Tropescilloscope: My Beloved Smother

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

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