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