Tropescilloscope: My Beloved Smother

A controlling, clingy and overly-protective mother. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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