Tropescilloscope: Mooks

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

More Tropes Match Cut Distracted by the Sexy Romantic Comedy And I Must Scream Arc Words Early-Bird Cameo Historical In-Joke Wham Shot I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Ghost Fiction Getting Crap Past the Radar Mooks Grievous Bottley Harm Works Set in World War II Pyrrhic Victory Butt-Monkey Product Placement Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome How We Got Here Adaptational Badass Loophole Abuse Manic Pixie Dream Girl Broken Pedestal Abhorrent Admirer Posthumous Character Tap on the Head Race Against the Clock timeperiod The '90s It Will Never Catch On Chase Scene Translation Convention Foil Sci-Fi Horror Straight Gay Pet the Dog Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Brutal Honesty The Chick Reality Has No Subtitles This Is Gonna Suck Fake Shemp Death by Sex Red Eyes, Take Warning Bullying a Dragon Moment Killer Alas, Poor Villain Manly Tears Even Evil Has Standards Non-Indicative Name folderlabel Peek-a-Boo Corpse The Un-Reveal Kubrick Stare Punch-Clock Villain Pre-Mortem One-Liner Wretched Hive Redshirt Army Black Comedy Kill It with Fire Chekhov's Gunman Bait-and-Switch The Atoner What the Hell, Hero? Due to the Dead Eldritch Abomination Adaptational Heroism Groin Attack Evil Is Hammy Line-of-Sight Name Dramatic Irony Dies Wide Open Author Avatar Deliberately Monochrome Deadpan Snarker 20 Minutes into the Future Scare Chord Say My Name Maybe Ever After Chekhov's Gun Have a Gay Old Time Ambiguous Disorder Affectionate Parody Hooker with a Heart of Gold Gilligan Cut Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Gratuitous English Get Out! Sequel Hook Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Woman Scorned Horror Comedy Self-Deprecation Frame-Up Danny Peary Cult Movies List Batman Gambit Public Domain Feature Films Jerk with a Heart of Gold May–December Romance Only in It for the Money Refuge in Audacity Diabolus ex Machina The Cavalry Adaptational Villainy Meaningful Echo Kill 'em All Really Gets Around Author Appeal Bunny-Ears Lawyer Brick Joke Deliberate Values Dissonance No Ending Unusual Euphemism Creepy Child Black Best Friend A Father to His Men Heroes Want Redheads Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Beauty Is Never Tarnished Advertised Extra Ripped from the Headlines Boom, Headshot! Motor Mouth Killed Mid-Sentence Mistaken for Gay What You Are in the Dark The Hero Oh, Crap! Genre Savvy Big Applesauce Too Dumb to Live Suspiciously Specific Denial Decoy Protagonist For the Evulz Big Damn Heroes All Just a Dream The Alleged Car Would Hit a Girl Credits Gag Ascended Extra Artistic License – Military Fiery Redhead Real Life Writes the Plot Suddenly SHOUTING! Obviously Evil Re-Cut Bloodier and Gorier Pretty Little Headshots The Ghost Vomit Discretion Shot Berserk Button Hypocrite Dark Is Not Evil Central Theme Heel Realization Auto Erotica She's Got Legs Authority Equals Asskicking The Ditz Hoist by His Own Petard Never Found the Body Daddy's Girl Gone Horribly Right Heterosexual Life-Partners Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Beard of Evil Wicked Cultured What Happened to the Mouse? Epic Fail Wham Line Crucified Hero Shot Cool Guns Parental Incest Call-Forward Film Series Imagine Spot I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Dying Moment of Awesome Face–Heel Turn Fourth Date Marriage Sequel Escalation Disney Death Back from the Dead Canadian Movies Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Our Zombies Are Different Lampshade Hanging You Killed My Father Dirty Cop Bloodless Carnage Funny Background Event Reality Ensues Only Known by Their Nickname Not So Different Jitter Cam Character Development Foregone Conclusion A Date with Rosie Palms Action Girl Evil Counterpart Did Not Get the Girl Brother–Sister Incest Suspiciously Similar Substitute Gory Discretion Shot Video Credits Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Properly Paranoid Large Ham Everyone Has Standards As Long as It Sounds Foreign Market-Based Title Defrosting Ice Queen Pay Evil unto Evil The Voiceless Storming the Castle Slasher Movie Mexican Standoff Dark and Troubled Past Genre Throwback Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Running Gag Monumental Damage Riddle for the Ages Smoking Is Cool Informed Ability Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Spanner in the Works Kick the Dog Serious Business The Chessmaster Happily Married Fantasy Films Sinister Minister Sadistic Choice Crazy Jealous Guy Stalker with a Crush Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The End... Or Is It? Call-Back Lock and Load Montage Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Karma Houdini In the Back Bowdlerise Show Within a Show Catch-Phrase Badass Bookworm Bald of Evil Only One Name Mystery and Detective Films Reasonable Authority Figure Hollywood Darkness Death Seeker Up to Eleven Yandere Rated M for Manly BFG Rasputinian Death Asshole Victim Improbable Weapon User Composite Character Soundtrack Dissonance Red Shirt Action Genre Toplessness from the Back Faux Affably Evil Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Cold-Blooded Torture Setting Update Amoral Attorney Mighty Whitey The Alcoholic Flashback Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Arch-Enemy Freeze-Frame Bonus Evil Sounds Deep Extreme Doormat World of Ham You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Heel–Face Turn Worthy Opponent The Lost Lenore True Companions I Have Your Wife Cowboy Cop Casting Gag Stylistic Suck Taking the Bullet Token Minority Blackmail Japanese Films Race Lift Heroic BSoD Rule of Cool "Awesome McCool" Name Agony of the Feet Hollywood Law Captain Ersatz Chiaroscuro Mr. Exposition Actor Allusion Anguished Declaration of Love All Girls Want Bad Boys Made of Explodium Ominous Latin Chanting Antagonist Title Playing Gertrude Bad Boss Take a Third Option Shipper on Deck You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Depraved Bisexual Parental Neglect Crazy-Prepared Improvised Weapon German Films Neck Lift Last-Name Basis Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Hypocritical Humor The Load One Steve Limit Daylight Horror Karmic Death Be Careful What You Wish For The Dreaded Offscreen Teleportation The Stoner An Aesop Badass Normal Contrived Coincidence Book-Ends Wounded Gazelle Gambit Final Girl Chekhov's Skill Big "NO!" He Knows Too Much Scenery Gorn Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Black and Gray Morality Villain Song Would Hurt a Child Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Love Triangle Hair-Trigger Temper Historical-Domain Character Mythology Gag Adaptational Attractiveness Knight Templar Sacrificial Lion Death Glare The Place Destination Defenestration Christmas Movies Index Parental Abandonment Disappeared Dad Anti-Hero Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Beware the Nice Ones Does This Remind You of Anything? She Cleans Up Nicely British Films Rape as Drama Five-Man Band Handicapped Badass Downer Ending Femme Fatale Man on Fire Naked People Are Funny Aluminum Christmas Trees Alliterative Name Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Adaptation Distillation Dutch Angle Armor-Piercing Question All There in the Script Only a Flesh Wound Villain Opening Scene I'm a Humanitarian Evil Plan Captain Obvious The Oner Instant Death Bullet Curse Cut Short Insistent Terminology From Nobody to Nightmare Sexy Discretion Shot Award-Bait Song And Starring Eiffel Tower Effect It's Personal Apocalypse How Adults Are Useless Only Sane Man The Bully Grey and Gray Morality Blood Knight No Name Given The Mole Sports Stories Mind Screw Gender Flip Insane Troll Logic Kick the Son of a Bitch Eagleland Chewing the Scenery Drives Like Crazy Make It Look Like an Accident Irony Pimped-Out Dress Ass Shove Ambiguously Gay Meet Cute The Vamp Improbable Aiming Skills Didn't Think This Through Vitriolic Best Buds Dirty Coward Affably Evil Dull Surprise Anachronism Stew War Is Hell Awesome, but Impractical One-Man Army Death by Adaptation Vomit Indiscretion Shot Fate Worse than Death The Reveal Double-Meaning Title Retirony Bare Your Midriff Disproportionate Retribution Dogged Nice Guy Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Pragmatic Villainy Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Department of Redundancy Department Bloody Hilarious The Big Guy The Smart Guy Demoted to Extra Together in Death Honor Before Reason Bond Villain Stupidity Bound and Gagged Camera Abuse The Stinger Zombie Stories Historical Villain Upgrade An Axe to Grind Precision F-Strike Henpecked Husband Stepford Smiler Deconstruction Bittersweet Ending "The Reason You Suck" Speech Totally Radical Protagonist Title Unusually Uninteresting Sight Dropped a Bridge on Him The Hero Dies Gold Digger Annoying Younger Sibling "Shaggy Dog" Story Manipulative Bastard Shout-Out Closed Circle All for Nothing Damsel in Distress Darker and Edgier Victoria's Secret Compartment Major Injury Underreaction Artistic License – History Body Horror One-Word Title Index of Film Westerns Comically Missing the Point The Stoic Pragmatic Adaptation Not Quite Dead Bond One-Liner The Great Depression Took a Level in Jerkass Adult Fear Evil Brit Random Events Plot Adaptation Name Change Mr. Fanservice Bi the Way Funny Foreigner It Can Think Bad "Bad Acting" Drill Sergeant Nasty Evil Laugh Slasher Smile NO INDOOR VOICE Determinator aka: The Determinator "Well Done, Son!" Guy Male Frontal Nudity Truth in Television The Film of the Book Recycled IN SPACE! Stock Footage Almost Kiss Dual Wielding Retcon Big Eater Air-Vent Passageway Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Anachronic Order Historical Hero Upgrade Cassandra Truth The Ace After the End Bury Your Gays Important Haircut Artistic License – Gun Safety Babies Ever After Cat Fight The Smurfette Principle Faking the Dead Tagline Police Brutality Laser-Guided Karma Developing Doomed Characters Becoming the Mask O.O.C. Is Serious Business Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun My Beloved Smother Those Two Bad Guys Half the Man He Used to Be Artistic License – Geography Death by Irony Epic Movie He Who Fights Monsters Slashed Throat As the Good Book Says... Adaptation Dye-Job Mood Whiplash Bar Brawl Documentary Put on a Bus Off-into-the-Distance Ending You Have Failed Me Jerkass Has a Point Those Two Guys Shoot the Shaggy Dog Breaking the Fourth Wall Nice Guy The Dog Bites Back Needs Wiki Magic Love Fingore Break the Cutie Horror Films Alpha Bitch Costume Porn Hero of Another Story Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Fish out of Water Mugging the Monster Domestic Abuse Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Fat Bastard Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Visual Pun Ship Tease Not So Stoic Love at First Sight Laughing Mad Unresolved Sexual Tension Adapted Out Room Full of Crazy Your Head A-Splode Villain Ball Obstructive Bureaucrat Papa Wolf Fatal Family Photo Villainous Breakdown Roaring Rampage of Revenge Cruel and Unusual Death Politically Incorrect Villain Big-Bad Ensemble Australian Movies A.I. Is a Crapshoot The Casanova Well-Intentioned Extremist Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Famous Last Words Cat Scare Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Leitmotif I Need a Freaking Drink Rousing Speech Bavarian Fire Drill Ungrateful Bastard Canon Foreigner Trailers Always Spoil Psycho for Hire Dwindling Party Wrong Genre Savvy Training Montage Television Movie Index Skewed Priorities The Lancer Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Brainless Beauty Never My Fault Title Drop Psychological Thriller Retired Badass Made of Iron Madness Mantra MacGuffin Accidental Murder No-Sell Cool Shades Time Skip Coming-of-Age Story The Cameo Heroic Sacrifice Death of a Child Gainax Ending Failed a Spot Check In Name Only Fainting Dissonant Serenity Kids Are Cruel Greater-Scope Villain Spared by the Adaptation Mama Bear Hate Sink Camp Gay Dark Reprise Psychopathic Manchild Arranged Marriage Bland-Name Product Not So Above It All Shell-Shocked Veteran Stealth Pun Cool Old Lady Flipping the Bird Knife Nut Badass Grandpa Expository Hairstyle Change Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Meaningful Background Event Very Loosely Based on a True Story Let's Get Dangerous! Continuity Nod Hell Is That Noise Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Actually Pretty Funny The Starscream Spiritual Successor Revenge Mercy Kill Anyone Can Die Genre Shift Logo Joke Enemy Mine Sealed Evil in a Can Vampire Fiction The Dragon Bring My Brown Pants "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue No Celebrities Were Harmed Fire-Forged Friends Real Life Dramedy Red Right Hand Shirtless Scene Humans Are Bastards La Résistance Jump Scare Idiot Ball Hero Antagonist Anti-Villain Fanservice Nothing Is Scarier Cool Old Guy Military and Warfare Films '80s Hair Unreliable Narrator Once More, with Clarity! Ironic Echo Woman in White Sir Swears-a-Lot Intrepid Reporter B-Movie Hope Spot Outrun the Fireball Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Lighter and Softer Names to Run Away from Really Fast Every Car Is a Pinto The X of Y Adorkable Romantic False Lead Evil vs. Evil Demonic Possession Even Evil Has Loved Ones Betty and Veronica Expy Soft Glass As You Know Reckless Gun Usage Deal with the Devil Disguised in Drag Broken Aesop Spiteful Spit Men Are the Expendable Gender Car Fu Dressing as the Enemy Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Ms. Fanservice No OSHA Compliance Martial Arts Movie Green-Eyed Monster Artistic License – Law Rich Bitch Biopic Those Wacky Nazis The Remake Reality Is Unrealistic Same Language Dub Shower Scene Aside Glance Crapsack World Bilingual Bonus N-Word Privileges Tempting Fate Jerk Jock Foreshadowing Bottomless Magazines Broken Bird Super Strength Noodle Incident Big Bad It's All About Me Dumb Blonde Superhero Naïve Newcomer Earn Your Happy Ending Eye Scream Belligerent Sexual Tension No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Fun with Acronyms Curb-Stomp Battle Punny Name Interrupted Suicide There Is No Kill Like Overkill Blatant Lies An Arm and a Leg Adaptation Expansion The '50s Rewatch Bonus Sanity Slippage Cluster F-Bomb Implacable Man Creator Cameo Pretty in Mink Homage Determinator The Faceless Despair Event Horizon Animal Title Index Police are Useless Light Is Not Good Badass Boast Male Gaze The Musical Silent Movie Good Is Not Nice Italian Films Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Sassy Black Woman Nice Hat More Dakka Whole Plot Reference Based on a True Story From Bad to Worse Bolivian Army Ending Catapult Nightmare Film Noir Index Twist Ending Tranquil Fury Mad Scientist Meaningful Name Animal Motifs Does Not Like Shoes Narrator Mundane Made Awesome Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Pre-Asskicking One-Liner For Want of a Nail All Men Are Perverts Science Fiction Films The '80s Spell My Name with an "S" Shut Up, Hannibal! The Sociopath Not Even Bothering with the Accent Scenery Porn Conspicuous CG Leaning on the Fourth Wall Rule of Three Loads and Loads of Characters Plucky Comic Relief Celebrity Paradox Never Trust a Trailer Here We Go Again! Disney Villain Death Artistic License – Biology Cain and Abel Paper-Thin Disguise Eureka Moment Freudian Excuse Big Fancy House Thriller Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Villain Protagonist Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Cloudcuckoolander Manchild Eyepatch of Power Russian Films Redemption Equals Death No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Rule of Funny Friend to All Children Took a Level in Badass Corpsing The Quiet One Defiant to the End Left the Background Music On Evil Is Petty Smug Snake Unspoken Plan Guarantee Overly Long Gag All There in the Manual Taking You with Me Parental Substitute Intergenerational Friendship Driven to Suicide Drowning My Sorrows Unwitting Instigator of Doom Card-Carrying Villain Shown Their Work Big Brother Instinct Black Dude Dies First Ax-Crazy Leave the Camera Running Better to Die than Be Killed And the Adventure Continues Small Name, Big Ego Hidden Depths Ambiguous Ending Guile Hero Red Oni, Blue Oni Big Bad Duumvirate Beta Couple Take That! Deus ex Machina Blood from the Mouth Fatal Flaw Older Than They Look Dramatic Gun Cock Animated Credits Opening Dark Action Girl Guns Akimbo Gorn Star-Crossed Lovers Amusing Injuries I Did What I Had to Do In Medias Res Cool Car Film Noir Fantastic Racism Framing Device The Brute A Minor Kidroduction Early Installment Weirdness Attempted Rape Accidental Misnaming Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Artistic License – Physics Action Prologue Overprotective Dad Combat Pragmatist Neck Snap Jerkass Action Survivor Silence Is Golden Establishing Character Moment Villain with Good Publicity My God, What Have I Done? Offscreen Moment of Awesome Malevolent Masked Men Music Stories The '60s Rule of Symbolism Immune to Bullets As Himself Covers Always Lie Evil-Detecting Dog My Greatest Failure A God Am I Not Using the "Z" Word Black Comedy Rape The Bad Guy Wins Drugs Are Bad Four-Temperament Ensemble Creative Closing Credits Word of God Poor Communication Kills Break the Haughty Serial Killer Missing Mom The '70s Obfuscating Stupidity Darkest Hour Morality Pet Slap-Slap-Kiss Red Herring Exactly What It Says on the Tin Empathic Environment The Mafia Easily Forgiven Sole Survivor Hong Kong Films Corrupt Corporate Executive Country Matters Double Entendre Off with His Head! Dirty Old Man Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Scary Black Man Vacation Films Extremely Short Timespan Age Lift Children Are Innocent Married to the Job Not What It Looks Like French Films Insult Backfire No Antagonist Your Cheating Heart Fan Disservice Badass in a Nice Suit Humiliation Conga Plot Hole Fanservice Extra Throwing Your Sword Always Works Stuff Blowing Up Calling the Old Man Out Face Death with Dignity Badass Longcoat Abusive Parents Exact Words Our Vampires Are Different Undying Loyalty Novelization Facial Horror Stealth Hi/Bye The Power of Love