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These are really more trivia items as there's no supported/canonical connections, only observations made by fans
If you did not retrieve all three of the [[Demon Key]]s needed to fully equip the Unmaker, the battle against the Mother Demon will be significantly more difficult, both due to the Unmaker being less effective, and because lacking the keys means needing to fight a large number of monsters before the Mother Demon will emerge, using up much of your precious ammo. Your only real choice in this situation is to use the [[BFG 9000]], but it requires precise timing and enough plasma cells conserved through the previous battle against the horde of enemies. The [[rocket launcher]] is the next best alternative.
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* Like the [[revenant]], it is possible for the homing projectiles fired by the Mother Demon to enter an orbit around the player. The arcing manner in which she fires them makes this a much more rare phenomenon, however.
* The game's [[Doom 64: Official Game Secrets|official strategy guide]] refers to the monster as "The Boss."<ref name="D64OSG"> Osborne, Ian, Nick Roberts, and Jem Roberts. ''[[Doom 64: Official Game Secrets]]''. Prima Publishing, 1997.</ref>
* In [[Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil]], when you bring the stone artifact to the scientist for scanning, during his conversation with [[Dr. Elizabeth McNeil]], a stone tablet bearing an image of the [[Helltime Hunter]] can be seen which appears strangely similar to the Mother Demon.
* The final boss of {{wp|Half-Life (video game)|Half-Life}}, [[combine:Nihilanth|Nihilanth]], greatly resembles the Mother Demon. Like the Mother Demon, Nihilanth has multiple arms, vestigial legs and an oversized head, and attacks with volleys of homing projectiles.
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