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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Homage The Casanova Ripped from the Headlines Not Even Bothering with the Accent Arranged Marriage Easily Forgiven The Quiet One Bound and Gagged Blood Knight Villain with Good Publicity Card-Carrying Villain Improbable Weapon User Camera Abuse The Lancer The Stinger Mystery and Detective Films Only Sane Man Hate Sink Roaring Rampage of Revenge Dramatic Gun Cock Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Dirty Cop Jump Scare All Men Are Perverts Historical Hero Upgrade Brother–Sister Incest Gender Flip Annoying Younger Sibling No-Holds-Barred Beatdown The Smurfette Principle Kick the Son of a Bitch Fiery Redhead Mighty Whitey Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Taking the Bullet Male Frontal Nudity Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Redemption Equals Death Determinator aka: The Determinator Trailers Always Spoil Contrived Coincidence Rasputinian Death Daylight Horror Immune to Bullets Brutal Honesty Sequel Hook Improvised Weapon Reality Has No Subtitles Self-Deprecation Costume Porn Arch-Enemy Manly Tears All There in the Manual For the Evulz Video Credits Sealed Evil in a Can Parental Substitute Reality Ensues Victoria's Secret Compartment Fantasy Films Blackmail Madness Mantra Exact Words Dwindling Party Rewatch Bonus Sci-Fi Horror In Medias Res Babies Ever After Deconstruction Sanity Slippage Cassandra Truth Red Right Hand Your Head A-Splode O.O.C. Is Serious Business The Ditz Anti-Villain Back from the Dead Only Known by Their Nickname Bavarian Fire Drill The '70s Unusual Euphemism Zombie Stories Rule of Three Faux Affably Evil Heroic BSoD Betty and Veronica MacGuffin Stealth Hi/Bye Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Reveal Real Life Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Smug Snake What the Hell, Hero? Crucified Hero Shot Motor Mouth Naïve Newcomer Anachronism Stew Armor-Piercing Question Intergenerational Friendship Grievous Bottley Harm Alpha Bitch Karma Houdini Nice Hat Fat Bastard Crazy-Prepared Your Cheating Heart Scary Black Man Yandere The Great Depression Bond Villain Stupidity Gorn Slasher Movie Book-Ends Male Gaze Novelization Instant Death Bullet Casting Gag Continuity Nod Gold Digger Dull Surprise Fingore Offscreen Teleportation Papa Wolf Title Drop Character Development Rich Bitch Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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The Sociopath Deadpan Snarker Eye Scream Animated Credits Opening You Have Failed Me Evil Counterpart Earn Your Happy Ending Butt-Monkey Drugs Are Bad Index of Film Westerns Tap on the Head Bi the Way Lock and Load Montage Vomit Discretion Shot Decoy Protagonist Hollywood Law Love at First Sight Never My Fault Retcon I Want My Beloved to Be Happy It Can Think Major Injury Underreaction British Films Break the Cutie Cat Scare Hidden Depths All for Nothing Manchild Made of Iron Shirtless Scene Action Girl The Voiceless Precision F-Strike Drives Like Crazy Developing Doomed Characters Mexican Standoff Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Ship Tease Romantic False Lead Abusive Parents Straight Gay All Girls Want Bad Boys Blonde, Brunette, Redhead The Atoner Fanservice Every Car Is a Pinto Evil vs. Evil Red Oni, Blue Oni Cool Shades Ghost Fiction Does Not Like Shoes Eagleland Breaking the Fourth Wall Rated M for Manly Disappeared Dad Reckless Gun Usage Affectionate Parody Darkest Hour Punny Name Parental Neglect The Place The Dog Bites Back Pre-Mortem One-Liner Bloodier and Gorier Skewed Priorities Shipper on Deck Aww, Look! 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Hypocrite Stuff Blowing Up Biopic Ironic Echo Peek-a-Boo Corpse Catch-Phrase A God Am I Artistic License – Military Vampire Fiction Rousing Speech Hollywood Darkness Man on Fire Pragmatic Adaptation Badass Grandpa Imagine Spot Neck Lift Belligerent Sexual Tension Did Not Get the Girl Daddy's Girl Dropped a Bridge on Him The Film of the Book Call-Back Take a Third Option Meaningful Background Event The Un-Reveal Driven to Suicide Eureka Moment You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The Alcoholic The Smart Guy Meet Cute Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! What Happened to the Mouse? Dying Moment of Awesome Blood from the Mouth The Mole Big Bad Duumvirate Very Loosely Based on a True Story Let's Get Dangerous! Domestic Abuse Music Stories Historical Villain Upgrade Actually Pretty Funny Big Damn Heroes Central Theme Gratuitous English The Power of Love Bad "Bad Acting" Spared by the Adaptation Woman Scorned Disguised in Drag Cluster F-Bomb Chewing the Scenery Death by Adaptation Bring My Brown Pants And I Must Scream All Just a Dream Martial Arts Movie Mistaken for Gay Fish out of Water Beta Couple Ungrateful Bastard The Musical Film Noir Ass Shove Politically Incorrect Villain Mood Whiplash Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Leitmotif Mooks Famous Last Words Manipulative Bastard Same Language Dub Chiaroscuro Blatant Lies A.I. Is a Crapshoot Punctuated! For! Emphasis! What You Are in the Dark Film Noir Index Sports Stories Hope Spot Brick Joke Crapsack World Aside Glance Eldritch Abomination Author Appeal Dramedy Stepford Smiler Mundane Made Awesome Scenery Gorn Unusually Uninteresting Sight Reality Is Unrealistic Due to the Dead "Well Done, Son!" Guy Rule of Funny Combat Pragmatist Bare Your Midriff Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Adaptation Distillation Disproportionate Retribution Big Applesauce Diabolus ex Machina Creepy Child Ascended Extra Make It Look Like an Accident Sequel Escalation World of Ham An Arm and a Leg Those Wacky Nazis Creator Cameo Flashback Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Beware the Nice Ones Dies Wide Open Properly Paranoid Public Domain Feature Films Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Line-of-Sight Name Cowboy Cop Needs Wiki Magic Love Grey and Gray Morality No-Sell Room Full of Crazy Police are Useless The '90s Shoot the Shaggy Dog Hooker with a Heart of Gold Bury Your Gays Empathic Environment Bittersweet Ending Ax-Crazy A Date with Rosie Palms Idiot Ball After the End Not What It Looks Like Undying Loyalty Dark Action Girl Bullying a Dragon Alliterative Name Noodle Incident BFG Informed Ability It Will Never Catch On Adult Fear Meaningful Echo Danny Peary Cult Movies List For Want of a Nail Groin Attack Vitriolic Best Buds Our Vampires Are Different Soft Glass Curse Cut Short Offscreen Moment of Awesome Together in Death Reasonable Authority Figure Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Redshirt Army Mythology Gag Nothing Is Scarier Insistent Terminology Attempted Rape Creative Closing Credits Vomit Indiscretion Shot Spiritual Successor Adaptation Expansion Mr. Exposition Race Against the Clock Plot Hole Bald of Evil Even Evil Has Loved Ones Villain Protagonist Dissonant Serenity The Alleged Car Apocalypse How Action Genre More Dakka Cold-Blooded Torture Married to the Job Chuck Cunningham Syndrome From Nobody to Nightmare Up to Eleven As Long as It Sounds Foreign The Remake Animal Title Index Sadistic Choice Determinator Chase Scene Sir Swears-a-Lot Taking You with Me Horror Comedy Humiliation Conga Badass Longcoat Silence Is Golden Tempting Fate Dirty Coward The Chessmaster Bilingual Bonus Fake Shemp Truth in Television Cool Car Mad Scientist Light Is Not Good Fanservice Extra Sacrificial Lion Captain Ersatz Age Lift Those Two Guys The Bad Guy Wins My Greatest Failure Based on a True Story Faking the Dead He Knows Too Much Romantic Comedy Captain Obvious Call-Forward Evil Is Hammy Jerkass Awesome, but Impractical Historical In-Joke Funny Background Event Oh, Crap! Not So Different Corrupt Corporate Executive Well-Intentioned Extremist Bunny-Ears Lawyer Visual Pun Logo Joke Does This Remind You of Anything? Woman in White Half the Man He Used to Be Retirony Never Found the Body Off with His Head! Mercy Kill Darker and Edgier One Steve Limit Composite Character May–December Romance Manic Pixie Dream Girl Tranquil Fury "The Reason You Suck" Speech I Did What I Had to Do Leave the Camera Running Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Psychological Thriller The Dragon Badass Normal Badass in a Nice Suit Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Freeze-Frame Bonus Spiteful Spit Eyepatch of Power Shower Scene Fan Disservice Foregone Conclusion Older Than They Look Extremely Short Timespan Police Brutality Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Mr. Fanservice Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Drill Sergeant Nasty Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Downer Ending Say My Name Adults Are Useless The Hero Kill It with Fire I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Dark and Troubled Past You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Morality Pet I Need a Freaking Drink Chekhov's Gunman Obstructive Bureaucrat Batman Gambit Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Dutch Angle Exactly What It Says on the Tin Coming-of-Age Story