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This is a question better suited for the "Is this an example?" thread. But just to say, I'm not sure it fits any of those tropes. Maternally Challenged definitely does not fit, since the film places no emphasis on her "struggling" to be a motherly figure for Maisie, for all we know she could be a perfectly competent mother figure if she wanted to be, she just clearly does not want to be.
Edited by Octoya

On Characters.The Sea Beast, we have a female character who doesn't take well to children, but she's listed as Maternally Challenged rather than just Resentful Guardian or any other trope?
The entry for Sarah Sharpe:
I don't think this is correct? I thought it was more of a joke about how a Child Hater was just talking about how children were such "horrible things", only for the captain to basically make her roommates with Maisie the day(?) after.
The warning and knife seems mandatory given the actual rough life that monster hunters have. She just doesn't want some random starry-eyed kid causing any problems for the captain during a high-stakes mission (a race to kill a monster or else lose their jobs). So I don't think the focus is on how unmotherly she is, but more how much of a brutal monster hunter she is instead? I guess you could make an argument that part of the joke IS how rare it is to see female characters not act soft to children, but I'm not sure?
If I replace it, Child Hater seems too restricted to villains, and I'm not sure if she really counts as Maisie's guardian for Resentful Guardian. They share a bunk bed and living quarters, but she isn't a guardian figure either because Jacob ends up being the father figure and actual guardian by the end of the movie instead.
So which trope does this actually fit?