Tropescilloscope: Mooks

Evil soldiers that exist for the sole purpose of being mowed over by The Hero. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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