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