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