Tropes about being physically strong or demonstrating strength like with lifting or hitting. Not to be confused with Muscular Index but there can be some overlap.
Contrast Weakness Tropes.
- Afraid of Their Own Strength: Being so strong that you are worried you might hurt someone.
- All Amazons Want Hercules: Strong women tend to pair up with stronger men.
- Amazon Chaser: A girl being physically strong is what this guy finds most attractive about her.
- Bald Head of Toughness: Baldness (or a shaved head) is used as a visual short hand for physical and mental toughness.
- Balls of Steel: A man's balls are strong enough to resist a Groin Attack.
- Barehanded Bar Bending: A character demonstrates their strength by bending a metal object, sometimes with ease.
- Baritone of Strength: A character has a deep voice to signal them being strong.
- The Big Guy / The Brute: A team member that specializes in tasks that require physical strength.
- Brains Evil, Brawn Good: Heroes use brute strength while villains use intellect.
- Brains Versus Brawn: Strength and intellect are portrayed as opposites to one another for contrast.
- Brawn Hilda: A woman who's physically strong and looks very mannish.
- Crushing Handshake: Shaking hands with someone stronger than you causes you pain.
- Cute Bruiser: Looks cute and dainty but is actually capable of beating people up.
- Dangled by a Giant
- Does Not Know His Own Strength: Super-Strength can cause problems if you can't control it.
- Dumb Muscle: What one lacks in brains is made up for with their physical strength.
- Effortless Amazonian Lift: A woman can lift a person off the ground without breaking a sweat.
- Genius Bruiser: This person has both the brains and brawn.
- Girly Bruiser: Just because this lady is girly doesn't mean she still isn't capable of getting her hands dirty when the situation calls for it.
- Glacier Waif: She looks like a Fragile Speedster or a Squishy Wizard but is actually a Mighty Glacier.
- Hoist Hero over Head: You know the villain is strong if he lifts the defeated hero over his head.
- HULK MASH!-Up: A character based on the Incredible Hulk, who can be expected to have immense strength.
- Impossible Pickle Jar: Opening a jar or bottle takes serious endurance, strength, and/or patience.
- Lightning Bruiser: Super Strong characters can still be really light on their feet.
- Made of Iron: Has such strong endurance to survive lethal situations that a normal person would likely be killed by.
- Men Are Strong, Women Are Pretty: Strength is expected of men while women only need to be beautiful.
- Mighty Glacier: With great physical strength comes loss in speed and mobility.
- Mother Russia Makes You Strong: You can get really strong if you live and train in Russia.
- Muscles Are Meaningful: Large muscles are a sign of strength.
- Muscles Are Meaningless: A character doesn't need bulky biceps and triceps to be strong. In fact, lack of muscle is much more effective.
- Neck Lift: A character demonstrates his strength by grabbing his opponent by the throat and lifting him up with only one hand.
- No Guy Wants an Amazon: Men are intimidated by or turned off of women stronger than them.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Small in size yet is deadly in strength.
- Powerful, but Incompetent: A character that has great power or ability, but is too dumb to actually accomplish anything with it.
- The Pretty Guys Are Stronger: Think pretty boys are pansies? Not these guys, they're tanks compared to the more monstrous looking fighters.
- Seeking Ultimate Strength: Someone's goal is becoming the strongest.
- Smack on the Back: Strong character affectionately smacks someone on their body, causing them pain.
- Stout Strength: Fat men who are strong.
- Strength Equals Worthiness: You gotta show how strong you are if you want to gain the respect of someone important.
- The Strength of Ten Men: They're as strong as multiple men put together.
- Strong Ants: Ants are so strong they can lift 10 times their own weight.
- Strong as They Need to Be: Normally strong characters get weakened in certain situations, or characters are suddenly capable of feats when previously not.
- Stronger Than They Look: Despite looking weak, they're actually a tank of strength.
- The Strongman: Circus performer whose physical might is practiced for the entertainment of others.
- Super Rug-Pull: When you have Super Strength, you can pull out a chunk of rock and whip it like a rug.
- Super-Strength: Strength that is beyond normal, if not any real-life human ability.
- Super-Strong Child: Not all children appear weak and helpless.
- Super-Toughness: Often a Required Secondary Power to be able to do anything with Super-Strength
- Takes Ten to Hold: "Strength in numbers" taken literally, usually against a One-Man Army.
- Telephone Polearm: A character is strong enough to lift a pillar-sized object and use it as a weapon.
- "Test Your Strength" Game: A carnival game that tests the participant's strength, usually involving a high striker.
- Tough Beetles: Beetles portrayed as strong and heavily armored.
- Uninhibited Muscle Power: Super-Strength that comes from natural causes rather than magical means.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Even those who lack natural talent can be strong.
- Women Prefer Strong Men: Women are most attracted to very strong men.
- World's Strongest Man: A man who's stronger than all other people on the planet.
