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* DirtyOldMan: Joe, Madea's brother.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Carlos painfully squeezes Lisa back just for yawning while having a late evening out with friends.
* DomesticAbuse: Carlos, Lisa's fiance.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Carlos painfully squeezes Lisa back just for yawning while having a late evening out with friends.
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* DirtyOldMan: Joe, Madea's brother.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Carlos painfully squeezesLisa Lisa's back just for yawning while having a late evening out with friends.
*DomesticAbuse: DomesticAbuser: Carlos, Lisa's fiance.fiance. She tries to cover it up, sure enough, at her mother's behest and his EstablishingCharacterMoment has him slapping her after a bachlorette party.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Lisa is friendly and calm, but at the end of the movie, she [[spoiler:finally has had it with Carlos abusing her, so she finally fights back with hot grits]].
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Lisa is friendly and calm, but at the end of the movie, she [[spoiler:finally has had it with Carlos Carlos' abusing her, so she finally fights back with hot grits]].
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* BullyHunter: The school bully on the bus discovers what happens if one fails to know who the foster parent when targeting Nikki. He should’ve been on the outlook for three simple words: '''Mabel “Madea” Simmons'''.
* ChekhovsGun: About the boiling hot grits.
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* BullyHunter: The school bully on the bus discovers what happens if one fails to know who the foster parent when targeting Nikki. He should’ve should have been on the outlook look out for three simple words: '''Mabel “Madea” Simmons'''.
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* TooMuchInformation: Joe to Frankie, whom he told he had once passed gas on an airplaine. Justified in that [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior Joe's an elderly man and not exactly the epitome of tact.]]
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* TooMuchInformation: Joe to Frankie, whom he told he had once passed gas on an airplaine.airplane. Justified in that [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior Joe's an elderly man and not exactly the epitome of tact.]]
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* StopBeingStereotypical: The wedding planner tells Madea this.
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* StopBeingStereotypical: The wedding planner tells Madea this.this, specifically tired of other black people showing up late (and "ignorant").
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite justifying it to her daughter's face, Victoria's collusion with Carlos goes as far as learning that he beats her daughter and she tries to insist that he stop... ''from now on.'' Everything else is ready to keep going.
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* TeenyWeenie: Victoria pegs Carlos (investment banker with a history of personal abuse) as an insecure "overachiever" driven by this. Of all the things he says, he doesn't deny it.
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* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOffDontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: When Nikki has been cutting classes and lying about it, Madea resorts to this.
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* GoldDigger: Not directly, but this is Victoria. This is due to her wanting Lisa to marry Carlos because of his money, ignoring the fact that he's a DomesticAbuser.
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* GoldDigger: Not directly, but this is Victoria. This is due to her wanting Lisa to marry Carlos because of his money, ignoring the fact that he's a DomesticAbuser.{{Domestic Abuse}}r.
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* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: After smacking one of Nikki's bullies, Madea does a hilarious ShoutOut to ''Literature/TheColorPurple''...which is completely lost on the middle school children, one of whom ask "Who's Harpo?"
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* ShoutOut: Madea quotes ''Literature/TheColorPurple'':
-->"All my life, I've had to fight. I loves Harpo, but I'll be damned if I let him beat me!"
-->"All my life, I've had to fight. I loves Harpo, but I'll be damned if I let him beat me!"
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* MarryForLove: Vanessa dates the local bus driver and loves him regardless of his profession. [[spoiler:They get married at the end]].
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* GoldDigger: Victoria, due to her wanting Lisa to marry Carlos because of his money, ignoring the fact that he's a DomesticAbuser.
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* FoodSlap: A ''brutal'' one in the end when [[spoiler:Lisa throws hot grits in Carlos' face]].
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Lisa is friendly and calm, but at the end of the movie, she [[spoiler:finally has had it with Carlos abusing her, so she finally fights back with hot grits]].
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* {{Narcissist}}: Victoria has many traits of being a narcissistic mother, such as verbal abuse and wanting to live vicariously through her daughters.
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* ChekhovsGun: Which doubles as sort of a BlackComedy BrickJoke. Medea tells Lisa a story about how she handled a person that was similar to Carlos by scalding him with a pot of hot grits and beating him while he was in pain. You think she was just exaggerating as usual. [[spoiler: But near the end of the movie, when Carlos comes to Medea's home to reclaim Lisa and Medea heads out to give them privacy, she reminds Lisa of said story and motions to the pot on the stove. Take a wild guess what happens next?]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Which doubles as sort of a BlackComedy BrickJoke. Medea Madea tells Lisa a story about how she handled a person that was similar to Carlos by scalding him with a pot of hot grits and beating him while he was in pain. You think she was just exaggerating as usual. [[spoiler: But near the end of the movie, when Carlos comes to Medea's Madea's home to reclaim Lisa and Medea Madea heads out to give them privacy, she reminds Lisa of said story and motions to the pot on the stove. Take a wild guess what happens next?]]
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[[quoteright:336:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Madea-Family-Reunion-_8892.jpg]]
2006 movie directed by Creator/TylerPerry. While planning her family reunion, the pistol-packing grandma, Mabel "Madea" Simmons, must contend with the other dramas on her plate, including the runaway who has been placed under her care, and her troubled nieces, half-sisters Lisa and Vanessa.
2006 movie directed by Creator/TylerPerry. While planning her family reunion, the pistol-packing grandma, Mabel "Madea" Simmons, must contend with the other dramas on her plate, including the runaway who has been placed under her care, and her troubled nieces, half-sisters Lisa and Vanessa.
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A 2006 movie directed by Creator/TylerPerry. While planning her family reunion, the pistol-packing grandma, Mabel "Madea" Simmons, must contend with the other dramas on her plate, including the runaway who has been placed under her care, and her troubled nieces, half-sisters Lisa and Vanessa.
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* GoldDigger: Victoria, due to her wanting Lisa to marry Carlos because of his money, ignoring the fact that he's a DomesticAbuser.
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* BatheHerAndBringHerToMe: A ''very'' disturbing example occurred to Vanessa as a child. [[spoiler: As a child, her mother allowed her stepfather to rape her in order to stop him from leaving the family and she cleaned her and dressed her up before he committed the act.]]
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Carlos painfully squeezes Lisa back just for yawning while having a late evening out with friends.
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* GoodParents: Vanessa and Frankie are this to their respective children.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: "I left [[spoiler: some grits on the stove. They're nice]] and ''hot''."
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* TooMuchInformation: Joe to Frankie, whom he told he had once passed gas on an airplaine. Justified in that [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior Joe's an elderly man and not exactly the epitome of tact.]]
* TheUnfavorite: Vanessa is this to Victoria, as the latter has hated her from childhood because she hated her father for leaving them.
* TheUnfavorite: Vanessa is this to Victoria, as the latter has hated her from childhood because she hated her father for leaving them.
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* {{Atlanta}}: Takes place there.
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* ChekhovsGun: Which doubles as sort of a BlackComedy BrickJoke. Medea tells Lisa a story about how she handled a person that was similar to Carlos by scolding him with a pot of hot grits and beating him while he was in pain. You think she was just exaggerating as usual. [[spoiler: But near the end of the movie, when Carlos comes to Medea's home to reclaim Lisa and Medea heads out to give them privacy, she reminds Lisa of said story and motions to the pot on the stove. Take a wild guess what happens next?]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Which doubles as sort of a BlackComedy BrickJoke. Medea tells Lisa a story about how she handled a person that was similar to Carlos by scolding scalding him with a pot of hot grits and beating him while he was in pain. You think she was just exaggerating as usual. [[spoiler: But near the end of the movie, when Carlos comes to Medea's home to reclaim Lisa and Medea heads out to give them privacy, she reminds Lisa of said story and motions to the pot on the stove. Take a wild guess what happens next?]]
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2006 movie directed by TylerPerry.Creator/TylerPerry. While planning her family reunion, the pistol-packing grandma, Mabel "Madea" Simmons, must contend with the other dramas on her plate, including the runaway who has been placed under her care, and her troubled nieces, half-sisters Lisa and Vanessa.
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Not really. Spanking is a way of discipline. If it were abuse, the cps would be at their door.
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** The way Madea handles her foster kid veers into this territory.
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* ChekhovsGun: Which doubles as sort of a BlackComedy BrickJoke. Medea tells Lisa a story about how she handled a person that was similar to Carlos by scolding him with a pot of hot grits and beating him while he was in pain. You think she was just exaggerating as usual. [[spoiler: But near the end of the movie, when Carlos comes to Medea's home to reclaim Lisa and Medea heads out to give them privacy, she reminds Lisa of said story and motions to the pot on the stove. Take a wild guess what happens next?]]
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** Victoria herself has been broken since her junky mother sold her for "ten dollars and a fix."
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* BullyHunter: The school bully on the bus discovers what happens if one fails to know who the foster parent when targeting Nikki. He should’ve been on the outlook for three simple words: '''Mabel “Madea” Simmons'''.
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* AbusiveParents: Victoria is emotionally abusive to both her daughters even though they're now adults. She makes it perfectly clear to Vanessa's face that she thinks her children are bastards and wishes she never gave birth to her, and keeps Lisa wrapped around her finger so she can use her trust fund. [[spoiler: There's also the fact that she let Lisa's father rape Vanessa with a clear conscience.]]
** The way Madea handles her foster kid veers into this territory.
** The way Madea handles her foster kid veers into this territory.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Parodied when Madea tells the wedding planner "I shot Tupac!" and then mentions she's referring to a separate incident other than the performer's death.
* BrokenBird: Vanessa, and she is trying very hard to overcome it. [[spoiler: She eventually does.]]
** Victoria herself has been broken since her junky mother sold her for "ten dollars and a fix."
* BrokenBird: Vanessa, and she is trying very hard to overcome it. [[spoiler: She eventually does.]]
** Victoria herself has been broken since her junky mother sold her for "ten dollars and a fix."
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* RichBitch: Victoria, or more rather, she has the "Bitch" part down pat but for "Rich?" She's pretty much broke and has been draining the trust fund Lisa's father set up for her to maintain her wealthy image, which is why she's been trying to make sure Lisa marries Carlos.
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* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: Invoked by Victoria, who tells Lisa to simply stop doing whatever it is she does that makes Carlos hit her when Lisa tells her Carlos has been abusing her. This is during the first few minutes of the film and acts as Victoria's EstablishingCharacterMoment when immediately after Victoria orders her lunch as if Lisa just commented on the passing weather.
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* TheUnfavorite: Vanessa is this to Victoria.
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2006 movie directed by TylerPerry.
TylerPerry. While planning her family reunion, the pistol-packing grandma, Mabel "Madea" Simmons, must contend with the other dramas on her plate, including the runaway who has been placed under her care, and her troubled nieces, half-sisters Lisa and Vanessa.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Victoria tries to rationalize the fact that [[spoiler: she let her second husband, Lisa's father and Vanessa's stepfather, rape Vanessa in order to get him to stay,]] saying that Vanessa "saved the family". Vanessa flat out asks Victoria if she's insane. Victoria responds "I'm a realist".
* InsaneTrollLogic: Victoria tries to rationalize the fact that [[spoiler: she let her second husband, Lisa's father and Vanessa's stepfather, rape Vanessa in order to get him to stay,]] saying that Vanessa "saved the family". Vanessa flat out asks Victoria if she's insane. Victoria responds "I'm a realist".
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* InsultBackfire: When Victoria was told she would rot in hell, she responds "I vacation there!"
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* InsultBackfire: When Victoria was told by Vanessa that she would was going to rot in hell, she Victoria responds "I vacation there!"
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