Tropescilloscope: Mama Bear

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

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