Basic Trope: A woman is specifically shown as sexy because of being muscular. The muscularity is specifically emphasized.
- Straight: Maria is very muscular and it is emphasized as beauty.
- Exaggerated:
- Each shot or scene Maria is in, has her flexing and posing for the camera.
- Maria is a Head-Turning Beauty or maybe even the World's Most Beautiful Woman.
- Maria is a giant with huge and well-defined muscles that would make The Hulk jealous and she attracts some straight women or gay men.
- Downplayed:
- Maria has some slight but defined biceps and hints of muscle, but doesn't show it off too much.
- Maria combines muscle with fat, but is still attractive.
- Justified:
- Maria engages in Training from Hell or Workout Fanservice and decides she wants to show her muscles off.
- Maria is an Artificial Human that a Mad Scientist created to be his perfect girlfriend and a part of his army of evil minions.
- Maria lives in a society of a Proud Warrior Race that views physical strength as attractive regardless of gender. As a result, she has a lot of admirers and/or is comfortable wearing skimpy outfits due to the lack of shame regarding her body.
- Maria's muscles actually emphasize her curvaceous assets.
- Gender Inverted:
- Inverted:
- Maria is very thin and this is emphasized as sexy.
- Maria's skin is very sculpted but it is also smooth with no muscles.
- Brawn Hilda
- Subverted: The camera pans up Maria muscular body, but when it reaches her face, it is revealed that she has a very manly face and has the voice of man.
- Double Subverted: ... Except this Maria is just an Imagine Spot of one her rivals. The real Maria is the full muscular package, cute face and all.
- Parodied: The combined weight of Maria's Comically Oversized Butt, gigantic breasts and bulky muscles makes her so heavy that she falls over (even though logically her muscles would make her strong enough to carry all that weight).
- Zig Zagged:
- Whether or not Maria is muscular or not depends entirely on the artist.
- Whether or not Maria's muscular physique is portrayed as attractive, unattractive, or treated with indifference depends on the writer.
- Averted:
- Maria is attractive but not muscular.
- Maria is muscular but not treated as attractive for it.
- Maria's Amazon qualities aren't shown to be beautiful.
- Enforced:
- The creator likes sexy, muscular women.
- The creator wants to avoid Muscles Are Meaningless, but also wants to include some Fanservice because Sex Sells or add in a Token Romance for Multiple Demographic Appeal.
- Lampshaded: "My, have you ever noticed how hot Maria's muscles are."
- Invoked: "Ever since Maria started working out she's been showing off her new muscles."
- Exploited: Maria gets work as a bodyguard for a sexist man who will only hire pretty women.
- Defied:
- "Yuck, I don't care. There's no way I'd want to be that muscular."
- Maria tries to work out to become muscular, Bob decides to "help out" by doing everything for her, keeping her from gaining any muscle.
- Discussed:
- "I don't care how many comics you read. There's no way a woman could be that hot with that much muscle."
- Maria is muscular. Nate and Otto don't agree on whether it's attractive or not and argue with each other about it.
- Conversed: "Can't blame her, if I'd worked hard for a body like that, I wouldn't care what other people think and would be showing off too."
- Deconstructed:
- Maria is popular at the gym among her fellow body-builders but in other settings she is seen as ugly or intimidating.
- Maria was once considered by many men to be drop-dead gorgeous, but now the same men who were attracted to her in High School now see her as a Brawn Hilda.
- Reconstructed:
- Maria is aware that some people find her body type unattractive but doesn't let other people's negativity towards her body tear her down; every type has its haters. Plus, she's in a relationship with a man who believes her to be the World's Most Beautiful Woman.
- However, many other men still find her attractive.
- See "Downplayed". Maria is very strong, has a toned body, and might even have a pair of abs, but still maintains enough of her feminine physique to not turn some men off.
- Played For Drama: Maria develops Muscle Angst.
- Necessary Weasel: Maria is really muscular, so she's obviously either an Action Girl or a bodybuilder.
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