![]() What makes Helen a great superhero mom is her devotion to her children, but also the fact that she can throw down with any supervillain menace the world throws at her. Elastigirl does all that and more in Disney/Pixar’s wonderful riff on the Fantastic Four, The Incredibles. Middle age is a rough time for anyone, but imagine having to deal with your midlife crisis while raising a bunch of superpowered kids. ![]() Mystique is a complicated superhero(ish) momma, and that’s what makes her great. She even allows Rogue to join the X-men because it is what her daughter wants, despite the fact that she resents Xavier and all that he represents. Mystique’s interactions with Rogue pushed her to become a more three-dimensional character, capable of empathy when previously she was entirely callous. In one story arc, she even infiltrates Xavier’s school as a new student in order to try and seduce Gambit, as she believes his relationship with Rogue is harmful. Even after Rogue had joined the X-men and distanced herself from her adoptive mother, Mystique tried to do what she thought was best for her “daughter”. Her relationships with her children are strained at best, as she abandoned Nightcrawler shortly after his birth and disowned Creed after discovering he wasn’t a mutant.ĭespite her complete lack of maternal instinct, Mystique ended up actually caring for Rogue and became deeply protective of her. She has been a mother three times over in the comics continuity: first to her human son, Graydon Creed, then to mutant Kurt Wagner ( Nightcrawler), and later as an adoptive mother to the troubled Anna Marie ( Rogue). ![]() Raven Darkholme is a selfish character, driven by complicated motives (including the prophecies of her close friend, Destiny). While Mystique from the X-Men comics isn’t going to win any awards for being a good superhero or a good mother, she does manage to bring a complexity to both that many other characters do not. She’s not the best mother, but she has what counts. The lesson to be learned is that Catwoman is a mother. Another retcon, then another and another turned DC’s Multiverse into a hot pile of garbage. In the Earth-2 Universe, Selina Kyle’s daughter Helena grows up to be the Huntress. Following that turn of events, Catwoman’s child is placed with an adoptive family and Catwoman returns to her leather clad antics. Batman helps Catwoman fake the death of both the child and herself. Over the next few months, she comes to realize that her past and lifestyle won’t allow for the safety of a child. Using her child as a reason to retire, Catwoman was trying to find peace for once in her life. Selina Kyle had a daughter with Slam Bradley’s son following the events of Infinite Crisis. After the events of the Registration Act, the Richards family ensure that others will maintain the Fantastic Four as they mend the damage between them. Even when she is forced to leave her children behind to join Captain America for the Civil War, she knows that she has left them with the one person who will protect them like she would: her husband. Any lesser person would have broken dozens of times under the strain placed upon her and her family but the Invisible Woman shoulders burden after burden and continues to seek justice. Despite a difficult birth, Doctor Doom helps to deliver a healthy baby girl.įor Sue Storm, it’s not her powers that make her a hero. Following an ordeal with Abraxas, the child would be restored to a healthy pregnant state inside Sue. Adult Franklin, operating as the hero Psi-Lord, would later reveal that he used his abilities to move his stillborn sibling into an alternate future where she would survive. Following the nightmare of her second pregnancy, Psycho-Man would manipulate her into becoming the villain Malice, a persona that would rise to torment her until her future adult son absorbed Malice into himself. After this, Susan Storm has one of the more traumatic stories in comics. Although she became pregnant a second time, radiation exposure from the Negative Zone resulted in a stillborn. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman, Franklin was born with mutant powers beyond Omega-level. Their first child, Franklin, was named in honor of Sue’s late father. Between feats of heroism and bouts of world-saving, Sue Storm and Reed Richards try to lead normal lives, including raising a family together. Sue Storm is one of the most iconic superheroines in the Marvel universe. Here’s a look at a handful from the world of comics and superhero celluloid who deserve a little appreciation: Sue Storm Superheroes have it tough but sometimes their hardest work is at home or, if the writers feel malicious, on the battlefield with their own progeny. Happy Mother’s Day! In addition to all the great mothers out there in the real world, there are tons of them in pop culture that carry the parental load while dealing with supervillains, catastrophes, and whatever assorted tasks come their way.
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