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