Tropescilloscope: The Big Guy

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

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