Tropescilloscope: The Big Guy

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

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