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