Tropescilloscope: Mama Bear

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

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