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* Charlotte Laws' daughter Kayla had a scantily-clad photo of her posted on a revenge porn website. [[http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/charlotte-laws-hunter-moore-erin-brockovich-revenge-porn This]] is how Charlotte, a former private eye, responded. As she herself says, "They messed with the wrong mother."
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* Supermodel [[http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/heidi-klum-saving-son-mother-article-1.1307052 Heidi Klum]], who saved her son and his nannies from drowning when they were caught in a riptide. In interviews afterwards, she [[HeroicSelfDeprecation downplayed her heroics]] and stated that she did what any mother would have done.
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* [[http://praisedc.com/1498536/mom-beats-man-with-baseball-bat-for-allegedly-molesting-her-sons/ This lady's two young sons were allegedly molested by a community coach.]] So what did she do? She beat the everloving crap out of him...with a baseball bat. Regardless of whether the guy is guilty, that's a prime example of a mama bear if this troper's ever seen one.
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* A Texas mom was carjacked with her two young boys in the backseat. The second that the scumbag threatened her kids at knifepoint, she decided to run her car into a pole, disorienting him. At that point, she disarmed him, punched him in the jaw, and then when he tried to escape, she nailed him with the car so he couldn't do it to anyone else. [[{{Badass}} Bad. Ass.]] [[http://wtkr.com/2013/06/17/texas-mom-fights-back-runs-over-carjacker/ Don't mess with Texas, indeed.]]
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** Probably the most tragic of natural world mama bears is the octopus; the mother octopus keeps herself in her nest with her multitude of eggs for months, making sure they're clean and keeping them safe from predators. During this time, she never sleeps and never leaves for any reason. Not even ''eating''. In fact, it's been observed that mother octopi will eat ''their own tentacles'' before they leave their eggs defenseless. By the time the eggs hatch and the babies leave, the mother octopus is so exhausted that she either dies of starvation or gets eaten by predators.
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* [[http://news.yahoo.com/nm-mom-followed-instincts-chasing-abductor-224235723.html Escape this mother? Yeah dude, not gonna happen.]]
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* Bears aren't the only animal mothers who will go berserk on something attacking their young. Zebras, elephants, orcas, grasshopper mice, and many other mammals will ferociously defend their young. Many birds-of-prey, magpies, and some songbirds will fight beak and talon to protect their chicks, especially the raptors. Even reptiles can be Mama Bears: crocodilians especially will viciously defend their young, and mother cobras and pythons remain with their eggs until they hatch and will put the hurt on any predator trying to eat them.
* Bears aren't the only animal mothers who will go berserk on something attacking their young. Zebras, elephants, orcas, grasshopper mice, and many other mammals will ferociously defend their young. Many birds-of-prey, magpies, and some songbirds will fight beak and talon to protect their chicks, especially the raptors. Even reptiles can be Mama Bears: crocodilians especially will viciously defend their young, and mother cobras and pythons remain with their eggs until they hatch and will put the hurt on any predator trying to eat them.
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* [[This Syrian mother turned sniper after her children were killed under the Assad regime http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/bereft-syrian-mom-anti-government-sniper-article-1.1256312]]
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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_Anjou Margaret of Anjou]] was definitely this. While her husband, King Henry VI. of England, was suffering from mental instability which made him unable to rule and defend his crown from the [[WarsOfTheRoses House of York]], she took things into her own hands and became the leader of the Lancastrian faction. She did this mostly to defend her underaged son Edward's birthright as the future king. She ended up defeating the Yorks at the second battle of St Albans, but was eventually forced into exile. After years of political scheming she returned to England with her son in order to support the Earl of Warwick's rebellion against the Yorkists. Tragically, she was defeated at the battle of Tewkesbury and 17-year-old Edward was killed. She herself was taken prisoner and later ransomed by King Louis XI. of France. In France she spent the last years of her life as a broken woman and died there.
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* Jeanne Manford, the founder of PFLAG, counted as this. After her son was arrested at Stonewall and the police told her, she stated she knew her son was gay and [[ArmorPiercingQuestion asked point blank why they were picking on him]] she marched with her son in many pride parades and talked to other parents of gays and lesbians, consoling them over their worries about what the neighbors would say. Watch RachelMaddow [[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#50439148 explain]].
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* An unidentified mother in Atlanta, Georgia shot [[http://now.msn.com/atlanta-mom-shoots-intruder-in-the-face-5-times?ocid=ansnow11 the burglar five times!]]
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* [[http://www.parentdish.com/2010/01/06/mother-stops-cougar-attack-with-rag/?ncid=webmaildl3 A mother who fought off a cougar with a towel.]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_de%27_Medici Catherine de Medici]] could fit this trope, considering to what lengths she went to keep the crown on her son's head.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHUy8IaW-sE This mother from India]].
* A woman named Susanna Eastman/Wood/Swan took up a spit from a fireplace to defend her husband and children from Indian attack in colonial Massachusetts years after her first husband and children were killed by another Indian attack. She killed three of them who broke down her door in a single strike (they were lined up single file). She was never bothered again.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_Maccoll Kirsty MacColl]] died pushing her son out of the path of a speedboat.
* KristinChenoweth is a Christian woman and actress with an open and accepting view of LGBT. Someone writes an article in [[http://www.newsweek.com/id/236999 Newsweek]] about how her co-star Sean Hayes is unbelievable and self-hating in his role as Cheno's lover interest in a musical, along with a young co-star on ''{{Glee}}'' she's worked with on that show and other pieces. Let's never [[http://www.broadway.com/shows/promises-promises/buzz/152350/promises-star-kristin-chenoweth-speaks-out-on-horrendously-homophobic-newsweek-article-defends-sean-hayes/ piss off Cheno ever again]] with an article like that, can we? Because she is 4'11" of powerful and feisty and will always defend who she works with vigorously, no matter what their identity is.
* A bizarre example, related to porn...Chi Chi [=LaRue=], a gay porn director and DragQueen called herself one when the stars of one of her films are being criticized.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDMC8iRSxHk A violent mother attacking an innocent reporter, or is it the reporter's fault? You decide?]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon Katherine of Aragon]], the first of [[TheHouseOfTudor Henry VIII's]] six wives, refused to accept Henry's attempt to set her aside and annul their marriage partially because she was in love with her husband, but, she admitted, her main reason was because allowing him to do so would mean her daughter, Mary I, would be declared legally born out of wedlock and therefore unable to inherit the throne. By the end, she was reduced to living in near poverty because she refused to speak with anyone who did not address her as 'Queen,' and Henry VIII left her to rot in damp, unhealthy houses, and severed all contact between Katherine and Mary. Given that Katherine suffered six pregnancies (Mary was her fifth child) and only Mary survived infancy, it's no wonder.
* Queen Boudica of the Iceni Celts went from Chieftan's widow to LadyOfWar when the Romans whipped her and gang raped her and her two young daughters. True, she was eventually defeated, but she made things difficult for the Romans for a while, and razed 3 of their largest cities to the ground (to the point where evidence of the fires can still be found by digging in parts of London, Colchester, and St. Albans today) and slaughtered 70 or 80 thousand of their inhabitants and the soldiers defending them in the process, taking time out to massacre the Ninth Legion, leaving only around five hundred survivors out of over two thousand. Nero, the emperor at the time, almost made the decision to abandon Britain during the crisis.
* [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/1492839/Mother-sets-fire-to-her-daughters-gloating-rapist.html A Spanish woman was raped,]] [[TooDumbToLive and the rapist taunted her mother about it.]] Her response? She just calmly walks in, turns the rapist around, [[KillItWithFire pours petrol all over him, lights a match, stares at the resulting inferno,]] and then just [[UnflinchingWalk "turned and walked away."]]
* Rukhsana Kauser was a ''Daughter Bear'' to her parents. When extortionists came to her parents house for the purpose of extorting - well - [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty Rukhsana]], from them, they refused and so [[ParentsInDistress the extortionists began hitting them with rifle butts.]] While they were busy doing this, Rukshana whacked one over the head with an ax and she and her brother grabbed their rifles and chased the extortionists away.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_Anjou Margaret of Anjou]] was definitely this. While her husband, King Henry VI. of England, was suffering from mental instability which made him unable to rule and defend his crown from the [[WarsOfTheRoses House of York]], she took things into her own hands and became the leader of the Lancastrian faction. She did this mostly to defend her underaged son Edward's birthright as the future king. She ended up defeating the Yorks at the second battle of St Albans, but was eventually forced into exile. After years of political scheming she returned to England with her son in order to support the Earl of Warwick's rebellion against the Yorkists. Tragically, she was defeated at the battle of Tewkesbury and 17-year-old Edward was killed. She herself was taken prisoner and later ransomed by King Louis XI. of France. In France she spent the last years of her life as a broken woman and died there.
* Cherilyn Sarkisian aka Cher, too. Mama Cher does NOT like it when her female-to-male {{transsexual}} son Chaz Bono is harrassed, [[http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/09/01/cher-defends-son-chaz-bono-against-stupid-bigots/ and used her twitter to defend him against "stupid bigots"]].
* Anna Timofeevna Gagarina, mother of YuriGagarin. Getting between her and her children was [[BerserkButton not a good idea]]. During WorldWarII, she verbally and [[PintsizedPowerhouse almost physically bested]] an armed and considerably larger [[NaziGermany German soldier]] who [[WouldHurtAChild attempted to hang youngest son Boris from a tree]] -- needless to say he was quickly released to her. Apparently before Yuri's funeral, she demanded the casket [[BrainBleach be opened]].
* [[http://abcnews.go.com/US/okla-woman-shoots-kills-intruder911-operators-shoot/story?id=15285605 This Oklahoma woman]].
* Invoked in [[http://blog.christianitytoday.com/women/2012/04/channeling_the_mama_bear_effec_1.html#more this article]] for an anti-child abuse site.
* Deconstructed in this [[http://mommyish.com/stuff/stfu-parents-angry-parents-on-facebook-892/ article]].
* LaurenFaust is like this towards her fans. More than one critic, troll, ect. has made the mistake of insulting them where she can see it, and gotten a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for their trouble.
* In 1871, seven-year-old Mary Winchester was kidnapped by Burmese tribesmen. At this, the Lieutenant Governor of India sent [[NepaliWithNastyKnives guess who]] after them and [[GunboatDiplomacy persuaded]] them to release Mary in about three months. QueenVicky [[MamaBear considers]] hurting her subjects to be SeriousBusiness.
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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_de%27_Medici Catherine de Medici]] could fit this trope, considering to what lengths she went to keep the crown on her son's head.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHUy8IaW-sE This mother from India]].
* A woman named Susanna Eastman/Wood/Swan took up a spit from a fireplace to defend her husband and children from Indian attack in colonial Massachusetts years after her first husband and children were killed by another Indian attack. She killed three of them who broke down her door in a single strike (they were lined up single file). She was never bothered again.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_Maccoll Kirsty MacColl]] died pushing her son out of the path of a speedboat.
* KristinChenoweth is a Christian woman and actress with an open and accepting view of LGBT. Someone writes an article in [[http://www.newsweek.com/id/236999 Newsweek]] about how her co-star Sean Hayes is unbelievable and self-hating in his role as Cheno's lover interest in a musical, along with a young co-star on ''{{Glee}}'' she's worked with on that show and other pieces. Let's never [[http://www.broadway.com/shows/promises-promises/buzz/152350/promises-star-kristin-chenoweth-speaks-out-on-horrendously-homophobic-newsweek-article-defends-sean-hayes/ piss off Cheno ever again]] with an article like that, can we? Because she is 4'11" of powerful and feisty and will always defend who she works with vigorously, no matter what their identity is.
* A bizarre example, related to porn...Chi Chi [=LaRue=], a gay porn director and DragQueen called herself one when the stars of one of her films are being criticized.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDMC8iRSxHk A violent mother attacking an innocent reporter, or is it the reporter's fault? You decide?]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon Katherine of Aragon]], the first of [[TheHouseOfTudor Henry VIII's]] six wives, refused to accept Henry's attempt to set her aside and annul their marriage partially because she was in love with her husband, but, she admitted, her main reason was because allowing him to do so would mean her daughter, Mary I, would be declared legally born out of wedlock and therefore unable to inherit the throne. By the end, she was reduced to living in near poverty because she refused to speak with anyone who did not address her as 'Queen,' and Henry VIII left her to rot in damp, unhealthy houses, and severed all contact between Katherine and Mary. Given that Katherine suffered six pregnancies (Mary was her fifth child) and only Mary survived infancy, it's no wonder.
* Queen Boudica of the Iceni Celts went from Chieftan's widow to LadyOfWar when the Romans whipped her and gang raped her and her two young daughters. True, she was eventually defeated, but she made things difficult for the Romans for a while, and razed 3 of their largest cities to the ground (to the point where evidence of the fires can still be found by digging in parts of London, Colchester, and St. Albans today) and slaughtered 70 or 80 thousand of their inhabitants and the soldiers defending them in the process, taking time out to massacre the Ninth Legion, leaving only around five hundred survivors out of over two thousand. Nero, the emperor at the time, almost made the decision to abandon Britain during the crisis.
* [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/1492839/Mother-sets-fire-to-her-daughters-gloating-rapist.html A Spanish woman was raped,]] [[TooDumbToLive and the rapist taunted her mother about it.]] Her response? She just calmly walks in, turns the rapist around, [[KillItWithFire pours petrol all over him, lights a match, stares at the resulting inferno,]] and then just [[UnflinchingWalk "turned and walked away."]]
* Rukhsana Kauser was a ''Daughter Bear'' to her parents. When extortionists came to her parents house for the purpose of extorting - well - [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty Rukhsana]], from them, they refused and so [[ParentsInDistress the extortionists began hitting them with rifle butts.]] While they were busy doing this, Rukshana whacked one over the head with an ax and she and her brother grabbed their rifles and chased the extortionists away.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_Anjou Margaret of Anjou]] was definitely this. While her husband, King Henry VI. of England, was suffering from mental instability which made him unable to rule and defend his crown from the [[WarsOfTheRoses House of York]], she took things into her own hands and became the leader of the Lancastrian faction. She did this mostly to defend her underaged son Edward's birthright as the future king. She ended up defeating the Yorks at the second battle of St Albans, but was eventually forced into exile. After years of political scheming she returned to England with her son in order to support the Earl of Warwick's rebellion against the Yorkists. Tragically, she was defeated at the battle of Tewkesbury and 17-year-old Edward was killed. She herself was taken prisoner and later ransomed by King Louis XI. of France. In France she spent the last years of her life as a broken woman and died there.
* Cherilyn Sarkisian aka Cher, too. Mama Cher does NOT like it when her female-to-male {{transsexual}} son Chaz Bono is harrassed, [[http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/09/01/cher-defends-son-chaz-bono-against-stupid-bigots/ and used her twitter to defend him against "stupid bigots"]].
* Anna Timofeevna Gagarina, mother of YuriGagarin. Getting between her and her children was [[BerserkButton not a good idea]]. During WorldWarII, she verbally and [[PintsizedPowerhouse almost physically bested]] an armed and considerably larger [[NaziGermany German soldier]] who [[WouldHurtAChild attempted to hang youngest son Boris from a tree]] -- needless to say he was quickly released to her. Apparently before Yuri's funeral, she demanded the casket [[BrainBleach be opened]].
* [[http://abcnews.go.com/US/okla-woman-shoots-kills-intruder911-operators-shoot/story?id=15285605 This Oklahoma woman]].
* Invoked in [[http://blog.christianitytoday.com/women/2012/04/channeling_the_mama_bear_effec_1.html#more this article]] for an anti-child abuse site.
* Deconstructed in this [[http://mommyish.com/stuff/stfu-parents-angry-parents-on-facebook-892/ article]].
* LaurenFaust is like this towards her fans. More than one critic, troll, ect. has made the mistake of insulting them where she can see it, and gotten a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for their trouble.
* In 1871, seven-year-old Mary Winchester was kidnapped by Burmese tribesmen. At this, the Lieutenant Governor of India sent [[NepaliWithNastyKnives guess who]] after them and [[GunboatDiplomacy persuaded]] them to release Mary in about three months. QueenVicky [[MamaBear considers]] hurting her subjects to be SeriousBusiness.
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