Basic Trope: A character has a figure that would be impossible for any normal woman with ribs.
- Straight: Alice's measurements are 36-10-36
- Exaggerated:
- Alice literally has a 0 inch waist.
- Alice's measurements are 55,440-1-55,440.
- Alice is basically a stick figure with a big bust and shapely legs.
- Downplayed: Alice's measurements are 36-10-36...but she's wearing a corset. That justifies it, right?
- Justified:
- Alice had her bottom ribs surgically removed to make her waist narrower.
- Alice is a non-human humanoid character and that is their natural physique.
- Inverted:
- Subverted: Alice mentions that she is wearing a corset...
- Double Subverted: ...but when she takes it off, her waist is exactly the same size, or not much smaller.
- Parodied:
- Alice has ridiculously sized hips and boobs.
- Bob literally snaps her waist like a twig.
- Alice surgically replaced her whole torso with an hourglass.
- Zig Zagged:
- Alice at first appears to have impossible measurements, then it is revealed she was just wearing a corset, but then when she removed it her waist was still the same as it was before.
- Alice is a Voluntary Shapeshifter and prefers a form with a really thin waist.
- Averted:
- Alice's figure is realistic.
- Alice is pear shaped or top heavy instead of hourglass shaped.
- Enforced: Author Appeal.
- Lampshaded:
- "You look like a stick. A really hot stick, but still a stick."
- "So uh...where exactly are Alice's ribs?" "She's a vegetarian, actually."
- Invoked:
- Alice wore a corset every day to gradually make herself thinner.
- Shapeshifter Alice sees no reason to constrain herself to what is "possible" for non-shapeshifting humans.
- Exploited: Bob literally snaps her waist like a twig.
- Defied: "Thin waist? Not my type."
- Discussed: "Some girls out there have so thin waists, I can't get how they can hold everything above..."
- Conversed: "Ho boy, does the artist know a damn about anatomy?" "I don't think that was the first thing on his mind when he designed her."
- Implied: Alice is said to be extremely thin, but she never appears on screen.
- Deconstructed: Alice has serious back problems because her core is too small to support her breasts.
- Reconstructed:
- Alice is a construct created from human imagination, much like a living hologram, whose existence and home-world is not completely bound by the traditional laws of physics.
- Despite appearing human, a significant portion of Alice's upper body is actually hollow, meaning her core can support her figure.
- Played For Laughs: Alice's torso is a literal hourglass.
- Played For Drama: Alice is an artificial being designed to be attractive to men, but she wasn't engineered very well. Her existence is very painful because of her strange fiture.
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