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