Tropescilloscope: Manly Tears

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

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Distracted by the Sexy Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Death of a Child Not What It Looks Like Gilligan Cut Improbable Aiming Skills Paper-Thin Disguise Dressing as the Enemy Animal Title Index Reality Ensues The Bad Guy Wins Curse Cut Short Blood from the Mouth Awesome, but Impractical Fish out of Water Nice Hat Moment Killer Romantic False Lead She Cleans Up Nicely Apocalypse How Hidden Depths Ghost Fiction Costume Porn Reasonable Authority Figure The Chick Dark Action Girl Beta Couple Big Bad Duumvirate Film Noir Index Based on a True Story Product Placement The '80s Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Grey and Gray Morality Insane Troll Logic Decoy Protagonist Casting Gag Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Not So Above It All Rule of Symbolism Extremely Short Timespan German Films One-Man Army French Films Plucky Comic Relief Author Avatar Ambiguous Disorder Mooks Brother–Sister Incest Token Minority Adaptational Heroism Easily Forgiven Only in It for the Money Smug Snake Vomit Discretion Shot Suspiciously Similar Substitute Victoria's Secret Compartment Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Spared by the Adaptation Not Quite Dead All for Nothing Brick Joke Historical-Domain Character Animated Credits Opening Adult Fear I Did What I Had to Do Freeze-Frame Bonus Bury Your Gays Extreme Doormat Hate Sink Television Movie Index Gorn Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Woman Scorned No Ending Our Zombies Are Different Shut Up, Hannibal! Artistic License – Biology Age Lift Fingore Totally Radical Arc Words Rule of Funny Eureka Moment Amusing Injuries Dramedy Naïve Newcomer The Dog Bites Back Pragmatic Villainy Demonic Possession Almost Kiss Eyepatch of Power Fanservice Extra Hong Kong Films Mundane Made Awesome Evil Counterpart Expository Hairstyle Change Bring My Brown Pants Stealth Hi/Bye Deal with the Devil Creative Closing Credits Department of Redundancy Department The Cavalry Evil Is Petty Match Cut Well-Intentioned Extremist Red Oni, Blue Oni Heroes Want Redheads Arch-Enemy Anyone Can Die Did Not Get the Girl Groin Attack She's Got Legs Darkest Hour Only a Flesh Wound N-Word Privileges Defrosting Ice Queen Happily Married The Stoner Spell My Name with an "S" Adapted Out Dutch Angle Villain Opening Scene Madness Mantra Russian Films Obfuscating Stupidity Same Language Dub Pretty Little Headshots No Celebrities Were Harmed Left the Background Music On The Sociopath Ship Tease Annoying Younger Sibling Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Developing Doomed Characters Fake Shemp Interrupted Suicide Darker and Edgier Instant Death Bullet Stuff Blowing Up Bilingual Bonus Up to Eleven Mugging the Monster The Hero Dies Chekhov's Gunman Meaningful Background Event Dirty Cop Air-Vent Passageway Deliberate Values Dissonance Flipping the Bird Retcon Suspiciously Specific Denial Cool Old Lady Genre Shift Big Damn Heroes Soundtrack Dissonance Take a Third Option Ironic Echo Kids Are Cruel Adaptational Badass Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The Mole NO INDOOR VOICE Driven to Suicide Bad Boss Demoted to Extra Sir Swears-a-Lot Big Fancy House Tempting Fate Parental Abandonment Rule of Three Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Vitriolic Best Buds Adults Are Useless Those Two Guys Sci-Fi Horror Better to Die than Be Killed Bloodier and Gorier Antagonist Title Important Haircut Cat Scare Reckless Gun Usage Spiritual Successor Guns Akimbo Say My Name Precision F-Strike Dark Reprise Green-Eyed Monster There Is No Kill Like Overkill Spiteful Spit Evil Laugh Fun with Acronyms Heroic Sacrifice Shipper on Deck Determinator aka: The Determinator Real Life Writes the Plot Christmas Movies Index Combat Pragmatist Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Back from the Dead Be Careful What You Wish For Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Dark Is Not Evil Rule of Cool Expy Whole Plot Reference Big Eater Cool Guns Actually Pretty Funny Sequel Escalation Public Domain Feature Films Scare Chord Stalker with a Crush It's Personal Dogged Nice Guy Mystery and Detective Films Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Real Life Tagline Manly Tears Early Installment Weirdness Not Using the "Z" Word Unresolved Sexual Tension Humans Are Bastards Maybe Ever After Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Boom, Headshot! Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies And the Adventure Continues Works Set in World War II Jerkass Has a Point Laughing Mad Loophole Abuse Cat Fight Aluminum Christmas Trees Hope Spot Rich Bitch Dual Wielding Corpsing Artistic License – Physics Animal Motifs Recycled IN SPACE! Guile Hero Undying Loyalty Bowdlerise Scary Black Man The Lost Lenore Anguished Declaration of Love The Vamp Fatal Family Photo Here We Go Again! Lampshade Hanging Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Batman Gambit The Starscream Big Brother Instinct Sacrificial Lion Hero of Another Story The Smart Guy Knight Templar Fantastic Racism Posthumous Character Break the Cutie He Knows Too Much Bullying a Dragon The Lancer Sequel Hook Retirony Everyone Has Standards Slashed Throat Fat Bastard Translation Convention Jump Scare Offscreen Moment of Awesome He Who Fights Monsters In the Back Punny Name The Un-Reveal Anti-Villain Politically Incorrect Villain Big-Bad Ensemble This Is Gonna Suck Crapsack World Ascended Extra Noodle Incident Dramatic Irony Insult Backfire '80s Hair Retired Badass Deliberately Monochrome Logo Joke Conspicuous CG Grievous Bottley Harm The Stoic Heterosexual Life-Partners Smoking Is Cool Word of God Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" And I Must Scream Serial Killer Adaptational Villainy Historical Villain Upgrade Taking the Bullet Alas, Poor Villain Never Trust a Trailer Video Credits Hair-Trigger Temper Straight Gay Scenery Porn Canadian Movies My God, What Have I Done? Gory Discretion Shot Male Gaze Truth in Television Death by Sex Line-of-Sight Name Psychological Thriller Action Survivor Manipulative Bastard Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Affectionate Parody Only One Name Bottomless Magazines Stylistic Suck Homage Shown Their Work Film Noir Asshole Victim Storming the Castle Good Is Not Nice May–December Romance Only Sane Man Dropped a Bridge on Him Improbable Weapon User Hell Is That Noise Shower Scene Wicked Cultured Very Loosely Based on a True Story Bland-Name Product Authority Equals Asskicking Author Appeal Silent Movie Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Beauty Is Never Tarnished Auto Erotica A Minor Kidroduction Betty and Veronica I Have Your Wife Coming-of-Age Story Artistic License – Military Trailers Always Spoil Laser-Guided Karma Mexican Standoff Large Ham Made of Iron Bar Brawl Super Strength Man on Fire Genre Throwback Wretched Hive Really Gets Around timeperiod No Antagonist Police are Useless Ax-Crazy Improvised Weapon Big "NO!" Chekhov's Gun The Great Depression Danny Peary Cult Movies List Killed Mid-Sentence Kill It with Fire Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Mr. Fanservice Red Shirt Four-Temperament Ensemble Adorkable Reality Has No Subtitles Sadistic Choice Loads and Loads of Characters Fire-Forged Friends 20 Minutes into the Future Dramatic Gun Cock Artistic License – Law Villain with Good Publicity Catch-Phrase Mind Screw Punctuated! For! Emphasis! La Résistance Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Neck Lift Intergenerational Friendship Villain Song Biopic It Will Never Catch On The '90s Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Malevolent Masked Men A Father to His Men Karmic Death Cold-Blooded Torture The Big Guy Black Comedy Heroic BSoD Butt-Monkey Domestic Abuse You Have Failed Me Evil Brit Plot Hole Abusive Parents Insistent Terminology Hypocrite Artistic License – History Those Wacky Nazis The Remake Adaptation Expansion Chase Scene Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Evil Sounds Deep Famous Last Words Black Comedy Rape Eagleland Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Fan Disservice Evil-Detecting Dog Punch-Clock Villain Red Herring Parental Incest Earn Your Happy Ending Blackmail Never My Fault Love at First Sight The Mafia Broken Pedestal Time Skip Dumb Blonde Credits Gag Broken Aesop Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Police Brutality Car Fu Berserk Button Disproportionate Retribution An Axe to Grind How We Got Here The Musical Getting Crap Past the Radar Action Prologue No OSHA Compliance Greater-Scope Villain Men Are the Expendable Gender Death Seeker Took a Level in Badass The Reveal Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Covers Always Lie Enemy Mine Get Out! 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Is a Crapshoot Deadpan Snarker Double-Meaning Title Non-Indicative Name Shoot the Shaggy Dog Cowboy Cop Tap on the Head Stealth Pun Downer Ending Call-Back Rewatch Bonus Thriller No Name Given Flashback Creepy Child The Casanova Exactly What It Says on the Tin Cassandra Truth Psychopathic Manchild The Film of the Book BFG Heel Realization "Awesome McCool" Name Spanner in the Works Room Full of Crazy Scenery Gorn Dirty Old Man Japanese Films Put on a Bus Shout-Out Make It Look Like an Accident Ambiguously Gay Badass Boast Break the Haughty Imagine Spot Diabolus ex Machina Sassy Black Woman Mama Bear Genre Savvy Rousing Speech Body Horror Title Drop The '70s Re-Cut One Steve Limit An Arm and a Leg Accidental Murder Race Lift Motor Mouth All Men Are Perverts Deconstruction Romantic Comedy Early-Bird Cameo Exact Words Immune to Bullets Pyrrhic Victory Novelization Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Kill 'em All Not So Stoic Shell-Shocked Veteran Cool Shades Bond One-Liner