Big Mother is a term used to describe technology or systems that intensely monitor and manage people's lives, similar to the concept of Big Brother in George Orwell's novel “1984.” However, Big Mother focuses more on the protective, nurturing, and controlling aspects of surveillance, often in the context of parenting ...

The thesis of Big Mother begins with the premise that our disembodiment as a species is being engineered, and that, at the same time, we are engineering it through technology.

But later, during the Knull arc, it turns out that Big Mother was actually a symbiote spawned by the symbiote god, Knull.

When she was 18 years old, Linlin gave birth to her first child, starting her family and has since birthed about once a year for 42 years, earning her the epithet of "Big Mom", with some of them being multiple births, eventually having 85 children from 43 husbands.