Rated "M" for Manly: Difference between revisions

The [[World of Badass]] is often the setting for this trope. Compare [[Darker and Edgier]], [[Refuge in Cool]], [[Awesomeness Is Volatile]]. Not directly related to [[Rated "M" for Money]] in any way but the potential for intersection between the two is high.

 

 

Contrast [[Chick Flick]].

 

== Comic Books ==

* The [[Doom (Comic Book)|Doom comic]]. It's manliness and a half! It's a 12.0 on a 10.0 scale of manliness!

** RIP AND TEAR YOUR GUTS!

* ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''. Along with ''Platoon'' and ''Full Metal Jacket'', this suffers from [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]] syndrome. Most young men want nothing more than to attack a Vietcong village with helicopters and napalm, and then go upriver in a boat, whilst wearing a flak jacket and machine-gunning peasants. Despite ostensibly being anti-war films, all of the aforementioned make war look ''awesome''.

* Even though the movie itself doesn't qualify, [[Colonel Badass|Colonel Miles Quaritch]] from ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'' ''definitely'' counts.

* ''[[Bloodsport]]''

* ''[[Ben-Hur]]'', mostly thanks to the [[Chariot Race]] and [[Galley Slave]] scenes

* ''[[Commando (film)|Commando]]''. So manly it ''doesn't need the girl!''

* ''[[Conan]]''

* ''[[Deliverance]]''

* ''[[Die Hard]]''

* [[Master and Commander (film)]]: Contains beautiful scenery of the ocean and of sailing ships, gentlemanly virtues, young men growing up, classical music, science, sailor folklore, ...what's that? Did I forget [[I Like Swords|sword-swinging]], blood and gore, and [[Stuff Blowing Up]]?

* The ''[[Dollars Trilogy]]'' [[Spaghetti Western]] movies.

* ''[[Never Back Down]]''

* ''[[Ninja Assassin]]''. The title should tell you everything you need to know.

* [[No Country for Old Men]]

* [[The Raid]], the entire movie is basically people shooting or beating other people.

 

== Literature ==

{{quote|And Beowulf is like: "I'm afraid it's true, after swimming for a solid week in full plate armor, I'm afraid I can't say I beat Breka. But in my defense, I was slightly slowed down by ''the nine sea monsters'' I killed along the way!"|Red|Overly Sarcastic Productions}}

* There exists an entire subgenre of pulp fiction known as men's adventure.

* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', Riding a Zombie T-Rex. Nuff said.

* [[The Executioner]] series, featuring the role model for [[The Punisher]], [[Mack Bolan]].

* ''[[Tarzan]]''. A muscular jungle guy, who fights big apes and crocodiles. 100% manly!

* [[H.P. Lovecraft|HP Lovecraft]]'s ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'', or at least the character, Randolph Carter. In Dream-Quest, Carter scales mountains, rides Nigh-Gaunts, allies with the Ghouls, is the cause of several full-scale wars and goes toe-to-toe with {{spoiler|Nyarlathotep, The Crawling Chaos.}} Then in Through he Gates of the Silver Key, {{spoiler|he ascends reality, discovers he meaning of life, becomes an alien then travels millions of light-years back to Earth with nothing but his stash of space-weed to help get him through it.}}

* [[Rudyard Kipling]], Robert Service, Henry Rider Haggard and several other Victorian authors.

* [[Poul Anderson]]: Wrote about vikings, Roman soldiers,[[Technic History|space merchants, space spies]], space warriors, babynapping [[The Fair Folk|elf kings]], [[Inn Between the Worlds|historical badasses]] in a cross-dimensional tavern, dark age warlords, [[The High Crusade|a medieval baron]] who conquers a space empire with longbows and on and on. He also helped found the Society for Creative Anachronism.

* [[Johnny Cash]]

* Jón Leifs

*** That must mean the 1812 Overture qualifies as well.

* [[Knorkator]]'s ''Der Ultimative Mann'' (the ultimate man) tells women why they don't really want Mr Nice Guys.

* ''[[BlazBlue]]''. Bang Shishigami. 'Nuff said.

** In fact, about 2/3 of the cast in this game is either manly overload, or hot damn chicks.

** Except Jin. Who falls mostly into [[Ambiguously Gay]] [[Sissy Villain]] territory, especially around Ragna. {{spoiler|Ironic considering that he becomes Hakumen, part of the above 2/3}}. And even Jin becomes an insanely badass [[Determinator]] about halfway through the sequel.

* ''[[Dragon Age]]'' Try and pretend the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SuJ5T9sfAA trailers] ''aren't'' fueled by this trope. Whether your character is a man or a woman, the 100% badass is mandatory.

** As evidenced by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkB43FHalAo this kickass fan movie ]

** ''[[Duke Nukem Forever]]'', the game that has required 12 long years to gather the required amount of manliness necessary to do this character justice.

* ''[[F-Zero]]''; this game not only brings us [[Memetic Badass|Captain Falcon]], but Samurai Goroh, Black Shadow, Super Arrow, and tons of other muscular masked racecar drivers. In a Japanese game with [[Loads and Loads of Characters]], there is only one [[Bishonen]] in the game (Jack Levin) and even he's manlier then most!

** Forget the ''men''! Mrs. Arrow, one of the few women in this sausagefest, outright ''shames'' most of the men in the series. She's easily one of the best racers and is depicted as a confident [[Hot Amazon]] [[Amazonian Beauty|with the muscular physique of a female bodybuilder]]. She also happens to [[Henpecked Husband|emasculate her husband]], who is a bona-fide ''[[Superhero]]'' and the '''''defender of Earth'''''. In spite of this, she's still eye-candy, has a ''very'' [[Impossible Hourglass Figure|feminine figure]], and is ([[Tsundere|at heart]]) a sweet, caring, nurturing, loving housewife and friend who [[Spoiled Sweet|grew up]] as an [[Ojou]] with an aptitude for music and [[Omniglot|linguistics]] and a fondness of [[Socialite|high class culture]]. Try wrapping your heads around ''that''.

*** You can ''catch a cruise-missile mid-flight'', and ''throw it at a robot the size of a building''. You can ''skateboard on top of a bus, destroying everything in your path''. You can ''crush a car into boxing gloves''. You can ''smash your fists together'' so hard that ''everything in a hundred-foot radius of you is '''sent flying'''''.

* ''Rastan''

* ''[[Resident Evil]] [[Resident Evil 4|4]]'' & ''[[Resident Evil 5|5]]''.

{{quote|'''MCChris:''' Meanwhile in [[Resident Evil 4]] they're like 'BITCH! zombies comin up the hill shoot 'em in the head! shoot 'em in the head! Grab the shotgun! you don't gotta reload we done did that shit for ya! What are ya pressing select for? you don got time to make a profile bitch zombie's in the room ''SHOOT 'EM IN THE HEAD'' shoot em in the head! he killed your parents! His axe is on fire! SHOOT HIM IN THE HEAD'}}

*** We might add that the trailer features a man weathering the full force of a dragon's flames with nothing but a wooden shield, then ''[[Sonic Scream|shouting it down]]'' before summarily kicking its ass.

*** ''Skyrim'' will go down in history as one of great examples of this trope. The game is set in a land of fantasy Vikings, now in the grip of civil war. Around you, a great empire has crumbled, and its remnant struggles against Nazi elves. The world is about to die, devoured by a dragon god whose reptile servants already roam the skies. And you're the legendary Dragonborn, the only one who can stop them. You kill dragons in droves and eat their souls to gain their might.

* Any of the ''[[Warcraft]]'' games, but specifically all installments with Samwise Didier as the main artist. Dear lord, even the ''[[Our Elves Are Better|elves]]'' are gigantic beefcakes you wouldn't find outside of a professional body builder contest.

** Until [[World of Warcraft]]'s first expansion came along and wrecked it, by adding Blood Elves.

** Jecht [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7UhFYi8S4k hurls meteors]. Prior to that, he was a professional athlete superstar with the body of a bronzed god, perpetual shirtlessness, and masculine facial hair. When he ends up in Spira, he's immediately put in jail for being a raging drunken jackass. About the only mark against his manliness is his lousy treatment of his son (which tried to be tough love and just ends up being emotional abuse), but in the ends he takes responsiblity and mans up to his failure, thus attaining perfection.

** Auron is a living legend of Spira, the only guardian ever to survive a successful pilgrimage. Despite {{spoiler|being dead (from an unrelated incident following the pilgrimage)}}, he refuses to rest and instead walks the world as a battle-scarred veteran who's utterly unimpressed by anything, speaks only when neccessary, and tries to raise his dead friends' kids to become the heroes he and his posse couldn't be, all while smacking behemoths clear out of the battlefield in single strokes and lighting things up with cyclonic hellfire created by whipping up a whirlwind with his sword and throwing his jug of booze into it. And when he's done with all that, he heads over to the [[Kingdom Hearts]] universe to back-talk Hades and nearly kill Hercules with one hand.

* Sazh in ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]''. Specifically, {{spoiler|in crystal stasis. See [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101220203016/finalfantasy/images/3/3c/Sazh_crystal_sketch.jpg this picture]}}, where he looks like he's about to get up and kick ass {{spoiler|even though he's solid crystal}}. Also, Chocobo in the 'fro, 'nuff said.

* This trope is apparently the reason [[Beauty and The Beast|Gaston]] hasn't been in any of the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' games, aside from being too similar to [[Tarzan (Disney film)|Clayton]]. Actual examples from the series, most of which are {{spoiler|incarnations of [[Big Bad]] Xehanort}}:

* The Argentinian animated movie called "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGo3WsnSSXg Boogie The Oily One]" contains every single archetype from any kind of action film (film noir, western, gangster film, etc.) and combines it with lots, lots of [[Black Humor]].

* ''[[Ultramarines]]: The Film''

* ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' like rock 'n' roll, heavy metal, gangsta rap, beer, cigarettes, breaking things, fighting, guns, explosions, fire, and chicks with big boobs so they pretty much LIVE for this trope.

* ''[[Megas XLR]]''. What's more manly, a [[Cool Car]] or a [[Super Robot]]? Apparently, the answer here is ''both.''

* ''[[Inhumanoids]]''

* ''[[Extreme Dinosaurs]]'' has a seriously testosterone laced [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiujBfxTPWQ intro]. [[Autobots Rock Out|Hard rock]] intro coupled with scenes of [[Heroic Build|muscled-up]] dinosaurs fighting each other pretty much screams this trope.

* ''[[Street Sharks]]'', seriously, what could be manlier than muscular mutant humanoids with shark heads and razor sharp teeth going around riding motorcycles and bursting through walls every five seconds?!

* ''[[Heavy Metal (animation)|Heavy Metal]]'' is possibly the greatest animated example of this trope. All but one (the scientist's daughter) of the women characters are naked at one point, and none of them (with the possible exception of Taarna) act remotely human. World War II pilots are shot and turn into zombies. It's also loaded with sex, violence and a kick-ass 80s rock soundtrack. The ultimate example of animated testosterone.

* ''[[Exo Squad]]'' of all the cartoons in the 90's this is the only one which has the most gratuitous amounts of [[Beam Spam]], and explosions that can only be matched by ''[[Gundam]]''.

* [[Mulan]]: Well a little toned down considering it has a [[Disney Princess]] in it. But what the heck, what's wrong with that? And it has some realistic displays of military life as including a shot showing the tedium on the march and a war crime scene. It even has a really manly [[Training Montage]] in the mouth of a [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]].

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