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)

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