Episodes can range from romantic and epic to darkly comedic and relentlessly silly.
One of the best examples of this is Mom, the show’s biggest villain.
She’s been a recurring threat in the show ever since season 1.
Although she’s been given some depth over the years, she remainsFuturama’s most consistent antagonist.
However,this was actually a secretive plan by the Thermose aliens all along.
However, they also amplify another villain in the process.
Mom ultimately earns a huge victory by the end of the episode, buying the company from Hermes.
This allows the main characters to inevitably shift back into the standard status quo.
Notably however, this earns Mom a massive payout that will only increase her power on Earth.
Futurama follows the exploits of Philip J. Fry, a pizza delivery boy from 1999 who is cryogenically frozen for 1000 years. Waking up in the year 3000, Fry befriends a cyclops named Leela and a roguish robot named Bender, and the three find employment with Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery service. Their work takes them to all corners of the universe, exploring space and the future as imagined by Matt Groening and the creators of The Simpsons.
Even as the Thermose aliens enact their own plans, Mom seems unbothered by any competing conspiracies.
Even compared to similar archetypes like Mr. Burns fromThe Simpsons, Mom has becomeFuturama’s most genuinely dangerous force.
