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* African wild dogs and jackals usually kill or steal from each other when given the chance. This was not the case with [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O9FOeWqoCTc Solo]]. She was a lone wild dog who chased off a couple of jackals so that she could adopt their pups as her own. It's unknown what happened to her pack, but it's pretty obvious that her lonely life drove her into adopting another species' offsprings out of a maternal instinct. Solo never harmed the jackal pups, even feeding them her regurgitated meal, which is noted that most, if not all wild dogs species feed their pups in this manner. When a hyena got too close to the den, Solo attacked it and scared it off from coming anywhere near the jackal pups.
** The jackal parents [[TheDeterminator came back, repeatedly]], to chase Solo away, as a means of claiming their pups back. The [[PapaWolf father jackal]] would distract Solo by howling and biting at her, while his mate nursed the pups. When Solo eventually left, it didn't take long for her to come back, just as another hyena (or the same one from the last confrontation) approached the jackal family. Solo didn't hesitate to fight alongside the jackal parents and charged straight ahead at the hyena. This moment is what made the jackal parents accept Solo into their pack.
** The jackal parents [[TheDeterminator came back, repeatedly]], to chase Solo away, as a means of claiming their pups back. The [[PapaWolf father jackal]] would distract Solo by howling and biting at her, while his mate nursed the pups. When Solo eventually left, it didn't take long for her to come back, just as another hyena (or the same one from the last confrontation) approached the jackal family. Solo didn't hesitate to fight alongside the jackal parents and charged straight ahead at the hyena. This moment is what made the jackal parents accept Solo into their pack.
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* African wild dogs and jackals usually kill or steal from each other when given the chance. This was not the case with [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O9FOeWqoCTc Solo]]. She was a lone wild dog who chased off a couple of jackals so that she could adopt their pups as her own. It's unknown what happened to her pack, but it's pretty obvious that her lonely life drove her into adopting another species' offsprings out of a maternal instinct. Solo never harmed the jackal pups, even feeding them her regurgitated meal, carcass, which is noted that most, if not all wild dogs species feed their pups in this manner. When a hyena got too close to the den, Solo attacked it and scared it off from coming trying to come anywhere near the jackal pups.
** The jackal parents [[TheDeterminator came back, repeatedly]], to chase Solo away, as a means of claiming their pups back. The [[PapaWolf father jackal]] would distract Solo by howling and biting at her, while his mate nursed the pups. WhenSolo eventually left, jackal family managed to escape, it didn't take long for her Solo to come back, just as another hyena (or the same one from the last confrontation) approached the jackal family. [[EnemyMine Solo didn't hesitate to fight alongside the jackal parents parents]] and charged straight ahead at successfully chases off the hyena. This moment is what made the jackal parents accept Solo into their pack. As the documentary narrator describes, "Solo fights with a mother's fury, as if she's protecting her own pups."
** The jackal parents [[TheDeterminator came back, repeatedly]], to chase Solo away, as a means of claiming their pups back. The [[PapaWolf father jackal]] would distract Solo by howling and biting at her, while his mate nursed the pups. When
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* [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/1492839/Mother-sets-fire-to-her-daughters-gloating-rapist.html A Spanish woman was raped,]] and the rapist taunted her mother about it. Her response? [[TranquilFury She just calmly walks into the bar he was 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."]]
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* [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/1492839/Mother-sets-fire-to-her-daughters-gloating-rapist.html A Spanish woman was raped,]] and the rapist taunted her mother about it. Her response? [[TranquilFury She just calmly walks into the bar he was in]], turns the rapist around, [[KillItWithFire [[GasolineDousing pours petrol all over him, him]], [[KillItWithFire lights a match, stares at the resulting inferno,]] and then just [[UnflinchingWalk "turned and walked away."]]
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* Female alligators and crocodiles of all creatures are fiercely protective of their babies. Specifically, after they hatch, alligators and crocodiles will carry their babies in their mouth outside water, which will make any animal looking for a free meal think twice about attempting to steal a baby croc directly from its mothers mouth.
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* Female alligators and crocodiles of all creatures are fiercely protective of their babies. Specifically, after they the eggs hatch, alligators and crocodiles will carry their babies in their mouth outside water, which will make any animal looking for a free meal think twice about attempting to steal a baby croc directly from its mothers mouth.mouth.
* African wild dogs and jackals usually kill or steal from each other when given the chance. This was not the case with [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O9FOeWqoCTc Solo]]. She was a lone wild dog who chased off a couple of jackals so that she could adopt their pups as her own. It's unknown what happened to her pack, but it's pretty obvious that her lonely life drove her into adopting another species' offsprings out of a maternal instinct. Solo never harmed the jackal pups, even feeding them her regurgitated meal, which is noted that most, if not all wild dogs species feed their pups in this manner. When a hyena got too close to the den, Solo attacked it and scared it off from coming anywhere near the jackal pups.
** The jackal parents [[TheDeterminator came back, repeatedly]], to chase Solo away, as a means of claiming their pups back. The [[PapaWolf father jackal]] would distract Solo by howling and biting at her, while his mate nursed the pups. When Solo eventually left, it didn't take long for her to come back, just as another hyena (or the same one from the last confrontation) approached the jackal family. Solo didn't hesitate to fight alongside the jackal parents and charged straight ahead at the hyena. This moment is what made the jackal parents accept Solo into their pack.
* African wild dogs and jackals usually kill or steal from each other when given the chance. This was not the case with [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O9FOeWqoCTc Solo]]. She was a lone wild dog who chased off a couple of jackals so that she could adopt their pups as her own. It's unknown what happened to her pack, but it's pretty obvious that her lonely life drove her into adopting another species' offsprings out of a maternal instinct. Solo never harmed the jackal pups, even feeding them her regurgitated meal, which is noted that most, if not all wild dogs species feed their pups in this manner. When a hyena got too close to the den, Solo attacked it and scared it off from coming anywhere near the jackal pups.
** The jackal parents [[TheDeterminator came back, repeatedly]], to chase Solo away, as a means of claiming their pups back. The [[PapaWolf father jackal]] would distract Solo by howling and biting at her, while his mate nursed the pups. When Solo eventually left, it didn't take long for her to come back, just as another hyena (or the same one from the last confrontation) approached the jackal family. Solo didn't hesitate to fight alongside the jackal parents and charged straight ahead at the hyena. This moment is what made the jackal parents accept Solo into their pack.
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* [[http://fox2now.com/2014/08/07/woman-set-husband-on-fire-for-allegedly-molesting-her-7-year-old-daughter-3/ A woman set her husband on fire because she caught him molesting their 7-year-old daughter.]]
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* Dame Creator/HelenMirren once related a story about one time she protected a baby from an actual bear. The bear had managed to get into the house she and her family were staying in because of an open door and it advanced on the baby. Helen saw this bear right next to her, and she immediately stretched out her arms and roared at the bear. Let's reiterate that. Helen Mirren. Roared. At a bear. Following instincts, the bear decided it was not worth it and Helen wound up having to help push the bear out the door because it got stuck on the way out. It even had peed itself, according to her because she could smell urine.
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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.]]
* [[UsefulNotes/CaterinaDeMedici Catherine de Medici]] could fit this trope, considering to what lengths she went to keep the crown on her son's head.
* María de los Ángeles Veron was a 23-year-old young mother who went missing in 2002 in Argentina and rumoured to have been sold to a trafficking ring. Her own mother Susana Trimarco raised her granddaughter, became a human rights activist, was internationally recognized, went undercover as a prostitute to find her daughter, founded organizations to help other women, and liberated thousands of victims. She also spent near the last two decades fighting for her daughter's case.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_Maccoll Kirsty MacColl]] died pushing her son out of the path of a speedboat.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon Katherine of Aragon]], the first of [[UsefulNotes/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 her main reason was that 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 Chieftain's widow to LadyOfWar when the Romans whipped her and gang-raped 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.
* [[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne Frank]]’s mother Edith died of starvation a mere three weeks before her concentration camp was liberated by the Soviet army because she stopped eating in order to give her daughters any food she managed to find.
* [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/1492839/Mother-sets-fire-to-her-daughters-gloating-rapist.html A Spanish woman was raped,]] and the rapist taunted her mother about it. Her response? [[TranquilFury She just calmly walks into the bar he was 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."]]
* A few from [[UsefulNotes/WarsOfTheRoses the Wars of the Roses]]:
** [[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 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.
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Beaufort,_Countess_of_Richmond_and_Derby Margaret Beaufort]], dedicated her entire life to ensure her son, Henry Tudor, would become king. She made one plot after another to ensure his safe return to England after his exile in France and then secured alliances for him, such as marrying Thomas Stanley and arranging the marriage of Henry to Elizabeth of York. Her efforts paid off when Henry defeated Richard III and became King Henry VII of England in 1485, founding UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfTudor. He recognized her efforts and honored her greatly.
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Woodville Elizabeth Woodville]], wife of King Edward IV of England and part of the House of York. After her husband died, her eldest son Edward V was deemed too young to rule, so Edward IV's brother Richard was brought in to rule as Regent. Three months later, Parliament declared that Edward's marriage to Elizabeth was invalid, making Edward V and his brother illegitimate and therefore unable to inherit the throne, and their uncle Richard became Richard III. Shortly afterwards, Edward and his brother disappeared, and while historians agree that we'll never really know what happened to them due to lack of evidence, Richard III remains one of the chief suspects, and back then it was believed he had them bumped off. He did, however, have Elizabeth's son from her previous marriage [[BigSisterInstinct and her brother]] executed. Elizabeth's response to all this? She made an alliance with the above-mentioned [[EnemyMine Margaret Beaufort of the House of Lancaster]] and agreed to support Henry Tudor's claim to the throne, on the condition that he marry Elizabeth's eldest daughter, also named Elizabeth. The plan succeeded, Henry became Henry VII of England, and the Wars of the Roses ended through his marriage to Elizabeth of York. For bonus points, it was a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage and they were very happy together.
* Anna Timofeevna Gagarina, mother of UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin. Getting between her and her children was not a good idea. During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, she verbally and [[PintsizedPowerhouse almost physically bested]] an armed and considerably larger [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany German soldier]] who [[WouldHurtAChild attempted to hang her 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]].
* In 1871, seven-year-old Mary Winchester was kidnapped by Burmese tribesmen. At this, the Lieutenant Governor of India sent [[UsefulNotes/NepaliWithNastyKnives guess who]] after them and [[GunboatDiplomacy persuaded]] them to release Mary in about three months. UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria [[MamaBear considers]] hurting her subjects to be SeriousBusiness.
* 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!]]
* [[UsefulNotes/CaterinaDeMedici Catherine de Medici]] could fit this trope, considering to what lengths she went to keep the crown on her son's head.
* María de los Ángeles Veron was a 23-year-old young mother who went missing in 2002 in Argentina and rumoured to have been sold to a trafficking ring. Her own mother Susana Trimarco raised her granddaughter, became a human rights activist, was internationally recognized, went undercover as a prostitute to find her daughter, founded organizations to help other women, and liberated thousands of victims. She also spent near the last two decades fighting for her daughter's case.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_Maccoll Kirsty MacColl]] died pushing her son out of the path of a speedboat.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon Katherine of Aragon]], the first of [[UsefulNotes/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 her main reason was that 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 Chieftain's widow to LadyOfWar when the Romans whipped her and gang-raped 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.
* [[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne Frank]]’s mother Edith died of starvation a mere three weeks before her concentration camp was liberated by the Soviet army because she stopped eating in order to give her daughters any food she managed to find.
* [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/1492839/Mother-sets-fire-to-her-daughters-gloating-rapist.html A Spanish woman was raped,]] and the rapist taunted her mother about it. Her response? [[TranquilFury She just calmly walks into the bar he was 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."]]
* A few from [[UsefulNotes/WarsOfTheRoses the Wars of the Roses]]:
** [[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 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.
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Beaufort,_Countess_of_Richmond_and_Derby Margaret Beaufort]], dedicated her entire life to ensure her son, Henry Tudor, would become king. She made one plot after another to ensure his safe return to England after his exile in France and then secured alliances for him, such as marrying Thomas Stanley and arranging the marriage of Henry to Elizabeth of York. Her efforts paid off when Henry defeated Richard III and became King Henry VII of England in 1485, founding UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfTudor. He recognized her efforts and honored her greatly.
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Woodville Elizabeth Woodville]], wife of King Edward IV of England and part of the House of York. After her husband died, her eldest son Edward V was deemed too young to rule, so Edward IV's brother Richard was brought in to rule as Regent. Three months later, Parliament declared that Edward's marriage to Elizabeth was invalid, making Edward V and his brother illegitimate and therefore unable to inherit the throne, and their uncle Richard became Richard III. Shortly afterwards, Edward and his brother disappeared, and while historians agree that we'll never really know what happened to them due to lack of evidence, Richard III remains one of the chief suspects, and back then it was believed he had them bumped off. He did, however, have Elizabeth's son from her previous marriage [[BigSisterInstinct and her brother]] executed. Elizabeth's response to all this? She made an alliance with the above-mentioned [[EnemyMine Margaret Beaufort of the House of Lancaster]] and agreed to support Henry Tudor's claim to the throne, on the condition that he marry Elizabeth's eldest daughter, also named Elizabeth. The plan succeeded, Henry became Henry VII of England, and the Wars of the Roses ended through his marriage to Elizabeth of York. For bonus points, it was a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage and they were very happy together.
* Anna Timofeevna Gagarina, mother of UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin. Getting between her and her children was not a good idea. During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, she verbally and [[PintsizedPowerhouse almost physically bested]] an armed and considerably larger [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany German soldier]] who [[WouldHurtAChild attempted to hang her 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]].
* In 1871, seven-year-old Mary Winchester was kidnapped by Burmese tribesmen. At this, the Lieutenant Governor of India sent [[UsefulNotes/NepaliWithNastyKnives guess who]] after them and [[GunboatDiplomacy persuaded]] them to release Mary in about three months. UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria [[MamaBear considers]] hurting her subjects to be SeriousBusiness.
* 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.canada.com/story.html?id=d26831a5-b800-4785-ba33-42c41a3a161b An Inuit woman was able to fight a polar bear to protect her son and his friends.]] The woman survived the attack too!
** That article also mentions a woman who faced a blazing house fire to rescue 2 young girls at risk for her own life.
* 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. Bad. Ass. [[http://wtkr.com/2013/06/17/texas-mom-fights-back-runs-over-carjacker/ Don't mess with Texas, indeed.]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IxSgKSnE_ag Another Texas mother leaps into action]] when a man attempts to kidnap her two-year-old daughter.
* [[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 ever-loving crap out of him with a baseball bat.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jm7sjRJQTc This]] video of a high-speed pursuit in Dallas ends with the fugitive crashing his vehicle into a mini-van that contained a mom and her kid. The mom proceeds to Hulk-smash out of the car and beat the criminal's ass to the moon. The video title even calls her a MamaBear!
* 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 afterward, she [[HumbleHero downplayed her heroics]] and stated that she did what any mother would have done.
* [[http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/charlotte-laws-hunter-moore-erin-brockovich-revenge-porn Charlotte Laws.]] When her daughter Kayla found out from a friend that a revealing photo had been posted on a 'revenge porn' website, Laws - a former detective - responded with the Operation No Moore campaign (named after the site's founder, Hunter Moore). Even repeated rape and death threats didn't stop her from getting the FBI involved in shutting down the website and getting Moore and his hacker arrested. As she herself says, "They messed with the wrong mother."
* [[http://www.inquisitr.com/1084124/sugar-bowl-brawl-alabama-mom-apologizes-but-says-she-would-do-it-again/ Don't You Dare Insult the children of Michelle Pritchett]] because it will result in a WWE-Style smackdown if you do. Just ask Oklahoma Sooners fan Michael Connolly... who found out the hard way at the SugarBowl in 2014.
* In the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2008_Mumbai_terrorist_attacks 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks]], the rabbi Gavriel Holzberg and his wife Rizka were among the casualties. The family's nanny, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Samuel Sandra Samuel]], managed to grab the couple's 2-year-old son Moshe and run away from the terrorists, saving both the kid and herself.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEnrAcPQZMY The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo]] were an organization of women formed around the Argentinian Dirty War who fought for the knowledge of what happened to their "disappeared" children (who were involved in left-wing causes against the government and soon were kidnapped, never to be seen again). They soon concentrated on finding the grandchildren who were illegally adopted by officials. Keep in mind that they were openly opposing the government at a point where most of the opposition were raped, killed, and tortured after being kidnapped. The picture of badass isn't necessarily of a buffed-out superhuman with armor and gadgets, [[https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=667&q=mothers+of+the+plaza+de+mayo+white+scarves&oq=Mothers+of+the+pl&gs_l=img.1.2.0j0i24l7.919.3877.0.5706.19.11.1.2.2.0.232.1255.0j6j2.8.0.msedr...0...1ac.1.62.img..8.11.1270.QDQMu5MIqu0#imgdii=E-evZoUJZ-pfYM%3A%3BToVo2XN93VmJeM%3BE-evZoUJZ-pfYM%3A&imgrc=E-evZoUJZ-pfYM%253A%3BKys0qLmX0bl2rM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fpancakesandfrenchfries.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2013%252F03%252F11_marcha_madres_plaza_de_mayo2-e1363071786448.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fpancakesandfrenchfries.com%252F2013%252F03%252Fthis-is-how-you-lose-her-discussion%252F%3B570%3B428 it can also be of several middle-aged and elderly women wearing cloth diapers as head scarves]]...
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vby4CgLOR44 This young teen mother from Oklahoma]] shot and killed an intruder while on the phone to the police dispatcher to protect her three-month-old son. Her final quote sums it up best:
-->'''Sarah:''' There's nothing more dangerous than a mother with a child.
* [[https://lovedinshades.tumblr.com/post/112212206552/idimmadontgiveashit-draco-in-chorum-hell-fucking This]] mother, who delivered an epic verbal beatdown to the boy who harassed her daughter in class and the school officials who were going to punish her for defending herself against him.
** That article also mentions a woman who faced a blazing house fire to rescue 2 young girls at risk for her own life.
* 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. Bad. Ass. [[http://wtkr.com/2013/06/17/texas-mom-fights-back-runs-over-carjacker/ Don't mess with Texas, indeed.]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IxSgKSnE_ag Another Texas mother leaps into action]] when a man attempts to kidnap her two-year-old daughter.
* [[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 ever-loving crap out of him with a baseball bat.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jm7sjRJQTc This]] video of a high-speed pursuit in Dallas ends with the fugitive crashing his vehicle into a mini-van that contained a mom and her kid. The mom proceeds to Hulk-smash out of the car and beat the criminal's ass to the moon. The video title even calls her a MamaBear!
* 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 afterward, she [[HumbleHero downplayed her heroics]] and stated that she did what any mother would have done.
* [[http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/charlotte-laws-hunter-moore-erin-brockovich-revenge-porn Charlotte Laws.]] When her daughter Kayla found out from a friend that a revealing photo had been posted on a 'revenge porn' website, Laws - a former detective - responded with the Operation No Moore campaign (named after the site's founder, Hunter Moore). Even repeated rape and death threats didn't stop her from getting the FBI involved in shutting down the website and getting Moore and his hacker arrested. As she herself says, "They messed with the wrong mother."
* [[http://www.inquisitr.com/1084124/sugar-bowl-brawl-alabama-mom-apologizes-but-says-she-would-do-it-again/ Don't You Dare Insult the children of Michelle Pritchett]] because it will result in a WWE-Style smackdown if you do. Just ask Oklahoma Sooners fan Michael Connolly... who found out the hard way at the SugarBowl in 2014.
* In the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2008_Mumbai_terrorist_attacks 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks]], the rabbi Gavriel Holzberg and his wife Rizka were among the casualties. The family's nanny, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Samuel Sandra Samuel]], managed to grab the couple's 2-year-old son Moshe and run away from the terrorists, saving both the kid and herself.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEnrAcPQZMY The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo]] were an organization of women formed around the Argentinian Dirty War who fought for the knowledge of what happened to their "disappeared" children (who were involved in left-wing causes against the government and soon were kidnapped, never to be seen again). They soon concentrated on finding the grandchildren who were illegally adopted by officials. Keep in mind that they were openly opposing the government at a point where most of the opposition were raped, killed, and tortured after being kidnapped. The picture of badass isn't necessarily of a buffed-out superhuman with armor and gadgets, [[https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=667&q=mothers+of+the+plaza+de+mayo+white+scarves&oq=Mothers+of+the+pl&gs_l=img.1.2.0j0i24l7.919.3877.0.5706.19.11.1.2.2.0.232.1255.0j6j2.8.0.msedr...0...1ac.1.62.img..8.11.1270.QDQMu5MIqu0#imgdii=E-evZoUJZ-pfYM%3A%3BToVo2XN93VmJeM%3BE-evZoUJZ-pfYM%3A&imgrc=E-evZoUJZ-pfYM%253A%3BKys0qLmX0bl2rM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fpancakesandfrenchfries.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2013%252F03%252F11_marcha_madres_plaza_de_mayo2-e1363071786448.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fpancakesandfrenchfries.com%252F2013%252F03%252Fthis-is-how-you-lose-her-discussion%252F%3B570%3B428 it can also be of several middle-aged and elderly women wearing cloth diapers as head scarves]]...
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vby4CgLOR44 This young teen mother from Oklahoma]] shot and killed an intruder while on the phone to the police dispatcher to protect her three-month-old son. Her final quote sums it up best:
-->'''Sarah:''' There's nothing more dangerous than a mother with a child.
* [[https://lovedinshades.tumblr.com/post/112212206552/idimmadontgiveashit-draco-in-chorum-hell-fucking This]] mother, who delivered an epic verbal beatdown to the boy who harassed her daughter in class and the school officials who were going to punish her for defending herself against him.
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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.]]
* [[UsefulNotes/CaterinaDeMedici Catherine de Medici]] could fit this trope, considering to what lengths she went to keep the crown on her son's head.
* María de los Ángeles Veron was a 23-year-old young mother who went missing in 2002 in Argentina and rumoured to have been sold to a trafficking ring. Her own mother Susana Trimarco raised her granddaughter, became a human rights activist, was internationally recognized, went undercover as a prostitute to find her daughter, founded organizations to help other women, and liberated thousands of victims. She also spent near the last two decades fighting for her daughter's case.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_Maccoll Kirsty MacColl]] died pushing her son out of the path of a speedboat.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon Katherine of Aragon]], the first of [[UsefulNotes/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 her main reason was that 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 Chieftain's widow to LadyOfWar when the Romans whipped her and gang-raped 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.
* [[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne Frank]]’s mother Edith died of starvation a mere three weeks before her concentration camp was liberated by the Soviet army because she stopped eating in order to give her daughters any food she managed to find.
* [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/1492839/Mother-sets-fire-to-her-daughters-gloating-rapist.html A Spanish woman was raped,]] and the rapist taunted her mother about it. Her response? [[TranquilFury She just calmly walks into the bar he was 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."]]
* A few from [[UsefulNotes/WarsOfTheRoses the Wars of the Roses]]:
** [[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 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.
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Beaufort,_Countess_of_Richmond_and_Derby Margaret Beaufort]], dedicated her entire life to ensure her son, Henry Tudor, would become king. She made one plot after another to ensure his safe return to England after his exile in France and then secured alliances for him, such as marrying Thomas Stanley and arranging the marriage of Henry to Elizabeth of York. Her efforts paid off when Henry defeated Richard III and became King Henry VII of England in 1485, founding UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfTudor. He recognized her efforts and honored her greatly.
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Woodville Elizabeth Woodville]], wife of King Edward IV of England and part of the House of York. After her husband died, her eldest son Edward V was deemed too young to rule, so Edward IV's brother Richard was brought in to rule as Regent. Three months later, Parliament declared that Edward's marriage to Elizabeth was invalid, making Edward V and his brother illegitimate and therefore unable to inherit the throne, and their uncle Richard became Richard III. Shortly afterwards, Edward and his brother disappeared, and while historians agree that we'll never really know what happened to them due to lack of evidence, Richard III remains one of the chief suspects, and back then it was believed he had them bumped off. He did, however, have Elizabeth's son from her previous marriage [[BigSisterInstinct and her brother]] executed. Elizabeth's response to all this? She made an alliance with the above-mentioned [[EnemyMine Margaret Beaufort of the House of Lancaster]] and agreed to support Henry Tudor's claim to the throne, on the condition that he marry Elizabeth's eldest daughter, also named Elizabeth. The plan succeeded, Henry became Henry VII of England, and the Wars of the Roses ended through his marriage to Elizabeth of York. For bonus points, it was a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage and they were very happy together.
* Anna Timofeevna Gagarina, mother of UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin. Getting between her and her children was not a good idea. During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, she verbally and [[PintsizedPowerhouse almost physically bested]] an armed and considerably larger [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany German soldier]] who [[WouldHurtAChild attempted to hang her 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]].
* In 1871, seven-year-old Mary Winchester was kidnapped by Burmese tribesmen. At this, the Lieutenant Governor of India sent [[UsefulNotes/NepaliWithNastyKnives guess who]] after them and [[GunboatDiplomacy persuaded]] them to release Mary in about three months. UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria [[MamaBear considers]] hurting her subjects to be SeriousBusiness.
* 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!]]
* [[http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=d26831a5-b800-4785-ba33-42c41a3a161b An Inuit woman was able to fight a polar bear to protect her son and his friends.]] The woman survived the attack too!
** That article also mentions a woman who faced a blazing house fire to rescue 2 young girls at risk for her own life.
* 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. Bad. Ass. [[http://wtkr.com/2013/06/17/texas-mom-fights-back-runs-over-carjacker/ Don't mess with Texas, indeed.]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IxSgKSnE_ag Another Texas mother leaps into action]] when a man attempts to kidnap her two-year-old daughter.
* [[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 ever-loving crap out of him with a baseball bat.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jm7sjRJQTc This]] video of a high-speed pursuit in Dallas ends with the fugitive crashing his vehicle into a mini-van that contained a mom and her kid. The mom proceeds to Hulk-smash out of the car and beat the criminal's ass to the moon. The video title even calls her a MamaBear!
* 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 afterward, she [[HumbleHero downplayed her heroics]] and stated that she did what any mother would have done.
* [[http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/charlotte-laws-hunter-moore-erin-brockovich-revenge-porn Charlotte Laws.]] When her daughter Kayla found out from a friend that a revealing photo had been posted on a 'revenge porn' website, Laws - a former detective - responded with the Operation No Moore campaign (named after the site's founder, Hunter Moore). Even repeated rape and death threats didn't stop her from getting the FBI involved in shutting down the website and getting Moore and his hacker arrested. As she herself says, "They messed with the wrong mother."
* [[http://www.inquisitr.com/1084124/sugar-bowl-brawl-alabama-mom-apologizes-but-says-she-would-do-it-again/ Don't You Dare Insult the children of Michelle Pritchett]] because it will result in a WWE-Style smackdown if you do. Just ask Oklahoma Sooners fan Michael Connolly... who found out the hard way at the SugarBowl in 2014.
* In the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2008_Mumbai_terrorist_attacks 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks]], the rabbi Gavriel Holzberg and his wife Rizka were among the casualties. The family's nanny, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Samuel Sandra Samuel]], managed to grab the couple's 2-year-old son Moshe and run away from the terrorists, saving both the kid and herself.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEnrAcPQZMY The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo]] were an organization of women formed around the Argentinian Dirty War who fought for the knowledge of what happened to their "disappeared" children (who were involved in left-wing causes against the government and soon were kidnapped, never to be seen again). They soon concentrated on finding the grandchildren who were illegally adopted by officials. Keep in mind that they were openly opposing the government at a point where most of the opposition were raped, killed, and tortured after being kidnapped. The picture of badass isn't necessarily of a buffed-out superhuman with armor and gadgets, [[https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=667&q=mothers+of+the+plaza+de+mayo+white+scarves&oq=Mothers+of+the+pl&gs_l=img.1.2.0j0i24l7.919.3877.0.5706.19.11.1.2.2.0.232.1255.0j6j2.8.0.msedr...0...1ac.1.62.img..8.11.1270.QDQMu5MIqu0#imgdii=E-evZoUJZ-pfYM%3A%3BToVo2XN93VmJeM%3BE-evZoUJZ-pfYM%3A&imgrc=E-evZoUJZ-pfYM%253A%3BKys0qLmX0bl2rM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fpancakesandfrenchfries.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2013%252F03%252F11_marcha_madres_plaza_de_mayo2-e1363071786448.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fpancakesandfrenchfries.com%252F2013%252F03%252Fthis-is-how-you-lose-her-discussion%252F%3B570%3B428 it can also be of several middle-aged and elderly women wearing cloth diapers as head scarves]]...
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vby4CgLOR44 This young teen mother from Oklahoma]] shot and killed an intruder while on the phone to the police dispatcher to protect her three-month-old son. Her final quote sums it up best:
-->'''Sarah:''' There's nothing more dangerous than a mother with a child.
* [[https://lovedinshades.tumblr.com/post/112212206552/idimmadontgiveashit-draco-in-chorum-hell-fucking This]] mother, who delivered an epic verbal beatdown to the boy who harassed her daughter in class and the school officials who were going to punish her for defending herself against him.
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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.]]
* [[UsefulNotes/CaterinaDeMedici Catherine de Medici]] could fit this trope, considering to what lengths she went to keep the crown on her son's head.
* María de los Ángeles Veron was a 23-year-old young mother who went missing in 2002 in Argentina and rumoured to have been sold to a trafficking ring. Her own mother Susana Trimarco raised her granddaughter, became a human rights activist, was internationally recognized, went undercover as a prostitute to find her daughter, founded organizations to help other women, and liberated thousands of victims. She also spent near the last two decades fighting for her daughter's case.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_Maccoll Kirsty MacColl]] died pushing her son out of the path of a speedboat.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon Katherine of Aragon]], the first of [[UsefulNotes/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 her main reason was that 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 Chieftain's widow to LadyOfWar when the Romans whipped her and gang-raped 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.
* [[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne Frank]]’s mother Edith died of starvation a mere three weeks before her concentration camp was liberated by the Soviet army because she stopped eating in order to give her daughters any food she managed to find.
* [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/1492839/Mother-sets-fire-to-her-daughters-gloating-rapist.html A Spanish woman was raped,]] and the rapist taunted her mother about it. Her response? [[TranquilFury She just calmly walks into the bar he was 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."]]
* A few from [[UsefulNotes/WarsOfTheRoses the Wars of the Roses]]:
** [[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 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.
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Beaufort,_Countess_of_Richmond_and_Derby Margaret Beaufort]], dedicated her entire life to ensure her son, Henry Tudor, would become king. She made one plot after another to ensure his safe return to England after his exile in France and then secured alliances for him, such as marrying Thomas Stanley and arranging the marriage of Henry to Elizabeth of York. Her efforts paid off when Henry defeated Richard III and became King Henry VII of England in 1485, founding UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfTudor. He recognized her efforts and honored her greatly.
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Woodville Elizabeth Woodville]], wife of King Edward IV of England and part of the House of York. After her husband died, her eldest son Edward V was deemed too young to rule, so Edward IV's brother Richard was brought in to rule as Regent. Three months later, Parliament declared that Edward's marriage to Elizabeth was invalid, making Edward V and his brother illegitimate and therefore unable to inherit the throne, and their uncle Richard became Richard III. Shortly afterwards, Edward and his brother disappeared, and while historians agree that we'll never really know what happened to them due to lack of evidence, Richard III remains one of the chief suspects, and back then it was believed he had them bumped off. He did, however, have Elizabeth's son from her previous marriage [[BigSisterInstinct and her brother]] executed. Elizabeth's response to all this? She made an alliance with the above-mentioned [[EnemyMine Margaret Beaufort of the House of Lancaster]] and agreed to support Henry Tudor's claim to the throne, on the condition that he marry Elizabeth's eldest daughter, also named Elizabeth. The plan succeeded, Henry became Henry VII of England, and the Wars of the Roses ended through his marriage to Elizabeth of York. For bonus points, it was a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage and they were very happy together.
* Anna Timofeevna Gagarina, mother of UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin. Getting between her and her children was not a good idea. During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, she verbally and [[PintsizedPowerhouse almost physically bested]] an armed and considerably larger [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany German soldier]] who [[WouldHurtAChild attempted to hang her 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]].
* In 1871, seven-year-old Mary Winchester was kidnapped by Burmese tribesmen. At this, the Lieutenant Governor of India sent [[UsefulNotes/NepaliWithNastyKnives guess who]] after them and [[GunboatDiplomacy persuaded]] them to release Mary in about three months. UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria [[MamaBear considers]] hurting her subjects to be SeriousBusiness.
* 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!]]
* [[http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=d26831a5-b800-4785-ba33-42c41a3a161b An Inuit woman was able to fight a polar bear to protect her son and his friends.]] The woman survived the attack too!
** That article also mentions a woman who faced a blazing house fire to rescue 2 young girls at risk for her own life.
* 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. Bad. Ass. [[http://wtkr.com/2013/06/17/texas-mom-fights-back-runs-over-carjacker/ Don't mess with Texas, indeed.]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IxSgKSnE_ag Another Texas mother leaps into action]] when a man attempts to kidnap her two-year-old daughter.
* [[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 ever-loving crap out of him with a baseball bat.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jm7sjRJQTc This]] video of a high-speed pursuit in Dallas ends with the fugitive crashing his vehicle into a mini-van that contained a mom and her kid. The mom proceeds to Hulk-smash out of the car and beat the criminal's ass to the moon. The video title even calls her a MamaBear!
* 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 afterward, she [[HumbleHero downplayed her heroics]] and stated that she did what any mother would have done.
* [[http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/charlotte-laws-hunter-moore-erin-brockovich-revenge-porn Charlotte Laws.]] When her daughter Kayla found out from a friend that a revealing photo had been posted on a 'revenge porn' website, Laws - a former detective - responded with the Operation No Moore campaign (named after the site's founder, Hunter Moore). Even repeated rape and death threats didn't stop her from getting the FBI involved in shutting down the website and getting Moore and his hacker arrested. As she herself says, "They messed with the wrong mother."
* [[http://www.inquisitr.com/1084124/sugar-bowl-brawl-alabama-mom-apologizes-but-says-she-would-do-it-again/ Don't You Dare Insult the children of Michelle Pritchett]] because it will result in a WWE-Style smackdown if you do. Just ask Oklahoma Sooners fan Michael Connolly... who found out the hard way at the SugarBowl in 2014.
* In the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2008_Mumbai_terrorist_attacks 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks]], the rabbi Gavriel Holzberg and his wife Rizka were among the casualties. The family's nanny, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Samuel Sandra Samuel]], managed to grab the couple's 2-year-old son Moshe and run away from the terrorists, saving both the kid and herself.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEnrAcPQZMY The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo]] were an organization of women formed around the Argentinian Dirty War who fought for the knowledge of what happened to their "disappeared" children (who were involved in left-wing causes against the government and soon were kidnapped, never to be seen again). They soon concentrated on finding the grandchildren who were illegally adopted by officials. Keep in mind that they were openly opposing the government at a point where most of the opposition were raped, killed, and tortured after being kidnapped. The picture of badass isn't necessarily of a buffed-out superhuman with armor and gadgets, [[https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=667&q=mothers+of+the+plaza+de+mayo+white+scarves&oq=Mothers+of+the+pl&gs_l=img.1.2.0j0i24l7.919.3877.0.5706.19.11.1.2.2.0.232.1255.0j6j2.8.0.msedr...0...1ac.1.62.img..8.11.1270.QDQMu5MIqu0#imgdii=E-evZoUJZ-pfYM%3A%3BToVo2XN93VmJeM%3BE-evZoUJZ-pfYM%3A&imgrc=E-evZoUJZ-pfYM%253A%3BKys0qLmX0bl2rM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fpancakesandfrenchfries.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2013%252F03%252F11_marcha_madres_plaza_de_mayo2-e1363071786448.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fpancakesandfrenchfries.com%252F2013%252F03%252Fthis-is-how-you-lose-her-discussion%252F%3B570%3B428 it can also be of several middle-aged and elderly women wearing cloth diapers as head scarves]]...
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vby4CgLOR44 This young teen mother from Oklahoma]] shot and killed an intruder while on the phone to the police dispatcher to protect her three-month-old son. Her final quote sums it up best:
-->'''Sarah:''' There's nothing more dangerous than a mother with a child.
* [[https://lovedinshades.tumblr.com/post/112212206552/idimmadontgiveashit-draco-in-chorum-hell-fucking This]] mother, who delivered an epic verbal beatdown to the boy who harassed her daughter in class and the school officials who were going to punish her for defending herself against him.
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* In 1982, Robert Dale Henderson went on a killing spree, and murdered at least 12 people (which included his wife's parents and her [[PracticallyDifferentGenerations much younger brother]]). In one of his attacks, he bound an unidentified woman and her 12 year old daughter at gunpoint in their home, and raped the mother. He When Henderson tried to do the same to her daughter, the mother broke free from her restraints and attacked him. She was able to drive him away from their home with the help of her daughter. Contemporary newspaper articles noted that the mother fought harder for her daughter then she did for herself.
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* In 1982, Robert Dale Henderson went on a killing spree, and murdered at least 12 people (which included his wife's parents and her [[PracticallyDifferentGenerations much younger brother]]). In one of his attacks, he bound an unidentified woman and her 12 year old daughter at gunpoint in their home, and raped the mother. He When Henderson tried to do the same to her daughter, the mother broke free from her restraints and attacked him. She was able to drive him away from their home with the help of her daughter. Contemporary newspaper articles noted that the mother fought harder for her daughter then she did for herself.
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* In 1982, Robert Dale Henderson went on a killing spree, and murdered at least 12 people (which included his wife's parents and her [[PracticallyDifferentGenerations much younger brother]]). In one of his attacks, he bound an unidentified woman and her 12 year old daughter at gunpoint in their homes. He then raped the mother. When Henderson tried to do the same to her daughter, the mother broke free from her restraints and attacked him. She was able to drive him away from their home with the help of her daughter. Contemporary newspaper articles noted that the mother fought harder for her daughter then she did for herself.
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* In 1982, Robert Dale Henderson went on a killing spree, and murdered at least 12 people (which included his wife's parents and her [[PracticallyDifferentGenerations much younger brother]]). In one of his attacks, he bound an unidentified woman and her 12 year old daughter at gunpoint in their homes. He then home, and raped the mother. He When Henderson tried to do the same to her daughter, the mother broke free from her restraints and attacked him. She was able to drive him away from their home with the help of her daughter. Contemporary newspaper articles noted that the mother fought harder for her daughter then she did for herself.
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* In 1982, Robert Dale Henderson went on a killing spree, and murdered at least 12 people (which included his wife's parents and her [[PracticallyDifferentGenerations much younger brother]]). In one of his attacks, he bound an unidentified woman and her 12 year old daughter at gunpoint in their homes. He then raped the mother. When Henderson tried to do the same to her daughter, the mother broke free from her restraints and attacked him. She was able to drive him away from their home with the help of her daughter. Contemporary newspaper articles noted that the mother fought harder for her daughter then she did for herself.
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* Muftia Tlaib [[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/may-god-ruin-trump-tlaibs-grandmother-says-idUSKCN1V70EL placed a curse on Donald Trump]] when she heard of the terrible way he had been treating her granddaughter, Rep. Rashida Tlaib -- the final straw being a travel ban he pressured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to impose on her and another Muslim House critic.
-->'''Muftia Tlaib''': Trump tells me I should be happy Rashida is not coming. May God ruin him.
-->'''Muftia Tlaib''': Trump tells me I should be happy Rashida is not coming. May God ruin him.
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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Bachmeier Marianne Bachmeier]] was a West German woman whose seven-year-old daughter was kidnapped, raped and murdered in 1980. The following year, while the murderer was on trial, she smuggled a semi-automatic pistol into the courtroom and shot him six times in the back, killing him.
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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellie_Nesler Ellie Nesler.]] In 1988, her then six-year-old son William was revealed to have been sodomized by a camp counselor, Daniel Mark Driver, she was concerned about the prospect of having her traumatized son testify and relive those events. Not only that, [[FromBadToWorse but it was also revealed that Driver had not only allegedly molested four other boys between 1986 and 1989 but served five months for a sexual assault conviction in 1983.]] Ellie was called down to the courtroom in Jamestown, California to testify on April 2, 1993; she then drew a handgun and shot him five times in the head and neck. Nesler pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity and was convicted on a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison but won an appeal based on juror misconduct and was released after three years.
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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellie_Nesler Ellie Nesler.]] In 1988, her then six-year-old son William was revealed to have been sodomized by a camp counselor, Daniel Mark Driver, she was concerned about the prospect of having her traumatized son testify and relive those events. Not only that, [[FromBadToWorse but it was also revealed that Driver had not only allegedly molested four other boys between 1986 and 1989 but served five months for a sexual assault conviction in 1983.]] Ellie was called down to the courtroom in Jamestown, California to testify on April 2, 1993; she then drew a handgun and shot him five times in the head and neck. Nesler pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity and was convicted on a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison but won an appeal based on juror misconduct and was released after three years. The story didn't have a happy ending though; shortly after being released, she was convicted on a drug charge and while in prison, her son learned from her example and killed a man in a dispute. He was sentenced to life in prison for the act separating them till her death in 2008.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IxSgKSnE_ag Another Texas mother leaps into action]] when a man attempts to kidnap her two-year-old daughter.
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* Creator/LaurenFaust is like this towards her fans. More than one critic, troll, etc. has made the mistake of insulting them where she can see it and got a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for their trouble.
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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 [[Series/TheRachelMaddowShow Rachel Maddow]] [[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#50439148 explain]].
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* Cherilyn Sarkisian aka Cher, too. Mama Cher does NOT like it when her UsefulNotes/{{trans|gender}}masculine son Chaz Bono is harassed, [[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"]].
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* TruthInTelevision. Normally, adrenal glands and the brain's limiters make it so that you only use around 20% of your muscles and maintain a thought of self-preservation. Putting a loved one, child, or sufficiently close friend of somebody in danger is the fastest way to see the brain [[UninhibitedMusclePower release said limits and let adrenaline kick in]]. All thoughts of self-preservation (and just about everything else that makes shy, meek people shy and meek) [[BewareTheNiceOnes are overridden]], and it is quite likely that [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown several dozen of your bones will be broken]] (if you are lucky) before they let up. People who manage to enter TranquilFury instead of all-out anger are even more dangerous.
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* No one is said to be more all in for a January 6 commission than Gladys Sicknick, who lost her son Brian in the line of duty on that day.
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* No one is said to be more all in for a January 6 commission than Gladys Sicknick, who lost her son Brian in the line of duty on that day.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vby4CgLOR44 This young teen mother from Oaklohoma]] shot and killed an intruder while on the phone to the police dispatcher to protect her three-month-old son. Her final quote sums it up best:
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vby4CgLOR44 This young teen mother from Oaklohoma]] Oklahoma]] shot and killed an intruder while on the phone to the police dispatcher to protect her three-month-old son. Her final quote sums it up best:
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** Female African rhinos. An African rhino will not go into heat unless she has some other females with her. This is because a group of lions very likely could kill a calf if they have enough to distract the mother while they do. Waiting until there are a bunch of other females around to go into heat ensures that anything going after a baby rhino will not only have to deal with the mama rhino but at least half a dozen ''auntie'' rhinos.
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** Female African rhinos.rhinos are biologically hardwired to take this to extremes. An African rhino will not go into heat unless she has some other females with her. This is because a group of lions very likely could kill a calf if they have enough to distract the mother while they do. Waiting until there are a bunch of other females around to go into heat ensures that anything going after a baby rhino will not only have to deal with the mama rhino but at least half a dozen ''auntie'' rhinos.
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We don't trope porn.
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* 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.
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* [[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/bereft-syrian-mom-anti-government-sniper-article-1.1256312 This Syrian mother turned sniper after her children were killed under the Assad regime]].
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* [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen Queen Elizabeth II]] has been described as being extremely protective of young children. If any of her grandchildren were upset, courtiers would have to get out of the way as she zoomed in to provide comfort.
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* [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen Queen Elizabeth II]] UsefulNotes/ElizabethII has been described as being extremely protective of young children. If any of her grandchildren were upset, courtiers would have to get out of the way as she zoomed in to provide comfort.
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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellie_Nesler Ellie Nesler.]] When her then seven-year-old son William was revealed to have been sodomized by a camp counselor, Daniel Mark Driver, she was concerned about the prospect of having her traumatized son testify and relive those events. So, Ellie went down to the courtroom in Jamestown, California on April 2, 1993, drew a revolver, and shot him five times in the head and neck. Nesler pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity and was convicted on a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison but won an appeal based on juror misconduct and was released after three years.
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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellie_Nesler Ellie Nesler.]] When In 1988, her then seven-year-old six-year-old son William was revealed to have been sodomized by a camp counselor, Daniel Mark Driver, she was concerned about the prospect of having her traumatized son testify and relive those events. So, Not only that, [[FromBadToWorse but it was also revealed that Driver had not only allegedly molested four other boys between 1986 and 1989 but served five months for a sexual assault conviction in 1983.]] Ellie went was called down to the courtroom in Jamestown, California to testify on April 2, 1993, 1993; she then drew a revolver, handgun and shot him five times in the head and neck. Nesler pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity and was convicted on a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison but won an appeal based on juror misconduct and was released after three years.
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*[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellie_Nesler Ellie Nesler.]] When her then seven-year-old son William was revealed to have been sodomized by a camp counselor, Daniel Mark Driver, she was concerned about the prospect of having her traumatized son testify and relive those events. So, Ellie went down to the courtroom in Jamestown, California on April 2, 1993, drew a revolver, and shot him five times in the head and neck. Nesler pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity and was convicted on a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison but won an appeal based on juror misconduct and was released after three years.
