Basic Trope: A big, mannish, and ugly woman.
- Straight: Hilda is very muscular, mannish, taller than average and also quite unattractive.
- Exaggerated: Hilda would make the Hulk jealous and she is so hideous that people go insane upon seeing her.
- Downplayed:
- Hilda is athletic and has a rather masculine face, and while most find this unattractive, there is a small group of people who find her pretty hot.
- Hilda is athletic and has a rather masculine face, and while she isn't attractive she isn't outright ugly either.
- Justified:
- Hilda is from a family of muscular people, and being muscular is VERY unladylike in her society.
- Hilda was taunted all her life for her appearance and decided to take up powerlifting and develop her body as a way to cope with her perceived ugliness.
- Hilda's work as miner, farmhand or other manual labor job developed her muscles but the harsh conditions prematurely aged her.
- Inverted:
- Amazonian Beauty
- Hilda is considered unattractive because of her lack of muscle.
- Gender Inverted:
- Homer is a large, muscular man who looks like a troll.
- Homer the gymnast looks like an attractive woman.
- Homer is a curvy and feminine-looking man, and this is seen as unattractive by other characters.
- Subverted:
- Hilda was Beautiful All Along, it turns out that her clothes needed custom fit for her body. Afterwards she is straightforward Amazonian Beauty.
- Gonky Femme
- Double Subverted: But only her face. She's still muscular.
- Parodied: The more Hilda works out, the uglier her face becomes.
- Zig-Zagged: Some of the guys consider Hilda to be a Brawn Hilda, while others consider her to be an Amazonian Beauty.
- Averted: Hilda isn't muscular.
- Enforced: Hilda is a soprano singer; she needs those muscles in order to hit the high notes.
- Lampshaded:
- "Yeah, Hilda may not be a looker. At all. But you don't wanna say that to her face unless you want to experience firsthand what she can do with these thigh-sized arms of hers."
- "Oh, scheiße (shit), lay off these idiotic comments! Yes, I know I'm muscular, so unless you want to experience death-by-biceps, RUHIG (QUIET)!"
- Invoked: Hilda is tired of being ogled and harassed by men so she deliberately works out to excess in order to make herself unattractive.
- Exploited: Hilda knows that she's unattractive and mannish. She eventually decides to embrace it and use it to her advantage by entering a career where her intimidating build and homely face will ensure she's being taken seriously: politics, judicature or high-stakes finance.
- Defied:
- Hilda works out and develops her body but takes care to maintain her beauty while doing so.
- Hilda decides to strength other parts of her body strategically to ensure she is an Amazonian Beauty instead.
- Discussed: "How much you wanna bet those peasant women over there are going to be big, muscular and ugly as hell?"
- Conversed: "Actually, Hilda is lucky to be that imposing with that ugly man-face of hers. At least no one dares disrespect her."
- Implied: Hilda is never seen but an Amazonian Beauty or hunk comments on how muscular and ugly she is.
- Deconstructed: Hilda finds herself with self-esteem issues and worse finds out that she had a pituitary tumor.
- Reconstructed: Of course, her muscular physique makes it clear she's in good health and ultimately survives.
- Played For Laughs: Hilda is big and mannish to the point where she otherwise appears to be a Hunk in drag.
- Played For Drama: Hilda is ridiculed by everyone for her mannish appearance and develops Muscle Angst over it.
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