Tropescilloscope: Mooks

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

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