My Stepmom and I Playing Tie Up Games Again

"You know, there's yet a lot almost you that I don't know yet. Like your favorite sandwiches, or your favorite games, or the songs or stories you similar. You know those things may take awhile. Merely I do know that I love y'all very much. I promise that'll exercise til' I get the other things sorted out."

The trope that stepmothers are prone to loathe and mistreat their stepchildren can be found in fairy tales and sociology all over the earth. And then common are Wicked Stepmothers that inverting that trope will make things interesting.

Cue the Good Stepmother, a adult female who ends upwards making the life of her stepchildren better. Far from plotting to get her stepchildren out of the way to secure the family fortune for herself, she instead acts as a mentor or protector to her stepchildren and shows genuine amore for them. Plots commonly feature Expert Stepmothers as supporting characters who help their fosterlings (the protagonists) succeed in life and "make their fortune".

To fill this role, the Good Stepmother is exceptionally clever and resourceful. Often there is fifty-fifty something supernatural most her, making her somewhat like to a Fairy Godmother. This tale blazon likewise likes to take elements of the well-known Wicked Stepmother stereotype and turn it on its caput—for example, the Expert Stepmother is quite frequently an bodily witch, but i who uses her powers for the benefit of her stepchildren.

The stepchildren do not have to be actual children. More typically, they are teenagers or young adults. Because of that, the Good Stepmother is not always a Parental Substitute. If the stepmother has children of her ain, they will get forth well with the children of the beginning wife, and may class a Sibling Team. Good Stepmothers are besides the norm in dom coms which feature a composite family. Often, there volition exist an episode dealing with how the stepchildren fright their stepmother or expect her to be wicked, and are then proven wrong.

It wouldn't exist rare for the Good Stepmother to want to secure a portion of the fortune for herself. In such a case, the fortune might really exist better maintained, and she'll spend her share wisely, non necessarily perfectly.

May overlap with Happily Adopted, which involves an adoptive family, non just a stepmother. May be invoked by the parent deciding to Marry the Nanny or some other person who already has a expert relationship with the kid. Often Truth in Television receiver. Sounds similar but has nothing to do with My Existent Daddy.

Examples:

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    Anime & Manga

• Averted by Yoko Araide of Case Closed, who looks later her stepson Tomoaki like he was her own, as per the request of his belatedly mother, who was her friend. Specifically, she asked her to brand sure Tomoaki didn't turn out like his father. Yoko kills her husband every bit revenge for driving her friend into alcoholism, which resulted in her death.
• Dad, the Beard Gorilla and I has Tsukasa, who watches the same show equally Michiru, and often gives her Sgt. Ruckus trade, to the latter's delight. In fact, Tsukasa'due south bond with Michiru is what brought her closer to Souichi, and the romance between the two adults comes later.
• In Death Parade, Yousuke's mother was very abusive and neglectful to him and when she eventually abandoned him and his father, his father remarried and Yousuke's stepmother was a very kind and loving parent in contrast with his existent female parent. Sadly, Yousuke never accepted her and became depressed to the bespeak of suicide. In fact, in the afterlife, his biggest regret was that he never got the adventure to call his loving stepmother "Mom".
• Bellemere from One Piece is a Mama Carry who sacrificed her life to protect her adopted daughters Nami and Nojiko. Her name is French for "stepmother."
• Red River (1995): This trope is averted by Kail's mother Queen Henti, who too loving her own sons was also a good stepmother to the son of the male monarch's previous married woman) as well as Kail'due south other stepbrothers (one is the son of a concubine, another was the child of a royal maid). ^annotation Likely considering in real history, said sons were really hers instead of other women's, but this was changed for plot reasons.
• Spy Ten Family unit: Yor Briar is a contract killer who marries Loid as a cover for her job. Nevertheless, she loves Loid'south little daughter Anya dearly and will go berserk when anyone threatens or upsets her. What she doesn't know is that Anya is Loid's adopted kid.

    Comic Books

• Batwoman: Colonel Jacob Kane remarries when his daughter(s) are adults. His 2nd wife, Catherine, is really invested in beingness a role of her child's/niece'southward life and goes out of her way to be helpful.
• When Tim Drake's begetter marries Dana Winters in Robin, she helps Tim and Jack to resolve disputes by going out of her way to get Tim's side of the story when his father refuses to permit him to speak for himself and jumps to conclusions, and reminds Jack that he said he was going to spend more than fourth dimension with Tim. Dana and Tim get along great and she regularly acts as a voice of reason for him with his father. However, Dana never grows very close to Tim due to his age when she became a part of the family unit and her untimely death.
• Nathan Summers' (Cable) step-mother X-Men Jean Grey who cares for Cablevision equally if he was her own. Information technology was his biological female parent Madelyne Pryor who tried to impale her son in Inferno (1988), but before she suffered her breakup she truly loved her son.
• Maus: Art was already an adult when his father Vladek remarried, but he gets along better with his stepmother Mala than he does with his father. Unlike Vladek, Mala has a fairly mellow personality and her Holocaust trauma under control, and is generally far more open up nigh her thoughts and emotions. Vladek, meanwhile, conspicuously has never got over the family he lost to the Holocaust, and volition unfavorably compare both Mala and Art to his starting time married woman and son. Mala and Fine art bond over their misery.
• In Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (a mod graphic novel adaptation of Picayune Women), the March family is blended. In this retelling, Mrs. March is a white single mother of Jo who and so meets and marries Mr. March, an African-American widower who is raising his daughter, Meg. They have two more daughters together, Beth and Amy. Like Phineas and Ferb, it'southward hard to tell they're a blended family since all four refer to both parents as Mom and Dad.
• Andrea from the comic version of The Walking Expressionless becomes this to her stepson Carl over time. After the Time Skip the two are fairly appreciating and phone call each other "mom" and "son" without any problems or issues. Even on her literal death bed, Andrea spends part of what little time she has left to requite Carl some proficient advice.
• Due west.I.T.C.H. has Irma'due south stepmother Anna, as they have a very good relationship and Anna doesn't favor her son Chris (Irma's younger half-brother) over Irma. Indeed, the merely reason we know she'southward not Irma's biological mother is that Irma mentioned information technology during a fight (and was horrified immediately afterward). They made up before long later on.

    Fairy Tales

• This seems to be popular in Icelandic fairy tales:
  • "The Horse Gullfaxi and the Sword Gunnfoder" takes a premise that is typical for Wicked Stepmother stories and completely subverts information technology: A widowed king marries a new wife who is actually a half-troll. Eventually, the new queen's total-troll sister lays a expletive on the rex'south son, Sigurd, which he then succeeds in lifting with the help and advice of his stepmother. In the end, Sigurd rescues his stepmother from existence burned at the stake nether false accusations of murdering her stepson.
  • In "Hild the Good Stepmother and Princess Ingibjorg", Ingibjorg's (real) mother puts a Dying Curse on her own daughter. Her father's new wife, Hild, befriends Ingibjorg until she reveals the crusade of her despondency, and with Hild'southward resourcefulness, the two somewhen lift the curse.

    Fan Works

• Subverted in Aki-chan's Life. Asuka'southward stepmother wanted to be this, merely the fact that she only became Asuka'southward stepmother because of an affair on superlative of Asuka'southward own mess of problems fabricated any possibiltiy of a healthy relationship between the two of them more or less impossible until Asuka was (mentally) an adult.
• Batman/Catwoman fics where Bruce and Selina tie the knot will typically make Selina, who is a Friend to All Children in canon, ane to Bruce'southward adopted children and biological son Damian.
• "Daughter of the Animate being" is a Beauty and the Beast ane-shot fic that serves every bit a spin-off to "Kissed by a Rose", where Gaston raped and impregnated Belle earlier she came to the castle. Later the curse is broken, Belle's girl, Gwen, is raised believing the former Fauna to be her begetter until she realises when she'south 13 that the timing doesn't work for her to have been conceived subsequently the expletive was lifted. However, the Prince assures her that he has always considered her his daughter rather than Gaston's, and Gwen and her parents agree that they won't bother telling Gwen'due south siblings the truth (Gwen also notes that information technology doesn't impact hereditary issues as the kickoff male person heir inherits anyway).
• In Beloved Old Dad the Phantom Thieves who had a present father replaced by Shido as their biological parent have this: despite their horrible conception the (step)fathers that Ann and Makoto raised them every bit their own child and love/loved them, and are the ones that they refer to as their father. Haru however averts this, as this fact factored into her (step)begetter'south behavior and as a result, she no longer holds a grudge for his murder.
• Not only Selina Kyle, in Earth-27 Lois Lane and Epiphany Graves are also this, making no distinction between their biological and adopted children.
• In Eight Pieces for Piano , Violet gets on wonderfully with her stepdaughter (previously her pupil) Sarah, then much that the latter apace begins calling her "Mommy" and that Violet's starting time concern, when her matrimony is on the rocks, is how the situation would touch on Sarah.
• In For the Glory of Irk, Moira is Dib and Gaz's stepmother and is very caring towards them, not being affected fifty-fifty by the fact that Dib spent a lot of fourth dimension convinced that she was evil and kept giving her the cold shoulder.
• A key part of the Castle fic Of Finding Innocence is Kate establishing herself as a good stepmother to the young Alexis Castle when Kate Beckett and Richard Castle encounter and first dating while the former is even so just a uniformed officer. Past the time Alexis is eight, she has taken to calling Kate 'Momma' to distinguish her from her biological mother Meredith, feeling that Kate is more emotionally invested in her life than Meredith.
• The King Nobody Wanted: Alysanne Whent develops a fast bond with Tyrion Lannister afterwards becoming betrothed to his father. Multiple characters think that, given her fiancé's unpleasant nature and their deviation in ages, her relationship with him volition exist a lot less idyllic.
• RWBY:
  • In at to the lowest degree it was here, Pyrrha's stepmother is a footling scrap cold to her friends only dotes on Pyrrha and tells her how proud she is of her accomplishments. Sadly, her wife, Pyrrha'due south biological mother, is cold to everyone, including Pyrrha. Crimson initially mistakes Pyrrha'due south step-female parent for her biological mother, since they're more than akin than Pyrrha and her biological female parent.
  • Linked in Life and Beloved: Subverted. Yang is the biological daughter of Raven and Taiyang, and was raised past Summer (who also had a daughter with Tai, Red). Yang always loved Summer and even believed she was her biological mother until Summertime disappeared, only later revelations modify the dynamic a bit. Taiyang was never in a human relationship with either Raven or Summer. Raven and Summer were together, and when they wanted a child Taiyang volunteered to be their donor; this produced Yang. Afterwards scientific advancements made Homosexual Reproduction more feasible, which produced Ruby. In the middle of all these reveals, Yang mentions she's not Summertime's real daughter, but Summer'due south blood brother Roman refuses to hear a discussion of information technology.

    Roman: I watched her fawn all over Raven during her pregnancy, and turn into a sobbing mess when she first held you the twenty-four hours you were built-in. Summer loved you more than life itself, and if you lot starting time thinking of her as annihilation less than your mother, then y'all and I are going to have problems.

  • RWBY: Scars:
    • Summer was Yang's doting footstep-mom who died when she was ten. Yang didn't even know she was her step-mom until afterwards her death. In contrast, Yang hates her biological mother Raven after meeting her at age seventeen and tells Raven that Summer is her female parent, non her.
    • Unbeknownst to Ruby and her sister Yang, Taiyang is actually Ruddy'south step-father. Her biological father is Yang's uncle Qrow (who Scarlet thinks is her Honorary Uncle also). Even so, Taiyang is a loving male parent to both his kids, but is particularly sweet towards his youngest Ruby.
  • White Sheep (RWBY): Equally in catechism, Yang views her stepmother Summer Rose as her existent mother, even though she's been dead for years. She notwithstanding tells stories virtually how Summer taught her to ride a bike. She absolutely refuses to admit her birth mother Raven as her mother.
• In The Smeet Serial, Lena is a loving and adoring stepmother to Ilk, treating her like her own daughter.
• In the The Victors Project series: Spindella zigzags this. She has a adequately cold human relationship with her stepchildren and doesn't accept much visible warmth towards them, but this is partially to limit whatever damage that might come to them if her resistance activities are exposed and does what she tin to save Cecelia's life afterward she's reaped.

    Pic

• In Bonjour Tristesse, the stepmother Anne is a good person if quite astringent sometimes, and tries to put some gild in the very hedonistic lives of Cécile and Raymond. Cécile likes her at showtime, only soon is so scared virtually the changes that she'll bring into her life (especially when Anne attempts playing Team Mom), that she manipulates the people effectually her (Raymond, his old mistress Elsa, and her own Dogged Squeamish Guy Phillipe) into making Anne'due south life hard so she'll leave. Little does Cécile know that Anne will end up so broken that she'll be Spurned into Suicide instead.
• The Arts and crafts: Although they don't collaborate much on-screen, Jenny and her teenage stepdaughter Sarah are manifestly amicable. The fact that Sarah shows concern for Jenny when she and her begetter disappear in the climax (and has a breakdown when she thinks they've been killed) and that Jenny was absent from the firm, indicating she'd gone with her husband to wait for Sarah when they believed she'd run off, implies that they care about each other.
• In The Solar day the Earth Stood Still (2008), Helen's love for her 8-twelvemonth-old stepson Jacob convinces the alien Klatuu that humanity is redeemable after all, which is why he desists from destroying humanity.
• Discussed in Enchanted: Morgan is fretful about the prospect of getting a stepmother because her only cognition of them comes from fairy tales similar "Snowfall White" and "Cinderella." However, both her father'due south initial girlfriend, Nancy, and his new love interest, Giselle, are very friendly and supportive of her. Giselle tells her that she'south known plenty of stepmothers who are lovely to their stepchildren - which carries actress weight because she's specifically from a fairy tale earth like the ones from Morgan's stories.
• In Elf, Buddy's stepmother Emily is a rare happy version of this trope. When Emily learns that her husband Walter has another son in Buddy the elf (albeit out of union from a high school romance that resulted in a unplanned pregnancy which Walter didn't know nigh), she doesn't become mad or hold a grudge confronting him or Buddy; she'south actually thrilled at the news, welcoming Buddy in her family with open arms no questions asked.
• Juno: Juno and her stepmother Brenda clearly intendance about one another. They do bicker but no more than than a normal mother/daughter human relationship — with Juno's biological mother beingness absent from her life, it'south pretty clear that Brenda is effectively Juno'south mother. Brenda supports Juno through the pregnancy, stays by her side in the commitment room all throughout her labor, and refers to her emphatically equally "my kid" when yelling at the doctors to help her.
• The Kingdom of Picayune Wounds: Ava gets on well with her stepmother Sabine.
• Man of the House (1995) is near a expert stepfather who goes out of his way to gain his stepchild's trust and credence. In the pic, lawyer Jack proposes to Ben'due south mother, who has been a single parent e'er since her showtime hubby ran off with his secretary; this incident disillusioned Ben and made him distrustful of male figures in his life. But through joining the Indian Guides (a Boy Scout knockoff) which they initially both detect to be impaired and stupid, as well as fighting off a pair of goons who are later Jack'southward head because he's prosecuting their boss, the 2 bond as a stepfather and stepson and Jack is allowed to marry Ben'southward mother.
• In Nanny McPhee, Evangeline is the Brown family's scullery maid who settles fights between the children (and is in love with their male parent). The children and Evangeline talk nearly why they're interim out and she tries to assistance. Their father, Cedric Brown, hasn't paid attention to them since their female parent died, only they don't want a stepmother because of the fairy tales. Past the end of the movie, Cedric and Evangeline marry.
• Salvation Boulevard provides a male example, where protagonist Carl seems to be a better parent to his stepdaughter Angie than her female parent Gwen (or at least Angie likes him better than her mom).
• The Sound of Music: Maria is hired as a governess who develops a dearest fondness for the Von Trapp kids. After falling in love with Baron Von Trapp, she is set to become this trope; when they marry, the children are the unabridged wedding political party, and after the newlyweds return from their honeymoon, the children call her "Mother."
• Stepmom is all nigh a woman trying to bond with her boyfriend's leery children and to brand peace with his old wife. It's actress complicated because the erstwhile wife has last cancer, with the upshot beingness that they all end up living together in the aforementioned house.
• Ultraman Cosmos: The Outset Contact has another Gender Flipped instance with Sergeant Yujiro Haruno, the stepfather to the protagonist, ten-yr-old Musashi Haruno, whose biological begetter died in a space mission years prior to the story. For well-nigh of the film, Musashi only pines for his deceased begetter, despite Yujiro's best efforts to evidence himself to exist a adept father, encouraging Haruno not to give up on his dreams and existence supportive over his stepson's ambitions. Towards the end of the movie, after both father and son thwarted the launch of a city-destroying nuke, Musashi finally accepts Yujiro as a father and embraces his stepdad.

    Literature

• Jane Austen used this trope a few times. (It'due south worth noting that the actual stories never utilise the word stepmother, which was non in common verbiage at the time; the stepchild tends to refer to the stepmother as their "mother in law," which tin can be confusing to a modern reader.)
  • In Emma, the story begins with Emma'due south childhood governess marrying their neighbour, Captain Weston, who has a grown son from his commencement marriage. The son, Frank, writes to his stepmother often, and when he visits they are shown to quickly develop a very friendly human relationship; they clearly dear each other long earlier the terminate of the volume.
  • While he fails to alive upwardly to his hope to Take Care of the Kids, John Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility has an otherwise perfectly amiable relationship with his begetter'south second wife, the mother of his 3 half-sisters. The narrative notes that she has always treated him kindly and he in turn is very respectful toward her.
• The Blandings Castle / Psmith crossover deals with a Good Stepfather and a Good-turned-Kind of-Wicked Stepmother. To wit: Phyllis has a good relationship with her former stepfather, Joe, even now that he'south remarried to Constance. Constance initially got on well with Phyllis and tried to accommodate for her to ally a rich man; notwithstanding, Phyllis eloped with Mike, and Constance was and so insulted that she insisted they cut her off. The whole plot kicks off considering Joe wants to aid Phyllis with her fiscal problems without letting Constance know.
• In Blue Willow by Doris Gates, protagonist Janey calls her father's married woman "Mom." The volume's title comes from Janey'southward prized possession, a blue willow red china plate which belonged to her dead mother, and if not for the being of the plate it would be piece of cake to think that Mom was Janey's own mother. She loves, teaches, and nurtures the daughter throughout the story, and Janey loves her fiercely.
• In Fifty. Thou. Montgomery'southward Anne of Green Gables: Rainbow Valley, the minister's motherless children are told by another child that all stepmothers are wicked, it comes with the part. Nevertheless, the youngest goes to persuade a woman to ally her begetter because her male parent is so miserable since she rejected him, and in Rilla of Ingleside, it is clear that she is a perfectly lovely stepmother.
• While non married yet, Cady from the Arcadia Bell series by Jenn Bennet has a smashing relationship with her boyfriend Lon's teenage son, Jupe, who sees her like a Cool Big Sis.
• In The Babysitters Club:
  • Mary Anne'southward widowed father Richard and Dawn's divorced female parent Sharon were High-School Sweethearts. They reconnect when Sharon moves back to Stoneybrook with her children after her divorce, and later in the series they marry. Although the stepfamily takes a little time to settle in together, Sharon is a very expert stepmother to Mary Anne, who loves her dearly, and Richard is a kindly stepfather to Dawn and Jeff.
  • Not much is shown of Kristy's Disappeared Dad in the serial until the book in which he remarries, and he doesn't appear much later on either. However, the woman he marries is very kind to Kristy and her brothers, who all like her a lot - in fact, it'due south all but stated that they like her more than they like their dad, who abandoned the family unit before the books began. They also have an fantabulous stepfather in Watson, their mother's 2nd hubby.
  • In the Fiddling Sister spin-off serial, Watson'south daughter Karen (the protagonist of that series) seems to be shut with her stepfather Seth (her mother'due south 2nd husband), fifty-fifty confiding in him over her biological parents on occasion. It takes her a petty longer to come up around on Elizabeth (Kristy's mother), just she eventually does.
• In Children of Dune, Irulan is for all intents and purposes Leto and Ghanima'due south stepmother, beingness married to their biological father Paul Atreides, and she loves them every bit if they are her own children. Unfortunately for her, her Stupid Evil sister Wensicia tries to kill the twins, souring her relationship with them.
• In Dirge for Prester John, when Anglitora comes to run across John, Hagia practically adopts the girl as her own.
• In Earth'due south Children, Willomar is a good stepfather. He has a loving human relationship with his stepsons, Joharran and Jondalar, though his relationship with Joharran is more one of friendship, due to the fact he was already an adult when Willomar mated their female parent, Marthona.
• Esther Diamond: Dolly from the first book is Knuckles's girlfriend and non his wife, merely is shown to exist caring towards and protective of his daughter during the footling folio-time they have together, and promises not to tell her father that she isn't a virgin anymore.
• In book v of Gesta Danorum, the sorceress Kraka, 2d wife to a Norwegian lord, cooks a repast for both her stepson Erik and her own son Roller but prepares Roller's share with the slaver of a magical snake, which will brand him smarter and luckier. But Erik and Roller bandy plates and the spell is upon Erik instead. Rather than being angry at Erik, Kraka decides that from now on, Erik should be the leader of the brothers. She also promises that her magic volition aid Erik whenever he calls her proper name, and helps him in outwitting King Gotar of Norway. When Gotar's assassins assault Erik in his bed, he calls out his stepmother's name, whereupon a shield happens to fall from the rafters, covering his body and saving his life.
• Lisa of The Hate U Requite dotes on Vii, treating him just the same as she does her biological children. It's particularly impressive since 7 is the result of Lisa's husband cheating on her. While she does loathe Seven'due south mother, and occasionally takes shots at her, she never does it when he's within earshot and doesn't hold information technology against him at all. He refers to her as "Ma" and doesn't correct strangers who presume she'southward his mother, as he bitterly points out to his biological mother.
• Howl's Moving Castle: Living in a world filled with fairy tale tropes and their lampshades and aversions, Sophie's stepmother Fanny displays some antagonistic shades before the revelation of her all-time intentions toward both her own daughter Martha and her stepdaughters Sophie and Lettie. The thing is, she loves her daughters equally, just her sentence is flawed.
  • More specifically: Fanny sends Martha to study magic nether a famous teacher but sends Lettie to work in a bakery and Sophie to work in the family-owned lid store. Information technology first appears to exist favoritism, but it turns out that she actually believed these to exist the all-time life choices for her daughters: Martha is the youngest kid, then she is already destined to have the luckiest and most exciting life, and having magical skills could aid her even more than; Lettie is popular amongst guys, so working in a baker will assistance her observe a husband speedily; and meek, eldest Sophie tin have a secure income in the chapeau shop.
  • That said, Martha and Lettie disagree with Fanny, causing them to quietly trade places using transformation spells and making her decisions look more antagonistic. Martha is especially eager to call her mom out for trying to decide what is best for each daughter, and also further badmouths her by revealing the issue beneath.
  • More antagonistic-looking is the revelation that Sophie'south hats are extremely popular in the town, and Fanny lives a rich socialite life on Sophie'south earnings. But as it turns out, this also was non due to malicious intentions; she genuinely idea that Sophie was happy working in the hat store.
  • And she is too ready to stab Howl with her parasol when she thinks he acquired Sophie to plough into an quondam adult female!
• The Ray Bradbury curt story "I Sing the Trunk Electric": A robot nanny is brought in every bit a therapist to aid children consummate the grieving process for their dead female parent.
• John Putnam Thatcher: In "Past Claw or by Crook,'' Harriet Parajian helped her husband seek for the missing children from his first marriage and was very kind and welcoming to them afterward. Decades later, she'south still on proficient terms with all three kids and tin talk sense into them when things are going badly. Although information technology turns out her hubby is actually their uncle and not their begetter.
• Mercy Thompson: The title character is beloved past Jesse, the daughter of her hot werewolf neighbor Adam. Jesse looks upward to Mercy similar a Cool Big Sister and likes Mercy even more when Adam and Mercy terminate up dating and then marrying.
• Moonlight Becomes Yous: Nuala is this to Maggie, though she'south technically Maggie's ex-stepmother. They love each other like mother and daughter (especially as Maggie'due south biological female parent died earlier she could think her), and even though Nuala divorced Maggie'south begetter and they didn't see each other for 20-two years (not through lack of trying on Nuala's function) their bond remains strong. Maggie recalls that Nuala ever stood upwardly for her to her controlling male parent and encouraged her creativity. Nuala also ends upward bequeathing almost everything she owns, including her house, to Maggie in her new will.

• Percy Jackson and the Olympians
  • Percy's second stepfather, Paul Blofis, is a major improvement over the Wicked Stepfather he had in the offset book.
  • When Percy first meets Poseidon'due south wife, Amphitrite, he gets the impression that she doesn't like him, and tin't really blame her, given that he was born from an matter. She seems to warm up to him pretty chop-chop, even so, and Percy cracks that she's turning out to exist a much better stepmother than Hera.
  • Played with in the character of Mrs. Chase, Annabeth'southward stepmother. Annabeth ran away partially because of her stepmother and grew up insisting that she was a Wicked Stepmother. Yet, when we really run across her, we find that, while a bit strict, Mrs. Hunt appears to care deeply nigh her stepdaughter, telling Percy that no matter what, Annabeth has a home with her family. Their relationship is implied to take improved equally Annabeth grew older and matured, and there is a theory going around that Annabeth, having been a pocket-size kid at the time, just misread fearfulness and worry for her safety equally her stepmother beingness cruel to her.
• In the original novel of The Princess Bride, Prince Humperdinck has a stepmother, Queen Bella. He always calls her "Evil Stepmother" (or but "E.S." for short) considering all fairy tale stepmothers are, and he was notwithstanding a little boy when she married his father, simply it'due south actually an Insult of Endearment. In reality, she's very nice, with the narrative describing her equally "the most honey person in the kingdom," and she and Humperdinck are quite addicted of ane some other. She seems to be one of the only people he trusts, although she disappears from the bulk of the narrative after his engagement to Buttercup.
• Played with in Tanith Lee'southward Red as Blood, a retelling of "Snow White". In this version, the stepdaughter is evil and the stepmother is trying to protect the kingdom.
• In the Sometime Icelandic Saga of Bosi and Herraud, the brothers Bosi and Smid are, after their mother'south decease, raised past their begetter's magically skilled concubine, Busla. When Bosi incurs King Hring'southward wrath and awaits his execution, Busla persuades the rex to permit Bosi live past demonstrating her magic powers and threatening to lay a terrible curse on the king. Subsequently, when Bosi and Smid are difficult-pressed in boxing against the sorcerous Rex Harek of Bjarmaland, Busla comes to their assistance in the shape of a giant bird, saving her stepsons once more at the cost of her ain life.
• When her stepsons Erik and Agnar are killed past male monarch Eystein Beli, Aslaug of The Saga of Ragnar Lodbrok weeps a unmarried tear of claret for them (which is a lot, every bit she never cries). Afterwards, she persuades her biological sons to avenge their stepbrothers and even personally leads an army against Eystein, eventually defeating and killing him.
• The title character of the children'south book Sarah, Plain and Tall is a 19th century Post-Club Bride, whose married man specifically selects her to be ane of these. He has a young son and daughter past his late first wife, and doesn't want them to grow up motherless; they communicate with her by letter of the alphabet for some time before she travels (with her cat, Seal) to live with them and marry their begetter. By the time they actually become a family they're all quite attached to each other, and information technology'southward heavily implied that Sarah will be this for the children.
• An interesting version is seen in The Silmarillion: Fëanor'south stepmother Indis is very decent to him, and his father still seems to favour him over his younger children. Fëanor is even so insanely jealous, though. His feelings were arguably justified, if not when they were directed towards Indis: Fëanor's mother suffered Death by Childbirth, only elves can come back to life subsequently spending a certain amount of time in the afterlife. Notably, Fëanor's male parent is the but elf we ever hear of remarrying.
• Snowfall. Drinking glass. Apples. is a short story by Neil Gaiman which retells "Snow White" from the stepmother'due south point of view. In this iteration, she initially tries to be a good stepmother to the little girl, even telling her that "I'm your new mother" when they meet and trying to bond with her over a snack of apples. Over fourth dimension, nonetheless, she becomes horrified to larn that her stepdaughter is actually a vampire, and when she orders the daughter'southward devastation, it's intended for the good of the kingdom. Information technology ends badly for the stepmother.
• Invoked in Stepson Mityushka past Ilya Litvak. Mityushka'due south Innocently Insensitive neighbors warn him he can await nix simply cruelty from his new stepmother, and the woman herself isn't too enthusiastic near marrying a widower with a child. To escape mistreatment, Mityushka decides to be equally kind and respectful as possible towards her, and eventually the stepmother comes to genuinely care for him and he for her.
• Winnamine is this to Sarai and Pigeon in Tamora Pierce's Trickster's Duet. Even if they don't always agree, she genuinely has her stepdaughters' best interests in mind.
• A Tale of...
  • The Wicked Queen is a Perspective Flip prequel to Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It'southward shown that the Evil Queen (known as "Grimhilde" in futurity books) started out as a kind and loving stepmother who adored her stepdaughter like she was her biological kid. She precisely wanted to avert being a bad stepmother because she had an abusive father who blamed her for her mother'due south Death by Childbirth. Eventually, she warped into the evil stepmother. This change was due to a combination of grief after her husband died in war, her craving recognition from her abusive father whose soul is trapped in the Magic Mirror, and a Psycho Serum created by the Odd Sisters. After her decease (which is technically a suicide), the Evil Queen returns to her previous adoring personality as her soul becomes trapped in the Magic Mirror.
  • The Wicked Stepmother turns Cinderella into an Hourglass Plot. Lady Tremaine began as loving and accepting of Cinderella as her own child, despite her Innocently Insensitive parroting of her father, Sir Richard, maxim that Lady Tremaine cannot be chosen Mama, or that the house will always be her mother's despite who Richard marries. But Cinderella's Fatal Flaw is that she is loyal to her father, to the signal where she cannot recognize that he is an abusive husband and Wicked Stepfather who forces Lady Tremaine and her daughters to do the household chores and blatantly favors his ain child over his stepchildren. When Lady Tremaine plans to leave and accept her daughters away, Cinderella tells her begetter every bit The Dutiful Daughter of his that she believes she is, and Sir Richard locks Lady Tremaine in her room and refuses to permit her leave. Desperate to end her ain suffering, Lady Tremaine makes a Deal with the Devil to kill Richard. Later on, her abuse of Cinderella in the original story is revenge for tattling to her father, as Lady Tremaine believes Cinderella told him out of deliberate maliciousness and not out of innocent loyalty to her father.
• Tortall Universe: Purposely averted in the Trickster'southward Duet. Duchess Winnamine is a Reasonable Authority Effigy who does her best to continue her stepdaughters safe, simply is terrified they'll think her interfering makes her a bad stepmother. Eventually, both of them acknowledge that she'southward been an splendid mother effigy to them.
• In XL by Scott Brownish, Laura Tannenger is only as kind, generous, and caring to her stepson, Volition, equally she is to her biological son, Drew.

    Live-Action Television

• Kelly, Rick's second married woman on American Restoration, is shown to accept a good relationship with Tyler, his son from his first matrimony.
• Arrow:
  • Walter Steele cares for Moira Queen'south children, Oliver and Thea, and gets along with them. Even after divorcing Moira, he is still willing to help them, every bit shown when Oliver asked Walter to assistance prevent Queen Consolidated from beingness absorbed by Isabel Rochev at the beginning of Flavor 2.
  • Felicity Smoak is arguably a amend parent to William than his father, Oliver (partially because William has less baggage with her than he does with his father, whom he both worries is going to get himself killed and besides blames for the death of his mother). They also bond over being a lot alike, both of them geeky and technologically gifted; the flashforwards in Pointer'due south final seasons evidence William every bit the Generation Xerox to Felicity while her biological daughter with Oliver, Mia, is the one to Oliver.
• On The Brady Bunch, Carol does such a skilful task raising the boys, the fact that she is their stepmother is never even mentioned beyond the pilot - except in one episode (season 1, #ten) when Bobby, after watching Cinderella on Idiot box, and being told to make clean out the fireplace, convinces himself that Ballad is a Wicked Stepmother. His utilise of the word "stepmother" eventually provokes this answer:

  Ballad: The but steps in this house are those (points to staircase), which go right up to your bedroom.

  • Similarly, Mike is an excellent stepfather to the girls, who admire him. The reunion movies show that Marcia even names her own son afterward him.
• Charité at War has Margot Sauerbruch, who'south closer in age to her stepson Peter than to her husband Ferdinand, but still has a warm human relationship with Peter, acting very motherly about him and worrying when he has to render to the front.
• Audrey Parker is this to Josh in Drake & Josh. Walter is a Gender Flipped version of this to Drake and Megan. However, they do human activity accordingly given that the kids are troublemakers. (Megan usually gets away scot-free, but in "Tree House," fifty-fifty she gets punished.)
• In Forever, the episode "The King of Columbus Circle" concludes with Lydia, the illegitimate daughter of the deposed King of Urkesh, meeting her father's wife later his death, with her 'stepmother' expressing joy at the chance to see her hubby'due south grandchild despite the circumstances.
• In The Fosters, though generally given a relatively secondary function, Lena fully intends to and does play a positive parental function in her stepson Brandon's life.
• Invoked in I Married Dora, a short-lived Dom Com in The '80s, in which a widowed father marries his immigrant housekeeper. This keeps her from being deported and allows her to keep taking care of his two children, who love her dearly.
• Invoked and Played With in the 1981 Chilean Telenovela La Madrastra ^note The Stepmother (equally well equally remakes like the Mexican one), in which a rich woman is falsely accused of a crime and imprisoned in jail for 20 years, and the father of her 3 children told them their mother was expressionless to avoid the shame. Afterward those years, she was freed and comes back to the house to get revenge on the people who accused her, as well as 'adopt' her children (at present adults who don't remember the image of their mother) and marry her husband once again under another name, becoming the "stepmother".
• In Moesha, Dee, who is Frank's 2d wife, acts like a mother figure to Moesha and Myles.
• In The Nanny, Fran becomes the beloved stepmom of the Sheffield children, having gained their dear and trust ages before her Relationship Upgrade with their father. In i episode leading up to the wedding ceremony, he presents her with adoption papers and so she can become their mother legally, and it'south shown that they call her "Mom" at least some of the time. Fran's female parent and grandmother are also shown to regard the Sheffield kids equally their ain grandchildren/great-grandchildren.
• In Once Upon a Time, the Evil Queen, who was previously Snow White'southward evil stepmother, adopts a baby named Henry and raises him as her ain. Her love for Henry brings out her redeeming values and plays a large role in her eventual Enemy Mine truce with Snow White and her eventual redemption.
  • In season 7, after Anastasia and Drizella's female parent Rapunzel is held captive past Female parent Gothel and presumed dead, her husband'due south 2nd wife Cecilia is a practiced stepmother to the girls. Unfortunately, when Rapunzel returns, she'south pushed by Gothel into killing Cecilia in order to reunite with her family, and is not a good stepmother to Cecilia's daughter Ella.
• In the last season of Pretty Petty Liars, Spencer learns that her mother is actually Mary Drake, significant Veronica's her stepmother. The ii e'er had a good relationship, and once Spencer gets over the shock, that doesn't change.
• Raising Hope: One time Jimmy and Sabrina marry, she is this to Jimmy'due south daughter Hope, whom she eventually adopts. She actually showed maternal instincts for Hope fashion before she became Jimmy's girlfriend/wife when she saved Promise from a gun-toting mama. Sabrina also tries very hard to brand sure Hope has a good babyhood.
• Stargirl gives us Barbara and Pat, stepparents to Courtney (Barbara's daughter) and Mike (Pat'south son). Both of them are kind and loving, but not lax, parents; they each work to bond with the other's child, and support them in their school science projects and desperate battles with terrifying villains. Nosotros're also shown that both Courtney and Mike are starting to appreciate all the endeavor. For example, Mike initially tells Pat and Barbara not to show up to his science fair, claiming that no other parent volition be there. And then it turns out that everyone else's parents did evidence up, leaving Mike every bit the odd kid out - until Barbara shows upwardly, even though she said earlier that she had a meeting at work. Mike is conspicuously beholden, and they stop up bonding over eating his chocolate volcano. Meanwhile, after Pat tells Courtney how much she has disappointed him by going behind his back and stealing the JSA gear, Courtney clearly doesn't know how to behave with him in front of Barbara and Mike, feeling shame for breaking his trust.

    Religion and Mythology

• Useful Notes/Jesus' stepfather, St. Joseph, is also the patron saint of fathers and stepfathers. Traditions differ about whether or non he had any biological children himself, so this might be on the ground of stepparenting alone.
• Classical Mythology:
  • In ane fable, Theseus, a son of Poseidon, dives down into the water to retrieve Minos' band and meets with Amphitrite, who gives him a golden crown. Compared to the mode Hera treats her stepkids, that would definitely authorize for this trope.
  • Mythology really has several men who were fine raising their wives' half-divine children: Amphitryon (Heracles), Tyndareus (Helen and Polydeuces), and Aloeus (Otis and Ephialtes). The latter actually continued raising the kids after their mother's death, and later killed his second wife for causing their deaths. ^note Random side note: In this case, his stepsons were likewise his half-brothers, all three being fathered by Poseidon.

    Video Games

• Castlevania 64 flips the usual formula by having Carrie reflect on her own loving stepmother, who even gave her life to save Carrie's, in order to call out Actrise for how pathetic and worthless she is for having sacrificed her own biological daughter to attain immortality. This, and Actrise having sicced Carrie's vampire cousin on her earlier, make the utter crush-down of the witch that ensues all the more satisfying.
• In Ballad of Rapunzel, the 7th installment of the Dark Parables series, Rapunzel is the daughter of the Rex of Floralia by his first wife Violante; diary entries are found written by his second wife, Melanie, expressing her desire to be a practiced stepmother to the kid. Unfortunately, Melanie died relatively young and could but be in Rapunzel's life for a few short years.
• In the backstory of the major religion of Dragon Age, the resident Crystal Dragon Jesus Andraste was a Deity of Human Origin. During her mortal life, she was married to an Alamarri warlord, Maferath, by whom she somewhen had two daughters; notwithstanding, he too had three sons by his concubine. After the concubine's death when the boys were quite young, Andraste raised them, and as far as they (and history) were concerned, she was their mother.
• The role player character can actually be a good stepparent in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, depending on which NPC they choose for a spouse. Marrying Balimund (the blacksmith in Riften) or Octieve San (an elderly Breton in Solitude) gives the Dragonborn an adult stepchild (Asbjorn or Evette) with whom they tin can have a cordial, albeit somewhat minimal, relationship.
• Fire Emblem Fates features a Large, Screwed-Up Family on both sides due to Corrin and Azura having ties to both yet surprisingly not actually being related by claret to anyone except each other. Amidst these is Mikoto, who is a skilful stepmother to the Hoshidan Royal family unit, since she loves Ryoma, Hinoka, Takumi, and Sakura equally if they are her own children. (This also includes Azura, though Azura is her niece.) Sumeragi also played a male role to Corrin, since he is not Corrin'due south actual father, and when Corrin learns the truth, Corrin may say that Sumeragi actually was his/her father. The stepfather on the Nohrian side of things, on the other hand...
• In Fire Emblem: 3 Houses, Dimitri fondly recalls his stepmother, who is also Edelgard's mother, who raised him alongside his begetter until he lost his parents in the Tragedy of Duscur. In reality, Dimitri'southward stepmother is revealed to be the person who actually caused the Tragedy.
• In Hades, Nyx was forbidden past Hades to speak of Zagreus' true parentage and as a event treats him every bit one of her children. Even after the latter learns the truth, he admits that Nyx has been aught merely a skillful mother to him for all his life.
• Life Is Strange: Before the Storm:
  • The major twist of episode ii turns out to exist that Rose is really this to Rachel Amber. Sera, the woman she and Chloe saw kissing her father, James, is Rachel's biological mother, whom James divorced and cut out of his and Rachel's life because of her drug habit. James argues that Rose might as well exist Rachel's mother, although Rachel herself is more conflicted on the affair.
  • David, Chloe'southward future stepfather, tries to be this trope (if only for Joyce'due south sake), but is Doomed by Canon to take a very strained relationship with her by the time of the original game, where he fits much amend into the other trope (although not without his redeeming qualities).
• In Persona four, Eri Minami, the Temperance Social Link, eventually becomes this to her stepson Yuuta over the course of her Social Link. She admits that she rushed into marrying Yuuta'south father, and initially believes that she tin't bond with him, but later on tries to connect with him. Eventually, afterward Yuuta knocks the protagonist to the basis for supposedly insulting his mom, Eri starts to run across Yuuta for the person he is. At the end of the game, if her Social Link is completed, Eri remarks that the showtime thing she felt upon the killer being caught is that her son is safe.
• In The Walking Expressionless Season 3, Kate is this towards Mariana and Gabriel. Right in the beginning, she tells Jarvi how much she loves them and they will too ofttimes refer to her as Mom. She likewise survived 5 years protecting them from zombie hordes.

    Visual Novels

• In Triangle Heart 3 (which gave rise to the Lyrical Nanoha Spin-Off serial), Nanoha is Momoko Takamachi's only biological daughter: Kyouya Takamachi is Momoko's husband's illegitimate son from an earlier relationship, while Miyuki Takamachi is, in fact, Kyouya'southward cousin, who has been given a new identity to protect her from assassins who wiped out her ain family unit. Nonetheless, Momoko cares equally about all iii of her children and is shown to exist a loving and understanding mother to them. Her loving nature carries over to Lyrical Nanoha, although the only indication that Miyuki and Kyouya aren't siblings is that she calls him "Kyou-chan" instead of using Japanese Sibling Terminology on him.
• Umineko: When They Cry: Despite having left the family for vi years following his begetter'southward remarriage, Battler Ushiromiya doesn't hold a grudge against his stepmother Kyrie, with whom he gets forth fairly well even if they don't actually view each other as family. Subverted when we learn that Kyrie had a bitter rivalry with Battler'due south mother, Asumu, which has festered in green-eyed for years. In private, Kyrie admits that she actually does resent Battler and is only forcing herself to exist squeamish to him, and Episode 7 reveals that she wouldn't have whatsoever trouble getting rid of him if he got in the way of her and Rudolf running away with the coin. As you might guess, the revelation in Episode 8 that Battler was her son all along isn't one that she takes very well. This in plow means that if Asumu knew the truth, so she also qualifies for this.

    Webcomics

• Veronica Carter from I'm the Grim Reaper. From what we learn from their dialogue, Hunt'south real female parent was very abusive. Veronica is much kinder and more caring towards him. She even pays for his rent and expensive medicine since he doesn't have a task.
• In Kevin & Kell, Kell is a loving mother to her stepdaughter Lindesfarne, who accepts her fairly easily, partly because Kell is a vast improvement over Lindesfarne's adoptive mother Angelique. Kevin besides loves and cares for his stepson Rudy, even though Rudy initially tries to claiming Kevin for the position of blastoff male person.
• In Punderworld, while Hera was obviously pissed when she found out nearly Artemis, it is implied that the two eventually reconciled in some style, even allowing Artemis to join the Olympians without complaint. And so again, it was Zeus who explained it, so it probably isn't and so simple.
• In Something*Positive, Rory is not Davan's biological son. Rory's mother Donna is a friend of Davan'south with whom he was involved briefly in the past, leading to a period when it was thought that Rory might be his. Genetic testing confirmed the identity of the bio dad, who wants zilch to do with the kid, so Davan stepped up to help; Rory actually calls him "Dad" (and calls Davan'southward father "Grandpa"), and Davan does things like attending parent-teacher conferences. Davan'southward wife, Vanessa, is extremely understanding of the situation and treats Rory very kindly.

    Web Original

• Min-Seong from The Friendly Winter is a boy who lives with his stepmother Seo-Ha. He thinks she'due south the sweetest and most beautiful woman on the planet.
• RWBY: Summer Rose, was, past all accounts, as loving to her stepdaughter Yang as she was to her biological girl Carmine. Information technology was to the betoken that Yang didn't even detect out they weren't biologically related until after Summertime's expiry. Yang continues to concord her in high regard in the present mean solar day, referring to her as a "Super Mom" when relating her backstory to Blake.
• This story from Not Ever Legal features one heck of a Mama Acquit stepmother. When a drug-fond associate of her stepson'south biological mother decides to break into the house in order to kidnap him, the stepmother responds by breaking both of his arms to protect the boy. His mother, who was completely innocent and horrified past the news, sends her a letter of the alphabet thanking her for being such a good instance of this trope.

    Western Blitheness

• Delilah in 101 Dalmatian Street already has a litter of puppies from a previous marriage, before she met Doug and his own litter of puppies, just both of them honey each and every pup dearly. The only regular hints that they are a composite family unit are that Dawkins refers to Doug by name rather than equally "Dad," and Dolly mentions to Fergus that she and Dylan are not really related. The stepmother example for Delilah, however, is specifically shown in "Girls' Mean solar day Out", where Delilah quickly steps in to defend Dolly when others, such equally Clarissa, Portia, and Spencer, make fun of her at the Fauna Spa.
• The fact that Delia is Lydia's stepmother is never mentioned in Beetlejuice (although it does come up in the spinoff comic book series). Lydia calls her "Mom" and, although they disharmonism over aesthetics from time to time, they conspicuously intendance about each other and generally become along well.
• In Daria, Brittany's dad married a Trophy Wife only ten years older than Brittany herself. The 2 enjoy a happy relationship, though Brittany's stepmother is more like a Cool Big Sis to her than a parental effigy.
• Halfway into As Told by Ginger, Lois begins dating a physician. Carl gets quite attached to Dave easily. His older sister Ginger is a flake more than humble at showtime. She at one point has a fairy-tale Imagine Spot where he is a wicked stepfather, and subsequently Miranda tries to instill worries in her virtually Dave being her new father. Somewhen Ginger does warm up to Dave as well, peculiarly when he'due south the one who saves her life when she needs an appendectomy. Lois and Dave end up engaged and the finale is almost their wedding.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: Gender inverted, but Zuko and Azula's stepfather Noren from the post-series comics is much nicer than their evil, megalomaniac, abusive father Ozai.
• Disenchantment: Since Oona is a parody of a Wicked Stepmother, she comes back around and becomes a practiced one. Despite being an amphibious fish-person who was forced to marry the rex in an Arranged Wedlock to go along him from destroying her home, she does her all-time to be a proficient mother to her stepdaughter Bean. On Bean'due south wedding night she gives her some sex activity communication (even though it doesn't help), she often counsels her husband non to bother her too much, she forgives Edible bean quickly for betraying her for her nascency mother (who turned out to be evil), and invites her to come be a pirate with her when she leaves.
• In Phineas and Ferb, if information technology weren't for the hyphenated names and mixed accents, yous wouldn't even exist able to tell that this is a blended family unit. The phrases "stepchildren" and "stepsiblings" are virtually never used. Neither parent shows any preferences between biological and stepchildren, and that extends to even the shown grandparents treating all the kids equally.
• In Rugrats, Chuckie initially worries that Kira volition exist similar the stepmother from Cinderella. She's actually quite nice and caring. One episode even has her adopting him legally (and also, Chas adopts her daughter Kimi).
• In Sofia the Starting time, Sofia's mother, Miranda, marries King Roland II and is a kind and loving stepmother to his children, Bister and James. She acknowledges there aren't many stories with practiced stepmothers, so it drives her to be as good as she can. Roland, meanwhile, is also a kind and loving stepfather to Sofia.
• Gender inverted in Darkwing Duck: afterwards defending immature orphan Gosalyn Waddlemeyer from Taurus Bulba, Darkwing decides to give upwardly being a full-time superhero and takes on the noncombatant identity of Drake Mallard so he tin can formally take Gosalyn in. Throughout the rest of the serial, despite having normal family disagreements, information technology's clear that Darkwing and Gosalyn'southward bail is incredibly close, to the point where it's hard to remember that they're not actually related. It also helps that their human relationship is mutually beneficial; Darkwing is able to give Gosalyn a happy, (relatively) normal life, while having Gosalyn (and Launchpad) around helps keep Darkwing's ego in check.

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