Tropescilloscope: Mama Bear

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

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