tvtropersuser1
Since: May, 2017
AlmightyHamSandwich
Since: May, 2010
May 28th 2010 at 7:04:20 PM
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Where did the picture come from? I want to say The Brave and The Bold, but I'm not sure.
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ccoa
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Since: Jan, 2001
May 28th 2010 at 7:22:19 PM
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All I know is it's from Rob Liefeld, and I'm the one that put it up.
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AlmightyHamSandwich
Since: May, 2010
May 29th 2010 at 5:21:00 PM
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The current picture with Power Girl, Captain Atom, Starfire etc. was done by Rob Liefeld? Really?
ccoa
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Since: Jan, 2001
May 29th 2010 at 5:47:59 PM
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Wait, why did the picture get changed?
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Grain
Since: Oct, 2009
Sep 29th 2010 at 9:52:47 PM
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The Rob Le Field picture conveyed the idea of the trope more clearly.
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MarqFJA
(Before Recorded History)
Oct 19th 2010 at 1:08:14 PM
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^ That one was more the trope taken up to eleven in a rather ridiculous way.
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tvtropersuser1
Since: May, 2017
Aug 7th 2017 at 5:31:49 PM
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So is it Possible to have a Heroic Build in real life ? What would that look like ?
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ccoa
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Ravenous Sophovore
Since: Jan, 2001
Ravenous Sophovore
Mar 4th 2011 at 1:53:46 PM
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Removing:
Anime & Manga
- Played straight and averted on Kenichi The Mightiest Disciple. Mesomorphs abound, but Kenichi himself has bulked up only slightly and still looks fairly small. Several opponents have remarked during a fight at how surprisingly heavy and hard Kenichi is. However, the women in this series play the trope so straight one wonders if they could even walk sideways through a doorway.
- Underneath the shirt that hides his skinny body, Monkey D. Luffy of One Piece is surprisingly buff when he's angry or feeling serious. This may be for artistic effect or may be him puffing himself up with his power to look intimidating.
- Though most of Mamoru Nagano's heroic characters are either waifish or various flavours of buff, he's actually quite capable of a huge amount of variation when he wants to. For instance, the rather chubby Queen Mugumica of The Five Star Stories, who's still portrayed as genuinely pretty, if not to the degree of most of the main female cast & is actually something of an Ensemble Dark Horse.
- Phoenix Ikki from Saint Seiya is the strongest of the Bronze Saints and very buffed (at elast in the first few arcs). Justified, since he allways was the biggest and strongest of the 100 orphans AND had a Training from Hell that makes others Trainings From Hell look meek in comparison.
- In Mahou Sensei Negima, Jack Rakan fits this to a T. Also, Negi has become noticeably more muscular over the course of the series, although he's still anywhere near as ripped as Jack is.
- Pulled out of nowhere in Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, where we get to see Trowa shirtless for the first time; apparently, those turtlenecks he wore in the series are VERY unflattering.
Video Games
- Final Fantasy VII has Cloud. Cloud is short and has a relatively slender build (compared to his taller and more muscular friend Zack). Likely intended to be a contrast to the villain Sephiroth, both the mightiest being in the 'verse of Final Fantasy VII and famous as one of the most beautiful male characters in gaming.
- It helps that Cloud is basically powered by magic permeating his entire body.
- Master Higgins from Adventure Island is a little fat guy, and in some of the sequels, his girlfriend calls him seemingly mean-spirited names like "you big fat hunk of blubber" which are actually sort of disturbing in context.
- For that matter, Mario himself. He started out more portly, but lately he's been looking more average and is usually strong enough that he could realistically be sort of ripped. But he's not.
- Jak of Jak And Daxter is not exactly "skinny", more the light side of athletic, but he's small compared to Sig or other muscular characters.
- Ratchet of Ratchet And Clank is a fairly skinny little furry guy, too, despite lifting guns as big or bigger than he is. Compare this to Fake Ultimate Hero Captain Quark, who is the picture for Top-Heavy Guy.
- S Onic The Hedgehog is as thin as a double A battery. Rouge plays this perfectly staight, though.
Anime and Manga
- Dragon Ball: Just about every male character who does martial arts is pretty buff (even Mr. Satan); The Saiyans take it to Beyond the Impossible levels with muscles on top of muscles that would probably make it impossible for them to relax their arms at the sides of their bodies.
- This actually becomes a plot point. While teaching Gohan how to achieve Super Saiyan form, Goku reaches a state where his muscles bulge tremendously... but as he explains, also slow him down dramatically because of all the extra bulk. Trunks reaches this form on his own, and the loss of speed becomes a critical weakness during his battle with Cell.
- It doesn't get any more ridiculous than Broly.
- Let's not forget Gohan. Who, while not being the most ripped of the Z Warriors, shows how far Saiyans take this trope... by developing a physique to rival a bodybuilder at age nine!!!
- Alex Armstrong in Full Metal Alchemist. He's among the biggest (human) character in the show in terms of sheer size and bulk, rips his shirt off at any given opportunity to show it off and, at one point, punched a rock so hard that his shirt exploded. Reason for this? Author Appeal.
Video Games
- The Street Fighter series has gone from just using a Heroic Build straight, and has been gaining a good deal of... definition... over time. This
◊ is Ryu in Street Fighter II. This◊ in Street Fighter III. This◊ is the hulking mass of muscle that is Ryu in Street Fighter IV (which happened before III... don't think about that too hard, it's just art direction). His biceps are the size of his head!
- In fairness, alot of the official art for Street Fighter II also had the cast with fairly ridiculous looking muscles. Take for example, Ryu's biceps here◊ and here◊.
- The Alpha/Zero Prequel series is the exception; it uses a more typical Anime art style, lending most of the non-Gonk fighters Generic Cuteness (and making the ladies not look steroid-fueled); the Capcom Vs Whatever games tend to resemble the Alpha graphics the most. And then there's Pocket Fighter and Super Puzzle Fighter II, which are whimsically depicted in a Super-Deformed style.
- In fairness, alot of the official art for Street Fighter II also had the cast with fairly ridiculous looking muscles. Take for example, Ryu's biceps here
Web Original
- Really REALLY Big Man, natch.
Because this is a trope about superheroes.
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darkclaw
Since: Dec, 2010
Aug 7th 2011 at 1:57:28 AM
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Okay, but should we make a separate trope for this body type, when it is not related to superheroes? I ask because on the wiki, there are examples of non-superheroes with muscles...and they are simply troped as..."Heroic Build".
I totally hate my avatar. Just saying.
MarqFJA
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
(Before Recorded History)
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
Oct 19th 2010 at 1:00:12 PM
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Just for clarity, is this trope strictly superhero-specific, or is merely "most uses come from the superhero genre, though non-superhero genres may also use it"?
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