Tropescilloscope: Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas

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

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