Tropescilloscope: Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas

Mothers are important to everybody, even villains. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Blood from the Mouth Credits Gag Training Montage Death by Adaptation Soundtrack Dissonance Race Lift As Himself Wham Line Freeze-Frame Bonus Cluster F-Bomb Ungrateful Bastard Death by Sex Obstructive Bureaucrat B-Movie Distracted by the Sexy Put on a Bus Handicapped Badass Groin Attack Badass Grandpa British Films Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Accidental Murder Breaking the Fourth Wall Fat Bastard Leitmotif Narrator Apocalypse How Psycho for Hire Victoria's Secret Compartment Moment Killer Killed Mid-Sentence Back from the Dead Pragmatic Adaptation Artistic License – Physics Retired Badass Leave the Camera Running You Killed My Father No Ending Greater-Scope Villain Politically Incorrect Villain Film Noir What the Hell, Hero? Covers Always Lie Kill It with Fire Small Name, Big Ego Black Comedy Rape Villain Protagonist Rasputinian Death All Just a Dream Becoming the Mask "Awesome McCool" Name I Did What I Had to Do Stealth Pun Smoking Is Cool Psychological Thriller Villain Song My Greatest Failure Only Sane Man Lighter and Softer Black and Gray Morality Random Events Plot Nothing Is Scarier Shipper on Deck The Mafia Early Installment Weirdness Ass Shove Deal with the Devil Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Film of the Book Improvised Weapon Anyone Can Die Hate Sink Animated Credits Opening Alliterative Name Closed Circle Red Right Hand Evil Brit Riddle for the Ages Empathic Environment Defiant to the End Documentary Animal Title Index Improbable Weapon User Action Girl Hollywood Darkness Award-Bait Song Poor Communication Kills Eye Scream Exactly What It Says on the Tin Tranquil Fury Deliberately Monochrome Even Evil Has Loved Ones Rule of Three Wicked Cultured Genre Throwback Alas, Poor Villain German Films Punch-Clock Villain Sacrificial Lion Evil Plan Mistaken for Gay Insane Troll Logic Evil Counterpart For the Evulz Vitriolic Best Buds I Have Your Wife Diabolus ex Machina Badass in a Nice Suit Earn Your Happy Ending Suspiciously Specific Denial Broken Pedestal Take That! La Résistance Imagine Spot Crazy-Prepared Hero Antagonist Unresolved Sexual Tension A God Am I Punny Name Slashed Throat An Arm and a Leg And I Must Scream Bond Villain Stupidity The Dreaded Continuity Nod Pretty in Mink Slasher Movie Male Gaze The Quiet One Kill 'em All Light Is Not Good Unusual Euphemism Outrun the Fireball Facial Horror Red Eyes, Take Warning Only One Name Authority Equals Asskicking Danny Peary Cult Movies List Worthy Opponent Bald of Evil Pay Evil unto Evil Police are Useless Better to Die than Be Killed Bullying a Dragon Fake Shemp Room Full of Crazy Works Set in World War II Hooker with a Heart of Gold Dies Wide Open Action Genre Happily Married Posthumous Character Boom, Headshot! Bare Your Midriff Sinister Minister Beware the Nice Ones Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Slap-Slap-Kiss Dissonant Serenity Scary Black Man Fire-Forged Friends Playing Gertrude In the Back Pimped-Out Dress Rule of Cool Cool Car Arch-Enemy Domestic Abuse Antagonist Title Anguished Declaration of Love Captain Ersatz Morality Pet Re-Cut Paper-Thin Disguise Big Applesauce Half the Man He Used to Be The Chick Hollywood Law Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Dropped a Bridge on Him The Atoner No Antagonist Grey and Gray Morality Unwitting Instigator of Doom Obviously Evil Berserk Button Villain with Good Publicity Mind Screw Say My Name Artistic License – Law No OSHA Compliance Disney Death Bottomless Magazines Gorn Romantic Comedy Genre Savvy Revenge Biopic Dark Reprise The Ghost Epic Fail Heterosexual Life-Partners Shout-Out Casting Gag Spell My Name with an "S" Didn't Think This Through Big-Bad Ensemble Dogged Nice Guy Together in Death Damsel in Distress A Date with Rosie Palms Interrupted Suicide Never My Fault Romantic False Lead The Place Easily Forgiven Humiliation Conga 20 Minutes into the Future Creator Cameo Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Brainless Beauty Amusing Injuries Fiery Redhead Faking the Dead Your Cheating Heart My God, What Have I Done? Cowboy Cop Psychopathic Manchild I'm a Humanitarian Meaningful Echo I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Costume Porn Line-of-Sight Name Bolivian Army Ending Cruel and Unusual Death Cain and Abel Hair-Trigger Temper Attempted Rape Drowning My Sorrows Sole Survivor The Dragon Cat Fight As You Know One Steve Limit Video Credits Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Deconstruction Never Trust a Trailer Peek-a-Boo Corpse "Shaggy Dog" Story Anti-Hero Unreliable Narrator Stuff Blowing Up Retirony Shirtless Scene Dark Is Not Evil Action Survivor Mexican Standoff Children Are Innocent Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Hero of Another Story Tagline Token Minority Evil-Detecting Dog Call-Back Villainous Breakdown The Starscream Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Immune to Bullets Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Fainting Hope Spot Actor Allusion Dirty Coward Tempting Fate Too Dumb to Live Irony Time Skip Implacable Man Informed Ability Wounded Gazelle Gambit Black Best Friend Funny Foreigner Non-Indicative Name Well-Intentioned Extremist Creative Closing Credits For Want of a Nail Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Dramatic Irony Horror Films Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Green-Eyed Monster Older Than They Look Mystery and Detective Films Pyrrhic Victory Funny Background Event Bland-Name Product Spared by the Adaptation Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Does This Remind You of Anything? Determinator Kubrick Stare Guns Akimbo It Will Never Catch On Same Language Dub From Bad to Worse Jerk Jock Eldritch Abomination The Hero Dies Adorkable Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Skewed Priorities Amoral Attorney Big Damn Heroes Naïve Newcomer Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Bittersweet Ending Heel–Face Turn Word of God Crucified Hero Shot Large Ham As Long as It Sounds Foreign Kids Are Cruel Big "NO!" Mugging the Monster Establishing Character Moment Obfuscating Stupidity Badass Bookworm Made of Iron Almost Kiss Reality Has No Subtitles The Big Guy And Starring Laser-Guided Karma Heel Realization The Reveal Shoot the Shaggy Dog Mercy Kill No Name Given All for Nothing Recycled IN SPACE! The Mole No-Sell Madness Mantra Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Ax-Crazy Villain Opening Scene Driven to Suicide Motor Mouth Actually Pretty Funny Super Strength Those Wacky Nazis Badass Boast Sealed Evil in a Can Grievous Bottley Harm The Load Those Two Bad Guys Suspiciously Similar Substitute Important Haircut It Can Think Television Movie Index Vampire Fiction Blackmail Overly Long Gag Drugs Are Bad Names to Run Away from Really Fast Horror Comedy Lock and Load Montage The Oner Self-Deprecation Plot Hole Ascended Extra Shower Scene Film Series Sci-Fi Horror Jerkass Has a Point Despair Event Horizon N-Word Privileges Crazy Jealous Guy It's Personal All Men Are Perverts Conspicuous CG Catapult Nightmare The '80s As the Good Book Says... Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Neck Snap Needs Wiki Magic Love Parental Neglect Freudian Excuse There Is No Kill Like Overkill MacGuffin Christmas Movies Index Evil Is Petty Stylistic Suck Storming the Castle Ominous Latin Chanting Adaptational Badass Downer Ending Alpha Bitch Department of Redundancy Department Instant Death Bullet Karmic Death Author Avatar French Films Manipulative Bastard Canadian Movies Historical Hero Upgrade He Who Fights Monsters Precision F-Strike The Brute The Cavalry Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Big Bad Only Known by Their Nickname Manchild Faux Affably Evil Wham Shot Demoted to Extra A Father to His Men The Cameo My Beloved Smother '80s Hair Destination Defenestration Armor-Piercing Question Mundane Made Awesome Lampshade Hanging Age Lift Did Not Get the Girl Break the Cutie The End... Or Is It? Annoying Younger Sibling The '70s Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Cloudcuckoolander Only in It for the Money Evil vs. Evil Brutal Honesty Bloodless Carnage Shown Their Work Public Domain Feature Films Roaring Rampage of Revenge Film Noir Index Bavarian Fire Drill Adaptation Distillation Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Drives Like Crazy Adaptation Dye-Job Knight Templar Scenery Porn Market-Based Title Ambiguous Ending Our Zombies Are Different Those Two Guys Rated M for Manly Shell-Shocked Veteran Babies Ever After Woman in White Extremely Short Timespan Badass Longcoat She's Got Legs Suddenly SHOUTING! Nice Guy Framing Device Celebrity Paradox Dutch Angle Bilingual Bonus Mythology Gag Bloodier and Gorier Anti-Villain Jitter Cam Here We Go Again! Cold-Blooded Torture Chekhov's Gunman The Remake Composite Character Fourth Date Marriage Combat Pragmatist An Axe to Grind Insult Backfire Offscreen Teleportation Henpecked Husband Awesome, but Impractical Love at First Sight Took a Level in Jerkass Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Cassandra Truth Humans Are Bastards Fatal Flaw Spiritual Successor Men Are the Expendable Gender Advertised Extra Serious Business Chekhov's Skill Dying Moment of Awesome Curse Cut Short Russian Films Australian Movies Tap on the Head Bound and Gagged Protagonist Title Serial Killer Corrupt Corporate Executive Gender Flip Hell Is That Noise Due to the Dead Running Gag Evil Laugh Bi the Way Belligerent Sexual Tension Sequel Hook Affectionate Parody Foregone Conclusion Card-Carrying Villain Gilligan Cut Body Horror Defrosting Ice Queen From Nobody to Nightmare Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Death by Irony Superhero Unspoken Plan Guarantee Dark and Troubled Past Hidden Depths O.O.C. Is Serious Business Dressing as the Enemy Took a Level in Badass Brick Joke Call-Forward Double Entendre Good Is Not Nice Cool Guns Hong Kong Films Eagleland Air-Vent Passageway Face Death with Dignity Soft Glass Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Determinator aka: The Determinator The Stoner Scenery Gorn Spiteful Spit Artistic License – Geography Badass Normal Gone Horribly Right Country Matters Redshirt Army The '90s Off with His Head! Vomit Discretion Shot Beauty Is Never Tarnished Dull Surprise Darkest Hour Married to the Job Love Triangle Bait-and-Switch Monumental Damage Five-Man Band Pet the Dog Taking the Bullet Pre-Asskicking One-Liner "Well Done, Son!" Guy Kick the Son of a Bitch Drill Sergeant Nasty "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Artistic License – Military Fantasy Films Malevolent Masked Men The Alleged Car Ambiguously Gay Mad Scientist In Medias Res Historical In-Joke Catch-Phrase One-Word Title True Companions Book-Ends Agony of the Feet Auto Erotica Arc Words Yandere Sports Stories Dwindling Party Gold Digger Taking You with Me And the Adventure Continues Real Life Writes the Plot Zombie Stories Animal Motifs Our Vampires Are Different Police Brutality Japanese Films Anachronic Order Dirty Cop Slasher Smile Evil Sounds Deep All Girls Want Bad Boys Refuge in Audacity Curb-Stomp Battle Bring My Brown Pants What You Are in the Dark Disney Villain Death Would Hit a Girl Kick the Dog Not Quite Dead Off-into-the-Distance Ending Get Out! Rule of Funny Ironic Echo Ripped from the Headlines Mighty Whitey Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Your Head A-Splode War Is Hell Knife Nut The '50s Evil Is Hammy Parental Abandonment Artistic License – History Canon Foreigner Chiaroscuro Decoy Protagonist Bunny-Ears Lawyer Plucky Comic Relief Calling the Old Man Out The Alcoholic Bowdlerise Death of a Child Brother–Sister Incest Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Ditz Sir Swears-a-Lot Deliberate Values Dissonance Sassy Black Woman The Faceless Daylight Horror Aside Glance Jerkass BFG Insistent Terminology Naked People Are Funny Broken Aesop The Musical Gory Discretion Shot Black Dude Dies First Fanservice Extra Blatant Lies Silent Movie Music Stories Italian Films Ambiguous Disorder Offscreen Moment of Awesome Camp Gay The Dog Bites Back The Stoic Cat Scare Pretty Little Headshots Intergenerational Friendship Bad Boss Spanner in the Works Fish out of Water Extreme Doormat Translation Convention More Dakka You Have Failed Me Historical Villain Upgrade This Is Gonna Suck Early-Bird Cameo Throwing Your Sword Always Works Real Life Character Development Expository Hairstyle Change Missing Mom Foil Big Bad Duumvirate Setting Update Butt-Monkey Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Shut Up, Hannibal! Car Fu Pragmatic Villainy The Sociopath Developing Doomed Characters Redemption Equals Death Abusive Parents Adaptational Heroism Last-Name Basis Wrong Genre Savvy Disappeared Dad Woman Scorned Vacation Films Friend to All Children Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Affably Evil Idiot Ball Beard of Evil Have a Gay Old Time Not So Stoic Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Expy Show Within a Show Mr. Fanservice Rousing Speech Depraved Bisexual Manic Pixie Dream Girl Title Drop Darker and Edgier Big Brother Instinct Oh, Crap! Straight Gay Improbable Aiming Skills The Chessmaster Heroic BSoD Visual Pun Product Placement Getting Crap Past the Radar Artistic License – Biology Laughing Mad No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Corpsing Adaptational Villainy The '60s How We Got Here Chekhov's Gun The Bad Guy Wins Loads and Loads of Characters Adaptation Expansion Fanservice Maybe Ever After Manly Tears Homage Daddy's Girl Very Loosely Based on a True Story Mooks Scare Chord Fantastic Racism Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Central Theme Star-Crossed Lovers The Great Depression The Ace In Name Only Make It Look Like an Accident Batman Gambit Chase Scene The Smart Guy Black Comedy Vomit Indiscretion Shot Camera Abuse World of Ham Comically Missing the Point Adults Are Useless Fingore Neck Lift Nice Hat Dark Action Girl Bloody Hilarious Final Girl Deus ex Machina Chewing the Scenery Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Really Gets Around Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Hypocritical Humor Left the Background Music On Villain Ball folderlabel Guile Hero "The Reason You Suck" Speech Cool Old Lady Not What It Looks Like Author Appeal Crapsack World You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Wretched Hive Death Seeker Ghost Fiction Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Does Not Like Shoes Unusually Uninteresting Sight Coming-of-Age Story Even Evil Has Standards Toplessness from the Back Beta Couple Fun with Acronyms It's All About Me Creepy Child Big Eater Thriller Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The Power of Love Every Car Is a Pinto Dramedy Pre-Mortem One-Liner Double-Meaning Title Four-Temperament Ensemble Take a Third Option Stealth Hi/Bye Dumb Blonde Enemy Mine Bond One-Liner Up to Eleven Only a Flesh Wound Once More, with Clarity! Mr. Exposition Let's Get Dangerous! Asshole Victim Epic Movie Eyepatch of Power Red Shirt He Knows Too Much Bar Brawl Meaningful Name Mama Bear Historical-Domain Character NO INDOOR VOICE Retcon Loophole Abuse Break the Haughty Hoist by His Own Petard Frame-Up Face–Heel Turn Everyone Has Standards Gratuitous English Adaptation Name Change Aluminum Christmas Trees Man on Fire Parental Incest All There in the Script Science Fiction Films Honor Before Reason Disguised in Drag Fate Worse than Death Bad "Bad Acting" Reckless Gun Usage Contrived Coincidence Meaningful Background Event Blood Knight Adaptational Attractiveness Heroes Want Redheads Not So Different Whole Plot Reference Based on a True Story A Minor Kidroduction Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Karma Houdini Noodle Incident One-Man Army Femme Fatale Martial Arts Movie Betty and Veronica Sexy Discretion Shot Military and Warfare Films Arranged Marriage Bury Your Gays Jerk with a Heart of Gold Undying Loyalty Never Found the Body Rewatch Bonus Dramatic Gun Cock Fan Disservice A.I. Is a Crapshoot Meet Cute Accidental Misnaming Genre Shift Red Oni, Blue Oni Trailers Always Spoil Papa Wolf No Celebrities Were Harmed Action Prologue Not So Above It All Gainax Ending Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil An Aesop The Un-Reveal Would Hurt a Child Made of Explodium Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Adult Fear Sanity Slippage Eiffel Tower Effect The Lancer Intrepid Reporter Match Cut After the End Cool Shades Stepford Smiler Broken Bird What Happened to the Mouse? Artistic License – Gun Safety Flashback Totally Radical No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Not Using the "Z" Word Sadistic Choice The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite The Hero Properly Paranoid Ms. Fanservice Death Glare Flipping the Bird Parental Substitute Index of Film Westerns Fatal Family Photo I Want My Beloved to Be Happy The X of Y Race Against the Clock Red Herring All There in the Manual The Voiceless Anachronism Stew The Stinger Major Injury Underreaction Smug Snake Heroic Sacrifice Silence Is Golden She Cleans Up Nicely Reasonable Authority Figure The Vamp Famous Last Words Mood Whiplash Be Careful What You Wish For Screw the Rules, I Have Money! The Lost Lenore Reality Ensues Adapted Out Twist Ending Deadpan Snarker Male Frontal Nudity Truth in Television Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Logo Joke timeperiod Hypocrite Eureka Moment Captain Obvious Rape as Drama Failed a Spot Check I Need a Freaking Drink Exact Words May–December Romance Rule of Symbolism Foreshadowing You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! The Bully Abhorrent Admirer Novelization Reality Is Unrealistic Big Fancy House Jump Scare Cool Old Guy Rich Bitch Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Demonic Possession The Casanova Dual Wielding Dirty Old Man Not Even Bothering with the Accent Disproportionate Retribution The Smurfette Principle Stalker with a Crush Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Stock Footage Ship Tease Sequel Escalation Overprotective Dad