History MamaBear / AnimatedFilms

* A literal example of a Mama Wolf would be Moro, the [[PhysicalGod wolf-god]] from ''Anime/PrincessMononoke''. Her [[HappilyAdopted daughter]], San, may be human, but Moro loves her just as much as her wolf sons. [[spoiler:Moro summons the strength to rip San out of the grasp of a [[EldritchAbomination demon]], despite being at death's door and her hindquarters being paralyzed]].

* Monkey in ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'' takes her job protecting Kubo very seriously. She handles herself very well against Kubo's aunts, the Sisters, and even manages [[spoiler: to kill one of them during the sea fight.]] [[spoiler: Since Monkey is Kubo's mother in a different form, this makes a lot of sense.]]

* Monkey in ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'' takes her job protecting Kubo very seriously. She handles herself very well against Kubo's aunts, the Sisters, and even manages [[spoiler: to kill one of them during the sea fight.]] [[spoiler: Since Monkey possesses the spirit of Kubo's mother in a different form, this makes a lot of sense.]]

* [[StepfordSmiler Eve]] from AlphaAndOmega can be summed up in one line.
-->'''Eve''': "I just want to say one thing. If any of you wolves have hurt my daughter, I will personally ''rip'' out your eyes and ''shove'' them down your throat, so you can see my claws '''tear your carcass open!'''"

* Elastigirl from ''TheIncredibles'' is a major one- one crowning moment is when she physically throws herself on top of her kids as the plane they are in is about to explode, then uses her flexibility powers to make herself into a parachute.
* Littlefoot's mother from ''TheLandBeforeTime''. For most of her screen time, she's shown to be gentle, caring, and nurturing to her son. But when he's about to be eaten by a "Sharptooth," she whips that fully grown, red-eyed T. Rex in the face with her tail, hard enough to ''knock him off his feet and send him flying into a rock.'' That one close-up of her face is the very definition of Mama Bear mode. Even after the T. Rex visibly tears out chunks of her back, she manages to strike him one more time (on a cliff in the middle of an earthquake, by the way) and send him falling into a chasm, and somehow turns herself around just in time to catch the two young dinosaurs with her teeth before they fall.

* [[Film/{{Brave}} Queen Elinor]] is turned into a literal as well as figurative Mama Bear. Threaten her daughter at your own peril.

* Norma Jean from ''HappyFeet'', despite her calm, loving demeanor, shows flashes of this. She is the first and only emperor penguin, in their extremely conformist and convervative society, to try to oppose the Elders, verbally lashing out at them when they force her son Mumble into exile. She also expresses great disdain for them during the graduation ceremony, as Mumble had not been permitted to graduate.

* Kala from {{Disney/Tarzan}} is this too. Just look at the way she takes on Sabor to protect the infant Tarzan.

* The mother T. Rex in ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' when she finds her eggs are gone. She goes out and searches for them and was more than eager to eat Sid for taking them away from her.

* In ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'', Perdita is perhaps the ''only'' female character in the old school DisneyAnimatedCanon who truly enters combat and that's when her puppies are threatened. When it comes that, she's even better at it than Pongo.

* Queen Elinor in ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' is one of these [[spoiler:both figuratively and ''literally'', as she's cursed into the form of a bear.]] When her daughter's life is threatened, she [[spoiler: throws off a dozen men pinning her to the ground and fights Mor'du, a cursed bear that seems to be immune to normal weapons, until she finally ''brings a stone column down on his head and '''kills''' him''.]] And what's even more awesome is that throughout the entire film, she has engaged in no violence at all, seeing it as a lapse into her [[spoiler: bear]] side. But Mordu goes for her daughter? All bets are off.

* Queen Elinor in ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' is one of these [[spoiler:both figuratively and ''literally'', as she's cursed into the form of a bear.]] When her daughter's life is threatened, she [[spoiler: throws off a dozen men pinning her to the ground and fights Mor'du, a cursed bear that seems to be immune to normal weapons, until she finally ''brings a stone column down on his head and '''kills''' him''.]]

* The cute, amorous, and normally sweet little she-squirrel from ''Disney/TheSwordInTheStone'' won't hesitate to attack a predator ten times her size to protect Arthur.

** She even becomes one for her own daughter, almost becoming an [[OverprotectiveFather overprotective mother]] [[LikeFatheLikeSon like her father was]].

* Koda's mother in ''Disney/BrotherBear'' is a ''very'' literal example.

* Littlefoot's mother from ''TheLandBeforeTime''. For most of her screen time, she's shown to be gentle, caring and nurturing to her son. But when he's about to be eaten by a "Sharptooth," she whips that fully grown, red-eyed T. Rex in the face with her tail, hard enough to ''knock him off his feet and send him flying into a rock.'' That one close-up of her face is the very definition of Mama Bear mode. Even after the T. Rex visibly tears out chunks of her back, she manages to strike him one more time (on a cliff in the middle of an earthquake, by the way) and send him falling into a chasm, and somehow turns herself around just in time to catch the two young dinosaurs with her teeth before they fall.

* The mother T. Rex in ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' when she finds her eggs are gone. She goes out and searches for them and was more than eager to eat Sid for taking them away from her.

* ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' has a tragic example with Quasimodo's {{Roma}} mother. Her baby was the only thing left in her life and she died trying to keep him away from Frollo. He caught her and another Romani on top of the stairs of Notre-Dame, tried to take baby!Quasi away from her, and in the struggle she fell down the stairs and died.

* ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' has a tragic example with Quasimodo's mother. Her baby was the only thing left in her life and she died trying to keep him away from Frollo.

** Ariel herself is an [[InvertedTrope inversion]]: After witnessing her father sacrifice himself to save her from Ursula in a FateWorseThanDeath manner with Ursula laughing, she went berserk, and actually attempted to attack Ursula ''despite being a mermaid out of water''.
** She even becomes one for her own daughter, almost becoming an [[OverprotectiveFather overprotective mother like her father was]].

* Littlefoot's mother from ''TheLandBeforeTime''. For most of her screen time, she's shown to be gentle, caring and nurturing to her son. But when he's about to be eaten by a "Sharptooth," she whips that fully grown, red-eyed T. rex in the face with her tail, hard enough to ''knock him off his feet and send him flying into a rock.'' That one close-up of her face is the very definition of Mama Bear mode. Even after the T. rex visibly tears out chunks of her back, she manages to strike him one more time (on a cliff in the middle of an earthquake, by the way) and send him falling into a chasm, and somehow turns herself around just in time to catch the two young dinosaurs with her teeth before they fall.

* ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'': [[spoiler:Penny's mother decks her agent (knocking him clean out of the ambulance) for daring to suggest ways they could exploit Penny's near death in a fire. (The fact that one of the supposed benefits was executive producer credit ''for himself'' was probably what set her off. Shaking Penny's stretcher(with Penny in it) and exclaiming "This is so great!" didn't help either.)]]