Tropescilloscope: The Big Guy

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

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