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