Tropescilloscope: Mooks

Evil soldiers that exist for the sole purpose of being mowed over by The Hero. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Gilligan Cut Rousing Speech Neck Lift No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Took a Level in Jerkass Extremely Short Timespan Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Sole Survivor Villain Song Not What It Looks Like Captain Ersatz Dark and Troubled Past Bloody Hilarious After the End Broken Aesop The Reveal "Where Are They Now?" 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All There in the Manual Psychopathic Manchild Country Matters Early-Bird Cameo Ominous Latin Chanting Well-Intentioned Extremist Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Obviously Evil Australian Movies Adaptational Villainy It's Personal Alas, Poor Villain Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Black Dude Dies First Berserk Button Kill It with Fire Unspoken Plan Guarantee Ambiguously Gay The Lancer The Chessmaster Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" The Ace Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Big "NO!" Jitter Cam Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Red Shirt Retcon Punch-Clock Villain Flashback Cool Old Lady I Have Your Wife Death by Sex Dutch Angle Animal Title Index Even Evil Has Loved Ones Asshole Victim Jerk Jock Black Best Friend Accidental Misnaming Eldritch Abomination Gorn Belligerent Sexual Tension Nice Hat Big Damn Heroes Only Known by Their Nickname N-Word Privileges Bad Boss Artistic License – Physics Cat Scare Adaptational Attractiveness Artistic License – Biology What the Hell, Hero? Super Strength Only Sane Man Laser-Guided Karma Oh, Crap! Retirony Idiot Ball Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Pragmatic Villainy Contrived Coincidence The Ditz My Beloved Smother Jerkass Has a Point More Dakka Twist Ending Cowboy Cop Taking You with Me Parental Neglect Facial Horror Never My Fault What Happened to the Mouse? Cold-Blooded Torture No Celebrities Were Harmed Bald of Evil Here We Go Again! Beard of Evil Epic Fail Final Girl Artistic License – Law As the Good Book Says... Eye Scream Kick the Dog Superhero Action Survivor Outrun the Fireball Groin Attack Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Expy Deliberately Monochrome He Knows Too Much You Killed My Father Daylight Horror Anachronic Order The Oner Adaptation Expansion Gender Flip Death by Adaptation Setting Update Random Events Plot Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Double-Meaning Title Adaptation Distillation Wrong Genre Savvy Leaning on the Fourth Wall Award-Bait Song Defrosting Ice Queen Slashed Throat Italian Films Happily Married Children Are Innocent Hero Antagonist Killed Mid-Sentence Due to the Dead Wounded Gazelle Gambit Playing Gertrude Agony of the Feet Damsel in Distress Sealed Evil in a Can Foreshadowing Fake Shemp Captain Obvious Pretty Little Headshots Maybe Ever After Amoral Attorney Sanity Slippage Broken Bird Handicapped Badass Badass Boast The Sociopath Disguised in Drag Drugs Are Bad The Stoner Smug Snake Not Quite Dead Hollywood Darkness As You Know Crapsack World Break the Haughty Celebrity Paradox She's Got Legs Conspicuous CG Sir Swears-a-Lot Fantasy Films The Starscream Faking the Dead No OSHA Compliance Badass Grandpa Dirty Cop Aluminum Christmas Trees Sadistic Choice Sacrificial Lion Red Herring "The Reason You Suck" Speech Lampshade Hanging Storming the Castle Extreme Doormat Non-Indicative Name Be Careful What You Wish For What You Are in the Dark There Is No Kill Like Overkill Spanner in the Works Black and Gray Morality Pet the Dog Bittersweet Ending Attempted Rape Dirty Old Man Obstructive Bureaucrat The Dog Bites Back Insane Troll Logic Shower Scene Have a Gay Old Time Ass Shove Would Hurt a Child Obfuscating Stupidity Madness Mantra Stock Footage Big Eater Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Death Seeker In Medias Res Interrupted Suicide Documentary Accidental Murder Danny Peary Cult Movies List Credits Gag The Power of Love Revenge Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Adaptation Name Change The Smurfette Principle Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Not So Different Shut Up, Hannibal! Empathic Environment Cool Car Kids Are Cruel Skewed Priorities Mooks Villain Protagonist Bi the Way Dressing as the Enemy Body Horror No Name Given Made of Explodium Blatant Lies Fourth Date Marriage Four-Temperament Ensemble La Résistance Shoot the Shaggy Dog Broken Pedestal Put on a Bus The Dreaded Big Applesauce The End... Or Is It? Bar Brawl Hate Sink Science Fiction Films Naïve Newcomer Tagline Same Language Dub Love at First Sight O.O.C. Is Serious Business Kill 'em All Karmic Death An Aesop Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Really Gets Around Narrator Laughing Mad Informed Ability True Companions Important Haircut Dark Action Girl Unresolved Sexual Tension Getting Crap Past the Radar Film Noir Heroic Sacrifice Man on Fire Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Let's Get Dangerous! Only One Name Dark Is Not Evil Almost Kiss Heel Realization "Awesome McCool" Name Armor-Piercing Question Alpha Bitch Wham Line Trailers Always Spoil Sports Stories Mexican Standoff Woman in White Femme Fatale Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Manly Tears Throwing Your Sword Always Works Pre-Mortem One-Liner Irony Time Skip Face Death with Dignity Stepford Smiler The Brute Intergenerational Friendship Corrupt Corporate Executive Mr. Exposition Stylistic Suck Lighter and Softer Names to Run Away from Really Fast Older Than They Look Reality Ensues Only in It for the Money Heel–Face Turn Aside Glance The Mafia Antagonist Title The Smart Guy Henpecked Husband A Minor Kidroduction Film Noir Index Villain Opening Scene Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Psycho for Hire No Ending Suspiciously Similar Substitute Didn't Think This Through Calling the Old Man Out Big Brother Instinct Freeze-Frame Bonus I'm a Humanitarian Daddy's Girl I Need a Freaking Drink Translation Convention Vomit Indiscretion Shot Everyone Has Standards Training Montage Based on a True Story Guns Akimbo Politically Incorrect Villain For the Evulz Russian Films One-Word Title Small Name, Big Ego Cain and Abel Reckless Gun Usage Call-Back My Greatest Failure Scenery Gorn Badass Normal Tap on the Head Back from the Dead Bolivian Army Ending The '50s Big-Bad Ensemble Punny Name Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Posthumous Character Blood Knight Lock and Load Montage Knight Templar Your Head A-Splode timeperiod Creative Closing Credits Scary Black Man Gory Discretion Shot Hell Is That Noise Eyepatch of Power In Name Only One-Man Army The Chick Animal Motifs Meaningful Echo Shirtless Scene Yandere Dramatic Gun Cock Domestic Abuse Instant Death Bullet Rule of Three Kick the Son of a Bitch Cassandra Truth Mr. Fanservice The Vamp She Cleans Up Nicely Evil Laugh Every Car Is a Pinto Sequel Escalation Psychological Thriller Slasher Smile Death by Irony Demonic Possession Artistic License – Geography Catch-Phrase Manipulative Bastard Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Brother–Sister Incest Half the Man He Used to Be Casting Gag Affably Evil The Stinger Department of Redundancy Department Ms. Fanservice Scare Chord Age Lift Parental Abandonment Dirty Coward Intrepid Reporter Hong Kong Films Spared by the Adaptation Stealth Hi/Bye Horror Comedy Ironic Echo Not So Above It All The Lost Lenore Ghost Fiction Large Ham Genre Savvy Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Boom, Headshot! Bring My Brown Pants Historical Hero Upgrade Properly Paranoid Off with His Head! Diabolus ex Machina Anyone Can Die Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Fanservice Tempting Fate Double Entendre The '60s Coming-of-Age Story Adult Fear Implacable Man Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Pyrrhic Victory Works Set in World War II Jerk with a Heart of Gold A.I. Is a Crapshoot Bond Villain Stupidity Ambiguous Ending Fingore Rich Bitch Authority Equals Asskicking Cluster F-Bomb The Remake Determinator aka: The Determinator Plot Hole Fanservice Extra NO INDOOR VOICE From Bad to Worse Leave the Camera Running Reality Has No Subtitles Fish out of Water Parental Substitute Missing Mom Not Even Bothering with the Accent Darkest Hour The Atoner Offscreen Moment of Awesome Would Hit a Girl Does Not Like Shoes Anti-Hero Disproportionate Retribution Crazy Jealous Guy Paper-Thin Disguise Becoming the Mask Suspiciously Specific Denial Pragmatic Adaptation Bare Your Midriff Betty and Veronica Early Installment Weirdness He Who Fights Monsters Index of Film Westerns Earn Your Happy Ending An Axe to Grind Pretty in Mink Cool Shades Hoist by His Own Petard Left the Background Music On Hollywood Law Ungrateful Bastard Historical Villain Upgrade Dogged Nice Guy Death Glare Nice Guy Knife Nut Action Genre Meaningful Background Event The '70s Music Stories Romantic False Lead My God, What Have I Done? 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Up to Eleven Redshirt Army Did Not Get the Girl Ship Tease Big Bad Duumvirate Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Better to Die than Be Killed Heroes Want Redheads Grey and Gray Morality Serial Killer Papa Wolf Mystery and Detective Films Room Full of Crazy The Hero In the Back Drowning My Sorrows Show Within a Show Fun with Acronyms Darker and Edgier Villain with Good Publicity I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Shipper on Deck Deconstruction The Ghost Romantic Comedy No Antagonist Adaptational Heroism Evil vs. Evil Our Zombies Are Different Camp Gay Badass in a Nice Suit Thriller Eiffel Tower Effect British Films Artistic License – Gun Safety Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Hypocrite Humans Are Bastards Funny Background Event Closed Circle The '90s Dramedy Make It Look Like an Accident Made of Iron '80s Hair Costume Porn Gold Digger No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Victoria's Secret Compartment Improbable Weapon User Unusual Euphemism Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Crazy-Prepared The Film of the Book Genre Shift Dramatic Irony Scenery Porn Sci-Fi Horror Soft Glass Action Girl Hero of Another Story Sequel Hook Cruel and Unusual Death Totally Radical Never Found the Body Butt-Monkey Police are Useless Married to the Job Covers Always Lie Woman Scorned Recycled IN SPACE! The Dragon Match Cut Funny Foreigner You Have Failed Me Meaningful Name Immune to Bullets Bavarian Fire Drill Fan Disservice Protagonist Title Hooker with a Heart of Gold Novelization Refuge in Audacity Honor Before Reason Undying Loyalty Hope Spot Car Fu Flipping the Bird Gainax Ending Determinator MacGuffin Catapult Nightmare Japanese Films The Mole Author Appeal For Want of a Nail Serious Business Fatal Flaw Card-Carrying Villain Evil Plan "Well Done, Son!" Guy Stalker with a Crush Mood Whiplash Real Life Writes the Plot Take That! Curb-Stomp Battle Destination Defenestration Pimped-Out Dress Overly Long Gag Moment Killer Vomit Discretion Shot Distracted by the Sexy Evil Counterpart Creepy Child Badass Bookworm Rasputinian Death Ax-Crazy Those Wacky Nazis Foregone Conclusion Crucified Hero Shot Greater-Scope Villain Motor Mouth Get Out! Your Cheating Heart Wham Shot Together in Death Never Trust a Trailer Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Evil Is Hammy