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