My Fantasy Mom’s Better Than Your Mom

Moms…we all love them, right? I mean loving your mom is a very normal, human interaction, gotta pass this Turing Test type of thing to do, unless you’re Norman Bates. On this Mother’s Day, I would like us to sit back and think about some of the mothers out here in sci-fi/fantasy land. I mean, everyone gives Martha Kent love for raising Kal-El, but after that we kind of forget about the moms. Now granted, sometimes these mother’s start off great and ended up blowing a 28-3 lead. But some of these mothers need to end up on the Mt. Rushmore of Ma Dukes! There’s many mothers out there but here are seven that deserve to be highlighted. Who are some of your favorite sci-fi fantasy mothers? There are no wrong answers, except of course Padmé Amidala. 7. Khaleesi: Mother of Dragons

I mean, she started strong. Raised 3 dragons out of nowhere, birthed them in a funeral pyre of magic and murder, fed them a diet of slavers, oppressors, and overseers.  I mean, that’s a good upbringing, that’s a good start. But as time went on, she neglected the kids for her lovers, left them chained up, wasn’t feeding them regularly. Seriously, is there an 800 number for a dragon version of child protective services? Her lack of foresight ended up getting two of her children killed, one of which was turned into an ice zombie. That’s just bad parenting, no matter how you slice it. Let one of my kids get turned into an ice zombie, and that’s all I’m ever going to hear about for the next 20 years. Family r…