mook
Expendable hired muscle
A mook is a stupid, insignificant, or contemptible person—someone dismissed as a fool or a nobody.
The term carries a working-class urban flavor, associated especially with New York Italian-American speech: Some mook cut me off in traffic.
In action movies and video games, mooks are the disposable henchmen who exist to be defeated by the hero.
Enforcer or simpleton
- thugViolent criminal
- lackeyServile follower or minion
- minionServile subordinate
- flunkyServile subordinate
stooge · heavy · enforcer · muscle · hired gun · foot soldier · underling · peon
One's formative experiences
- unnamedNot identified or specified
- disposableMade for one use
- facelessLacking identity or features
- cannon fodderTroops treated as disposable
redshirt · nameless · generic · throwaway · bit player · spear carrier · walk-on · nonspeaking
goon
Enforcer or simpleton
flunky · stooge · heavy · enforcer · muscle · hired gun · foot soldier · underling · peon · expendable
background
One's formative experiences
- unnamedNot identified or specified
- disposableMade for one use
- facelessLacking identity or features
cannon fodder · redshirt · nameless · generic · throwaway · bit player · spear carrier · walk-on · nonspeaking · filler
idiot
Foolish, senseless person
dimwit · blockhead · simpleton · nitwit · numbskull · dolt · ignoramus · doofus · bonehead · knucklehead
- expendabledisposable, replaceable, dispensable, expendable, redundant
- Italian slangbasta, prego, ciao, bella, mica
mookelite
Superior select group
expert · ace · professional · specialist · assassin
mookprotagonist
Story's central figure
hero · main character · big bad · VIP · somebody