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