Tropescilloscope: Manly Tears

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

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