Basic Trope: A type of Mook that is considerably stronger than the average one.
- Straight: The Yellow shirt accompanying every group of five Red Shirts has twice as many hit points and a better weapon.
- Exaggerated:
- Demonic Spiders (Where Elite Mooks constitute an unfairly large amount of the enemy force)
- Boss in Mook Clothing.
- The Yellow shirt murders the hero and his pals.
- Downplayed:
- The yellow shirts take a hit more to go down than the Red Shirts.
- The yellow shirts are stronger than the Red Shirts, but the hero is so powerful that he can easily defeat them, and hardly be able to tell a difference between the two.
- Justified:
- Rank Scales with Asskicking
- Yellow shirts tend to have more rigorous training regimens, better weapons, and better armor.
- Inverted:
- Enemies are introduced below the basic mooks on the Sorting Algorithm of Evil.
- The yellow shirts are weaker than the standard red shirts, and are only used when the Red Shirt have already lost a lot of numbers.
- Subverted: Because they spend a lot of time behind a desk, officers are actually weaker in combat than regular soldiers.
- Double Subverted: Except that some officers are smart enough to train extra-hard to compensate.
- Parodied: The mooks go down if you breathe at them, while their squad leader can swim through molten rock.
- Zig Zagged: The Yellow shirt appears to be more intimidating than the other mooks, but in reality fights like a red shirt. However, many other yellow shirts are dangerously competent, but so are some reds, since it's all a matter of individual prowess and not designation.
- Averted: Despite differences in appearance, all mooks are about the same strength, possibly with different weapons.
- Enforced: "Hey, throw in a Quirky Mini Boss Squad to make the fights more interesting."
- Lampshaded: "Having a hard time? Who said we are all incompetent goons?"
- Invoked: Officers are required to prove themselves stronger than average before they are promoted.
- Exploited: Since Evulz's Mooks are easy to go through, Captain Amazing focuses on taking out the leaders first.
- Defied: Evulz requires all his underlings to be of a certain strength, and seeds stronger ones in the ranks to take the heroes by surprise.
- Discussed: The heroes point out that certain mooks are stronger and remember to pay special attention when dealing with them.
- Implied: The mook looks like another redshirt, but is able to stand out and give the heroes a hard time.
- Deconstructed: The mook sticks out well with his skills and the chance of his death increases with the heroes focusing on him.
- Reconstructed: The Yellow shirt is able to amaze his fellow subordinates with his ability to stand a chance against the heroes, prompting all other mooks to adopt his style and improve efficiency of the army.
- Played For Laughs: The elite mook makes a glamorous appearance with all red shirts lining up to take his autograph.
- Played For Drama: Things are going smoothly for the heroes, until the elite mook shows up and things become tougher. He may even invoke Darker and Edgier if he takes out a member of the crew.
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