When it comes to her family, she is the [[BadassNormal undisputed boss]], she doesn't care if you're {{Franchise/Superman}} (her husband), {{ComicBook/Superboy}} (her son), the goddamn {{ComicBook/Batman}} ([[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu whom she fed apple pie]]), or ComicBook/WonderWoman, you will act like civilized people around her home. And if you ''ever'' threaten her son, she will climb into a Batsuit designed to fight Darkseid and smear you across the floor with your own entrails.

* Ragyo Kiryuin from ''Anime/KillLaKill'' is a stellar example. No matter how powerful and charismatic her daughter Satsuki is, Ragyo is ''always'' a full tier above her, overstepping her in both power and authority, the former of which she displays consistently through the latter part of the series. Even when [[spoiler:Satsuki rebelled and Ryuko was revealed to be her daughter as well,]] she has absolutely no problem putting ''everyone'' [[spoiler: including both her daughters]] back in their place. The downside is, she's also [[BigBad the villain]]. [[AbusiveParents And a horrible mother]].
* Karma Abyss, from the light novel ''Mom, please don't come adventuring with me''[[note]]Full title too long for this website[[/note]] is almost a literal example, given that she is the same lvl 9999 dragon that aided a hero (who had long since died) in saving the world in human form. It's also averted in that she only adopted her son, Ryuuji.
* Charlotte Linlin, a.k.a. [[LargeAndInCharge Big]] [[AbusiveParents Mom]], from ''Manga/OnePiece'' is a great example. She has no less than 85(!) children, many of whom are immensely powerful pirates in their own right. None of them even come close to their mother, who is known throughout the world as one of the Yonko; the four most powerful pirates in the world. Let's list some of the ridiculous stuff Big Mom has pulled off: [[spoiler: defeating multiple armed giants when she was FIVE (she was as big as a giant child even back then, but still...), destroyed three incoming rockets filled with poison gas by screaming, easily blocked Luffy's attack while he was in [[SuperMode Gear 4]], isn't even scratched when shot by cannons, tanked a massive lightning bolt that made a huge crater, WALKED THROUGH the ground to get out of said crater and can create a massive RazorWind with a single swing of her sword. And that's not even getting into her Devil Fruit, which allows her to steal the souls of those who are afraid of her and using them to bring inanimate objects to life. She used her own soul to bring a cloud, a ball of fire, and her hat to life. All three are sentient, and respectively they can create massive thunderbolts and let Big Mom fly on him, eject fire and grow to massive size, and turn into a giant sword.]] Oh, and she's also an insane [[PsychopathicManchild woman child]] who frequently goes on [[UnstoppableRage rampages]] while craving a specific type of sweet, during which she'll destroy and murder anything and anyone that gets in her way. Including her own children. No wonder the Whole Cake Island arc is mostly about [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere running away from her as fast as possible.]]

* Karma Abyss, from the light novel ''Mom, please don't come adventuring with me''[[note]]Full title too long for this website[[/note]] is almost a literal example, given that she is a lvl 9999 dragon in human form. It's also averted in that she only adopted her son, Ryuuji.