* In ''FindingNemo'', when Marlin slaps away a baby jellyfish with his tail after it stings Dory, the swarm of adult jellyfish immediately start swimming toward them.

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* In ''SonsOfGuns'', Will tells Vince a story about going on a hiking trip, finding wild dog puppies, only to have Daddy come charging out of the bushes ready to attack his daughter. 
* ''MysteryScienceTheater3000:'' The crew watch ''CatchingTrouble'', in which outdoorsman Ross captures wild animals for zoos. When Ross begins harassing some bear cubs, Joel and the 'bots begin wishing that mama bear would show up and attack.

[[AC:{{Literature}}]] 
* Happens in WarOfTheSpiderQueen series. The characters find a cute creature, which turns out to be a cub of a giant forest sloth. Drow being drow, they assume that it must be a predator using its cute young as bait...

[[AC:TabletopRPG]] 
* ''DungeonsAndDragons'' module G1-3 ''Against the Giants''. In the "Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl" section (but not the original module) there's a picture of two adventurers with a polar bear cub. The male adventurer is looking at the cub, while the female adventurer is looking over her shoulder at the enraged female polar bear behind them.

[[AC:VideoGames]] 
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', examining a bird's nest nets a bunch of PhoenixDown but also cues an encounter with a bird enemy - presumably the mother of the nesting eggs.

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* In Disney's ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'' Jane encounters a cute little baby baboon which steals her journal. After Jane steals it back, the baby baboon starts crying calling the attention of its mother and the rest of its family.

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* ''MysteryScienceTheater3000:'' The crew watch ''CatchingTrouble'', in which outdoorsman Ross captures wild animals for zoos. When Ross begins harassing some bear cubs, Joel and the 'bots begin wishing that mama bear would show up and attack.

* In ''SonsOfGuns'', Will tells Vince a story about going on a hiking trip, finding wild dog puppies, only to have Daddy come charging out of the bushes ready to attack his daughter.

[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* Happens in WarOfTheSpiderQueen series. The characters find a cute creature, which turns out to be a cub of a giant forest sloth. Drow being drow, they assume that it must be a predator using its cute young as bait...

[[AC:TabletopRPG]]
* ''DungeonsAndDragons'' module G1-3 ''Against the Giants''. In the "Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl" section (but not the original module) there's a picture of two adventurers with a polar bear cub. The male adventurer is looking at the cub, while the female adventurer is looking over her shoulder at the enraged female polar bear behind them.

[[AC:VideoGames]]
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', examining a bird's nest nets a bunch of PhoenixDown but also cues an encounter with a bird enemy - presumably the mother of the nesting eggs.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderBitterWork Bitter Work]]", Sokka finds a baby saber-toothed moose-lion cub, and inevitably it's mama is near, and has to be fought off by Aang. 
* One episode of ''TheWuzzles'' involves a baby [[MixAndMatchCritters brahma bullfinch]], an adorable little cow-bird creature whose mother happens to be a house-sized engine of destruction. An entire ''flock'' of them descends on Croc's house by the end of the episode, with predictable results. 
* In one of the AdventuresInOdyssey videos, Dylan, Jessie, and Carter find a bear cub in the mountains and start fawning over it...only for the growling [[MamaBear mother grizzly]] to charge them. 
* In {{The Land Before Time}}-2, the gang of Dinosaur kids finds an egg and, at first thinking it to be an egg from one of their parent's nests, carry the thing home. It turns out to be a Sharptooth(or T-Rex) egg, and the group starts trying to raise 'Chomper' - needless to say, [[spoiler: the parents come looking for him.]] Slightly subverted in this case, as the [[spoiler: Mama and Daddy actually end up helping the main characters, before taking their baby home.]] This arguably has some {{Unfortunate Implications}} about the [[WarpedAesop Aesop]] in this story, as the moral seems to be 'Try as you might to get along, some people are just too different.'

[[AC:RealLife]] 
* This is seen in real life. Stories abound about people taking photographs of themselves with cute little baby animals--only to be attacked by the animal's mother. Worst case scenario: literal MamaBear.

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[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderBitterWork Bitter Work]]", Sokka finds a baby saber-toothed moose-lion cub, and inevitably it's mama is near, and has to be fought off by Aang.
* One episode of ''TheWuzzles'' involves a baby [[MixAndMatchCritters brahma bullfinch]], an adorable little cow-bird creature whose mother happens to be a house-sized engine of destruction. An entire ''flock'' of them descends on Croc's house by the end of the episode, with predictable results.
* In one of the AdventuresInOdyssey videos, Dylan, Jessie, and Carter find a bear cub in the mountains and start fawning over it...only for the growling [[MamaBear mother grizzly]] to charge them.
* In TheLandBeforeTime-2, the gang of Dinosaur kids finds an egg and, at first thinking it to be an egg from one of their parent's nests, carry the thing home. It turns out to be a Sharptooth(or T-Rex) egg, and the group starts trying to raise 'Chomper' - needless to say, [[spoiler: the parents come looking for him.]] Slightly subverted in this case, as the [[spoiler: Mama and Daddy actually end up helping the main characters, before taking their baby home.]] This arguably has some UnfortunateImplications about the [[WarpedAesop Aesop]] in this story, as the moral seems to be 'Try as you might to get along, some people are just too different.'

[[AC:RealLife]]
* This is seen in real life. Stories abound about people taking photographs of themselves with cute little baby animals--only to be attacked by the animal's mother. Worst case scenario: literal MamaBear.

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