Tropescilloscope: The Big Guy

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

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