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-->'''Jane:''' ''([[OhCrap laughing nervously]])'' See, I told you they'd be cross..! ''(backing away)'' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Go easy on him, children will be children.]] ''(runs)''

[[caption-width-right:350:"How cute! Let's keep it... Aaargh!"]]

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' features an episode in which a baby pterodactyl - named Chobi by Gohan and Goten - is kidnapped from his nest by a circus ringleader. Knowing that Chobi's parents will be angry to find their baby gone, Gohan suits up as Great Saiyaman to get him back. He is attacked by Videl, who fights him to get the baby back, thinking [[Main/{{WhatAnIdiot}} he stole it from it's rightful owner]]. This causes Chobi to cry, and his parents swoop in and start attacking the city, not stopping until their child is returned.

* The Goose that lays the Golden Eggs in ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'' turns out to be the gosling of a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever very large goose]]. [[spoiler:It's Humpty Dumpty's plan to let Mama thrash the town while he absconds with the baby and the eggs.]]
* 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.

** Also in Brother Bear 2, when Nita goes to get her amulet back from a raccoon's nest, she finds a baby clinging to it. She knocks the baby back into his nest, only for the baby to yell for his mama, causing [[Main/{{OhCrap}} every raccoon to turn on her]].

* ''Film/{{Apocalypto}}'': While fleeing from his pursuers, Jaguar Paw climbs up a tree only to find a mewing jaguar cub. Realizing this is bad news, he turns around to see its ''very'' ticked off mother. He immediately leaps from the tree, now having to flee the jaguar too. [[spoiler:Luckily for him, the jaguar intercepts the other chase and mistakes one of the pursuers for him. It kills one and slows down the others, buying time for Jaguar Paw to escape.]]

* In "The Bunyip" a young Australian aborigine catches the Bunyip's cub while fishing with some friends and refuses to return it. As punishment he and the rest of his village are [[BalefulPolymorph turned into black swans]].

* On the [[http://teamcoco.com/video/mtv-awards-baby April 9 2014 episode]] of 'Series/{{Conan}}', Creator/ConanOBrien showed off an MTV Movie Award trophy to promote the MTV Movie Awards airing the upcoming Sunday night- with him as host. When {{Sidekick}} Andy Richter grabs the trophy from Conan and starts playing with it, Conan warns Andy about upsetting its mother, and a human size MTV Movie Award (clearly someone in costume) arrives with a baseball bat.

* Happens in ''Literature/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.

--> "It is better for a person to meet a mother bear being robbed of her cubs, than to encounter a fool in his folly." (Proverbs 17:12)

* ''TabletopGame/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.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', examining a bird's nest nets a bunch of Phoenix Down, but also cues an encounter with a bird enemy - presumably the mother of the nesting eggs.

* In the second ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'', the gang of dinosaur kids find 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.]] Played with in this case, as the [[spoiler: Mama and Daddy actually end up helping the main characters before taking their baby home.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'' had an episode with a visiting rock star wanting to film himself feeding a bear cub. Eliza tries to warn him of this trope, but [[WhatAnIdiot he refuses to listen]] which of course brings out an angry mother bear attacking the kids.

* The 1930 ''WesternAnimation/BoskoTheTalkInkKid'' cartoon "Congo Jazz" has Bosko encountering a baby monkey with a long tail. While petting the baby, it angrily spits at him. Bosko in reprisal gives the monkey a spanking but stops when its father shows up, depicted as a [[ArtisticLicenseBiology giant tailless ape]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In "Jungle Moon", Stevonnie comes across a tiny bird-like creature and struggles to decide whether to eat it or not since they have ran out of snacks, the bird's mother then appears and tries to attack Stevonnie.

* 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. [[BearsAreBadNews Worst case scenario]]: literal MamaBear.

* In the second ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'', the gang of dinosaur kids find 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.]] Played with in this case, as the [[spoiler: Mama and Daddy actually end up helping the main characters, before taking their baby home.]]

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* In ''Anime/TheTaleOfThePrincessKaguya'' the title character as a toddler encounters a litter of wild boar piglets in the forest, and starts playing with them, then the mother sow appears and attempts to gore her, luckily she is saved by Sutemaru.

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* In ''VideoGame/DinoCrisis 2'', Dylan and Regina happen on a nest of dead baby Triceratops at the same time the parents return to find their offspring had been killed, and they think you did it. Cue the miniboss battle.

* ''Anime/CaseClosed'': An AssholeVictim tried to invoke this trope by murdering a cub, hanging its corpse from a tree, and lying in wait for the grieving mother to show up. When the Detective Kids stumble on the other surviving cub, they almost get torn to shreds.

* In VideoGame/{{Mother3}}, at the end of Chapter 3, Yokuba[[labelnote:*]]Fassad in the English fan translation[[/labelnote]] and the Pigmasks have Salsa, Kumatora, and Wess cornered, when Lucas and the baby Drago (whose father had been turned into a chimera) show up. Yokuba is ready to crush the little guys...until the baby cries out and Mama Drago charges in to save the day.

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' features an episode in which a baby pterodactyl - named Chobi by Gohan and Goten - is kidnapped from his nest by a circus ringleader. [[Main/{{GenreSavvy}} Knowing that Chobi's parents will be angry to find their baby gone]], Gohan suits up as Great Saiyaman to get him back. He is attacked by Videl, who fights him to get the baby back, thinking [[Main/{{WhatAnIdiot}} he stole it from it's rightful owner]]. This causes Chobi to cry, and his parents swoop in and start attacking the city, not stopping until their child is returned.

* During a {{Flashback}} in ''What Comes Around'' (a Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic fanfic where the entire cast [[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld Reincarnates In Another World]]), the usually GenreSavvy Simon Cavins sees a group of wild boar piglets and experiences half a second of CutenessProximity. This slows him down just enough that, rather than climb a tree in preemptive self-defense, he has [[MamaBear Mama Boar]] right on his heels.

* ''Film/{{Apocalypto}}'': While fleeing from his pursuers, Jaguar Paw climbs up a tree only to find a mewing jaguar cub. [[GenreSavvy Realizing this is bad news]], he turns around to see its ''very'' ticked off mother. He immediately leaps from the tree, now having to flee the jaguar too. [[spoiler:Luckily for him, the jaguar intercepts the other chase and mistakes one of the pursuers for him. It kills one and slows down the others, buying time for Jaguar Paw to escape.]]

-->'''Jane:''' ''([[OhCrap laughing nervously]])'' See, I told you they'd be cross..! ''(backing away)'' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Go easy on him, children will be children.]] ''(runs)''

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* ''Anime/{{Dragonball Z}}'' features an episode in which a baby pterodactyl - named Chobi by Gohan and Goten - is kidnapped from his nest by a circus ringleader. [[Main/{{GenreSavvy}} Knowing that Chobi's parents will be angry to find their baby gone]], Gohan suits up as Great Saiyaman to get him back. He is attacked by Videl, who fights him to get the baby back, thinking [[Main/{{WhatAnIdiot}} he stole it from it's rightful owner]]. This causes Chobi to cry, and his parents swoop in and start attacking the city, not stopping until their child is returned.

* On the [[http://teamcoco.com/video/mtv-awards-baby April 9 2014 episode]] of 'Series/{{Conan}}', {{Conan O Brien}} showed off an MTV Movie Award trophy to promote the MTV Movie Awards airing the upcoming Sunday night- with him as host. When {{Sidekick}} Andy Richter grabs the trophy from Conan and starts playing with it, Conan warns Andy about upsetting its mother, and a human size MTV Movie Award (clearly someone in costume) arrives with a baseball bat.

** American black bears, interestingly, are usually an aversion, as they prefer to avoid humans and mother bears will often simply make their cubs climb trees to get away. Get between a Grizzly bear and her cubs, however, and may God have mercy on your soul.

* The ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' short The Little Whirlwind features Mickey being hassled by a tornado about his size while trying to do yardwork for Minnie. Soon after losing his temper and giving chase, it starts whistling for help, and a [[DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud gigantic tornado]] appears and destroys everything.

* This happens in ''Disney/BrotherBear 2''...with a brother instead of a mother. When Koda gets chased up a tree, it only takes a roar from Kenai to realize that he's here to save Koda.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'': In "Back Out in the Outback", Webby picks up a baby warthog and finds herself chased by its parents.

* The ''{{Series/Emergency}}'' fic [[http://www.tbillingsemergencyfanfic.com/closerthanabrother.htm "Closer Than a Brother"]] has this. Roy and John go camping with Roy's kids, and the boy, Chris, comes upon a bear cub. John takes the full attack to protect Him.
** The series this is part of (though you needn't read the rest to enjoy this one) has a human version. Even Roy's young son picks up on that Roy loves ajohn as a surrogate son, and several times, Roy even gets physical protecting John, who struggles with emotional issues and Asperger's in the series.

* In ''Film/OldYeller'' it's a literal mama bear, when Arliss is playing around trying to catch the bear cub. Additionally, when Travis get's too close to Rose's newborn Calf to take them home, she immediately tries to gore him.

* In ''Series/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.
* On the [[http://teamcoco.com/video/mtv-awards-baby April 9 2014 episode]] of 'Series/{{Conan}}', {{Conan O Brien}} showed off an MTV Movie Award trophy to promote the MTV Movie Awards airing the upcoming Sunday night- with him as host. When {{Sidekick}} Andy Richter grabs the trophy from Conan and starts playing with it, Conan warns Andy about upsetting his mother, and a human size MTV Movie Award (clearly someone in costume) arrives with a baseball bat.

* Happens in ''Literature/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...

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/Arthur'', Binky has a dream where he is on a mountain of burgers. He picks one up to eat it, only for it to scream out for its mother, who is a giant burger wearing Dame Edna glasses, causing Binky to flee.

* An interesting case occurs in ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. When the coloniel marines are in the alien nest, the xenomorphs don't attack until a chestburster is torched.

* In the second ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'', the gang of dinosaur kids find 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.]] Played with 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.'

* In ''Anime/StrikeWitches'', Season 2 starts off with Yoshika encountering an injured bear cub. While attempting to heal the cub, the mother shows up, not too happy. Fortunately, Yoshika is able to keep her cool long enough to save the cub, at which point the mother picks up the cub and wanders off. Yoshika promptly freaks out once the danger is gone.
* In ''Anime/TheTaleOfPrincessKaguya'' the title character as a toddler encounters a litter of wild boar piglets in the forest, and starts playing with them, then the mother sow appears and attempts to gore her, luckily she is saved by Sutemaru.