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Mama

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90 feature instances
15 referencing feature instances

Mama	type	TVTItem
Mama	label	Mama
Mama	page	Mama
Mama	comment	Mama is a 2013 horror film produced by Guillermo del Toro, and based on a Youtube short film by Andrés Muschietti, who also directed it and helped produce and write it.When little Victoria and Lily's father Jeffrey (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) kills his business partner and his estranged wife, he flees with his daughters to parts unknown. They end up lost in the woods and find themselves in an abandoned cabin, where Jeffrey, at the end of his rope, attempts to do to the girls as he did to their mother. However, he's whisked away and killed by a blurry figure, and the three year-old Victoria and her one year-old sister are left to fend for themselves in the wilderness.It's five years later, and their uncle Lucas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, again) has spent himself into bankruptcy trying to find any trace of his missing family, with only his girlfriend, Annabel (Jessica Chastain) —the bassist in a small-time rock band— for support. When a search party finds them somehow alive, regressed to a near-feral state, he fights tooth and nail to bring them home so they can begin the healing process. But after getting custody of them, it soon becomes clear that there was something taking care of them in the woods... and it won't let them go so easily.
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Mama / int_10a262e4	type	Headphones Equal Isolation
Mama / int_10a262e4	comment	Headphones Equal Isolation: Played with. When Annabel wears them to listen to the interview recordings, it would seem that either she'd get attacked or she'd be oblivious to the girls' plight when Edith comes for them. But she hears their screams well enough to come running for them when needed.
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Mama / int_146f4e0	type	Blind Without 'Em
Mama / int_146f4e0	comment	Blind Without 'Em: Victoria's vision is very poor without glasses: at the beginning of the movie she isn't even able to recognize her father being murdered because Mama's figure is so blurry. Victoria's first step toward recovering from her feral state happens when she receives a new pair. Edith later destroys them in a fit of jealousy, as to her they represent the moment she started to lose her precious daughter.
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Mama / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Mama / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Mama/Edith isn't just protective of her children, she's also viciously jealous and does not want anyone intruding in her little family's happiness.
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Mama / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Mama / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Lucas, who becomes Victoria and Lily's legal guardian when they're found, is a caring Papa Wolf towards them, and to Victoria is a substitute for her deceased father. Victoria mistakes her uncle for her father 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).
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Mama / int_1ef7232d	type	Wild Child
Mama / int_1ef7232d	comment	Wild Child: The girls, as a result of spending five of their formative years in a cabin in the woods with nothing but Mama to take care of them. Victoria recovers more easily since she'd already learned a lot of vocabulary by the time they were lost, but Lily has a harder time of it.
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Mama / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Mama / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Jean, as she's implicitly a very classist individual who thinks that her greater economic standing makes her a more qualified parent, even though she did nothing to recover the girls.
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Mama / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Mama / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Dr. Dreyfus points out that Victoria's age when she was lost will make it easier for her to recover. At the end, she's the one that's able to resist Edith's influence.
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Mama / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Mama / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: A 100-minute movie based on a three-minute Youtube video, and it works. Helps that they had the same director.
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Mama / int_255cc9bd	type	Nephewism
Mama / int_255cc9bd	comment	Nephewism: Lucas and his girlfriend are the legal guardians and Parental Substitutes toward Lily and Victoria after their parents' detahs years earlier. Mama, their supernatural adoptive parent, is the main antagonist.
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Mama / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Mama / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: The original short film ends with the ghost/monster killing one of the girls and making her into another creature like her. The adaptation has an example of this as well in that Lily dies with Edith in much the same manner that Edith's original baby died.
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Mama / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Mama / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: The original Jump Scare of the short film is included, up to and including one of the sisters shutting the door on the other while they flee. The outcome of this scene is different, though.
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Mama / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Mama / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: There are times when Annabel goes around the house doing chores, and the girls are seen playing with Mama/Edith and thoroughly enjoying themselves.
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Mama / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
Mama / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Jeffrey at the start attempted to do this to both his daughters (with the implication he intended to turn the gun on himself afterwards), but Mama killed him before he could pull the trigger on Victoria. In life, Mama / Edith 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, Mama attempts to repeat the above instance with Lily and Victoria so they'll be Together in Death; 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 Annabel; Lily doesn't.
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Mama / int_294f1400	type	Abnormal Limb Rotation Range
Mama / int_294f1400	comment	Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: Mama/Edith. Justified due being a ghost, and one that died from a long fall.
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Mama / int_2bfb1856	type	Beard of Evil
Mama / int_2bfb1856	comment	Beard of Evil: Inverted: Lucas has a thick beard compared to his clean-shaven twin brother Jeffrey.
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Mama / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Mama / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: Zig-Zagged; despite Annabel's and Lucas' efforts to save both the girls, Mama succeeds in killing Lily and making them Together in Death but she's forced to concede to giving up Victoria to Lucas and Annabel's custody. It's a Tear Jerker Bittersweet Ending for everyone all round.
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Mama / int_322f6b34	type	Angsty Surviving Twin
Mama / int_322f6b34	comment	Angsty Surviving Twin: Averted big time. In fact, Lucas shows more concern to his nieces than grief for what happened to Jeffrey.
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Mama / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Mama / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Despite Coster-Waldau's best efforts, his Danish accent occasionally slips through.
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Mama / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
Mama / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: Lucas and Annabel.
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Mama / int_3ac2aa04	type	Deadly Hug
Mama / int_3ac2aa04	comment	Deadly Hug: Crushing people in her arms in Mama's preferred killing method.
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Mama / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Mama / int_3b113b7	comment	As her Character Development progresses, Annabel increasingly bonds with the girls, successfully making a breakthrough with the more therapy-resistant Lily, and by the end she's become a full-blown Mama Bear to rival Mama.
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Mama / int_3ce914fb	type	Macabre Moth Motif
Mama / int_3ce914fb	comment	Macabre Moth Motif: Moths follow Mama wherever she goes.
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Mama / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Mama / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: It's one of the central points of the film, and 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 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 legal guardian when they're found, is a caring Papa Wolf towards them, and to Victoria is a substitute for her deceased father. Victoria mistakes her uncle for her father 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 Character Development progresses, Annabel increasingly bonds with the girls, successfully making a breakthrough with the more therapy-resistant Lily, and by the end she's become a full-blown Mama Bear to rival Mama.
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Mama / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Mama / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Although Victoria comes to love Annabel and leaves Edith for her, Edith refuses to let go of Lily and the latter is likewise too attached to her to trade her for Annabel, and happily goes with whom she considers her real mother. For her part, Lily's unconditional love releases Edith from her grief and allows her to move on. But one way or another, Lily's dead.
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Mama / int_41eab669	type	Daylight Horror
Mama / int_41eab669	comment	Daylight Horror: Many of Mama's appearances happen in broad daylight.
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Mama / int_444154b8	type	Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book
Mama / int_444154b8	comment	Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: A typical example, but the kids paint the walls with pictures of themselves as they grow up, showcasing Mama's/Edith's constant (and violently protective) presence.
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Mama / int_446c5792	type	Villainous Rescue
Mama / int_446c5792	comment	Villainous Rescue: When Jeffrey is about to shoot Victoria in the back of the head, Mama appears right at the last possible second and stops him.
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Mama / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Mama / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Near the end, Mama/Edith seems to start regarding Annabel this way.
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Mama / int_4a6e9fd9	type	Obnoxious In-Laws
Mama / int_4a6e9fd9	comment	Obnoxious In-Laws: 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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Mama / int_55180ce	type	Snow Means Death
Mama / int_55180ce	comment	Snow Means Death: Everything in the prologue is wintry with crisp snow, during Jeffery's Pater Familicide rampage.
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Mama / int_55554032	type	Irrational Hatred
Mama / int_55554032	comment	Jean, who had been trying to take custody of the kids since the very beginning due to Irrational Hatred of Lucas, was probably intended to be this.
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Mama / int_55966885	type	Marionette Motion
Mama / int_55966885	comment	Marionette Motion: Mama's movement is erratic and unnatural. So is Lily's, for that matter.
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Mama / int_5a59b3a1	type	Hulk Speak
Mama / int_5a59b3a1	comment	Hulk Speak: Lily rarely speaks but when she does it's like this.
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Mama / int_5ae357c1	type	Knight Templar Parent
Mama / int_5ae357c1	comment	Knight Templar Parent: Mama; she genuinely wants to take care of her children, but she's unable to tolerate even the idea of someone else taking care of them and will kill to get them back.
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Mama / int_5cc25ed	type	Not-So-Imaginary Friend
Mama / int_5cc25ed	comment	Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Initially Dreyfuss believes that "Mama" was just an Imaginary Friend that Victoria and Lily created to cope with their situation. It turns out that she's not quite so imaginary...
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Mama / int_5e965a73	type	Nice, Mean, and In-Between
Mama / int_5e965a73	comment	Nice, Mean, and In-Between: 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 Knight Templar Parent 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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Mama / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Mama / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The actual story begins five years after the prologue.
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Mama / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Mama / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Had Lily not cried out to Mama, there might've been Earn Your Happy Ending instead of the Bittersweet Ending.
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Mama / int_637b6123	type	Sickening "Crunch!"
Mama / int_637b6123	comment	Sickening "Crunch!": Mama's kills are often accompanied by these.
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Mama / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
Mama / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Lily and Victoria are substitutes to Mama for 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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Mama / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
Mama / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: Mama/Edith takes most of her design from the Mexican Urban Legends of La Llorona note a female ghost with many different origin stories, but who is always depicted as crying for her children; one of such tales involves her spiriting away others' children to drown them as she did her own with a helping of Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl (though too different from the traditional onryo to be considered one.)
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Mama / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Mama / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: It's easy to miss, but Lily has the same name as Edith's dead baby, and ends up sharing her fate. The name Lily has special connotations: lilies are associated with death and the restoration of innocence upon death. The name Brennan can mean "burning." Edith was insane before she died, spent a hellish period of time as a ghost after failing to safely escape with her baby, and is ultimately confronted with the fact that her actions led to the baby's death during the climax. The look on her face when she cradles those tiny bones says it all...
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Mama / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Mama / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Casting Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as the father and uncle of somebody is rather funny if you consider that he's also the father and uncle of somebody in his most well-known role in Game of Thrones, but in a very different way.
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Mama / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Mama / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: After Dr. Dreyfuss discovers real evidence of a Mama/ Edith, the first thing he does is go to the cabin in the woods, alone, at night, to take pictures of her. Made even better when one remembers he does this right after upsetting Victoria so much that she appears to actively call on Mama, if the girl's Kubrick Stare and the splotch that appears on the wall where she's looking are any indicator. Not only is the doctor trespassing in Mama's home, he's doing it after having made her angry.
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Mama / int_8afadb7e	type	Department of Child Disservices
Mama / int_8afadb7e	comment	Department of Child Disservices: Averted. Dr. Dreyfus ensures that Lucas is able to take custody of the girls, despite his financial situation. Jean tries to get child services involved when she suspects abuse is taking place, but Mama kills her before she gets the chance to do that.
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Mama / int_8bff32a8	type	Creepy Doll
Mama / int_8bff32a8	comment	Creepy Doll: The one that the girls kept at the cabin. Whether they made it themselves, or Mama/Edith made it for them, is left up to the viewer.
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Mama / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
Mama / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Even in flashbacks to when she was human Mama never speaks, just grunts and groans. She says one word in the entire movie, "Lily", and it's a pretty normal-sounding voice.
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Mama / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Mama / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Mama kills Jeffrey just as he was about to commit murder-suicide on his daughters, and well after he had already killed his partners and wife. Jean, who had been trying to take custody of the kids since the very beginning due to Irrational Hatred of Lucas, was probably intended to be this.
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Mama / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Mama / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Too innocent. Victoria seems to know that there's something supernatural about Edith, but she's never learned that this is something she should be afraid of, so she isn't. In Lily's case, she's unable to see Edith as anything other than her real mother, and prefers her to any kind of human contact.
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Mama / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Mama / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: There are several references to Edith's real baby, hanging from a tree branch in its sling, which liken it to a moth's cocoon. At the end of the film, Edith enshrouds herself and Lily in a cocoon-like shape, which crashes into the same branch, and bursts into thousands of butterflies.
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Mama / int_a63f45d5	type	Cool Uncle
Mama / int_a63f45d5	comment	Cool Uncle: Lucas is an Extra Cool Uncle who already displays Papa Wolf tendency towards his nieces at the start of their disappearance.
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Mama / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Mama / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Edith ends up living in eternal bliss with her new daughter, just like she always wanted.
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Mama / int_acedc6c4	type	Butterfly of Death and Rebirth
Mama / int_acedc6c4	comment	Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: At the denouement, the moths make way for bright, colorful butterflies.
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Mama / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Mama / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Annabel has very few scenes where she's not showing cleavage. She also walks around her house barefoot quite a bit.
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Mama / int_b3aa5504	type	Convenient Coma
Mama / int_b3aa5504	comment	Convenient Coma: Mama's/Edith's assault puts Lucas in a coma, forcing Annabel to take care of the girls on her own.
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Mama / int_b5171e10	type	Tragic Villain
Mama / int_b5171e10	comment	Tragic Villain: In life, Mama was 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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Mama / int_b869b5b1	type	Color Motif
Mama / int_b869b5b1	comment	Color Motif: Purple. Lily wears a purple blanket when they arrive at the house at the beginning of the movie. Most of the children's drawings also depict her in purple. The baby that Mama/Edith is carrying when she jumps from the cliff is wrapped in a purple blanket as well.
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Mama / int_b9fd7929	type	Morality Chain
Mama / int_b9fd7929	comment	Morality Chain: The girls serve as this to Mama, particularly Victoria, who made her promise not to hurt Annabel.
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Mama / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
Mama / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: Mama constantly makes very sudden arrivals to the viewer; the girls are also fond of doing this, moving superhumanly quickly or taking advantage of flickering lights to get from one area to the next.
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Mama / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Mama / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: After being given the remains of her dead child, Edith briefly appears appeased (if crushed), taking the form of her normal human self. When Lily begins to cry for her, she loses all interest in (the skeletal remains of) her own child and turns back into a hideous revenant.
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Mama / int_c5835f29	type	Ghostly Goals
Mama / int_c5835f29	comment	Ghostly Goals: Mama/Edith wants nothing more than to care for and protect her children. It seems like the answer to helping her move on is to reunite her with her dead child, but when she is she's utterly crushed because it's only evidence of how she couldn't protect her baby. When Lily calls for her and Mama "rescues" her from Annabel and Lucas, that's what finally sets her free.
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Mama / int_c6102eb0	type	Grand Theft Me
Mama / int_c6102eb0	comment	Grand Theft Me: What Edith does to Jean in order to take the kids back to the cabin. It proved fatal when Edith left.
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Mama / int_c70059b4	type	Psychic Dreams for Everyone
Mama / int_c70059b4	comment	Psychic Dreams for Everyone: Mama/Edith conveys her presence and shares her tale of woe via these; Victoria and Annabel thus learn her blood-soaked origins and come to sympathize with her. Lucas, for his part, is pulled out of his Convenient Coma by a dream of the ghost of his dead brother, who begs him to save his daughters.
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Mama / int_c866231c	type	The Mentally Disturbed
Mama / int_c866231c	comment	The Mentally Disturbed: Edith, before her death.
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Mama / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
Mama / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: The titular character is the Big Bad.
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Mama / int_d0caee40	type	Uncanny Family Resemblance
Mama / int_d0caee40	comment	Uncanny Family Resemblance: 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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Mama / int_d40a8a0f	type	Suddenly Voiced
Mama / int_d40a8a0f	comment	Suddenly Voiced: When Lily calls out to her in the end, Mama actually quietly speaks out in a normal voice.
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Mama / int_d53d0080	type	Vampiric Draining
Mama / int_d53d0080	comment	Vampiric Draining: One of Mama's powers is the ability to suck the Life Energy out of people.
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Mama / int_d842e380	type	Love Redeems
Mama / int_d842e380	comment	Love Redeems: Lily's love ends Edith's haunting.
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Mama / int_dbc41ba9	type	Aloof Dark-Haired Girl
Mama / int_dbc41ba9	comment	Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Annabel pre-Character Development.
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Mama / int_dce448d	type	Reduced to Ratburgers
Mama / int_dce448d	comment	Reduced to Ratburgers: 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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Mama / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Mama / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Jeffrey realizing the magnitude of what he's done (to his wife,) what he's about to do (to his daughters,) and his own inability to stop himself from doing it.
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Mama / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Mama / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Lucas gets taken out of the action pretty early, if you're wondering why Annabel's actress has top billing. Even when he wakes up and attempts to get back into the action, he's taken out again for the climax.
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Mama / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
Mama / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: Edith's child was taken from her. When she came to take it back, she was hounded and chased back to a cliff, where she tried to jump into the river to escape but a branch halfway down ended up killing both of them. Mama takes her new children to the cliff as well in the climax; after she takes Lily back, they both jump down and hit the exact same branch, exploding into moths and butterflies.
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Mama / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Mama / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama/Edith is fiercely devoted and protective of her children, and will kill and assault anyone that gets between them and her; those who even threaten to do them harm meet the most grisly ends possible. Even when she's bound by her word not to kill Annabel, she still shields the girls with her own body against the perceived threat. Though sometimes it looks a lot like chasing/attacking "her" children. This is a dark example of the trope, however, as Mama's Mama Bear tendencies are what lead to the deaths of Lily and her original baby.
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Mama / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
Mama / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Moths.
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Mama / int_e4cb63f0	type	Flight, Strength, Heart
Mama / int_e4cb63f0	comment	Flight, Strength, Heart: Mama's powers include flying, mangling people with her arms and creating cherries.
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Mama / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Mama / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Lucas in his five-year search for his missing nieces, which pays off but also bankrupts him. Annabel as well at the end.
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Mama / int_e6521611	type	Creepy Long Fingers
Mama / int_e6521611	comment	Creepy Long Fingers: Mama, as much of her anatomy is unnaturally long and gnarled-looking.
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Mama / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Mama / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Victoria and Lily when they're found are not only near-feral, but incredibly creepy and prone to jump-scares. Victoria eventually gets better, but Lily - who was a year old when they were lost and knows nothing but the cabin, her sister, and Mama - does not.
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Mama / int_f417235b	type	Supernatural Floating Hair
Mama / int_f417235b	comment	Supernatural Floating Hair: One of Mama's defining features.
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Mama / int_f482730a	type	No Peripheral Vision
Mama / int_f482730a	comment	No Peripheral Vision: Annabel occasionally can't see anything not directly in front of her.
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Mama / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Mama / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: "I need the number for Enterprise Rent-A-Car." Annabel drinks Heineken beer in one scene, with the bottle practically right up to the camera lens.
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Mama / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Mama / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: Edith and Lily.
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Mama / int_f7d3dbb	type	One to Million to One
Mama / int_f7d3dbb	comment	One to Million to One: When Mama hits the same tree branch that killed her at the end of the movie, she splits into hundreds of moths.
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Mama / int_f8df38e6	type	Pater Familicide
Mama / int_f8df38e6	comment	Pater Familicide: Initiated in the beginning by Jeffrey when he kills the girls' mother (offscreen), but when he attempts to finish the job, Edith cuts him short.
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Mama / int_ff6ae1f6	type	Evil-Detecting Dog
Mama / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: Subverted. The dog does seem to notice Mama's presence, but never reacts to it as an evil one. In fact, he seems perfectly okay with her.
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Mama / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Mama / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Mama playing with the girls at their new house, even lifting Lily high up into the air while the latter laughs her heart out. This shows that she's not just there to protect them, but also that she and the girls really do enjoy each other's presence. When Annabel brings in Lily from the cold and warms her hands with her own breath, Lily stops hating her and opens up enough to like her because Mama, despite all her love, can never give her warmth. Mama sparing Annabel's life because she promised Victoria she wouldn't hurt Annabel. Despite murdering his business partners, his wife, and attempting to do the same to his daughters, Jeff's ghost wakes his brother up to urge him to save the girls.
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Mama / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Mama / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The effects the five years of isolation had on the children, particularly Lily, are this. 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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