Tropescilloscope: Rated M for Manly

Any work or character with an emphasis on masculinity—made by men for men—often involving badassery taken Up to Eleven. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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