Rename Most Common Superpower?

No. That trope already means something else: namely, the tendency for the largest chested female character in a given work to be the strongest or most competent brawler.

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Eh, no? Out of those listed only 2 have large breasts...

edited 5th Nov '09 3:07:38 PM by GreatLich

That's... what I said.

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

No, you said superstrong women have superboobs. Not the same thing at all. It's not specific to people with superstrength, and it's about having the largest breast size in relation to the rest of the cast, not simply having large breasts.

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I believe Known Unknown was just simplifying it a bit, but I agree with the breakdown.

^ Aye.

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

Woops, almost jumped the gun.

edited 15th Nov '09 10:14:02 AM by Janitor

Dump the networks!

We already have the supertrope, Heroic Build, as a result of the last discussion.

Personally, I think we should merge Most Common Superpower into it, because "superheroes have large, shapely breasts" isn't really distinct from "superheroes have great bodies".

Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.

But superheroines having large breasts can be an issue if it's really forced. And since a big deal is made of the issue, it should be kept separate from other tropes.

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Yeah, Heroic Build and Most Common Superpower are not the same trope. At all.

Yeah, let's just take Most Common Superpower back to the original definition, which was that breasts swell up when a super dons the costume and become remarkably self-supporting.

The fact that a lot of super-women have ridiculously large breasts is something else. Not a particularly interesting something else. Worth maybe a sentence in the Fanservice article.

edited 16th Nov '09 8:30:36 PM by Janitor

Dump the networks!

If comic book artists actively choose to draw their heroines and villainesses with large breasts, that would be a trope, as it's a convention of the medium.

I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.

Maybe we need some comparative pictures. And a chart.

I've been thinking about this one and I hate to admit it, but Most Common Superpower is more along the lines of Most Common Side Effect. So if we want to keep Most Common Superpower as the title, it may need an entire overhaul.

edited 18th Nov '09 10:57:41 AM by Sand Josieph

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I like Rangiku Gambit as a posib.

My Hero, Zero!

The way I see it:

• Most Common Superpower: Jim Lee's art style.
• Boobs Of Steel: R. Mika
• Super Physique: She-Hulk

About that original meaning... I don't really see a lot of examples of characters gaining sudden super-sexiness once they put on their costume too often, at least not examples that aren't actually them hiding their physique (a la Clark Kent) or a parody. It happens occasionally, but in the end much of the time it's not that they gain a figure but that the costume is just ridiculously form fitting (which is a trope all on it's own), while examples of both a costume, powers, and a physique coming from the same source (which I do see occasionally) would be under Super Physique.

Btw, how do I make lines without having to double space or make bullets?

edited 18th Nov '09 1:02:43 PM by Known Unknown

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

Put a \\\\ at the end of the line.

For some reason, when you edit a post containing a \\\\, it gets replaced with a single \\ so you have to remember to double them up again before submitting...

edited 18th Nov '09 1:11:14 PM by prescience

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When I think of large breasts and superheroines, I think along the lines of "With Big Breasts Comes Great Heroics". I think I've said that before.

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Okay, how about Most Common Superpower as "writers / illustrators / animators choose to have their female characters have big breasts." In that way, it's similar to Male Gaze. Super Physique would probably be, not just about breasts, but highly sexualized bodies (like the above example of She-Hulk).

Perhaps it should be as a way of comparing two kinds of characters in a series. Like if the woman with the super heroics has the largest breasts, she could qualify.

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wasn't going to post here until I read "Rangiku Gambit". I absolutely have to vote that down. Bleach isn't that major a series, and Rangiku isn't that major a character ...yet. also, how is this a gambit?

My understanding of Most Common Superpower is the tendency of superpowered women to have large breasts. Yes or no?

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It's a tendency of super heroines (with or without powers) to be well endowed. Which, regretably, still sounds like Most Common Side Effect.

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Don't rename it. Most Common Superpower is one of my favourite names, and it you can't keep the trope straight you have issues.

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Yes, lets have the name stay the same, or atleast call it Power Girl Power Up which I like too and conveys what it means too.

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The problem with the name is that it implies that large breasts are a superpower which is why it is used wrong.

I think Super Side Effects is a catchy name and it definitely sounds specific to Supers. Not much to do with breasts but neither is Most Common Superpower.

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