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'''MANLINESS!''' Do you have what it takes to be '''manly''' in this day and age?! ''[[Dirty Harry|Well, do ya, punk?!]]''
We don't just mean plain old "macho", weaklings! You're [[Internet Tough Guy|on the Internet now]], where the truly ''manly'' men eat [[Extreme Omnivore|dinosaur bones]] and [[Masochist's Meal|razor blades]] for breakfast, brush their teeth with [[Made of Iron|angle grinders]], [[Bullet Catch|catch bullets]] with their [[Immune to Bullets|furrowed brows]], [[A Real Man Is a Killer|strangle rhinoceri]] with their mustaches, communicate exclusively with their [[Violence Is the Only Option|fists]], eat iron and shit a chain, [[A Man Is Not a Virgin|overemphasise]] their [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|heterosexuality]] (or [[Manly Gay|Manly
... and so forth.
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* Energy drinks. Like are Venom: Death Adder, which claims to be "the cold-blooded venom of the Death Adder, delivered in a fruit punch strike," and the Monster coffee energy drinks, which are "coffee done the Monster way, straight up, with a take no prisoners attitude and the experience and know-how to back it up."
* Many extra hot sauces use this as their marketing pitch; they convey the dubious message that you need to be extremely manly to eat that stuff and come out okay. For example, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130205120805/http://extremefood.com/shop/home.php Blair's Sauces and Snacks], whose slogan is "Don't fear death, fear the consequences," has a product line named Death Sauce. Some other extreme hot sauces by various vendors have names like Demon Ichor, Pyro Diablo, Smack My Ass and Call Me Sally, Mega Death, Magma, Vicious Viper, You Can't Handle This Hot Sauce, Rectal Rocket Fuel, Ass In Space ("Ass-tronomically Hot!"), etc.
* [[Squick|BEAR SEMEN]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20140302184128/http://www.bearsemen.com/ THE] '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140302184128/http://www.bearsemen.com/ MANLIEST]''' [https://web.archive.org/web/20140302184128/http://www.bearsemen.com/ DRINK ON EARTH]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42ZZyueRfO0 This] Dr. Pepper commercial.
* Dashing Superguy from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU6cHCkWqy8 the American commercial] for ''[[Kirby|Kirby's Dreamland]]''
* The commercial for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li7RVz0i-Tw Doritos Jacked].
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'': This trope has been passed down in the ♥♥♥ Armstrong line for ''generations''. ♥♥♥ [[Pec Flex|Perhaps frighteningly so]], if you're set up on a date with an Armstrong gal.
* ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]''
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* ''[[Baki the Grappler]]''. Pick a male character, ''any'' male character. If you use a dirty trick to slice off his hand, he might just smile, crack a joke, and then punch you in the face ''with the bone in his stump!'' That's fairly typical, and not even going near the territory of a monster like Yujiro. If the idea of permanent crippling injury gives you pause, then you have ''no'' business being in the ring with these fighters.
* Black Star from ''[[Soul Eater]]'' definitely, for he has [http://www.mangareader.net/157-41902-13/soul-eater/chapter-68.html three] [http://www.mangareader.net/157-41902-14/soul-eater/chapter-68.html blades].
* The village leader from ''[[
* Whitebeard from ''[[One Piece]]'': In a [[World of Badass]], he is acknowledged as the single most [[Badass]] man there is. And he's [[Cool Old Guy|pretty old]], to boot. It says something when a world-wide government that rules over one-hundred nations and has the firepower raze entire islands is utterly terrified of him. Plus, I mean, [http://i811.photobucket.com/albums/zz35/XxInabiUchihaxX/Other%20Img/6163_render_Whitebeard_arrives_by_G.png?t=1267568506 just look at him]! {{spoiler|Sadly, he proved [[Too Cool to Live]], but even then [[Died Standing Up|he didn't fall!]]}}
▲== 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-Hero]] comic characters, one of whom is an absurdly muscle-bound heap named "Schlong". His power would appear to reside entirely in his powers of teeth-gritting and flexing. In fact, when he is x-rayed, his skeleton appears as a spindly splayed doodle floating inside a mountain of meat. He needs to be supported by training wheels to keep from tipping over.
* 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]] 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 [[Unsound Effect|MANLY sound effects]] (e.g. '''PROPERTY DAMAGE!''').
== Films -- Animation ==
* ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]''. "No one's slick as Gaston; no one's quick as Gaston; no one's neck's as incredibly thick as Gaston's!" Did you say ''[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|neck?]]''... Well, he ''does'' use antlers in all of his decorating. And "every last inch of him is covered in hair." Check the eyebrow action when he says that. Ew.
* The lawn-mover that is "The TERRAFIRMINATOR" from ''[[Gnomeo and Juliet]]''. "'''''YOUR LAWN WILL BE AFRAID TO GROW! IT'S THE ULTIMATE WEAPON OF GRASS DESTRUCTION!'''''"
* The "I'll
{{quote|Be a man! You must be swift as a coursing river
With all the force of a great typhoon
With all the strength of a raging fire
Mysterious as the dark side of the moooooooon! }}
== Films -- Live-Action ==
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** "They feed these guys too much red meat!"
* ''[[The Expendables]]''. Nuff said.
== Literature ==
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* ''[[Dave Barry]]'s Complete Guide to Guys''.
* ''[[The Alphabet of Manliness]]''. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Naturally.]]
** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20111117064807/http://www.calendars.com/Satire/Year-of-Manliness-2010-Wall-Calendar/prod122463/?categoryId=cat00052 The Calendar of Manliness]''. Ditto.
* The Manly Handbook, by David Everitt and Harold Schechter.
* In the early '70s the ''[[National Lampoon]]'' did a dead-on parody of mid-century men's adventure magazines called "Real Balls", at the same time taking digs at "Silent Majority" conservatism with stories of infiltrating "beatnik hootenannies", fighting lewd sex-education teachers, and combating the "Krazed Kent State Kamikaze Kids".
== Live-Action TV ==
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* [[Conan O'Brien]]: In episodes of Noches De Pasion Con Senor O'Brien, Conando defeats all his enemies with [[Destination Defenestration|a defenestrating throw]].
{{quote|'''Conando:''' Si! Conando!}}
* Al Bundy fell victim to this a few times in ''[[Married...
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'''s ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZRzJJcq6Rs GE Big Boys]'' is about making household chores more manly by using a less practical product line.
== Music ==
* 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.
*
* "Men" by Martin Mull and Steve Martin
{{quote|'' 'Cause men can sweat and men can stink and no one seems to care-o,
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== Pro Wrestling ==
* In the '90s, the WWF had [[William Regal|Steven Regal:]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RRikPlDhfo A Real Man's Man!] His debut was preceded with vignettes showing him doing MANLY things like chopping down trees, shaving with a hatchet and squeezing orange juice with his bare hands, while a very excited British man gave a running commentary about just how manly he was!
{{quote|''I can tear a telephone directory in two
Bending iron bars is something else that I can do
I always pick my teeth with the nearest billiard cue
So imagine what I could do to you...'' }}
▲** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bhLK6XPKCs Would you believe that they came from] [[Villainous Crossdresser|"Exotic"]] [[Gorgeous George|Adrian Street]]?
* [[Ring of Honor]] former champion and WWE star [[Daniel Bryan]] ''loves'' to use this, as seen in the [http://pizzabodyslam.blogspot.com/2010/03/cataloging-daniel-bryan-manliness-meter.html Daniel Bryan Manliness Meter], and many of his ROH promos:
{{quote|"I'm getting sick and tired of all these people giving me ''crap'' about what color my skin is. Yeah, I'm ''pale'' -- what's the big deal?... It doesn't matter what color my skin is, because I'm [[World's Strongest Man|the best wrestler in the world]]! I beat Homicide, I beat everybody that [[Ring of Honor]] has put in front of me! And d'you know what? ''THAT'' is what makes me a ''MAN!'' And do you know what's ''un''manly? All these idiots talking about my skin color, going and sitting in front of a bunch of fluorescent lights with goggles and a Speedo!"}}
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== Video Games ==
** SAXTON HALE (in the trope's picture), whose company's motto is "We sell products and get in fights". He bears a suspicious resemblance to a poorly shaven bear, skydives through his office window for his morning commute, has a patch of chest hair in the shape of Australia, and claims that the breakfast steak is the most important steak of the day. He is also shirtless "for obvious reasons". See the [http://www.teamfortress.com/war/saxtonhale/ comic] for more manly info.▼
** The Soldier. Proof? [http://teamfortress.com/post.php?id=2663 Here], [http://teamfortress.com/post.php?id=2562 here], and [http://teamfortress.com/soldier.htm here.]▼
** Averted with the Sniper, who is apparently an anomaly amongst his fellow Australians {{spoiler|Turns out he's actually from New Zealand.}}
▲** SAXTON HALE (in the trope's picture), whose company's motto is "We sell products and get in fights". He bears a suspicious resemblance to a poorly shaven bear, skydives through his office window for his morning commute, has a patch of chest hair in the shape of Australia, and claims that the breakfast steak is the most important steak of the day. See the [http://www.teamfortress.com/war/saxtonhale/ comic] for more manly info.
▲** [[Patriotic Fervor|The Soldier
▲** The whole nation of Australia now runs on this thanks to Australium. They elect their king by fighting kangaroos and they are so manly even the women have enormous mustaches. The Sniper is apparently an anomaly amongst his people.
* This constitutes a fair portion of Joachim's character in ''[[Shadow Hearts]]: Covenant''. Given that [[Ho Yay]] is another substantial portion (he ''is'' a professional wrestler), [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* ''[[MadWorld]]'''s [[Heroic Sociopath|announcers]] are constantly talking about manliness, when not making hilariously [[Incredibly Lame Pun|terrible puns]] about the ruthless slaughter Jack is committing.
* The [[The Ahnold|Jack Howitzer]] commercials from ''[[GTA Radio]]'' in the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130304082554/http://www.scribd.com/doc/11590030/King-Leoric-the-Skeleton-King This] guide to the ''[[Defense of the Ancients]]'' incarnation of [[Diablo|King Leoric, the Skeleton King]] who is the [[Badass|manliest hero in DotA that does not have testicles]].
* Need we mention the ''[[Punch-Out!!]]'' [[Heel]] Super Macho Man? [[Memetic Mutation|RELEASE THE BOGUS!]] Three words: [[Punch-Out!!|SUPEEEER! MACHOOO! MAAAAAN!!]]
* ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'': "Gaze upon my physique, and be awed! MANLY MUSK!"
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* The [[Megaton Punch]] minigame from ''[[Kirby Super Star]]'' '''''has''''' to count. For God's sake, you can have Kirby '''''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lxNNlQYttU punch a planet in half.]''''' [[Real Men Wear Pink|Real men don't just wear pink]], [[Badass Adorable|real men ARE pink!]]
* ''[http://dudebro.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Dudebro 2]'', the [[Defictionalization]] of a [[Neo GAF]] meme, is intended as a parody of video games that fall under this trope. The voice of [[Duke Nukem]] was even cast as the lead!
* ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'': You can seriously consider Jecht's portrayal to be tongue-in-cheek. Every scene seems to
* ''[[Bulletstorm]]'' runs on this. The initial cast are horrifyingly detestable hyper-macho [[Jerkass]]es... and most of them die horribly
* [[Duke Nukem]], if the "balls of steel" quip isn't a massive tip-off. Incidentally, he would eventually make a playable appearance in ''Bulletstorm''.
* ''The First Funky Fighter'' lets you play as an uber-manly man (
* The Adventure Core from ''[[Portal 2]]''. Played for (extra) laughs because it's a small round robot.
* Bang Shishigami, from ''[[BlazBlue]]'', is "the man who fights for LOVE AND JUSTICE!" who [[Wrong Genre Savvy|thinks he's a shonen hero]] and thinks that everyone is either his young apprentice or a villain. One of his super moves is a literal [[Theme Music Power-Up]], where an over-the-top metal song chronicles his manliness.
* The entire ''[[Battletoads]]''
== Web Comics ==
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* ''[[Girly]]'':
** "I DRIVE TRUCKS AND EAT STEAKS MADE OF TRUCKS!"
** Also, a self-parody entitled [https://web.archive.org/web/20130523213412/http://girlyyy.com/go/manly-v2 '''MANLY'''.]
* ''[[Manly Guys Doing Manly Things]]'', one of the honorable mentions in the Escapist's webcomics contest, is built around parodying macho video game character culture.
* ''[[Homestuck]]''
** [[Noble Bigot|Equius Zahhak]] loves being [[Super Strength|STRONG]], [[Does Not Know His Own Strength|is constantly impeded from doing normal things by his sheer strength]], wears a muscle-exposing tanktop, goes through the game of Sgrub [[Good Old Fisticuffs|completely unarmed]], and has only one completely safe outlet for his aggression: ''beating the shit out of killer robots in cage matches.''
** The [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104183021/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/strife cover of the STRIFE! album]. Just '''''look''''' at it. It deliberately exaggerates Jack Noir's size by several orders of magnitude for the sake of pure badassery and manliness.
* This [http://threepanelsoul.com/2011/11/23/on-market-segments/ strip] of [[Three Panel Soul]] manages to spoof this and Dr. Pepper 10 at the same time.
== Web Original ==
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{{quote|[[Our Lawyers Advised This Trope|Warning: What follows is the manliest thing ever recorded on film.]] Your balls may drop off in shame at the mere knowledge that you will never in your entire life do something half as manly.}}
* Spacebattles.com's [[Let's Play]] series has featured BLAST HARDCHEESE, name taken from [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]. He has killed men simply by flexing his biceps until their heads explode.
* The website ''[http://maddox.xmission.com/ The Best Page In The Universe]'', as well as the accompanying book ''[
** It also tore into a specific sub-genre of Testosterone Poisoning, [http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=xtreme_bullshit X-TREME ADVERTISING].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs POWERTHIRST]!
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** [[Ascended Meme|POWERTHIRST IS REAL!]] GET YOUR MENERGY [https://web.archive.org/web/20140208115156/https://powerthirst.ca/ HERE!]
* [[Loading Ready Run]] brings us [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/archive/all/date/desc?search=cooking Man Cooking].
** And their episode about the channel known only as [https://web.archive.org/web/20130117032153/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/loadingreadyrun/2676-MEN MEN] and it's MANLY!
* Captain Hammer from ''[[
* [[Chuck Norris Facts]] is all about this trope with playing up [[Chuck Norris]] as a [[Memetic Badass]]. And also heavily robbing from [[Saturday Night Live|Bill Brasky]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090609182655/http://consumerist.com/5234900/eat-mangurt?skyline=true&s=i MANGURT!] Now in flavors like like Wolf Bacon, T-Bone, Buffalo Stampede, and Tequila Fight Juice!
* [[Badass of the Week]]. Everything on the list can fuck you up. Including [[Death World|Australia]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20130514135030/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/beetle.html this huge-ass beetle], [https://web.archive.org/web/20121005060234/http://badassoftheweek.com/hantavirus.html the Hanta virus] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130902030212/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/curie.html Marie Curie].
* Much of the humour of ''[[Cracked.com]]''. And specifically, [[Agents of Cracked]]: "GASP! The Chief?"
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvltzwkUEEA This here's the Mantage!]
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* [[EPICMEALTIME]] serves this along with clogged arteries.
* [[Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time]]! It's good for you.
* [[Charlie Sheen]]'s [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104232155/http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/bfb12aea47/charlie-sheen-s-winning-recipes Winning Recipes].
* Get yourself one of [http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/popcikle64/aggron.jpg these] [http://neil-d-luffy.deviantart.com/art/Get-yourself-a-Garchomp-201031585 incredibly]{{Dead link}} [http://neil-d-luffy.deviantart.com/gallery/28814374#/d3bse42 manly] [[Pokémon]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZAMl0VWAZ8 Intensive Gastony Unity]. One part [[Beauty and the Beast|Gaston]], one part [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|ponies]], three part masculinity.
* While reviewing ''[[Superman: At Earth's End]]'', Linkara advised viewers to settle all arguments by screaming, "I am a ''man''!" and punching the offending person in the gut in imitation of a panel from the comic. This became subject to [[Memetic Mutation]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nITLob098W8 This student-made water commercial] is what happens when you take the [[Idiocracy|Brawndo]] commercials listed above
== Western Animation ==
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* Self-help guru Iron Will from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' is hilariously macho.
** Similarly, an unnamed white pegasus stallion from "Hurricane Fluttershy", who consists almost entirely of bulging muscles, and whose only line, said several times through the episode, is an enthusiastic '''YEAH!'''. Between his absurdly oversized muscles and [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|absurdly undersized wings]], he quickly earned the nickname "Roid Rage".
== Real Life ==
* Fascism and its proponents (e.g. [[Benito Mussolini]]) generally espouse a moral philosophy less sophisticated than would be demanded of a Rottweiler of good character - ''only'' martial virtue counts, and without the mythopoeic imagination or love of liberty of Teutonic barbarians, the culture of samurai, or the Roman sense of law and order, it ends up expressed as this. This is especially apparent with more modern fascist sympathizers and a professed distaste for anything soy-based, due to supposedly containing estrogen<ref>Which it does... in the form of [[wikipedia:Phytoestrogen|phytoestrogens]] that [[Critical Research Failure|have not been proven to have any effect on the sexuality of men.]]</ref> (with all the "feminine bad" implications that carries).
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