Insanely Overprotective Mother...

(I wanted to say Ax-Crazy Mama Bear but decided against it after getting an earful by like half dozen tropers about the cons of describing characters in tropes...)

I just figured that this isn't random enough to go to you-know-where.

The mother of The Hero (he has a name, but I like that label. Oh, and visit Is My Hero Too Violent? for his info) at least in apperance, is a very gentle woman who is kind to everyone and cares a lot about her family. I only designed to her to be that and that only, but I took the "caring" to rather violent way....

In my current drafts, two demon/magician/assasins invades home of The Hero and tries to take him out. His mother tried to talk them out but when they didn't listen and revealed their purpose, well...

She ended up setting one in fire and disembowering the other with a circular saw. All with the gentle smile she always put on.

Just want to mention that his father once got swallowed by an Eldritch Abomination into a Phantom Zone and broke out of it and killed it by ramming a helicopter into it.

Do you suppose there's anything wrong with my character designs?

In a violent setting, that works. If you were intending to write a non-violent character, though, you might have a problem.

You see, that's the problem. I want my readers/viewers to, at least before that scene, to see her as a very gentle, kind, even traditional housewife. She's supposed to be gentle, really.

The Hero's household is pretty divided: The Hero and his father are very stoic and quite, although the latter is certainly a lot better. His younger sister and mother, on the other hand, is respectively, very cheerful and gentle.

I wonder if there's are any real family like this...