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