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Basic Trope: A character with extra limbs, making them all the more dangerous.

  • Straight: Dracone has four arms and proves to be quite a challenge for all who fight him.
  • Exaggerated: Dracone has ten arms and is so dangerous saying his name fills people with fear.
  • Downplayed: Dracone has three arms, and is only slightly tougher than the two-armed characters.
  • Justified: Dracone has trained tirelessly until he mastered all sorts of four-armed fighting styles.
  • Inverted: Dracone has one arm and is a Handicapped Badass.
  • Subverted: Dracone has four arms and an intimidating appearance, but he's a total pushover.
  • Double Subverted: ...then Dracone Turns Red and becomes a lot tougher.
  • Parodied: Dracone has ten arms and five legs which keep getting in the way of each-other, tying himself into knots whenever he tries to do anything.
  • Averted: No members of the cast have extra limbs.
  • Lampshaded: "Where do you get your shirts?"
  • Invoked: Dracone was tired of losing, so he signed up for an experiment that would give him extra arms just as strong as his natural ones, if not stronger.
  • Defied: Dracone is a Retired Badass who had his extra arms surgically removed.
  • Deconstructed: The blood flow required for the extra limbs is causing Dracone's heart a lot of stress.
  • Reconstructed: Dracone had his legs replaced by state-of-the-art prosthetic ones to lighten the load on his heart.
  • Played for Laughs: Dracone mainly uses his four arms in combat as the means of pathetically slapping someone, and not even twice as much as normal.
  • Played for Drama: Dracone is using his four arms to fight a one-armed Handicapped Badass who isn't sure if they can measure up.
  • Played for Horror: Dracone is seen growing his extra arms, and it's a very visceral process.

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