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Often tend to be either [[The Brute]] or [[Boisterous Bruiser]], often dependink on what side they are beink on. Owink to greater yemotional freedom yin Russian culture, may also be [[Emotional Bruiser]].
This seems to be becomink either [[Evolving Trope|Evolving]] or [[Discredited Trope]]; however, more recent games such as ''[[
If you went back to [[The Seventies|Seventies]] and asked someone what [[Husky Russkie]] was being, they'd assume you were referrink to woman. See also [[Mother Russia Makes You Strong]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Argo Gulskii from ''[[G Gundam]]''. He is [[The Big Guy]] of the [[Five-Man Band]] and relays heavily on brute force when fighting, but outside the ring he's a very calm and honorable [[Big Brother Mentor]] towards the group. In fact, Argo is so calm and strong in mind and heart that {{spoiler|he didn't show mental/emotional damage after being [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] via DG Cells.}}
** Commander Yuri Kerane from [[Mobile Suit Gundam The 08th MS Team]] is another Gundam example, though not he's not explicitly described as Russian and [[Reasonable Authority Figure|is a pretty competent commander]] [[A Father to His Men|who cares about his men]] despite having all the social charm of [[Beauty and The Beast|Gaston]]. It's still obvious what the writers were getting at, though. Interestingly, Ginias Sakharin could be considered a complete inversion of this trope, because despite also having implied Russian heritage (his surname), [[Bishonen|his]] [[Sissy Villain|design]] [[Ambiguously Gay|and mannerisms]] are anything but husky and brutish. {{spoiler|And for even more irony, Ginias actually causes Yuri's death towards the end of the series.}}
* Ivan Braginski/Russia from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' mixes this with ''many'' dashes of [[Cute and Psycho]], [[Psychopathic Manchild]] and [[Jerkass Woobie]] traits. However, he insists that he is only "big-boned."
* Rodchenko from ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' takes this to a whole new level by being the world record holder in the bench press.
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** Like Titanium Man, most of the people inside the Crimson Dynamo armor have been slow witted behemoths.
** Also Mongu, who subverts the stereotype by actually being a smaller man inside a set of [[Powered Armor]] that ''looks'' like a barbaric giant.
** Most versions of [[Spider
* Kyuzo from ''The Red Star'', Maya's bodyguard.
* "Love Sausage" from ''[[The Boys]]''.
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* [[The Hulk]] has his nemesis Emil Blonsky, The Abomination. A gamma radiated one at that.
* In the Marvel ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' comics, [[Boisterous Bruiser]] Horror-show, the heavy weapons expert of the Oktober Guard, seems to fit this trope (His action figure was codenamed "Big Bear"), although he's technically Georgian. Subverted by the rest of the Guard, who have similar builds as other members of G.I. Joe and COBRA.
* The aptly-named Mother Russia from the second series of ''[[Kick
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* Ivan Drago from ''[[Rocky IV]]''. Drago's pretty lean compared to Rocky, but he's ''much'' taller and has a ''much'' longer reach.
* Ivan Checkov from ''[[The Boondock Saints]]''
* [[Rule of Three|Ivan Danko]] from ''[[
* Though not technically an Ivan, Boris the Blade from ''[[Snatch]]''
* Ivan ([[Running Gag|What a surprise]]) Vanko in [[Iron Man]] 2, who can take a car ''crushing him against a wall repeatedly''. The exoskeleton he's wearing barely gives him any protection either. He also nearly managed to beat Tony Stark in his Iron Man suit.
* "The Russian" from ''[[The Punisher (
** [[No Name Given]] indeed. He has no name other than "The Russian" in the comics, and he is a recurring villain with some decent evolution. Knowing that he suffered several brain damages (punches, bullets, ''airplane crash''), it's argueable that he knows his own name.
* One of those rare non-Ivans is Nikolai from ''[[Predators]]'', a beefy Spetznaz commando who's also one of the nicer dudes in the cast. He may be partially based on the Heavy Weapons Guy (see below), since he befriends a bespectacled doctor, wields a minigun, and has a son named Sasha (which is what the Heavy calls his gun). Also one of the (formerly) rare cases where such a character is played by an actually Russian actor/bodybuilder.
* Yuri in ''[[
* Technically Chechnyan, but referred to in the movie as a Russian war criminal, one of the two [[Psycho for Hire|gentlemen]] who guard Uri's money in [[Rock N Rolla]] definitely qualifies, despite being [[No Name Given|nameless]]. The other guy...well, he's not ''that'' big, but he has [[Shirtless Scene|a most impressive six-pack. You WILL question your manliness.]] Also, neither of them will ''[[Implacable Man|frickin' die]], [[Mother Russia Makes You Strong|no matter what you hit them with]]''.
* Petrov, [[The Dragon]] from [[Bruce Lee]] movie ''The Chinese Connection''.
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== Literature ==
* Sanya, from the [[Dresden Files]], is a holy knight whose muscles cause instant feelings of masculine inadequacy in Harry Dresden. He's also a [[Twofer Token Minority]], being a rare Russian [[Scary Black Man]]. In his first appearance he speaks decent if not perfect English, but in later appearances he speaks quite fluently. He actually invokes this trope in ''Changes'', when he interrogates a captured hitman by picking up the board he's been taped to with no particular effort, and in a thick Russian accent, threatens to break the man in half and chuck him in the incinerator. Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in the audiobook of the scene, where [[James Marsters]] puts a hilariously-thick accent to Sanya's voice.
* Var Varovitch (Raven) from [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[
* Ivan, better known as the Fabinator, in the young adult novel Bad Kitty. (And he's definitely [[Fetish Fuel]] for Roxy.)
* Mikael, from Ulises Silva's novel ''Solstice'' is described by Io as "a Russian native, 6'5'', 280lbs of pure muscle" with thickly-accented English.
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* Likewise, Bayman from the ''[[Dead or Alive]]'' series, although his character seems to be a touch more intelligent than the usual. But just a touch.
* Molotov from Facebreaker, [[Lampshade Hanging|a stereotype he's]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsxMqJs4uT4 quite sick of].
* Mikhail in ''[[
* [[Metal Gear Solid|Colonel Volgin]] is a bit of one of these. And a [[Depraved Bisexual]]. And a [[Psycho Electro]].
** But then, ''Snake Eater'' was set in Russia; they didn't have much choice on his nationality.
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** Subverted with the rest of the cast, who range from scrawny (Sokolov) to average (numerous NPCs)
* [[Meaningful Name|Minsc]] from the ''~Baldur's Gate~'' games. More [[Boisterous Bruiser|cheerful]] than most examples. Named for Minsk, the capital of Belarus.
* Inverted in the ''[[
* Although the bulky Duo from ''[[
** Then again, Duo had a [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/9/95/Duo1.jpg different look] before encountering Mega Man and crew, and was rebuilt into that design by Dr. Light.
*** If one ''really'' wants to be technical, Dive Man qualifies among Dr. Cossack's Robot Masters.
* The Heavy of ''[[
** Subverted in that the blurb for "Meet the Heavy" outright states that the Heavy is not [[Dumb Muscle]] even though he speaks simply in English. In the [[Bilingual Bonus|Russian version of the video]], [[Eloquent in My Native Tongue|he's more eloquent]].
*** His appearance in [[Poker Night At the Inventory]] further averts it. He went to the Soviet College of Mines, Farms, And Science, and has a [[PHD]] in Russian Literature. [[Holy Shit Quotient|That's Dr. Heavy Weapons Guy to you!]]
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* The Draenei of ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' could arguably be classified as an ''entire race'' of Husky Russkies, due to their vaguely Eastern European accents (though [[Mileage Varies]] on how "Russian" they sound).
* In ''Super Dodgeball Brawlers'', while the team with the highest average Power stat is Saudi Arabia, Russian team captain Moldof is tied for most powerful single player (with series headliner Kunio).
* General Tatarin from ''[[Freedom Fighters (
** Especially with his mighty, bear-like "supersonic bitch-slap" (when he smacks Troy in the first cutscene, you don't hear the sound of it until his hand is way past Troy's face).
* While not the absolute strongest, Ivan in ''[[Jagged Alliance]]'' and its sequel is a powerhouse. The absolute strongest character? A Polish ex-firefighter.
* ''[[Alpha Protocol]]'' has Championchik, an Olympic Champion boxer who serves as the bodyguard for Surkov. Mike has to eventually deal with him, but seeing as Championchik relies totally on his boxing skills, he could always just pull out a gun on him.
* Flak troopers in [[Command and Conquer]]: Red Alert 2 and 3 are described as "brutish." They have a deeper accent than most of their countrymen. so [[Husky Russkie]] to Russkies, then?
* Potemkin of ''[[
* Ivan the Bear from ''[[Brutal Paws Of Fury]]'' isn't the tallest fighter, but he is the heaviest and hits the hardest (three fierce punches will knock out any opponent).
* Sergei from ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops
* Mr. Hammer and Mr. Sickle, a.k.a. the Abramovici brothers, from ''[[Batman: Arkham City]]''.
== Western Animation ==
* Exile on ''[[
** Doubly so as Exile is, in fact, a Siberian Husky dog.
* A rare female version of this is Strika of ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', a burly female bot who turns into a tank. She's not ''technically'' Russian, but she's got the accent.
** She's nigh-identical to the ''[[
** The Russian-accented ''Animated'' versions of Jetfire and Jetstorm are small and acrobatic, but their combined form Safeguard is a lot bigger and burlier.
* In ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'', [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Jumba fits this trope, despite being a purplish, four-eyed alien.]] Being a [[Mad Scientist]], he's the [[Genius Bruiser]] variant.
* The Russian alleycat in ''[[The Aristocats]]''.
* Agent Grizzlikof of ''[[Darkwing Duck]]''.
* ''[[Teen Titans (
* Boris from ''[[Lady and
* The Trunkovs and Ivan from [[Cars|''Cars 2'']], despite the latter being sided with the ''Hugos''.
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== Web Originals ==
* From ''[[Open Blue]]'''s v4, [[Four-Star Badass|Admiral Flota]] Vladimir Ilyavich Tokarev, '''[[Shout-Out|HERO OF]] [[Ciaphas Cain|THE TRIBES]]''', is like this only when fighting hand to hand or pissed off. Otherwise, he's a cunning strategist who would rather blow you up with his ultra-long-ranged rocket launcher than [[Leeroy Jenkins|charge straight at you without thought]] if he thinks it more efficient. Of course, he's just as likely to be firing off said rocket launcher while charging straight at you without thought...
* From ''[[
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* In an animal example, there's the Siberian cat breed. National cat of Russia, it's stockier, stronger and slightly larger than most other cat breeds.
** Likewise, the [[Panthera Awesome|Siberian tiger]]. Tigers are big anyway, but the Siberian is generally larger and heavier than other subspecies, and has a thicker coat that makes it look ''larger still''.
* ''[[
* Vasili Alexeyev, the famous champion Olympic weightlifter, is an almost embarrassingly stereotypical example of this trope.
* Alexander "The Experiment" Karelin, a Greco-Roman wrestler who has won three Olympic, nine World Championship and twelve European Championship gold medals. This at-the-time 286-pound man routinely won matches with his "Karelin Lift", which involved him picking up similarly-sized men and slamming them down onto the mat like a rag doll often as they lay flat to avoid being thrown. Can best be summarized by [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/karelin.gif this image].
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