Tropescilloscope: Mama Bear

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

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