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