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