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* ''Film/{{TheCellar1989}}'': Emily is nothing but caring towards her stepson Willy. In the climax, when her husband Mance tries to punish Willy for his [[CassandraTruth "lies"]] about the monster living in their cellar by locking him in it, Emily [[MamaBear springs into action.]] She knocks Mance out with the butt of a shotgun, and breaks down the cellar door to free Willy.

* A key part of the ''Series/{{Castle}}'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7176396/1/Of-Finding-Innocence Of Finding Innocence]]" is Kate establishing herself as a good stepmother to the young Alexis Castle when Kate Beckett and Richard Castle meet and start dating while the former is still just a uniformed officer. By the time Alexis is eight, she has taken to calling Kate 'Momma' to distinguish her from her biological mother Meredith, feeling that Kate is more emotionally invested in her life than Meredith.

* In ''Series/OnceUponATime'', the Evil Queen, who was previously Snow White's evil stepmother, adopts a baby named Henry and raises him as her own. Her love for Henry brings out her redeeming values and plays a large role in her eventual EnemyMine truce with Snow White and her eventual redemption.
** In season 7, after Anastasia and Drizella's mother Rapunzel is held captive by [[WickedWitch Mother Gothel]] and presumed dead, her husband's second wife Cecelia is a good stepmother to the girls. Unfortunately, when Rapunzel returns, she's pushed by Gothel into cursing Cecelia into exile in order to reunite with her family, and is ''not'' a good stepmother to Cecelia's daughter Ella.

* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': While Alicent Hightower tries to be this at first to Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (her former best friend, who is practically the same age) after marrying King Viserys, various events cause their relationship to sour and a deep mistrust to develop between them for both women. Rhaenyra and her husband Daemon, on the other hand, have a much more positive relationship with each other's children from previous marriages (Rhaenyra's sons Jace, Luke and Joffrey and Daemon's daughters Baela and Rhaena) and are shown to care about their well being, with Daemon even lethally silencing Vaemond Velaryon for impuning the boys' legitimacy.

* ''HouseOfTheDragon'': While Alicent Hightower tries to be this at first to Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (her former best friend, who is practically the same age) after marrying King Viserys, various events cause their relationship to sour and a deep mistrust to develop between them for both women. Rhaenyra and her husband Daemon, on the other hand, have a much more positive relationship with each other's children from previous marriages (Rhaenyra's sons Jace, Luke and Joffrey and Daemon's daughters Baela and Rhaena) and are shown to care about their well being, with Daemon even lethally silencing Vaemond Velaryon for impuning the boys' legitimacy.

** In season 7, after Anastasia and Drizella's mother Rapunzel is held captive by [[WickedWitch Mother Gothel]] and presumed dead, her husband's second wife Cecelia is a good stepmother to the girls. Unfortunately, when Rapunzel returns, she's pushed by Gothel into cursing Cecilia into exile in order to reunite with her family, and is ''not'' a good stepmother to Cecelia's daughter Ella.

** In season 7, after Anastasia and Drizella's mother Rapunzel is held captive by [[WickedWitch Mother Gothel]] and presumed dead, her husband's second wife Cecilia is a good stepmother to the girls. Unfortunately, when Rapunzel returns, she's pushed by Gothel into killing Cecilia in order to reunite with her family, and is ''not'' a good stepmother to Cecilia's daughter Ella.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Yang reveals to Blake in Volume 2 that Summer Rose was her step-mother, who was a "super-mom" that baked cookies and slayed monsters. She had no idea that she wasn't Summer's biological daughter until after Summer's death; while the news made her temporarily obsessive about trying to discover why her biological mother Raven abandoned her, it did not change how she felt about Summer. In Volume 8, she tells Ruby that even if Summer's last mission didn't turn out the way she hoped, it doesn't change the fact that she's still Yang's hero; Yang is even willing to challenge [[BigBad Salem]] to her face over the fact that Salem deprived Yang of her mother... Summer, that is; not Raven.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Summer Rose, was, by all accounts, as loving to her stepdaughter Yang as she was to her biological daughter Ruby. It was to the point that Yang didn't even find out they weren't biologically related until after Summer's death. Yang continues to hold her in high regard in the present day, referring to her as a "[[ActionMom Super Mom]]" when relating her backstory to Blake.

* The series ''Manga/MyStepmotherAndStepsistersArentWicked'' is based entirely on this trope. After the protagonist's mother dies and she has to go live with her father and step-family, she's sure that her stepmother (and older stepsisters) are going to be cruel to her since she's an illegitimate child. At first [[WickedStepmother their seemingly haughty attitudes when they start talking makes it look like she's correct]]...only to be hilariously subverted when they complete their sentences to reveal that they actually care deeply for her and are committed to making her feel comfortable and loved in her new home. It even gets to the point where the stepsisters register dismay that their father could let his illegitimate daughter live in squalor and the stepmother takes a more active role in parenting the protagonist than her actual father.

* The series ''Manga/MyStepmotherAndStepsistersAren'tWicked'' is based entirely on this trope. After the protagonist's mother dies and she has to go live with her father and step-family, she's sure that her stepmother (and older stepsisters) are going to be cruel to her since she's an illegitimate child. At first [[WickedStepmother their seemingly haughty attitudes when they start talking makes it look like she's correct]]...only to be hilariously subverted when they complete their sentences to reveal that they actually care deeply for her and are committed to making her feel comfortable and loved in her new home. It even gets to the point where the stepsisters register dismay that their father could let his illegitimate daughter live in squalor and the stepmother takes a more active role in parenting the protagonist than her actual father.

* The series ''Manga/MyStepmotherAndStepsistersAreNotWicked'' is based entirely on this trope. After the protagonist's mother dies and she has to go live with her father and step-family, she's sure that her stepmother (and older stepsisters) are going to be cruel to her since she's an illegitimate child. At first [[WickedStepmother their seemingly haughty attitudes when they start talking makes it look like she's correct]]...only to be hilariously subverted when they complete their sentences to reveal that they actually care deeply for her and are committed to making her feel comfortable and loved in her new home. It even gets to the point where the stepsisters register dismay that their father could let his illegitimate daughter live in squalor and the stepmother takes a more active role in parenting the protagonist than her actual father.

* The series ''Manga/MyStepmother and Stepsisters Aren't Wicked'' is based entirely on this trope. After the protagonist's mother dies and she has to go live with her father and step-family, she's sure that her stepmother (and older stepsisters) are going to be cruel to her since she's an illegitimate child. At first [[WickedStepmother their seemingly haughty attitudes when they start talking makes it look like she's correct]]...only to be hilariously subverted when they complete their sentences to reveal that they actually care deeply for her and are committed to making her feel comfortable and loved in her new home. It even gets to the point where the stepsisters register dismay that their father could let his illegitimate daughter live in squalor and the stepmother takes a more active role in parenting the protagonist than her actual father.

* The series ''Manga/MyStepmotherandStepsistersAren'tWicked'' is based entirely on this trope. After the protagonist's mother dies and she has to go live with her father and step-family, she's sure that her stepmother (and older stepsisters) are going to be cruel to her since she's an illegitimate child. At first [[WickedStepmother their seemingly haughty attitudes when they start talking makes it look like she's correct]]...only to be hilariously subverted when they complete their sentences to reveal that they actually care deeply for her and are committed to making her feel comfortable and loved in her new home. It even gets to the point where the stepsisters register dismay that their father could let his illegitimate daughter live in squalor and the stepmother takes a more active role in parenting the protagonist than her actual father.

* The series ''Manga/My Stepmother and Stepsisters Aren't Wicked'' is based entirely on this trope. After the protagonist's mother dies and she has to go live with her father and step-family, she's sure that her stepmother (and older stepsisters) are going to be cruel to her since she's an illegitimate child. At first [[WickedStepmother their seemingly haughty attitudes when they start talking makes it look like she's correct]]...only to be hilariously subverted when they complete their sentences to reveal that they actually care deeply for her and are committed to making her feel comfortable and loved in her new home. It even gets to the point where the stepsisters register dismay that their father could let his illegitimate daughter live in squalor and the stepmother takes a more active role in parenting the protagonist than her actual father.

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-->-- '''Kira Finster''', ''{{WesternAnimation/Rugrats}}''

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', Chuckie initially worries that Kira will be like the stepmother from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''. She's actually quite nice and caring. One episode even has her adopting him legally (and likewise, Chas adopts her daughter Kimi).

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* In ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' Tenchi and Rhea already had an extremely good relationsh before she married Nobuyuki, to the point Tenchi eventually realizes his memories of his deceased mother Kiyone are composites of her and Rhea because she took care of him so well.

* In ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' Tenchi and Rhea already had an extremely good relationsh before she married Nobuyuki, to the point Tenchi eventually realizes his memories of his deceased mother Kiyone after composites of her and Rhea because she took care of him so well.

* ''Manga/RedRiver1995'': This trope is averted by Kail's mother Queen Henti, who besides loving her own sons was also a good stepmother to the son of the king's previous wife) as well as Kail's other stepbrothers (one is the son of a concubine, another was the child of a royal maid).[[note]]Likely because in real history, said sons were actually ''hers'' instead of other women's, but this was changed for plot reasons.[[/note]]

* In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', Eri Minami, the Temperance Social Link, [[CharacterDevelopment eventually becomes this]] to her stepson Yuuta over the course of her Social Link. She admits that she rushed into marrying Yuuta's father, and initially believes that she can't bond with him, but later tries to connect with him. Eventually, after Yuuta knocks the protagonist to the ground for supposedly insulting his mom, Eri starts to see Yuuta for the person he is. At the end of the game, if her Social Link is completed, Eri remarks that the first thing she felt upon the killer being caught is that her son is safe.
* In ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' Season 3, Kate is this towards Mariana and Gabriel. Right in the beginning, she tells Jarvi how much she loves them and they will also often refer to her as Mom. She also survived 5 years protecting them from zombie hordes.