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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 franchise.
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.
Throughout the game, Mom is depicted in various montrous forms as manifestations of Isaac's delirious mind, which are also serving as final bosses of multiple endings, with them being Mom's Heart, Mother and the Beast.
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.
As of the beginning of Mewgenics, it is reported by the media that she has gone missing. It is most likely that she has either commited suicide out of guilt for failing her duty as a mother or surrendered herself to the police.
Forms[]
Bosses[]
Mom[]
The first form of her, Mom serves as the final boss of Chapter 3. It is depicted as a gigantic version of classical Mom portrayal, but appears as massive body parts instead of a full depiction. Mom attacks Isaac with his powerful foot stomps with an intent of damaging him, and sticks out a piece of flesh of her body from the doors around the room, spawning various monsters. If Isaac comes near a door, Mom reaches him with her hand to damage him. She can also stick her eyes out of doors.
The classical Mom has also two champion versions, which is named as Blue and Red. Blue Mom has more hearts, and spawns monsters more frequently. Red Mom, on the other hand, never spawns monsters and consists her attacks solely with her faster and stronger stomp attacks. Her eyes can also project blood tears.
In Mausoleum/Gehenna, Mom appears as a more stronger variant than her Depths/Necropolis form, with her rapid stomp attacks and helix-pattern brimstone beams projected by her eyes.
Mom's Heart[]
As the name implies, this form consists of a massive heart that appears at the end of Chapter 4 (Womb/Utero). At the beginning, it spawns two eye monsters and retreats upwards, which makes her invulnerable. She later launchs four diagonal lines of red projectiles, which is progressively transforms into brimstone beams. She repeats the entire process until her eventual defeat. When it is killed for the eleventh time, it is replaced by another boss called It Lives.
Mother's Shadow[]
The shadow of the "Mother", she appears in Chapter 2.5, acting as a mini-boss during the obtain of second knife piece. Entering the sub-area in Mines/Ashpit, Isaac follows a route and eventually obtains the knife piece. Upon optaining, the shadow starts chasing him until Isaac manages to escape from the sub-area. During the chase sequence, the shadow is completely invincible, and the only way getting rid of her is to escape to the entering door. It is so much harder with the fact that Isaac's all of the powerups are taken away throughout the sequence.
Mother[]
The rotten and zombified version of Mom, Mother appears as the final boss of the Corpse stage. She begins to fight attached to the top of the room and stationary. She attacks Isaac with a gigantic knife that emits multiple projectiles. Her arms release trails of homing projectiles, and her arms slams to the ground that release projectiles and spawns small maggots. She can also retreat upwards to summon a horde of Gaper monsters, and spit an unique fistula with the ability to bounce,
In the second phase, she retracts her head and arms into her body and releases a green mega blast. She spins around the place to fire projectiles, inhales Isaac along with some projectiles, leaps upwards and charges at Isaac, and projects white lines that quickly shoots out around stage, which repeats five times.
The Beast[]
The Beast is the ultimate form of Mom, a huge demon with soot-black skin, three eyes as red as brimstone, a blood covered toothy maw, and three horns; a creature that embodies the last, and most primordial manifestation of Isaac's trauma surrounding her. After defeating Dogma, Isaac is crushed by a giant static cross that rises from the remains of Dogma, which turns his tears into static. Following this, the room begins collapsing, revealing a hellish cavern while Isaac sprouts a pair of wings and flickers between resembling Blue Baby, The Forgotten, and The Lost. Isaac then flies up to face The Beast rising up from the lava.
At the start of the fight, The Beast sits inactive in the background. Flying around The Beast are four Ultra Harbingers, which attack Isaac one at a time in the order of Famine, Pestilence, War, and Death. Famine attacks first, barraging Isaac with a flurry of bloody attacks while the rest cheered for Famine's victory. However, Isaac triumphs over Famine as Pestilence is sent next. The bloated corpse was accompanied by a swarm of oversized flies during his turn against Isaac as he fired ipecac at Isaac, creating walls of toxic fog. Isaac triumphed against Pestilence too, leading for War to vent his hatred at the boy for making it this far. War then began to bombard the arena with bombs, turning it into a war zone and forcing Isaac to weave between explosions if he wants any hope of survival. Fortunately for Isaac, War was reckless and put himself into harms way more times than Famine and Pestilence, making it easier to kill him. Death, bemused by the failure of his fellow horsemen, picks up his scythe and confronts Isaac last. He summoned scythe after scythe at Isaac. When that didn't work, Death summoned a swarm of skulls that encroach the screen before destroying them, covering the area in darkness and tried to kill him in the dark. However Isaac persists, showing him that not even death can stop him from redemption.
Once they have all been defeated, The Beast lets out a roar, submerges into the lava, then reemerges on the right side of the screen, beginning her fight. She charges at Isaac, chasing him through a field of stalagmites and stalactites. She then begins to inhale, trying to swallow Isaac whole while also charging up an attack. Any stalagmite or stalactite still on screen will be destroyed during this attack. After inhaling 8 rings of fire, The Beast stops and fires a massive Brimstone beam that covers the bottom and middle portions of the screen. She then charges at the opposite side of the arena and begins to chase Isaac through the stalagmite and stalactite fields again. After wildling her hp down to 65%, the Beast gains two new attacks. At the end of the charge, The Beast performs one of the aforementioned two attacks:
- She opens her mouth and fires 3 radial waves of slower-moving fire, then firing 6 radial strings of fast-moving projectiles which travel through the gaps left between each fire.
- She roars and spawns 4 souls which chase Isaac and charge at him, trying to predict his movements, before exploding.
- Like with the first phase, any remaining stalagmites or stalactites on screen are destroyed at the start of this attack.
After preforming either attack, the beasts dives below the lava. At first, Isaac appears to have killed the creature, but many lines of orange light begin to emanate from the lava. The glow of these lines increases in intensity over time before launching out a large ball of molten lava that flies up and falls back into the magma. The Beast gradually increases the rate at which projectiles are launched before eventually reemerging from the lava on the opposite end of the screen and launching a small burst of large fiery projectiles arcing in all directions.
After Isaac depletes her HP further down to 33%, a burst of blood flies from the Beast as she roars in pain before being forced into the lava and reappears on the opposite side where she descended and begins to chase Isaac again through the stalagmite and stalactite fields indefinitely. Isaac keeps attacking her, with the beast's body beginning to erode and break with each tear absorbed, starts with her horns cracking and her body bursting its boils, the horns falling off entirely as one eye is gouged from its socket, and ending with her losing her other eye, her third horn, almost all of her teeth, and looking like her skin is melting. As Isaac fires one last tear, a large beam of light comes down and strikes the beast, killing her and ending Isaac's trauma as he ascends to Heaven.
Enemies[]
Mom's Hand[]
Her disembodied hand appears as a generic enemy in Chapters 3 and 4, which come down to grab Isaac and repeats the situation by going up and down until getting killed. If it manages to grab Isaac, it will damage him and send him back to spawn room of the floor.
Mom's Dead Hand[]
It is the skeletal variant of the original hand, sending out multiple rock waves once they land. Unlike their original variant, they can not grab Isaac. Upon killed, they spawn several spiders.
Other[]
The High Priestess[]
Using the card will spawn Mom's dismembered leg powerfully stomp on an enemy. If there is no any enemy on the area, it will stomp Isaac instead.
The High Priestess?[]
Using the alternate card will spawn Mom's dismembered leg, but this time it will repeatedly stomp down Isaac instead of any enemy.
Emergency Contact[]
Using the item will spawn two Mom's hands, falling down onto two enemies in the room.
Mom's Items[]
Referencing her grotesque lifestyle, there are multiple items in the game that refers to the Mom herself.
Active Items[]
- Bottle Pills - Representing her addiction to the pills, it spawns a random pill to the Isaac.
- Bra - Petrifies all enemies upon use.
- Bracelet - Isaac gains the ability to pick up and throw objects like rocks, TNT and poops.
- Pad - Inflicts fear all enemies upon use.
- Shovel - Creates a trapdoor that leads to the next stage.
Passive Items[]
- Coin Purse - Spawns four random pills.
- Contacts - Allows Isaac shoot petrifying tears.
- Eyes - Allows Isaac shoot tears from the back of his head.
- Eyeshadow - Allows Isaac shoot charming tears.
- Heels - Increases Isaac's range, also enemies take damage upon touching him.
- Keys - Gives Isaac two keys and chests will drop more pickups.
- Knife - Gives Isaac a powerful charged knife, replacing his original tears.
- Lipstick - Increases Isaac's range and spawns a red heart.
- Pearls - Increases Isaac's range and luck, and grants a soul heart.
- Perfume - Allows Isaac shoot fear tears and increases his fire rate.
- Razor - Deals contact damage and inflicts bleeding on enemies.
- Underwear - Increases Isaac's range and spawns several blue flies.
- Wig - Allows Isaac spawn blue flies upon firing tears, and restores one red heart.
Trinkets[]
- Kiss - Grants one heart container.
- Lock - Grants a random Mom item effect each room.
- Locket - Grants red hearts upon key uses.
- Pearl - Grants a chance to turn any heart kind into soul heart.
- Toenail - Once a minute, spawns Mom's foot randomly stomp down around the room.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Due to her abuse and neglect of Isaac, Mom is considered the worst mother in video game history.
External Links[]
Mom on the Binding of Isaac Wiki
Mother on the Binding of Isaac Wiki
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