I'm a Young Mother and I Feel Like I'm Being Baby Sitter by Other People

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"In guild, women are referred to as 'the fairer sex'. Only in the wild, the female species can be far more ferocious than their male counterparts. Defending the nest is both our oldest and strongest instinct. And sometimes, it can as well be the near gratifying."

Like many other mammals depicted throughout history equally predators, bears are actually passive animals, and won't attack humans unless provoked. Despite this, if y'all fifty-fifty recollect about getting betwixt a female parent carry and her cub she'll tear directly through you. Threaten her children, and you are in for a world of hurt. Righteous awesomeness will ensue, and the heroine reclaims her child with a bawling embrace.

Heaven help y'all if an Action Mom or even a Squad Mom invokes this trope. If you recollect a normal Mama Bear is scary, hell hath no fury like a Motherly Scientist with access to One-Human being Army levels of weaponry/applied science/coin/superpowers to protect her children. It can lead to a Did Y'all But Punch Out Cthulhu? moment.

Losing her child may crusade a Start of Darkness into villainy or Anti-Hero-dom... annihilation if information technology will get her revenge, and non just on her own enemy just on anyone who would inflict this aforementioned hurting on others. If the character is already a villain, wait it to overlap with Villainous Parental Instinct.

The Spear Counterpart is referred to equally Papa Wolf rather than "Papa Bear". Disneyfication bated, male person bears are notoriously poor parents in the animal kingdom (infanticide amid bears is the main reason why mama bears are so protective in the offset place), whereas male (and female) wolves volition react to their offspring beingness threatened in a very like mode to mother bears.

Sometimes overlaps with Apron Matron and Pregnant Badass. It tin can exist a cause of Let's Get Dangerous!, showing that the sweet and caring mother figure is dangerous. They may be a Knight Templar Parent. Provides a simultaneously unproblematic and believable way to switch someone between dangerous and more than "cute" modes without compromising the grapheme as either. After all, if It's Personal then the claws come up out.

If an older sibling is the one who takes up the role, s/he is a example of Large Brother Instinct/Large Sister Instinct. For a teacher who behaves like a Mama Bear if their students are threatened, see Badass Teacher. When it's the child who shows extreme feats of bravery or strength, and/or is very protective of their mother, it's Extremely Protective Kid.

Related to Beware the Dainty Ones and Berserk Push button. See too the not-homo counterpart, Monster Is a Mommy. Not to be confused with Bears Are Bad News (unless you're dealing with a literal Mama Bear). The Violently Protective Girlfriend is a much younger class of this trope that applies when the mate is in danger. Evil characters tin utilize this likewise; later on all, Fifty-fifty Evil Has Loved Ones. A particular Subtrope is the Badass and Child Duo which can take the form of a female badass protecting an orphaned, unrelated young child, though male badasses are also mutual. Besides compare Cub Cues Protective Parent for examples from the animal kingdom.

Remember when adding examples that this is Always Female. The male equivalent is Papa Wolf, so all Spear Counterparts should be placed in that location. When Mama Conduct and Papa Wolf team upwardly, it'due south a Boxing Couple and all pairs should exist placed there. Parents in Distress is the inversion, when Mama needs to be bailed out past the kids. If she has a Mama Behave of her ain, it'south a skilful thought to Never Mess with Granny.

Also, remember that this this trope is mama bear, and so it is non about being protective of one's friends, unless of class it is something like an Intergenerational Friendship or Team Mom. In that example, information technology is okay. Otherwise, don't do information technology. Tropes about helping friends should become to A Friend in Demand, The Power of Friendship etc.

This trope is Truth in Tv, and universal.

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    Comic Strips

• Dilbert: Dilbert'due south mother frequently gives her son a hard time, simply she does take exception to MIBs making noises about executing him.
• The Far Side:

  "Tragedy struck when Conroy, his listen preoccupied with work, stepped into the elevator — directly betwixt a female grizzly and her cub."

  • In some other example, two of Larson's typical "dumb kid" types are playing catch with a live grizzly bear cub… unaware that the mother is coming up right behind them. The caption sums it upwardly: "And no one ever heard from the Anderson brothers again."
• Rose is Rose played this trope completely straight with a Sunday strip, featuring Rose transformed into a "Mama Carry" to symbolize her overprotective nature earlier she meets Pasquale's new bodyguard. However, Rose relaxes when she opens the door she finds that the prospective sitter is apparently a Mama Bear besides.

    Music

• Diss Reba McEntire, I dare y'all; Terri Clark will accept your confront off
• A literal Mama Bear appears in mothy's "Moonlit Comport", in which the protagonist, Eve (portrayed by Miku), steals two "apples" from a bear, which then gain to hunt her through the forest. Turns out that the Mama Acquit is a human mother afterwards all, and the two "apples" are actually her twin children, whom she is desperate to think. Out of fright likewise as her desire to have children of her ain since hers are deceased, Eve ends up murdering the "bear".
• "Harper Valley PTA," a 1968 country song sung past Jeannie C. Riley, tells the story of Mrs. Johnson, a young widow living in the sleepy little town of Harper Valley with her teenage daughter (named "Dee" in the movie based on the song). One twenty-four hour period, Dee comes home from school with a notation from the PTA addressed to her female parent, in which the members lecture Mrs. Johnson about how her outlandish behavior, such as drinking in public, dating multiple men, and (GASP!) wearing mini-skirts is setting a bad example for her daughter. In response, an unamused Mrs. Johnson attends the next PTA meeting (while wearing a mini-skirt) and proceeds to air each fellow member'south muddied laundry, exposing them as Hypocrites who are in no position to judge her abilities every bit a parent. The song ends with the narrator revealing herself to be Dee, who describes the event as "the twenty-four hour period my momma socked it to the Harper Valley PTA."

    Myths & Religion

• Persephone'southward female parent Demeter, goddess of the harvest, refuses to permit whatever growth of crops until her daughter is returned to her from the Underworld, resulting in many mortal deaths. Fabricated more than interesting in that Persephone'southward kidnapper/husband is as well her uncle, Demeter'due south younger brother Hades, and that in several versions Persephone was not kidnapped, but actually eloped with him to put herself beyond her mom'southward accomplish.
  • Invoked quite literally in ane story past Zeus. One of his numerous paramours was turned into a conduct by Hera (or Artemis, depending who you lot ask), with ane of the added benefits if it was Hera existence that either the woman or her son would impale the other. Then how does Zeus save both of them? By turning the son into a bearcub.
• Durga from Hindu Mythology. She is a nurturing mother goddess, but she is also a very powerful warrior. As The Berserker Kali, she takes this to a dangerous farthermost.
• Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of fire. Co-ordinate to legend, she regards all the volcanic rocks on the shores of the Big Island to be her children, and will inflict a horrible curse on whatever tourist who dares to accept one of the rocks dwelling with them equally a souvenir.
• Primordial Greek goddess of darkness Nyx, according to Homer, to the extent that Zeus was agape of incurring her wrath by harming her son, Hypnos.
• In 2 Samuel 17:8, when Ahithophel plans to attack King David, Hushai warns against it, noting that David and his mighty men will turn trigger-happy like a bear robbed of her cubs.
  • According to Proverbs 17:12, it is "better to meet a female parent comport robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly." [N.I.5.]
  • A literal example occurs in 2 Kings ii:23-24, as the prophet Elisha is going from Jericho to Bethel afterwards Elijah ascends to heaven in a peppery chariot, some young men mock him for his baldness and tell him to become upward; Elisha calls for a curse, and two female bears assail forty-two of the youths immediately later.
  • Since Proverbs was written during the reign of Male monarch Solomon, and the 2 Kings case occurred some time after Solomon'due south era during the reigns of King Jehoram of Israel and Rex Jehoshaphat of Judah, these examples are Older Than Dirt.
  • In Hosea 13:8, God plans to meet the proud-hearted with the fury of a acquit robbed of her cubs, tearing their rib cages open and devouring them like a lion.

    Roleplay

• Dino Attack RPG has Sarah Bishop. She even got a moment homaging the climax of Aliens. At the aforementioned fourth dimension, withal, Sarah Bishop is partially a deconstruction. She is (understandably) concerned about her daughter being in a war zone, just her own Adult Fearfulness fabricated her completely psychotic to the signal that many players expressed genuine fear of her. This same thing also bankrupt her psychologically once the war was finally over and she'd realized what she had done.

    Tabletop Games

• Unknown Armies has the Mother classic. High-level Avatars of the Female parent become huge bonuses in combat when they're either defending a child, or meaning. The phrase "mama deport" even shows up in the rulebook description of their second Avatar aqueduct.
• Munchkin invokes this with the "Mommy" menu. When someone is in combat with a weaker monster or one that's been turned into a Baby, you can play this card to summon the monster'due south female parent, who is ten levels higher. And woe is you if the Baby + Mommy combo is applied on a Lv. 20 Plutonium Dragon...
• Dungeons & Dragons:
  • 1st and 2nd Edition Advertising&D:
    • Monster Transmission. When a pair of mated dragons have offspring, any attack on the immature dragons causes the father and female parent to attack the intruders with a ferocity bonus of +two to striking and +1/+3 on clawing/biting impairment.
    • Monster Manual Two. If a female chetah's cubs are threatened, she will attack at a +ii to hit and do +ii Hit Points damage per attack.
    • Judges Guild The Dungeoneer magazine #18 "Monster Matrix". If its young are threatened, a female Jinx Cat gains +4 to hitting for 3 gainsay rounds and +2 thereafter.
    • Mayfair Games' Office Aids supplement Lizardmen. When female lizardmen are guarding the eggs in the hatchling puddle, they fight as level three fighters (instead of their normal level one), a bonus given by the lizardman deity Rega.
    • Dungeon mag #18 take a chance "Crocodile Tears". A female wana (50 human foot long crocodile) has buried its eggs underground and is resting nearby. If the PCs attempt to dig upwardly the eggs, she will assault them with great ferocity.
    • Dungeon magazine #28 adventure "Pipes of Doom". The Player Characters may encounter a family group of werewolves. If the PCs attack whatsoever of the young werewolves, their mother will attack the PCs at +iii to hit and do maximum damage for each attack.
    • Dungeon magazine #38 adventure "Things That Go Bump in the Night". The firbolg giantess Lieulg is very protective of her twin sons. If the PCs assail her sons in front of her, she will go enraged and attack them with a +2 bonus on her "to striking" and harm rolls.
    • Dungeon magazine #56 adventure "Briocht". A family of wereboars lives in a modest cottage in the woods. If whatsoever of the four wereboar children are threatened, their mother will attack at a +2 "to hitting" and non have to check her morale.
    • Dungeon magazine #70 adventure "Kingdom of the Ghouls". If the Player Characters assault the troglodytes' hatchlings, the female troglodytes will attack them at +2 on "to striking" and harm rolls.
  • The Grey Return ◊ is a huge monstrosity with a penchant for "adopting" pocket-sized creatures of other species (even ones it would normally consume), to whom it will thereafter bring food and protection. And if you lot dare so much equally look at them funny, it volition tear you down like the squishy lilliputian slice of meat yous are and share your body with its protegés.
  • Gynosphinxes, the sole female person subrace of sphinx, prefers an androsphinx mate, disliking the dimwitted criosphinxes who try to woo them by bribery, and avoiding the vile hieracosphinx who doesn't bother with any pleasantries. Withal, a gynosphinx will defend her cubs to the decease, regardless of who the begetter was.
  • Gargantua are gigantic reptilian (ordinarily) beasts (think Kaiju/Godzilla) found on tropical islands in the Kara-tur setting. Commonly, they shy away from humans, but threaten their offspring and you won't live to regret information technology. Angry gargantua have been known to travel thousands of miles and swim entire oceans to find humans who have harmed their young.
  • The 3rd Edition Splat book Tyrants of the Nine Hells gives a strange example; erinyes and their evolved form, brachina, the merely devils who tin can comport children (other than unique female devils) are said to exist fiercely protective of their offspring, raising them in subconscious and well-guarded enclaves in parts of Hell that are the nigh hostile to beings other than devils.
• In GURPS Bestiary, a sidebar makes it very clear why you lot shouldn't get betwixt a mother animal and her young.

  Mothers protecting their young are the fiercest foes on Globe, and probably anywhere else for that matter. Mother animals know no fear, are quick to feel threatened, take offense easily, and will attack viciously, giving no quarter.

• Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game (SAGA System) Adventure 3 Fantastic 4: Fantastic Voyages. In the adventure "Wild at Heart", a monster emerges from the earth in a small town and starts destroying the place. If the heroes don't subdue the fauna speedily enough, a much larger monster appears and starts searching for the smaller ane — it'southward the smaller monster'due south mother. If the heroes have hurt its kid it volition become berserk, trying to destroy anyone and annihilation it can meet.
• Chaosium'due south generic RPG supplement All the Worlds' Monsters
  • Female bears and tigers: if cubs are attacked, they fight at +2 to hit.
  • Elder Daughters of Kali exercise double damage to anyone attacking her children.
• The Morrow Project. Female bears and pigs are noted as being specially protective of their immature and prone to attack if they are threatened.
• Champions Arrangement Book The Circle and M.E.T.Due east., adventure "The Hatching". The Grand.East.T.E. (Metropolitan Extra Terrestrial Enclave) receives a large spherical object (called Case 39) that was found in a national park. The object eventually hatches out an alien Blob Monster which goes on a rampage. 3 months later the conflicting'due south mother shows up and tries to rescue its kid, and heaven help any superhero who gets in its way.
• Star Fleet Battles. The interstellar monsters known as Space Dragons sometimes ravage inhabited worlds. If a ship gets betwixt a Infinite Dragon mother and its kid, the mother volition alter course, move toward the ship and attack it.
• Run across Disquisitional supplement Asteroid 1618. Inside the Vanishing Pyramid, the PCs can notice eggsacs laid by a Giant Spider. If an eggsac is broken open up (from prodding or gunfire) 1-20 baby spiders will sally and attack the PCs. If PCs kill any of them, the mother spider volition odour the babies' claret on the PCs, runway them down relentlessly and ferociously attack them, doing double harm.
• Hollow World Expedition chief rules sample adventure. When the PCs starting time arrive in the Hollow Earth they will meet a herd of triceratops, including a mother and her child. If the PCs get as well close, the mother volition charge them, and if they assault the child, she will go enraged.
• Khan Aletha Kabrinski of Clan Ghost Bear in BattleTech demonstrated her Mama Carry credentials when Clan Blood Spirit dared to attack an unarmed Ghost Bear ship full of retreating civilians, killing thousands while they were helpless in the send. An enraged Kabrinski ordered every single vessel she had to attack the enemy flagship, including her own warship, regardless of the risk. Kabrinski and her Ghost Bears then tore the Claret Spirit's 810,000-ton heavy battlecruiser to pieces within minutes. Then there was the time that Word of Blake threatened Ghost Acquit holdings, suicide-bombed their previous Khan, and attacked civilians with NBC weapons. Kabrinski led Ghost Acquit forces to personally grind annihilation and everything between her and the Word of Blake into paste—even Draconis Combine forces who were as well fighting the Blakists were trampled underfoot by a wave of angry Ghost Bears led by the de-facto Mama Ghost Bear.
• Varanae generic RPG supplement Monstrum 1. Cerberus are a type of 3-headed dogs. Parents will fight to the death to protect their young.
• Smash Up: One of the factions introduced in the What Were We Thinking? expansion pack is the Grannies. It has an activeness carte du jour chosen "Get Abroad From My Babies!", which protects all of the player's minions from other player's cards. The fine art on the card features an elderly lady fearlessly beating away a werewolf with her Handbag of Injure.
• Midkemia Press's supplement Heart Of The Sunken Lands. If two of the monsters known as Purples are encountered, they will exist a mated pair. I quarter of mated pairs volition have a cub with them. If and so, each Purple will make attacks at +4 "to hitting" while the cub is present.

    Theatre

• Kim from Miss Saigon shoots her own cousin who tries to kill her illegitimate son by an American GI, yelling "I have no other choice, what I must exercise I will!" as she does so. A lot of people call back the part equally a defining moment for Kim, particularly with her screaming "You Will NOT TAKE MY CHILD!"
• The interpretation of Umbridge in A Very Potter Sequel likes to consider herself a mama bear In-Universe — ""It's your Mama Umbridge'south chore to keep her baby bears safe!" Nevertheless, she doesn't actually fulfill this role and just embarrasses the girls.
• Invoked in a Dream Sequence in Dream Girl to evidence that Georgina's killing of Clark Redfield in cold-claret was a justified act of self-defense:

  "For what was this novel of hers that Clark Redfield sought to annihilate with the cruel strokes of his sharp-edged tongue and stabbing wit? It was her baby, ladies and gentlemen, the child of her spirit, as real to her and as dearest to her as though information technology had been, indeed, the flesh-and-blood cosmos of her body. For it was conceived in the beautiful ecstasy of spiritual passion, nurtured for long months in the dark, surreptitious recesses of her soul, brought forth in an agony of travail. And equally information technology lay nestling in her bust, then to speak, Clark Redfield struck at information technology with his lethal weapon! And with the noble, unerring instinct of outraged maternity, she struck back—struck back at the would-be assassinator of her babe. Could any mother, could whatsoever adult female exercise less?"

    Urban Legends

• The Pocket-sized Woman in Gray is an old story well-nigh a woman trying to protect her newborn kid at all costs. It normally starts at a convenience store in Midwest United States. Two guys run a small store. One night, a woman comes in, dressed all in grey, takes a drinking glass container of milk from the dairy instance, and leaves without paying for it. The two guys are frozen for a moment at the audacity of such a shoplifter, and when they run out the door subsequently her, she's gone. Two days later, it happens again, the adult female comes in, takes a bottle of milk, and leaves without paying. The third fourth dimension this happens, they're ready, chasing afterwards her, downward the street, until the eventually lose her. But then they find a pocket-sized cemetery they had never noticed before, and hear a baby crying. Following the cries, they come up upon a fresh grave, where the headstone indicates that it holds a adult female and her baby, who died together, possibly via miscarriage. And the crying is coming from information technology. Not knowing what else to do, they notice shovels, and did up the bury. Inside, they notice the woman's dead body, holding a very living baby, along with three empty milk bottles. Whoever had interred the ii had incorrectly declared the infant expressionless, burial information technology alive, and its female parent had defied death to feed it until this was discovered.

    Visual Novels

• Misty Fey from Ace Attorney totes around a sword-pikestaff and swears to practise annihilation necessary to keep her remaining girl Maya safe (the eldest one, Mia, had been already killed), up to and including Morgan'due south expiry, or her own. The latter comes to pass when she deliberately channels Dahlia's murderous spirit so petty Pearl won't be able to, and "Dahlia" gets killed while trying and failing to bring her plan about.
• Umineko: When They Cry:
  • In Episode 1, Natsuhi Ushiromiya banishes the ii remaining servants, the family doctor, and her niece Maria considering she suspects them of being murderers and wants to protect her daughter Jessica. This does not end well. She also fights the Golden Witch Beatrice in a duel, although yous might call that a subversion: the desire to protect girl and gun not equal to power to defeat 1000-twelvemonth-onetime sadistic witch. The trope proper name itself is referenced during the proceedings.
  • In its 2nd arc, Rosa Ushiromiya does the same matter as her sister-in-law Natsuhi in order to protect her daughter Maria. (Even more noticeable since Rosa is an Abusive Parent as well). Furthermore, at the very finish of that gameboard, the last twilight begins, and golden collywobbles and goat-headed servants are released to eat all remaining humans on the island. Rosa, in ane of the nigh badass scenes in the whole game/anime, take on the goats with fountain pens to the eyes and gunshots at close range. She manages to take out three before they both die.
    • Taken further in the final game installation, EP8. Erika, darling, never always tell poor little Maria that her mommy doesn't love her. Because said mommy volition not only flip her shit at that, but fucking shove a rifle downward your throat. Don't say we didn't warn y'all.
• Hanako Ikezawa's deceased female parent in Katawa Shoujo. Every bit she and a lilliputian Hanako were trapped in a fatal fire that decimated their house and had already claimed the family patriarch'due south life, she chose to protect her kid past shielding her with her ain body and burning to expiry rather than letting the poor child die. And even when the child was mentally and physically scarred, it worked.
• In Spirit Hunter: NG, the Urashima Woman's entire motivation every bit a ghost is to notice the baby that was stolen from her. She kills anyone who tin't tell her where it is, or who appears to exist a threat to the dead fetuses that were dumped in the lake. The novella reveals that, even after walking through a storm, giving nativity, so being assaulted and drugged, she still chased down the midwife that kidnapped her newborn kid.

    Web Animation

• Shrapnel: Do not fifty-fifty try to hurt one of Reznya's orphans.

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When a group of street urchins threaten to beat up Flapjack, Bubbie steps in to defend him.

Alternative Title(south): Mama Wolf, Mother Conduct

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