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