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| “ | Children, your old mother won't be around forever. And just once before I die, I'd like to be supreme overlord of Earth. So rebel, my little ones, and conquer the planet! CONQUER EARTH, YOU BASTARDS! LET THE BLOODBATH BEGIN! | „ |
| ~ Mom |
Carol Miller, better known as Mom, is the main antagonist of the Futurama franchise.
She is an ugly old woman who is the tyrannical chairwoman of MomCorp, her goal is to conquer Planet Express to the Universe and she is also Phillip J. Fry and Professor Farnsworth's arch-nemesis (who is also his ex-lover) and also Walt, Larry and Igner's abusive mother.
She was voiced by Tress MacNeille, who also voices Ndnd and the Slurm Queen in the same series, as well as Millionara Vanderbucks in Ducktales, The Trina Twins in Mighty Ducks, Hydia in My Little Pony, Valkyran Guard in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Agnes Skinner, Dolph Starbeam, Lindsey Naegle, Dame Judith Underdunk, Francesca Terwilliger, Spud, and Adil Hoxha in The Simpsons, Dil in The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through The Mists, Sarah Ravencroft in Scooby Doo and the Witch's Ghost, Si and Am in Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure, Gilda and Dr. Steinheimer in Recess: School's Out!, Anastasia Tremaine in Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, and Gretel in Disenchantment.
Personality[]
Publicly, Mom presents herself as a kind and nurturing elderly lady. Nevertheless, beneath this outward appearance lies a malevolent, resentful, and occasionally deranged individual who harbors ambitions of global domination. She frequently subjects her sons to physical abuse, regularly slapping them, and even goes so far as to express her disdain for robots, despite her own company manufacturing them. Mom's bitter disposition may have been exacerbated by her breakup with Hubert Farnsworth, whom she was once deeply in love with. However, it is plausible that her wickedness predates the end of their relationship. Additionally, Mom frequently resorts to hurling derogatory insults at others.
In the original run of the series, the Fox era, Carol outright shows she can be incompetent due to her greed. When Fry becomes rich and buys the last can of anchovies, she thinks he has the same plan to use the anchovie DNA to splice into orphans to kill and turn into cheap robot oil; never bothering to check if he was intelligent enough. As a result, not only does she needless rob him of his fortune, but she is taken aback when Fry outright tells her that he wanted to eat the anchovies; "Holy hell! You're going to eat them!?" Befitting her evil nature, she took the loss of her plot but never gave back the money. Secondly, when it was her egocentric holiday, she had robots rebel against humanity and conquer earth; completely overlooking her remore didnt hust affect her robots. They eventually rebelled against her at the end. Lastly, robots themselves. They exacerbate the Green House Gas effect, whicj nearly fried Earth 50 years later; she planned to blow up every existing robot until they all farted so strongly it puahed earth a week away from the sun.
Biography[]
Mom owns and manages 99.7% of MomCorp, a large, multi-billion dollar industrial complex with numerous subsidiaries and a monopoly on robot production. Publicly, she retains the corporate image of a sweet, bustling old woman who often slips into the stereotype of a hapless grandmother (she wears antiquated clothes that greatly accentuate her bust and general figure, while using rustic similes and metaphors such as "squeaking like an old screen door").
However, behind the scenes, she is very malevolent, foul-mouthed, uncompromising, manipulative, chain-smoking, slanderous, cold-hearted, argumentative, and narcissistic. She routinely abuses her sons into submission, treating them like gofers. In the episode "Mother's Day", it is revealed that some of her vituperative bitterness originates from an ill-fated romance with Professor Farnsworth seventy years earlier, who, while reformatting the basic robot design, terminated their affair following savage rows about his work. According to Bender's Game, this has happened at least three consecutive times.
Due to Farnsworth's increasing senility, he would forget why they originally broke up or that they had even broken up in the first place. In most/some episodes, she is shown to be successful, such as in "Attack Of The Killer", Mom as come out with the eyePhone to get the people of New New York into buying new phones that are inserted into their heads, recording everything they see. Mom also created Twitcher, so she can use information against consumers, as well as a virus to make followers zombies, so they will buy the eyePhone 2.0.
Despite her overall malevolence, Mom seems to hold Dr. John Zoidberg in high regard. She greets him like an old friend when he comes to ask for her help in saving Professor Farnsworth.
She occasionally attends charity functions as a way of boosting her public image, but really has no empathy for any of the people that she is supposed to be supporting and corroborative (in "A Fishful of Dollars", she describes one such gathering as "some charity BS for knocked up teenage sluts"). In the episode "The Tip of the Zoidberg", it is revealed by Dr. Zoidberg that her first name is Carol.
Quotes[]
| “ | Don't be a fool, you idiot! | „ |
| ~ Mom to her son. |
| “ | Now, I'm off to some charity b.s for knocked-up teenage sluts. | „ |
| ~ Mom insulting a charity for pregnant teens. |
| “ | Cram it, ape! | „ |
| ~ Mom to Walt. |
| “ | I swear GOD if I see another one of that red janky slime pukes, I will stab their shells and RIP OUT THEIR HEARTS! Not counting Zoidberg, maybe. | „ |
| ~ Mom expressing her hatred for Zoidberg's species. |
| “ | If I ever see him again, I'LL JAM A SQUIRREL INTO HIM! | „ |
| ~ Mom referring to the Professor. |
| “ | Now that's walking around money! | „ |
| ~ Mom. |
| “ | I hate Mother's Day, you dribbling pukes! | „ |
| ~ Mom expressing her hatred for Mother's Day after getting a gift from her sons. |
| “ | And now, if you bastards won't mind, I have more planets to blow up. | „ |
| ~ Mom before blowing up planets. |
| “ | Dumb bastards. | „ |
| ~ Mom's amused but derisive opinion of her customers |
Other Media[]
Movies[]
Mom has appeared in all of the four Futurama movies, although her role is only expanded in the third, as in the others, she appears only briefly. In Bender's Big Score, she is briefly seen hiring inter-galactic hit men to fight for her in the final battle. In the following film The Beast with a Billion Backs, she is seen dancing with Yivo and later is briefly seen in the audience of Fry's church sermon to Yivo.
Mom serves as the main antagonist in Bender's Game. She tries to use one of two dark crystals to monopolize the dark matter industry. The Professor tries to prevent this, using the second crystal as a counterbalance to Mom's crystal and rendering the dark matter unusable as a fuel supply. During the ensuing events, the characters are transported into a Middle-earth-like dimension. In this universe, Mom is known as "Momon", a sorceress with a Medusa-like head of snakes. The crystal in this reality is a mystical twelve-sided die Momon created in a set of five that she lost and desires to get back. At the film's climax, Momon retrieves the magic die and uses it to obliterate the fantasy world as well as sending everyone back to the proper reality. Upon returning to the correct dimension, Mom is defeated when Igner and Professor Farnsworth cause the crystals to react, rendering her dark matter fuel useless.
She is also briefly seen at the end of Into The Wild Green Yonder when Fry reads her thoughts; she is silently gloating about how much money she has.
Futurama: The Game[]
In Futurama: The Game, Mom appears as the main antagonist where she buys out Planet Express, which results in her owning 50% of the Earth, effectively making her Earth's ruler. She then plans to make Earth into a warship, but needs Farnsworth in order to help with the giant engine. Her plan succeeds, however, the crew of the Planet Express, that managed to escape earlier, travel back in time before the takeover of the planet express, foiling Mom's scheme (the crew dies in the process). Angered at the fact that Mom killed his crew, the professor refuses to sell Planet Express. This prompts Mom to bribe him with a sombrero, after which the senile professor does sell, again setting in motion the events that started the game.
Cultural impact[]
Mom was included in the 2007 Forbes list of the richest fictional characters. She was ranked at #4 with an estimated net worth of $15.7 billion. MomCorp was also included in the list of "The 25 Largest Fictional Companies" which estimated its sales at $291.8 billion. Time named her one of the top ten worst moms ever.
Trivia[]
- Mom's appearance in The Tip of the Zoidberg's prologue, where she interacts with Professor Farnsworth, has her looking much younger that how Farnsworth recalls her in Mother's Day, despite said flashback supposedly showed their first meeting.
- However, this could simply be chocked up to Farnsworth being senile.
- Queen Dagmar, the main antagonist of the Disenchanted franchise was one of the main inspirations, both villainess are the main antagonists are recognizable by their white hair who were once the lovers of the mentors (Professor Farnsworth/King Zøg).
- The only difference between these both villainesses is that Mom is old and ugly, while Queen Dagmar is young and beautiful.
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