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