Tropescilloscope: The Big Guy

The muscles of the good guys. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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