Tropescilloscope: My Beloved Smother

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

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Badass Longcoat Historical In-Joke Large Ham Dual Wielding Anachronism Stew Psychopathic Manchild Smoking Is Cool Alas, Poor Villain Mind Screw Broken Pedestal Mundane Made Awesome Noodle Incident The Smurfette Principle Ghost Fiction Thriller I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Henpecked Husband Crapsack World Five-Man Band Big Bad Duumvirate Pragmatic Adaptation folderlabel Parental Substitute Sassy Black Woman Damsel in Distress Jerkass Double-Meaning Title Guile Hero Adaptational Villainy Crucified Hero Shot Loads and Loads of Characters Re-Cut Bavarian Fire Drill Beauty Is Never Tarnished The Chessmaster Put on a Bus Cowboy Cop Setting Update Leave the Camera Running Fourth Date Marriage I Need a Freaking Drink Break the Cutie Bowdlerise Sci-Fi Horror Scenery Gorn Japanese Films Overly Long Gag And Starring Offscreen Moment of Awesome Soundtrack Dissonance Darker and Edgier Extremely Short Timespan Not Quite Dead Playing Gertrude All Just a Dream Character Development Flipping the Bird Gainax Ending Left the Background Music On The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite The Big Guy Badass Normal La Résistance Stepford Smiler A.I. Is a Crapshoot Light Is Not Good Blackmail Parental Neglect Rated M for Manly Frame-Up Epic Movie Reality Is Unrealistic Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Grey and Gray Morality Belligerent Sexual Tension Mercy Kill Running Gag Bloodier and Gorier Dark Action Girl Recycled IN SPACE! Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Determinator Evil Is Hammy Curse Cut Short I Have Your Wife Author Avatar Arch-Enemy Never My Fault Manly Tears Aside Glance Tap on the Head Chekhov's Skill Motor Mouth The Atoner Shower Scene Token Minority What Happened to the Mouse? Mighty Whitey Bury Your Gays Riddle for the Ages Honor Before Reason Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Dutch Angle The Mafia Everyone Has Standards The Hero Woman in White Air-Vent Passageway Danny Peary Cult Movies List It's All About Me Anti-Villain Brutal Honesty Pyrrhic Victory NO INDOOR VOICE Police are Useless Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Reasonable Authority Figure Genre Throwback Love at First Sight Deliberate Values Dissonance Disappeared Dad Stock Footage Award-Bait Song Deal with the Devil Covers Always Lie The Brute Cool Shades The Alleged Car Accidental Murder Big Fancy House Breaking the Fourth Wall No OSHA Compliance He Knows Too Much Alliterative Name Camp Gay Big Eater Loophole Abuse Almost Kiss Punny Name Would Hurt a Child Red Shirt Batman Gambit I'm a Humanitarian Hope Spot Narrator Empathic Environment Evil-Detecting Dog Taking You with Me Cat Scare Informed Ability Kids Are Cruel The Bad Guy Wins Earn Your Happy Ending Insane Troll Logic Precision F-Strike Bare Your Midriff Antagonist Title Bad Boss Arc Words Knight Templar Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Vacation Films Nice Hat Final Girl Action Genre Captain Obvious Distracted by the Sexy Coming-of-Age Story Names to Run Away from Really Fast Cool Guns Central Theme Let's Get Dangerous! Your Head A-Splode Faux Affably Evil Death by Sex Stylistic Suck Dramatic Gun Cock Flashback Sadistic Choice Disney Death Body Horror Lighter and Softer Slap-Slap-Kiss Babies Ever After Expy Cain and Abel Arranged Marriage Ironic Echo Heroic BSoD Eldritch Abomination Peek-a-Boo Corpse Vomit Indiscretion Shot Artistic License – Biology Police Brutality Love Triangle Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Artistic License – History Shell-Shocked Veteran Not Even Bothering with the Accent Not What It Looks Like Pimped-Out Dress Affably Evil Idiot Ball Bad "Bad Acting" "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Hypocritical Humor Early Installment Weirdness Disney Villain Death Red Oni, Blue Oni Demonic Possession Ambiguously Gay Truth in Television Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Homage Manipulative Bastard Country Matters Nice Guy One-Man Army Adaptation Name Change Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Betty and Veronica Anyone Can Die Animated Credits Opening Canon Foreigner Unspoken Plan Guarantee Wretched Hive Hoist by His Own Petard Creative Closing Credits Adaptation Distillation A Minor Kidroduction The Cameo Those Two Bad Guys Deus ex Machina Ass Shove Freudian Excuse The Remake Back from the Dead Humans Are Bastards Stealth Hi/Bye Meet Cute Catch-Phrase Cloudcuckoolander Beware the Nice Ones Sanity Slippage Romantic Comedy Serial Killer Man on Fire Meaningful Echo timeperiod Gratuitous English Romantic False Lead Due to the Dead As the Good Book Says... Demoted to Extra Artistic License – Law Obstructive Bureaucrat Reality Has No Subtitles Sinister Minister Gory Discretion Shot Armor-Piercing Question The Cavalry Real Life Writes the Plot Cool Car Sequel Escalation Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Eye Scream Bland-Name Product Science Fiction Films Manic Pixie Dream Girl Malevolent Masked Men Eureka Moment Bloody Hilarious Intergenerational Friendship Depraved Bisexual Anachronic Order Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Tranquil Fury How We Got Here Soft Glass Show Within a Show One-Word Title Pretty Little Headshots Imagine Spot Death of a Child Those Two Guys Posthumous Character Rewatch Bonus Vomit Discretion Shot Revenge Match Cut Make It Look Like an Accident Big Bad Mr. Fanservice Take That! Stealth Pun Hero of Another Story My Beloved Smother Book-Ends For Want of a Nail Be Careful What You Wish For Celebrity Paradox Karmic Death Credits Gag Stalker with a Crush Unreliable Narrator The Dreaded Advertised Extra The Vamp The Stinger Hong Kong Films Drugs Are Bad Brick Joke Dumb Blonde Awesome, but Impractical Friend to All Children Kick the Son of a Bitch Retirony Brother–Sister Incest Bi the Way Even Evil Has Standards Action Girl Vitriolic Best Buds Straight Gay Fingore An Aesop Throwing Your Sword Always Works Evil Sounds Deep Chiaroscuro Martial Arts Movie The Voiceless No Antagonist Parental Incest Evil Is Petty Race Lift Villain Protagonist Ax-Crazy Bilingual Bonus Adult Fear Up to Eleven Good Is Not Nice Funny Foreigner Face Death with Dignity Hidden Depths The Bully Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Dark and Troubled Past Canadian Movies Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Hero Antagonist Black Comedy Does Not Like Shoes Attempted Rape 20 Minutes into the Future Wicked Cultured Overprotective Dad Chekhov's Gun My Greatest Failure Broken Aesop Destination Defenestration Would Hit a Girl Leitmotif Took a Level in Badass Mama Bear The Smart Guy Mexican Standoff Chase Scene Laser-Guided Karma Camera Abuse Villainous Breakdown The '60s She Cleans Up Nicely More Dakka Red Herring Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Big "NO!" No Ending Mugging the Monster In Name Only Establishing Character Moment Wham Shot Time Skip Too Dumb to Live Badass Bookworm Conspicuous CG Gorn Death Glare The Oner Action Survivor May–December Romance Early-Bird Cameo You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Adapted Out Bittersweet Ending No Celebrities Were Harmed Black Comedy Rape Pretty in Mink N-Word Privileges Abusive Parents Authority Equals Asskicking Bald of Evil Despair Event Horizon Really Gets Around Red Right Hand Very Loosely Based on a True Story Rule of Funny Ungrateful Bastard Amusing Injuries Neck Lift Psychological Thriller It's Personal Badass Boast Famous Last Words Big Damn Heroes Adaptation Expansion Documentary Gold Digger Knife Nut Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Male Gaze Slasher Smile Fanservice Extra Adults Are Useless Karma Houdini The '80s '80s Hair Worthy Opponent The '50s Unwitting Instigator of Doom Lampshade Hanging Shown Their Work Ripped from the Headlines Logo Joke Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Power of Love Well-Intentioned Extremist Failed a Spot Check Animal Motifs Decoy Protagonist Heterosexual Life-Partners Madness Mantra Only a Flesh Wound Bond One-Liner Fish out of Water Fake Shemp Darkest Hour Bullying a Dragon True Companions Foregone Conclusion Improbable Aiming Skills Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Off-into-the-Distance Ending Australian Movies Fatal Flaw Not So Above It All Eiffel Tower Effect Adaptational Heroism Our Zombies Are Different Smug Snake Major Injury Underreaction Undying Loyalty Fantasy Films Line-of-Sight Name There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Great Depression Curb-Stomp Battle Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Mad Scientist Evil Laugh Easily Forgiven Gone Horribly Right Improbable Weapon User Black Dude Dies First Driven to Suicide Artistic License – Military Word of God Dropped a Bridge on Him Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Only Known by Their Nickname The Lost Lenore Obviously Evil Training Montage From Bad to Worse A God Am I Super Strength Say My Name Real Life Bait-and-Switch Race Against the Clock Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Slasher Movie Whole Plot Reference Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass The Dog Bites Back Crazy Jealous Guy Improvised Weapon Death by Irony Missing Mom An Arm and a Leg Punch-Clock Villain Asshole Victim Bloodless Carnage Adorkable Facial Horror Black Best Friend Christmas Movies Index Chewing the Scenery Zombie Stories Rule of Cool Bar Brawl Face–Heel Turn Silence Is Golden My God, What Have I Done? O.O.C. Is Serious Business Morality Pet Corrupt Corporate Executive All Girls Want Bad Boys Villain Song Extreme Doormat The Mole "Shaggy Dog" Story Important Haircut Adaptational Attractiveness Mistaken for Gay Dies Wide Open Bottomless Magazines Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Death by Adaptation All There in the Manual Your Cheating Heart Cat Fight Shut Up, Hannibal! Rule of Three Refuge in Audacity Properly Paranoid Combat Pragmatist Ominous Latin Chanting Skewed Priorities Suspiciously Similar Substitute The Faceless Blood from the Mouth Butt-Monkey Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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The Ditz Needs Wiki Magic Love Meaningful Name Mr. Exposition Neck Snap Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Leaning on the Fourth Wall And the Adventure Continues Break the Haughty British Films Lock and Load Montage Deadpan Snarker Outrun the Fireball I Did What I Had to Do Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Mystery and Detective Films "Well Done, Son!" Guy The Lancer BFG The Starscream The '70s Tagline Downer Ending Dirty Coward Retcon Scary Black Man Author Appeal Laughing Mad Papa Wolf Cassandra Truth Once More, with Clarity! Rule of Symbolism Evil Plan Captain Ersatz Not Using the "Z" Word Fan Disservice "Awesome McCool" Name Dramedy Happily Married No-Sell Beard of Evil Sexy Discretion Shot The Chick Double Entendre Affectionate Parody Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie As Himself I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Abhorrent Admirer Yandere Off with His Head! Hypocrite Blood Knight Instant Death Bullet The Un-Reveal Military and Warfare Films Deconstruction Better to Die than Be Killed Fatal Family Photo Hate Sink Fate Worse than Death Every Car Is a Pinto Groin Attack Totally Radical Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Italian Films Sports Stories What the Hell, Hero? After the End Horror Comedy Historical Villain Upgrade Naked People Are Funny Married to the Job Annoying Younger Sibling Pet the Dog He Who Fights Monsters Ms. Fanservice Silent Movie Video Credits Product Placement Eagleland All for Nothing MacGuffin The Dragon It Will Never Catch On Eyepatch of Power Handicapped Badass Television Movie Index Implacable Man Genre Shift Sealed Evil in a Can Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Drill Sergeant Nasty Dogged Nice Guy Corpsing Cool Old Lady Developing Doomed Characters Becoming the Mask Obfuscating Stupidity Never Trust a Trailer Based on a True Story The X of Y Boom, Headshot! 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