Tropescilloscope: Mama Bear

Mess with her kids, and she will kill you. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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