Tropescilloscope: The Brute

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

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