Tropescilloscope: The Big Guy

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

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