Brute is the name of a type of enemy from the
Resident Evil 4 Remake. They are extremely tough enemies to deal with and cause a fair amount of damage to anything around it, including other enemies. Brutes tend to appear in more open areas due to their large area-of-effect attacks.
They may have been a butcher or a blacksmith in their past lives.
It appears to be a type of
Ganado which wears parts of a dead horse or boar head over their face, which is held on with rope. The head must have been taken from an actual animal and then formed into a mask, as blood can be seen around the shoulder area of the Brute. It's uncertain if their human heads are severely deformed but it is likely, based on how the similarly tough Chainsaw Villager is looks. They are also extremely resilient to attacks - they have a strongman physique and wield an enormous two-handed hammer. If
Leon is lucky, he can knock one to the ground which gives him time to safely attack without too much trouble.
In later areas such as the island, there are Brutes which have a makeshift crossbow type weapon that have the head of a boar covering their heads instead of a horse.
Interestingly, the Brute was an early concept which was cut from the original version of
Resident Evil 4.
