Tropescilloscope: Manly Tears

Even a badass is permitted to shed tears. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Male Gaze Creative Closing Credits Eureka Moment Blood Knight Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Mooks Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Vamp Black and Gray Morality Vitriolic Best Buds Peek-a-Boo Corpse Corpsing Not Quite Dead Word of God Evil vs. Evil Sinister Minister The Chessmaster Crucified Hero Shot Overprotective Dad Ass Shove Novelization No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Jerk Jock The Oner Took a Level in Badass Darker and Edgier Hooker with a Heart of Gold Brainless Beauty Vacation Films Dropped a Bridge on Him French Films Unusual Euphemism Death Glare "The Reason You Suck" Speech Paper-Thin Disguise Get Out! Fatal Family Photo Same Language Dub Bad "Bad Acting" You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Fire-Forged Friends Mr. Exposition Slashed Throat Love Triangle Evil Plan Insane Troll Logic Narrator Deliberate Values Dissonance Double-Meaning Title Only Known by Their Nickname Breaking the Fourth Wall Meaningful Echo No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Rated M for Manly Sports Stories Married to the Job Riddle for the Ages Pre-Mortem One-Liner Ghost Fiction Military and Warfare Films And the Adventure Continues Vomit Discretion Shot Ambiguous Disorder Lighter and Softer Dark and Troubled Past timeperiod Rule of Cool Didn't Think This Through Lampshade Hanging Hair-Trigger Temper Trailers Always Spoil Death of a Child The Cameo Bolivian Army Ending World of Ham Love at First Sight Tagline The '80s Action Girl Unreliable Narrator Only a Flesh Wound Truth in Television The Mafia Anti-Villain Big Brother Instinct I Have Your Wife Artistic License – History What You Are in the Dark BFG Chiaroscuro Stepford Smiler As Himself Better to Die than Be Killed Cat Fight Man on Fire Kill It with Fire Light Is Not Good Very Loosely Based on a True Story Groin Attack Driven to Suicide All There in the Script Music Stories Disguised in Drag The '60s Captain Obvious Conspicuous CG Off-into-the-Distance Ending Kubrick Stare Naïve Newcomer Sassy Black Woman Expository Hairstyle Change I Did What I Had to Do Film Noir Loads and Loads of Characters Establishing Character Moment Even Evil Has Loved Ones Fan Disservice Developing Doomed Characters Adaptation Dye-Job Slap-Slap-Kiss Bullying a Dragon Chekhov's Skill Frame-Up Small Name, Big Ego Almost Kiss Anguished Declaration of Love Mama Bear The Faceless Wham Shot Abusive Parents Composite Character Soundtrack Dissonance Bittersweet Ending Affectionate Parody Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? You Killed My Father Only in It for the Money Adult Fear Scare Chord Hope Spot Car Fu O.O.C. Is Serious Business Rule of Funny Book-Ends Mood Whiplash Four-Temperament Ensemble The Hero Cloudcuckoolander Aside Glance Men Are the Expendable Gender Big "NO!" Danny Peary Cult Movies List Facial Horror Improvised Weapon Crapsack World Rousing Speech Fingore How We Got Here Our Zombies Are Different Canadian Movies Defiant to the End Agony of the Feet Pragmatic Villainy Shoot the Shaggy Dog Extremely Short Timespan Shown Their Work Decoy Protagonist The '90s Off with His Head! Morality Pet Body Horror Dramedy Babies Ever After Hong Kong Films Science Fiction Films Actor Allusion Heroes Want Redheads Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor NO INDOOR VOICE No Antagonist Spanner in the Works Domestic Abuse Chewing the Scenery Action Genre Celebrity Paradox Shout-Out Poor Communication Kills Does This Remind You of Anything? Bloodless Carnage Deadpan Snarker Stealth Hi/Bye Final Girl Outrun the Fireball Ascended Extra Stealth Pun Deus ex Machina Bury Your Gays Parental Neglect Combat Pragmatist Henpecked Husband Mundane Made Awesome Bad Boss Historical In-Joke Shell-Shocked Veteran The Dog Bites Back Shower Scene Dramatic Irony Disappeared Dad Amusing Injuries Reality Is Unrealistic Hypocrite Mugging the Monster Batman Gambit Calling the Old Man Out The Brute It Will Never Catch On Butt-Monkey Wicked Cultured Video Credits War Is Hell Plot Hole Distracted by the Sexy Spell My Name with an "S" Not So Stoic Obfuscating Stupidity Villain Protagonist Gorn Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Artistic License – Geography Older Than They Look Annoying Younger Sibling More Dakka Implacable Man Empathic Environment Demoted to Extra Friend to All Children For the Evulz The Mole All There in the Manual Faking the Dead Slasher Smile Retirony Funny Background Event Translation Convention Adults Are Useless Big Applesauce Obviously Evil Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Fantasy Films Intrepid Reporter Comically Missing the Point Knife Nut Genre Shift Recycled IN SPACE! Fate Worse than Death Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Bland-Name Product Heel Realization Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Grievous Bottley Harm Leaning on the Fourth Wall Instant Death Bullet Stuff Blowing Up Brother–Sister Incest Whole Plot Reference Never Trust a Trailer British Films Retcon In the Back Unresolved Sexual Tension Cassandra Truth Setting Update Heroic BSoD Break the Haughty Diabolus ex Machina Fourth Date Marriage Dark Is Not Evil Wrong Genre Savvy Horror Films As Long as It Sounds Foreign Evil-Detecting Dog Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Mythology Gag Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Film Series Jerk with a Heart of Gold Cool Guns Sci-Fi Horror Black Dude Dies First The X of Y Show Within a Show Throwing Your Sword Always Works Mad Scientist Dirty Old Man Pragmatic Adaptation Crazy Jealous Guy Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Epic Fail Bound and Gagged Fanservice Extra Adapted Out Spiteful Spit Offscreen Teleportation Dissonant Serenity Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Exact Words Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Getting Crap Past the Radar Drill Sergeant Nasty Big Damn Heroes Artistic License – Law Camera Abuse Eye Scream Gilligan Cut The Place Playing Gertrude My God, What Have I Done? Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Broken Bird Monumental Damage Sanity Slippage Curse Cut Short The Ghost Adaptation Distillation Running Gag Villain Ball Rule of Symbolism Bare Your Midriff Super Strength Taking You with Me Works Set in World War II Character Development Berserk Button Demonic Possession Cain and Abel The Starscream He Knows Too Much The Great Depression Action Survivor Precision F-Strike Face Death with Dignity Large Ham Your Cheating Heart Funny Foreigner Fun with Acronyms Red Herring Totally Radical Cruel and Unusual Death Adaptational Badass Honor Before Reason Continuity Nod Improbable Aiming Skills Heroic Sacrifice Armor-Piercing Question Irony Adaptation Name Change The Atoner "Well Done, Son!" Guy Cool Old Guy Naked People Are Funny Fatal Flaw Zombie Stories Karma Houdini Smoking Is Cool Race Lift Pet the Dog Stalker with a Crush Mind Screw Martial Arts Movie Meet Cute Room Full of Crazy Drives Like Crazy Hollywood Darkness Match Cut Be Careful What You Wish For Italian Films Back from the Dead Chekhov's Gunman Nice Guy Jerkass Has a Point Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Jerkass Shipper on Deck Refuge in Audacity A Minor Kidroduction Malevolent Masked Men Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Flipping the Bird Daylight Horror Every Car Is a Pinto Bond Villain Stupidity Big Bad Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Big Fancy House Not Even Bothering with the Accent Adaptational Attractiveness Ms. Fanservice Silent Movie Not What It Looks Like Killed Mid-Sentence Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The Bully The Sociopath All Men Are Perverts Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Ditz Actually Pretty Funny Betty and Veronica Becoming the Mask Your Head A-Splode The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Pyrrhic Victory Dirty Cop Darkest Hour Death Seeker Bi the Way Bait-and-Switch Have a Gay Old Time Card-Carrying Villain Auto Erotica Real Life Award-Bait Song Disney Death Serious Business Antagonist Title Creepy Child This Is Gonna Suck Woman in White Index of Film Westerns Anyone Can Die Gainax Ending Undying Loyalty Market-Based Title Chekhov's Gun The Alcoholic The Ace Wretched Hive Take a Third Option One Steve Limit Exactly What It Says on the Tin The Un-Reveal Punny Name Laser-Guided Karma Yandere Non-Indicative Name Reasonable Authority Figure Dwindling Party Adaptation Expansion Posthumous Character I'm a Humanitarian Cool Shades Mr. Fanservice N-Word Privileges Affably Evil Costume Porn Line-of-Sight Name In Name Only Foil The Stoner Coming-of-Age Story Black Best Friend Improbable Weapon User The Bad Guy Wins Crazy-Prepared Madness Mantra Drowning My Sorrows Mighty Whitey Evil Brit Canon Foreigner Nice Hat Black Comedy Rape Maybe Ever After Documentary Mercy Kill Determinator 20 Minutes into the Future Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Knight Templar Sadistic Choice Dumb Blonde Overly Long Gag Unspoken Plan Guarantee Big-Bad Ensemble Contrived Coincidence Superhero Sequel Hook Sequel Escalation Happily Married Early Installment Weirdness Famous Last Words Psycho for Hire Ambiguously Gay Blatant Lies Ripped from the Headlines Artistic License – Gun Safety Green-Eyed Monster Redemption Equals Death Say My Name Handicapped Badass Dirty Coward Unusually Uninteresting Sight Toplessness from the Back Fake Shemp Rape as Drama Real Life Writes the Plot There Is No Kill Like Overkill Everyone Has Standards Product Placement Animated Credits Opening Politically Incorrect Villain All for Nothing The Dreaded She's Got Legs A Father to His Men Adaptational Heroism Blood from the Mouth Race Against the Clock Mistaken for Gay Badass in a Nice Suit Kids Are Cruel Dutch Angle Evil Laugh Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Stinger After the End Tranquil Fury Jump Scare Ax-Crazy Missing Mom Unwitting Instigator of Doom Hidden Depths Biopic Made of Explodium Sealed Evil in a Can Horror Comedy No Celebrities Were Harmed Suspiciously Similar Substitute Needs Wiki Magic Love Spared by the Adaptation Fiery Redhead The Quiet One Covers Always Lie Anachronism Stew Tempting Fate Bring My Brown Pants Arch-Enemy Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Villainous Breakdown Eiffel Tower Effect Aluminum Christmas Trees Half the Man He Used to Be Not So Above It All Beware the Nice Ones Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Lock and Load Montage The Big Guy Token Minority Badass Grandpa Advertised Extra Eyepatch of Power Foregone Conclusion Australian Movies The End... Or Is It? Noodle Incident Spiritual Successor Soft Glass Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Cool Old Lady Destination Defenestration Fat Bastard Reckless Gun Usage My Beloved Smother Framing Device Television Movie Index Awesome, but Impractical Woman Scorned Apocalypse How Greater-Scope Villain My Greatest Failure Death by Irony Interrupted Suicide Stock Footage Fainting Not Using the "Z" Word La Résistance Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Mystery and Detective Films Damsel in Distress Plucky Comic Relief Let's Get Dangerous! Alpha Bitch Fantastic Racism Freudian Excuse Department of Redundancy Department Curb-Stomp Battle Captain Ersatz Death by Adaptation Logo Joke Failed a Spot Check It's Personal Hell Is That Noise The Voiceless Parental Incest Guns Akimbo Not So Different The Dragon The Musical Historical Villain Upgrade Bloody Hilarious Age Lift Tap on the Head Alliterative Name Sir Swears-a-Lot All Girls Want Bad Boys Reality Ensues Deconstruction Genre Throwback Evil Is Petty Easily Forgiven Red Right Hand Face–Heel Turn The Lancer Anti-Hero Heterosexual Life-Partners Never Found the Body Eagleland It Can Think Asshole Victim In Medias Res Blackmail Early-Bird Cameo Alas, Poor Villain Deal with the Devil Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Important Haircut Only One Name Fanservice Chase Scene Sacrificial Lion Double Entendre Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Punch-Clock Villain Hate Sink Make It Look Like an Accident Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Only Sane Man Catch-Phrase An Aesop Vampire Fiction Kick the Dog Five-Man Band Flashback The Load Beard of Evil Leitmotif Anachronic Order Dying Moment of Awesome Japanese Films Idiot Ball Daddy's Girl No-Sell Intergenerational Friendship Bond One-Liner Genre Savvy Manic Pixie Dream Girl Humans Are Bastards Red Shirt Depraved Bisexual Rich Bitch Does Not Like Shoes Rewatch Bonus Heel–Face Turn Film Noir Index He Who Fights Monsters Redshirt Army Once More, with Clarity! Accidental Misnaming "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue As You Know Guile Hero Beauty Is Never Tarnished Scenery Gorn Animal Motifs Put on a Bus Bloodier and Gorier Leave the Camera Running Sexy Discretion Shot Femme Fatale Visual Pun Attempted Rape Last-Name Basis Badass Boast Pretty in Mink Expy May–December Romance Suddenly SHOUTING! Action Prologue Insistent Terminology Laughing Mad The Film of the Book And Starring Re-Cut Scary Black Man Good Is Not Nice Camp Gay Historical-Domain Character Loophole Abuse Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Grey and Gray Morality One-Word Title Psychological Thriller MacGuffin As the Good Book Says... All Just a Dream Immune to Bullets Hero Antagonist Vomit Indiscretion Shot I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Thriller Bar Brawl Training Montage Romantic False Lead Dies Wide Open Deliberately Monochrome The Casanova Kick the Son of a Bitch Disproportionate Retribution Ominous Latin Chanting Cat Scare Hollywood Law Ungrateful Bastard Downer Ending Red Oni, Blue Oni Creator Cameo It's All About Me Villain Song Our Vampires Are Different Hoist by His Own Petard Evil Counterpart Roaring Rampage of Revenge Worthy Opponent Casting Gag Homage Despair Event Horizon Boom, Headshot! Author Avatar Sole Survivor Gold Digger Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Accidental Murder Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Suspiciously Specific Denial Properly Paranoid Would Hit a Girl Pretty Little Headshots Manchild The Power of Love Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The Lost Lenore Time Skip Up to Eleven Corrupt Corporate Executive Moment Killer Dramatic Gun Cock Due to the Dead Did Not Get the Girl From Nobody to Nightmare Skewed Priorities Air-Vent Passageway For Want of a Nail Death by Sex The '70s Storming the Castle Would Hurt a Child Country Matters Public Domain Feature Films Amoral Attorney folderlabel Eldritch Abomination Hero of Another Story Evil Is Hammy Manly Tears Bowdlerise You Have Failed Me The Remake Christmas Movies Index Together in Death Ironic Echo Epic Movie I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Manipulative Bastard Informed Ability Animal Title Index Villain with Good Publicity Villain Opening Scene Gender Flip '80s Hair Beta Couple Parental Substitute A.I. Is a Crapshoot Neck Snap One-Man Army Self-Deprecation Parental Abandonment The '50s Bottomless Magazines Children Are Innocent Artistic License – Biology German Films Bilingual Bonus Take That! Abhorrent Admirer Retired Badass Catapult Nightmare Reality Has No Subtitles Disney Villain Death Rasputinian Death Oh, Crap! Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Well-Intentioned Extremist Motor Mouth Humiliation Conga Ship Tease Neck Lift Cluster F-Bomb Mexican Standoff Black Comedy Took a Level in Jerkass Revenge Big Eater The Smurfette Principle The Smart Guy Pimped-Out Dress True Companions Meaningful Background Event Really Gets Around Historical Hero Upgrade Brick Joke Badass Bookworm Nothing Is Scarier Made of Iron Dressing as the Enemy Those Two Guys Jitter Cam Silence Is Golden Artistic License – Physics Brutal Honesty Broken Pedestal Russian Films Credits Gag You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Straight Gay Freeze-Frame Bonus Gory Discretion Shot A God Am I Author Appeal "Shaggy Dog" Story Twist Ending Romantic Comedy Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Bald of Evil Taking the Bullet Foreshadowing Psychopathic Manchild The Reveal Random Events Plot Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Stylistic Suck Pay Evil unto Evil Fish out of Water Authority Equals Asskicking Rule of Three Red Eyes, Take Warning From Bad to Worse Star-Crossed Lovers Shut Up, Hannibal! The Chick Based on a True Story Adorkable Kill 'em All Title Drop Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Those Two Bad Guys Extreme Doormat Break the Cutie Smug Snake Closed Circle Those Wacky Nazis Belligerent Sexual Tension Never My Fault No Name Given Too Dumb to Live Meaningful Name A Date with Rosie Palms And I Must Scream Major Injury Underreaction Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Determinator aka: The Determinator Faux Affably Evil Call-Forward Male Frontal Nudity The Alleged Car Artistic License – Military Cold-Blooded Torture She Cleans Up Nicely Ambiguous Ending Even Evil Has Standards Victoria's Secret Compartment Dark Action Girl Defrosting Ice Queen Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Badass Longcoat Badass Normal No OSHA Compliance Gone Horribly Right Arranged Marriage "Awesome McCool" Name Protagonist Title Insult Backfire Dark Reprise Here We Go Again! Cool Car Names to Run Away from Really Fast The Hero Dies Imagine Spot Dual Wielding Hypocritical Humor Dogged Nice Guy Evil Sounds Deep Cowboy Cop An Axe to Grind Bavarian Fire Drill Shirtless Scene I Need a Freaking Drink Enemy Mine Adaptational Villainy Big Bad Duumvirate Dull Surprise Serial Killer Gratuitous English An Arm and a Leg Obstructive Bureaucrat Slasher Movie Central Theme What the Hell, Hero? Broken Aesop Bunny-Ears Lawyer B-Movie What Happened to the Mouse? The Cavalry Karmic Death Earn Your Happy Ending Call-Back Papa Wolf Wham Line Wounded Gazelle Gambit The Stoic Offscreen Moment of Awesome Scenery Porn Drugs Are Bad Left the Background Music On Arc Words Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Police are Useless No Ending Police Brutality