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1!!AnimeAndManga
2->''"Banchou. When I was young, they were honorable men. Today that meaning is obsolete. They will [[WeHelpTheHelpless silently extend a hand out for the weak]]. They will [[IWillFightSomeMoreForever fight to the very end, even if there were a hundred, a thousand opponents, they will stand firm against them]]. An honorable man who protects their companions...'' 'BANCHOU', ''a man among men."''
3-->-- A {{Yakuza}} lieutenant from ''Manga/KongohBancho'', one of the manliest manga ever made.
4
5->''"If the strength of your equipment isn't strong enough, then compensate for it with the strength of your arm! That is the way a true man lives!"''
6-->-- '''Kogarashi''', ''Manga/KamenNoMaidGuy''
7
8!!{{Comic Book}}s
9->''"Don't you read the papers, pal? Captain America practically never wears a parachute. He says parachutes are for girls."''
10-->-- '''Bucky''', ''ComicBook/TheUltimates''
11
12!!{{Fan Work}}s
13->''There was a stony, painful noise as Hamilton gritted his teeth, shaking his head. “I do not stand alone. Mun, you may speak for the empire and the heavens. But my words,” he said, forcing himself up, despite the onus of his chains, “are backed with hot blood!” An aurora of scarlet light burst forth from Hamilton’s breast, blinding his divine foe. He pushed his shackled arms forward, plunging them into the stream of light. “And MANLY! FIGHTING! SPIRIT!”''
14-->-- "[[http://mythpunk.blogspot.com.au/2009/08/wealth-of-nations.html The Wealth of Nations]]", an ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' / [[Main/RealLife American History]] crossover fic
15
16!!{{Film}} -- Live-Action
17->''"We are men, thou and I."''
18-->-- '''Henry Rider Haggard''', ''Literature/KingSolomonsMines''
19
20!!Film -- Animated
21->(Be a man!)''\
22We must be swift as the coursing river\
23''(Be a man!)''\
24With all the force of a great typhoon\
25''(Be a man!)''\
26With all the strength of a raging fire\
27Mysterious as the dark side of the moon''
28-->-- "I'll Make A Man Out Of You", '''''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'''''
29
30->Who's the manliest man? BATMAAAN!\
31With the buns of steel? BATMAAAN!\
32Who can choke-hold a bear? BATMAAAN!\
33Who never skips leg day? BATMAAAN!\
34Who always pays their taxes? (Not) BATMAAAN!\
35--'''''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOBatmanMovie'''''
36
37!!{{Music}}
38->''Heaven loves ya, the clouds part for ya\
39Nothing stands in your way\
40When you're a boy\
41Clothes always fit ya\
42Life is a pop of the cherry\
43When you're a boy''
44-->-- "Boys Keep Swinging", '''Music/DavidBowie'''
45
46->''Every man ought to be a macho-macho man\
47To live a life of freedom, machos make a stand\
48Have their own life style and ideals,\
49Possess the strength and confidence, life's a steal\
50You can best believe that he's a macho man\
51He's a special person in anybody's land''
52-->--"Macho Man", '''Music/TheVillagePeople'''
53
54!!{{Literature}}
55->''Hither came Conan the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet.''
56-->-- "The Phoenix on the Sword," Creator/RobertEHoward
57
58!!WebAnimation
59->"I'd swoop down from on high, machine gunning racists, then jump off and kick the last survivor off the ledge and feel like [[Creator/ErrolFlynn Errol fucking Flynn.]] I was almost afraid of landing, in case I got bounced away on balls like a couple of hairy space hoppers."
60-->-- '''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite''
61
62!!{{Web Original}}
63->''Get fucking fired up. No ... I mean it. Shoot yourself full of Toradol, get red in the face, and GET FIRED UP, GOD DAMMIT. You see this chair? ([[TantrumThrowing throws chair]]) I’M NOT LEAVING THIS STADIUM UNTIL BLOOD HAS BEEN SHED AND WE HAVE WALKED OUT OF THERE WITH ALL OF THE ENEMY’S GOLD AND WOMEN!''
64-->-- '''[[http://deadspin.com/how-to-give-a-ball-bursting-football-speech-1677815240 Drew Magary]]''', "How to Give a Ball-Bursting [[RousingSpeech Football Speech]]"
65
66->''There were only two men in this world that made me wish that my chromosomes were double X so we could get some triple X action going [[EvenTheGuysWantHim so I could bear their children]], and those men were Wrestling/HulkHogan and Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger. As a child, those two were the best role model one could ever wish for. Larger than life, fought off evil, killed by the thousands. Every Saturday my eyes would be glued to the television screen with as Hulkster would run wild in the afternoon, and Arnold would come on screen to terminate past bed time. Yes, just thinking back on it makes me feel ever more fertile already.''
67-->-- '''[[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/lastactionhero/lastactionhero.htm Audun Sorlie]]''' on ''Film/LastActionHero''
68
69->''You don't read the books or watch the movies looking for surprise plot twists -- this is comfort food for hard-drinking assholes who wish they were tough guys but wouldn't want to seriously risk their lives, and I reckon I'm probably one of those.''
70-->-- '''''Blog/ToplessRobot''''' [[http://www.toplessrobot.com/2014/08/tr_review_sin_city_a_dame_to_kill_for_is_as_frank.php Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Is as Frank Miller-y as a Taliban Whiskey Enema"]]
71
72->''At no point does the movie take itself seriously, nor is it even apologetic. It knows exactly what it is and accelerates full steam into an hour and a half of blood, guts, sex, drinking, smoking, and chugging beer out of skulls.''
73-->--[[http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/film/4316/review Review]] of ''Film/DriveAngry''
74
75->''This is a man who has crippled dozens of offensive linemen and starred in three movies [[{{Blaxploitation}} that have the N-word right in their titles]]... Fred Williamson could kick your ass so hard that nine months after you die, [[HitYouSoHardYourXWillFeelIt your wife would give birth to his foot.]] Full-powered Fred Williamson attacks are the second ingredient in [[LudicrousGibs Taco Bell ground beef]]... If Fred Williamson made ''Film/JohnCarter'', it would have been called ''[[CaptainSpaceDefenderOfEarth Spaceman Brown]]: [[ScaryBlackMan Chocolate Motherfucker]]'', and it would have turned a $250 million profit.''
76-->-- '''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}''' [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/9-supposed-action-stars-who-clearly-couldnt-fight/ "9 Supposed Action Stars Who Clearly Couldn't Fight"]]
77
78->''The next bit, though, is completely original to the show...this dude hangs up the phone, opens up the dumbwaiter, and [[DynamicEntry GETS HIS STERNUM BUSTED TO HELL]] by Wolverine coming out holding a bottle by the neck. Wolverine then walks over to the dude, looks at the bottle, says '[[BondOneLiner Lousy year]]' and then drops it [[GroinAttack right on his junk]]. Then he casually grabs a turkey leg on his way up to go murder people. It is... ''the best thing.
79-->-- ''Comics Alliance'' [[http://comicsalliance.com/the-x-men-episode-guide-3x13-dark-phoenix-part-ii-the-inner-circle/ on]] ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'', "The Inner Circle"
80
81->''Some rooms have hidden exits that'll lead you to secret rooms full of goodies. You'll need to discover all of these, as well as pick up the keys that spawn in the game every so often, to earn access to the Pleasure Dome. And what is the Pleasure Dome, you may ask? Well, it's a secret room where the floor cycles through a bunch of retina-burning colors, while bikini-clad women can be collected like the cash and gold bars you've been picking up throughout the game. Totally worth it.''
82-->-- '''''Hardcore Gaming 101''''' [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/smashtv/smashtv.htm on]] ''VideoGame/SmashTV''
83
84->'''My son:''' "Dad, what games did you play when you were a kid?"\
85'''Me:''' [[{{VideoGame/Doom}} "IN THE FIRST AGE...."]]
86-->--{{Website/YouTube}} comment, "Homer tells Bart about the Doom Slayer"
87
88->''[[ASpaceMarineIsYou The space narines]] don't have a cover button, for the same reason they carry guns instead of white flags made of frilly lace panties. Health recovery is via execution -- if you take a second to kill an enemy with a particularly brutal move, you recover health. That's badassery as a core gameplay mechanic. When you're about to die, your impulse reaction becomes '[[IWillFightSomeMoreForever diving at the enemy to destroy as many as possible]]' and '[[AttackAttackAttack wondering why that's not always the case]].' It's made very clear that if you ever have full health, [[MachoMasochism you're not doing it right]].''
89-->-- '''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''' [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-great-game-developer-just-went-bankrupt_p2/ on]] ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000SpaceMarine''
90
91->''And on the day [[Music/JAMProject Masaaki Endoh]] was born, the heavens rained holy fire of manliness and guitars. Jesus himself down and proclaimed that he was the Christ of Manliness, here to bring the coming age of Manly to the world as the second son of our lord, as the human son of God himself, no middleman. Here he is, teaching us the ways of the Book of Man, which he wrote himself in the year 2012 as he kicked away the meteorite that was goin to kill us all. WE MUST LEARN FROM HIM! MASAAKI MOTHER FUCKING ENDOH!!!''
92-->-- '''Website/YouTube comment on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNFm7-UgobE Masaaki Endoh's cover of Sorairo Days]]'''
93
94->''"It is said that there are two things ubiquitous in the [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Imperial Guard]]: the standard pattern [[BeamSpam lasgun]], and [[BadassNormal a pair of steel balls.]]"''
95-->-- '''Anonymous poster on 4Chan's Traditional Games board'''
96
97!!WebVideo
98->"Franchise/IndianaJones 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, [[WeaponSpecialization he uses a whip]], [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment he punches people, he bangs his students in the locker room, women love him, he goes on adventures]], [[RuleOfThree he punches people]], [[HeroInsurance he can shoot people and get away with it]], and so on!"
99-->-- '''[[WebVideo/RedLetterMedia Mr. Plinkett]]'''
100
101->'''OOC''': Uh, Jay, tell us ''why'' you like [[Wrestling/SteveBlackman Blackman]]?\
102'''Jay:''' a) Because he's great, and b) well I don't even need a b) 'cause the a) was so ''great!''\
103'''V1:''' You [[EEqualsMCHammer can't even argue with that]].\
104'''Jay:''' I think he's cool. He's a [[McNinja white ninja]]. (I was gonna say [[VideoGame/MortalKombat3 Sub-Zero]].) His complete lack of charisma means '''boundless''' charisma; just went so far down 0 [[BrokeTheRatingScale that he's a 10]].
105-->-- ''WebVideo/OSWReview''
106
107->"Let me put it in perspective for you: [[Series/StarTrekTheNextgeneration Picard]] faced the Borg, and after it was done ruining his life, he [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys stood in his office and drank Earl Grey]].\
108Sisko faced the Borg and after it was done ruining ''his'' life, he [[DeathGlare fumed in an escape-pod]] -- then went off to design a ship whose only purpose is to kill Borg. It's [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill a set of guns strapped to an engine]]. Then he called it ''Defiant'', a name that practically shakes its fist at the Borg. That was his ''second'' choice; Starfleet felt that the ''U.S.S. [[ICallItVera Ben Sisko's Muthafuckin Pimp Hand]]'' was too long."
109-->-- '''{{Website/SFDebris}}''' on [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Cpn. Ben "Don't Fuck With The" Sisko]]
110
111->Sir Ron, what brand of chainsaw do you use to brush your teeth?
112-->-- '''kingofcupcakes''', on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8bivtNtSrQ&feature=related Sir Ron Lionheart's Let's Play Contra III]]
113
114->"''{{Film/Predator}}.'' How could this be bad? It's fucking ''Predator''! You look at the cover and think, 'Yeeeah. This game's gonna be awesome. This is a real ''man's'' game. This game will turn you into a sexual tyrannosaur' -- like me."
115-->-- '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''', on "[[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Schwarzenegger]] Games"
116
117->''"Manime", that's the term. Like really, really, any anime that's just about, like, manly men fighting, and it's full of like, [[WorldOfMuscleMen muscle]], and {{testosterone| poisoning}}. If there is girls in it, [[{{Fanservice}} they are at least half-nude]] or they have [[BuxomBeautyStandard ginormous knockers]], they're badly drawn, and it's, uh, great. Manime. It's gotta be at least a little bit of, uh, y'know, sentimentality to the fights. Let's say that the protagonist and the villain have, like, a [[ManlyTears crying moment]] together, where they're like, "[[BloodKnight You are the best fighter ever]]", and it's like, "I know, Ryu", or "Kenryu-sama, we were brothers. [[WorthyOpponent You were my true opponent.]]", and they all like, [[ManlyTears cry]], and [[YourHeadAsplode they punch each others' heads off]], while some [[TheEighties eighties anime music's]] going on that sounds like American Rock, but it's full of like, {{Engrish}}, so it's just like "''BURNING HOTTO! DEALING THE NIGHT TONIGHT! KAMINE SHINO SHIGA!''". You know, it's Manime, I love shit like that.''
118-->-- '''Joel''', ''WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}}''
119
120-> "You see, us guys think that this..." ''(clip of a car with a noisy muffler)'' \
121"...this..." ''(clip of a car screeching around in circles)'' \
122"...and this..." ''(clip of a motorcycle rider popping up his rear tire)'' \
123"...creates girl boners, and it does, but only for chicks who hate their dads."
124-->--''WebVideo/RegularCarReviews''
125
126->"''VideoGame/TwistedMetal 2'' from {{Creator/Sony}} banks on the very essence of Film/JamesBond: action-thriving men. Yes; we're taking about [[Series/HomeImprovement Tim Taylor,]] grunt-out-loud-to-show-your-manhood type of men!"
127-->-- '''George Wood''', ''Series/GamingInTheClintonYears''
128
129!!WesternAnimation
130->'''Animator:''' ''(rejecting a cartoon rabbit)'' Maybe something a bit more manly.\
131''(He draws an overly muscular, Franchise/{{Rambo}}-style rabbit.)''\
132'''Rabbit:''' ''({{scream|ingWarrior}}s)'' [[NoIndoorVoice PREPARE TO FRY,]] [[LargeHam YOU INSIGNIFICANT SLUG!!!]]\
133''(The rabbit torches the drawing board with his flamethrower. The animator puts out the fire with his coffee.)''\
134'''Animator:''' [[ThinkOfTheCensors Never get him past the Parent-Teacher Association.]]
135-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "[[{{Pilot}} The Looney Beginning]]"
136
137!!RealLife
138->''They made it evident to every man, and to the king himself not the least, that humans beings are many but men are few.''
139-->-- '''Creator/{{Herodotus}}''' [[OlderThanTheyThink on Spartans]]
140
141->''On-screen he held so much authority so that he was not being ironic when he explained his theory of acting: "Don't act. React." Creator/JohnWayne could react. Other actors had to strain the limits of their craft to hold the screen with him.''
142-->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert'''
143
144->''Most people are either too enthusiastic about manliness or too dismissive of it. They think that manliness is the only virtue, and all virtue, or they think it is the last stupid stereotype, soon to be as dead as a dodo. To study it well, the trick is not to get carried away to either extreme.''
145-->-- ''Manliness'' by Harvey '''[[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Mans]]'''field.
146
147->"My games are never subdued. They're always intense as intense we can make them. I'm not sure why that is, but I don't do cute."
148-->-- '''Creator/SteveRitchie''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIJi0G_2VYA promotional video]] for ''The Getaway: Pinball/HighSpeed II''

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