Tropescilloscope: The Brute

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

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Guy Aside Glance Exact Words Beta Couple Black Best Friend Horror Films Actually Pretty Funny Pet the Dog Genre Throwback Badass Grandpa Hair-Trigger Temper Video Credits Catch-Phrase Fish out of Water Disproportionate Retribution Dramedy Drowning My Sorrows You Killed My Father The '60s Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Truth in Television Friend to All Children Big Applesauce Throwing Your Sword Always Works Foregone Conclusion Final Girl Card-Carrying Villain Fantasy Films Villain Protagonist Translation Convention Oh, Crap! Spell My Name with an "S" Anachronic Order Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism All Men Are Perverts Evil Plan The Brute Only One Name Cassandra Truth Television Movie Index Naked People Are Funny Dropped a Bridge on Him Funny Background Event Chiaroscuro Artistic License – Biology Brutal Honesty Insane Troll Logic Bond Villain Stupidity The Bully Time Skip Training Montage As Himself Say My Name Attempted Rape Adaptation Dye-Job Dark Action Girl Camera Abuse Daylight Horror Villain with Good Publicity Vomit Indiscretion Shot Freudian Excuse Belligerent Sexual Tension Adaptational Badass Rape as Drama What the Hell, Hero? Hollywood Law Works Set in World War II Dual Wielding Henpecked Husband Would Hit a Girl Every Car Is a Pinto Ghost Fiction Historical In-Joke Villain Song You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Irony Didn't Think This Through Hero of Another Story Villain Ball Death by Sex Tap on the Head Skewed Priorities Adaptation Distillation And the Adventure Continues Meaningful Echo An Arm and a Leg Fate Worse than Death Novelization Sadistic Choice Parental Neglect Continuity Nod Parental Substitute Diabolus ex Machina Important Haircut Posthumous Character Hope Spot Early-Bird Cameo Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Face–Heel Turn Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The Musical Wham Shot Gory Discretion Shot Handicapped Badass Punch-Clock Villain Shell-Shocked Veteran The Cameo Asshole Victim Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Chekhov's Gun The End... Or Is It? Heroic BSoD Would Hurt a Child The Smart Guy Toplessness from the Back Police are Useless Determinator timeperiod Be Careful What You Wish For Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Four-Temperament Ensemble No Antagonist Ripped from the Headlines Composite Character Not Even Bothering with the Accent As Long as It Sounds Foreign Imagine Spot The Lancer Only Known by Their Nickname Driven to Suicide Disney Death Serial Killer Faking the Dead Same Language Dub More Dakka Sir Swears-a-Lot And Starring Australian Movies Crapsack World Big Brother Instinct Blood Knight Cat Fight Man on Fire He Knows Too Much Rule of Funny Rated M for Manly Redshirt Army Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Not What It Looks Like Cool Old Lady Face Death with Dignity Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Vomit Discretion Shot The Oner Camp Gay Shoot the Shaggy Dog The Quiet One Cowboy Cop Improbable Weapon User Alas, Poor Villain Interrupted Suicide Daddy's Girl Ironic Echo Ax-Crazy Never My Fault Recycled IN SPACE! 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Silent Movie A Minor Kidroduction All Just a Dream Scenery Porn Playing Gertrude Actor Allusion After the End Death by Adaptation An Aesop Male Frontal Nudity Cool Guns Even Evil Has Standards Your Head A-Splode Crazy-Prepared The Hero Missing Mom Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The Hero Dies Nice Hat NO INDOOR VOICE Cain and Abel Last-Name Basis Heroes Want Redheads Insistent Terminology Needs Wiki Magic Love Bottomless Magazines Arc Words French Films Defiant to the End Death of a Child Police Brutality Cold-Blooded Torture Dogged Nice Guy Alliterative Name Undying Loyalty Suddenly SHOUTING! Wretched Hive Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Shower Scene The Power of Love Jerkass Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Is a Crapshoot Hero Antagonist Russian Films Dark and Troubled Past Blood from the Mouth Major Injury Underreaction Sole Survivor Hate Sink Tagline Obviously Evil Darker and Edgier Advertised Extra Lock and Load Montage Kick the Dog All There in the Manual Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Comically Missing the Point Good Is Not Nice Domestic Abuse I Need a Freaking Drink Bolivian Army Ending Evil-Detecting Dog Drill Sergeant Nasty Crucified Hero Shot Manic Pixie Dream Girl I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Deadpan Snarker Adorkable Manly Tears Mama Bear Large Ham Badass in a Nice Suit Japanese Films Historical Villain Upgrade The Stinger Does This Remind You of Anything? In Medias Res Soft Glass Mexican Standoff Redemption Equals Death I'm a Humanitarian Mind Screw Credits Gag Plucky Comic Relief Psychological Thriller Gender Flip Break the Cutie Kubrick Stare It's Personal Mr. Exposition Anguished Declaration of Love Never Found the Body Scenery Gorn Developing Doomed Characters Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Morality Pet Sanity Slippage The Ditz Woman in White Intrepid Reporter Abusive Parents Deconstruction Artistic License – Gun Safety Have a Gay Old Time Damsel in Distress Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Revenge Bad "Bad Acting" Whole Plot Reference Insult Backfire Destination Defenestration Laser-Guided Karma Get Out! In Name Only Ambiguous Disorder Sinister Minister Central Theme Beauty Is Never Tarnished The Load Brother–Sister Incest Politically Incorrect Villain Car Fu Our Vampires Are Different One Steve Limit Left the Background Music On Enemy Mine Cloudcuckoolander Title Drop She's Got Legs No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Humans Are Bastards Brick Joke Mr. Fanservice Homage Not Using the "Z" Word Retired Badass Unspoken Plan Guarantee B-Movie Older Than They Look Evil Counterpart Evil Sounds Deep Dutch Angle Retcon Took a Level in Jerkass Slasher Smile Off with His Head! Victoria's Secret Compartment Red Shirt Wrong Genre Savvy "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Idiot Ball Loads and Loads of Characters Hell Is That Noise Extreme Doormat Offscreen Teleportation Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Guns Akimbo Red Eyes, Take Warning Empathic Environment Improvised Weapon Facial Horror Star-Crossed Lovers Reckless Gun Usage Amusing Injuries Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Tempting Fate Small Name, Big Ego Genre Savvy Bury Your Gays No Name Given Death by Irony Scary Black Man Failed a Spot Check The Stoic Chekhov's Skill Bullying a Dragon Reality Is Unrealistic Here We Go Again! War Is Hell Rich Bitch Reality Has No Subtitles Offscreen Moment of Awesome Dwindling Party Stuff Blowing Up La Résistance Outrun the Fireball Based on a True Story Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Protagonist Title Adaptation Expansion All for Nothing Rule of Cool Horror Comedy Air-Vent Passageway Too Dumb to Live The Starscream Danny Peary Cult Movies List Bilingual Bonus Scare Chord Grievous Bottley Harm Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Eldritch Abomination Manipulative Bastard It Will Never Catch On Fiery Redhead Rule of Symbolism Award-Bait Song Dirty Coward Superhero Creepy Child Becoming the Mask Bait-and-Switch Nice Guy German Films Neck Snap "The Reason You Suck" Speech Leaning on the Fourth Wall Noodle Incident Those Two Guys Early Installment Weirdness Armor-Piercing Question Sacrificial Lion Stealth Pun Mythology Gag The Lost Lenore Shut Up, Hannibal! Intergenerational Friendship Meet Cute Anti-Hero Arch-Enemy Smug Snake Let's Get Dangerous! Disguised in Drag Straight Gay Pre-Mortem One-Liner A Father to His Men As You Know Eiffel Tower Effect Artistic License – History Precision F-Strike Re-Cut Informed Ability Death Seeker Genre Shift Broken Pedestal Psycho for Hire Spiritual Successor Improbable Aiming Skills Alpha Bitch Mooks Foil Break the Haughty Bland-Name Product Manchild Your Cheating Heart Villainous Breakdown Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie One-Word Title Affectionate Parody Wicked Cultured Framing Device True Companions Slashed Throat Evil Is Petty Action Survivor Word of God Properly Paranoid Riddle for the Ages Hoist by His Own Petard The Reveal He Who Fights Monsters Evil Brit Red Herring Market-Based Title All Girls Want Bad Boys Hollywood Darkness Rewatch Bonus Gilligan Cut Together in Death Contrived Coincidence Call-Back Dissonant Serenity Yandere Shown Their Work Evil vs. Evil Unwitting Instigator of Doom Canadian Movies Sexy Discretion Shot Darkest Hour Aluminum Christmas Trees Meaningful Background Event I Did What I Had to Do Karma Houdini The Big Guy Dramatic Gun Cock Bond One-Liner Show Within a Show And I Must Scream Thriller Adaptational Attractiveness Stock Footage Peek-a-Boo Corpse BFG Shout-Out What You Are in the Dark Chase Scene Lampshade Hanging The Bad Guy Wins Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Stalker with a Crush Anyone Can Die I Have Your Wife Downer Ending Bittersweet Ending Jerk with a Heart of Gold Logo Joke The Ghost Setting Update Punny Name Pretty in Mink Getting Crap Past the Radar Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Neck Lift A God Am I Made of Iron The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Gone Horribly Right Even Evil Has Loved Ones Line-of-Sight Name Film Series Accidental Misnaming Spanner in the Works Villain Opening Scene Butt-Monkey Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Fun with Acronyms My Beloved Smother Kill It with Fire Names to Run Away from Really Fast "Awesome McCool" Name Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Make It Look Like an Accident Auto Erotica Fake Shemp Blatant Lies '80s Hair Conspicuous CG Call-Forward You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Defrosting Ice Queen Foreshadowing Karmic Death In the Back Big "NO!" 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They Really Do Love Each Other Sports Stories Stepford Smiler This Is Gonna Suck The Voiceless Deus ex Machina For the Evulz Jerkass Has a Point Pyrrhic Victory Artistic License – Physics Trailers Always Spoil How We Got Here The '50s Big Damn Heroes Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Mystery and Detective Films Malevolent Masked Men Frame-Up Token Minority Back from the Dead Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Dirty Cop Knight Templar Plot Hole Babies Ever After Only in It for the Money Costume Porn Double-Meaning Title Tranquil Fury Adaptational Heroism Jump Scare Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil No-Sell It Can Think My God, What Have I Done? Authority Equals Asskicking Casting Gag Fat Bastard Kill 'em All The '70s Country Matters Romantic False Lead There Is No Kill Like Overkill Only a Flesh Wound Celebrity Paradox 20 Minutes into the Future Black Comedy All There in the Script Kids Are Cruel Chewing the Scenery Dying Moment of Awesome Took a Level in Badass Eagleland Animal Title Index Overprotective Dad Italian Films Storming the Castle Love Triangle The Mafia Body Horror Fire-Forged Friends Flashback Roaring Rampage of Revenge Jerk Jock Due to the Dead Dirty Old Man Coming-of-Age Story Black Comedy Rape Biopic Ascended Extra Lighter and Softer Light Is Not Good Unusual Euphemism Animated Credits Opening Death Glare Bunny-Ears Lawyer Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Expository Hairstyle Change Deliberate Values Dissonance Sequel Hook Unresolved Sexual Tension Big Eater Unusually Uninteresting Sight Ungrateful Bastard Gainax Ending Disappeared Dad The Alcoholic Historical-Domain Character Despair Event Horizon Artistic License – Military Age Lift Five-Man Band Pimped-Out Dress Dark Is Not Evil Mad Scientist Anachronism Stew Poor Communication Kills Hypocritical Humor Evil Laugh Those Two Bad Guys Fatal Family Photo Groin Attack Film Noir Soundtrack Dissonance Really Gets Around Fanservice Sassy Black Woman Gratuitous English Exactly What It Says on the Tin Implacable Man Maybe Ever After Unreliable Narrator Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Artistic License – Geography The Great Depression Bavarian Fire Drill Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Mundane Made Awesome Not So Different Greater-Scope Villain Immune to Bullets Pay Evil unto Evil Refuge in Audacity Catapult Nightmare Bloody Hilarious No OSHA Compliance Romantic Comedy Adaptational Villainy Beard of Evil Badass Longcoat Vampire Fiction Bowdlerise Expy Bare Your Midriff Covers Always Lie My Greatest Failure Once More, with Clarity! Fantastic Racism Adult Fear