Tropescilloscope: Mama Bear

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

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