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* '''Double Subverted''': He doesn't mention that the abdominal surgery was to remove the false navel all homunculi are born with before it grows into an evil serpent.

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* '''Double Subverted''': He doesn't mention that the abdominal surgery was to remove the false navel all homunculi [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent homunculi]] are born with before it grows into an evil serpent.
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* '''Inverted''': Most members of Bôzb's alien species [[BizzareAlienReproduction hatch from eggs]], but Bôzb has a navel, indicating that he's secretly a HalfHumanHybrid born to a human mother.

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* '''Inverted''': Most members of Bôzb's alien species [[BizzareAlienReproduction [[BizarreAlienReproduction hatch from eggs]], but Bôzb has a navel, indicating that he's secretly a HalfHumanHybrid born to a human mother.

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* '''Inverted''': Most members of Bôzb's alien species [[BizzareAlienReproduction hatch from eggs]], but Bôzb has a navel, indicating that he's secretly a HalfHumanHybrid born to a human mother.



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'''Basic Trope''': A character lacks a navel because of their unusual or artificial birth.
* '''Straight''': Bob has no navel because he is a clone and was grown in a lab.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob doesn't have any non-necessary artifacts from fetal development: no navel, no nipples, no tailbone, etc.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob's navel is unusually small because it developed incorrectly in the lab.
* '''Justified''': Bob did not develop in a human womb, and as such, never had an umbilical cord.
* '''Subverted''': Alice notices Bob's lack of a navel, and accuses him of being a lab-grown experiment. Bob explains that his navel was just removed during an abdominal surgery.
* '''Double Subverted''': He doesn't mention that the abdominal surgery was to remove the false navel all homunculi are born with before it grows into an evil serpent.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''':
** All of characters have navels (or at least the humans and other placental creatures do).
** Bob's lack of navel is the result of a surgery, and no one assumes otherwise.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': "As you can tell by my strangely bellybuttonless abdomen, I was grown in a lab."
* '''Invoked''': The scientist in charge of growing Bob in the lab chooses not to give him a false belly button to make his status as the first lab-grown adult clone more visible.
* '''Exploited''': Alice can tell apart the real Bob from his clones because the clones don't have bellybuttons.
* '''Defied''': Bob gets surgery to construct a fake bellybutton.
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* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Implied''': ???
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