->"''In a period of industrial development and modernization in urban areas, logging remained a traditional business in which the workers exhibited pride in their craft, their physical strength and masculinity, and guarded their individualism. Their camps were a bastion of the traditional workplace as they defied modern rationalized management, and built a culture around masculinity.''"
-->-- '''TheOtherWiki''', [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumberjack "Lumberjack"]]

Lumberjacks are commonly used to represent strength, man's dominance over nature, and the idea that [[AnAxeToGrind axes are pretty cool]]. In fiction they tend to be {{Badass}}, often to the point of TestosteronePoisoning. Either that, or to sell paper towels.

Because people will expect a lumberjack to be [[RatedMForManly manly]], they [[DoubleStandard are almost always men]]. They tend to dress like a stereotypical 19th century PaulBunyan type with [[HollywoodDressCode a flannel shirt]], [[{{Hunk}} rugged outdoorsman look]], a BadassBeard, and [[MusclesAreMeaningful large muscles]] developed from years of swinging an axe. The much rarer female lumberjack will either be a ButchLesbian and PlayedForLaughs, or look exactly like [[LittleMissBadass a normal girl]] wielding a giant axe, with her lumberjack heritage used to HandWave her insane SuperStrength.
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!!Examples:

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[[folder: Advertising ]]
* The Brawny Paper Towel company tries to link this trope to the strength of their product by making their mascot a giant lumberjack.
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[[folder: Film ]]
* Invoked in ''{{Hoodwinked}}'' with Kirk the Woodsman, an actor playing a burly [[GermanicEfficiency German]] [[AnAxeToGrind axeman]] in commercials.
* In ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', lumberjacking is what Logan does in his RetiredBadass phase.
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[[folder: Literature ]]
* ''The God Box'' by Barry B. Longyear, features a female lumberjack (who happens to be a fifteen-foot tall giantess).
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[[folder: Live-Action TV ]]
* ''FullHouse'': One character spent some time hosting a children's television show and invited a second character to join it. The latter man scoffed at the idea, thinking it below him, till he was offered a role whose manliness satisfied him: "Lumberjack Jess."
* ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' played with this for a while, with Francis and his friend from military school believing they would be able to run off to Alaska and become these relatively easily.
* Flirted with and then subverted in the ''Creator/MontyPython'' Lumberjack Sketch. The singer dreams of being a lumberjack ... and CampGay at the same time.
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[[folder: Music ]]
* "The Haircut Song" by RayStevens is about a variety of haircuts Stevens has received from insane barbers. Whenever he is feeling intimidated by a barber and is asked what he does for a living, his immediate response is "I'm a logger!":
-->Now a lot of people would be intimidated in a situation like this...I was not. I am what I am, play my piano, and sing my little songs. I looked him right in the eye and I said, I'm a logger - just up from Coos Bay, Oregon. Been toppin' trees - quite possibly the toughest man in the entire world.
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[[folder: Oral Tradition ]]
* PaulBunyan is the UrExample, having originated in Canada in the early 19th century. There are many myths surrounding him, the most famous of which is that the 10,000 Lakes of Minnesota were formed by him and his sidekick, [[SpeciesSurname Babe the Blue Ox]], as they walked around in a blizzard. It's worth noting that most of the Paul Bunyan myth, including everything about Paul being a giant with a giant pet ox, was actually the invention of a 20th century copywriter who spun Paul Bunyan into a mascot for a logging company.
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[[folder: Video Games ]]
* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'': In Little Canadia, the player can encounter lumberjacks, lumberjills, and lumberjuans. The lumberjack supervisor carries ''[[OneHandedZweihander two]]'' double-sides axes.
* In ''PrincessMaker 2'', being a lumberjack increases your strength, which increases your attack power, which means if you do it enough, you'll be be killing enemies in one hit.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'': Presea Combatir is a female lumberjack. She [[OlderThanTheyLook looks about twelve years old]] but carries an axe bigger than some of your other party members.
* In the computer "card" game ''UrbanRivals'', the first boss card you get in your collection is a lumberjack. He starts looking like the stereotype and hulks out when levelling up. Also adds bonus damage to the whole team.
* ''UmJammerLammy'' has Paul Chuck, a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw-wielding]] beaver lumberjack, though the "mighty" part of the trope is a bit lost due to his intentionally goofy voice.
* ''[[VideoGame/SangFroidTalesOfWerewolves Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves]]'': Two lumberjacks protect their sister from the Devil's minions.
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[[folder: Webcomics ]]
* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', lumberjacking makes people susceptible to Paul Bunyan's Disease, which causes those it affects to turn into a giant lumberjack who is "enraged at how many trees still stand within his vicinity."
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[[folder: Western Animation ]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "The Blunder Years" Marge becomes infatuated with the lumberjack that is the mascot for a brand of paper towels.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', Johnny competes in a lumberjack competition to win a kiss from a pretty female lumberjack. Unfortunately for him, he was actually competing for and wins the kiss from [[BrawnHilda a different woman]].
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' gives us Manly Dan.
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