History Main / MonsterIsAMommy

* Halfway through the MiniSeries ''Series/TheBeast'', fishermen capture what they think is the giant squid that's been terrorizing the Pacific Northwest island community. Only for its very angry mother to come looking for it and increase her attacks even ''more''.

* In ''Animation/{{Gandahar}}'', a huge reptilian beast attacks [[spoiler:the transport in which TheHero and his {{Love Interest|s}} are held captive, then proceeds to fuss over them as if they were her hatchlings]].

* TheStinger in the game ''VideoGame/{{Shelter}}'' reveals that [[spoiler:the monstrous white eagle who's been [[SuperPersistentPredator pursuing you and your cubs]] has only been doing this to feed her own babies]].

* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole Campaign 2'': The manticore leading the gnolls early in the campaign turns out to be a mother, and has a blind manticore cub in the deepest chamber of her lair. Nott stabs it during the fight against her, and her MamaBear instincts immediately send her into a BerserkerRage.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. The episode "The Devil in the Dark" uses this plot. While the Horta are neither cute nor cuddly (they look kind of like living lava flows[[note]]or that's how the story describes them; due to the limited special effects budget, viewers may be excused for thinking they look [[SpecialEffectFailure more like lumpy and somewhat dusty Oriental rugs]][[/note]], and the children are still unhatched eggs at that point in the episode), Spock's relaying of the mother/broodwatcher's emotions is one of the most powerful moments in ''Star Trek'' history and the civilized resolution to the conflict is one of the happiest ones. (As a side note, the [[HumansAreUgly creature remarked that it found humans' appearance "revolting"]].)
** Similarly in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Galaxy's Child," a huge interstellar alien attacks the ship. When the crew retaliate, accidentally killing the alien despite using minimal force, they discover that it attacked because it was pregnant and about to give birth. Then the baby (which they help deliver by phaser C-section) gloms onto the ship and starts to ''nurse.'' HilarityEnsues.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTimeIITheGreatValleyAdventure'', the heroes (a bunch of young, talking herbivorous dinosaurs) accidentally lose one of Duckie's parents' eggs in a nest in the Mysterious Beyond. They pick one of the eggs, take it back to the Great Valley, and take care of it themselves, but what finally hatches out is a baby Sharptooh (specifically a ''Tyrannosaurus rex''). Sharpteeth have been [[BigBad antagonists]] since the first movie but they decide to keep him, call him "Chomper", and go on their merry way (they become friends and Chomper inadvertently saves their lives). But they end up getting pursued by not only one full-grown Sharptooth this time, but two -- the [[MamaBear T. rex mommy]] and the [[PapaWolf T. rex daddy]]. But upon the returning of their baby, they end up not hurting the protagonists and actually save them from "eggnappers", smaller, vicious egg-stealing dinosaurs who had caused the entire mess in the first place when they took Duckie's parents' egg. [[TheBusCameBack Both Chomper and his parents return]] in the [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTimeVTheMysteriousIsland fifth movie.]] While the gang hides from them, another unrelated Sharptooth stumbles across the island and hunts them down. Chomper attempts to aid them and the new Sharptooth turns its attention towards him, just in time for his parents to show up and beat the snot out of it. To round it all off, Littlefoot saves Chomper's life in the process, so his parents do not harm any of them.

* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole Campaign 2'': The manticore leading the gnolls early in the campaign turns out to be a mother, and has a blind manticore cub in the deepest chamber of her lair. Nott stabs it during the fight against her,
and her MommaBear instincts immediately send her into a BerserkerRage.

* Sets up the plot of ''Film/BornFree''. After George Adamson's game warden team kills a predatory lion, the lion's mate comes running out of the den and they shoot her too, only to realize too late that she was just trying to protect the young cubs she had in her den from what she perceived as a threat. Unwilling to leave the helpless cubs to die, George decides to take them home to his wife in hopes that they can save them. TruthInTelevision, as the real Joy Adamson's memoir indicates that this is how the event played out in real life.

* Sets up the plot of ''Film/BornFree''. George Adamson's game warden team goes out to hunt down a lion that's been attacking people in nearby villages, but after they kill the predatory lion, the lion's mate seems to be charging them and they shoot her too, only to realize too late that she was just trying to protect the young cubs she had in her den from what she perceived as a threat. Unwilling to leave the helpless cubs to die, George decides to take them home to his wife in hopes that they can save them.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime: The Great Valley Adventure'', the heroes (a bunch of young, talking herbivorous dinosaurs) accidentally lose one of Duckie's parents' eggs in a nest in the Mysterious Beyond. They pick one of the eggs, take it back to the Great Valley, and take care of it themselves, but what finally hatches out is a baby Sharptooh (specifically a ''Tyrannosaurus rex''). Sharpteeth have been [[BigBad antagonists]] since the first movie but they decide to keep him, call him "Chomper", and go on their merry way (they become friends and Chomper inadvertently saves their lives). But they end up getting pursued by not only one full-grown Sharptooth this time, but two -- the [[MamaBear T. rex mommy]] and the [[PapaWolf T. rex daddy]]. But upon the returning of their baby, they end up not hurting the protagonists and actually save them from "eggnappers", smaller, vicious egg-stealing dinosaurs who had caused the entire mess in the first place when they took Duckie's parents' egg. [[TheBusCameBack Both Chomper and his parents return in the fifth movie.]] While the gang hides from them, another unrelated Sharptooth stumbles across the island and hunts them down. Chomper attempts to aid them and the new Sharptooth turns its attention towards him, just in time for his parents to show up and beat the snot out of it. To round it all off, Littlefoot saves Chomper's life in the process, so his parents do not harm any of them.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2141 SCP-2141 ("Primordial Wyrm")]]. SCP-2141 is a mother, and it's using the body of a human woman to gestate its young.

* In ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' the dragon killed by Ren adopted a young demi-human named Wyndia several years earlier. After his death Ren didn't find out, but the villagers who incited him to kill the dragon stole its treasures and enslaved Wyndia. When Ren finds out he's devastated.

* In the second chapter of ''VideoGame/LaPucelle'', you may end up killing the guardian of the forest. If you return there in the third chapter, Prier finds the monster's child, a cute bear cub, and chooses to take care of it to make amends. If she returns the cub to the forest, she'll gain a new spell.

* ''Literature/CodexAlera'': ''Cursor’s Fury'' centers on the Alerans resisting an invasion by the [[WolfMan monstrous]] Canim. After various hints that the Canim aren’t there willingly, what cements them as InvadingRefugees comes at the end, after their main force has been beaten back. Aleran soldiers corner a Canim straggler, but instead of facing another savage warrior they discover it desperately protecting a litter of newborn pups. This being the first time anyone’s ever seen a female Cane, Tavi’s shocked into [[ItIsDehumanizing no longer calling Canim “it”]], and after allowing her to flee, he can only wonder at how dire things must be in the Canim homeland that they’d consider their women and children safer here, in a warzone.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':

* ''Anime/TheUltraman'' has the Tough Gillan and Tough Gillas, a pair of monsters in the mountains, which Ultraman Joneus destroys at the end of the epidose... only to realize they have a brood of baby monsters, called Tough Gillacos. Unable to execute these infants, Joneus instead shrinks them before re-releasing them into the wild, where they're presumably unable to grow kaiju-sized.

* This trope is pretty much the whole point of the Music/{{Voltaire}} song "Crusade", in which a dragon slayer makes the realization that the dragon he killed was a father. [[spoiler: This is later applied to the singer's son as he goes off to crusade against the Muslims, [[{{Dehumanization}} who are described in the same terms]] [[HistoryRepeats as the dragons were to him]]. [[RousseauWasRight Being a righteous man at heart]], he takes steps to break the ViciousCycle.

* ''Film/{{Antlers}}'': Frank Weaver becomes a gender inverted example, once transforms into the Wendigo.

* Used to provide the [[EmotionalTorque sucker]] [[KickTheDog punch]] in the free (as in money and as in beer) movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Sintel}}'' by the Blender Foundation.

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