Mooks / Other Media

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Card Games

• Vs. System has army characters that are generally mooks given they can get killed off quickly and lack uniqueness because you can only have 1 copy of non-Army characters like Spider-Man on the field; army characters are replaceable. Some examples are S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, Doom Bots, and Sentinels. Also, army characters do not have any restriction whatsoever in deck construction, whereas any other card is restricted to 4 copies (at most).
• Magic: The Gathering has creature tokens, which are creatures who aren't even worth having their own card. By default, creature tokens' names are also their creature type, and if they leave play they simply cease to exist. They rarely have abilities, and those they do have are typically keyword abilities ("Flying," versus, "Any creature able to block this creature must do so."). They are also typically created in large numbers, either via a one shot deal creating two or more, or by a repeatable effect squeezing out one each turn. Creature tokens didn't have any sort of official representation until Magic Online needed some standardized way to represent them, and then they weren't printed in paper for years afterward.
  • Each Color has their own flavor of Mooks: Green has Saprolings (it used to be squirrels), Black has Zombies, Red has Goblins, White has Soldiers, while Blue has whatever is assigned as Blue creatures in the settings. Green is the biggest offender when it comes to spawning endless hordes of Mooks.
• Tokens also exist in Yu Gi Oh with similar rules. They are mainly used as sacrifices for bringing out stronger monsters or occasionally as fodder for stalling the opponent. There also are a few cards that summon token under the opponent's control. Cards that summon them in large numbers usually have some restrictions on what they can be sacrificed for.
• Super Munchkin has the "Wimpy Thugs", "More Wimpy Thugs" and "Still more Wimpy Thugs" monsters. "3,872 Orks" from the original game might count since they are the only monster going in hordes.
• Sentinels of the Multiverse features decks for the villains that summon mooks to help the villain do their dirty work. Depending on who the players are fighting against, the number of mooks in the deck vary from few in number to half of the deck. Villains who rely on theirs mooks as a part of their deck's strategy include Baron Blade, Citizen Dawn, Grand Warlord Voss, the Dreamer, Omnitron, La Captian, the Chairman, the Matriarch, and Gloomweaver.

Comic Strips

• The members of the croc fraternity Zeeba Zeeba Eata from Pearls Before Swine are these, with the added twist that they kill themselves rather than others killing them.

Fan Works

• The Decepticon Seekers from Transformers Meta.
• Friendship Is Magical Girls: The Infestation, a swarm of cockroach-like Changelings, are introduced as just another Monster of the Week during the Magic Arc. When they return during the Loyalty Arc, however, the MotW format has mostly been dropped, at which point they're repurposed by Eskarrg to serve this role, due to their numbers. He actually refers to them as "cannon fodder" at one point.
• Invoked in crossover A Change of Pace: Taylor starts referring to regular gangsters as this later on.
• Hellsister Trilogy has Apokolips' infantry and shock troops. Darkseid can raise hundreds of them at any time, and they're beaten senseless by the main character and her allies just as fast. Exemplified with the opening of the eighth chapter of "The Apokolips Agenda", where three Kryptonians are enough to drive 1,000 Para-Demons back.
• Ace Combat: Equestria Chronicles: If not disposed of by Neck Snap or other methods, most of griffin soldiers taken out by the heroes are knocked from the sky and fall to their dooms, their injuries leaving them unable to recover flight.
• Forward: The sheer number of thugs the crew fights at the beginning of "Business" is lampshaded with Mal commenting that "it was like someone had found a discount site on the Cortex for hired goons."
• Dolphin Rider Koishi has the fishmen, who explode into fish when killed.

Music

• He only has one line, but saves the day... A dedication to Anime mooks in particular.

  "Never know what role I'll play, but for today I'm Soldier A!"

Pinball

• Gottlieb's Raven has an army of unnamed southeast Asian soldiers whose only purpose is to be gunned down.
• America's Most Haunted has the Ghost Minions, an easily-defeated enemy geared towards casual players.
• Avengers: Infinity Quest has the Outriders, the minions of the Big Bad. They primarily appear in multiball and wizard modes, where most of their screen time is spent being attacked by whichever Avenger stars in the mode.

Podcasts

• The Scorpies in Sequinox are shadowy beings that serve Scorpius, but have almost no personality and only exist as cannon fodder for the Sequinox girls to attack before getting to the Stars themselves.

Professional Wrestling

• Dr. Cube's minions and Mung Wun, the Thai Fly's children in Kaiju Big Battel.
• Most of the lower ranking members of Generalissmo Takada Monster Army in Fighting Opera HUSTLE.
• The Age Of The Fall's last grasp at credibility involved Jimmy Jacobs leading a mass of anonymous masked men.
• The Guardians of Truth were mooks for The House Of Truth in Ring of Honor.
• The Latino Nation for LAX, The Latin American Exchange(Xchange), in TNA
• The Flood of Chikara's main gimmick was being made up of numerous rudos throughout the promotion's history, but they still had masked mooks just to swell their numbers even further.
• Any time someone has a "security team," they will invariably get run over by their protectee's nemesis.

Roleplay

• Lots of the stuff that gets summoned in Destroy the Godmodder falls squarely into this category. Sometimes with entire armies getting wiped out in one shot by relatively weak entities. This is also the Godmodder's primary way of keeping the players from winning, as if the Godmodder has too many mooks they'll automatically nullify attacks against him, so keeping their numbers limited is why summons are important.

Web Original

• The Meyer Security guards in Door Monster's The Guards Themselves.
• In the Whateley Universe, the main characters get to leave their Super Hero School Whateley Academy and travel into Boston for the day... only to face The Necromancer and his homicidal Quirky Miniboss Squad, along with a couple hundred mooks who are nameless and somewhat faceless. The Necromancer has lived up to his name by animating hundreds of corpses, and Phase has to fight them in the sewers underneath Boston. Only she doesn't have a flashlight.
  • Clearly the writer had just played Doom 3.
  • Leading to one of the funnier but more horrific sequences. Phase is worried about getting zombie gunk over her/him, and is informed s/he's probably okay. Just... "make sure to get cremated when you die."
• RWBY:
  • Junior's black-suited henchmen known as the criminal syndicate "The Xiong Family" debuting in the "Yellow" trailer. They acted like Junior's bodyguards and faced Yang after she barged into the place. Cue Curbstomp Battle with them in the stomping end. Later they reappeared this time working for Roman Torchwick in robbing a shop and faced Ruby. They didn't fare any better, too much to Roman's chagrin ("You were worth every cent, truly you were.")
  • After Roman became an ally of White Fang, he began to employ the organization's goons as his muscle. They didn't prove to be an improvement over Roman's previous underlings. However, they constantly face the heroes multiple times throughout the story of the series.
  • Raven Branwen's bandit tribe was shown to have multiple members that fought against her daughter Yang. However, none of them were able to defeat her in battle.
  • During the Volume 6 Adam Character Short, the White Fang were shown fighting against the guards of the Schnee Dust Company. The guards themselves were easily disposed of by the White Fang.
  • Lil'Miss Malachite was shown to have multiple goons working under her when she was visited by Cinder.
  • While the Atlas Military has Mecha-Mooks in the form of the Atlesian Knights, they were also shown to have numerous soldiers in their ranks each wearing helmets so their faces were never shown. Not only are they overwhelmed by the Grimm and the White Fang, but also by their own Atlesian Knights after they were hacked into by the villains. Later when General James Ironwood and the military turn against the heroes, the soldiers end up trying to attack them.
• DSBT InsaniT: The Darkness counterparts are Psycho Man's mooks.
• Dreamscape: The Master of the Dammed's minotaurs patrol the Unworld, looking for anyone who is acting up.
• Deviant: The various superpowered gangs have quite a few unpowered members between them.
• Unwanted Houseguest: Doctor Litchfield's "orderlies." They're actually victims of his procedure.

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