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* {{Nephewism}}: Lucas and his girlfriend are the legal guardians and {{Parental Substitute}}s toward Lily and Victoria after their parents' detahs years earlier. Mama, their supernatural adoptive parent, is the main antagonist.
* NiceMeanAndInbetween: Mama and the two girls form this trio. Victoria, as the girl who re-adapts most to human contact and is concerned and scared of her piblings getting hurt by Mama, is the Nice one. Mama, as the psychotic KnightTemplarParent who will attack and likely kill anyone good or ill who gets in the way of her and her children, is Mean. Lily, being more hostile to contact with other humans when reintroduced to society but lacking any violent tendencies and eventually making progress bonding with Anna; is Inbetween.
* NiceMeanAndInbetween: Mama and the two girls form this trio. Victoria, as the girl who re-adapts most to human contact and is concerned and scared of her piblings getting hurt by Mama, is the Nice one. Mama, as the psychotic KnightTemplarParent who will attack and likely kill anyone good or ill who gets in the way of her and her children, is Mean. Lily, being more hostile to contact with other humans when reintroduced to society but lacking any violent tendencies and eventually making progress bonding with Anna; is Inbetween.
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* {{Nephewism}}: Lucas and his girlfriend are the legal guardians and {{Parental Substitute}}s toward Lily and Victoria after their parents' detahs deaths years earlier. Mama, their supernatural adoptive parent, is the main antagonist.
* NiceMeanAndInbetween: Mama and the two girls form this trio. Victoria, as the girl who re-adapts most to human contact and is concerned and scared of herpiblings sibling getting hurt by Mama, is the Nice one. Mama, as the psychotic KnightTemplarParent who will attack and likely kill anyone good or ill who gets in the way of her and her children, is Mean. Lily, being more hostile to contact with other humans when reintroduced to society but lacking any violent tendencies and eventually making progress bonding with Anna; is Inbetween.
* NiceMeanAndInbetween: Mama and the two girls form this trio. Victoria, as the girl who re-adapts most to human contact and is concerned and scared of her
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* ObnoxiousInLaws: A variant. Lucas is the (implied) twin brother of the girls' father while Jean is their mother's sister. The two are at each others' throat for the two kids' custody.
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* ObnoxiousInLaws: A variant. Lucas is the (implied) twin brother of the girls' father while Jean is their mother's sister. The two are at each others' throat throats for the two kids' custody.
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* DaylightHorror: Many of Mama's appearances happen in broad daylight.
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* PrefersGoingBarefoot: A recurrent theme which the film seems to be tying to motherhood and the two girls. Mama is an UndeadBarefooter, whilst Lily who is more resistant than Victoria to being reintroduced to human contact prominently remains a BarefootLoon compared to her sister. Annabel, who becomes a MamaBear to the two girls and [[spoiler:their new maternal guardian]] at the end, often walks around the house barefoot.
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* MsFanservice: Annabel has very few scenes where she's not showing cleavage. She also walks around her house [[DoesNotLikeShoes barefoot]] quite a bit.
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* MsFanservice: Annabel has very few scenes where she's not showing cleavage. She also walks around her house [[DoesNotLikeShoes barefoot]] barefoot quite a bit.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: A recurrent theme which the film seems to be tying to motherhood and the two girls. Mama is an UndeadBarefooter, whilst Lily who is more resistant than Victoria to being reintroduced to human contact prominently remains a BarefootLoon compared to her sister. Annabel, who becomes a MamaBear to the two girls and [[spoiler:their new maternal guardian]] at the end, often walks around the house barefoot.
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* PaterFamilicide: Initiated in the beginning by Jeffrey when he kills the girls' mother (offscreen,) but when he attempts to finish the job, [[spoiler:Edith [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork cuts him short.]]]]
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* PaterFamilicide: Initiated in the beginning by Jeffrey when he kills the girls' mother (offscreen,) (offscreen), but when he attempts to finish the job, [[spoiler:Edith [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork cuts him short.]]]]
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** Mama kills Jeffery just as he was about to commit murder-suicide on his daughters, and well after he had already killed his partners and wife.
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** Mama kills Jeffery Jeffrey just as he was about to commit murder-suicide on his daughters, and well after he had already killed his partners and wife.
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* AdultFear:
** There's [[EvilAunt Jean]] attempting to steal the girls away from Lucas and Annabel in a custody battle. The fear of a cruel relation or in-law stealing your children away from you in a legal battle and having the power to prevent you from seeing them is all too real.
** There's also of course the all-round fear of someone else forcibly taking away your children from you never to be seen again generally, which exists among all the non-child main characters, Mama included.
** There's [[EvilAunt Jean]] attempting to steal the girls away from Lucas and Annabel in a custody battle. The fear of a cruel relation or in-law stealing your children away from you in a legal battle and having the power to prevent you from seeing them is all too real.
** There's also of course the all-round fear of someone else forcibly taking away your children from you never to be seen again generally, which exists among all the non-child main characters, Mama included.
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** There's also of course the all-round fear of someone else forcibly taking away your children from you never to be seen again generally, which exists among all the non-child main characters.
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** There's also of course the all-round fear of someone else forcibly taking away your children from you never to be seen again generally, which exists among all the non-child main characters.characters, Mama included.
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* {{Yandere}}: Mama/[[spoiler:Edith]] is a parental version rather than the usual romantic one.
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* {{Yandere}}: Mama/[[spoiler:Edith]] is a parental version rather than the usual romantic one.
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** There's [[EvilAunt Jean]] attempting to steal the girls away from Lucas and Annabel in a custody battle. The fear of a cruel relation or in-law stealing your children away from you in a legal battle is all too real.
** There's also of course the fear of someone else forcibly taking away your children from you never to be seen again generally.
** There's also of course the fear of someone else forcibly taking away your children from you never to be seen again generally.
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** There's [[EvilAunt Jean]] attempting to steal the girls away from Lucas and Annabel in a custody battle. The fear of a cruel relation or in-law stealing your children away from you in a legal battle and having the power to prevent you from seeing them is all too real.
** There's also of course the all-round fear of someone else forcibly taking away your children from you never to be seen againgenerally.generally, which exists among all the non-child main characters.
** There's also of course the all-round fear of someone else forcibly taking away your children from you never to be seen again
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** [[spoiler:Jean, who had been trying to take custody of the kids since the very beginning, was probably intended to be this.]]
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** [[spoiler:Jean, who had been trying to take custody of the kids since the very beginning, beginning due to IrrationalHatred of Lucas, was probably intended to be this.]]
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* BarefootLoon: Victoria and Lily start out as this, while Mama is an UndeadBarefooter. It seems to symbolize being a WildChild and TheMentallyDisturbed respectively, with the camera drawing notable attention to Lily's bare feet to indicate she's more resistant to re-adapting to human contact than Victoria is.
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* CoolUncle: Lucas deeply cares for Victoria and Lily. Jean may also count as a CoolAunt if she wasn't so incredibly stern. She and Lucas are fighting for the children's custody.
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* CoolUncle: Lucas deeply cares for Victoria and Lily. Jean may also count as a CoolAunt if she wasn't so incredibly stern. She and Lucas are fighting for is an ''Extra Cool'' Uncle who already displays PapaWolf tendency towards his nieces at the children's custody.start of their disappearance.
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* {{Determinator}}: Annabel at the end.
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* {{Determinator}}: Lucas in his five-year search for his missing nieces, which pays off but also bankrupts him. Annabel as well at the end.end.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: A recurrent theme which the film seems to be tying to motherhood and the two girls. Mama is an UndeadBarefooter, whilst Lily who is more resistant than Victoria to being reintroduced to human contact prominently remains a BarefootLoon compared to her sister. Annabel, who becomes a MamaBear to the two girls and [[spoiler:their new maternal guardian]] at the end, often walks around the house barefoot.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: A recurrent theme which the film seems to be tying to motherhood and the two girls. Mama is an UndeadBarefooter, whilst Lily who is more resistant than Victoria to being reintroduced to human contact prominently remains a BarefootLoon compared to her sister. Annabel, who becomes a MamaBear to the two girls and [[spoiler:their new maternal guardian]] at the end, often walks around the house barefoot.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Lucas and Jean are at each others' throat for Victoria and Lily's custody. The titular Mama is also a substitute for Victoria and Lily's real mother, whom their father murdered.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Lucas It's one of the central points of the film, and Jean are at each others' throat brings no end of Heartwarming and Tear Jerker by the ending.
** Mama is one to Victoria and Lily, taking them in as her own after their father murders their original mother and Mama has killed him. Whilst Victoria knows that Mama isn't entirely natural and is dangerous to anyone else that the girls might get close to, she still loves her for all she did for the girls, as demonstrated [[spoiler:when they say goodbye in the ending]]. Lily however, due to being so young when she and Victoria went missing, can't recognize Mama as anything other than her real mother.
** Lucas, who becomes Victoria and Lily'scustody. The titular Mama legal guardian when they're found, is also a caring PapaWolf towards them, and to Victoria is a substitute for her deceased father. Victoria and Lily's real mother, whom their mistakes her uncle for her father murdered.when she first sees him with glasses -- it's implied this forms a big step in Victoria readjusting to human contact, and it's also uncertain if she ever becomes aware that the man with her father's face now caring for her is actually her uncle Luke (having not clearly witnessed Jeffrey's death).
** As her CharacterDevelopment progresses, Annabel increasingly bonds with the girls, successfully making a breakthrough with the more therapy-resistant Lily, and by the end [[spoiler:she's become a full-blown MamaBear to rival Mama]].
** Mama is one to Victoria and Lily, taking them in as her own after their father murders their original mother and Mama has killed him. Whilst Victoria knows that Mama isn't entirely natural and is dangerous to anyone else that the girls might get close to, she still loves her for all she did for the girls, as demonstrated [[spoiler:when they say goodbye in the ending]]. Lily however, due to being so young when she and Victoria went missing, can't recognize Mama as anything other than her real mother.
** Lucas, who becomes Victoria and Lily's
** As her CharacterDevelopment progresses, Annabel increasingly bonds with the girls, successfully making a breakthrough with the more therapy-resistant Lily, and by the end [[spoiler:she's become a full-blown MamaBear to rival Mama]].
* ReplacementGoldfish: Lily and Victoria are substitutes to Mama for [[spoiler:her original baby, which died along with her and which she was separated from upon death. Interestingly for this trope, when the bones of mama's original baby are returned to her and her spirit finally has a chance to rest, she ends up rejecting her original child in favor of holding onto the two Replacements whom she looked after for five years]].
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* ShownTheirWork: The effects the five years of isolation had on the children, particularly Lilly, are this. Lilly refusing to wear shoes, refusing to sleep on the bed, refusing to sit at the table, crawling around on all fours and the way she was half-bent forward (as though she wanted to crawl) and clinging to her sister all show ways in which feral children have been shown to act. In the pictures shown during the opening credits, Victoria is drawn standing, but eventually she is shown to have dropped to all fours (like her sister, who never walked on two feet).
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* ShownTheirWork: The effects the five years of isolation had on the children, particularly Lilly, Lily, are this. Lilly Lily refusing to wear shoes, refusing to sleep on the bed, refusing to sit at the table, crawling around on all fours and the way she was half-bent forward (as though she wanted to crawl) and clinging to her sister all show ways in which feral children have been shown to act. In the pictures shown during the opening credits, Victoria is drawn standing, but eventually she is shown to have dropped to all fours (like her sister, who never walked on two feet).
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* TragicMonster: In life, Mama was [[spoiler:a woman named Edith Brennan; she was sent to an asylum, with her baby taken from her and given over to nuns. She escaped and slaughtered a nun to get her baby back. Pursued to the edge of a cliff, Edith attempted to jump into the water to escape but hit a tree branch halfway down. The branch killed and snagged the baby in a sling, while injuring Edith and leaving her to drown in the river. Her spirit searched the woods for centuries to find her baby, not realizing that it was already dead and distressed that she didn't find it in the river with her. She then came across Victoria and Lily about to be murdered by their father, and she takes them in to fulfill her need to protect "her" children. When Annabel finally shows her that her baby is dead, Edith is devastated.]]
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* TragicMonster: TragicVillain: In life, Mama was [[spoiler:a woman named Edith Brennan; she was sent to an asylum, with her baby taken from her and given over to nuns. She escaped and slaughtered a nun to get her baby back. Pursued to the edge of a cliff, Edith attempted to jump into the water to escape but hit a tree branch halfway down. The branch killed and snagged the baby in a sling, while injuring Edith and leaving her to drown in the river. Her spirit searched the woods for centuries to find her baby, not realizing that it was already dead and distressed that she didn't find it in the river with her. She then came across Victoria and Lily about to be murdered by their father, and she takes them in to fulfill her need to protect "her" children. When Annabel finally shows her that her baby is dead, Edith is devastated.]]
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* BarefootLoon: Victoria and Lily start out as this, while Mama is an UndeadBarefooter. It seems to symbolize being a WildChild and TheMentallyDisturbed respectively, with the camera drawing notable attention to Lily's bare feet to indicate she's more resistant to re-adapting to human contact than Victoria is.
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* AdultFear:
** There's [[EvilAunt Jean]] attempting to steal the girls away from Lucas and Annabel in a custody battle. The fear of a cruel relation or in-law stealing your children away from you in a legal battle is all too real.
** There's also of course the fear of someone else forcibly taking away your children from you never to be seen again generally.
** There's [[EvilAunt Jean]] attempting to steal the girls away from Lucas and Annabel in a custody battle. The fear of a cruel relation or in-law stealing your children away from you in a legal battle is all too real.
** There's also of course the fear of someone else forcibly taking away your children from you never to be seen again generally.
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:ZigZagged; despite Annabel's and Lucas' efforts to save both the girls, Mama succeeds in killing Lily and making them TogetherInDeath but she's forced to concede to giving up Victoria to Lucas and Annabel's custody. It's a Tear Jerker BittersweetEnding for everyone all round]].
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* NiceMeanAndInbetween: Mama and the two girls form this trio. Victoria, as the girl who re-adapts most to human contact and is concerned and scared of her piblings getting hurt by Mama, is the Nice one. Mama, as the psychotic KnightTemplarParent who will attack and likely kill anyone good or ill who gets in the way of her and her children, is Mean. Lily, being more hostile to contact with other humans when reintroduced to society but lacking any violent tendencies and eventually making progress bonding with Anna; is Inbetween.
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* OffingTheOffspring:
** Jeffrey at the start attempted to do this to both his daughters (with the implication he intended to turn the gun on himself afterwards), [[VillainousRescue but Mama killed him before he could pull the trigger on Victoria]].
** In life, Mama / Edith [[spoiler:indirectly and directly caused her baby's death when she took it back, then jumped with it from a cliff to prevent the mob that was chasing her from taking it from her]].
** At the climax, [[spoiler:Mama attempts to repeat the above instance with Lily and Victoria so they'll be TogetherInDeath; likely to prevent anyone taking them from her and because she knows that beyond that she'll soon ''lose'' them to Annabel and Lucas if she doesn't do something. Victoria avoids this fate when Mama concedes to giving her to [[MamaBear Annabel]]; Lily doesn't]].
** Jeffrey at the start attempted to do this to both his daughters (with the implication he intended to turn the gun on himself afterwards), [[VillainousRescue but Mama killed him before he could pull the trigger on Victoria]].
** In life, Mama / Edith [[spoiler:indirectly and directly caused her baby's death when she took it back, then jumped with it from a cliff to prevent the mob that was chasing her from taking it from her]].
** At the climax, [[spoiler:Mama attempts to repeat the above instance with Lily and Victoria so they'll be TogetherInDeath; likely to prevent anyone taking them from her and because she knows that beyond that she'll soon ''lose'' them to Annabel and Lucas if she doesn't do something. Victoria avoids this fate when Mama concedes to giving her to [[MamaBear Annabel]]; Lily doesn't]].
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* SnowMeansDeath: Everything in the prologue is wintry with crisp snow, during Jeffery's PaterFamilicide rampage.
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* {{Nephewism}}: Lucas and his girlfriend are the legal guardians and {{Parental Substitute}}s toward Lily and Victoria after their parents' detahs years earlier. Mama, their supernatural adoptive parent, is the main antagonist.
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%%* SpannerInTheWorks: Lily, if you could have just kept your mouth shut [[spoiler:we could have had a happy ending.]]
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* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Lucas and Jeffrey, who are both played by Coster-Waldau. It's pretty much universally assumed despite a lack of official confirmation that the brothers are twins.
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* SuddenlyVoiced: When [[spoiler: Lily calls out to her in the end]], Mama actually quietly speaks out in a normal voice.
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* ReducedToRatburgers: The girls are implied to have eaten insects and dead animals during their time in the cabin, in addition to cherries.
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* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Lily, since she's been reunited with her "real" mother]].
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* AssholeVictim: Mama kills Jeffery just as he was about to commit murder-suicide on his daughters, and well after he had already killed his partners and wife.
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** Mama kills Jeffery just as he was about to commit murder-suicide on his daughters, and well after he had already killed his partners and wife.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Anna starts off distant, with barely any affection for the girls themselves, and only takes care of them for Lucas' sake. As she earns their trust, and they come around to her in turn, she starts to love them and care for them like a real parent.
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* CharacterDevelopment: CharacterDevelopment:
** Anna starts off distant, with barely any affection for the girls themselves, and only takes care of them for Lucas' sake. As she earns their trust, and they come around to her in turn, she starts to love them and care for them like a real parent.
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* MeaningfulName: It's easy to miss, but [[spoiler:Lily has the same name as Edith's dead baby, and ends up sharing her fate.]]
** The name Lily itself also has special connotations: [[spoiler:lilies are associated with death and the restoration of innocence upon death.]]
** The name Lily itself also has special connotations: [[spoiler:lilies are associated with death and the restoration of innocence upon death.]]
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** It's easy to miss, but [[spoiler:Lily has the same name as Edith's dead baby, and ends up sharing her fate.]]
** The name Lilyitself also has special connotations: [[spoiler:lilies are associated with death and the restoration of innocence upon death.]]
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* MsFanservice: Annabel has very few scenes where she's not showing cleavage.
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* ProductPlacement: "I need the number for Enterprise Rent-A-Car."
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** "I need the number for Enterprise Rent-A-Car."
** "I need the number for Enterprise Rent-A-Car."
