Tropescilloscope: Manly Tears

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

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