Basic Trope: Living skeletons.
- Straight: Bob is a skeleton.
- Exaggerated:
- Everyone in the work is a skeleton.
- Whenever there happens to be a skeleton, it'll come to life eventually one way or another.
- Downplayed: Bob is so emaciated he looks concerningly close to a skeleton.
- Justified: Bob was originally dead, but was brought back as a skeleton via Functional Magic.
- Inverted: Bob's body contains everything a typical human body would have except for any bones whatsoever.
- Subverted: Bob was actually just wearing a ludicrously well-designed costume. He's as human as anyone else.
- Double Subverted: Then he becomes a skeleton.
- Parodied: Bob is a human being whose skeleton is a completely different sentient being from Bob himself.
- Zig-Zagged: Once Bob's costume leads to him Becoming the Costume, it turns out he later becomes human again, only for it to happen that he's fated to constantly switch between being a human and a skeleton.
- Averted: Bob's a normal human.
- Lampshaded: "How the hell is that skeleton alive?"
- Invoked: Bob's turned into a skeleton by Functional Magic which is casted onto him by a Wicked Witch.
- Exploited: Bob's enlisted in a fighting group with the selling point of possibly scaring away any threats.
- Defied: Bob goes on a journey to rid himself of his skeleton form.
- Discussed: "You're a skeleton, for crying out loud!"
- Conversed: "What's with all the skeleton characters?"
- Implied: Sometimes people speak of a skeleton...
- Deconstructed: Due to having little to hold him together, Bob can't stick for long.
- Reconstructed: With the right crutches, he can still support himself and keep going.
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