Tropescilloscope: The Brute

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

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