Tropescilloscope: Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas

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

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Non-Indicative Name Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Betty and Veronica Award-Bait Song Demonic Possession Beware the Nice Ones Older Than They Look Romantic False Lead Didn't Think This Through Heel Realization Unspoken Plan Guarantee One-Word Title Calling the Old Man Out A Father to His Men You Have Failed Me Shipper on Deck Hollywood Law Artistic License – Physics Meaningful Background Event Only Known by Their Nickname Evil Is Petty Made of Iron Bolivian Army Ending Silent Movie Big Fancy House Catapult Nightmare Mighty Whitey "Shaggy Dog" Story Slashed Throat Bullying a Dragon Jerkass Peek-a-Boo Corpse Foil Action Survivor Music Stories Bond One-Liner Disproportionate Retribution Love Triangle Suddenly SHOUTING! In Medias Res Black Best Friend Captain Obvious Cruel and Unusual Death Male Gaze Fire-Forged Friends Badass Longcoat Does This Remind You of Anything? Almost Kiss Leave the Camera Running Annoying Younger Sibling Body Horror Actually Pretty Funny Sequel Hook Worthy Opponent Half the Man He Used to Be Cat Scare Hollywood Darkness Determinator aka: The Determinator Auto Erotica Japanese Films Ship Tease Hidden Depths I Need a Freaking Drink "The Reason You Suck" Speech It Can Think Everyone Has Standards Amoral Attorney Hero Antagonist Corpsing O.O.C. Is Serious Business Parental Neglect Arch-Enemy Flipping the Bird Broken Pedestal Karma Houdini Unreliable Narrator Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy She's Got Legs Historical In-Joke Cat Fight The Film of the Book One Steve Limit Facial Horror Vitriolic Best Buds Badass Boast Off-into-the-Distance Ending Closed Circle Stepford Smiler Slasher Smile Foregone Conclusion Batman Gambit Paper-Thin Disguise The Smurfette Principle Overprotective Dad The Un-Reveal Mercy Kill Black Comedy Rape Hong Kong Films Take a Third Option BFG Skewed Priorities Dramatic Gun Cock Hell Is That Noise Serious Business Rousing Speech Boom, Headshot! Combat Pragmatist Small Name, Big Ego Canon Foreigner Only Sane Man The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Let's Get Dangerous! 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Is a Crapshoot Here We Go Again! Only One Name An Aesop Central Theme The Hero Dies Military and Warfare Films Historical Hero Upgrade Chekhov's Gunman Chiaroscuro Determinator Captain Ersatz Camera Abuse The Cavalry Hope Spot Posthumous Character Tranquil Fury Reasonable Authority Figure Authority Equals Asskicking Pre-Mortem One-Liner Blood from the Mouth Better to Die than Be Killed Not So Above It All Blackmail Manic Pixie Dream Girl Properly Paranoid Show Within a Show Mexican Standoff Hair-Trigger Temper French Films Darkest Hour Break the Haughty For the Evulz Black Dude Dies First Film Series Our Zombies Are Different Stalker with a Crush Advertised Extra The '50s Earn Your Happy Ending Romantic Comedy Big Bad Obfuscating Stupidity Early-Bird Cameo The Cameo Large Ham Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Never My Fault '80s Hair Scary Black Man Taking You with Me It Will Never Catch On Cool Shades Improbable Aiming Skills Creative Closing Credits Accidental Murder Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Logo Joke Dwindling Party Left the Background Music On Anachronism Stew Film Noir Index Disguised in Drag Pay Evil unto Evil Mistaken for Gay All Men Are Perverts Informed Ability Product Placement Daddy's Girl Mama Bear Reality Is Unrealistic Dark Is Not Evil Freudian Excuse Fatal Family Photo A Date with Rosie Palms Stylistic Suck Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Vomit Discretion Shot The Bully I Did What I Had to Do Papa Wolf Evil-Detecting Dog Bilingual Bonus Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Cool Old Guy Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The '90s Oh, Crap! 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A God Am I Obviously Evil Parental Abandonment No Celebrities Were Harmed Scare Chord Arranged Marriage Broken Bird Alpha Bitch Put on a Bus Pragmatic Villainy Even Evil Has Standards Badass Bookworm Crazy Jealous Guy Shoot the Shaggy Dog Playing Gertrude Mad Scientist Training Montage The Power of Love The Oner Loads and Loads of Characters Have a Gay Old Time Anachronic Order Red Oni, Blue Oni Idiot Ball Breaking the Fourth Wall Chekhov's Skill Imagine Spot Totally Radical Wretched Hive Dramedy Take That! Gender Flip Together in Death Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Rule of Cool Gratuitous English Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Defiant to the End Expository Hairstyle Change The '60s Country Matters Children Are Innocent Armor-Piercing Question Jerk Jock How We Got Here Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The Alcoholic Dirty Coward Important Haircut Adapted Out Eldritch Abomination Four-Temperament Ensemble Dark Action Girl Rewatch Bonus Wounded Gazelle Gambit Exactly What It Says on the Tin The Lost Lenore From Nobody to Nightmare Age Lift Frame-Up Outrun the Fireball Lighter and Softer Slap-Slap-Kiss Groin Attack Real Life Writes the Plot Evil vs. Evil Berserk Button Naïve Newcomer Adaptation Expansion Cowboy Cop Random Events Plot Cain and Abel Adaptational Attractiveness Cool Car Obstructive Bureaucrat Aluminum Christmas Trees The X of Y Plucky Comic Relief Adaptation Distillation Corrupt Corporate Executive Irony No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Funny Foreigner Be Careful What You Wish For Precision F-Strike Flashback Deconstruction Sole Survivor Kids Are Cruel Genre Shift Adults Are Useless Book-Ends Empathic Environment World of Ham Nice Hat Evil Brit Celebrity Paradox Dull Surprise Jump Scare Poor Communication Kills Bring My Brown Pants Toplessness from the Back La Résistance Double-Meaning Title As the Good Book Says... 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Animated Credits Opening Punch-Clock Villain Madness Mantra Green-Eyed Monster Bad Boss Say My Name Drill Sergeant Nasty Knife Nut Funny Background Event Big Bad Duumvirate Antagonist Title Vacation Films The '70s Henpecked Husband All Girls Want Bad Boys Horror Comedy Our Vampires Are Different It's Personal Aside Glance What the Hell, Hero? The Stoner Anguished Declaration of Love Villain Opening Scene Does Not Like Shoes The Mafia Well-Intentioned Extremist Would Hit a Girl Bond Villain Stupidity Composite Character Big Brother Instinct Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Dissonant Serenity Crucified Hero Shot Brick Joke Protagonist Title Artistic License – Gun Safety B-Movie Drugs Are Bad Dies Wide Open Only a Flesh Wound Cassandra Truth Throwing Your Sword Always Works Red Shirt Bad "Bad Acting" Manly Tears As Long as It Sounds Foreign Enemy Mine Amusing Injuries Faking the Dead You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Spiritual Successor Narrator The Sociopath The Stinger Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Deliberately Monochrome Kill 'em All Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Developing Doomed Characters Shown Their Work Token Minority No Ending Ripped from the Headlines Jerk with a Heart of Gold Freeze-Frame Bonus Self-Deprecation Scenery Gorn Redshirt Army "Awesome McCool" Name Contrived Coincidence All There in the Manual German Films Curse Cut Short Bavarian Fire Drill Unusual Euphemism Horror Films I Have Your Wife The End... Or Is It? Rule of Funny Good Is Not Nice Make It Look Like an Accident Vampire Fiction Bitch in Sheep's Clothing The Dreaded Red Eyes, Take Warning Thriller Too Dumb to Live Shirtless Scene Sports Stories Black and Gray Morality Asshole Victim Extremely Short Timespan Sequel Escalation The Atoner Even Evil Has Loved Ones Man on Fire Dramatic Irony Badass in a Nice Suit Rule of Three Rule of Symbolism Police are Useless 20 Minutes into the Future The Ditz Face Death with Dignity Honor Before Reason Pretty Little Headshots The Dog Bites Back Science Fiction Films Neck Lift Insistent Terminology There Is No Kill Like Overkill Character Development Babies Ever After Major Injury Underreaction Dressing as the Enemy Due to the Dead Femme Fatale Girl-on-Girl Is Hot One-Man Army Pyrrhic Victory Vomit Indiscretion Shot Cool Old Lady Smoking Is Cool Big "NO!" Eureka Moment Tap on the Head Genre Throwback Adult Fear Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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