Mother (Munchausen)

The nameless mother is the main protagonist of the 2013 short film Munchausen written and directed by Ari Aster who is also known for the infamous indie short film The Strange Thing About the Johnsons and the 2018 supernatural horror film Hereditary. She was played by Bonnie Bedelia.

History
The short film begins with the mother watching her son preparing for college. She then imagines running after her son's car before stopping. Following afterward is an imagined scenario where the son quickly becomes the top student in his class and receiving the attention from a young woman. Shortly afterward, the son proposes to her, and they are married. Tending to her garden, the mother notices one of her son's old superhero action figures and not wanting him to leave her, she grabs a bottle of Feel-Bad Sickness Prompter and laces her son's sandwich with the potion.

She initially reconsiders using the substance on her son, but it was too late as the son snatches the sandwich after believing that his mother was being playful with him. That night, the potion began to kick in, and the son became sick. The doctor is called in, but he is unable to detect what was the matter with the young man. As the day he was to leave for college arrived, his mother started to feel remorseful for what she had done and tries to find a way to solve it. Discovering a bottle of Feel-Good Again Miracle Antidote, the mother tries to feed it to her son through soup. The day for his departure arrives, but he ends up staying bedridden for a longer duration of time. Unfortunately despite her succeeding at giving her son the medicine, her son dies with his eyes wide open. The doctor attempts to resuscitate the son to no avail.

The film concludes with the son's funeral and the mother aiming to run after his coffin only to be restrained by her husband. She reaches out her hand in sorrow, and the scene segues to her garden now dead and lifeless, with the superhero action figure remaining in place,