Tropescilloscope: The Brute

The big, strong minion of the forces of evil. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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