Basic Trope: A character acts very motherly to a team.
- Straight: Alice is very doting yet authoritative to her team.
- Exaggerated: Alice is motherly to everyone she meets, even to villains.
- Downplayed: Alice is only motherly towards one team member, typically The Baby of the Bunch.
- Justified: Alice is literally the mom of all the team members, as it is a Badass Family.
- Inverted: Alice is The Baby of the Bunch, and everyone else has to care for her.
- Subverted: Alice is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing and never cared for her team at all.
- Double Subverted: Alice ends up learning that she did actually care for her team after all.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Alice has motherly affection for the team one day, acts more sisterly the next, and acts childish the day after that.
- Averted: Alice isn’t particularly motherly to her team at all.
- Enforced: “Our team really needs someone to care for them, but all of their parents are dead, evil, never mentioned, or were stupid enough to let their kid leave without adult supervision! Wait, I’ve got it! Let’s add a character that’s basically their mother but is still their age!”
- Lampshaded: “Alice, you’re like a mom to us, you know that?”
- Invoked: Alice’s parents raise Alice to be very motherly, as they knew one day she’d join a team of minors that would have to be cared for.
- Defied: Following the plot of the plot of “invoked,” Alice wants to act her age and ignores what she was raised to be.
- Exploited: Bob, realizing how Motherly Alice is, acts incredibly childish so that Alice will spoil him (Alice, however, might discipline him, resulting in his plan backfiring.)
- Discussed: “Alice, you’re like a mom to me, you know that?”
- Conversed: You’ve gotta love mom-like characters, they’re the only kind of mother a lot of characters get.
- Implied: The team members all treat Alice like she’s their mom, but she’s never shown to be particularly motherly.
