1 | [[quoteright:270:[[Film/MiamiBlues https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alec_baldwin.jpg]]]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:270: Only men may wear a CarpetOfVirility.]] |
3 | |
4 | ->''"Oh, poppycock! Female bandits? What next? Rubbish!"'' |
5 | -->-- '''Prince John''', {{Franchise/Disney|AnimatedCanon}}'s ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' |
6 | |
7 | Much like roles that are AlwaysFemale, there are many roles largely (and often solely) designated to males. The name of the trope, however, is a bit of a misnomer, as some of these tropes can be subverted by making them female. In many cases, however, this doesn't work, especially for those involving love, sex or facial hair. |
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9 | If a trope that's always male is applied to a female anyway, that's a GenderInvertedTrope (a.k.a. "rare female example"). Again, this is not possible for many of these tropes, and is often done for comedic effect. |
10 | |
11 | Compare AlwaysFemale. |
12 | |
13 | See also UnisexTropes. |
14 | ---- |
15 | !!Tropes |
16 | [[index]] |
17 | [floatboxright: |
18 | Categories: |
19 | + FacialHairIndex |
20 | + InTouchWithHisFeminineSide |
21 | + MasculinityTropes |
22 | + MenAreTough |
23 | + PhallicIndex |
24 | + PrincelyTropes |
25 | + RatedMForManly |
26 | + SirIndexOfTropes |
27 | ] |
28 | %% |
29 | %% ATTENTION: This is about characters who are always male, not tropes that are always about men. |
30 | %% Also make sure a trope is not unisex before adding. |
31 | %% |
32 | * AbsentMindedProfessor: A forgetful, oblivious scientist. |
33 | * AccidentalPervert: A man accidentally stumbles upon one or more women who are bathing, changing, using the bathroom, etc. who then mistake him for a pervert. |
34 | * AccidentalPornomancer: Someone, usually a man, keeps getting lots of sex even when he wasn't looking for it. |
35 | * ActionDad: A father who's an action hero. |
36 | * ActionHeroBabysitter: A macho guy needs to babysit kids. |
37 | * TheAllAmericanBoy: A usually-white, blue-eyed, American boy who has stereotypical American interests like baseball and apple pie. |
38 | * AlwaysCamp: Certain professions are associated with being showy and/or dramatic. |
39 | * AmazonChaser: A man who's attracted to {{Action Girl}}s. |
40 | * AgentPeacock: A [[InTouchWIthHisFeminineSide sensitive guy]] who is [[RuleOfCool cool]] and {{Badass}}. |
41 | * AngryBlackManStereotype: The stereotype about black men being loud and indignant. |
42 | * AngryWhiteMan: A white man who's angry because he thinks white people are being discriminated against. |
43 | * ArabOilSheikh: A wealthy Arab man in the oil business. |
44 | * ArchnemesisDad: Someone's archenemy is their father. |
45 | * ArmouredClosetGay: A vocally homophobic man turns out to be gay and in the closet. |
46 | * BadassAndChildDuo: An older tough guy acts like a surrogate father-figure to a weaker and "purer" female child. He protects her from harm while his healthy cynicism wizens her up to the ways of the world; meanwhile, her idealism and innocence [[PetTheDog humanizes him and brings out his better side]], turning him into a better man than he was at the start of the story. [[MenAreTheExpendableGender Traditional gender roles between men and women are a lot of what makes this dynamic work]]. Variations and inversions of the pairing exist but this is the classic setup. |
47 | * BaldnessMockery: Insulting a man for being bald or starting to bald. |
48 | * BarbaricBully: A (usually male) schoolyard bully who's very aggressive and evil. |
49 | * BarbarianLonghair: A man with long hair is a rugged fighter. |
50 | * BasementDweller: A geeky man who lives with his parents because he's lazy, childish, socially awkward, or unlucky in love. |
51 | * BastardBastard: A man who's a bastard by both definitions of the word, i.e. both a jerk and born out of wedlock. |
52 | * BattleButler: A (usually male) servant who fights. |
53 | * TheBear: A hairy, gay man. |
54 | * BeardnessProtectionProgram: Growing a beard, or shaving one's beard, as a disguise. |
55 | * BeardOfBarbarism: A barbarian with a huge beard. |
56 | * BeardOfEvil: A bearded villain. |
57 | * BeardOfSorrow: A man grows a beard to signify that he's very sad, sometimes even depressed. |
58 | * BigBeautifulMan: A fat man is portrayed as attractive. |
59 | * BiggerIsBetterInBed: Larger penises are seen as more attractive. |
60 | * BigPrickBigProblems: A man suffers due to his larger-than-average penis. |
61 | * BigManOnCampus: The most popular guy and biggest NiceGuy in a HighSchool setting. |
62 | * BigJerkOnCampus: The most popular guy and biggest {{Jerkass}} in a HighSchool setting. |
63 | * BillionaireWristband: An unnecessarily fancy men's watch. |
64 | * {{Bishonen}}: An androgynous-looking, attractive man. |
65 | * BlackIsBiggerInBed: Black men have bigger penises. |
66 | * BlamingTheCuckold: The cuckold in question will almost always be male. |
67 | * TheBluebeard: A man who murders his wives. |
68 | * BoyBand: A five-man singing group, all-male and usually all teens. |
69 | * BoyfriendBlockingDad: A man who doesn't want his daughter to get a boyfriend, often due to thinking the boyfriend is dangerous. |
70 | * BoyishShorts: Wearing shorts is associated with little boys. |
71 | * BriefsBoasting: Men showing off by posing in their underwear. |
72 | * BromanticFoil: In a romance story, a loudmouth guy who's the best friend of the male lead. |
73 | * TheBully (AlphaBitch is the DistaffCounterpart): A boy who gives his schoolmates a hard time. |
74 | * BumblingDad: The male parent is an idiot. |
75 | * TheButcher: A dangerous man with "Butcher" in his name. |
76 | * TheCabinBoy: A boy or young man who works as a servant on a ship. |
77 | * CampGay: A homosexual, feminine male. |
78 | * CampStraight: A heterosexual, feminine male. |
79 | * CampyCombat: When campy men fight. |
80 | * CarpetOfVirility: A hairy man; usually emphasises manliness. |
81 | * TheCasanova: A man who tends to succeed in having intimate relations with every woman he meets. |
82 | * CasanovaWannabe: A man who wants to have sex with every female he meets, but is too tacky and/or unattractive to actually succeed. |
83 | * TheCharmer: A man who's cocky and romantic, but kinder and less horny than TheCasanova. |
84 | * ChickMagnet: A man who always gets attention from the ladies. |
85 | * ChippendalesDancers: Muscular male strippers who performed for women. |
86 | * ChivalrousPervert: A straight man who's horny, but respects the women at the same time. |
87 | * CircumcisionAngst: Penises are male sexual organs, so all examples of a character upset about being circumcised will be male. |
88 | * CigarChomper: A tough guy who's always smoking cigars. |
89 | * CockFight: Men fight over a shared, female love interest. |
90 | * CoolOldGuy: An old man who's portrayed as cool. |
91 | * CrazyJealousGuy |
92 | * CreepyCrossdresser: Crossdressing being PlayedForHorror. |
93 | * CripplingCastration |
94 | * CrustyCaretaker |
95 | * CulturedBadass |
96 | * DadsCantCook: The father is a LethalChef. |
97 | * DadTheVeteran |
98 | * TheDandy: A man who likes clothes; the DistaffCounterpart is TheFashionista. |
99 | * DastardlyWhiplash |
100 | * DepravedHomosexual: A gay man who is unsavory in one way or another, often by being so sex-crazed that they have no qualms over raping straight men. |
101 | * DirectionlessDriver: A driver, usually a man, who refuses to ask for directions. |
102 | * DirtyOldMan: An elderly man who is perverted. |
103 | * DisappearedDad: A character's mother is present and accounted for, but not their father. |
104 | * DisguisedInDrag: A man disguises himself as a woman. |
105 | * DistressedDude: A man in need of rescue; the female version is DamselInDistress. |
106 | * DoggedNiceGuy: A man who relentlessly tries to make his female love interest return his affections. |
107 | * DrillSergeantNasty: A mean guy whose job is training military cadets. |
108 | * DudeLooksLikeALady: A feminine-looking man is mistaken for a woman. |
109 | * DumbassTeenageSon: A stupid teenage boy. |
110 | * DumbMuscle: A dumb, brawny guy. |
111 | * DynamicAkimbo: An action pose involving the hands on the hips and a confident expression. |
112 | * EffeminateMisogynisticGuy: A male who has a negative perspective about women despite being [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide feminine]] himself. |
113 | * EffeminateVoice: A high voice on a man hints that he's stereotypically feminine. |
114 | * EmasculatedCuckold: A man whose wife cheats on him and is unmanly or insecure about his manliness as a result. |
115 | * EunuchsAreEvil: A castrated male villain. |
116 | * TheEvilPrince: A prince who does evil in his attempts to become king. |
117 | * FamilyMan: A guy who's very loyal to his spouse and kids. |
118 | * AFatherToHisMen: A commander who cares deeply about their (usually his) underlings. |
119 | * FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit: A shady, fat, Southern-American man who wears a white suit. |
120 | * FatherNeptune: An old, experienced sailor. |
121 | * FathersQuest: When the plot centres around a father trying to protect or find their child, usually their daughter. |
122 | * FavorsForTheSexy: All the men hurry to do favours for a woman they find hot to impress her. |
123 | * FiendishFraternity: A fraternity full of bullying and/or sexual assault. The female equivalent is SinisterSororitySisters. |
124 | * TheFightingNarcissist: A (usually male) fighter who's extremely vain. |
125 | * FinalBattleInducedShirtLoss: The protagonist loses his shirt in an epic battle with the villain. |
126 | * FiremenAreHot: Male firefighters are portrayed as attractive. |
127 | * {{Fratbro}}: A male college student who's dopey, horny, and a party animal. |
128 | * {{Fundoshi}}: A type of Japanese loincloth generally worn by men. |
129 | * FurryBaldness: A male FunnyAnimal who's bald in the sense that he's lost his "human hair" but still has fur or feathers. |
130 | * GagPenis: The penis is a male sexual organ, so all examples of a character with a comically large penis can be assumed to be male, or on rare occasions, transgender. |
131 | * TheGambler: A character whose shtick is being a gambler. |
132 | * GayBravado: A straight guy who acts gay just to prove how macho he is. |
133 | * GayCowboy: A cowboy, or cowboy cosplayer, who is gay. |
134 | * {{Gayngster}}: A gay gangster. |
135 | * TheGeneralissimo: An evil military leader of a (usually fictional) third-world country. |
136 | * GentlemanAdventurer: A wealthy, usually British, man, who likes to go on adventures for fun. |
137 | * GentlemanDetective: A wealthy, educated, male detective. |
138 | * GentlemanThief: A classy male burglar. |
139 | * GentlemanWizard: An aristocratic man who does magic, or at least something similar to magic. |
140 | * {{GIRL}}: The belief that women on the Internet are actually men pretending to be women. |
141 | * TheGoodKing: A virtuous king. |
142 | * GoodOlBoy: A Southern-American, right-wing man. |
143 | * GorgeousGeorge: An effeminate wrestling villain. |
144 | * GreaseMonkey: A grungy mechanic. |
145 | * GreatWhiteHunter: A heroic, usually male, hunter. |
146 | * GroinAttack: Those on the receiving end of this are almost always male. Exceptions are extremely rare. |
147 | * TheGruntingOrgasm: Men grunt when they have orgasms. |
148 | * GymBunny: A gay man who exercises profusely due to wanting a toned body. |
149 | * HandsomeHeroicCaveman: A caveman who's oddly well-groomed for a caveman. |
150 | * HandsomeLech: An attractive CasanovaWannabe whose personality hinders his sexual conquests. |
151 | * HandyMan: A friendly repairman. |
152 | * HeManWomanHater: A man who is openly misogynistic. |
153 | * HenpeckedHusband: A husband who submissively does whatever his wife tells him to without even trying to object. |
154 | * HighSchoolHustler: A rebellious, scheming high school student, usually a boy. |
155 | * {{Hobos}}: Homeless people, usually men, who travel a lot, usually by train, and make money through odd-jobs, deliberately avoiding hard work. |
156 | * HollywoodActionHero: The stereotypical protagonist of a campy action flick, who possesses most or all of these traits: male, either stoic or mouthy, BookDumb but practical, heroic, rugged-looking, and a fighter. |
157 | * HotMenAtWork: Workmen portrayed for {{fanservice}}, usually due to shirtlessness. |
158 | * HouseHusband: A husband who stays at home and does housework while his wife goes to work. |
159 | * HowardHughesHomage: A [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed parody]] of Creator/HowardHughes. |
160 | * {{Hunk}}: A man who's very conventionally handsome. |
161 | * HuskyRusskie: A big, beefy, Russian guy. |
162 | * IncrediblyConspicuousDrag: A drag queen who doesn't look anything like a woman. |
163 | * InstantSoprano: Getting hit in the groin causes a man to have a high-pitched, feminine-sounding voice. |
164 | * JadedWashout: Someone, usually a man, who was popular in high school, but is now cynical and downtrodden. |
165 | * JerkJock: A brutish high school boy. |
166 | * KavorkaMan: A man is successful with women in spite of being ugly or unpleasant. |
167 | * {{Keet}}: A small, energetic guy. |
168 | * KidAnova: A little boy who's [[PuppyLove already a serial dater]]. |
169 | * KnightErrant: A travelling knight. |
170 | * KnightInShiningArmor: A heroic knight. |
171 | * LadykillerInLove: A playboy who falls genuinely in love for once. |
172 | * ALadyOnEachArm: A man shows up with two girlfriends to show he's attractive. |
173 | * LawmanGoneBad: A law enforcement guy who [[FaceHeelTurn turns evil]]. |
174 | * LazyHusband: A husband who lounges around while his wife does all the work. |
175 | * {{Leatherman}}: A gay man who wears leather. |
176 | * LegCling: A hunky man with a woman holding onto his leg. |
177 | * TheLoinsSleepTonight: A man can't get it up. |
178 | * LongJohnShoutout: A (usually male) pirate whose name puns on Long John Silver. |
179 | * LooksLikeJesus: A guy with Jesus-y hair. |
180 | * LovableJock: A NiceGuy who's athletic. |
181 | * MachoCamp: A beefy guy who acts campy. |
182 | * MachoMasochism: A man injures himself to prove he's tough. |
183 | * MagicalSeventhSon: The seventh son of a seventh son has magical powers. |
184 | * {{Manchild}} (TheIngenue is the DistaffCounterpart): A childish man. |
185 | * ManInABikini: Men in bikinis played for laughs. |
186 | * ManInAKilt: Men in kilts are attractive. |
187 | * ManlyGay: A homosexual, masculine male. |
188 | * ManlyMan: A man who's very stereotypically masculine. |
189 | * MartyStu: A male MarySue. |
190 | * MenCantKeepHouse: Men are bad at chores. |
191 | * MightyLumberjack: Lumberjacks are associated with toughness. |
192 | * MilesGloriosus: A guy who pretends he's done amazing things. |
193 | * MillionairePlayboy: A lustful, wealthy guy. |
194 | * MisterSeahorse: A man gets pregnant. |
195 | * MommasBoy: A man or boy who's very close to his mother. |
196 | * MorallyBankruptBanker: An evil, {{greed}}y banker. |
197 | * MountainMan: A man who lives rough in the North American mountains. |
198 | * MrFanservice: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin A male character who tends to provide]] {{fanservice}}. |
199 | * MrFixit: Someone, usually a man, who's very good at repair work. |
200 | * MysteriousProtector: An enigmatic man who aids the heroine and disappears. |
201 | * {{Neet}}: An unemployed man; usually stereotyped as lazy. |
202 | * NiceJewishBoy: A NiceGuy who's Jewish. |
203 | * NobleMaleRoguishMale: A sophisticated man is paired with a boorish man. |
204 | * NocturnalEmission: Ejaculating in one's sleep. Also known as a wet dream. |
205 | * NonActionGuy: A man who's cowardly and/or bad at fighting. |
206 | * NonActionSnarker: Subtrope of NonActionGuy, for when he's got a [[DeadpanSnarker sharp tongue]] as well. |
207 | * NoShirtLongJacket: A brave, shirtless man in a longcoat. |
208 | * NoWomansLand: A place that's terrible for a woman to live. |
209 | * OfficerAndAGentleman: A high-class, gentlemanly officer. |
210 | * OldManConversationSong: A country song about talking to an old man. |
211 | * OldSchoolChivalry: A man with outdated ideas of how to be polite to women. |
212 | * TheOldConvict: A guy who's been in prison for ages. |
213 | * TheOneGuy: The singular male character in a group of female characters. |
214 | * OneManSong: A song named after a man. |
215 | * OneOfTheGirls: A man whose friends are all or mostly women. |
216 | * OverlordJr: The son or nephew of the villain. |
217 | * PapaWolf: A man who gets very angry if someone wrongs his child(ren). The equivalent for women is MamaBear. |
218 | * ThePatriarch: An old, or sometimes middle-aged, man who leads a family. |
219 | * PecFlex: A man shows off by flexing his pecs. |
220 | * PermaShave: A guy who never grows facial hair despite supposedly being too busy to shave. |
221 | * PermaStubble: Unshaven men are action heroes. |
222 | * PervertDad: A man with an incestuous interest in his own daughter. |
223 | * PlayboyHasADaughter: A guy who was once a Casanova now has a little girl to raise. |
224 | * PrettyBoy: A man who's pretty. |
225 | * PrinceCharming: A noble prince. |
226 | * PrinceCharmingWannabe: A man who wants to be a dashing, romantic hero to a woman, but she's just not interested. |
227 | * PrinceCharmless: A nobleman who's [[TheBore boring]] or [[{{Jerkass}} mean]]. |
228 | * PrincelyYoungMan: A man who behaves like a prince but isn't one. |
229 | * PuddleCoveringChivalry: A man who covers a puddle with his jacket so a woman can cross it. |
230 | * TheQuarterback: A teen boy who's the captain of his high school sports team. |
231 | * QuintessentialBritishGentleman: A stereotypical fancy British guy. |
232 | * RealMenWearPink: [[InvertedTrope Inverts]] the belief that anything feminine has to be avoided; a guy who's normally a stereotypical ManlyMan, but has one or two interests associated with women. |
233 | * RebelPrince: A prince who doesn't want to do princely things. |
234 | * RightHandHottie: A male secretary or similar played for fanservice. |
235 | * RightThroughHisPants: Men have sex while still wearing pants. |
236 | * {{Samurai}}: Almost any fictional depiction will have men. It's somewhat of a subversion since female samurai known as ''onna-musha'' or ''onna-bugeisha'' did exist for much of [[{{Jidaigeki}} Feudal Japan]]'s history. |
237 | * ScaryBlackMan: A large, intimidating, black guy. |
238 | * SchlubbyScummySecurityGuard: |
239 | * ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: A man does a high-pitched scream. |
240 | * SeniorSleepCycle: Seniors, usually old men, are {{sleepyhead}}s. |
241 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: One man is feminine, and the other is masculine. |
242 | * SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: A horny guy who nevertheless believes SexIsEvil. |
243 | * SexistUsedCarSalesman: A used car salesman who always sells the cruddiest cars to the women because he expects them to know nothing about cars. |
244 | * SexyManInstantHarem: Women always swarm the Casanova. |
245 | * SexyPriest: A priest, usually young, portrayed as sexy. |
246 | * SharpDressedMan: A well-dressed guy. |
247 | * ShirtlessCaptives: Male prisoners are stripped of their shirts. |
248 | * ShirtlessScene: Shirtlessness portrayed for fanservice. |
249 | * SissyVillain: A villain who dresses effeminately. |
250 | * TheSlacker: A character, usually a man, who doesn't like making efforts. |
251 | * SmallTownTyrant: A tyrannical hillbilly who runs a small town. |
252 | * SouthernGentleman: A charming (with the possible exception of being racist) Southern-American guy. |
253 | * Standard50sFather: A reliable father in the '50s. |
254 | * StoutStrength: A strong, fat man. |
255 | * StrawMisogynist: A guy whose extreme sexism makes him a StrawCharacter. |
256 | * StumblingUponTheLostWizard: Lost characters happen upon a mysterious, helpful guy who's either a wizard or an eccentric scientist. |
257 | * SurferDude: A guy who behaves like a stereotypical surfer, without necessarily actually surfing. |
258 | * TarzanBoy: A white man who lives in the jungle. |
259 | * TeenyWeenie: Jokes about men with small penises. |
260 | * TenorBoy: Male musical protagonists are usually tenors. |
261 | * TestesTest: A man feels his gonads to make sure they're uninjured and/or still there. |
262 | * TestosteroneBrigade: A work generally seen as being for women has a group of men in the fanbase anyway. |
263 | * TestosteronePoisoning: Highly exaggerated depictions of "manliness." |
264 | * TheThreeFacesOfAdam: Three men who represent the stages of a man's life: the Hunter who represents youthful ambition, the Lord who represents adulthood and balance, and the Prophet, who represents elderly wisdom. |
265 | * TimePassageBeard: Men tend to grow beards, so a character [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin growing a long beard to signify that a long amount of time has passed]] can be expected to be male. |
266 | * TinySchoolboy: A short teenage boy, who's insecure about his height. |
267 | * TopHeavyGuy: A man with a huge torso and arms, but skinny legs. |
268 | * TroubledButCute: Someone who's rough-around-the-edges, but attractive to peers. Usually a teenage boy. |
269 | * {{Trumplica}}: Parodies of Donald Trump. |
270 | * TunnelKing: A guy who's an expert on burrowing. |
271 | * TurnYourHeadAndCough: Instructions given to a male patient during a physical examination. |
272 | * UnderstandingBoyfriend: A boyfriend who's perfectly okay with his girlfriend (or, more rarely, boyfriend) being supernatural. |
273 | * UnluckyEverydude: A generic, unlucky guy. |
274 | * UselessBoyfriend: A guy who's normally competent, but when his action heroine girlfriend shows up, he's useless and always needs her help. |
275 | * VeryPunchableMan: A jerkish guy whose only role in the story is being beaten up. |
276 | * WaistcoatOfStyle: Men in waistcoats are stylish and/or quirky. |
277 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: Someone who never wears a shirt. Almost always a man due to [[NippleAndDimed the taboo surrounding women's nipples]]. |
278 | * WeirdBeard: A male hairless creature or robot has something beard-like. |
279 | * WhiteBreadAndBlackBrotha: An uptight white man is paired with a black man who's street-smart and a stereotypical SoulBrotha. |
280 | * WholesomeCrossdresser: A man who likes to dress in women's clothing. |
281 | * TheWisePrince: An honorable, but often cynical, nobleman. |
282 | * WizardBeard: Wizards have long, usually white, beards. |
283 | * WorldsStrongestMan: A man known for being the strongest person, or at least the strongest man, in the world. |
284 | * WouldHitAGirl: Men attacking women is portrayed as a particularly bad thing. |
285 | * WouldntHitAGirl: A man who refuses to attack women. |
286 | * YoungGun: A young man who carries a gun. |
287 | [[/index]] |
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