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