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