Tropescilloscope: The Brute

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

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