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21->'''Frank Martin:''' ...You're the smart one?\
22'''Giant Mook:''' No. I am the big one.\
23''(throws Frank through a brick wall)''
24-->-- ''Film/Transporter3''
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26A minion or henchman too big, strong or tough to be an ordinary mook, but not interesting enough to be TheDragon, 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]].
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28Giant Mooks often lead mook squads. Usually the laws of MookChivalry dictate that they attack alone, after their underlings have been easily dispatched.
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30If Giant Mooks are dragons, snakes, giants, or any other sort of scary animal or [[DumbMuscle dumb big villain]] they will usually be the RightHandAttackDog, which the Hero first has to slay before confronting the Big Bad himself.
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32The actors who play Giant Mooks in big-budget films may be well-loved as wrestlers or as GentleGiant actors in TV shows or independent films, but they don't rate above a line or two and a violent death in a major production. If a giant mook actually receives characterization, he is TheBrute.
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34Video games, particularly Brawlers, FirstPersonShooter and ThirdPersonShooter games, are full of these. Many of these monsters start out as the de facto boss monster of the game's first or second episode or segment, [[DegradedBoss having their strength diluted]] in their appearances later in the game.
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36In videogames, compare and contrast KingMook, a boss which only has the appearance of a Giant Mook. Compare SmashMook, TheBrute, EliteMooks, an upgraded squad of mooks, and BossInMookClothing. Contrast FakeUltimateMook, which looks like a Giant Mook but goes down just as easily as anyone else, and MiniMook.
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39!!Examples:
40[[index]]
41* GiantMook/VideoGames
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46[[folder:Actors]]
47* Creator/MarioBrega, a six-four, two hundred fifty pound Italian actor, and perennial favourite of Creator/SergioLeone's.
48** Chico, the largest of Ramon Rojos' henchmen in ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars''.
49** Nino, the nearly uncharacterised Dragon to El Indio in ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore''.
50** Corporal Wallace, TheDragon to Angel Eyes in ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''; only a fall from a train can kill him.
51* Randall "Tex" Cobb
52** Demon biker Leonard Smalls in ''Film/RaisingArizona''.
53** Angry dog-kidnapper at the beginning of ''Film/AceVentura: Pet Detective''.
54** Burglar punched out by Al in an early episode of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''.
55** Leader of prison escape in ''Film/PoliceAcademy IV: '''C'''itizens '''O'''n '''P'''atrol''
56* [[Wrestling/{{Kurrgan}} Robert Maillet]]
57** The Immortals' chained creature in ''Film/ThreeHundred''
58** The big French henchman Dredger in ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009''
59** The Minotaur in ''Film/{{Immortals}}''
60* 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''.
61* Andrew Bryniarski:
62** Slow-witted CIA agent [[MeaningfulName Butterfinger]] in ''Film/HudsonHawk''.
63** Zangief in the ''Film/StreetFighter'' movie.
64** Leatherface in the ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2003'' remake and [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacreTheBeginning prequel]].
65** Crow (the big Niska goon Mal kicks into Serenity's engines) in ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.
66** Lobo in ''The Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special''.
67* Tyler Mane:
68** Saber-Tooth in ''Film/XMen1''.
69** Michael Myers in Music/RobZombie's ''Film/{{Halloween 2007}}'' remake.
70** Rufus T. Firefly in ''Film/TheDevilsRejects''.
71* Creator/DavidProwse, strongman and spokesman for Road safety ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wz3uaChsNM the Green Cross Man]]). Film Appearances:
72** Writer's GentleGiant bodyguard, ''Film/AClockworkOrange''.
73** Third-stringer in the Film/HammerHorror talent stable (the Giant Mook strongman from ''Film/VampireCircus'', and the FrankensteinsMonster in ''Film/TheHorrorOfFrankenstein'' and ''Film/FrankensteinAndTheMonsterFromHell'').
74** Bit part as Hotblack Desiato's bodyguard in the TV version of ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981''.
75** 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.
76** Considered for the part of Jaws in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' before the part went to Richard Kiel.
77** TV role as the Minotaur (with a bull's head and a loincloth) in the ''Doctor Who'' story "The Time Monster."
78** Another TV role as TheBrute Coppin in the ''[[Series/TheTomorrowPeople1973 Tomorrow People]]'' story "The Medusa Strain": A bare-chested android.
79* [[Creator/PatRoach Pat "Bomber" Roach]]. Much-loved heavyweight wrestler and spokesman for wrestling, played GentleGiant Bomber Busbridge in British drama series ''Series/AufWiedersehenPet''. Some of his film roles:
80** Bouncer in white tights, ''Film/AClockworkOrange''.
81** Leader of Celtic mooks, ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves''.
82** General Kael (chief mook/TheDragon), ''Film/{{Willow}}''.
83** Giant mook killed by Film/JamesBond's urine and some glassware, ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''.
84** He was the only actor besides Creator/HarrisonFord to appear in all the original three ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' films:
85*** Giant Sherpa who fights Indy and Giant Nazi Mook killed by propeller, ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.
86*** Giant Thuggee Mook crushed by the roller in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''.
87*** Giant Gestapo Mook seen running after the zeppelin, ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' (his fight scene was cut). Sadly, Pat Roach passed away before getting the chance to menace Indy one last time in ''Crystal Skull''.
88** Big Pat also got to be the wizard(!) Thoth-Amon in ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer''.
89** In this incarnation he plays his own [[TheDragon Dragon]]/Giant Mook, the Man-ape. The sight of Pat Roach in a ''really'' bad [[SpecialEffectsFailure trick-or-treat mask]] lifting Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger onto his shoulders and trying to pull his arms off is an awesomely awful moment.
90** Brytag, who gets disemboweled pretty much by the titular heroine in ''Film/RedSonja''.
91* Ron Tarr:
92** Appears in various bully, biker, minder and bouncer roles in British TV, notably in ''The Comic Strip''.
93** Supporting character on British soap ''Series/EastEnders''.
94** TheBigGuy of the revolutionaries in independent British film ''Eat the Rich''.
95** Wore a ''skin'' to play a gorilla in ''Return of the Saint''.
96** Giant French Mook wearing rather Bavarian-looking hat in the [[Film/JamesBond Bond]] film ''Film/AViewToAKill'' (the one who lands on the conveyor belt).
97** Giant bar-room brawler Llug, who accidentally clobbers some mooks in ''Willow''.
98** Played mooks in two separate episodes of ''[[Series/BlakesSeven Blake's 7]]'', although he fights precisely no-one.
99** TheBigGuy of the freed slave workers in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "Destiny of the Daleks".
100* Sven-Ole Thorsen:
101** Thulsa Doom's TheDragon Thorgrim in ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''.
102** Togra in ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer''
103** [[MemeticBadass Greatly feared]] mall-security guard La Fours in ''Film/{{Mallrats}}''.
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107* In ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', especially the Golden Age arc, the knight companies and mercenary bands would always have one or two fighters that stood at least nine feet tall. Guts usually makes quick work of them.
108* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
109** The Gillian, the lowest class of the Menos (read: super Hollows), which are basically giant Hollows with even less common sense.
110** [[spoiler:Fura]] is not just the largest Hollow seen, it barfs up Gillians like fodder.
111* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'': Probably half the villains from this series would qualify. No, really, a lot of the bad guys are huge.
112** Mr. Heart is the giant mook in every way, right down to his size.
113** Devil Rebirth, who appears to be at least twenty feet tall, and yet is considered a human.
114** And then we have Zeed, the first villain in the series, who strangely [[http://ridureyu.livejournal.com/2407.html changes size in mid-scene.]]
115* The finale of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'''s first season had the huge [[MechaMooks mecha-mook]] that appeared near the end of the ThemeMusicPowerUp, which required both Nanoha and Fate joining forces to take down.
116* Lionel "Leo" Jenning in the {{Western}} {{Shojo}} manga ''Manga/{{Miriam}}'', falls just short of being TheBrute by not having any real affiliation with the main group of bad guys. However, he's a gigantic champion prizefighter who presents a tremendous challenge in hand-to-hand combat, and Douglas' encounter with him plays out much like any Giant Mook faceoff in a movie or video game would... until later, when he becomes TheBigGuy SixthRanger.
117* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', the Marines use actual Giants as mooks dubbed the "Giant Squad" of about 8 of them.
118** The two members of the Giant Squad who have [[NominalImportance actually been named]] are both Vice Admirals, the third highest rank in the Marines, so at least in theory they shouldn't be mooks. But since they're only seen in action against characters on an even higher level [[TheWorfEffect who beat them effortlessly]], they come off like mooks anyway.
119** Prior to the Giant Squad, there were Oimo and Kashi among the Enies Lobby guards. While they batted aside the lesser members of the Franky Family (including the Mighty Destroyers, who are large-size humans rather than true Giants) with laughable ease, once the Galley-La foremen and the [[NominalImportance named]] members of the Franky Family arrived, the tide quickly turned and they were rather brutally defeated.
120* [[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 stature among the Saints. At least Cassius got to [[RedemptionEqualsDeath redeem himself]].
121* In ''Manga/WorldTrigger'', Trion Soldiers such as Bamsters, Vandas, and Ilgars are the size of a large building and are built to spread widespread destruction rather than engage in combat. The first two are some of the easiest Trion Soldiers to defeat, but the Ilgar is a massive flying whale shaped bomb that requires heavy firepower to take down.
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125* In ''ComicBook/TheBoys'', the titular gang often fights giant mutants and cyborgs...and rips them to shreds with ease.
126* ''[[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.
127* In ''ComicBook/{{Megalex}}'', Ram starts out looking like one, but is actually one of the Heroes.
128* ''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.
129* 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. [[{{Pun}} Little]] damn good it did him.
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133* In one story, ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' fights a hired goon called Icebear, an enormous man strong enough to be a challenge even for him.
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137* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasSecretGadgetMuseum'' has 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.
138* The legendary [[HighlyVisibleNinja Sumo Ninja]] in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossibleMovieSoTheDrama'' fits in, due to being a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin sumo ninja]]. He's still beaten as easily as any other Mook...
139* ''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!
140* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': Mr. Big, the biggest crime lord in the city, has polar bears as bodyguards. One is even so tall he has to duck when coming through the doorway. Mr. Big, by contrast, is an arctic shrew, one of the smallest species of mammals.
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144* ''Film/TwentyOneRedList'' has the heroes fighting various thugs while escaping the embassy, the last one being a hulking brute where the protagonist's attempts at punching him leads to a PunchPunchPunchUhOh moment.
145* 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.
146* ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': Thanos's forces deploy hulking brutes tethered by collars on the battlefield, quite reminiscent of the trolls from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies.
147* ''Film/Batman1989'': Near the end of the 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.
148* ''Film/BatmanReturns'': The Penguin has a guy like this, 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.]]
149* ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'': 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 this movie, he is basically an idiot caveman Giant Mook for Poison Ivy. Fortunately fixed in 2012's ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''.
150* The FatBastard main villain from ''Film/TheBloodRules'' have a pair of hulking Australian wrestlers as his personal bodyguards, specifically hired to deal with the hero, Mike. In the final battle Mike managed to kill the first, only to run out of bullets and struggle with the second which he eventually defeats via NeckSnap after getting thrashed and flung around for several minutes.
151* 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.
152* ''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]].
153* In ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'', Snake Plissken is forced to fight a giant mook in gladiatorial-style combat.
154* ''Film/ExitWounds'' has Creator/StevenSeagal 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]].
155* ''Film/TheExpendables'':
156** 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.
157** ''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.
158* ''Film/GodOfGamblers'' have a huge, oversized brute appearing alongside other enemies during the carpark shootout. As Lung took down multiple enemies, the brute managed to grab Lung from behind in a choke-hold; Lung managed to turn his pistol around and shoot the huge brute in the gut, but upon death the brute tightens his grip and leaves Lung trapped as several other mooks approaches. Luckily Ko Chun at that point had regained his memories - cue his BigDamnHeroes moment.
159* ''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.
160* ''Film/TheHeroicOnes'' features a gigantic Mongolian mercenary in the opening, who challenged the warlord's generals by killing four of the warlord's lieutenants. The warlord's youngest son and best fighter, Prince Li, answers the challenge - and promptly defeats the giant mercenary in ten seconds, as his EstablishingCharacterMoment.
161* 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, Hobbs 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.
162* ''Film/TheImperialSwordsman'': The main villain have a cadre of hulking, muscular, bald-headed personal guards dressed in furs and use [[BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon 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).
163* 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 (and gruesome) environmental hazard.
164** In ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', 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. He's finally defeated by a flying wing's propeller.
165** ''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 the BrainwashedAndCrazy young Maharajah of Pankot uses a VoodooDoll to paralyze him at inopportune moments. Indy eventually manages to come out on top, and the fight ends with the guard accidentally getting dragged into the rock crusher and [[GroundByGears dying very painfully]].
166** Sadly the requisite scene in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' was cut and the role was filled by an {{expy}} in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' due to Pat Roach's death in 2004.
167* ''Film/JamesBond'' movies:
168** 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.
169** 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.
170** Jaws (Creator/RichardKiel) in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' and ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' (although Jaws, being a chief henchman verged on TheDragon territory).
171* ''Franchise/JohnWick'':
172** 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.
173** 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.
174* 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.
175* 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").
176* ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'' (Banderas version) has a seven-foot Mexican soldier attack the hero. True to MookChivalry, all the other soldiers stand back and watch, even when Zorro picks up two cannonballs...
177* ''Film/MotherlessBrooklyn'': One of Minna's killers is an enormous, mean-spirited brute who chases Lionel and Laura even after being shot through the foot.
178* ''Film/TheProtector'':
179** The movie has a giant mook as a recurring antagonist. He is introduced by [[spoiler:grabbing the hero ''[[BarrierBustingBlow through a wall]]'' and throwing him across a room. He later returns as leader of the Giant Mook squad (see below) and proves himself to be quite the {{Determinator}} refusing to go down and stay down even after his allies have been defeated and all his tendons cut.]]
180** Later in the movie we are introduced to a group of giant mooks just as big as that one, which the hero ultimately takes down by cutting their tendons with the bones of the elephant their boss killed.
181* "The Russian" from ''Film/ThePunisher2004'' is notable since he is the only Giant Mook from the comics to appear in the film.
182* ''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.]]]]
183* 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.
184* "Dredger" in the Creator/GuyRitchie's ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009''. Played by Robert Maillet, who also played the giant mook in the above-mentioned ''Film/ThreeHundred''.
185* ''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.
186* ''Film/Supercop2'' has Roger's team of operatives in the vault finale fighting the main characters. The heroine, Jessica Yang (played by Creator/MichelleYeoh) notably gets to fight the largest of the group, a mercenary that towers over her. But Yang still wins by way of CombatPragmatist - leaping on a table to perform a high-kick to the giant mercenary's head, smashing [[MoneyMauling a bag of cash]] over her opponent's cranium, and hitting [[GroinAttack really low]].
187* ''Film/TheThrillingSword'' has the heroic Prince battling the Four Immortals, the last one who's at least a meter taller and far stronger than his comrades, and gives the Prince some serious thrashing until he's defeated via AssShove.
188* ''Film/TowerOfDeath'' have Bobby infiltrating the titular Tower and beating up every single mook in the way to reach the main villain's sanctums, the last guy being a gigantic, musclebound brute dressed in furs. Who tanks plenty of blows from Bobby and keeps getting back up, until Bobby performs a DivingKick from the ceiling.
189* One appears in first three ''[[Film/TheTransporter Transporter]]'' movies:
190** 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.
191** The [[Film/Transporter2 second movie]] has a ScaryBlackMan who's probably the hardest opponent Frank has to contend with.
192** Lampshaded in the [[Film/Transporter3 third movie]], as the page quote illustrates.
193* In ''Film/{{Troy}}'', Achilles fights one named Boagrius, who is ''enormous''. [[CurbStompBattle The fight lasts about three seconds]]. Ajax could also fill this role for the Greeks in the same movie.
194* The ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' enjoy this trope. We have Sabertooth in [[Film/XMen1 the first film]], Juggernaut in [[Film/XMenTheLastStand the third]], and the Blob in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''. Both Sabertooth and Juggernaut seem more like dumb muscle than their comic counterparts while the Blob tends to be closer to this trope in both comics and film.
195* One of the factions in Creator/AkiraKurosawa's classic ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' has a giant mook with a [[BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon 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.
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199* ''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.
200* The ''Literature/LoneWolf'' books have the Gourgaz, huge axe-wielding {{lizardfolk}}s leading giak troops. The toughest fight of the first book, ''Flight from the Dark'', is against one.
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204* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': Hork-Bajir are all close to seven feet tall, but they're just regular Yeerk {{Mooks}}. In Book 45, however, we meet Grath, leader of the [[EliteMooks elite Blue Band squadron]]. At close to eight feet tall, Grath gives Rachel a brutal fight, taking her on one on one (something most Hork-Bajir cannot do), while coming off as no different from any other Yeerk Mook in the personality department.
205* Literature/TheBible. The Philistines had giants soldiers. (Goliath was one of these giants, but he was too important to be considered a Mook.)
206* Ogres in ''Literature/CityOfDevils'' are often employed as security guards. They're twelve feet tall, sport massive tusks, and can frighten most people off just by eating.
207* ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' has quite a few of these. The first comes in the form of the KGB lieutenant who first appears in Gauron's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introductory scene]]. A generic, ''huge'', muscled Mook, he's even {{lampshade|Hanging}}d 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). 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.
208* 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.
209* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
210** ''Half-Blood Prince'': by all [[SecondHandStorytelling accounts]], the action at Hogwarts at the end of the book was dominated by an anonymous, huge, blond Death Eater.
211** In ''Deathly Hallows'', this Death Eater is given the appropriately Giant Mook-ish name of Thorfinn Rowle.
212** Also, quite literally, all the [[OurGiantsAreBigger giants]] Voldemort got on his side.
213* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''
214** The cave trolls in books and films certainly qualify.
215** Even more so the Orc Chieftain (the one that injures Frodo).
216** Not to mention the Great Goblin in ''Literature/TheHobbit''.
217** [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragons]] have this role in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', and one of the most massive examples on this page appears in the form in the form of Ancalagon The Black, the first winged dragon, who made ''other dragons'' look tiny by comparison. To call this guy "Fucking Ginormous" was a ''reeeally big'' understatement. How big was he? He managed to crush Thangorodrim (Highest mountain in Middle Earth, about 6,000 feet taller than our very own Mount Everest) by ''falling on it.''
218* ''[[Literature/StarTrekTheReturn Star Trek: The Return]] (1996)'' part of the [[Literature/StarTrekShatnerverse Shatnerverse]] series of books. Picard encounters a Borg drone, one that was ...
219--->...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.
220* In Creator/DavidEddings' ''Literature/TheTamuli'' Klael brings in an entire army of these from one of the worlds he rules. They're initially all but unbeatable.
221* In ''Literature/TheTraitorSonCycle'':
222** Thorn's forces include giant Rukh, trolls and wyverns.
223** The Odine have an honest-to-god [[spoiler:dragon]] in their ranks.
224* In ''Literature/WarsOfTheRealm'', when a demon immerses himself too far into doing and enjoying evil, he devolves into a monster called a droxan--a huge half-bear half-dragon creature replete with SpikesOfVillainy. Droxans are used by the less degenerate demons as nearly unstoppable [[BeastOfBattle Beasts of Battle]] that love to destroy everything they see.
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228* B.A. Baracus (Creator/MrT) of ''Series/TheATeam'' usually wipes the floor with any pitiful Mook fool enough to try confronting him. However, he meets a stumbling block in two (unrelated) episodes with an Asian Giant Mook (same actor each time) who can [[PunchPunchPunchUhOh take his punches without flinching]], and then proceeds to throw TheBigGuy around.
229* On ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', when Harmony forms her own gang she includes a Giant Mook in the form of Mort.
230* Actor Rubén Aguirre who was famous for his height is frequently cast as this in more episodes of ''Series/ElChapulinColorado'' that one can count. The joke normally is that Chapulín (played by Roberto Gómez Bolaños who was shorter than average) has to fight him.
231* Cercei Lannister in ''Series/GameOfThrones'' has The Mountain (well, actually some sort of resurrected version of him) as her personal bodyguard. He's little more than a brute to the Lannisters, but he's too damn huge and deadly to be considered "just a Mook" by everyone. He is not nicknamed The Mountain for nothing.
232* ''Series/GenseishinJustiriser'': Bulgario first pops up as a MonsterOfTheWeek, but when it reappears in the penultimate episode, it's become a mass-produced {{Robeast}} for the [[TheEmpire Daruga Imperial Army]]. In ''Series/ChouseiKantaiSazerX'', the Megarion mecha the Daruga Army used returns as a mass-produced giant robot for Neo Descal.
233* ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981'': The towering and muscular Creator/DavidProwse makes a brief but memorable appearance as the guy who literally guards Hotblack Desiado's body.
234* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': The random security guard from "The Schaherezaede Job". Standing roughly OneHeadTaller than the rest of [[VillainOfTheWeek Alexander Moto's]] security detail, he gives Eliot a surprisingly tough fight and is knocked out. He then wakes up and attacks him again, forcing Eliot and Parker to blow him up, dropping him thirty feet into a vault and knocking him unconscious. Again. The plan goes wrong, Moto rushes in, and just as you're thinking it can't get any worse, the {{Mook}} wakes up, dusts himself off, and ''[[{{Determinator}} proceeds to ready himself for a rematch]]''. Moto got his money's worth with [[BossInMookClothing this guy]].
235* The evil Mutant Rangers in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' are just morphed Putty Patrollers and three of them (the Green, Blue, and Black ones, specifically) are grown to giant size and fight the Zords.
236* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. Reece comes across a seven-foot tall member of the Aryan Brotherhood about to kill that week's POI.
237-->'''Reece:''' Pick on someone your own size. ''[realizes how big he is]'' Well someone a little... closer to it.
238* When King Mondo grew to giant size a second time in the final battle in ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'', he grew several [[MechaMooks Cogs]] along with him.
239* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' has HumongousMecha-sized Mooks:
240** ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' is the first series to use this trope in almost every episode. While Giant Mooks did occur in previous series, they were rather rare. ''Shinkenger'' is the first series in which this trope is a frequent occurrence.
241** The Sugormin, the EliteMooks from ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' are able to grow giant sized, as well as turning into a glider for the MonsterOfTheWeek to fly on. Basco to Jolokia, one of the villains, is able to turn past {{Sixth Ranger}}s into mooks. Some of them have the power to grow giant on their own, resulting in this trope.
242** The Vaglass Megazords in ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters''. There are three basic types, Alpha, Beta and Gamma. Whenever one is sent out, they have parts from the MonsterOfTheWeek grafted onto them. Alpha Types even have the ability to release Bugzords, giant versions of the regular mooks.
243** The Zorima, the mooks from ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'' pile up on each other to merge into the dinosaur-like Giant Zorima, becoming this trope. The Cambrima, the EliteMooks of the show, can grow giant themselves.
244** In ''Series/ResshaSentaiToQger'', the Shadow Line's Kuliner trains act as these, being able to transform into HumongousMecha called Kuliner Robos that are usually piloted usually by the {{Mooks}}. The main baddies have their own versions too, which they use for giant-sized fights against the heroes rather than turning gigantic themselves.
245** In ''Series/ShurikenSentaiNinninger'', Kyuuemon Izayoi summons a Giant Yokai Gashadokuro using his Yo Shuriken. They most just serve as extra muscle in fights, but six of them can be merged together with two Sealing Shurikens to create an Advanced Yokai Oboroguruma.
246* ''Series/TakeshisCastle'' had two of these, Jumbo Max (for a few episodes), and Yoroi Chuu (For the rest of the entire series).
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250* Most teams of Wrestling/{{AAA}}'s mascot division were made up of a luchador with a miniestrella using [[MiniMook a similar gimmick]], but the opposite was also possible with mini estrellas popular to have a "large" version.
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254* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', the Dominator is a demon colossus, a rare demon breed, which is unleashed during the siege of Vanna to break through the city's walls.
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258* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' basically has Giant Mook as a unit type. Several armies have the option of fielding large monsters or constructs, such as [[AllTrollsAreDifferent 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.
259* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
260** Squad leaders. A squad member that has better stats and gear than a normal unit, but is still part of a squad as opposed to the more powerful independent characters.
261** Da Orks play this trope straight -- since Orks gain social status as they grow larger and stronger, the "Nobz" who lead squads/mobz are noticeably bigger than their underlings, though not as big as the Warboss in command of the army.
262** The Imperial Guard also deploys Ogryns, which are their equivalent of Ogres. By and large, they're dumb and even their "BONE'eads" are still pretty dumb as they all come from former and long forgotten prison planets that stress "being big" and not "smart". They literally believe that the Emperor has a direct chain of command that is never wrong and the Commissar is the direct line to them... which is bad when said Commissar falls to Chaos. The Ogryn are too dumb to realize anything is amiss. Ogryn are stupidly loyal and serve as perfect body guards, with one dragging a Rhino (a massive armored personnel carrier) all the way to his injured Commissar because he said "the med-kit is in the Rhino" and assumed it meant "bring the Rhino to him".
263** Chaos SpaceMarine armies that employ daemons, which inevitably includes some very big ones, which of course are the strongest.
264** Eldar use Wraithguard, who though perhaps not as skilled as the most elite of their Aspect Warriors are some of the toughest infantry on any army list and carry guns that ''open miniature portals to the Warp inside their targer''. Incidentally, while they play the trope straight while compared to any normal Eldar, they have their own giant version, the aptly named Wraithlord, who absolutely towers over anything short of a titan on the battlefield and can kick twice as much ass (mostly because it's toughness actually ''forbids'' most units from harming it).
265** Like the Orks, the threat level of Tyranids is sorted by exactly how tall and wide said threat is. This even translated to a rule where enemies facing the tyranids gained the rule "Shoot the Big Ones!" where they can ignore targetting priority if they are targeting a monstrous tyranid creature. Almost every small creature has some form of "giant" equivalent; Gaunts are the "giant" version of Rippers, while Warriors are the "Giant" version of Gaunts. Raveners have Trygons and even the Carnifex (previously THE giant mook for the Tyranids) have the Tyrannofex. Going up one scale higher and we have the Hierophant Biotitan, who is basically every other creature listed here squished into one skyscraper-sized bug.
266** Shortly after the Thirteenth Black Crusade, under the guide of Primarch Robotue Gulliman and Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl, the Loyalist Space Marines have the Primaris Space Marines. Primaris Marines are bigger, stronger, and less prone to genetic quirks than their older Brothers making them more reliable compared to, for example, a Blood Angel Marine. The Primaris is far less likely to suffer from the Red Thirst nor will he succumb to the Black Rage.
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270* Kahgarak from ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' are EliteMook [[GiantSpider Visorak]], several times their size. Kranua, Kraahu and Krahli are this for the Vahki robot squads. A lot of the fusions like the Bohrok Kaita, Bohrok-Kal Kaita and Rahkshi Kaita are examples as well.
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274* ''WebAnimation/MadnessCombat''
275** A giant [[TheMenInBlack Man in Black]](with his [[{{BFG}} 6 foot caliber shotgun]]) is seen in the episode ''Consternation'' and takes three shotgun blasts to the face [[NoSell without flinching]]. Hank, the protagonist, only manages to kill him by ramming a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]] through his head. The giant is later revealed to be a Mag Agent, which are regular agents upgraded into giant SuperSoldiers. More Mag Agents appear in later episodes and take longer to kill than regular {{Mooks}}.
276** Hank and Sanford face a giant [[DemBones Skeleton]] at the end of ''Expurgation'', it's unknown if it's related to Mag Agents as they are in an EldritchLocation even worst than where they usually are.
277** Deimos fight a bunch of giant mooks in ''[=DedmosRebuilt=].fla''. They are smaller than mag agents but still twice the height of Deimos. [[PintsizedPowerhouse He beats them up with no problem]] with his new powers.
278* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' has the [[ChainsawGood chainsaw wielding]] [[MookLieutenant White Fang Lieutenant]], who is one of the very few members of said organization, who has defeated a named character.
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282%%* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'': Dr. [=McNinja=] fights one wielding [[ChainsawGood chainsaw-nunchuks]].%%ZCE
283* ''Webcomic/{{Harkovast}}'' features an army of Nameless warriors, including one who is [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Harkovast/index.php?p=473707 enormous]]. It takes out a large section of the Darsai army before Shogun shows up.
284* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
285** Ogres and Gyclopses are this among the Underlings that the players fight. They're huge and tough -- the Ogres in particular are essentially gigantic versions of the common Imps -- and a danger for new players, but they're still Underlings who will be mowed over by those same players soon enough.
286** Among the Dersite and Prospitian forces warring on the Battlefield, Rooks are essentially gigantic, grotesquely overmuscled versions of the common Pawn troops.
287* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': The demon Bubbamonicus plays this role in the "That Which Redeems" arc. He's actually part of the demon aristocracy, but some of the other demons don't even know this, basically because of his lack of characterisation, which is of course a rather mooky thing.
288%%* ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl'': [[http://zebragirl.net/?date=2010-08-13 "Iyam a ]][[http://zebragirl.net/?date=2010-09-06 gigantic hired thug."]]%%ZCE. Links aren't context.
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292* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':
293** A real Giant Mook character in the story "Boston Brawl 2". The BigBad hires some extra muscle, including Matterhorn, a supervillain who can become a forty-foot giant. Due to the physics of this universe, Matterhorn [[spoiler:gets his ass whupped by a 100-pound girl.]]
294** And in "Christmas Crisis", there's Killbot, who's 20 or 30 feet tall and regenerates from pretty much anything. Too bad for him he's fighting [[PersonOfMassDestruction Tennyo]].
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298* The "Two-ton Chum-Chum" that appears in ''Film/SockBaby Part 2'' and starts seriously kicking Ronnie's ass until Burger brings some sort of demon to life with a paper puppet to eat it.
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302* In the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "Siege of the North", after easily defeating a group of standard-issue, hammer-wielding Fire Nation {{mooks}}, Aang is suddenly attacked by a single, much larger soldier. With ''two'' hammers! On chains! Almost gets him, too. (According to the "Avatar Extras" pop-ups, his name is Kuckick.)
303* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'':
304** One notable example is Captain Clown, a super-strong robot used by the Joker in "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE4TheLastLaugh The Last Laugh]]", thus qualifying as both a Giant Mook ''and'' a {{Mecha Mook|s}} (maybe a KingMook too) at the same time.
305** Another notable example is the aptly named "Rhino" thug in "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE64ReadMyLips 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, and Scarface's henchman in ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' too; given that he appears in ''three'' different continuities, maybe he qualifies as more than a simple Mook.
306* ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' have Zurg's Beetles, gigantic red robots who can actually put up a fight against Buzz's team.
307* In ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'', the Kolossus appearing in three late episodes of Season 4 is very much a GIANT mook. It destroys the virtual submarine of the heroes in just one mighty sweep of his blade-arm.
308* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' has the villainous Fiendish Organization for World Larceny (FOWL), along with a sizable group of mooks. This group has a single Giant Mook, who could always put up a good fight.
309* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' tended to have these for minor villain groups the gang had to deal with. Often (but not always) they were used to nullify Jade by just holding her in place.
310* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', there's a huge, nameless, red-bearded Thanagarian that showed up menacingly with a {{BFG}}. Superman just took him out with a single hammer toss.
311* ''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.
312* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'':
313** In "Jethro's All Yours", ordinary [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/lakewood-plaza-turbo/images/c/c1/Jethros_All_Yours_53.png/revision/latest?cb=20170818164714 Jethros]] are TheGoomba, while [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/lakewood-plaza-turbo/images/6/61/Jethros_All_Yours_297.png/revision/latest?cb=20170818171139 Mega Jethro]] is a much more serious threat.
314** In "You're Level 100", Lord Boxman introduces "Big Darrell", a giant version of Darrell piloted by the original like a HumongousMecha.
315* ''WesternAnimation/Super4'' has the Black Colossus, a fully armored Giant Mook that is the Black Baron's main enforcer. Fighting him usually involves some ColossusClimb.
316* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' sees 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.
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320* Tales abound throughout military history of soldiers so big and strong they were [[SuperStrength capable of such feats as using squad support weapons as rifles]].
321** There was supposedly one fellow in the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War who was said to be able to [[GunsAkimbo doublefist]] squad machine guns, though this may be an exaggeration.
322** Supposedly one such soldier named Mariolle was found in Napoleon's army, where he obeyed the order to salute by raising a 4" cannon to his shoulder instead of a rifle. While the Emperor congratulated him, this incident was PlayedForLaughs and [[WhatCouldHaveBeen didn't quite result in 19th century squad support weapons]]. Even today, a common French idiom, "cessez de faire le mariolle" (stop doing the Mariolle thing) means "stop clowning around".
323** Creator/AlexandreDumas' father was a general in the French Revolutionary Army, who according to legend could lift up a gun with one finger by sticking his finger in the barrel.
324* During the early modern period Grenadiers were soldiers hand-picked for their size and strength, the idea being that a larger man can throw a grenade further (hence the name), and that his size gives him the edge in vicious bayonet combat. This led some military leaders -- notably the UsefulNotes/{{Prussia}}n king Frederick William I -- to become obsessed with tall soldiers, and to collect them (sometimes by force) from all over their territory and beyond to form Giant Mook ''regiments''. Reportedly, Frederick William became so obsessed that he attempted a SuperBreedingProgram by mating some of his "Potsdam Giants" with tall women. He even attempted to stretch men on racks, but called the experiments off when too many of them kept dying.
325* ''Corazzieri'' (literally "men wearing cuirasses") are the elite guard for the italian President of the Republic. One of the many requirements to join the corp is a minimum height of 190cm (roughly 6'3'').
326* As a non-human example, the "mooks" of late 19th century naval warfare were torpedo boats. Due to increasing fear that swarms of these small vessels could sink even the mightiest battleship, a new type of warship was invented to defend against them. These were the first destroyers (short for [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin torpedo boat destroyer]]), which were basically really big torpedo boats. Like all other aspects of naval technology at the time, this caused a LensmanArmsRace as it was recognized that destroyers were a greater threat to fleets of battleships than the torpedo boats they were designed to defeat...and thus even bigger destroyers were built to fight the existing destroyers.
327** Even after this more or less stabilized and a screening/scouting force of destroyers simply became a standard part of any proper fleet, another example came about in the form of the "[[MookLieutenant destroyer leader]]", the idea being that the flagship of a destroyer flotilla should be bigger and more powerful than the rest and thus more difficult to sink. This concept lasted for over half a century before being discarded by the US Navy (the last to officially designate destroyer leaders) in 1975, by which point destroyers of all types (regular or the former "leaders") had gotten so big as to be almost indistinguishable from cruisers.
328* Many species of ants have larger workers in their colonies, known as majors, which serve to do the heavy lifting as well as defending the smaller workers in an emergency. The most extreme example of this is the Asian marauder ant ''Carebara diversa,'' which not only has major workers but ''supermajors'' as well, which can be up to fifty times the size of the minors and reach lengths of almost a centimeter. In fact it isn't uncommon to see small troops of minors hitching a ride on a single supermajor as they travel in their foraging trails.
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