Tropescilloscope: Mama Bear

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

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