Tropescilloscope: The Brute

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

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