Line #160 Main/AlwaysMale


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.
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11	Compare AlwaysFemale.
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13	See also UnisexTropes.
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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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