Worst mother in animation... no poll.

The mother from The Oblongs is an alcoholic who smokes too much, she also hardly pays much attention to the kids and kind of reminds me of "trailer trash", so I guess she would get my vote. Even though they never show their parents, I would say that the parents of many of the characters from Peanuts cartoons would have to rank high on my list, I mean, take the Christmas special for instance, they just let their kids travel across town to buy a Christmas tree with no supervision, they let them travel around and walk miles to go play baseball games in some of the classic shorts and they take off on Charlie Brown in the Thanksgiving Day special and leave him to fend for himself.

Bad parents indeed! :p
 
In terms of what I've seen, I'd have to go with Precia Testarossa from Nanoha. She tortures Fate, her own 9-year old daughter, for not finding the Jewel Seeds fast enough, and she flat out states that
she hates Fate later in the series and is only using her to resurrect Precia's dead daughter, Alicia.
Ouch.
 
is there a diffrentise between wife and mother

lois griffen
good wife bad mother

(she treats peter like a prince unfortuntelly she picked peter parenting habbits)

chi chi
good mother bad wife

(it's perfectly normal for a mom to freak out over her 5 year old son being taken away for a year by a guy who once swear to kill her husband and fight alien invaders who blow up citys and planets when in a bad mood
it's not so norml to marry the most powerful warrour on the planet and nag about him saving the world instead of going to a PTA meeting)
 
Well, seeing as how Goku is typically flying off to parts unknown either fighting some big evil or training to fight some big evil and leaving his wife and son(s) to fend for themselves for months/years at a time, I think that Chi-Chi deserves some slack here as well. I fail to see how a mother wanting her husband to be a father to his children and to be involved in their day-to-day lives makes her a bad wife.

I mean, yeah, saving the world is an important job, but it wouldn't kill Goku to stay home and do some parenting once in a while.



Pickles Oblong is indeed a lush, but she at least has tried to be involved in her kids' lives. Pickles may not be the best mother, but I don't she ranks among the very worst.
 
Just because she doesn't or didn't do it frequently should it automatically absolve her from criticism.



Disagree. In writing the thing that makes or breaks the story/characters is execution of the idea. Not the idea itself.
 
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