History MamaBear / LiveActionTV

** It's odd that no one has mentioned how much of a Mama Bear Lorelai is. Anytime Rory could have possibly been hurt, let alone the time that she actually was hurt, Lorelai went from Cool Mom to panicky, overprotective "hurt my daughter and your death will be slow and painful" Mama Bear.

* ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'': As mentioned above, expounds on the fierceness Sarah displayed in the movies. Her whole ''life'' is this trope, fighting to keep her son safe from the machines sent to Terminate him. Unstoppable, unrelenting, remorseless killing machines that have laid waste to entire armies of Resistance fighters and police officers, always single-handedly - and she has ''buried'' every one. In fact, she's destroyed more Terminators than any other human. No wonder her son said she was the greatest fighter he'd ever known.

* In ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', Michonne is a [[OneManArmy One Woman Army]] who'll slash through a herd of walkers ''or'' humans to protect her surrogate children. She spends days tracking down Carl, places herself between him and a band of psychopathic marauders, and is also one of those who actively slaughters the [[IAmAHumanitarian remaining Termites.]] Once they threaten Judith, her face effectively shows that their fates are sealed.

* ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'': Of all people, Pam Fields from this TV series (adapted from the book series). Sure, she's trying to come to grips with her daughter's being a SchoolgirlLesbian, but when Paige's father says that Emily became the captain of the swim team ''because'' she's a lesbian, she lets him have it. Arguably her CrowningMomentofAwesome. (Especially considering her earlier behavior towards her daughter's sexuality.)

* ''Series/AngryMom'': After discovering her daughter being bullied, Jo Kang Ja, ex-gangster enrolls in her daughter's high school as Jo Bang-wool to find the source of her daughter's bullying and beat the crap out of whoever dared tried to hurt her precious daughter.

* ''Series/BeingHuman'': This [=BBC3=] Program [[spoiler:when Annie entered the warehouse full of old, and powerful vampires and screamed "GIVE ME BACK MY FUCKING BABY" and defeated the old ones and then to save the world actually BLEW UP the child in question.]] Now that is motherhood.

* In ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', Michonne is very quick to protect Carl and spends days tracking him down in "After". She's also one of those who slaughtered the remaining Termites in "Four Walls and a Roof". After they threaten Judith, her face quite effectively shows that their fates are sealed.

** Ambrose, from "The Hungry Earth"/"Cold Blood". Oh Lord, Ambrose. After her son is [[spoiler:kidnapped by aliens]], his otherwise average-person Mom who runs the local Meals on Wheels ''[[spoiler:tortures a captured enemy to death]]'' to find him.]]

** Ambrose, from "The Hungry Earth"/"Cold Blood". Oh Lord, Ambrose. After her son is [[spoiler: kidnapped by aliens, his otherwise average-person Mom who runs the local Meals on Wheels ''tortures a captured enemy to death'' to find him.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': Horta in the episode ''The Devil in the Dark'' is a classic example of a Mama Bear. The mining colony at first believes that she is attacking them out of pure malice, not knowing that the odd silicon spheres that they've been finding and disposing of (thinking them to be worthless) are her eggs, and her attacks are an attempt to defend them. Fortunately, once Kirk and Spock figure out that she is really a peaceful and reasonable creature they can communicate with, they find she's open to a compromise to settle the conflict.

** Subverted with Eva Belyakov, who [[spoiler: steals a crystal]] for her daughter and appears to be a classic example of the trope, but eventually we learn that she [[spoiler: became Katya's tool as everyone else]].

-->'''Cersei''': I will burn our House ''to the ground'' before I let that happen!

* ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaClassic'':

* ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined'':

** Catelyn Stark vows to wipe out the Lannisters in retaliation for them [[spoiler: killing her husband]] and taking her daughters hostage.

** Earlier in the series, Roslin decides they'll have to forcibly terminate Athena's unborn child. A truly ''epic'' UnstoppableRage ensues when she finds out, to the point that she's headbutting bulletproof glass so hard it breaks, with no discernible effect on her beyond some bleeding.

** Cersei Lannister is a horrible person, but she loves her children, and will reign Seven Hells down on anyone who might harm them. This is best exemplified when she's even willing to defy [[TheDreaded her father]] when he tries to ship her off to marry Loras Tyrell, which would leave Tommen behind to be used as a political chess piece between Tywin and Margerary.

** Don't mess with River's older brother, Simon. [[CurbStompBattle It'll end badly for you.]]

** Every female on Serenity is a MamaBear to Kaylee - Zoe rips Mal a new one for hurting her feelings, River takes out three Alliance soldiers with her eyes closed after Kaylee is too scared to do so herself...the only exception is Inara, who seems happier to baby Kaylee and brush her hair. Moral - don't. mess. with. Kaylee. It will NOT end well.

* Series/ChicagoPD: Detective Erin Lindsay shows some Mama Bear tendencies towards Nadia, one of her witnesses and CI, a seventeen-year-old drug addict. These include but are not limited to: threatening the guy holding her at gunpoint, promising to take care of her when she has withdrawal symptoms, letting her stay in her apartment, urging her to get clean, and taking her back to the clinic after Nadia participated in an undercover mission and promising to check on her every day.
* ''TheCosbyShow'': Denise Huxtable Kendall mistakenly believed her mother-in-law couldn't stand her. Believing herself unable to please the woman [[HeroicBSOD left Denise a crying wreck.]] Luckily for everyone involved, her mother Claire was wise enough to verify Mrs. Kendall's actual opinion of Denise ''before'' unleashing a Mama Bear fury (turns out hubby Martin's mother couldn't stand Martin's frequent rushes to judgement in matrimonial situations). For not listening to his mother, Martin was...less lucky.

* ''{{CSI NY}}'': Lindsay goes full-on Mama Bear when she wakes up in the middle of the night to find that Shane Casey, the serial killer who has been stalking Danny not only has him at gunpoint, but is also holding their daughter, Lucy. [[spoiler:He threatens to kill the baby if Lindsay doesn't drop her gun, but Lindsay responds by shooting him dead.]]

* ''DesperateHousewives'':

* ''{{Eureka}}'': One episode begins with Tiny, a NASA-commissioned Titan rover, chasing Carter, Fargo, Grant, and Alison's son Kevin. When the episode returns to this scene at the end, it ends with Kevin pinned to the ground, Tiny looming over him, and resident Mama Bear Alison yelling "Get away from him, you bitch!" It's not until Tiny repeats the line ''back'' to Alison that everyone realizes that Tiny wants EMO, a little robot with emotional attachment programming that was to be Kevin's parenting class assignment. Tiny had downloaded said programming earlier that day, and bonded with EMO when it wandered into her storage lab. But she had NOT given consent to her new "baby" going camping with the guys.

* ''GilmoreGirls'':

* ''HanginwithMrCooper'': After her daughter attempts to hide the fact that she's being bullied, the [[TheQuietOne genteel Southern woman]] Geneva, who to that point had never displayed any show of anger above a stern look, bursts through the doors of the school and screams "WHOOOOO'S BEEN MESSIN' WITH MY ''BABEEEEEEH''???" She then threatens to "RAAAAAAAIIIIN on ''[the bully]'' like a '''GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM'''!!!!!"

* ''IDreamOfJeannie'': Jeannie certainly had her Mama Bear moment in the climax of the 1991 made-for-TV movie ''I Still Dream of Jeannie''. [[spoiler:(She comes to her son Tony Jr.'s rescue by blasting open a set of heavy-duty fire-rated steel doors. Sweet, giggling, kind, seemingly ditzy Jeannie then gives way to an enraged monster)]]. Truly her CrowningMomentofAwesome.

* ''{{Jekyll}}'': The female protagonist is asked when she first knew she could kill someone. She replies that it was after her children were born. The answer is the key to the nature of Mr Hyde [[spoiler:in that he is a ruthless psychopath created not by the dark side of humanity, but by pure love]].

* ''LawAndOrderSVU'' deconstructs this trope with Detective Amanda Rollins and her sister Kim. Amanda's established as being extremely protective of her little sister, to whom she'd acted as a [[PromotionToParent mother figure]] since their actual mother is a dysfunctional mess. Eventually, Kim uses this as part of a BatmanGambit in which [[spoiler:she sets Amanda up to kill her abusive boyfriend in "defense" of Kim, so that she (Kim) can collect insurance money on the guy. She then frames Amanda for the entire scheme, leading to Amanda getting investigated by Internal Affairs, nearly losing her badge and facing ''prison time.'']]

* ''MajorCrimes'': Captain Sharon Raydor for her FosterKid Rusty Beck. Don't fuck with him, or she will have your hide.
* ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'':

* ''Missing'': This ABC show has Becca Winstone, who retired from the CIA after her husband was killed. When her son is kidnapped, she goes nuts. " I am not CIA, I am a ''mother looking for her son''!"
* ''MyNameIsEarl'': If you value your teeth, don't even think about saying an unkind word about Joy Turner's kids. She's got one mean left hook. Even happy pills can't turn off her instinct to stick up for her kids.

* ''OneTreeHill'': Brooke Davis is fiercely protective of her adoptive daughter Samantha. When Sam gets kidnapped by Xavier, Brooke gets over her fears, rescues Sam, and throughly kicks his ass, then she holds a gun to his head and is the verge of pulling the trigger until Sam talks her out of it. Brooke then says she won't waste anymore time with garbage like him and then [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome cold cocks him with the gun before walking off]].
* ''OrphanBlack'': Both Sarah and Alison show shades of this towards their own kids, and all the clones are very protective of Kira - as is Mrs. S. [[spoiler: Even Helena has a mild case.]]

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits'': Shal in the episode ''Rite Of Passage''. She's a perfectly ordinary human that convinces her husband to help her rebel against their alien caretakers after their baby is confiscated. [[spoiler: The aliens did that because thay felt that they were better equipped to care for it. After realizing that it is no excuse for separating a mother from her child, they apologise and return the baby.]]

* ''PrettyLittleLiars'': Of all people, Pam Fields from this TV series (adapted from the book series). Sure, she's trying to come to grips with her daughter's being a SchoolgirlLesbian, but when Paige's father says that Emily became the captain of the swim team ''because'' she's a lesbian, she lets him have it. Arguably her CrowningMomentofAwesome. (Especially considering her earlier behavior towards her daughter's sexuality.)

* ''TerraNova'': Elisabeth Shannon. Up until the season finale, she's simply an amazing mother, a brilliant scientist and an incredibly-gifted doctor. But when her son and husband are captured and tortured, she takes merely thirty seconds to out-badass almost every other character to appear in the first season. And ''how''.

* ''{{Weeds}}'': Nancy Botwin has this as her best quality. Just ''thinking'' about hurting Silas, Shane or Stevie is a bad idea.

* ''GeneralHospital'': Lawyer Alexis Davis has killed more than once for one of her girls and she's not above bribery, faking a paternity test or making deals with the mob if it will help one of her children. NEVER mess with Alexis's daughters Sam, Kristina and Molly. She WILL drive over you with her car, shove you out a window or send her hitman lover to mess you up if you forget these wise words of advice.