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1'''Basic Trope''': Living skeletons.
2* '''Straight''': Bob is a skeleton.
3* '''Exaggerated''':
4** Everyone in the work is a skeleton.
5** Whenever there happens to be a skeleton, it'll come to life eventually one way or another.
6* '''Downplayed''':
7** [[NothingButSkinAndBones Bob is so emaciated he looks concerningly close to a skeleton.]]
8** SkullForAHead.
9* '''Justified''': Bob was originally dead, but was brought back as a skeleton via FunctionalMagic.
10* '''Inverted''': Bob's body contains everything a typical human body would have ''except'' for any bones whatsoever.
11* '''Subverted''': Bob was actually just wearing a ludicrously well-designed costume. He's as human as anyone else.
12* '''Double Subverted''': [[BecomingTheCostume Then he becomes a skeleton.]]
13* '''Parodied''': Bob is a human being whose skeleton is a completely different sentient being from Bob himself.
14* '''Zig-Zagged''': Once Bob's costume leads to him BecomingTheCostume, it turns out he later becomes human again, only for it to happen that he's fated to constantly switch between being a human and a skeleton.
15* '''Averted''': Bob's a normal human.
16* '''Lampshaded''': "How the hell is that skeleton alive?"
17* '''Invoked''': Bob's turned into a skeleton by FunctionalMagic which is casted onto him by a WickedWitch.
18* '''Exploited''': Bob's enlisted in a fighting group with the selling point of possibly scaring away any threats.
19* '''Defied''': Bob goes on a journey to rid himself of his skeleton form.
20* '''Discussed''': "You're a skeleton, for crying out loud!"
21* '''Conversed''': "What's with all the skeleton characters?"
22* '''Implied''': Sometimes people speak of a skeleton...
23* '''Deconstructed''': Due to having little to hold him together, Bob can't stick for long.
24* '''Reconstructed''': With the right crutches, he can still support himself and keep going.
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