History Main / GiantMook

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' have the Titans regularly facing Slade's legion of [[MechaMooks Sladebots]], but occasionally they'll face Blockers -- huge CyberCyclops drones that appears in smaller numbers. One of them is large enough to hold [[TheBigGuy Cyborg]] in a single pincer.

* ''Film/TheImperialSwordsman'': The main villain have a cadre of hulking, muscular, bald-headed personal guards dressed in furs and use [[DropTheHammer massive hammers]] as weapons. They give the main characters a ''much'' harder time in the final battle compared to common mooks, being MadeOfIron and can take insane amounts of punishment. (How much? One of them gets stabbed in the back by the ActionGirl, had [[EyeScream both his eyes slashed out]], and still keeps on fighting for another five minutes until he gets eventually impaled).

* One of the factions in Creator/AkiraKurosawa's classic ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' has a giant mook with a [[DropTheHammer big hammer]] named Kannuki the Giant (Namigoro Rashomon). ''Film/LastManStanding'', the rather faithful remake (despite being set during Prohibition in America) starring Creator/BruceWillis, also has a giant mook hanging around.

** Jaws in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' and ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' (although Jaws, being a chief henchman verged on TheDragon territory).

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasSecretGadgetMuseum'' have the robot gadget, the Medusa Head, and a DX version of the same gadget, a giant Medusa Head tall enough to reach the ceiling. The latter activates and attempts petrifying Nobita and gang after mistaking them for intruders.
* ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' has quite a few of these. The first comes in the form of the KGB lieutenant who was seen during Gauron's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first introductory scene]]. A generic, ''huge'', muscled Mook. He's even {{lampshaded}} mockingly by Gauron to have been brought there by the colonel for the specific purpose of intimidating him (due to his big size and angry manner). And then there's Dunnigan, who is again, muscled and huge. He tends to use brute force and strength, which was also the reason for his downfall when fighting [[CombatPragmatist Sôsuke]]. This is, however, subverted with Gauron, who is one of the tallest (along with the KGB lieutenant and Dunnigan) and most muscled characters in the series. Despite initially looking like a rugged, Giant Mook that won't last very long... he turns out to be one of the longest running (and ''very'' important) antagonists in the series.
* The Goblins of ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'' have the Hobgoblin. While normal Goblins are tiny and prefer to rely on a sneaky ZergRush style of combat, they call in the much beefier Hobgoblin when things get too hairy.

* The legendary [[HighlyVisibleNinja Sumo Ninja]] in TheMovie of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' fits in, due to being a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin sumo ninja]]. He was still beaten as easily as any other Mook...

* ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'': The aptly named Brutus is the largest of the Bog King's minions, towering over his fellow goblins. He's big enough to use the smallest goblins as ear plugs!

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' have the Titans regularly facing Slade's legion of [[MechaMooks Sladebots]], but occasionally they'll face Blockers - huge CyberCyclops drones that appears in smaller numbers. One of them is large enough to hold [[TheBigGuy Cyborg]] in a single pincer.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' basically has Giant Mook as a unit type. Several armies have the option of fielding large monsters or constructs, such as [[OurTrollsAreAllDifferent Trolls]], [[LizardFolk Kroxigor]], Rat Ogres, Minotaurs, and the like which are extremely powerful and tough, but few in number. The (non-rat) Ogre Kingdoms are in fact an army made up almost ''entirely'' of Giant Mooks.

* [[GeniusBruiser Docrates]] and [[DumbMuscle Cassius]], two enormous brothers from ''Anime/SaintSeiya'', who never really attained enough status in the ranks of Sanctuary to be of any significant [[JustForPun stature]] among the Saints. At least Cassius got to [[RedemptionEqualsDeath redeem himself]].

''(punches Frank through a brick wall)''

A minion or henchman too big, strong or tough to be an ordinary mook, but not interesting enough to be TheDragon, the BigBad, a member of the QuirkyMinibossSquad, a KingMook or even an EliteMook. Giant mooks usually require more effort to kill than ordinary {{mooks}}; the hero may need to land a series of nasty martial-arts blows before they sink to their knees (they [[KungFuProofMook don't]] [[BlownAcrossTheRoom go]] [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom flying]] when you hit them). Sometimes they may seem too strong for the hero to kill, but then be fortunately (for the hero) [[PuzzleBoss caught up in a machine]].

* Near the end of the 1989 ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'' movie, Batman is confronted with ComicBook/TheJoker's large, muscular (and unnamed) bodyguard at the top of the bell tower. This Giant Mook proceeds to wipe the floor with Batman for the next minute or so, possibly coming closer to killing him than the Joker himself. And then Batman kills the mook himself. Comes off being unintentionally funny due to the mook looking like a big Music/RayCharles, the slapstick style choreography, and the rather silly way in which Batman sends the mook falling to his death.
* In the comics, Bane is a GeniusBruiser (he figures out Batman's secret identity, comes up with a refreshingly simple plan to beat Bats, and is generally one tough bastard). In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', he is basically an idiot caveman Giant Mook for Poison Ivy. Fortunately fixed in 2012's ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''.
* The Penguin had a guy like this too in ''Film/BatmanReturns'', the tattooed strongman of the Red Triangle Gang. During the street fight scene, he dares Batman to hit him; Batman does, and it doesn't seem to hurt the thug much; then the guy realizes [[OhCrap that Batman used the opportunity to plant an explosive device on his chest.]]

* Near the end of the 1989 ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'' movie, Batman is confronted with ComicBook/TheJoker's large, muscular (and unnamed) bodyguard at the top of the bell tower. This Giant Mook proceeds to wipe the floor with Batman for the next minute or so, possibly coming closer to killing him than the Joker himself. And then Batman kills the mook himself. Comes off being unintentionally funny due to the mook looking like a big Ray Charles, the slapstick style choreography, and the rather silly way in which Batman sends the mook falling to his death.

* ''Film/ExitWounds'' has Steven Seagal fighting a bunch of thugs in a nightclub, the last one (and a ScaryBlackMan as well) being the ''largest'' ("Here comes the ''sumo negro''!"). He's the only mook that lasts for more than ten seconds against Seagal, though it doesn't stop the sensei from [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom socking him halfway through the building at the end]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' must have had a lot of examples, one of which is the aptly-named "Rhino" thug in the entertaining episode "Read My Lips". Scarface (and his ventriloquist) isn't a credible physical threat to Batman, so the huge Rhino fills the role... and doesn't contribute much else either to the plot or the drama. Rhino is actually the Ventriloquist's perennial bodyguard in the comics, so...
** Rhino was Scarface's henchman in ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' too; given that he appears in ''three'' different continuities, maybe he qualifies as more than a simple Mook.
** One notable example was Captain Clown, a super-strong robot used by the Joker in one episode, thus qualifying as both a Giant Mook ''and'' a {{Mecha Mook|s}} (maybe a KingMook too) at the same time.

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* ''Star Trek: TheReturn (1996)'' part of the [[{{Literature/StarTrekShatnerverse}} Shatnerverse]] series of books. Picard encounters a Borg drone, one that was ...

* As the actor entry notes, Franchise/IndianaJones inevitably runs across a hulking henchman played by Creator/PatRoach, who proceeds to cause him no end of trouble until dispatched with some convenient environmental hazard.
** One rather memorable scene in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' is where Indy encounters [[TheBrute a really big German guy]] who wants to do some GoodOldFisticuffs with him. Indy opens with a GroinAttack, which is subverted rather painfully when the guy shrugs it off and decks him with one punch. [[spoiler:He's finally defeated by judicious use of a TurbineBlender.]]
** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' has the Thuggee Chief Guard, [[TheDragon Mola Ram's top enforcer]], who fights Indy on top of a ConveyorBeltODoom that leads to a rock crusher. Indy's attempts to gain the upper hand are repeatedly thwarted when another villain uses a voodoo doll to paralyze him at inopportune moments. Indy eventually manages to come out on top, though the fight ends with the guard accidentally getting dragged into the rock crusher and [[GroundByGears dying very painfully]].

* In ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', midget crimelord [[IronicNickname Big Figure]] had a couple of big mooks at his disposal and used them to get at [[CrazyPrepared Rorschach]] in the middle of a prison riot. [[IncrediblyLamePun Little]] damn good it did him.

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic!'' has quite a few of these. The first comes in the form of the KGB lieutenant who was seen during Gauron's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first introductory scene]]. A generic, ''huge'', muscled Mook. He's even {{lampshaded}} mockingly by Gauron to have been brought there by the colonel for the specific purpose of intimidating him (due to his big size and angry manner). And then there's Dunnigan, who is again, muscled and huge. He tends to use brute force and strength, which was also the reason for his downfall when fighting [[CombatPragmatist Sôsuke]]. This is, however, subverted with Gauron, who is one of the tallest (along with the KGB lieutenant and Dunnigan) and most muscled characters in the series. Despite initially looking like a rugged, Giant Mook that won't last very long... he turns out to be one of the longest running (and ''very'' important) antagonists in the series.
* The Goblins of ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' have the Hobgoblin. While normal Goblins are tiny and prefer to rely on a sneaky ZergRush style of combat, they call in the much beefier Hobgoblin when things get too hairy.

* Spoofed in ''Film/HobbsAndShaw'', when the titular duo infiltrates a garage filled with enemies. On the right side, Shaw takes on a dozen regular-sized mooks; on the left, Shaw faces a muscular mechanic, taller and larger than the other mooks... but somehow goes down in one punch. Cue an OverlyLongGag of Hobbs dragging the knocked-out giant brute across the room, intersect with Shaw fighting the other regular mooks.

* In ''Film/TheExpendables3'', there's one large fellow with a huge knife who ''sprints'' into the climatic battle and tries to take [[TheLancer Lee Christmas]] one-on-one. He actually manages to last several times as long as his comrades... but only because he's tough enough to take several times ''the beating'' and otherwise doesn't cause any serious damage.

* One of the ''many'' assassins John has to face in ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'' after the BigBad [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder inevitably double crosses him]] is a '''very''' tough sumo-esque guy who manages to {{no sell}} ''two'' {{groin attack}}s, before throwing John through a nearby glass stand. In the ensuing brawl [[{{Determinator}} he manages to shrug off multiple gun shot wounds]], until John finally manages to shoot him through the top of the head, but even then it takes yet ''another'' shot to head for him to stay down. Earlier in the film's ActionPrologue, Wick manages to fight his way through several mooks with only his bare-hands, until a particularly large thug throws him across the room. Unfortunately for him, John is [[CombatPragmatist pragmatic enough to just pull out his gun]] [[KneeCapping shoot him in the knees]], before moving on.

* ''Film/HandOfDeath'' stars Creator/SammoHung ([[RetroactiveRecognition pre-fame) as the main villain's largest, tubbiest officer who can put up quite a fight and tank several blows because of his size.

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* Creator/DavidProwse, strongman and spokesman for Road safety ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wz3uaChsNM the Green Cross Man]]). Film Appearances:
** Writer's GentleGiant bodyguard, ''Film/AClockworkOrange''.
** Third-stringer in the Film/HammerHorror talent stable (the Giant Mook strongman from ''Film/VampireCircus'', and the FrankensteinsMonster in ''Film/TheHorrorOfFrankenstein'' and ''Film/FrankensteinAndTheMonsterFromHell'').
** Bit part as Hotblack Desiato's bodyguard in the TV version of ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981''.
** Finally got a BigBad role as [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] (after refusing the part of Chewbacca), but as you can't see his face through that armour (and the face you later see is someone else's), and all his lines were dubbed by James Earl Jones, his contribution to the role consists mostly of being big.
** Considered for the part of Jaws in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' before the part went to Richard Kiel.
** TV role as the Minotaur (with a bull's head and a loincloth) in the ''Doctor Who'' story "The Time Monster."
** Another TV role as TheBrute Coppin in the ''[[Series/TheTomorrowPeople1973 Tomorrow People]]'' story "The Medusa Strain": A bare-chested android.
* Creator/RichardKiel, who is probably most famous for menacing Film/JamesBond as Giant Mook Jaws in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' and ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' (although Jaws, being a chief henchman verged on TheDragon territory). He also played a caveman in the BMovie ''Film/{{Eegah}}'' in addition to a Serbian warlord in ''Film/ForceTenFromNavarone'' and a giant henchman in ''Film/SilverStreak''.
* Andrew Bryniarski:
** Slow-witted CIA agent [[MeaningfulName Butterfinger]] in ''Film/HudsonHawk''.
** Zangief in the ''Film/StreetFighter'' movie.
** Leatherface in the ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2003'' remake and [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacreTheBeginning prequel]].
** Crow (the big Niska goon Mal kicks into Serenity's engines) in ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.
** Lobo in ''The Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special''.
* Tyler Mane:
** Saber-Tooth in ''Film/XMen1''.
** Michael Myers in Music/RobZombie's ''Film/{{Halloween 2007}}'' remake.
** Rufus T. Firefly in ''Film/TheDevilsRejects''.

* Randall "Tex" Cobb
** Demon biker Leonard Smalls in ''Film/RaisingArizona''.
** Angry dog-kidnapper at the beginning of ''Film/AceVentura: Pet Detective''.
** Burglar punched out by Al in an early episode of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''.
** Leader of prison escape in ''Film/PoliceAcademy IV: '''C'''itizens '''O'''n '''P'''atrol''
* [[Wrestling/{{Kurrgan}} Robert Maillet]]
** The Immortals' chained creature in ''Film/ThreeHundred''
** The big French henchman Dredger in ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009''
** The Minotaur in ''Film/{{Immortals}}''
* Creator/MarioBrega, a six-four, two hundred fifty pound Italian actor, and perennial favourite of Creator/SergioLeone's.
** Chico, the largest of Ramon Rojos' henchmen in ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars''.
** Nino, the nearly uncharacterised Dragon to El Indio in ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore''.
** Corporal Wallace, TheDragon to Angel Eyes in ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''; only a fall from a train can kill him.

* In ''ComicBook/TheBoys'', the titular gang often fights giant mutants and cyborgs...and rips them to shreds with ease.
* ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}'' has a rare example of heroic giant mooks – the British "heavy"-class superhumans, who are twelve-foot-tall mountains of muscle encased in steel armor. They die bravely trying to defend London from the Nazi "human battleship" Sieglinde.
* ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersDrift Drift Empire of Stone]]'': The Stone Army are all just a bit bigger than the average Bot/Con. Though in addition to the regular mooks, there's a massive statue in their ranks as well which is used to attach the Decepticon leader.

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* In the movie ''Film/ThreeHundred'', a particularly hideous Giant Mook among a troop of EliteMooks gives Leonidas quite a thrashing before our hero manages to decapitate him.

* "Dredger" in the Creator/GuyRitchie's ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009''. Played by Robert Maillet, who also played the giant mook in the above-mentioned ''Film/ThreeHundred''.
* "The Russian" from ''Film/ThePunisher2004'' is notable since he is the only Giant Mook from the comics to appear in the film.
* ''Film/JamesBond'' movies:
** The Classic Bond flick ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' has numerous mooks and ''two'' giant mooks, the burly Japanese driver who takes Bond to Osato industries believing him to be an injured comrade, and Blofeld's huge, blonde bodyguard. Both take a lot of beating from Bond, in appropriate styles: the Japanese is defeated after much jujitsu and the use of a katana, the western guy after a western-style [[GoodOldFisticuffs "big, loud punches on the jaw"]] type fight.
** Then there was ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'', where Bond had to fight two Sumo wrestlers in one scene. He has barely beaten them, but then [[BigBad Scaramanga's]] MookLieutenant Nick-Nack cheated, clocking the agent on the head from behind.

* One appears in first three ''[[Film/TheTransporter Transporter]]'' movies:
** Downplayed in the [[Film/TheTransporter first film]]: One of the villains is an enormous guy complete with BeardOfEvil, but he's only mildly harder for Frank to defeat than the others.
** The [[Film/Transporter2 second movie]] has a ScaryBlackMan who's probably the hardest opponent Frank has to contend with.
** Lampshaded in the [[Film/Transporter3 third movie]], as the page quote illustrates.
* In the comics, Bane is a GeniusBruiser (he figures out Batman's secret identity, comes up with a refreshingly simple plan to beat Bats, and is generally one tough bastard). In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', he is basically an idiot caveman Giant Mook for Poison Ivy. Fortunately fixed in 2012's ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''.
* One of the factions in Creator/AkiraKurosawa's classic ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' has a giant mook with a [[DropTheHammer big hammer]] named Kannuki the Giant (Namigoro Rashomon). ''Film/LastManStanding'', the rather faithful remake (despite being set during Prohibition in America) starring Creator/BruceWillis, also has a giant mook hanging around.

* In the antique store fight in Jet Li's ''Film/KissOfTheDragon'', a ScaryBlackMan Giant Mook is memorably introduced with his own ''theme song'' (N.E.R.D.'s "Lapdance", a.k.a. "Dirty Dog").

* In ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'', Snake Plissken is forced to fight a giant mook in gladiatorial-style combat.

* In ''Film/TheKingdom'' one of these has a ''brutal'' fight with Janet Mayes (Jennifer Garner) and Adam Leavitt (Jason Bateman). He easily throws both of them across the room, and is only defeated after Janet shoots in the leg, with his own gun, repeatedly, and then stabs him twice in the groin and chest, before slamming his head into the ground and stabbing him in the head.

* ''Film/TheImperialSwordsman'': The main villain have a cadre of hulking, muscular, bald-headed personal guards dressed in furs and use [[DropTheHammer massive hammers]] as weapons. They give the main characters a ''much'' harder time in the final battle compared to common mooks, being MadeOfIron and can take insane amounts of punishment. (How much? One of them gets stabbed in the back by the ActionGirl, had [[EyeScream both his eyes slashed out]], and still keeps on fighting for another five minutes until he gets eventually impaled).
* One of the ''many'' assassins John has to face in ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'' after the BigBad [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder inevitably double crosses him]] is a '''very''' tough sumo-esque guy who manages to {{no sell}} ''two'' {{groin attack}}s, before throwing John through a nearby glass stand. In the ensuing brawl [[{{Determinator}} he manages to shrug off multiple gun shot wounds]], until John finally manages to shoot him through the top of the head, but even then it takes yet ''another'' shot to head for him to stay down. Earlier in the film's ActionPrologue, Wick manages to fight his way through several mooks with only his bare-hands, until a particularly large thug throws him across the room. Unfortunately for him, John is [[CombatPragmatist pragmatic enough to just pull out his gun]] [[KneeCapping shoot him in the knees]], before moving on.
** John's first fight in ''Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum'' is against Ernest, a colossal assassin played by 7'3 basketball star Boban Marjanović. The difference in size is large enough for Ernest to grab Wick from outside of his own reach, and slam him around.
* In ''Film/TheExpendables3'', there's one large fellow with a huge knife who ''sprints'' into the climatic battle and tries to take [[TheLancer Lee Christmas]] one-on-one. He actually manages to last several times as long as his comrades... but only because he's tough enough to take several times ''the beating'' and otherwise doesn't cause any serious damage.
** ''Film/TheExpendables2'' has Barney and Christmas walk into a BadGuyBar to get information, where they are confronted by a ''huge'' thug... before they immediatly take him out of the fight by sucker punching him with brass knuckles.
* ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': Thanos's forces deploy hulking brutes tethered by collars on the battlefield, quite reminiscent of the trolls from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies.
* At one point in the Creator/PaulWalker film, ''Film/BrickMansions'', the heroes meet a '''huge''' thug who forgoes using a gun to take them both on hand-to-hand. During the ensuing battle, he manages to shrug off their punches and they ultimately have to smash a ''cinder block'' over his head to knock him out.
* ''Film/RamboIII'' at one point, after Rambo has just managed to climb out of a crevice, he is confronted by a Russian soldier who ''towers'' over him and manages to thrash him around a bit. [[spoiler:Rambo takes him out with a 1-2 combo of wrapping a rope around his neck, [[PineappleSurprise pulling the pin on one of his grenades]], and then kicking him into a crevasse, [[NoKillLikeOverkill where he's hanged and then]] ''[[NoKillLikeOverkill gloriously]]'' [[NoKillLikeOverkill explodes less than a second later.]]]]
* ''Film/SpecialFemaleForce'': One of the BigBad's henchman is a hulking, oversized Malaysian mercenary with a gigantic gut full of {{Kevlard}}, which {{Action Girl}}s Tung and Cat struggle with. Repeatedly [[PunchPunchPunchUhOh punching his oversized midsection only makes him smirk]]. Tung finally manages to take him down via a GroinAttack.
* ''Film/{{Clegg}}'': When Harry attempts to leave Wildman's estate, he is ambushed by a huge thug (listed in the credits as 'Dirty Giant') whom is only able to defeat by [[CarFu ramming him repeatedly with his car]].
* In ''Film/RobinHoodTheRebellion'', the Sheriff of Nottingham employs a [[TheBrute brute]] named Brimstone as his primary enforcer: a massive [[BaldOfEvil bald]], [[TattooedCrook tattooed]] musclebound brute who towers over even Little John.

* ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' has Mutant Orcs, gigantic version of orcs with bulging muscles and higher stats compared to the common orcs. ''Literature/LegendOfZagor'' describes them as having an arm as large as half their body.

* ''Star Trek: TheReturn (1996)'' part of the [[{{Literature/StarTrekShatnerverse}} Shatnerverse]] series of books. Picard encounters a Borg drone, one that was ...
--->...unlike any Borg Picard had ever encountered... It was bipedal, but three meters tall, with piston-like legs and thick crushing disks for footpads, digging into the soil. Propellant gases hissed from its leg joints as it began to stalk forward. Two pairs of arms swung forward, searchingly, manipulators opening and closing with molecularly sharp carbon cutters and whirling blades. Their target: raw materials.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'' has Muscle Nixel, a giant compared to the tiny Nixels, so he towers over a majority of the Mixels as well. It takes much longer to knock him down than the standard ones.