Mrs. Smirch

Mrs. Smirch
Mrs. Smirch (right) with her son (center)
Species	Human
First appearance	Game Boy (Team Play) (1990)

Mrs. Smirch is a minor recurring character in the Game Boy comic series. She is the mother of her son Herman Smirch.

History

It's a Small World After All

Mrs. Smirch, while not physically appearing and never referred to as such, is the person who Herman is on the phone with towards the beginning of the issue It's a Small World After All. After Herman yells at some children outside his apartment to be quiet, he apologizes to Mrs. Smirch, explaining that they can bother him sometimes. His mother asks him where he has been for the last two weeks, to which he says that he has been his apartment, explaining that he is afraid to leave it (likely due to his involvement in the events of the previous issue. Mrs. Smirch asks him why he has never answered when she called him multiple times before, and suggests that there is something wrong with him.

Herman explains to his mother that a lot of strange things have been happening to him recently, and starts by saying that he got a Game Boy, and inside it is Tatanga, who needs his help to get out. Mrs. Smirch, confused by his explanation, wonders if he is talking to "a little man" in his video game, to which he explains that Tatanga is doing something to him and has many soldiers. His mother, still confused, believes that he is crazy, and tells him to get rid of the Game Boy and come to her house.

Team Play

Mrs. Smirch makes her only physical appearance in Team Play, where a police officer asks to see her son, Herman Smirch. After lying that she has not seen Herman for months, she tells him, who is hiding in her closet, that the police is gone and that he can come out. She then attempts to show him a brochure advertising a farm in upstate New Jersey with doctors and nurse, though he exclaims that he just wants to be left alone. She then tells Herman that his neighbor back in Piscataway forwarded back the Game Boy he had given to her children, with a note saying that she taught her children not to accept gifts strangers and especially not "weirdos" like Herman. Later that night, Herman, convinced that he cannot let get involved with the situation involving the Game Boy invaders, decides to "borrow" some of her money and her car and drives off to Jerky's Burger Bar.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Finnish	Rouva Smirch	Mrs. Smirch
Swedish	Fru Smirch	Mrs. Smirch