Tropescilloscope: The Big Guy

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

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