Tropescilloscope: Mama Bear

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

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