Tropescilloscope: Mama Bear

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

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