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Originally Posted by Birdland
It seems to have become a literary given that male characters cannot have adventures unless the mother figure is out of the way.
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Jim Hawkins in
Treasure Island --his mother sent him off on his adventure, and he was only 12.
Private Ryan (as in
Saving...) had a mother. It was debatable in the squad whether Captain Miller had a mother, though.
Didn't Rambo have a mother? Maybe he
was a mother....