Tropescilloscope: Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas

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

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Deliberately Monochrome Psycho for Hire The Mole Smug Snake Chewing the Scenery Real Life Writes the Plot Epic Fail Hero Antagonist Properly Paranoid Does This Remind You of Anything? From Nobody to Nightmare Wham Line You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Big Eater Eldritch Abomination The Starscream Film Series Paper-Thin Disguise Instant Death Bullet MacGuffin My God, What Have I Done? Bar Brawl Superhero Expy Jerkass Call-Back Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Darkest Hour Spiritual Successor Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Fourth Date Marriage "Well Done, Son!" 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Is a Crapshoot Humiliation Conga Not Using the "Z" Word Evil Brit Artistic License – Physics Music Stories I Did What I Had to Do Mama Bear Historical Villain Upgrade Deadpan Snarker In Medias Res As Long as It Sounds Foreign Hate Sink Ungrateful Bastard Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun And I Must Scream The Voiceless Cruel and Unusual Death Badass Longcoat Credits Gag Rape as Drama Disney Villain Death Sports Stories After the End Henpecked Husband Christmas Movies Index Pre-Mortem One-Liner Man on Fire Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Mythology Gag Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Artistic License – Biology An Axe to Grind The Atoner Fanservice Extra Frame-Up Pyrrhic Victory Mugging the Monster 20 Minutes into the Future Dual Wielding Market-Based Title Celebrity Paradox Romantic Comedy Kubrick Stare NO INDOOR VOICE Not What It Looks Like Expository Hairstyle Change No-Sell Black and Gray Morality Needs Wiki Magic Love Author Avatar Award-Bait Song Disproportionate Retribution "Awesome McCool" Name Drowning My Sorrows Random Events Plot Dull Surprise Your Head A-Splode For the Evulz What Happened to the Mouse? Exact Words Friend to All Children Obfuscating Stupidity Hidden Depths Empathic Environment Hypocrite And the Adventure Continues Drill Sergeant Nasty All Just a Dream Offscreen Teleportation Psychological Thriller Pragmatic Adaptation Canon Foreigner Retcon BFG Defiant to the End Big Fancy House Unusually Uninteresting Sight Rousing Speech Parental Incest Diabolus ex Machina Naïve Newcomer Slasher Smile Bad Boss Anguished Declaration of Love Evil Counterpart Parental Abandonment Plot Hole Villain with Good Publicity Anyone Can Die Early Installment Weirdness Drives Like Crazy Dutch Angle Bilingual Bonus Vitriolic Best Buds Captain Obvious Blood Knight Ms. Fanservice Deus ex Machina Unreliable Narrator Death Glare Soft Glass No OSHA Compliance Let's Get Dangerous! 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Dramedy Dramatic Irony Sexy Discretion Shot Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Affectionate Parody Neck Snap Chase Scene Arch-Enemy Does Not Like Shoes Russian Films Catapult Nightmare Sacrificial Lion Light Is Not Good Authority Equals Asskicking Final Girl Vomit Discretion Shot Villain Opening Scene Fantastic Racism Dwindling Party Only Known by Their Nickname Death of a Child Action Survivor Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Fun with Acronyms Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Fanservice Trailers Always Spoil Punny Name Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Non-Indicative Name Deliberate Values Dissonance Unwitting Instigator of Doom Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" One-Man Army Sealed Evil in a Can Worthy Opponent Those Two Bad Guys Horror Comedy Retired Badass It Can Think Crapsack World Stealth Hi/Bye Chekhov's Skill Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Double-Meaning Title Police are Useless Humans Are Bastards Every Car Is a Pinto Stock Footage Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Fiery Redhead She Cleans Up Nicely Rule of Three Meaningful Echo Names to Run Away from Really Fast Annoying Younger Sibling Refuge in Audacity Femme Fatale No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Animal Motifs True Companions Brother–Sister Incest Novelization Our Zombies Are Different Yandere Body Horror Dark Is Not Evil Foreshadowing Video Credits Stealth Pun The Power of Love Eureka Moment Actually Pretty Funny She's Got Legs The Dragon Apocalypse How Blood from the Mouth How We Got Here Big "NO!" Military and Warfare Films Scary Black Man Bowdlerise Spanner in the Works Outrun the Fireball Would Hit a Girl Bait-and-Switch Cluster F-Bomb Thriller Red Right Hand The '90s Cold-Blooded Torture Ghost Fiction Only in It for the Money Adaptational Heroism Bound and Gagged The Great Depression Put on a Bus The Chick