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Heroic Build

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Heroic Build	comment	We all know that certain things come along with having superpowers. No, we're not talking about responsibility, justice, or even the American way (or whatever is their Evil Counterpart, for the morally villainous). We're talking about a great body. Wherever spandex and capes are found, so too are sculpted chests, broad shoulders, narrow waists, and washboard abs. Wherever there are chainmail bikinis, there are large breasts, curvy hips, and shapely legs. It could almost be called a secondary power in itself - the ability to have a perfect physique. This is true even for heroic men whose powers do not include physical strength, such as psychics, speedsters, and super-scientists. For example, you wouldn't expect someone with an Imagination-Based Superpower to have a bodybuilder's physique just from concentrating on things really hard, but it is so. It's just become a convention of the genre, and many comic book artists don't know how to draw in any other way. Even ordinary civilians will often be implausibly muscular. This is mostly Justified, since many superheroes/supervillains seem to spend a great deal of their off time training rigorously, or for that matter, running around and getting exercise on the job (that goes double if itâ€™s a Badass Normal superhero with no powers like Batman or Green Arrow, or even if itâ€™s a hero with skills centered on fighting and martial arts like Goku). Basically, being a hero or villain, especially a superhero/supervillain, often means that youâ€™ll be getting a lot of exercise and physical activity on the job, so youâ€™ll probably be losing weight and building muscle really fast. Itâ€™s also for that reason why you donâ€™t see many fat and overweight superheroes/supervillains running around. Because if a someone like that did become a superhero/supervillain and actually made a successful go out of it, they probably wouldnâ€™t stay fat or overweight very long. Or maybe they're this way after getting their superpowers. Although one should note that, for females at least, reducing body fat tends to make a figure a lot less lush than that of the typical superheroine/supervillainess. And forget about Stout Strength. Note that in classical sculpture, the term "heroic proportion" refers to characters with healthy figures who stand eight or more heads high (i.e. their head is an eighth or less of their total height). This imposing figure was used for statues of Greek gods and later biblical figures (Michelangelo Buonarroti's David, for instance). It is a given that almost all western superheroes and supervillains are eight-and-a-half heads tall or more, and most fashion designers sketch their ideas onto outlines of over eight heads. However, in early Marvel comics, as well as a few from other houses, this rule was subverted: heavily built figures were often drawn with huge heads in proportion to their height so that they looked squat and burly despite being over six foot (see early versions of the Thing, Hulk or the Kingpin). Sub-Trope of Beauty Equals Goodness. Super-Trope to Most Common Superpower. Compare Hollywood Homely, Sculpted Physique, Lantern Jaw of Justice, Top-Heavy Guy, Amazonian Beauty, Muscles Are Meaningless, Muscles Are Meaningful. Please limit examples to exceptions, justifications, and exaggerations.
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Heroic Build / int_1367cea0	comment	Gully of Worm has massively over-developed musculature to the point of nearly being hunchbacked. She's been passed over several times for promotion by the Protectorate because of her appearance and is understandably bitter about the whole situation.
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Heroic Build / int_14adcc31	comment	Luz, after morphing for the first time in POWER RANGERS: Owl Force, gains a more muscular build as a side effect of her powers to be conductive to the ranger lifestyle. Eda comments that she really misses this aspect of her former ranger powers now that she's older and less physically fit than she used to be.
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Heroic Build / int_1aa9d9f4	comment	Batman (1966): Due to the standards of men's fitness being much lower than in modern times, Batman and Robin's physiques look downright ordinary compared to comics and modern super-heroes. At the time, they were considered to be sex symbols.
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Heroic Build / int_1b021fcb	comment	In Tokyo Ghoul, being in peak physical condition is a basic requirement for most Ghoul Investigators. Their career involves taking on superhuman beings that are physically superior to them in every fashion, so being in the best possible shape is necessary for survival. Some take it to greater extremes, with people like Koutarou Amon and Kuki Urie shown to be obsessive in their training regimens and absolutely ripped as a direct result. In :Re, training facilities are shown and discussion is held about the importance of being physically prepared because major Combat Operations are like very violent marathons, taxing them to their limits.
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Heroic Build / int_1bd9c52c	comment	Lobo, supreme icon of Sheer Manliness (and example of Testosterone Poisoning), had kind of an average build in the first issues of Justice League International that he appeared in, but as his popularity grew, so did his physique. Depending on the artist, he makes Mr. Olympia look like Woody Allen, often becoming Top-Heavy Guy.
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Heroic Build / int_1bdeba5a	comment	The Juggernaut from X-Men is often depicted often almost as broad as he is tall, with fists bigger than his head. This insane physique comes from the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak, which makes him unstoppable (and makes him resemble Cyttorak himself). When he's not using the gem's power to its fullest, his physique remains big, though the proportions are considerably less impressive.
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Heroic Build / int_22147342	comment	Stephen Amell of Arrow fame justifies Oliver Queen's physique by performing most of the stunt work himself, which he would not be able to do without being exceptionally in shape himself. Numerous scenes in Season 1 were dedicated to watching Oliver work out (shirtless, of course), and a Training Montage in Season 2 shows him exercising in order to become ready for the acrobatic fighting and parkour-based movement he uses.
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Heroic Build / int_223c2a48	comment	While still quite fit, Link from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is very short and slender, dwarfed even by the petite Princess Zelda. Several NPCs he runs into will express disbelief that he's the Hylian Champion and chosen wielder of the Master Sword simply because he looks too slight to even use it properly.
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Heroic Build / int_26042b84	comment	Avengers: The Initiative member Butterball is overweight, and because his Nigh-Invulnerability powers prevent his body from changing, will always be overweight. Before they gave up on training him, the Initiative program theorized that a starvation diet would probably cause him to lose weight but it would take months.
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Heroic Build / int_26dd903b	comment	Pre-Crisis, the Fortress of Solitude was sometimes shown with specialized workout equipment (a robot sparring partner for boxing practice appeared in the first Fortress story, for instance). Ditto the Golden Age Superman; in his mountain retreat, had some specialized workout equipment. (Said equipment appeared again in a Bronze Age "Mr. and Mrs. Superman" story). As Clark, he worked during the Silver and Bronze Age at Ma and Pa Kent's general store (not a farm) for most of his childhood/teen years, and (to protect his identity) seldom participated in sports.
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Heroic Build / int_2a842e3a	comment	The Doctor Who Expanded Universe comics apply this to the Eighth Doctor◊ (while he's shaving and wearing his Goofy Print Underwear), even though, thanks to his rather numerous Shirtless Scenes in the film, we know for a fact he's not quite that chiseled and muscular. Kind of trim and athletic, but not a six-pack in sight.
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Heroic Build / int_2a8943c0	comment	Miraculous Ladybug fanfic often describe Marinette and Adrien as rather muscular, justifying it with baking without electric tools (something that requires solid muscles) and having to always run to not get late at school for Marinette, the gymnastics required to stay in shape for his modeling career and his sports activities for Adrien, and the extreme physical efforts they take as Ladybug and Chat Noir for both.
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Heroic Build / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	A fair number of Heroes don't fit into this trope, including but not limited to Hiro Nakamura and Matt Parkman.
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Heroic Build / int_2fce14ae	comment	In Wearing the Cape, Atlas, the setting's Superman character, wears a sculpted muscle-suit that mimics a Mister Atlas body. Elsewhere, Hope notes that not all superheroes can get away with spandex, and the Hollywood Knights are chosen not just for their powers but also for their physiques (often the result of personal trainers and plastic surgeons).
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Heroic Build / int_32c541e6	comment	Alex Louis Armstrong of Fullmetal Alchemist could, in brief, be described as three ordinary men worth of muscles crammed into a frequently disappearing shirt. His devotion to displaying his exaggerated musculature at all costs is both frequently comedic (at one point he forms a lifelong friendship with the similarly strong Sig Curtis by having a flex-off) and a pretty overt case of Author Appeal.
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Heroic Build / int_33c4d830	comment	Part of the premise of Sidekick Girl is that the Hero Agency actually selects for this, so almost all heroes are buff and heroines are bombshells. For the exceptions to that rule (who become sidekicks), see the Webcomic folder on the 'exceptions' section.
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Heroic Build / int_37ea664b	comment	Strong Guy from X-Factor has an immensely exaggerated musculature. Also justified in that a childhood accident with his mutant powers permanently deformed him (he didn't learn until afterward that he needed to quickly use his enhanced strength, i.e. hit something, in order to shed the excess bulk), and he's in constant pain because of it.
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Heroic Build / int_38ce5997	comment	In The Boys (2019), Queen Maeve and A-Train are seen working out. The costumes also bring up the physiques to the max given the "Supes" are exploited by a corporation - the costume designer was delighted to take down a Double Standard in The Deep, whose pants clearly accentuate his rear.
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Heroic Build / int_397c7840	comment	In Marshal Law, the Public Spirit uses anabolic steroids to maintain his physique.
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Heroic Build / int_3ba81aa2	comment	In Toriko, The main protagonist after the name of the series, is a heavy eater. But yet never gets fat. Yet when it comes to hunting for food, he has a Bruiser with a Soft Center attitude of for others even Komatsu, as if he was his very own brother or son.
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Heroic Build / int_3cdcd366	comment	In The Avengers (Jonathan Hickman), Kevin Connor is a scrawny teenager who receives superhuman strength and durability (among other destructive powers) from the Starbrand, yet still stays just as physically skinny as he was before he got the powers.
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Heroic Build / int_3e8c09b9	comment	The soldiers of Attack on Titan are all shown to be in incredible shape, with washboard abs and lean, muscular physiques. It's entirely justified, as their equipment and standard method of fighting requires them to be able to perform on the level of an Olympic gymnast or professional acrobat. A strong core and powerful leg muscles are noted to be absolutely vital to using the 3-dimensional Maneuver Gear safely. Since the artist uses professional Mixed Martial Artists as models and references, their builds tend to accurately reflect how different body types build up muscle. Levi in some ways can be considered an aversion, being one of the strongest and most skilled characters while he's of slight build, short and has more delicate features (aside from his ever present death glare).
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Heroic Build / int_44127c7c	comment	While Power Rangers toys and merchandising range from "realistically muscled" to "standard buff superhero" to "ridiculously overexaggerated", the show itself averts this as the Ranger suits show no definition at all. Well, with three exceptions: Andros and Shane got muscle definition as part of their "Battlized" Super Modes (done in order to match the toys); and Xander got a magic spell that gave him gigantic bodybuilder musculature.
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Heroic Build / int_4522fd1	comment	Whateley Universe: The Exemplar power set, which usually shapes bearers into looking like their ideal self, justifies this in-universe; an estimated 20% of WU mutants have some degree of this trait because they think it's the ideal. However, even those with the Exemplar trait don't always possess this, since the power doesn't have to work from an idealized version of themselves, or their ideal self isn't what they expected. In some cases, its a reflection of their worst fears instead. A heroic build is merely the most common result of this. Also, since the Exemplar power works at least in part on the mutant's self-perception, it can go to exaggerated degrees as well, such as Bravo's absurdly-sized Lantern Jaw of Justice or Attributes' large chest. It is noted early on that those superheroes and supervillains who don't have this trait, but try to wear tight suits anyway, tend to come across as laughingstocks. Attempts to duplicate the Exemplar trait by Devisors and Wizards are frequent, and almost invariably fail. The closest successes to date were Compiler (who gained a Barbie-doll like figure by means of nanotechnology but now cannot control her super-strength or super-speed), Spark and Reach (who did it by accident), Delta Spike (who entrusted her life to a Mad Scientist and who might have been brainwashed into total subservience in the process), and Jobe's Drow (who were completely transformed into dark elves by the serum) note For those counting, that makes a total of eight partial successes out of literally hundreds of attempts. For the majority, such as Migraine (who became trapped in an immobile exoskeleton and went insane), it didn't work out at all. Outside of the school, there are several examples as well, such as Dr. Venus' treatments (both those she uses herself and those for her 'studmuffins'), Akelarre's potion, and whatever it was which Belphegor appears to have used by 2016, but most have some limitations attached to them (for example, Dr. Venus' treatments only last a limited time, and eventually need to be renewed, or replaced by some new treatment).
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Heroic Build / int_46ae7ca0	comment	Red Tornado of The DCU — not the current Red Tornado, but the Golden Age Red Tornado — a chubby, crimefighting housewife named Ma Hunkel.
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Heroic Build / int_48442fa	comment	In Yowamushi Pedal, Tadokoro Jin is one such member of Sakamichi Onoda's team. Sure, he may be a big eater and may come off as a fat cyclist. But he tends to get more better. Which leads to his buff stature.
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Heroic Build / int_4b87fcc2	comment	In one episode of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, Kipo and the gang are caught in a Lotus-Eater Machine, each with their own individual dreamworld fantasy. In Wolf's, she and Kipo are both living as six-foot, gravelly-voiced megamute hunters with incredibly huge and chiseled muscles.
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Heroic Build / int_4f091b42	comment	The commercialized nature of superheroics in Tiger & Bunny makes appearance just as important as actual heroics (especially for heroes marketed on their sex appeal, such as Blue Rose and Barnaby Brooks Jr.). Thus, HeroTV's provided the heroes with training facilities, which they use quite frequently in their downtime.
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Heroic Build / int_57ad0c07	comment	Chris Redfield from Resident Evil got his Heroic Build and enormous strength after a decade of extensive workouts so he could stand a better chance against various Bio-Organic Weapons (read: huge mutants) and especially his Lightning Bruiser Arch-Enemy Albert Wesker. It generally worked. Notably, in 6, after spending half a year as a drunken amnesiac, Chris is in noticeably worse shape than in 5, though his strength didn't suffer much.
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Heroic Build / int_5ae0bec6	comment	This trope being associated with WWE wrestlers is parodied in Hogan Vs Flair by the created wrestler TF British and his ludicrously muscular self.
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Heroic Build / int_5b344855	comment	Wolverine! Even without the adamantium, Logan is 200lbs of pure muscle, which is a lot for most people but is absolutely insane for a guy who is only 5'3. Though it's somewhat understandable given that his healing factor regenerates and therefore grows muscle tissue much faster than on most people, not to mention the fact that anybody with 100lbs of indestructible metal in their skeleton would need to bulk up significantly to even be able to move.
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Heroic Build / int_5ba4a8b3	comment	On Max Steel, Steel becomes obsessed with comic books and alter the suit. One of the changes he makes is giving Max 20 abs. This is promptly mocked by everyone else.
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Heroic Build / int_5c07d6ab	comment	Due to the way the character creation tool works in Saints Row: The Third and Saints Row IV, your character can look ludicrously musclebound. Note that it has no impact whatsoever on the Boss' physical strength, which will always be the same no matter how fat, scrawny, or buff they are. Oleg also qualifies, and so do his clones.
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Heroic Build / int_5d1d9447	comment	Danny from Next Men is this and a bit of an inversion of Top-Heavy Guy. A kid speedster, from the waist up he is toned, but otherwise has the average proportions of a mid-teen. From the waist down, his thighs and calves are massively disproportionally muscular, (To be fair, his universe lacks a handwaved energy source that other speedsters derive their energy from). On average, he seems to have a pro bodybuilder's legs. Drawn at its most exaggerated, his legs are drawn even bigger, as in; just one leg is wider than an adult's torso, bigger!
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Heroic Build / int_5e16d550	comment	In Black Clover, Asta is almost freakishly muscular for his age due to subjecting himself to Training from Hell from an early age to make up for his lack of magic. Captain Yami is pretty much the only character who exceeds his muscles, because most Magic Knights rely exclusively on their magic to fight and thus don't bother to exercise. After the Time Skip, further training has rendered Asta even more ripped, making him look like a shorter version of Yami. Aside from those two, Klaus of Golden Dawn also becomes visibly muscular after being inspired by Asta to combine his magic training with muscle training. While Mereoleona, being a Blood Knight who values all types of power, is far more muscular than any of the other female characters.
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Heroic Build / int_5f1404d6	comment	Caitlin Fairchild of GenÂ¹Â³ went from a Hot Librarian to Amazonian Beauty because that's part of the powers she gained, as evidenced by an attempt to copy her Super-Strength that also resulted in another superpower... on a guy.
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Heroic Build / int_5fe76d21	comment	Venom (when he was first introduced, rather than the Huge Dude he became later), in contrast to Spider-Man, was enormous. This was because Eddie Brock was a nigh-obsessive bodybuilder. Flash Thompson was in the military for a few years and before that was heavily into sports so it makes sense that he'd be muscular. However, he is still smaller than Eddie.
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Heroic Build / int_5fe8632b	comment	When transformed, the Guardians of Kandrakar from W.I.T.C.H. look like they'd want to look when older thanks to their magic. This is best shown by Cornelia, who, being perfectly happy with her body shape, merely transforms into an older version of herself.
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Heroic Build / int_645d2bd1	comment	An interesting example in Warbreaker, the returned have the appearance that is, to their individual taste, perfect, along with the fitness that comes with it. However, they are useless in a fight, because their pampered lifestyle leaves them unprepared for pain and they have no combat training unless they had it when they died.
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Heroic Build / int_662ee383	comment	Kate Kane is drawn rather lean in Batwoman (Rebirth), possibly to reflect her official height and weight (5'11" and 141 pounds, respectively). She resembles a boxer or MMA fighter more than a bodybuilder.
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Heroic Build / int_67ce5a04	comment	Compared to the rest of the magic users in Fire Emblem Fates, Odin is quite muscular (with his Dark Mage outfit flaunting his figure to boot), and although he starts off in a class that can only cast magic, his strength growth and magic growth are almost equal to one another, and his initial reclassing option is a class that uses swords. As he's actually Owain from Fire Emblem: Awakening, who was a sword-wielding myrmidon in that game, it's far more than justified, and this is actually addressed in his supports with Hinata and Orochi in the Revelation path of the game.
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Heroic Build / int_69daf29	comment	Grrl Power: Apparently, whatever it is that causes humans to manifest superpowers also causes them to develop a perfect build, regardless of whether this should have anything to do with their powerset. Sydney (whose powers come from the orbs she carries rather than being innate) occasionally feels intimidated by this effect. However, supervillains also get this treatment due to the same genetic quirk.
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Heroic Build / int_701f0ece	comment	Berserk: Griffith pre-Eclipse demolished the muscle-bound Guts effortlessly. Judeah and Serpico also are bean polls who are capable of taking out larger foes.
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Heroic Build / int_70f17915	comment	Megaton Man was specifically designed to lampoon this trope with everything from his overly muscular physique to a lantern jaw larger than the rest of his head.
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Heroic Build / int_7318210e	comment	A Dragalia Lost 4koma has Luca take on this appearance in Euden's nightmare, with the latter frightened at the sight of the former. This was remade into a sticker for use in multiplayer communication.
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Heroic Build / int_74027d60	comment	How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?: Most of the men who attend the Silverman Gym have hugely muscular builds. Taken to ridiculous levels with Naruzo Machio, who first appears like a normally slender, handsome young man in a tracksuit, then he strikes a bodybuilder pose and the suit gets shredded to pieces, revealing he's ''packed'' (and even gains some height). He somehow shrinks back when he puts on another tracksuit.
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Heroic Build / int_751bdce5	comment	In Devilman, the demonic fusion that grants Akira his powers also gives him an impressively athletic figure in his default human state. Just how dramatic the change is varies by installment or adaptation, ranging from fairly subtle in the manga to impossible to ignore in Crybaby.
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Heroic Build / int_76db0ea5	comment	Kryptonians still get stronger by increasing muscle mass. That's why Power Girl works out so much.
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Heroic Build / int_7a0eabe6	comment	Honor Guest (The Silencer), a former assassin, has a lean, muscular build that one would expect from someone in her line of work.
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Heroic Build / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman. We see him training all the time, and his abilities solely come from that physical training. Same with Jason Todd, Green Arrow, Wildcat, etc. When Colin Wilkes turns into Abuse, he gains this build, but is more heavily built than the average hero due to it coming from the same stuff Bane uses.
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Heroic Build / int_7c6f5e19	comment	On The Red Green Show, Ranger Gord, who is slender and lanky, has a cartoon segment in which he is portrayed as having an astoundingly muscular physique, so much so that when he bends an arm or even a finger, there is a metallic squeaking sound.
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Heroic Build / int_7d5e43b0	comment	Spoofed in The Goodies. In "U-Friend of U-Foe", faced by an apparently hostile UFO, Graham declares that they must convince the aliens that humans are a race of supermen! Cue the Goodies ducking into a line of phone booths so they can put on superhero tights. Bill's comes with a padded chest that gives him some difficulty re squeezing out of the booth, but he tries to bulk himself up further with a bike pump. Hilarity Ensues.
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Heroic Build / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	Kristoff of Frozen due to being both an ice harvester and adopted by trolls, who are really heavy rocklike beings who often climb on him.
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Heroic Build / int_859f63e3	comment	Dragon Ball Abridged: According to Chiaotzu, Tien's shoulders are so beefy from all the training he's done that his doctor has expressed concerns about his health. When reminded of this before another training session, Tien just scoffs, "That's why we don't see [that doctor] anymore."
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Heroic Build / int_8a1c34ad	comment	In Axe Cop, Reality Warper superhero Uni-Man was originally drawn as a deliberate aversion — he originally gained his powers from being really smart, so he looked like a stereotypical skinny old professor. Eventually, though, he transformed himself to become really buff, dwarfing the other male heroes who usually play the trope straight. A couple of others are also exceptions, though, including the skinny Leaf-Man and Mr. Stocker, the superhero with no powers who also doesn't look like a superhero at all.
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Heroic Build / int_8a95c055	comment	The female version often comes with an hourglass figure: this is deconstructed at one point in Soon I Will Be Invincible, when female cyborg Fatale observes that her torso has to be roomy enough to accommodate a miniaturized power core. Most of the other female characters play the trope straight, to her chagrin.
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Heroic Build / int_8dd8ec81	comment	In Sailor Moon Minako, Makoto, Haruka, Ami, and Michiru are the only ones among the Sailor Soldiers shown to actually work out (Minako) or otherwise do intensive sports (Haruka is a runner, and, at least in the anime, Ami and Michiru swim often, Makoto prctices martial arts). Fittingly, Minako and Haruka are stated to be the most in-shape of the Senshi, much to Minako's chagrin, as she had been tricked into starting to work out in her solo series and she only realized the result when her new muscles caused her to rip her costume's skirt.
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Heroic Build / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: The adult Superman is one of the earliest and most blatant examples since in the comics and cartoons he is nearly always shown to have a bodybuilder's physique, despite the fact that his powers originally came from his species being highly evolved. Later this was changed to sunlight and Krypton having a higher gravity, then just sunlight. In Superman's earliest appearances, he was fairly lean. Later interpretations generally gave him a bodybuilder physique, or at least a fairly buff one. Kryptonians still get stronger by increasing muscle mass. That's why Power Girl works out so much. His original designs were based on the circus strongmen of the time. Superman's physique probably also reflects what's considered "impressive" during various time-eras. For example, Curt Swan's Superman looked in-shape, but not ridiculously muscular. Contrast his appearance by various modern artists, where he looks like he'd give Arnold Schwarzenegger's physique a run for its money. Pre-Crisis, the Fortress of Solitude was sometimes shown with specialized workout equipment (a robot sparring partner for boxing practice appeared in the first Fortress story, for instance). Ditto the Golden Age Superman; in his mountain retreat, had some specialized workout equipment. (Said equipment appeared again in a Bronze Age "Mr. and Mrs. Superman" story). As Clark, he worked during the Silver and Bronze Age at Ma and Pa Kent's general store (not a farm) for most of his childhood/teen years, and (to protect his identity) seldom participated in sports.
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Heroic Build / int_9110789d	comment	In Major Bummer, Gecko and Francis are both very skinny.
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Heroic Build / int_920bdb7c	comment	Kill Six Billion Demons: God-Emperor Solomon David is The Perfectionist and is implied to have intentionally sculpted his body to look as divine as possible to his subjects. Given that his martial arts grandmasters all had normal body shapes and were no less powerful for it, it is likely said muscles are literally meaningless to his actual power.
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Heroic Build / int_9291b6ba	comment	Immortal Souls kind of takes this to silly degrees in its comic book-style art, giving everyone who engages in combat an exaggerated bodybuilder physique. And by everyone, we mean the women (who have She-Hulk muscles to go with their Most Common Superpower), the Fat Bastard thugs, the ghosts, the zombies, the mutants, all of the animal monsters, and the human guys in form-fitting Power Armor. Everyone.
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Heroic Build / int_95f7f987	comment	Nightwing was an acrobat and usually portrayed as such. A tad muscular for that, but only occasionally did someone draw him as a full-on bodybuilder. Likewise, in Batman comics, Tim Drake (Robin III/Red Robin III) is usually drawn as leaner than Nightwing. While they can both end up more muscled, Depending on the Artist, they are usually shown on the leaner side in comparison to Bruce and Jason. Also Damian Wayne, justified as he's only about 10-11 years old.
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Heroic Build / int_960062b7	comment	My Hero Academia: Most of the main characters are or are in training to become professional superheroes, a job that requires a lot of physical exertion and Quirk use, and have the musculature to show for it. A large part of U.A.'s curriculum is devoted to making sure students can survive the exercise they're going to get on the job. Any user of One For All has to be this, since the Quirk affects the body's muscles and is so strong that an unprepared body would explode if it were to be used. Izuku took a 10-month Training from Hell regimen to be able to use its bare minimum- and still broke whatever limb he channeled the Quirk with. All Might was a prime example, but is currently emaciated due to a devastating injury. This also limits the amount of time he can be a hero. Mirio Togata is shown to have a very muscular body-and is openly stated to have trained immensely. This is one of the reasons why Sir Nighteye and Nezu had proposed All Might to have him inherit One For All... Well after All Might had started training Izuku. Star and Stripe, the number one American hero, idolized All Might and emulated herself after him to the point that she used her Reality Warping power to permanently bulk herself up like him.
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Heroic Build / int_96252a34	comment	Brody from Brody's Ghost is initially a mere ghostseer with a lanky frame and beer gut. But as he's trained into a more muscular appearance, his powers also begin getting stronger to match.
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Heroic Build / int_985ad25d	comment	Goku's son Gohan is introduced as a scrawny child...who's still super-strong. He gets more muscular as he gets older, but he's always more slender and has smaller biceps than his father even during the periods when Gohan is the strongest person in the series. In Dragon Ball Super, he's become quite scrawny due to his life as a scholar, until he takes up training again for the Tournament of Power.
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Heroic Build / int_98670fed	comment	Tom Strong has the title character parody both this and Top-Heavy Guy. He's drawn with a physique that is just slightly exaggerated. He's got a huge torso and comparatively skinny legs — not to the point of cartoonishness, but more like he's very slightly deformed. Indeed, it's actually implied he is, being described by multiple characters as looking like an upside-down triangle — which just happens to be his Chest Insignia.
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Heroic Build / int_98b5378a	comment	Static notably doesn't have this because he is first of all, a normal, somewhat skinny teenager, and also because his powers have nothing to do with his body, physically.
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Heroic Build / int_9a29f3a4	comment	Top 10 plays this straight only with a few characters: Smax, Peregrine, and King Peacock. Other than that, the cast ranges from scrawny (Shock-Headed Peter, Toybox) to paunchy (Spaceman, Irma Geddon, the Word) to simply average (Synaesthesia, Jack Phantom, Dust Devil). Of course, given the setting — a city where Everyone Is a Super — this only makes sense.
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Heroic Build / int_9ac9d448	comment	Peter Parker in Ultimate Spider-Man retains his scrawny teenage physique even though he has superhuman strength. In the regular Marvel comics, Spidey's physique was sometimes closer to a jogger than a bodybuilder, Depending on the Artist. On the other hand, it's also not unusual for characters to be surprised by those firm biceps that uber-nerd Peter Parker is hiding under his baggy shirt. Usually said biceps are (when displayed by the skintight Spidey suit) merely well-toned rather than massively bulging like most superheroes. Some will even draw him very thin. You will often hear artists say that Spider-Man has a gymnast's body. While female gymnasts tend to be very small and thin, male gymnasts are actually quite muscular, if slim.
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Heroic Build / int_9e202b7b	comment	Male martial artists in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple have such bodies due the formidable training they undergo (even Daimonji is quite muscular, and often brags about all the time he spends working out). There's very few exceptions, and they have good explanations too: Kenichi starts out very skinny because he's a beginner, and never seriously worked out. As the series goes on, he starts gaining muscles and the proper build. Tsukuba is the vice-captain of the Karate Club, and while muscular he's not very developed due training as much as expected from a high-school karateka. Koga the Kicker, of Kisara's Technique Trio, is simply very short and doesn't train much. He quickly becomes a speed bump during the Ragnarok Arc before disappearing completely. Loki's Shadows look exactly like him, Heroic Build and all... Except for one who looks like him but fatter. An omake shows that the Shadows deliberately dress themselves and dye their hair to resemble Loki, but the chubby one can't stop himself from overeating. Koetsuji is much skinnier than most masters because he has absolutely no excess body fat. Once his shirt is removed he's revealed to be just as muscular as the other Masters, he just doesn't have their bulk.
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Heroic Build / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece Despite being the strongest of the main characters, Luffy is a rather beany person, something that is often lampshaded. When the Time Skip kicks in, Usopp becomes unrecognizable in the physique depatment, gaining a Heroic Build while Luffy remains as skinny as ever. He is also much stronger than Usopp. While Usopp has indeed gotten much stronger by building those muscles, he's still below average New World pirate standards. Subverted however as Luffy can expand his muscles at will and Gear 4 gives Luffy the muscle mass of the Hulk, something Usopp lacks. Luffy also has gained a legitimately bulky build ever since the beginning of Wano Arc. Played with as males like Sanji, Rob Lucci, and especially Silvers Rayleigh have skinny builds thanks to the art style but remain some of the strongest fighters in the series. And yet at the same time underneath their clothes they all possess a Heroic Build. Admirals Kizaru and Aokiji. They are both very lean people, yet they are second only to the Four Emperors in strength. This is mostly because their Devil Fruit powers don't rely on brute strength, though Aokiji was shown to have a Heroic Build in One Piece Film: Z. Shanks is a good example as while he has a relatively fit build, he doesn't have the enormous muscular figures that Whitebeard and Kaido possess and is tiny compared to them; but he still matched the humongous Whitebeard in a clash...one-handed. Likewise for Shanks' Friendly Rival Hawkeye Mihawk, the world's greatest swordsman who effortlessly wields a sword taller than his own body and is fit but relatively slender. Yonko Big Mom is fat old woman, who wrecked Luffy with ease and walked through an iron door like it was cardboard. Blackbeard, who took Whitebeard's place as a Yonko and is one of the top contenders for overall Big Bad of the series, is a portly man with disproportionately thin limbs for his enormous size. He's still got immense physical strength on top of having one of the strongest Devil Fruit powers (later two of the strongest). Sabo, 2nd in command of the Revolutionary Army, has a similar slender build to Luffy (to the extent that, when Luffy was wearing a face-concealing gladiator's helmet, Sabo was able to impersonate him by simply wearing the same helmet and painting a copy of Luffy's burn scar on his chest). He's also strong enough to destroy an entire arena with a fire-enhanced punch, and to crush an inch-thick steel mask with one hand.
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Heroic Build / int_a03824e8	comment	Big Atomic Lantern Boy of The DCU's Super Young Team is a little chubby, but not truly fat. He tries to hide it under a Badass Longcoat, with moderate success.
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Heroic Build / int_a3129642	comment	Tiger from Spinnerette was revealed to have gotten his bulky musculature, at least in part, from the Spirit of the Tiger. When he and Dr. Universe had their powers swapped, Tiger became much leaner, while Universe puts on a lot of muscle overnight.
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Heroic Build / int_a5549ed0	comment	Samson from The Bible is an interesting case: there was an archÃ¦ological site found where he allegedly pushed the stone pillars and killing all those Philistines; the evidence showed the broken pillars were probably pushed by a large man with such a physique. Many religious Jews used it as proof of the historicity of the Bible; however, Israeli writer and columnist Meir Shalev pointed out in his column that Samson is actually described as a frail-looking man, far from the image we often think of him today since his supernatural strength came from God he might have not had the Heroic Build people think of.
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Heroic Build / int_b4996199	comment	Many children's Halloween costumes have exaggerated chest and arm muscles, even if the character they are dressing up as is not so buff. The most obvious example is probably Spider-Man, who is toned but slim in most incarnations, but the costumes look like bodybuilders.
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Heroic Build / int_b50cc7e6	comment	The Incredible Hulk: Bruce Banner is not particularly muscular or defined as himself (Bill Bixby, who played Banner in the TV show, was widely regarded as having the proper physique); how sculpted he becomes when he Hulks out depends on the artist.
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Heroic Build / int_b565ccc5	comment	Loki (2021) has Classic Loki, which was Richard E. Grant in a very faithful recreation of the original comics costume. Grant stated that early in production he asked "So it's in the green Lycra bodysuit with muscles", and they responded it would not be padded, which he jokingly added to have made him "very distraught" at not being able to look like he had muscles, "having been born without any". Grant even had to share a concept art that looked like what he thought.
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Heroic Build / int_b79f573d	comment	Most characters in Naruto e.g Tsunade, Sakura, Sasuke, Itachi and Naruto's dad Minato are extremely powerful despite being very skinny. Played with however as Naruto has a Heroic Build with his shirt off and there are strong characters like A and Killer B who are muscle-clad.
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Heroic Build / int_ba3d2748	comment	The Incredibles: Mr. Incredible is a Justified example, as he is indeed shown to lose shape with age until he started training again. He doesn't go all the way back to his youthful heroic build, either.
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Heroic Build / int_ba681f82	comment	Admirals Kizaru and Aokiji. They are both very lean people, yet they are second only to the Four Emperors in strength. This is mostly because their Devil Fruit powers don't rely on brute strength, though Aokiji was shown to have a Heroic Build in One Piece Film: Z.
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Heroic Build / int_bb55a676	comment	As his name would suggest, Bouncing Boy from Legion of Super-Heroes is usually depicted with a big round belly, and he actually inflates when he bounces.
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Heroic Build / int_bb931b09	comment	In Fire Force recruits seeking to be a part of the Fire Force companies, must not only have sufficiently powerful pyrokinetic abilities, but also undergo rigorous physical training, as being in great physical condition is essential to be a member of one of the eight companies they are assigned to. However, Captain Obi of Company 8 takes this to a whole other level. Due to having no form of pyrokinesis, he has to train like hell every single day to compensate. This has made him not only incredibly jacked, but has also given him near superhuman strength. Maki Oze is another member of Company 8 who developed an incredible physique from her military service in Tokyoâ€™s armed forces. Due to her second generation powers not being the best in terms of offensive capabilities, she has to rely mostly on raw strength and her adept CQC skills when on active duty.
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Heroic Build / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive, Grace could choose to use a bodybuilder's physique as "Shade Tail" since she's a shapeshifter but doesn't because she doesn't have the skill to pull off having beefy muscles and good dexterity and prefers to use a compromise form.
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Heroic Build / int_c346fa94	comment	The New Mutants were all drawn as scrawny, gawky teens, and it wasn't until years down the line — after puberty and intensive training in the Danger Room — that they gained the standard superhero body. The one exception is Roberto, who was always in shape due to being a star football player before his mutant power appeared.
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Heroic Build / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm has most of the younger cast as this, both thanks to the author's desire to include slightly more realistic body types, and the fact that they're teenagers. Harry, for instance, is short and skinny as he is in Prisoner of Azkaban, and even after malnutrition is corrected for and he undergoes a growth spurt, he's still described as somewhat gawky as he grows into it, being compared to a half-grown falcon. Even once he has, he's more athletic than heavily muscled, and both he and resident speedster Jean-Paul are described as having dancer's builds by the sequel.
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Heroic Build / int_c68c0000	comment	Star Wars (Marvel 1977) was all over the place with regards to this trope and Luke Skywalker. Towards the end they usually averted it completely◊... except in the very last issue◊, which also inexplicably removed his shirt and gave him a huge gun he did not use once.
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Heroic Build / int_c9777033	comment	Beyond the Canopy parodied this when Greliz draws a poster depicting Glenn (who's scrappy but not at all muscular) as a mix of Conan the Barbarian and the Hulk. Another character points out "Muscles don't work like that." Happens again in an April Fools' Day comic: the comic briefly turns into Fist of the North Star, and Glenn is drawn as Ken.
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Heroic Build / int_ca540ab0	comment	Great Lakes Avengers: Big Bertha has complete control over her adipose tissue, and the ability to create "superbulk" in her body that basically turns her into a female version of the Blob (though not quite as Nigh-Invulnerable as him). She also only has her superhuman strength and durability while bulked-up. Flatman pretty much doesn't need to have a Heroic Build, given his stretching powers, and due to being flat most of the time, doesn't appear to have much of a definition as all. On the exceedingly rare occasion where he is depicted not flattening himself, he appears to have a rather average body.
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Heroic Build / int_cd8e6855	comment	Ultraman: Ultraman was mean to be tall and lean to emphasise his alien origins, which is reflected in the A-type suit used during the first 14 episodes. While Art Evolution led to Ultraman gaining an increasingly muscular build as the series went on, Shin Ultraman saw a return to the original tall, lean build present in concept art.
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Heroic Build / int_d1d1b9f8	comment	Second Apocalypse: Cnaiur the berserker Barbarian Hero is often described as having broad shoulders, a huge back, and a narrow waist.
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Heroic Build / int_d2ef54a3	comment	Averted by Amazi-girl from Dumbing of Age who is downright pudgy, as various characters remark at one time or another
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Heroic Build / int_d4263e4c	comment	Wild Cards: most "Aces" look like regular humans. And the "Joker-Aces" are those who got both powers (hence "Ace") and deformities (hence "Joker") from the same transformation, e.g. Bloat.
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Heroic Build / int_d649cf40	comment	In C Karrus most of the men seem to have this, heroes and villains alike.
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Heroic Build / int_d79bb655	comment	Eight Billion Genies: The genies are Reality Warpers who can grant virtually any wish. As such, it's a trivial thing for them to give someone exaggerated physical proportions, such as giving a child biceps bigger than his own head. When Robbie wishes for his genie to transform him into a powerful superhero strong enough to protect his parents and find a safe haven for them amidst the chaos, the genie follows his childish drawing to a T, making him so huge that his arms are as big as his formerly child-sized body. Meanwhile, his head and face remain unchanged, poking above his muscles thanks to his equally muscular neck.
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Heroic Build / int_db404a1a	comment	Kengan Ashura, by the same team as Dumbbells, does feature a decent variety in terms of heights and weights among its roster, but the vast majority of fighters are improbably buff, or at least far more cut than they should be. Of the thirty-two competitors of the manga's main Tournament Arc, twenty-nine of them have washboard abs. The remaining three are Stout Strength-types, including a sumo wrestler, and all three of them are eliminated in the first round.
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Heroic Build / int_dc217e32	comment	Iris in PokÃ©mon Reset Bloodlines, who is the most physically capable member of Ash's group, is described as lacking a curvaceous body type. Gary Oak later describes her build as "a track team member". Nonetheless, Ash and several others consider her fairly attractive in her own way.
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Heroic Build / int_e23ff2b1	comment	Bodybuilder physiques on action figures was a general trend in the '90s. While it (somewhat) made sense for characters like He-Man who's so muscled he shouldn't be able to move, it looked downright weird for, say, Luke Skywalker and Han Solo. And of course being surrounded by these physiques leads to body dysmorphic disorder, which ultimately leads to obsessive exercising, use of steroids, etc. And you thought only girls had it tough. Not so in The '90s!
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Heroic Build / int_e25322af	comment	This was parodied in a Homestar Runner cartoon; Strong Bad discusses a hypothetical Strong Bad action figure, which looks remarkably like this. Strong Bad lampshades it by claiming it would look "just like him," specifically mentioning the relative sizes of his head and body. In an Easter Egg, Homestar, Strong Mad, Strong Sad, and Pom Pom get the same treatment; the action figures' physiques are Liefeldishly overmuscled, even Pom Pom and Strong Sad, who are literally spherical. This is a bit of a poke at the old Masters of the Universe line, which also had nearly every character sharing the same cartoonish bodybuilder mold only distinguished by skin color.
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Heroic Build / int_e7be7a8d	comment	The Wii Fit trainer has the body one would expect out of a fitness professional (slender and curvy as a female, muscular as a male). Although the character's feats only turned superheroic on Super Smash Bros....
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Heroic Build / int_e80fa454	comment	Montana from Battleborn possesses an extremely exaggerated muscular build that's practically Rob Liefeld-like in design. Even the very game itself notes him as being "biologically improbable".
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Heroic Build / int_eaacc946	comment	In Brennus the Adonis expression of the Physique power reshapes the body according to their perception of attractiveness, much as in the Whateley Universe. Among Western men, it often results in this.
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Heroic Build / int_ec28245c	comment	Dragon Ball Z: The Saiyans are a race of Big Eaters. Goku is the best example of this that he will eat until his belly balloons. Despite this, Goku has no fat and has muscles everywhere. Though exactly how closely he resembles this trope varies from arc to arc and based on which transformation he's using at the time. When he was a kid, he was a somewhat pudgy Pint-Sized Powerhouse. As a young man in the 23rd Budokai and Saiyan arcs, he resembled a lean, cut, but not particularly buff bantamweight martial artist- fitting his official stats of 175 cm (5'9") and 62 kg (138 lbs) fairly well. Whenever he used Kaio-Ken, though, he would bulk up enormously and resemble a bodybuilder. From the Freeza arc onward, he started to be drawn like a huge bodybuilder all the time (when not in combat). Goku's son Gohan is introduced as a scrawny child...who's still super-strong. He gets more muscular as he gets older, but he's always more slender and has smaller biceps than his father even during the periods when Gohan is the strongest person in the series. In Dragon Ball Super, he's become quite scrawny due to his life as a scholar, until he takes up training again for the Tournament of Power. Unlike most of the heroes, Krillin has a small build and can't dish out the level of power the Saiyans, Half-Saiyans, and Namekians can. However despite his size Krillin is still a Physical God compared to us puny mortals, he along with Tien and Yamcha have enough power to blow Earth into space dust if they wanted to. Tien is a completely straight example of this trope (bordering on exaggeration at times given his enormous biceps), being the tallest of the human characters and absolutely ripped. While Yamcha is of average height and fit but relatively slender, befitting his day job as a pro baseball player. Android 19. Gero gave him a fat, Gonk design. He is still quite powerful, being many times more powerful than Frieza. Android 20, based on old man since he is Dr. Gero. He's stronger than 19, or so he claims. Android 20 is Gero's Brain in a Jar with a robot body, and he apparently made that body look exactly like his discarded human body. Android 17 and 18 are built like skinny teenagers, but the pair were still strong enough to slaughter the Z-Fighters and commit near-global genocide in the Bad Future. Dragon Ball Super reveals that 17 only appears to be skinny as one of his sleeves is torn off and his arm is very toned underneath. However, played with as the hulking Android 16 far outstrips 17 & 18 in terms of power. Word of God eventually revealed that Android 16 was designed to look exactly like Dr. Gero's deceased son, who was a Red Ribbon Army soldier. Future Trunks starts out as slender but decently muscular. He trains for a year in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and comes out completely jacked. Then he attempts to fight Cell with the Super Saiyan Grade 3 transformation (see below) and becomes an exaggeration of this trope. But when he returns in Dragon Ball Super he's gotten slender again yet is much stronger than when he had the gigantic biceps. The Super Saiyan Grade 2 and ridiculously muscly Super Saiyan Grade 3 transformations turn any Saiyan into this trope. Each grants a massive increase in power, but Grade 3 proves useless because it brings a huge decrease in speed. Buu's forms mix this around. Fat Buu is the least dangerous (and eventually the weakest) of all the other Buu forms, who fit into the Lean and Mean category, but he is still one of the strongest characters in the series. His fat body absorbs almost all damage and he uses his fat to crush people. Given his malleable body, Fat Buu can make himself look like this trope and has done so a couple of times, but normally doesn't bother because it doesn't actually make him any stronger. Evil Buu and Kid Buu, who are both more powerful than Fat Buu, are both very skinny, the former to anorexic extremes. And finally there's Super Buu, the strongest and most intelligent of the Buus, who plays the trope straight by being muscular (albeit with a lean fighter's physique rather than an exaggerated bodybuilder's) and extremely tall nearly 244 cm (8').
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Heroic Build / int_ecf6aca5	comment	One of the key reasons the Plumbing the Death Star episode "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat" exists is that there are no conventionally fat members of the X-Men even if most of them have powers with no relation to physical exertion. Ultimately, the three cast members agree to the "Joel Duscher Bird Theory," the idea that mutant powers must burn calories and fat like physical exercise, although that comes with its own problems and invoked Fridge Logic.
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Heroic Build / int_ef7b3325	comment	Fantastic Four: Ben Grimm, a.k.a. "The Thing", is a mishmash. In the comic books, as Ben Grimm, he's fairly muscular; as The Thing, he's pretty much rectangular with no definition at all. In the movies, Michael Chiklis as Ben is less sculpted, but Thing has distinct abs, biceps, and triceps. During John Byrne's run, he drew both Reed Richards and Johnny Storm skinnier and less buff as they looked when they first appeared in 1961.
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Heroic Build / int_f11d7892	comment	In Too Many Cooks, Miranda's physique is emphasized fairly strongly when she first poses (in civvies) for the camera.
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Heroic Build / int_f3368832	comment	Most males in the Buffyverse like Giles, Oz, Gunn, and Wesley don't have a Heroic Build but can easily match those who do. Played straight on both genders as Buffy and the rest of Slayers plus female vampires like Darla, Drusilla, and Harmony have lithe figures and yet are incredibly strong. In fact, you have a harder time finding those who are muscular or have large builds like Angel, Spike, Lindsey, and Hamilton.
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