Discussion Main / TestosteronePoisoning

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Redefining a Name, started by KJMackley on Sep 10th 2010 at 9:37:21 AM

There is a problem with the punny caption to the image on this page, namely that people keep potholing it to Incredibly Lame Pun, which is a classic sinkhole (the pothole has been removed and re-added multiple times). One of the standard pieces of editing advice is to avoid sinkholes. Plus, puns are funnier if you notice them yourself! People will notice, they're not stupid. I removed Incredibly Lame Pun but how can we prevent it from being put back?

Here are the Real Life examples: Doesn't make sense to have them because this is a parody trope

All these are already on the Rated M for Manly page: are they parodies or not?

ADVERTISING:

• The Dos Equis character, "The Most Interesting Man In The World": Bulls refuse to fight him; his bear hugs are hugs he actually gives to bears; he strongly abides by the motto "safety third."

ANIME AND MANGA:

• Berserk has an 8-foot-tall psychopath with a sword three times as big as he is, a robot arm, and one eye surfing a giant demon through a lightning cloud.
• Black Lagoon features something similar to this...only it's the females that act this way. While women technically do have levels of testosterone too, the fact that this kind of behavior isn't usually shown in female characters still makes it seem less like this and more like simply Bad Ass behavior.
• Bleach. Isshin Kurosaki. Nuff said.
  • Please. When it comes to testosterone, no one even comes close to Zaraki Kenpachi.
• Mahou Sensei Negima's Jack Rakan. Any problem can be solved by punching it, throwing a sword at it, or, if it's a female, stealing their panties and flipping their skirt up.
  • RAKAN-FOR-THE-HELL-OF-IT-RIGHT-HAND-PUNCH!
  • Don't forget Kotaro, who firmly believes that men should live by the fist, talk with their fists, and bath in an onsen completely naked because covering oneself is unmanly.
• Gurren Lagann gives us such gems as "Manly combining is a beautiful thing!"
  • Who The Hell Do You Think I Am ?!! is pretty much the rallying cry of masculinity.
  • This. Beware, your computer will overload from the epic manliness.
  • You think that was bad? Try this. If your computer went berserk with the above one, your computer will asplode.
• Banjo Haran from 'Daitarn3' is probably a proto-Kamina in that regard.
• Good god, 25% of the cast for Eyeshield 21 is this. In fact, there's even a language that only the manliest of manly men can understand.
• Adam Blade in Needless... but almost the entire cast is infused with varying forms of badass.
• GaoGaiGar. That is all.
• Jack Rakan from Mahou Sensei Negima is probobly the best example in the whole of anime and manga.

COMICS:

• The Doom Marine.
  Who's a man and a half? I'm a man and a half!
• Add to this trope some serious sociopathy and you get... The Punisher!
• Any Lobo comic. Preferably when written by his creator, Keith Giffen. Practically a testosterone aneurism.
• 300 embodies this trope so much that it slips into Ho Yay territory.
• And we could go on and on... Really, just ANY superheroe/villain of the Dork Age will be guilty of this trope... and even some of the heroines.

FAN FIC:

• Thirty Hs is basically made of this trope. Harry Potter apparently Took a Level in Badass and is now able to fly through space on a meteor encased in "holy fuckfire", destroying entire planets on the way for no real reason.
• Shinji and Warhammer 40 K:
  "PRESENTING! HIS EXCELLENCY IKARI SHINJI THE FIRST! ALL HAIL!"

FILM:

• Arnold Schwarzenegger in pretty much everything up to and including True Lies. So much so, that it even spawned a metal band, Austrian Death Machine.
• The Expendables will star Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, and Steve Austin.
  • And this fan-made trailer for the film ended up playing this trope for all it's worth.
  • Incidentally, Sylvester Stallone broke his neck during filming.
  • As well, it has Gary Daniels as a former member of the team who works for the movie's villains. That name may not sound like much, but he is best known for his role as Kenshiro from the movie adaption of Fist of the North Star.
  • It was also going to star Jean Claude Van Damme, but Van Damme turned Stallone down when Stallone answered every question about what the movie was going to be about and what Van Damme's character was like by talking about how AWESOME the movie was going to be, who else was in it, and how great the action sequences are. Guess he's just not manly enough...
  • The Expendables 2. Take the people named above, including Van Damme, and add in the very high potential for Charlie Sheen, Hulk Hogan, Mr T, Carl Weathers, Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Chuck Norris, Lloyd Banks, Lorenzo Lamas, Jeff Speakman, and Olivier Gruner. Oh yeah, the shit just got real.

LITERATURE:

• John Ringo's Paladin of Shadows series. OH JOHN RINGO NO.
• Maxim in their articles. Except their ads and fashion section often seem more appropriate for GQ.
• John Norman's Planet of Gor series. Tarl Cabot is the most insanely manly Mary Sue there ever was, living in a bondage fantasy fever dream. Sadly, this fantasy is played completely straight.

PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING:

• Any appearance at all by Randy "Macho Man" Savage.

VIDEO GAMES:

• Can you say, Cho Aniki?
• Captain Falcon. He'll show you his moves any day.
  • Really almost the entire cast fits into this. It helps they're based off of American Comic book heroes.
• Duke Nukem.
• Rinnosuke Morichika from Touhou is sometimes portrayed in fanon as the muscular, fundoshi-clad Mannosuke.
  • Even worse, a doujin artist draws the female witch Marisa Kirisame as the monstrous manly Cho-Marisa.
• The opening cinematic to Neo Contra.

WESTERN ANIMATION:

• Brock Samson of The Venture Brothers. Voiced by Patrick Warburton. He also voices Joe Swanson of Family Guy, another shining example of MANLINESS. Though... sometimes he loses that edge thanks to tasteless jokes about his paraplegia.
• Korgoth Of Barbaria features the main character as an over the top parody of Conan The Barbarian with an insatiable appetite for sex and brutally slaughtering his enemies.
• The Boulder insists on being listed on this trope, just for using his stage voice *everywhere he goes*.

What is the real trope namer for this? I have seen Babylon 5, the Darwin Awards, and (dubiously) Buffy all credited as having named the trope. But which one did it?

Not sure, should Matt Hardy's theme go in here? I mean, he talks about slamming a tornado, and drying up a sea. Plus the Matt facts before the Edge/Lita incident were all about how manly Matt was.

Anon: Changed the video link to the ridiculous new Old Spice commercials to one containing *all* the Terry Crews commercials. They're truly too ridiculously manly to only have one.