Tropescilloscope: The Big Guy

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

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