Tropescilloscope: Manly Tears

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

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