Tropescilloscope: The Big Guy

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

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