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{{quote|''"[[Indiana Jones]] is the epitome of what all men strive to be. He's handsome, he's intelligent, he's single, sleeps around, he's got cash, he punches people, he travels the world, he can sleep with any of his students, he uses a whip, [[Department of Redundancy Department|he punches people, he bangs his students in the locker room, women love him, he goes on adventures, he punches people]], [[Hero Insurance|he can shoot people and get away with it]]..."''|'''[[Red Letter Media|Mr. Plinkett]]'''}}
Something that is fuelled to the end with testosterone. Here we see big, muscular men being badasses. [[Most Writers Are Male|Made by men for men]]. Expect to see [[Perma-Stubble]], [[Carpet of Virility|Carpets Of Virility]], [[Stuff Blowing Up]] and large amounts of [[Rule of Cool]]. Most of the main characters are often grade-A [[
[[Trope Namer|Named]] after [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB6fq9Aadwk#t=2m19s a line] from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB6fq9Aadwk parody video] "''[[Counter-Strike]]'' [[Bowdlerise|For Kids]]".
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* ''[[Beelzebub]]''
* ''[[Berserk]]''
* ''[[Black Lagoon]]''...except it's the ''[[The Ladette|women]]'' [[The Ladette|who act like this]]. Thus giving it some noticeable appeal to [[Periphery Demographic|women]] who [[Girls Need Role Models|love shows with]] [[Action Girl
* ''[[Blaster Knuckle]]''
* ''[[Bleach]]'''s most prominent examples are probably Genryusai Yamamoto and Kenpachi Zaraki.
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* ''[[Indiana Jones]]''
* ''In Her Line Of Fire''. Yes, Mariel is manly and gets the chick.
* ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]'': Multi-billionaire with charisma and swagger keeps himself in shape, kicks all kinds of {{supervillain}} ass, and gets all the hot chicks, the hot cars, the house, the ultimate Man's Garage downstairs, fucking robots, and the fact ''he's cool about having been caught masturbating by Gwyneth Paltrow.'' Oh, and the fact he gets to wear FLYING ARMOUR.
* ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]''
* ''[[Jason and the Argonauts]]''
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** Bonuse points to Gable for saying [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|the greatest line in the history of cinema]]: after 10+ years of kissing [[Gone with the Wind|Scarlett's]] ass and getting nothing but attitude, he finally decides to walk out. And when she asks what she's supposed to do now...
{{quote|''<big>Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.</big>''}}
*** So ''[[It Happened One Night]]'' should be
**** Yes. To elaborate: [[Clark Gable]] nearly destroyed an entire industry just by taking off his shirt in that flick.
* ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'' is about saving an orphanage with the [[The Power of Rock|power of awesome music]] and outrunning the police in a [[Cool Car]], while wearing [[Sunglasses At Night]]. It's the only musical men will watch, even if they deny that it's a musical.
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* ''[[The Icelandic Sagas]]'' and ''Gesta Danorum''.
* The modus operandi of ''[[Baen Books]]''
* [[Belisarius Series]] has so many [[Badass
* ''[[Conan]]''
** For that matter, anything by "two-gun Bob" [[Robert E. Howard]], ever.
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* ''[[Dune]]''
* ''[[Fight Club]]''
* ''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]'' is really an early example of this trope. The main characters' lives apparently consist of entirely of sex, drinking and
* ''[[Flashman]]'', in an odd way.
** By extension, [[Ciaphas Cain]] '''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!''' of the ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' universe, who was largely inspired by Flashman. He keeps up a Manly-and-[[Badass]]-yet-humble facade to hide the fact that he'd rather be shuffling papers at a nice safe desk instead of going toe-to-toe with Hive Tyrants and Khorne Beserkers (though the skill with which he fights said monstrosities makes it a ''really'' convincing facade).
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* [[Led Zeppelin]], SO MUCH.
* [[Ludwig Van Beethoven]], for a more classical take on manliness.
* [[Manowar]], so much so that this trope might as well be called
* [[Megadeth]]
* [[Metallica]]
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* Pentagram (for ''[[Rock Me, Asmodeus|evil]]'' men!)
* [[Public Enemy]]: Fight The Power!
* [[Queen]]
* [[Rammstein]]
* Ratt
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*** Correction: The only possible way God himself could sink this game would be by destroying the entire planet Earth by blasting it down to it's component atoms, then hurling said atoms into the sun, then throwing the atom filled sun into a black hole. Then probably throwing that black hole into another black hole. But that would be cheating. And it still probably wouldn't work. [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|Bitch]].
** In the grim dark future of the 41st millennium, even the [[Amazon Brigade|nuns]] walk around with flamethrowers and pistols that shoot miniature rockets.
** A third-person shooter of the universe is being created, starring the [[Space Marine
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrS-r_b8dmI And more gameplay footage has shown], among other things, cutting Orks in half with chainswords, shooting Orks in da face with bolters, [[Crazy Awesome|shooting Orks tied to missles who are shooting at you out of the sky,]] and stomping a downed Ork's skull in with your mighty power armored boot. [[Up to Eleven|This game is so manly, your balls will grow balls]].
* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' may not be as over-the-top as it's erstwhile sci-fi spinoff, but it's no slouch in the manliness department.
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** [[Kingdom Hearts II|Xemnas]], voiced by [[Norio Wakamoto]] in Japanese.
** [[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep|Terra]], possibly the manliest playable character, who uses [[Rock Steady|rock]] and [[Casting a Shadow|darkness]] powers, wields [[BFS|a giant Claymore]] [[Mighty Glacier|of a keyblade]] and looks much, ''much'' more like an actual male than [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|Sora or Riku]]. {{spoiler|And he would also later be [[Demonic Possession|possessed]] into becoming Xehanort himself, who would then be separated into the above two characters}}.
* ''[[Endless Frontier]]''. The four male protagonists are a cop, a cowboy, and two badass martial artists. The females are a foxgirl, a demon-girl, two [[Robot Girl
** ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' itself is nothing to sneeze at in this department. Given the amount of anime series with [[Hot Blood]] involved in most installments, it's no wonder that all the manliness rubs off on the most quiet or wimpy characters.
* Mutant League Football and its sequel Mutant League Hockey.
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* Manish Man, the Manly Minotaur, of ''[[Adventure Time]]'' is an example of this trope. But he seems to be a more joyous character than most listed.
* ''[[Conan the Barbarian|Conan the Adventurer]]''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x_4nCj4TI0 The manliest intro ever.]
* [[Iron Man (animation)|Iron Man]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBbnT-cIDVM makes this list once more.] This is from the second season of his 90's cartoon, in which the show seriously [[Growing the Beard|grew the beard...]] or mullet, as the case may be. Face-melting guitar solo. Medieval-style
** An actual response to the video:
{{quote|I had testicular cancer before I watched this.
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