Tropescilloscope: The Brute

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

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