At one point Ilya states that Mother Fear can't invoke his repressed infantile-maternal feelings, which is surprising since Ilya is often treated like a baby boy throughout the run of the series... Some viewers may not be so immune to Mother Fear's commanding presence and her character highlights the deliciously perverse realm MFU harvested in creating twisted villains... Many sprang from the sublimated subconscious to pop up as cartoonish fiends who exploit human weakness... FEmale Power can always be asserted by a WOman conjuring / invoking male infantilism... The most astonishing aspect of Mother Fear is that she's teaching a classroom of little boys, meaning she will have trained them for life, a sensation that many-a-young viewer would have been susceptible to...