Ghouls from Hellsing. Mindless, infinitely disposable, and created en masse by inexperienced vampires.
Mazinger Z: Baron Ashura's Iron Masks and Count Brocken's Iron Cross. They were mindless, obedient cyborgs Dr. Hell created using corpses. The former ones vaguely resembled an ancient Greek soldier whereas the later ones look like modern soldiers. Knowing who are their commanders, it is pretty logical.
The typical low rank Marines. Luffy can defeat hundreds at once, and their role is just typically to showcase the abilities of a certain character (and freak out about how crazy he is), then continue the attack so that they can get mowed down some more. True to form, they are frequently endless, for all intents and purposes.
Don Krieg's armada is an earlier example. With 50 ships and 5000 men, East Blue calls it an invasion force. The Grand Line? Target practice.
This gets played for laughs in the Straw Hat crew. Zoro has once dubbed Sanji "Pirate A". Sanji did not take his mook status well.
An interesting occasion comes up in the climax of the Enies Lobby arc, in which two hundred Marine Captains are sent after the Straw Hats. The Straw Hats are initially concerned about this, as that's the rank Smoker was when they last saw him. Fortunately, it turns out that Smoker's Cowboy Cop tendencies kept him at a rank far lower than what suited his skills, and the rest of the Captains weren't nearly that strong.
By the time a pirate hits the New World, an army of mooks is pretty much useless. Thanks to the ability "Conqueror's Haki" (which Luffy has), one can impose their will on someone, and, if their will is weak enough, knock them out. Luffy used this ability in the Fishman Island arc to knock out 50,000 mooks in one blast — and the only reason he didn't knock out the other 50,000 is because his crew needed someone to fight.
Guts personally slaughters all of Lord Adon's men in Berserk (1997) after he and Casca are chased into an enclosed area in a forest, away from the site of the battle between the band of the hawk and the larger enemy force. One after another they charge him, barely distinguishable from each other and are cut down.
Pick any Gundam show. Chances are, there's gonna be a notable Mook Mobile from it. For just a few examples...
Mobile Suit Gundam has the ever-iconic Zaku II as the Zeon Principality's main mass-produced Mobile Suit. The Zaku hitsanumber of Mook tropes, even in its name (which is derived from the term "Zako", which basically means "Mook").
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam opts for the Hizack, which is basically a slightly redesigned Zaku utilized by the Titans.
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ would temporarily move on from the Zaku design (while keeping its preferences for mono-eyes) when Haman Karn and her Neo Zeon deployed the Galluss-J, which would only see mass-production in the First Neo Zeon War. The Zaku III is more of an Elite Mook.
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn has the Geara Zulu, a successor model of the Geara Doga and yet another distant relative of the Zaku.
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam has the Zanscare Empire's Rig Shokew, the first Mook machine to not bear much resemblance to the Zaku II, instead looking more insectoid.
Mobile Fighter G Gundam tends to be more focused on 1-vs-1 battles, but the Death Army Mobile Suits (Dark Army in the English Dub) created by the Devil Gundam (or Dark Gundam) certainly count. They are notable for having four legs as opposed to the usual two, and can even equip extra parts to replicate the fighting styles of the heroes' Gundams.
Neo-Japan also had the ridiculously Zaku-like Busshi, which is a deep turquoise yet carries the traditional red mono-eye (the Death Army Mobile Suits carry a drastically different, almost organic mono-eye in contrast).
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing has the Leo, the universal mass-production suit for OZ. The Leo is noteworthy for being the mookiest of all Gundam Mooks due to how many scores of these machines go down in combat against the Gundams. The Aries, Pisces and Cancer models also count, as they fare no better against the Gundams than the Leos do. This trope is played with of course, as whenever the main character pilots (all of them being Ace Pilots) use one, they are able to bring out their true fighting potential.
After War Gundam X has fewer of these due to the After the End setting, but the Space Revolutionary Army's Jenice and the New United Nations Earth's Daughtress (and both their variants) both qualify. While the Jenice is a Zaku expy with its mono-eye hidden under a grilled visor, the Daughtress has a more unique look, being a GM expy carrying tricloptic sensors on its head.
In the later leg of the series, the New U.N.E. uses the Balient as its new mook model, which is superior to the Daughtress in its ability to fly. Then in the final episodes, we have the space-bound Daughtress Neo for the New U.N.E., and the S.R.A.'s heavily-armored Crouda.
∀ Gundam has the Ghingham Fleet's Mahiroo, which is actually introduced quite late into the series.
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED has the suspiciously Zaku-like GINN as the ZAFT Mook of choice. They are notable by their grayish paint scheme and the large fin they carry on their heads, invoking a more knightly visage. Later on, the GuAIZ is introduced in the later leg of the show: these are bulkier, green-armored machines with higher mobility and the same beam weapons used by the Gundams.
The Earth Alliance Forces run by Muruta Azrael and William Sutherland use the Strike Dagger, a mass-produced version of the Strike Gundam. They don't carry the Gundam Phase Shift Armor, but are armed with beam weapons, allowing them to easily outperform the GINN and other ZAFT machines (until the GuAIZ is introduced). They are notable for resembling the GM Mobile Suits from the original Gundam, but carry the colors of the Strike's Phase Shift Armor.
In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, ZAFT would take it a step further with its Zaku clones and whip out the similarly-named ZAKU Warrior, which carries the same deep green paint jobs that the Zaku II from the original Gundam series carried. This was an intentional homage (as were that of the GOUF Ignited and DOM Trooper, which were also based off of Zeon's most recognizable Mobile Suits from the Universal Century), given that SEED Destiny released on the 25th Anniversary to Gundam. The GuAIZ-R, successor to the first series' GuAIZ, is also showcased, but they are destroyed far easier than the ZAKU Warriors. In the final legs of the series, the GOUF Ignited (an obvious copy of Zeon's Gouf) ends up with mook status as well.
On the Earth Alliance's side (or more accurately, LOGOS) comes the Dagger L, another GM Expy, but still carrying the Strike's colors. The slightly superior Windam would later be demoted to mook-dom later on in the series (similar to the GOUF Ignited) as the Dagger L became even more inefficient. Both are in contention for the most ineffective Mobile Suits in the franchise along with Wing's Leo, due to how ineffectivenon-Gundam pilots tend to be.
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 carries many Mook-like mobile suits within its roster, which serve a respective nation each. Season 1 has the Union Flag, the AEU's Enact, and the Human Reform League's Tieren. Near the end of the season, due to the factions uniting against Celestial Being and acquiring GN Tau Drive technology, they are all mostly replaced by the GN-X, a high-performance machine that near closes the technological gap between them and the Gundams. The GN-X line carries over to Season 2 in the crimson-colored GN-XIII, the mass-production model of the A-Laws. Flags, Enacts and Tierens still appear in Season 2, but as Red Shirt units for Katharon.
Mobile Suit Gundam AGE has the Vagan's Gafran, notable for being included in the entire show despite the fact that by the final arc, they were incredibly outdated.
Gundam: Reconguista in G has the Jahannam, a green, roundish Zaku Expy with a visor displaying a red, glowing target line as opposed to a mono-eye.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans: The Gjallarhorn peacekeeping force has the Graze in Season 1, and the Reginlaze in Season 2. Interestingly enough, unlike most examples, an Ace Custom version of the suit ends up being used by the heroes early on in the first season, which is later modified into another Ace Custom by the name of Ryusei-Go.
While Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury is mostly focused on duels in the Asticassia School of Technology, there are the occasional mass-production Mobile Suits. Jeturk Heavy Machinery gives us the Dilanza (not including the Ace Custom models used by Guel and Lauda), while Peil Technologies has the Zowort, and Grassley Defense Systems utilizes the Heindree (the successor of the Heingra seen in the Prologue episode). The Dawn of Fold uses a Jeturk model called the Desultor for its attack on Asticassia in Episodes 11 and 12, but their true mook model seems to be the Prodoros.In the final leg of the series, Prospera Mercury uses Gundnodes — mass-produced, unmanned Gundam type drones — to protect Quiet Zero.
Code Geass: The Holy Britannian Empire originally used GlasgowKnightmare Frames as their mooks, before being replaced by the Sutherland model by the time the first episode begins. Each Knightmare Frame model is described as being part of a generation, with Glasgows being 4th Gen, and Sutherlands being 5th Gen. Gloucester models are Elite Mooks, close combat models usually used by Princess Cornelia li Britannia.
In R2, the Sutherlands and Gloucesters for the most part are replaced by the Vincent Ward, a mass-production 7th Generation Knightmare modeled after the original Vincent, piloted by Rolo Haliburton. Vincent Wards can use Float Units and fly, but they are still no less dangerous to the Beam Spam of Lelouch vi Britannia and his Shinkiro, or his other top Knightmare pilots, such as Kallen Kozuki with her GurenMKII, and Kyoshiro Tohdoh with his Zangetsu.
The Chinese Federation also use spherical Knightmares called the Gun-Ru, which are mostly seen in the Chinese Federation Arc.
When some Ryozanpaku masters in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple tell Kenichi that he is not as good a fighter as he ought to be because he didn't defeat his last opponent fast enough, Shigure, who nurtures some sisterly feelings towards Kenichi, tries to defend him by telling them that the opponent threw too many mooks at him. This provokes the following responses from them:
Sakaki: (laughing) There's no need to count trash... I once took out a master who had over 100 underlings. Ma Kensei: I once slipped through 1000 soldiers and only took out the commander. Apachai: I once completely annihilated all my enemies and allies.
Terrorists, cartel goons, Nazis, mercenaries, yakuza punks, and other no-name bad guys tend to die in droves whenever the crew of the Lagoon Company or one of the many other badasses of Black Lagoon swings into action.
Balalaika's Vysotniki are Elite Mooks. Most of them are nameless. They have no faces and personalities to remember, and have no storyline role apart from "Balalaika's muscle." Nonetheless, most of the above-mentioned badasses in the show recognize attacking them as nothing short of suicide, not the very least because Balalaika herself has a policy of coming down like the Wrath of God upon those who dare to hurt or kill them.
Fist of the North Star has mooks by the truckload, every one of them a cruel despoiler of the innocent. When Kenshiro shows up, their life expectancy usually drops to zero in quite messy fashion.
Anyone below lieutenant rank in Bleach's Soul Society arc, and any Arrancar other than the Espada in the Arrancar arc. The Espadas' direct subordinates are Elite Mooks.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Every witch that we see the labyrinth of has minions. Said minions utterly fail to be any kind of threat, and secondary material indicates most of them weren't really designed for combat anyway.
The only threat every familiar poses, is that when left alone outside a barrier long enough, they turn into exact copies of the witch that was originally their boss.
Fairy Tail: Appear later in the series courtesy of the Sorting Algorithm of Evil being somewhat inverted: the early threats simply don't have enough manpower to field armies of Faceless Goons - unlike the Baram Alliance dark guilds and the kingdom of Edolas. As a result, mooks are treated as a reasonably credible threat and may sometimes overpower the heroes through sheer numbers.
Sgt. Frog: All the members of the Shurara Corps aside from Shurara himself.
Ranma ½: It's a running gag to discover that the various disguised underlings of Tatewaki and Kodachi are actually the faculty of Furinkan High School. When questioned about this by the protagonists, they invariably claim that Principal Kuno threatened with giving them the boot if they didn't participate the scatterbrained schemes of his children.
The Sunackeys/Snackeys of the Desert Apostles from Heart Catch Pretty Cure are the first mooks to appears in the series. They are revealed to be living sand housed in a full body suit, making them literal punching bags for the heroines to wail on.
The Nottoreis from Star★Twinkle Pretty Cure are noteworthy because, unlike pretty much every other enemy organization on this series, the Notraiders eschew summoning monsters in lieu of employing armies of mooks to attack the heroines. The exception is Aiwarn, who can summon monsters, but only if she has a Star Princess pen.
