Tropescilloscope: The Brute

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

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