Missing Moms are considered more unusual than missing fathers, and they are more likely to have their absence explicitly explained (usually with death).

It appears that the only decent parents are the dead ones. These are the parents that leave the characters behind, not by choice.

A Stock Phrase spoken by a person whose mother has died or is now permanently beyond reach. This tends to be more common to hear from younger children.

One good way to show how sweet and caring a mother is is to depict her with her hair tied in a loose braid or ponytail and put on her shoulder.

Someone brings up a potential topic about someone close to them. Another one asks what happened to them, and the former frowns, saying, "They're dead".

The Born from a Dead Woman trope as used in popular culture. A woman gives birth to a live baby minutes, hours, or even days after her own death.

20 авг. 2018 г. · Dead moms allow dads/characters to be sensitive, caring, sad. Widowed fathers are allowed to escape the macho-ness, the lack of emotion, the ...

3 дек. 2022 г. · When the Missing Mom trope appears, it's because she died. You don't see many examples where a father won custody, or a mother abandoned the family.

In the DC Extended Universe, per the lore of The DCU, several characters have had to grow up without their mothers, be they dead (most of the time) or missing.

The first TOS episode states that Jonny's mom died — from what is unknown. The first of the two 90's TV movies (Jonny's Golden Quest) that preceded Real ...