Tropescilloscope: The Big Guy

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

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