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Growing Muscles Sequence
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A sub-trope of Transformation Sequence where an increase of muscle mass and definition is prominent. It can be used by a character transforming to his superpowered form, as well as a visual indicator of a Super Mode activating. In either case, those subjected to it are generally expected to possess Super-Strength. The sequence usually consists of close-up shots of various muscle groups, most commonly the biceps, chest, and back, growing and becoming more defined. As a result, expect Clothing Damage (with the exception of Magic Pants). The transformation doesn't have to be limited to changes in musculature; for example, a villain can have Spikes of Villainy popping up along the spine of his expanding back. Bulking up is also unexpectedly common in modern werewolf transformations, despite the wolf being an animal generally regarded as lean rather than massive. Depending on the character and the setting, a Growing Muscles Sequence can be voluntary or involuntary, range from painless to painful to Body Horror and its end result can run the gamut from having a Heroic Build to being The Grotesque. Compare Shapeshifting, One-Winged Angel, and Hulking Out. See also Shapeshifter Baggage, Temporary Bulk Change, and With Great Power Comes Great Hotness. |
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Batman: Arkham Asylum has this happen to a depowered Bane and some of Joker's goons when they get injected with "Titan", a derivative of the Venom normally used by Bane. It almost happens to Batman when he takes the bullet for Commissioner Gordon, but he's able to resist the transformation until he takes an antidote. The Joker, on the other hand... | |
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Rick undergoes a pretty gruesome one in the opening cutscene of the updated Splatterhouse. | |
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Hark! A Vagrant's take on Cinderella woos a bodybuilder Prince Charming by, with help from Fairy Godmother, becoming extremely buff and working out with him. | |
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Wonder Woman (1987): Thomas Randolph (White Magician) was already in the process of growing far more muscles than his human frame had room for when he decided to feed on the life of the two women in the house with him to become truly monstrous. | |
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Altered Beast (1988) has your character undergo two such transformations for the first two Power Ups he collects in a stage. His transformation into a beast once they pick up the third also has elements of this. | |
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In Bleach, Ggio Vega and Poww do this when they decide to unleash their full power. Later on, Riruka's Fullbring forces a yakuza trapped inside a weaponised plushie to go through one of these. | |
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Super Duper Sumos is a rare case where the characters are already bulky; what they are gaining in the transformation is definition. | |
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The Simpsons: Bart has an Imagine Spot where he's a professional human guinea pig. He takes one sip of Nature's Goodness soda and turns into a deformed monster. In "Itchy & Scratchy Land", the opening Itchy & Scratchy sketch has Scratchy lift weights for a few seconds which makes his muscles grow big instantly. |
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Ace Dick's transformation into Fiesta Ace Dick in Problem Sleuth. | |
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The main character in Dark Warrior gets one as part of his awakening as an Artificial Human. | |
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Looney Tunes: The Crusher from the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Bunny Hugged". Even his muscles have muscles. In the Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner cartoon "Stop! Look! And Hasten!", Wile E. orders "Leg Muscle Vitamins" from Acme. He downs the entire bottle, and his leg muscles quickly become ridiculously large and defined. Not that it helps him. |
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The Totally Spies! episode "The Incredible Bulk" has a plot involving power bars that cause anyone who eats them to go through a series of such transformations until they finally explode. | |
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Casting the Atlas alchemy spell in Secret of Evermore briefly shows the Boy swell up into a herculean state almost four times bigger than his normal self. | |
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Sandra Guts from Dirty Pair does this to herself with her own formula called 'Hustle'. | |
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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Prince Adam's transformation to He-Man usually doesn't involve this, despite the former being an ordinary Eternian and the latter "the most powerful man in the universe". In the first series, this was because He-Man is pretty much Prince Adam with a tan and less clothes on. In the 2002 series a sequence is used for a few episodes in the second season, until He-Man gets his armor. | |
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Fist of the North Star: Whenever Kenshiro is about to use his full strength through the Tenryu Kokyu Ho (Art of the Dragon's Breathing) technique, he rips up his shirt and makes his jacket slide off his shoulders by sheer muscle expansion while his pants remain unharmed, which essentially makes him the Japanese Hulk. In a variation this is implied to be the result of his inexperience with the technique, as Raoh, Toki and Jagi, all trained in Hokuto Shinken like him but older, don't need to bulk up to use their full strength, and Kenshiro later remains in the muscular form the entire time. Later done by Toki through the Sekkatsuk� pressure point to match Raoh's sheer brute strength. Amiba, who at the time was pretending to be Toki, tried the same but after briefly bulking up his hands exploded and he deflated like a balloon. |
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Some Marshal Law superheroes "pump ions" to bulk up, most notably the Superman-Expy the Public Spirit. | |
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Raimundo from Xiaolin Showdown has this issue when the Shen Gong Wu keeps magnetically pulling towards him, making him increasingly more powerful to the point that he is virtually invincible, with Wuya attempting to use him as a vessel for her to defeat the monks. | |
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In the Rick and Morty episode "Something Ricked This Way Comes", Rick and Summer both workout using steroids to get muscle extremely fast to beat up Mr. Needful as payback. | |
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Invoked when Clown transforms into his demonic true form, the Violator, in Spawn. It's an odd variant because Clown is a short Fat Bastard human and Violator is a much taller, hunchbacked Lean and Mean demon. | |
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In the Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner cartoon "Stop! Look! And Hasten!", Wile E. orders "Leg Muscle Vitamins" from Acme. He downs the entire bottle, and his leg muscles quickly become ridiculously large and defined. Not that it helps him. | |
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Kotetsu from Tiger & Bunny, though it turns out it's a cosmetic feature of his original super suit. | |
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Popeye, every time he eats his spinach. The change is brief and usually located in the (already abnormally muscular) forearms, sometimes with a superimposed image of a battleship, a cannon, a high-powered turbine or similar imagery. | |
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A staple of the Resident Evil franchise. While the T-Virus doesn't seem to provoke this effect, other, faster-acting or more prone to physical mutation ones like the G-Virus or T-Veronica virus tend to do this. | |
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Warcraft: The Bleeding Hollow clan from World of Warcraft uses a Blood Magic ritual to invoke this on their berserkers, turning them into massive, hulking orcs. Ariok voluntarily undergoes this same ritual in order to buy the player and their allies enough time to escape the clan during the intro for Warlords of Draenor. He ends up becoming even more massive than said hulking orcs in the process. The Blood Curse that the orcs took from Mannoroth in the earlier games also increased their body mass, but to a much lesser extent than the mentioned blood ritual. |
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This happens to Caitlin Fairchild in the first issue of Gen¹³. She goes from short and slender and mousy to tall, ripped and stacked once her powers activate. | |
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Likewise, but to a lesser extent, his cousin Jennifer. Whether or not she goes from mousy and unassuming to tall and athletic to flat-out ripped depends on who's drawing her (the same applies to the other She-Hulks, Lyra and Red She-Hulk). | |
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Michiru's "gorilla arms" form in BNA: Brand New Animal temporarily gives one or both of her arms massive veiny muscles. | |
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Happens to Jade from Jackie Chan Adventures in the episode "The Amazing T-Troop" when she uses the ox talisman. Interestingly, while the ox talisman does grant the user the power of super strength, this is the only occurrence where this trope is applied. | |
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Every time Machio from How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? flexes, his body swells up with so much muscle that he promptly explodes out of his tracksuit and towers over everyone else. | |
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Batman: Notably averted by Bane in his comic book appearances: Venom makes him veiny, but he stays pretty much the same size (although sometimes his muscles do bulge ever-so-slightly when he takes a dose, as seen when he prepares to fight Batman in Knightfall). Most adaptations play the trope straight, though, and he's bulked up considerably in the New 52. | |
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Kaeloo: A sequence depicting this happening is often played when Kaeloo transforms into Bad Kaeloo. The most attention is paid to her buttocks. | |
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Tramm, sidekick to Aqualad in Teen Titans (2003), is a humanoid blowfish who has the ability to transform from his normally small, scrawny self into a much larger (at least around the chest and arms) form with Super-Strength when he needs to fight. | |
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The Crusher from the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Bunny Hugged". Even his muscles have muscles. | |
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DC Super Hero Girls: In "#SheMightBeGiant", it happens to Doris Zeul (a.k.a. Giganta) when she unleashes her newfound powers for the first time, complete with close-ups of her bulging muscles and growing figure. | |
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The Kim Possible episode "Ron the Man" practically centers around this trope. When Dr. Drakken gets jealous of Professor Dementor's superior henchmen, he steals rings that can make a person more muscular in order to enhance his men. Ron ends up stealing a ring himself to make himself beefier so as to be seen as a man, and he later gives that ring to Rufus, who buffs himself up to make Drakken surrender. There's even a scene earlier in the episode where the CEO of HenchCo shows Kim and Ron an instructional video for the muscle enhancing ring, depicting a man in a swimsuit, who looks similar in appearance to Ron, putting on the ring and twisting it to activate it, before turning into a massive bodybuilder and performing a most muscular flex in celebration of his new physique. | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies: The DLC case includes a scene like this when you start closing in on the culprit. Apparently, fish-barrel water buffs you up like nothing else. | |
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In his first appearance, Nightwing villain Blockbuster has one of these, turning him into a giant, deformed monster. Unlike most examples, the effect is permanent. | |
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This is the villain Muscular's Quirk in My Hero Academia. It quickly enters Body Horror territory because his muscles grow so large and powerful that his skin can't contain them. | |
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The Bananaman cartoon shows Little Eric swelling with muscles during his transformation. This was backported into the comic strip, which had previously represented the transformation with an explosion panel. | |
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A rare female example comes from Dragon Ball Super with Kale, a Shrinking Violet Universe 6 Saiyan who goes from a normal-looking slim young girl to the female version of Broly. | |
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Ben 10: Vilgax in the early seasons has cybernetic Spikes of Villainy that do this. | |
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Billy turning back into Ganthar in Martin Mystery. | |
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Regular Show has two examples. In "One Pull Up", Rigby uses a product called The Russian to make his muscles grow so he can do a pull up to keep his job. In a another episode called "Power Tower", Muscle Man lifts up weights to save his dad from suffocating to death and makes his muscles grow extremely fast. | |
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Teetsi in "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" has a tone-up sequence when he is awaken from sleep to fight Alex. It is greatly emphasized by the camera tilting over his body as his muscles quickly pop out one by one. | |
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Bane's initial transformation in Batman & Robin. | |
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Aisha Clan-Clan in Outlaw Star can transform into a more muscular version of herself under a full moon. (And then further into a non-anthropomorphic panther creature.) It's not really apparent if Aisha's muscling up is supposed to be something that's literally happening or just an indication that she's switched from "silly" to "serious", since she always has Super-Strength. | |
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The Incredible Hulk: The Hulk in all his incarnations. He is, after all, the Trope Namer of the related trope Hulking Out. Likewise, but to a lesser extent, his cousin Jennifer. Whether or not she goes from mousy and unassuming to tall and athletic to flat-out ripped depends on who's drawing her (the same applies to the other She-Hulks, Lyra and Red She-Hulk). |
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Earthworm Jim: In the second issue, whilst boasting that being an Insectikette gives her the strength of 100 men, Princess Whats-Her-Name does this in a three panel sequence; first she strikes a pin-up girl pose, then she flexes her muscles, causing her to bulk up like an Olympic body-builder, then she unflexes them and snaps back to the pin-up girl look. | |
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Seen in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen when Dr. Jekyll transforms into Mr. Hyde after taking a sip of his formula. It's much more obvious when a mook later drinks a whole bottle. | |
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Ichiya from Fairy Tail, whenever he uses his Power Perfume. Laxus did it once when he first showed off his Lightning Dragon Slayer magic, though subsequent uses lack this, and Cobra performs a downplayed version in that only his arms and hands get larger and draconic from activating his Poison Dragon Slayer Magic. | |
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The SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Karate Island" has two of these as Sandy and the episode's antagonist Master Udon prepare for their battle. This even has Master Udon's eyebrows and Sandy's tail flexing into the shape of muscular arms. This is just for show, their figures are back to normal when their battle begins, both of them missing their opening charge. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, Grace transforms from toned-but-subtle to bodybuilder-levels. In the following strip Dan provides a textual version of this in The Rant. | |
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In Mahou Sentai Magiranger, and by extension Power Rangers Mystic Force, this is the effect of one of the Green Ranger's spells. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Power Ponies", resident Shrinking Violet Fluttershy becomes the Incredible Hulk-esque "Saddle Rager" in the comic book world. She hulks out and wrecks the villain's Doomsday Device with her bare hooves (and teeth) after witnessing her swat a "teensy, little, harmless firefly" with her mane. | |
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Done in Hunter × Hunter when apparently 12-year-old Biscuit Krueger goes from looking a cute schoolgirl to being 10' tall and incredibly ripped. | |
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In Dragon Ball, King Piccolo and Piccolo Jr. are capable of doing this at will along with growing to the size of buildings, but the latter in particular stopped doing this in Dragon Ball Z seemingly because the power increase wasn't worth becoming a massive target. | |
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In Pokémon: The Series, Sawk goes through this when he uses Bulk Up, a move that increases his attack and defense. | |
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Powerful Pierre in the Heckle and Jeckle cartoon "Log Rollers" flexes his muscles on his arm, his pinky finger, his tongue, his ears and finally his eyelash. | |
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The Nerdlucks turning into the Monstars in Space Jam. Bugs Bunny, being a Looney Toon, is not above faking one to convince his teammates that "Michael's Secret Stuff" works. | |
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Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: In Princesses in the Darkest Depths, Cassie changing into a form more suited for combat, is described: | |
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In Kirby Star Allies, this happens to King Dedede of all characters due to the influence of a Jamba Heart, complete with close-ups on his newly obtained biceps and pecs. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Lampshaded but averted in "Seeing Red" when the Nerd Trio get their hands on a couple of magic orbs. | |
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Done quite naturally in the film The Three Stooges Meet Hercules, as the nerdy but affable Mad Scientist labors in a rowing crew aboard a galleon. The strain of pumping the oars causes him to bulk up significantly, with many shots of his bulging biceps, until he is a match for the mythological strongman himself. | |
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In From Muddy Waters, Izuku's strength enhancement Quirks tend to increase his muscle mass at the same time. He usually focuses this into his arms and legs, which can grow considerably from noticeably more defined, to obviously bulkier, to downright grotesque in a manner that reminds All Might of Izuku's father, All For One. | |
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Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger: Used by Zyuoh Eagle to become Zyuoh Gorilla. | |
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Feruchemists in the Mistborn series are able to store physical strength over time to be called on later. When tapping strength, a Feruchemist's body changes into a form capable of handling the increased power. | |
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The Batman: Bane goes through this thanks to his Venom, as does Joker in the episode "Brawn" when he steals Bane's equipment and uses it on himself. | |
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Younger Toguro from YuYu Hakusho goes through this every time he unleashes a percentage of his full power, assuming ever more ridiculously bulked up forms during the course of the series. A less prominent example from the same series is Byakko, who grows as he absorbs the blows of his opponents, which turns out to be his undoing. | |
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Patriot of Young Avengers, in the storyline where it's revealed he takes Mutant Growth Hormone. He injects himself with too much, and grows to the size of a truck. | |
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Occurs in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Patriot Act" after a mad general steals a Super Serum and injects himself with it. | |
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