Action Mom / Video Games

• Crescent Prism: Lunita's mother Astrid is an experienced and skilled Oracle. When she temporarily joins the party to fight off a Chroma Gunner, she's at a much higher level and will spam Starfall, which deals about 460 total damage to the enemy when the main party members are struggling to deal over 50.
• LunarLux: Bella's mother, Thea, was the previous Lunex General and was so skilled at combat that Saros, the current general, couldn't defeat her in a fair fight and had to trap her in the Phantom Realm.
• Soul Series:
  • Sophitia Alexandra doesn't count originally, being retired after becoming a mother in Soulcalibur 2, with her younger sister Cassandra stealing Sophitia's weapons and going off to destroy the Soul Edge and save her two infected children in her sister's place. However, Sophitia gets brought back in the home versions of the game, where she has her husband Rothion (the same blacksmith who forged the blessed weapons that Cassandra stole before she ran away) make her new weapons and sets out to correct the matter. She has remained an Action Mom ever since.
  • As of Soulcalibur V, Hilde also qualifies.
• Misato from Triangle Heart 3: Sweet Songs Forever is Miyuki's mother and one of the toughest enemies in the story. Nanoha got it from somewhere. Like Shuuko, she abandoned her child to relatives, but getting her back didn't diminish her fighting skills, and she becomes a high-ranking member of the Hong Kong special forces.
• Yuuno/Juno the Falcoknight from Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade. She returned to the battlefield to protect Ilia, her homeland, few months after giving birth to her unnamed daughter. It also helps that her sisters (Thite and Thany, whom she raised due to Parental Abandonment) and husband (Lord Zealot of the Odessa clan) are members of Roy's party as well.
  • Louise in the prequel Blazing Blade is Erk's adoptive mother and a damn good shot. She is also in the early stages of pregnancy for the entire time she's on the team.
  • Even earlier, there's Eyvel from Thracia 776, fighting to protect her adoptive children and her village. She actually turns out to be a biological mom with a bad case of Identity Amnesia; in her ending, she recovers her memories of being Princess Bridget of Jugby, and reunites with her kids.
  • Taken to ridiculous space-time bending levels in Fire Emblem: Awakening, where every married first-gen female party member will each have at least one recruitable time-traveling kid from the future, though only Chrom's wife will have actually birthed a child during the events of the game.
    • For more space-time shenanigans, the second-gen ladies can also become this if they marry the Avatar, in which case their child will come from an alternate future.
  • The Awakening gig is sort-of repeated in Fire Emblem Fates, replacing the Kid from the Future deals with Pocket Dimensions where time flows much faster.
• Jade of Beyond Good & Evil. Adoptive mother of six orphans, her attempts to provide for the well-being of her children are what cast her in with La Résistance in the first place. Losing her kids is what results in her Heroic BSoD... And once she recovers, no force in the galaxy can stop her from fighting to get them back.
• The Boss of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is the greatest solider of the century, and a figurative mother to her Quirky Miniboss Squad and Snake. She's also a literal mother to Ocelot, to whom she gave birth on the beaches during the Normandy invasion.
• Chun-Li becomes this after adopting not only a little girl she rescued from Gill's clutches, but also other children in Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future.
  • Crimson Viper from Street Fighter IV has a daughter, Lauren, who she calls in one of her win poses. Her Super SF IV ending features a really sweet meeting between them.
• Bloody Roar: When the Tylon Corporation kidnapped Mitsuko's daughter, Uriko, she didn't take it lying down. She went Mama Boar on 'em and fought to get her back... with help from her adopted daughter, Alice.
• Final Fantasy:
  • Final Fantasy VI: Terra is an Action Mom by adoption, since she takes a bunch of orphans, from a city where pretty much all the adults have died, under her wing.
  • Final Fantasy VII: Tifa transitions from being Cloud's Action Girlfriend, to being a Mama Bear by the time of Advent Children, where they've adopted Denzel and Marleen. She fights Loz to try to stop him from taking Marleen and protects Denzel from a group of Shadow Creepers (at 2:35-2:45)..
  • Rosa becomes a literal example by actual motherhood, during Final Fantasy IV: The After Years.
  • Final Fantasy XIII: While Nora provides the page quote, she dies near the beginning of the game, mere moments after joining Snow's resistance group, Which makes her a subversion. However, while she may not have had the chance to fight - save for saving Snow by use of a rocket launcher - the intent was there just the same.
• Emma Honeywell from The Last Remnant. And she's a complete badass at that. Her daughter Emmy is just as good of a fighter, and is one of the best party members you can use (though her bearing on the actual plot is nowhere near what her mother's is).
• Warcraft has some of these, such as Vereesa Windrunner and Garona Halforcen.
• Shadow Hearts series:
  • Koudelka as she's portrayed in Shadow Hearts. For most of the game she is a Missing Mom, but when we find out she is still alive the party go to rescue her from a torture hall. It turns out she had gone there willingly to prevent them from going after her son. When the Big Bad corners said son her Damsel in Distress status quickly melts away as she proceeds to blow the fabric of reality apart to keep him safe!
  • Karin from Shadow Hearts: Covenant could be argued to be one, though the time loop complicates things.
• Female dwarves in Dwarf Fortress have no problems with serving in the military. The frequent breaks associated with military service, however, tends to lead to these dwarves having lots of babies if they ever get married. They also don't mind charging into battle juggling a crossbow and three babies. Nor do they mind using the babies as impromptu shields.
• Dragon Age: Origins has several examples.
  • Eleanor Cousland, the Human Noble's mother, is implied to be a Retired Badass, and describes herself as "no Orlesian wallflower." When your castle is under attack, she is pretty handy with a bow and arrows... unfortunately, she dies at the end of the origin, after staying behind to defend her mortally wounded husband. The World of Thedas books reveal that she met her husband when they were both fighting in the Fereldan rebellion against the Orlesian occupation.
  • The City Elf's mother is stated as having been one of these before she tragically died. She's the one who trained you, and Duncan mentions having wanted to recruit her for the Wardens years earlier.
  • If the Warden's Keep DLC is installed, the Warden and company will learn about Sophia Dryden, the great-great-grandmother of new acquaintance Levi Dryden. She was a noblewoman sentenced to join the Grey Wardens, and retaliated against the sentence by working her way up to the rank of Warden-Commander. Her children are never seen nor mentioned, but given that Levi is her direct descendant, the implication is that she must have had at least one.
  • Flemeth is a villainous example of this, with her daughter as her arch-nemesis. However, in both the first and second games, she also provides both the Warden and Hawke with a well-timed rescue from darkspawn; the former occurs off-screen, while the latter involves her showing up as a dragon and roasting the darkspawn, before transforming into her humanoid form and casually introducing herself.
  • If the Dark Ritual is performed, Morrigan becomes this by the time of Dragon Age: Inquisition.
• Etsuko from Incredible Crisis. Despite being an average-looking Japanese housewife, she manages to dodge heavily-armed bank robbers on a snowboard, then pilots a fighter jet into battle with a giant rampaging teddy bear.
• The hero's mother, Miranda, in Grandia III taught him how to use battle magic. She also apparently sparred with him to teach him swordsmanship. When you fight alongside her, she's... intense. Out of combat, she's a different kind of intense.
  • And it's implied in the first Grandia that the hero's mother, Lily, could have qualified for this trope as well.
• Lucia from Suikoden III. The main character's mother and a playable combatant.
• In the Spacer background for Mass Effect, Shepard's mother is the executive officer of an Alliance warship. In the sequel, she's a Captain who, according to news reports, passed up an Admiralty to remain a Captain; and after the Reapers hit Earth in the third game, Admiral Hackett mentions to an obviously concerned Shepard that, yes, she did indeed survive the attack, has been promoted to Rear-Admiral and is one of the people in charge of the Crucible Project.
• The player character's mother in Pokémon X and Y is a Retired Badass who used to race Ryhorns for a living. This trope is also the main reason Professor Sycamore decided to give you a Pokemon: he assumed that awesomeness ran in the family.
• Super Mario Bros. has Rosalina, "Mama" of the Happily Adopted Lumas, and often called the Mother of the Cosmos. While she mostly remained on the sidelines in her debut in Super Mario Galaxy, she later started taking a more active role in games such as Super Mario 3D World and Super Smash Bros.. The latter makes this particularly more clear, fighting all kinds of foes next to her children as a Badass Family.
• Most of the female characters in Dynasty Warriors naturally have children at one point or another, and all of them kick major ass, but Zhang Chunhua is the only one whose sons are also playable characters - that she fights alongside on multiple occasions - and she is characterized as an Almighty Mom feared by enemy and family alike.
• The Pokémon Kangaskhan is a kangaroo-like Pokemon that has a baby in her pouch.
• Carrie from Witches' Legacy is always ready to jump into fighting Elisabeth or Morgana or Mathias or whoever is trying to steal Lynn's soul this time.
• In one of the alternate story scenarios in 1001 Spikes, Tina Hawkins was happily living with her family, until one day, when her son is stricken with a rare illness, and the only cure comes from a golden flower that only grows in the dangerous Ukampa ruins of South America. She decides to take on the task of getting the flower herself, but after risking her life over the ordeal, she decides that she prefers the domestic life.
• Though it isn't mentioned often, Lennox of Evolve is a mother. She also walks around in four tons of armor and weapons while fighting titanic extraterrestrial monsters.
• In Chrono Cross, Macha is one of the many recruitable characters and has Korcha and Mel for children. She has some good stats, even.
• Eternal Fighter Zero has Akiko Minase, who is Nayuki's mom, and a strong and agile character with fights with an assortment of household tools.
• Rosa Ushiromiya in Umineko: Golden Fantasia (Spin-off Fighting Game of Umineko: When They Cry): She's Maria's mom, and a very strong fighter who can hold her own against other powerful adversaries using a set of improvised weapons, being the sawed-off rifle her main one.
• Survivor: Fire: The mother is the one who unlocks the door to the safe room, saving everybody.
• Gwen in Outbreak: Lost Hope is a mother separated from her child in a world ravaged by The Virus. She will mow down waves of undead, and other mutant monsters, to get to her.
• The Last of Us Part II: After the timeskip at the end of act III, we find out that Ellie became a second mom to her girlfriend Dina's and Dina's ex-boyfriend Jesse's baby, JJ. The epilogue proves that Ellie is still more than capable of kicking ass.
• Cyberpunk 2077: "The Sun" ending reveals that Rogue had a son at some point, and from her phone conversation with him, it seems like he's at the very least in his late teens if not older. The call is actually a goodbye call, before her and Johnny storm the Arasaka Tower.
• Dragon Quest V: The Hero's wife rejoins the party after being rescued and fights alongside her husband and children during the third part of the game.
• Mrs. Junko is this in the 2023 Toxic Crusaders game, as one of the playable characters. Keep in mind that her son Toxie (a.k.a. Melvin Junko) is a mutant superhero, and she previously remained in the sidelines up to the end of the original cartoon.
• Laika: Aged Through Blood: The title character is a post-apocalyptic Badass Biker single-handedly defending her village from a fascistic army who know her as "the Grim Rider", and the mother of a small child.

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