Tropescilloscope: The Big Guy

The muscles of the good guys. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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