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, started by RamenChef on Feb 26th 2019 at 4:30:33 PM
Can a character, that looks like a Fragile Speedster or Glass Cannon, but actually is a Stone Wall and lacks the offensive power of a Mighty Glacier, be included in this trope? This trope means "someone/something that is far more durable that their fragile looks suggest", the inversion of the Acrofatic trope, right?
If Link in Super Smash Bros. isn't this trope, then what is he? He is a Jack of All Stats to an extent, but like Samus, his stats aren't perfectly balanced (he has a bit more strength and a bit less speed than Mario, the roster's definitive "all-rounder" character). The Tier Induced Scrappy page refers to him as "a Mighty Glacier that isn't very mighty" or something along those lines.
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Several of the listed examples (e.g. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha's Vita and Mahou Sensei Negima's Asuna) aren't slow enough to count as Mighty Glaciers, though they do have the offensive and defensive power aspects down. Do they still count as Glacier Waif?
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Asuna never learned the Shundo technique as far as I know. She's a great marathon runner, and can amp up her reaction-time and overall muscle output using Kanka, but relative to the rest of the cast she may as well be a snail without that move.
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In answer to the original question: no. This trope is Mighty Glacier + small, and Mighty Glacier is defined as 1.) strong, 2.) slow. Someone who's just strong + small without the slow would be a Pint-Sized Powerhouse.
Not familiar with Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha or Mahou Sensei Negima so I'll leave it to those who are to decide whether those examples are slow enough to count; just make sure that it's established in the example entry that they are slow to avoid Zero Context Examples.
Could this trope be possible in Real Life, because from what I've read and heard, women have less muscle-mass than men, but have greater flexibility to make up for it.
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I am removing these because it's been decided that player-made trope are not examples, unless troping a LP:
- In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, create a female Breton of the smallest weight possible and load up on heavy armor and two-handed weapons. Since Bretons are the physically smallest of all of the races you can play as, and female Bretons are even smaller, and you're roaming Skyrim, the land of the enormous, muscular Nords, you're essentially playing a tiny, slow-moving armor-plated waif of death whose spiked helmet barely comes up to most people's shoulders.
- In Star Wars: The Old Republic, creating a female player character of any of the tank classes and choosing body type one will result in this.
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