An index of tropes concerned with the physiology
(i.e. bodily functions and activities) of any living thing, or at least an approximation of one.
Contrast Anatomy Tropes, which is about the anatomy (i.e. bodily form and structure) of living beings.
Tropes
Categories:
- Bathroom Tropes (excretion)
- Birth Tropes
- Breathing Index
- Dexterity Tropes
- An Eggcellent Index
- Food Tropes (eating/digestion)
- Menstruation Tropes
- Pregnancy Does Not Work That Way
- Pregnancy Tropes
- Sex Tropes (mating/procreation)
- Sleep and Wakefulness Tropes
- A Very Crappy Index (defecation)
- 90% of Your Brain: Gaining superhuman powers through the utilization of (supposedly) "untapped" brainpower.
- The Ageless: This living being has a limited form of Immortality where it will not die from old age.
- Anthropomorphized Anatomy: Bodily organs or cells are depicted as Anthropomorphic Personifications.
- Bottomless Bladder: No need for excreting bodily wastes.
- Can't Hold His Liquor: A character with extremely low alcohol tolerance.
- Cast from Calories: Magic (or some other supernatural power) is fueled by calories from the caster's own body.
- Eating Optional: No need for food.
- Healing Factor: Possession of an abnormal rate of healing from injuries and illnesses.
- Hormone-Addled Teenager: Adolescents are ruled by their hormones and think about sex all the time.
- Hyperactive Metabolism: When metabolism works at a mind-bogglingly fast rate.
- Ideal Illness Immunity: A character who is somehow immune to all diseases.
- The Immune: A character that has immunity to a disease in his or her body.
- Immune to Drugs: A character is unable to be affected by drugs.
- Master of Your Domain: The power of conscious control over normally autonomic body functions.
- My Blood Runs Hot: A character has an abnormally high body temperature.
- The Needless: A character lacks one or more things that are normally indispensable needs for a living organism.
- Never Gets Drunk: A character with extremely high alcohol tolerance.
- No Biochemical Barriers: They evolved on different worlds, but somehow their respective biochemistries are nigh-perfectly compatible.
- Perpetual-Motion Monster: This monster does not need to eat, drink, or sleep, and will just keep on going and going forever until someone or something finally destroys it.
- Pheromones: Scents that induce a particular physiological/psychological effect.
- The Sleepless: No need for sleep.
- Uninhibited Muscle Power: Gaining a brief burst of Super-Strength by temporarily removing innate limiters on muscular output.
