Tropescilloscope: Mama Bear

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

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