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The [[Trope Namer]] was Dr. Helen Caldicott, outspoken campaigner against nuclear weapons and the arms race.
'''Editor's Note''': Remember, this trope is specifically for ''parodying'' excessive manliness. When excessive manliness is ''played straight'', it is [[Rated "M" for Manly]].
Compare [[Memetic Badass]], [[Awesomeness Is Volatile]]. Not to be confused with the actual act of putting self in harms way to prove one's manliness: that one is covered by [[Macho Masochism]] (although overlap is common). Also compare [[Impossible Genius]], when it's a character's intelligence rather than their manliness that enables them to do absurd things.
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* This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNjzHnGRugo Old Spice commercial.]
{{quote| (Skiing off a jump) "I'm a Man." (Crashes through a tree, suddenly pumping a barbell one-handed on an exercise bench) But sometimes I like to [[Department of Redundancy Department|smell like a different smelling man]]." (crashes into a house, walks out with a new outfit, a badass moustache and a golf club) "Luckily, Old Spice makes a variety of different scents." (Drives a golf ball one-handed and proceeds to ''bite off a chunk of the golf club and eat it'') "For ''men''."}}
** Old Spice commercials in general are either [[Rated "M" for Manly]] or [[Testosterone Poisoning]], the parody trope. Which is probably to be expected when you have spokesmen like [[Bruce Campbell]].
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE The Man Your Man Could Smell Like.], though that's littered with [[Mr. Fanservice]].
** Testosterone levels continue to rise with the new series of Youtube responses to people complimenting and asking questions of the Old Spice Man. Monocle Smile!
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== Comics -- Books ==
* For those that regard [[Frank Miller]]'s ''[[The Dark Knight Strikes Again]]'' and ''[[All Star Batman and Robin]]'' as [[Stealth Parody|Stealth Parodies]] of his earlier works, they certainly fit here. His earlier work like ''[[Sin City]]'' played the [[Rated "M" for Manly|excessive manliness straight]].
** No stealth about Lance Blastoff's parody. He takes it out and slaps you round the face with it.
* There is an aside in ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'' where two of Jhonen's characters meet two exaggerations of [[Nineties Anti
* In ''[[V for Vendetta]]'', [[Alan Moore]] decided he needed an in-universe Schwarzenneger-like incarnation of the ideals of the Party: He is Macho!!! He is Aryan!!! He is what every woman wants!!! He is STORM SAXON!!! Needless to say, V enjoys its airings utterly, as [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|fascistic camp]] treats.
* Saxton Hale from the [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]] tie-in comics. This man parachutes into his office every day, has steak at every mealtime, and CUT HIS WAY OUT OF PRIMATE HELL! He also comes with his own MANLY sound effects (e.g. PROPERTY DAMAGE!).
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* The stetson-clad Colonel Kilgore from ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' -- of the famous "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" speech -- shoots beyond manly into the realms of the impossible. He leads a helicopter assault to the tune of ''Ride of the Valkyries'' so that he can ''go surfing''.
* ''[[From Dusk Till Dawn (Film)|From Dusk Till Dawn]]'': A confrontation between Harvey Keitel, Fred Williamson, the great Tom Savini, and George Clooney (!) against a room full of vampires. Featuring Danny Trejo and John Saxon. And Tom Savini sports a COCK-GUN!
* ''[[¡Three Amigos! (Film)|Three Amigos]]'' pokes fun at all the machismo, especially in the [[Bad Guy Bar]] "Where did you get that pretty little gun?" (with disastrous results for the "manly" bar patrons) and Ned's duel with the German aviator (Jefe: "You wanna die with a MAAAAN's gun, not a little CC<ref>yeah, he meant "sissy", but the accent's so strong</ref> gun like this.") In which Ned falls over trying to holster the MAAAAN's gun handed to him by Jefe. And {{spoiler|gets knocked back a couple dozen feet from the recoil when he shoots the German}}.
* ''[[Commando (Film)|Commando]]'' has a confrontation between ''[[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]'' and Bill Duke (a large imposing man) in a hotel room, which they initiate by shouting insults at each other such as "You scared? You should be, because this Green Beret's going to beat your a**" followed by "I eat Green Beret's for breakfast, and right now I'm very hungry" etc. Rae Dawn Chong (a small slim actress) exhibits great intelligence and wisdom by cowering in the corner while these two behemoths demolish not only the room they are in, but several rooms around them. The trope is invoked by her comments while this is happening:
** "Can you believe this macho bull-sh**?"
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* The metal band [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQF_DR_uDU4 Austrian Death Machine] based on Arnold Schwarzenegger movies.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_c6GlcEcoY The Man Land], song by metal band Between the Buried and Me.
* Amounts of [[Rated "M" for Manly|testosterone-fuelled]] [[Narm]] and [[Ho Yay]] in [[Manowar]] are so [[Egregious]], there's a band called Nanowar devoted to parodying them.
* "Men" by Martin Mull and Steve Martin
{{quote| '' 'Cause men can sweat and men can stink and no one seems to care-o,<br />
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