Tropescilloscope: My Beloved Smother

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

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