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This article is about Brute. You may be looking for the Dummy Boss or Void Brute.

Brute
Mode Appearance	Easy Challenge Trials Basic Arena Story Missions Brute Force Surface Tension Events The Takeover (Noob)
Wave Debut	20 (Headache Headquarters & Easy) 33 (Challenge Trials) Originally: 10 (The Takeover Noob)
Statistics
Base Health	10,000 (Easy) 17,500 (Sandbox) 120,000 (Challenge Trials) Story Missions 5,000 (Brute Force) 30,000 (Surface Tension)
Speed	Very Slow (1.1)
Cash Given	$2,000 every 5% health (Most modes) $1 every 5% health (Default) Story Missions $1,000 every 5% health (Brute Force) $2,500 every 5% health (Surface Tension)
Hidden?	No
Flying?	No
Ghost?	No
Lead?	No
Attributes	Stun Immune (Variable) Freeze Immune (Variable) Nimble (Variable) Boss Immunities: Freeze Immunity Stun Immunity Poison Slowdown Confusion Thorn Slowdown Nuke Fallout Damage DJ Booth Slowdown Defense Dropping Hacker Conversion Hacker Slowdown Slowed Immunity
Abilities
Ability 1Cooldown: 20	Smash - The Brute smashes a tower or unit, stunning towers for 3 seconds and dealing 1,000 damage to units. Has an attack range of 10. Unusable in PVP.
Ability 2Cooldown: 30	Throw - The Brute throws a rock, which splits into four smaller rocks, at a random tower or unit. Stuns towers for 5 seconds and deals 500 damage to units per rock. Has a minimal attack range of 10 and maximum attack range of 25. Unusable in PVP.
PVP
Send Cost	$6,000
Send Cost	$6,000
Wave Unlock	30
Wave Unlock	30
Economy Bonus	$-50
Economy Bonus	$-50
Send Number	1
Send Number	1
Spawn Timer	5
Spawn Timer	5
Stat Changes	10,000 Health
Stat Changes	10,000 Health
Music
(Official) Tower Defense Simulator OST - They Are Coming...

CurrentThe Takeover EventVersion 1

All that fighting attracted the Brute!

―Commander dialogue on Wave 20 (Easy)

Is that a...Brute?
What's a Brute doing here?!

―Commander dialogue on Wave 33 (Challenge Trials)

They're throwing everything they've got!
There's the Brute! Take it down!

―Commander dialogue on Wave 10 (The Takeover Event, Noob)

Defeating all those enemies attracted the Brute!
Lets send this Brute back to where it came from!

―Commander dialogue on Wave 25 (Formerly, Easy))

Description

The Brute is the final boss of Easy mode and one of the Challenge Trials mini-bosses. It also appeared in The Takeover Event. For most of its appearances it is a Boss enemy, making it have various resistances and immunities, which includes being resistant to stuns from stunning towers, immune to being frozen by freezing towers, slowed down by the Toxic Gunner, Electroshocker confused by the Jester, damaged from the Nuke's fallout and slowed down by the DJ Booth. Unlike most other final bosses however, it is not considered one by default, meaning there are some circumstances where it lacks these immunities.

The Brute has very high health compared to anything that spawns before, but to compensate, it walks very slowly. It has two abilities. Its first, Smash, in which it slams its fists onto a tower or unit, stunning it and other nearby towers for 3 seconds and doing 1,000 damage to units. Its second, Throw, has it throw a rock at a nearby tower or unit, which then splits into four smaller rocks. Each rock stuns towers for 5 seconds and does 500 damage to units per rock. It is completely unable to use any of these abilities in PVP.

Appearance

The Brute is a large hulking humanoid with a waist and lower arms in its rig. It has a pale green skin color, an orange torso, waist and legs, with the former having white stripes. It wears black shoes and has a black harness with white buckles. It also has black braces with white spikes and chains attached, along with indented lower arms. It also has two heads, with the left one being larger.

Whenever one of its fists hits the ground, the screen shakes and makes a stomp sound. On death, the Brute will repeatedly bang its lower arms on its chest before falling forward onto the ground.

Strategy

• As the Brute has the lowest health out of all main final bosses, starter towers like the Sniper, Soldier or Shotgunner are capable of defeating it.
  • The Sniper can especially be a decent option due to its Stun Immunity gained from being a cliff tower.
    • Since this is the cliff Stun Immunity, it also means that the Sniper can be used as a distraction due to it still being targetable by enemy abilities.
  • Strong DPS towers like the Minigunner or Ranger can also be used against it, though they are not necessary outside of Challenge Trials.
  • As the Brute only has stunning attacks, splash damage towers like the Demoman are not particularly useful against the Brute.
• You can place down towers like the Scout or use a unit spawner like the Crook Boss to create distractions which the Brute will target instead of your DPS towers, though this is not necessary due to its rather low health.

Gallery

Animations

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  Current walk animation (26 February 2025 – Present)
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  Current Smash animation (26 February 2025 – Present)
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  Current Throw animation (26 February 2025 – Present)
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  Current death animation (26 February 2025 – Present)

Corpse Variants

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  Second Corpse variant, current version (12 March 2025 – Present)

Thumbnails

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  Brute on the game thumbnail.
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  Brute on the game thumbnail.
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  Brute on the game thumbnail.

Icons

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  Brute on the game icon.

Trailers

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  Brute in the game trailer.

Cutscenes

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  Brute in the Outpost 16 opening cutscene.

Renders

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  Brute on a render.
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  Brute on the Easy mode icon.
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  Brute on the Matchmaking icon.
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  Brute on the Main Lobby Matchmaking mural.

Badges

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  Brute on the Defeated the Brute badge.

Miscellaneous

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  Brute on its first Index icon (26 February 2025 – 1 April 2025).
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  Brute on its current Index icon (24 July 2025 – Present).
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  Brute on its bugged Index icon.
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  Placeholder icon used in PVP when sending Brute.

Trivia

• The Brute shared its design with the Dummy Boss from the Tutorial before the v1.74.0 update.
  • Despite sharing the same design and icon, they were two separate enemies and therefore give two separate Logbooks.
• The Logbook it drops will not unlock its legacy version in Sandbox mode, as it has been completely removed from the game.

Update History

• 26 February 2025 - v1.55.0
  • Brute added.
  • Bug: Brute is affected by the All Paths modifier.
  • Bug: Brute goes into its default pose for a short time after finishing its Smash ability.
• 1 April 2025 - v1.58.1a
  • Bug: Brute now appears in Headache Headquarters as part of April Fools 2025 Event.
  • Bug: Brute has a broken icon.
• 8 April 2025 - v1.59.6b
  • No longer appears in Headache Headquarters.
• 14 May 2025 - v1.64.0
  • Bugfix: Brute is no longer affected by the All Paths modifier.
• 23 July 2025 - v1.71.2
  • Now appears in Basic Arena PVP.
    • Unlocked on Wave 26.
    • Can be sent out for $3,000 in groups of 1.
    • Adds $-200 to economy bonus.
    • Has a spawn timer of 5.
    • Changes the health of the Brute to 6,000 when sent.
  • Bug: Uses an icon of Jerma985 in PVP.
• 24 July 2025 - v1.71.5
  • Bugfix: All icon related issues no longer happen.
• 6 August 2025 - v1.72.0
  • Wave unlocked increased from Wave 26 to Wave 30.
  • Send cost increased from $3,000 to $6,000.
  • Economy bonus increased from $-200 to $-50.
  • Health increased from 6,000 to 10,000 when sent.
• 12 September 2025 - v1.74.3a
  • Now appears in Sk8 P4rk Noob difficulty as part of The Takeover Event.
    • Has 10,000 health in Sk8 P4rk.
• 22 September 2025 - v1.74.3g
  • No longer appears in Sk8 P4rk, as it has been removed.
• 24 September 2025 - v1.75.0
  • Now appears in Challenge Trials.
    • Has 120,000 health in Challenge Trials.
  • Boss removed.
  • Cash given is now mode dependent.
    • Gives $2,500 every 10% health lost in Easy mode.
    • Gives $4,000 every 10% health lost in Challenge Trials.
    • Default value is $1 every 10% health lost.
• 28 January 2026 - v1.84.0
  • First wave appearance changed from 25 to 20 in Easy mode.
  • Health decreased from 17,500 to 10,000 in Easy mode.
  • Cash given increased from $2,500 every 10% health lost to $2,000 every 5% health lost in Easy mode.
  • Cash given changed from $4,000 every 10% health lost to $2,000 every 5% health lost in Challenge Trials.
  • Speed slightly decreased from 1.25 to 1.2.
  • Smash ability cooldown increased from 15 to 20.
  • Throw ability changed.
    • Stun time decreased from 6 to 5.
    • Cooldown increased from 25 to 30.
• 1 April 2026 - v1.86.5a
  • Brute now appears in Headache Headquarters as part of April Fools 2025 Event.
• 8 April 2026 - v1.88.2a
  • Brute no longer appears in Headache Headquarters.
• 22 May 2026 - v1.91.0
  • Speed slightly decreased from 1.2 to 1.1.
• 31 July 2026 - v2.4.0
  • Now appears in Brute Force.
    • Has 5,000 health.
    • Gives $1,000 every 5% health lost.
• 7 August 2026 - v2.5.0
  • Now appears in Surface Tension.
    • Has 30,000 health.
    • Gives $2,500 every 5% health lost.

Notes

Easy
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Breaker3 Wave 19	Brute Wave 20	End N/A

Challenge Trials
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Fallen Tank Wave 31	Brute Wave 33	Grave Digger Wave 35

Noob (The Takeover)
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Slow Boss Wave 9	Brute Wave 10	End N/A

Headache Headquarters (1 April 2025 – 8 April 2025)
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Png Bot4 Wave 17	Brute Wave 20	End N/A