Tropescilloscope: Mama Bear

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

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