Basic Trope: Attacking by throwing a bone at the target.
- Straight: Skully attacks by detaching one of his bones and throwing it at the enemy.
- Exaggerated: Skully can throw his entire ribcage as an attack.
- Downplayed: Skully can throw one of his very small ear bones.
- Justified:
- Skully is a skeleton of an alien species with many more bones than usual, most of which are not essential, so he can afford to lose a few by attacking.
- Skully's bones are hard enough that, after the fight, he can simply pick them up and put them back in his body, so he won't ever run out.
- Inverted: Skully heals from an injury by pulling out one of a defeated Red Shirt's bones and attaching it to himself.
- Subverted: Skully pulls out one of his bones... only to simply run up to the opponent and whack them with it, instead of throwing it.
- Double Subverted: Skully's foe tries to runs away, and he responds by tossing the bone at them.
- Parodied: Skully pulls out a bone and prepares to throw it... but it turns out that he needed that bone to stay together, and collapses.
- Averted: Skully fights the same way that all the other characters do, and never even considers throwing his own bones.
- Enforced: Skully's action figure has detachable bones, and the show needs to portray this in some way.
- Lampshaded: "You think I can't get you from over here, eh? Well... I've got a bone to pick with you!"
- Invoked: Before a fight, Skully is shown pulling at a few of his bones to loosen them, so he can pull them out and throw them if he's disarmed.
- Exploited: Skully's opponent baits him into throwing his bones until he can't anymore and falls apart.
- Defied: Skully's opponent covers him with glue, preventing him from detaching and throwing his bones.
- Discussed: "Skully is a dangerous fighter, and don't rest easy even if you disarm him; he'll throw his own bones at you to gain the upper hand."
- Conversed: "Skully's been throwing his bones for half the episode, but he still looks the same. Where is he getting new ones from?"
- Implied: Skully is shown in the Big Bad's castle after a fight, and while he looks relatively unharmed, he's missing several bones.
- Played for Laughs: Skully rummages around inside his body and tosses out a Stock Femur Bone, even though his legs are untouched.
- Played for Horror: Skully still has bits of flesh on him. Body Horror ensues as he viscerally pulls off a bloodied bone from his body and throws it at his next victim.
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