History Main / EliteMooks

* The SAS in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5565307/1/ ARSENAL]] are called in by SEELE to help [[BridgeBunnies Nightshift Bunnies]] Aoi Mogami, Kaede Agano, and Satsuki Ooi do battle with a Shinji Ikari-controlled NERV. [[spoiler:They are slaughtered wholesale by Misato Katsuragi, Touji Suzuhara's younger sister, and ''Pen-Pen'']].

* The Cardinal's Guard in the 1973-4 film versions of The Three Musketeers probably qualify. Although the novel depicts them as more or less equal to the king's musketeers in training and prestige--and in the first fight sequence the musketeers hesitate before taking them on at 1-2 odds--by the final fight sequences, the heroes are dispatching them by the dozen.

* ''Batman: Arkham Asylum'' has 'elite' thugs appear in the later stages of the game along regular ones. They either carry a couple of knives of a taser. It's actually kind of a contrived gimmick: Batman is supposed to be a martial arts master, trained to physical perfection, and yet here's a couple of nameless thugs whose attacks you can't counter, and who will automatically block all your moves unless you stun or combo them first. WTF?

** For the humans there's Spartan Super Soldiers, whom are basically bipedal {{Terminator}} ninja tanks. Or better yet [[{{Rambo}}John Rambo]], [[{{Commando}} John Matrix]], and female equivalents in power armor, with the speed and agility of ninjas, And the strength of luke cage.

** Also, the military forces of most nations include non-Special Forces units that consider themselves elite when compared to conventional infantry. As a general rule, the odds of a unit being "elite" increase drastically if it includes any of the following words in its name: Marines, Grenadier, Airborne, {{Ranger}}s, Guards, Light Infantry. [[strike:Or if it's from Ireland.]]

** Note that in [[RealLife Real History]] they were just normal Mooks. They were called Immortals not because they were hard to kill, but because there were supposedly [[WeHaveReserves too many for one army to kill them all]].
* The Uruk-Hai in ''{{The Lord of the Rings}}'' movies. Fell down just as easy as the regular Orcs.
** {{Conservation of Ninjitsu}}. The ''one'' example that Aragorn had to fight personally gave him quite a bit of trouble.
*** Yes, but Lurtz was a bit of a GiantMook, wasn't he?

** It makes you wonder why Ra's doesn't use more flaming ceiling beams when fighting Batman.

* When one of the new Agents manages to block one of Neo's attacks in ''[[TheMatrix The Matrix Reloaded]]'', he says "Hmm, upgrades", signifying that these Agents are Elite Mooks. Although he can't take them out as easily as he could at the tail end of the previous movie (when he deflected Smith's attacks with ''one arm''), Neo still manages to pretty much pwn them without even taking a hit.
* In ''{{Inception}}'', this is the difference between an untrained mind's projections and a trained one. Normally, a mind's subconscious projections take on the form of waves of mindless civilains that swarm intruders in the dreamworlds, while if a mind has been trained to resist intrusion, the projections are armed with heavy weaponry and attack in coordinated groups.

* Transformers: not so much in the first film, but waves of anonymous Decepticons show up in the second film, each taking multiple heavy weapon hits to kill and blasting dozens of US soldiers.

* ''{{The Lord of the Rings}}'' has the Uruk-hai, elite Orcs.
** And later it has the Olog-hai, elite [[GiantMook trolls]]

** In-universe, Imperial {{Space Marine}}s are ''[[SuperSoldier all]]'' Elite Mooks when compared to the rest of the Imperium's fighting forces.
*** And even above Space Marines are the Grey Knights, who are considered the Elite of Elite Mooks in-universe.

** Imperial Guards have two types of Elite Mooks in their army: the vanilla variety Veterans, and the uber-elite Stormtroopers (no, not [[StarWars those ones]]).

** A big contributor to the Foot Elite always posing a threat would be that there's only four of them.

** Note that in [[RealLife Real History]] they were just normal Mooks. They were called Immortals not because they were hard to kill, but because there were supposedly[[WeHaveReserves too many for one army to kill them all]].

* ''[=~Assassin's Creed~=]'' has the generic Templars. ''2'' diversifies it into the FragileSpeedster Agiles who can catch up in LeParkour (normal guards can freerun but can't keep up when Ezio's going full speed), the BladeOnAStick-wielding Seekers and the {{Heavily Armored| Mook}} MightyGlacier Brutes who can smash through Ezio's defence. ''Brotherhood'' adds even more varieties. Arquebusiers have stronger ranged attacks than the normal crossbowmen, cavalry are difficult to counter - though they fall off easily enough if you just stand your ground to defend - and Papal Guards are {{Kung Fu Proof| Mook}} {{Lightning Bruiser}}s with a SwordAndGun.

* ''[=~Assassin's Creed~=]'' has the generic Templars. ''2'' diversifies it into the FragileSpeedster Agiles who can catch up in LeParkour (normal guards can freerun but can't keep up when Ezio's going full speed), the BladeOnAStick-wielding Seekers and the {{Heavily Armored| Mook}} MightyGlacier Brutes who can smash through Ezio's defence. ''Brotherhood'' will have even more varieties, such as cavalry.

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* Seran's ''[[PuttingOnTheReich Stormtroopers]]''[=/=]''[[GratuitousGerman Sturmtruppen]]'' from ''OpenBlue''. Lacking actual dedicated [[EliteMooks special forces]], [[TheEmpire Avelion]] has its PraetorianGuard take double duty and handle this department.

** Try turning on the Thunderstorm Skull (after you find it, of course). Those [[{{CannonFodder}} Redshirt Mooks?]] Now Elites. Possibly even BossinMookClothing/KingMook. And that's ''every'' mook, every single Covenant you come across. Hope you like dying!

* ''PowerRangers'' sometimes has a multiple tier grunt system, such as [[PowerRangersNinjaStorm Kelzak Furies]] and [[PowerRangersMysticForce Styxoids]]. [[PowerRangersSPD Blueheads]] started out as {{Giant Mook}}s who led regular Mooks, but started being sent in small groups themselves on occasion.
** The original [[MightyMorphinPowerRangers Mighty Morphin']] series did this regularly. When Lord Zedd took over as the new {{big bad}} from Rita Repulsa, he upgraded some of her mooks, the Putties, into "super putties" with big Z's on their chests. These new putties gave the rangers a lot more trouble...for about one minute, until Jason discovered they could be killed instantly by hitting the Z. After that, they actually became ''easier'' to kill than the original Putties.
*** Then later in the third season of Morphin, Rita and Zed supplemented their putty army with the more powerful Tengu Warriors. These guys also gave the rangers a hard time at first, only to eventually become just as disposable as putties (which they soon replaced entirely.)

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* In ''{{Riddick}}: Assault on Dark Athena'', the Mercs in red armor with red googles encountered towards the end of the game are insanely well armored (taking almost a full clip of assault rifle fire to kill), but most players won't even notice since by that point in the game you're given a OneHitKill rifle with unlimited ammo.