History Main / StompyMooks

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E14TheNextDoctor "The Next Doctor"]]: Lampshaded when two Cybermen manage to appear right behind the Doctor, without notice. "That's cheating, sneaking up! Did you have your legs on silent?"

* Subverted and exploited in Harry Harrison's ''TheStainlessSteelRat''. Jim [=diGriz=] is trying to escape from soldiers inside a building. He avoids one pursuer making noise with heavy boots, then another soldier coming from another direction with loud boots, and ends up in a meeting with the chief of the pursuers. He then learns that the soldiers had been ordered to herd him into the meeting with their stomping.

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* The heavier units in '''VideoGame/WarcraftIII''' make loud thuds when moving.

* The heavier units in '''WarcraftIII''' make loud thuds when moving.

-->-- '''The Doctor''' (regarding the Cybermen), ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E14TheNextDoctor The Next Doctor]]"

* Inverted in the ''{{Thief}}'' series. Garrett, the main character, actually wears loud boots because he believes the guards to be complete idiots. [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy Not without good reason]], mind you.

See also BadVibrations.

* {{Lampshaded}} in ''RobinHoodMenInTights'' when the Sheriff calls in a bunch of guards in heavy, clanky armor to surround the protagonists.

* The Lo Pan's terracotta warriors in ''BigTroubleInLittleChina''.

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->"Oh, that's cheating; sneaking up! Do you have your legs on silent?"
-->--'''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E14TheNextDoctor The Next Doctor]]", regarding the Cybermen.

* Soldiers marching in formation often count as StompyMooks.

->"Oh, that's cheating; sneaking up! Did you have your legs on silent?"

* The Vogon guards in ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy.''

* Inverted in the ''MetalGear'' series. Walking too fast behind a guard makes him turn around and notice you, turning ''you'' into the Stompy Mook. Most mooks themselves walk about normally, so unless they're walking on something noisy, making a status report, or [[MythologyGag wearing headphones]], you won't hear them walking until you get fairly close.

* Subverted in Harry Harrison's ''TheStainlessSteelRat''. Jim [=diGriz=] is trying to escape from soldiers inside a building. He avoids one pursuer making noise with heavy boots, then another soldier coming from another direction with loud boots, and ends up in a meeting with the chief of the pursuers. He then learns that the soldiers had been ordered to herd him into the meeting with their stomping.

* Inverted in the ''MetalGear'' series. Walking too fast behind a guard makes him turn around and notice you, turning ''you'' into the Stompy Mook.

-->"Oh, that's cheating; sneaking up! Did you have your legs on silent?"

-->--'''The Doctor''', ''DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E14TheNextDoctor The Next Doctor]]", regarding the Cybermen.

What our hero has encountered is a group of StompyMooks. StompyMooks are basically mooks who simply cannot be quiet when they move around, even if they tried. These can include anything from [[DoctorWho Robot Soldiers]], [[HeavilyArmoredMook heavily armored soldiers]], or just normal, everyday soldiers with noisy boots. This is usually played straight to make the viewer understand exactly what's going on and why the hero just ducked down a hallway.

* The Cybermen from the ''DoctorWho'' new series are a great example of this trope. It's even [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the episode "The Next Doctor", as seen in the page quote.

-->--'''The Doctor''', ''DoctorWho'' episode "The Next Doctor", regarding the Cybermen

* Lampshaded in RobinHoodMenInTights when the Sheriff calls in a bunch of guards in heavy, clanky armor to surround the protagonists.

* Subverted in Harry Harrison's ''TheStainlessSteelRat''. Jim diGriz is trying to escape from soldiers inside a building. He avoids one pursuer making noise with heavy boots, then another soldier coming from another direction with loud boots, and ends up in a meeting with the chief of the pursuers. He then learns that the soldiers had been ordered to herd him into the meeting with their stomping.

* Jaffa, from the [[StargateVerse Stargate universe]], are so notorious for this that you can be assured that in every hallway scene on a Goa'uld ship there ''will'' be some form of clanking. The Ori Crusaders do this too, but to a much lesser extent. As a funny note, the Jaffa actually cease clanking once they are freed from the Goa'uld.

* Inverted in the MetalGear series. Walking too fast behind a guard makes him turn around and notice you, turning ''you'' into the Stompy Mook.
* Inverted in the {{Thief}} series. Garrett, the main character, actually wears loud boots because he believes the guards to be complete idiots. [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy Not without good reason]], mind you.

* Inverted in the {{Thief}} series. Garrett, the main character, actually wears loud boots because he believes the guards to be complete idiots.

What our hero has encountered is a group of StompyMooks. StompyMooks are basically mooks who simply cannot be quiet when they move around, even if they tried. These can include anything from [[DoctorWho Robot Soldiers]], [[HeavilyArmoredSoldiers heavily armored soldiers]], or just normal, everyday soldiers with noisy boots. This is usually played straight to make the viewer understand exactly what's going on and why the hero just ducked down a hallway.