History MamaBear / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/MurderOnTheOrientExpress1974'': [[spoiler: Linda Arden, a.k.a Mrs. Hubbard]] masterminded Ratchett's murder [[spoiler: to avenge her granddaughter, who he kidnapped and murdered, and her daughter, whose in her grief gave birth to a stillborn child which also killed her]].

--> '''Chris''': (''grabs the Lords of Hell gang leaders knife and points it at him'') Don't ''[[PrecisionFStrike Fuck]]'' with the babysitter!

* In Bollywood/{{Baghban}} an example of a grandmother, who beats up a sexual predator and threatens to tear his eyes out if he ever touches her granddaughter again.

** Martha Kent provides a touching non-violent [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=piDanlCBoDI&t=57s variation]] in a FlashBack in ''Film/ManOfSteel''. Clark is having a SensoryOverload at school and hides in a closet and uses Heat Vision on the doorknob when the teacher tried to open it. Martha comes into the school and instead trying to force her son out, she soothes him telling her to focus solely on her voice and “make the world small”. Clark soon calms down, and opens the closet to hug his mom. Martha in addition to helping Clark manage his powers but also made sure a ''Film/{{Brightburn}}'' situation [[UpbringingMakesTheHero was throughly avoided]].
*** There’s also the inversion as hurting or threatening his mamma, is a surefire way to [[BerserkButton piss]] Clark the hell off. Zod learned this the hard way, as Supes [[UnstoppableRage flying tackled him through several fiends and a couple of silos]] when he made a move to strike Martha.

** Queen Atlanna mother of Arthur Curry aka Film/{{Aquaman}} shows her Mama Bear status when King Orvax (whom she does not love) [[CrazyJealousGuy sends soldiers]] to attack lighthouse where she’s living with her normal husband Thomas and her son Arthur. [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RaSfMCaCnKc Atlanna gloriously kicks all of their asses to protect her family]]. She only surrenders and goes back to the ocean out because she doesn’t want to endanger her husband and son’s lives any longer.
** In ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'', Harley Quinn, Black Canary, Renee Montoya and Huntress all have a Mama Bear instinct towards [[TagAlongKid Cassandra Cain]] whom Black Mask is after. Harely in particular goes on several OneWomanArmy rampages against goons to protect her.

* Susan Sarandon's character in ''Film/{{Arbitrage}}''. She played the TrophyWife and ProperLady for her husband and tolerated his shady business deals and [[YourCheatingHeart marital indiscretions]]. But when his latest business fraud involved their daughter and left her [[BrokenPedestal heart-broken and jaded]], she ruthlessly [[BestServedCold blackmailed him into signing away his estate to her charitable foundation]], [[PyrrhicVictory leaving him without everything he'd worked for to that point]].

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** Pepper [[spoiler: when she gets her own PoweredArmour also has shades of this towards Spidey as well in the FinalBattle in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'']].

* The British Kaiju film, ''Film/{{Gorgo}}'' features a 200-foot tall monster [[spoiler:that's nearly indestructible to all of man's weapons such as the military, bombs, fire, and electrocution]], and is on a RoaringRampageofRevenge all over Great Britain. Why? Because her child has been captured and is on display as a sideshow attraction at a circus for people to laugh at.

* In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', Martha Wayne is depicted as this along with her husband Thomas being a PapaWolf, as she attempted to wrest the gun away from the mugger that killed Thomas and would kill her to protect Bruce.
* Just like the comics ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'' is this in the DCEU, though not too surprising given in this version she [[{{Squee}} coos]] when seeing a baby for the first time. [[https://youtu.be/9QJ2mqXdr5I?t=147 So when a bunch of school children fired upon by a bank robber]] in ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' Diana naturally blocks every bullet from hitting a child with her SuperSpeed and then trounces the TooDumbToLive criminal. Also worth noting she used the power of her bracelets to take him out, ''the same bracelets that killed Ares the God of War!''
** Diana likely gets it from her mother Hippolyta since her solo movie starts with Hippolyta saving Diana from falling off a wall as a little girl.

* Chung-sook from ''[[Film/Parasite2019 Parasite]]'' despite her crimes cherishes her children and as a former Olympic hammer thrower ''she will mess you up'' with you hurt them. [[spoiler: This is seen in the violent ending where the AxCrazy Geun-sae stabs her daughter Ki-jung, Chung-sook takes him down with the barbeque spike in revenge]].

-->'''Sarabi''': Scar, you tsaid that you didn't make to the gorge in time.

-->'''Sarabi''': (angrily) Then HOW did you see the look in Mufasa's eyes?!

* In ''Film/{{Peppermint}}'', An attack on Riley North's family results in both her husband and daughter's death, driving her to seek revenge, while occasionally having visions of her little girl at various points. Riley's protective streak is used against her by [[BigBad Diego Garcia]] towards the end of the film to lure her out of hiding, [[spoiler:when he threatens to kill a homeless girl if Riley doesn't come forward.]]

* If a character played by Creator/JodieFoster has a child or a teenager in her care -- do not threaten them! Movies like ''Film/FlightPlan'' (where [[spoiler: her little daughter is abducted and petty much ''erased'' by a bunch of terrorists playing a GambitRoulette]]) and ''Film/PanicRoom'' (where she and her teenage daughter, also an IllGirl, have to protect themselves thee dangerous delinquents searching for something in their apartment's panic room) should make that very, very clear.

** In ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'', when the Female Muto [[spoiler:realizes her nest has been blown up she immediately ditches the fight with Godzilla, and when she sees Ford nearby she puts two and two together and relentlessly chases him]].

* The Vietnamese movie ''Furie'' is basically GenderInverted ''{{Taken}}'' meets ''Film/JohnWick''. The main characters Hai Phuong is an ex-gangster who will stop at nothing to get her little girl back. As the child-trafficking gang would soon know, just because the furious mother doesn't have a gun doesn't mean she couldn't wreck her way through half of the country with just her bare hands and feet (and lots and lots of broken bottles).

* In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', Martha Wayne is depicted as this along with her husband Thomas being a PapaWolf, as she attempted to wrest the gun away from the mugger that killed Thomas and would kill her to protect your Bruce.

** Gamora in ''Film/GuardiansOftheGalaxyVol2'' towards baby Groot, probably gets from her mom as she was shown in the ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' FlashBack protecting Gamora from the Black Order before being taken away and killed.

-->'''Pepper''': [[spoiler: I gotcha kid]].

** Pepper [[spoiler: when she gets her own PoweredArmour has shades of this towards Spidey as well in the FinalBattle in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'']].
-->'''Pepper''': [[spoiler: I got you Pete]].

* Just like comics ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'' is this in the DCEU, though not too surprising given in this version she [[{{Squee}} coos]] when seeing a baby for the first time. [[https://youtu.be/9QJ2mqXdr5I?t=147 So when a bunch of school children fired upon by a bank robber]] in ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' Diana naturally blocks every bullet from hitting a child with her SuperSpeed and then trounces the TooDumbToLive criminal. Also worth noting she used the power of her bracelets to take him out, ''the same bracelets that killed Ares the God of War!''

* Just like comics ''Film/WonderWoman'' is this in the DCEU, though not too surprising given in this version she [[{{Squee}} coos]] when seeing a baby for the first time. [[https://youtu.be/9QJ2mqXdr5I?t=147 So when a bunch of school children fired upon by a bank robber]] in ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' Diana naturally blocks every bullet from hitting a child with her SuperSpeed and then trounces the TooDumbToLive criminal. Also worth noting she used the power of her bracelets to take him out, ''the same bracelets that killed Ares the God of War!''