removed this from the Trope page, but kept for posterity.

"This tropper once read an essay which said that Mal and Simon had a remarkable number of intriguing similarities despite the differences and were almost the chief co-heros of the show."

Trimmed a bunch of non-examples; there's a lot of Square Peg Round Trope going on here. Some of the trimmed examples would better fit Red Oni Blue Oni (and are probably already there). Others involve characters who individually fit the descriptions of "Manly Man" and "Sensitive guy" but who aren't presented in the text as a contrasting pair. And some just plain make no sense (how does one justify describing either Kira or Athrun in Gundam SEED as a "manly man"?).

I'm just wondering; if you have a character who looks like a sensitive guy, but does everything he can to make up for that, would he count as being "both"? Especially if he had shades of "sensitive" in him?

Probably should change the image. Just A Face And A Caption.