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Madea (known in full as Mabel "Madea" Simmons) is a fictional character created and portrayed by Tyler Perry. The character is a towering, massive, and thuggishly tough elderly woman. Vindictive in nature, Madea gets even in a bad way; in fact, when asked why she felt the need to get somebody all the time, Madea answered: "Well when you gettin' got and somebody done got you and you go get them, when you get 'em, everybody's gon' get got." Adding to this, Madea is highly overreactive, willing to threaten the use of deadly weapons; destroy property; use physical violence; take on the law; and use any and all means necessary to show up an offending party.〔 Incorrigible in her overreactive ways, Madea has repeatedly landed herself in court (usually before Judge Mablean), anger management classes, house arrest, and even prison.〔 Despite the way the character goes about it, she stands for what's right and has a nurturing side. As examples, Madea is often seen officiously involving herself in circumstances in which others have been wronged, offering self-defense tips, instruction, or avenging them on her own;〔 by her very nature, Madea is more than willing to "thug out" on some of the sassiest and brattiest of children and teens, but also shows to care about their well-being in the end. The character combines an unusual pronunciation style with her locutions, such as "Heller, how ya dern?" or "Halleluyer praise da lort!" Madea is based on Perry's mother, his aunt, and watching Eddie Murphy perform ''The Klumps''. In Perry's own words Madea is ". . .exactly the PG version of my mother and my aunt, and I loved having an opportunity to pay homage to them. She would beat the hell out of you but make sure the ambulance got there in time to make sure they could set your arm back. . ." Perry has announced that he's working on a Madea animated film. The film, titled ''Madea's Tough Love'', was released in January 2015.〔http://tylerperry.com/movies/madeas-tough-love/〕 ==Early years== Mabel "Madea" Simmons was born in Greensburg, Louisiana, on April 26, 1935. (Madea was 68 in the first play, ''I Can Do Bad All By Myself'', as well as ''Madea's Class Reunion''. Her ages in the other plays are unknown because they take place between these two plays, and there's no continuity offered. In ''Madea Goes to Jail'', Madea was around 75). In "I Can Do Bad All By Myself," she reveals that sometime in her adult life she lived in Cleveland, Ohio, but later returned to Atlanta, or that she had not attended high school in Atlanta at all. Madea was brought up in poverty and grew up living in shacks with her immediate family. Madea has stated that although her family didn't have much, they had love. According to ''Family Reunion'', Madea's mother, "Big Mabel" Murphy, was a hooker during Madea's childhood and wasn't at all religious. As a result, Madea grew up with no knowledge of Christianity (as an elderly woman, Madea is filled with biblical misinformation and has a tendency to misquote the Bible). She attended Booker T. Washington High School, where she served as a cheerleader. When Madea was 16, her parents moved her and the rest of her immediate family to Atlanta, Georgia, in a shotgun house. It was reported in Madea's book, ''Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings'', that Madea's mother and father wouldn't allow her to go out at all until she turned 17 or 18. In the films, it has been revealed that Madea used to be a stripper, and her stagenames were Magnitude & Delicious . There was also heavy implication that she was a prostitute as well. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Madea」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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