Tropescilloscope: The Brute

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

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