Tropescilloscope: The Brute

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

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