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| “ | I will follow your instructions, Lord. I have faith in thee. | „ |
| ~ Mom before locking her son, Isaac, in his room. |
| “ | Isaac! | „ |
| ~ Mom calling out for Isaac. |
Magdalene O. Moriah, better known as simply Mom, is the main antagonist of The Binding of Isaac series.
She is the abusive, highly religious mother of Isaac. Due to the stress and self-loathing her behavior inflicts on her son, Magdalene takes the form of a violent lunatic that seeks to kill Isaac in his imagination, leading the dangerous monsters that Isaac fights as he descends deeper into madness.
She was voiced by Carla Kihlstedt in the original game and Patty Allen-Scott in The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Biography[]
Maggy was once a caring individual, who raised Isaac along with his father, things seemingly went well at the start, but at some point Maggy potentially got addicted to pills as shown through the prevalence of pills in Isaac's imagined world, and the inclusion of items such as "Mom's Bottle of Pills". Over time her devotion to her religion got more and more consuming, with both of Isaac's parents on substances, his father seemingly being a drinker, they became more abusive towards each other. At some point, their abusive relationship climaxes and the father ends up stealing money from his wife, and walking out. After this point Maggy became much more unstable, with her spinning a narrative of Isaac's dad having never loved them. However, Isaac still loves his dad and the situation is taking a toll, when Maggy discovers that Isaac has been secretly playing with a set of toys his dad made for him, which were of great significance to Isaac, she tells Isaac that "He left us." and "It's just us now." before presumably, throwing out the toys.
After this event Isaac begins creating his own world, drawing creatures and monsters and pinning them across the walls on the room, Maggy seemed to be tolerant of this until she finds Isaac drawing her as a distorted creature labeled only as "Mother". After this event she lashes out at Isaac and locks him in a closet, this is presumably the same time where she starts tearing down all Isaac's drawings and getting rid of his toys and clothing. This potentially causes Isaac to develop DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder), with many of the other playable characters being his alters.
This event causes Isaac to grow fearful of his mother, going as far as to hide in his toy chest when he believes her to be especially angry. This all culminates in Isaac hiding himself away in the toy chest and imagining himself to be in a story where Maggy was told by God to kill him to prove her devotion. He escapes into a trapdoor and fights various monsters while gaining powers and ends up facing various versions of his Mom. In the real world, Isaac is taken by delirium as he slowly suffocates to death in the chest.
Mom manifests in Isaac's nightmare world as a horrific demon that acts as the final monster he must encounter in the original game, having a massive array of powers and being depicted as a mindless killer. She is also implied to be grotesque in appearance, as many of the items focused around her (Mom's Bra, Mom's Pad, Mom's Contact, etc.) all cause enemies to become petrified. In later expansions, Isaac's mother also fights Isaac in numerous alternate forms, namely as Mom's Heart, Mother and eventually The Beast, a massive demon which charges through the sea of fire, commanding the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse.
Meanwhile in the real world, Maggy remains unaware that Isaac's in the chest, she spends weeks putting up missing posters and searching for her boy. By the time that she opens the chest, all that remains is the skeleton of her son. She weeps over the remains of her boy, and this is where the story ends. It is most likely that she commits suicide out of guilt or surrenders herself to the police.
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Bosses Seven Deadly Sins The Harbringers Final Bosses Other The Legend of Bum-bo The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls Warp Zones | ||