Mom (Futurama)
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| Futurama character | |
| Mom | |
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| Age | Unknown (likely around 150) |
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| Gender | Female |
| Species | Human |
| Planet of Origin | Earth |
| Job | Bitter owner of Momcorp. |
| Relatives | Sons: Walt, Larry and Ignar |
| First Appearance | A Fishful of Dollars |
| First Line | Hello, shoppers. It's me, Mom! |
| Voiced by | Tress MacNeille |
Mom is a fictional character and recurring antagonist on the animated series Futurama. She is the bitter, ruthless, and 99.7% shareholder of Momcorp, the largest industrial conglomerate known to man, with subsidiaries ranging from Mom's Friendly Robot Company to Mom's Old-Fashioned Video Surveillance Unit. She is also the richest person on Earth, but maintains a public image of being a sweet, matronly figure through use of a fatsuit, a heart-shaped hairdo and talented acting, when in fact she is extremely thin, foul-mouthed, and malevolent. Her catchphrases usually involve her telling her sons to "cram a _____ in it" or "shove a _____ in it" whenever they try to talk, followed by a slap in the face. She even shows contempt for her appearances at charity events, on one occasion complaining that she's "off to some charity BS for knocked-up teenaged sluts". Squirrels in particular are something she threatens people with.
Her impatience sometimes prompts her to publicly display her malevolence, as on one occasion when a business rival dropped dead during takeover negotiations: "Pry out his fillings, feed him to the jackals and let's get on with the sale!" She sometimes appears to throw curse words in at random, such as "Jam a bastard in it, you crap!" and refers to her fatsuit as "that bastard".
She was once romantically involved with Professor Farnsworth, but their breakup left her even more bitter. Some seventy years later, she still harbored feelings of hatred which quickly but temporarily changed to sexual passion.
[edit] Walt, Larry and Ignar
Mom is frequently accompanied by her three sons, Walt (Maurice LaMarche), Larry (David Herman) and Ignar (John DiMaggio). Like Mom's henchmen in Doctor Detroit, the sons wear grey double-breasted uniforms similar to those worn by chauffeurs or the Imperial Commander characters from Star Wars. They each own 0.1% of Momcorp. Their personalities and mildly violent interaction resemble those of the Three Stooges.
Mom maintains discipline by slapping her sons, sometimes all three with one swing. Walt, the tallest, is second in the hierarchy and sometimes slaps his brothers. Walt usually displays the most devious or malevolent tendencies of the three, and appears to be more intelligent than Larry or Ignar. His voice is virtually identical to another Maurice LaMarche character, The Brain, and thus is a deliberate imitative mix of Orson Welles and Vincent Price. Larry is less intelligent than Walt, but still more so than Ignar, usually catching onto any of Mom or Walt's plots with reasonable swiftness. He has the largest number of cameo and incidental appearances. Ignar is the least intelligent, sometimes even appearing mentally retarded, and gets all the worst jobs, including being forced to dress in women's underwear.
Thanks to an abusive mother and lack of a strong father figure, Larry and Ignar are both afraid of women, while Walt apparently suffers from an Oedipus Complex, having once said that he wants someday to marry a girl like Mom. They are all fiercely loyal to (and deeply afraid of) their mother, though they did take action to stop her when she made all robots rebel in the episode Mother's Day, an action that would doom Earth.
The identity and status of their father(s) is unknown, and also the subject of much fan speculation. Though Mom calls Professor Farnsworth "the only man I ever loved," their relationship ended 70 years before the main events of the series, while the sons only appear in their mid-forties at the eldest; indeed, neither the sons nor the Professor seem to consider the possibility of a relationship. Considering that Mom is more than 100 years old anyway, it is very possible they were adopted, or are the results of advanced fertility treatments, but again, this leaves their paternity unknown.
[edit] Comics
In the second Futurama Comics crossover with The Simpsons, Mom begins a relationship with Mr. Burns, the one man as evil as she. After he leaves, she has apparently created a clone of him, and vows that together they shall rule the world.
| Futurama | |
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| Episodes • Comic books • Video game • Bender's Big Score | |
| Characters | |
| Fry • Leela • Bender • Professor Farnsworth • Doctor Zoidberg • Hermes • Amy Zapp Brannigan • Kif Kroker • Nibbler • Cubert • Calculon • Mom Recurring human characters • Recurring robot characters • Recurring alien characters • Secondary characters |
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| Universe | |
| Planets: Amphibios 9 • Eternium • Omicron Persei VIII Alien races: Cygnoid • Decapodian • Neptunian • Omicronian Politics and religion: Earth Government • Robotology • D.O.O.P. Technology: Gadgets • Suicide booth • Planet Express Ship • Nimbus Other: Timeline • Blernsball • All My Circuits • The Scary Door • Slurm • Products • Locations • Animals |
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