Tropescilloscope: The Brute

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

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