Tropescilloscope: The Brute

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

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