Tropescilloscope: The Big Guy

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

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