Tropescilloscope: Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas

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

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