Basic Trope: A character futilely begs for their mother when they are in a dire situation.
- Straight: Alice is captured by Emperor Evulz, and silently cries for her mother.
- Exaggerated:
- And her father.
- Alice yells out for her entire family when she's in horrible danger.
- Alice hates her mother, but still does this whenever she's in even slight danger.
- Downplayed: Alice just murmurs "Mommy" under her breath, but it's barely audible.
- Justified:
- Alice's mother is actually coming to her rescue.
- Alice is so frightened that she wishes she could see her mother at this moment to make her feel better.
- Alice is a younger child, who is more reliant on her parents.
- Inverted:
- When Alice is captured by the Big Bad, she cries for her daughter.
- Alice is being mistreated by her abusive mother, and begins to cry about how she doesn't want to be around her.
- Gender Inverted: Alice cries for her father when she's in danger.
- Subverted: Alice thinks about saying this...before becoming a Damsel out of Distress.
- Double Subverted: She doesn't get very far, though...and now she longs for her mother.
- Parodied:
- Alice's mother gets captured as well. Alice then starts yelling for her grandmother, but then her grandmother gets captured as well. She then yells for her father, who is instantly captured. Repeat for every family member.
- 75-year-old Alice does this, despite the fact that she's old enough to be a great-grandparent, not to mention her mother is more likely than not long dead by now.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice remains silent as she is captured.
- Enforced:
- To show how scared Alice is.
- "Let's have the brute cry for his mama when he gets his butt kicked. It'll be real funny to see that kind of reaction from a grown man who's supposedly strong and tough."
- Lampshaded:Emperor Evulz: This Is the Part Where... you cry for mommy.
- Invoked: Alice deliberately gets captured just to be able to say this.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice is Bound and Gagged.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "I wonder why characters always cry for their mothers when they're in danger."
- Deconstructed: Alice's mother is dead, which she fails to realize until after she says this line. Despair Event Horizon ensues.
- Reconstructed: Alice regains her will to live by assuring that she will honor her mother's legacy.
- Played For Laughs:
- Alice's mother appears and starts disciplining the Big Bad.
- Alice cries for her mother in a very over-the-top manner when faced with something slightly inconvenient.
- Played For Drama:
- Alice cries for her mother when severely distressed.
- Please Wake Up
- Alice is fatally injured and calls for her mother as she bleeds out.
- Unparodied: 75-year-old Alice does this, despite the fact that she's old enough to be a great-grandparent...But then her 102-year-old mother shows up and kicks some ass.
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