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Muscles Are Meaningful

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Muscles Are Meaningful	comment	In works of fiction, it is generally assumed that characters with big muscles must be strong. In most media, this compels creators to depict strong characters as with hulking muscular builds, often disregarding what kind of build people in any given activity would be likely to have, for fear not doing so would risk forcing the audience out of the story. This frequently carries the opposite meaning too: small characters are usually elusive, quiet, agile, stealthy, and quick, while large characters being such will not be believable. In Professional Wrestling, this is taken to extremes. Few fans will accept a smaller or average sized wrestler as a main event contender without years of development, whereas larger wrestlers may be advanced to the main event scene almost immediately after debuting. Fans and promoters alike also tend to gravitate toward men with large biceps and pectorals over triceps and the core body because the former look better on camera, even though the latter are more useful for wrestling. It should go without saying that this is Truth in Television. Combat sports have strict weight classes for a very good reason, after all. Even ten pounds of muscle is considered a huge advantage. Related to Bishounen Line. Polar opposite of Muscles Are Meaningless. The Giant will always be portrayed this way, even if they're mostly fat.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_1429eb78	comment	All Japan Pro Wrestling had the reputation for picking the bulkiest, tallest and or heaviest wrestler it could find and then sending him up against the next biggest wrestler it could find, which shouldn't be too surprising when Giant Baba was the standard, with the smaller wrestlers on the roster not getting much of any notice until the success of Tiger Mask and The Great Muta caused them to Follow the Leader. And even then AJPW initially put the mask on the much larger Mitsuharu Misawa when it bought the Tiger Mask gimmick.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_14effc04	comment	Starting in the Heisei Era with Ultraman Tiga, whenever a warrior from the Ultra Series specializes in techniques of strength, they have more visible muscle mass than other Ultras, although it's a form change. Ultraman Taiga gave us one of the best example of this trope in the form of Ultraman Titas. Known as the Sage of Power, he has the largest muscles of any Ultraman, and he is extremely prone to showing off that they are most decidedly not just for show.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_1b021fcb	comment	In Tokyo Ghoul, the formerly scrawny Kaneki gets a shirtless scene in chapter 88, revealing just how built his training to become stronger so he can protect everyone has made him.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_1bd50652	comment	Bane, Clayface, Solomon Grundy, and other "melee" villains who were larger than Batman.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_2192aeb3	comment	The constitution system in the Fire Emblem series, especially Fire Emblem: Thracia 776. The constitution system is how much your character weighs and can pick up another unit (either by force on enemy units, or slinging allied units over your shoulder). Basically the only characters who have high constitution stats and growth are really muscular guys, big armored men, and mounted units. Skinny wiry Bishonens and especially thin girls will basically never get a point in constitution when leveling up unless the player is really lucky. Even Marty, a muscular brigand who is virtually useless in everything can make use of his muscles with an extremely high base constitution stat and constitution growth.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_24705e44	comment	Averted in 2013/2014 as A.J. Lee became the longest reigning Divas Champion at the time and was the most popular woman on the roster. She is 5'2 and weighs 99 lbs, 115 at her heaviest. That's less than Hornswoggle!
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_249ada68	comment	Since the end of the territorial era, the only women generally allowed to compete against men were the female bodybuilders who were equal to them in size. Chyna is by far the most famous, having won a male singles championship in her career (and was even rumored to be booked to win the company's world championship at one time), but see also: Nicole Bass, Midnight, Asya. During the territory days, smaller woman such as Mildred Burke or Jacqueline would be allowed to face select male opponents as women's champion in order to give a women's division some credibility. Sable did a watered down version of this (power bombing Marc Mero) around the same time as Chyna and actually engaged in a public debate with her, arguing she should be taken as seriously as Chyna despite not being as large. On the indies smaller women can bypass this but they'll normally have to rely on Waif-Fu during matches. Kana seems to be the exception that proves the rule, as she tends to rely on stiff shots and submission holds...and usually ends up beaten after the larger man toughs them out.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_24f59faa	comment	This is also the case in women's wrestling but it did not undergo the same size escalation men's wrestling did in the 1980s. In fact the WWF, largely responsible for the inflating size of male wrestlers (180 lbs to 220 lbs as heavyweight "minimum"), did the opposite with women (where 130 lbs was considered heavyweight minimum), pushing a slew of "short" wrestlers such as Ivory, Jacqueline, Trish Stratus, Molly Holly and Mickie James as serious champions along with "slim" wrestlers such as LayCool and Alicia Fox. If the only wrestling one watched was WWF/E from 1999-2006 then why Melina Perez was declared "too small" when trying to break into the business would be incomprehensible. By the time she made it to WWE everyone was used to seeing "divas" her size. Looking back at headliners of the previous WWF women's division, Madusa, Bull Nakano, Bertha Faye, Luna Vachon, Aja Kong would give one an idea though. Even Lita, Jazz and Victoria would have been in the "small" to "average" range then. "The Glamazon" Beth Phoenix competed in the Royal Rumble, even eliminating The Great Khali. She and Natalya Neidhart also formed a tag team at one time called "The Divas of Doom" whose gimmick focused on being more able ring-workers than the "Barbies" who lacked their musculature. Unfortunately, they were regarded by fans to be the only women in the company who could wrestle. Now the company was relying on a slew of rookies at this point, having lost every woman previously listed except Alicia Fox and Layla but their dismissal (along with Eve Torres and the Bella Twins) by fans illustrates the trope's pervasiveness even after WWE had spent decades defying it. There was backlash against "small" wrestlers after the diva search though and Beth's designated opponent, recent graduate from jobberdome Kelly Kelly, was still not taken seriously by critics-this trope was not the only factor. WWE uncharacteristically played this straight in the early 2010s regarding Jamie Keyes, Kaitlyn and Tamina Snuka. The former was a shredded bodybuilder who just so happened to have no interest in becoming a pro wrestler and simply wanted to be a ring announcer. Keyes ended up asking for her release over the fact WWE kept trying to put her in the ring even though she never found it enjoyable. The "hybrid diva" Kaitlyn did have a desire to wrestle but was put on television with less than two months training. She lasted much longer than Jamie, at least. Tamina had one year's experience on the independent circuit, well ahead of the other two in many respects, but it would still be awhile before she caught up to Beth Phoenix or Natalya, who she was nonetheless immediately pushed as a threat to. Averted in 2013/2014 as A.J. Lee became the longest reigning Divas Champion at the time and was the most popular woman on the roster. She is 5'2 and weighs 99 lbs, 115 at her heaviest. That's less than Hornswoggle! In the late 2010s WWE played it straight again with Nia Jax, who was quickly taken out of their developmental program with even less ring or mic skills than Tamina but pushed even harder than her on account of being even larger than Snuka. Tessa Blanchard was notoriously slim, but bulked up considerably in preparation for winning the Impact Wrestling World Championship belt from Sami Callihan, even though Impact had removed "heavyweight" from the title to ensure Blanchard's victory would be as believable as possible. She was also dominated shorter and or slimmer knockouts to justify her leaving the division while keeping those of similar size or larger away from her.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_2b4d461c	comment	The first World Heavyweight Champion was the 5'9 230 lbs Estonian George Hackenschmidt, which would still be considered kinda largish but short by today, but he was defeated by (depending on which promotions you find more credible) the the 6'0 200 lbs Ibrahim Hergeleci or the 6'0 200 Frank Gotch. For a while, the world champions were getting smaller (and faster, and increasing in stamina). Ed Lewis may have been the first exceptionally large World Champion at 265 lbs though it wouldn't really be until 1960 that "super heavyweights" became really visible on the world stage.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_32c541e6	comment	Three Words: Alex Louis Armstrong from Fullmetal Alchemist. Save for the homunculus Sloth (who also fits this trope, being the manga equivalent of a passive Hulk), he's easily the tallest and most muscular "normal" human in the cast. He can take punches from, and lift up the aforementioned homunculus, tank his head getting slammed through concrete, (which for the record, broke the wall!), and dish the punishment right back out. Other examples are Izumi's husband Sig, who's equally sized, only a little portly (basically, Alex looks like a bodybuilder while Sig looks like an Olympic weightlifter), and the Iron Blood Alchemist, Basque Grand.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_35e88987	comment	While American wrestling has the reputation for jacking up its rosters, the NWA wrestlers have mostly remained around the same sizes across the board from the 1940s to 2010s. This is of course because WCW and the WWF became the trend setters while the NWA was reduced to a niche market. Conversely, when All Elite Wrestling started up with a locker room full of legitimate cruiser weights in 2019, the NWA could finally boast about having larger men on its roster than one of the major US companies.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_366a284d	comment	Most martial artists in Fist of the North Star are rather muscular, even ones like Rei who are supposed to look rather feminine. Bigger, often giant-like guys abound among the bad guys, though their strength and power avail them nothing against Kenshiro, who is very capable of making their heads a splode.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman Vol. 2: Bill Baker and the White Magician (in his final form) are drawn as huge men with an impossible level of muscle mass and both shrug off attacks by Artemis, though the fact that they are enhanced magically might have something to do with it. In his final moments the White Magician was so tough that Wonder Woman needed the gauntlets of Atlas in order to put up a decent fight and the only reason it ended without her needing serious medical attention was that his magic turned on him and killed him.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Dragon Ball: Zigzagged with Nappa in Dragon Ball Z. He's big and buff, and easily wipes the floor with most of the Z-Fighters... but at the same time, Goku and Vegeta, both of whom are considerably smaller, both manage to beat him, though neither do so effortlessly: Goku had to resort to using a recently gained power-up to defeat him, and struggled fighting him beforehand, whereas Vegeta took advantage of his weakened state by killing him. The same thing happens in the next saga with Recoome, who dominates Vegeta, Krillin, and Gohan effortlessly then gets KO'd be a single elbow from Goku. Before Nappa, there was Raditz, Goku's older brother. He was taller and more muscular than Goku and easily stronger than him. Kale, from Dragon Ball Super, is a straight example. Her Super Saiyan Berserker form is bulkier and taller than most of her fellow Universe 6 Saiyan (including her normal form), and easily steamrolls Cabba.note He, ironically, normally provides an example of the opposite. Super Saiyan 2 makes the user slightly bulkier than in normal state-and 100x stronger than base form (or about twice a normal Super Saiyan). Power Weighed forms increase muscle mass with an increase in power. They're rarely used due increasing the stamina consumption and, if bulked up too much heavily slows down the user, keeping them from actually hitting the enemy. Played straightest with the World's Strongest Man Broly, much like Kale his muscle mass is an indicator for power but unlike Kale whose base form is petite, Broly's base form is more muscly than Goku and Vegeta combined and he can even overwhelm them in their Physical God transformations without even going Super Saiyan himself, though he is forced to tap into a "wrathful" state, a power up Goku and Vegeta don't have access to. When he does go Super Saiayn on top of "wrath mode Broly hulks out even more and nearly destroys the whole planet forcing Goku and Vegeta to fuse into Gogeta to actually defeat him. To balance things out Broly is Unskilled, but Strong. Super introduced Jiren an alien with a Heroic Build who is stronger than even the God of Destruction. He is one of the most muscular characters in the franchise. The same goes for his teammate Toppo, who goes from large and powerful but with a pronounced gut to a towering mountain of muscle when he powers up to God of Destruction status. He's probably the third strongest combatant in a tournament of the eighty strongest fighters in the multiverse. Of all characters, Mr. Satan is a straight example. A rather muscular man, he may be completely outclassed by anyone who can use ki but still spent his first appearance showing off considerable strength by pulling four buses, ripping three phone books, and then punching through the skin of one of the buses in quick succession. He also won the 24th Tenkaichi Budokai, a martial arts tournament of such high level that in the 22nd edition the guy who had three kickboxing world championship turned out to be the weakest among the eight fighters who reached the finals.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_3af48a1	comment	WWE uncharacteristically played this straight in the early 2010s regarding Jamie Keyes, Kaitlyn and Tamina Snuka. The former was a shredded bodybuilder who just so happened to have no interest in becoming a pro wrestler and simply wanted to be a ring announcer. Keyes ended up asking for her release over the fact WWE kept trying to put her in the ring even though she never found it enjoyable. The "hybrid diva" Kaitlyn did have a desire to wrestle but was put on television with less than two months training. She lasted much longer than Jamie, at least. Tamina had one year's experience on the independent circuit, well ahead of the other two in many respects, but it would still be awhile before she caught up to Beth Phoenix or Natalya, who she was nonetheless immediately pushed as a threat to.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_3f093ce4	comment	The rise of mixed martial arts, whose promotions tend have weight classes based more on pro wrestling than boxing due to the earliest company's being born directly from pro wrestling, has only reinforced how small minded the obsession with heavyweights really is. There have been some heavyweight and super heavyweight attractions, the bewildering success of Bob Sapp in Pride Fighting Championships being the most obvious case, just as many of the biggest money makers in MMA have been light heavyweights, middle weights, welterweights, bantamweights and even featherweights. Conor McGregor, the first UFC fighter to hold two belts at once, did so as a lightweight and featherweight and was the single best draw of 2016 in any combat sport. In 2017 his fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. was responsible for the second highest pay per view buy rate of all time surpassed only by Mayweather's fight with Manny Pacquiao for their welterweight title belts.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_4a198c8f	comment	In All Rounder Meguru not only muscle mass is important for a MMA practitioner, giving them more strength to execute their techniques (indeed, Meguru becoming strong enough to enter the All Japan Amateur Shooto Championship was accompained by him training and slowly bulking up, as shown by confronting his build in his first fight to the one he sported at the Championship), but the form is important. The one example given is that of Keiji Mitsuya, an otherwise formidable fighter having recently passed from freestyle wrestling (for which he was training for the Olympic games before his temper got him kicked out) to shooto and still having the deltoids of a wrestler, that are overdeveloped in MMA and thus slow him down. Also, shooto has weight categories, and bulking up too much can prevent a fighter from passing the weigh-in (how Meguru got in the Kanto tournament: he had been admitted as a reserve, and entered the tournament when one of the athletes in his weight class admitted from the start failed the weigh-in due being too muscular).
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_4f3cdfd6	comment	In Risk IT All, Ren's muscles grow in accordance with his strength stat. His six-month coma caused his strength to dwindle to a mere 2, but putting points in strength helped him stand again in a few days rather than months. Getting his strength to 20 gives him freedom of mobility and a below-average physique, while dumping 30 more points into it causes him to gain twenty pounds of muscle overnight, leaving him looking and feeling better than he had before he was shot. With the help of his powers, he's soon performing complex acrobatics and knocking common crooks to the floor with a single hit.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_5283bd72	comment	In Protector of the Small, Keladry is already more sturdily built than most girls (leading to the unkind nickname of "Cow" by her Obnoxious In-Laws) but when she goes to train as a knight, she discovers that she really does have ground to make up between herself and the boys strength-wise. So she does extra strength exercises with push-ups, running, and, after discovering that she was given a weighted training lance as a discouraging prank, uses only weighted weapons in drills. Once her page training is done she's built more or less like an oak tree—and at one point she defends herself against the Standard Female Grab Area just by flexing her bicep.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_57ad0c07	comment	Resident Evil: From 5 onward, Chris Redfield has bulked up considerably and it shows. He can send enemies flying with one punch, and lift up and bodily throw them with ease. Also, during his brief face-off with Leon Kennedy in 6, it's clear that he has the advantage in terms of physical strength. Also applies to Helena in 6: as of that game she is the most muscular female character in the franchise, and her melee attacks are primarily focused on punching and lifting her enemies, as opposed to almost all the other Resident Evil ladies who rely on kicks.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_5921531c	comment	The final Shadow boss of Persona 5 doesn't take the form of a monster like the others, but is instead a very muscular man. Futuba even warns that those muscles ain't for show and as one of the last bosses in the game, he earns his spot.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_5ae078da	comment	ECW averted this often, and even squeezed in a series of subversions with the "Little Spike Dudley: Giant Killer" gimmick, where the 150-pound-soaking-wet Spike would somehow, after having been beaten half-to-death by men 3 times his size, and with commentator Joey Styles begging for the ref to stop the match, find a way to prevail in the end.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_5ce3fc86	comment	In Soul Eater, Crona and Ragnarok get noticeably stronger the bigger Ragnarok gets. In fact, from the time they first appear, Ragnarok's soul is already bigger in perimeter than Crona's height, and by the second battle they have with Maka, Ragnarok's soul is now almost the size of a two story house. When Ragnarok's eaten souls are confiscated (or he had his soul cleansed, as in the anime), he and Crona are about as strong as Maka, showing that their strength has lowered greatly.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_5e16d550	comment	Asta from Black Clover. Initially depicted as somewhat short and scrawny looking, it turns out that he actually has massive biceps for a kid his age. He also can rather casually knock a grown man ten or twenty feet into the air and leave a crater in a solid stone wall with a single swing of his sword. Ironically, despite the fact that the Magic Knights are all taller and higher ranked than Asta, almost none of them seem as though they could take him down physically.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_5e91c7e	comment	From 5 onward, Chris Redfield has bulked up considerably and it shows. He can send enemies flying with one punch, and lift up and bodily throw them with ease. Also, during his brief face-off with Leon Kennedy in 6, it's clear that he has the advantage in terms of physical strength.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_5efbf032	comment	The Asterisk War: Lester McPhail is probably the one packing the most muscle when he wears his gray shirt and he shows off the bottom portion of his abs.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_5fe76d21	comment	Venom himself is an aversion; he's much larger and muscular than Spider-Man, but also somewhat faster, more agile, sneakier due to his use of the symbiote's camouflage, and just about the only Spider-villain who could reliably catch Peter by surprise (being immune to the Spider-Sense helps a lot in that regard). Stealth and psychological intimidation were Venom's favored tactics, even when his size and strength gave him an advantage in fights.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_684610	comment	This has little to do with offense, but in the BlazBlue series, muscles do a pretty good job of hinting at a character's defensive potential. Tager is built like a brick shithouse, and he has the highest HP and defensive ability in the game. Azrael is another beefcake who can take plenty of punishment, and even Bang with his manly muscles is in fourth for highest HP capacity. The oddity amongst this group is Hakumen, who ties with Azrael. This also extends to BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, where the well-muscled Waldstein has the same HP as Tager himself.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_701f0ece	comment	In Berserk, you can have a reasonable idea of where characters sit on the strength scale by their bulk, with Pippin at one end and Casca on the other. Guts, being a Lightning Bruiser, is very tall and muscular, but is still smaller and faster than many of the other characters. Although said other characters are (usually) actual DEMONS...
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_717c5f25	comment	In Gamaran, strong characters do have powerful bodies (such as Shingo Mido), though more emphasis is put on characters knowing both their bodies and how to correctly move and use them. The sequel series Shura has more examples, such as Bihoumaru (so strong and muscled he can kill people by punching them in the head), Burai Udo (enormous and muscular, can crack boulders in half with a bokuto) and, in a rare female example, Homare (member of a special corps of fighters, can swing around a western greatsword effortlessly).
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: Bane, Clayface, Solomon Grundy, and other "melee" villains who were larger than Batman. Batman is an especially obvious example of this trope. In comics where he had to fight, he was drawn larger than average (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns). In comics where he used his detective skills, he was drawn slimmer and less muscular (The Brave and the Bold). In films, Batman traditionally wore a padded Bat-suit, but appeared slim as Bruce Wayne.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_7ac38ec4	comment	In Rebuild World, Akira is noted to be short and scrawny for his age because of how young he is and how little he got to eat before he started making money with Alpha's help. Because of this, he can't comfortably carry and fire more than a single assault rifle at a time without the help of an augmented suit, compared to older, more fit, and more experienced hunters who are armed to the teeth.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_7c884aca	comment	Ennui GO!: Darcy is the biggest and most muscular member of the main cast and has the strength to match. Because of it, she's often a big help for Izzy and co. whenever trouble happens.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_7c991577	comment	This is less of a thing in Mexico, where a more intricate system of weight classes enforced by the same athletic commission that oversees boxing makes it easier for small even by non athlete standard wrestlers to find work and possibly get themselves over. After the dojos in Japan refused to train Jushin Thunder Liger because of his size, he made his way to Mexico. The crowds tend to have an easier time excepting "small" wrestlers going over "large" foes too, such as the 5'8 Eddie Guerrero and 5'6 El Hijo Del Santo being runaway successes or the 200 lbs Maximo Sexy being CMLL's World Heavyweight Champion when larger men such as Ultimo Guerrero were holding belts with lower maximum limits that the 214 lbs minimum Maximo's belt was supposed to have. It is not completely averted though, as the largest member of Los Gringos Locos, Art Barr, far out shined his contemporaries at first. (Though given the fact they represented foreign vice, that may have been by design.) Also, when CMLL tried to push Rush after he won a body building contest they ended up making him the most hated luchador in the company despite his tecnico status.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_80401c5c	comment	Christopher Daniels is a good example. He's usually somewhere between 180 and 200 lbs. Which is easily in the junior/light heavyweight/cruiser weight category but when he bulked up as much he could he weighed in around 232, which is comfortably in the heavyweight range, but was still mostly booked in the junior/light heavyweight/cruiser weight ranks because Daniels will probably never have large pecs and thus never look light a heavyweight.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_8258e260	comment	Wario possesses very impressive biceps, and he's one of the most powerful characters in the series.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_85555ea3	comment	Day of the Tentacle: Bernard is a nerd with scrawny arms, and he isn't able to pick up and store the bowling ball in Green Tentacle's room. When he gets fused with Hoagie and Laverne at the end of the game, Hoagie (who has arms nearly as thick as Bernard's and Laverne's torsos) is strong enough to pick up the ball with ease.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_881fc8ff	comment	In A Hat in Time, before getting her umbrella, the attack button makes Hat Kid try to punch enemies. Hat Kid is a child; the Mafia populating the first stage are Top Heavy Guys with fists as big as Hat Kid herself and no qualms about using them. Trying to take them on with you bare fists is a bad idea.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_890bea21	comment	Ultraman Taiga gave us one of the best example of this trope in the form of Ultraman Titas. Known as the Sage of Power, he has the largest muscles of any Ultraman, and he is extremely prone to showing off that they are most decidedly not just for show.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_8bb494ae	comment	In Satin Steele, Janet's a professional bodybuilder, and her strength is depicted to come from her physique, contrary to how bodybuilders may not be very strong in Real Life (see the analysis here).
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: Villains who fought with Superman were drawn larger (e.g. Doomsday, Darkseid, Mongul, Post-Crisis Brainiac, etc.) However, the villains that outsmarted him were drawn smaller, e.g. Mr. Mxyzptlk, Lex Luthor, Pre-Crisis Brainiac, etc.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_909ca4b1	comment	ReBoot: After the Time Skip in Season 3, the now-adult Enzo Matrix is big and buff, and it shows when he can take on the super-strong Megabyte in a straight-up fight, and win.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_93c8f8ff	comment	In Tiger Mask the size of a wrestler's muscles is a good indication of his physical strength. Then again, skills matter too, and physically weaker wrestlers defeat stronger ones just as often as they themselves are defeated by them.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_959dd815	comment	In Professional Wrestling, this is taken to extremes, as few fans will accept a smaller (Rey Mysterio Jr., Eddie Guerrero) or average sized wrestler (Bret Hart, AJ Styles, Shawn Michaels, even "Stone Cold" Steve Austin himself) as a main event contender without years of development. Whereas larger wrestlers (Kane, Brock Lesnar, The Great Khali) may be advanced to the main event scene almost immediately after debuting. This is particularly noticeable in WWE, where 1) the promotion has access to much larger wrestlers than smaller promotions, and 2) the CEO Vince McMahon and WWE Executive Producer Kevin Dunn, don't like smaller wrestlers and are reluctant to push them. Nowhere is this mentality more apparent than in the career of The Giant Paul "The Big Show" Wight, who had his pro wrestling debut (not just his first televised match, but his first match ever) in the main event of a WCW Pay-Per-View for the world championship — and won! Vince McMahon's favor towards big muscle men is connected with his passion for bodybuilding. Not only has he got a bodybuilder's physique himself, but in the nineties he started his own short-lived bodybuilding organization, the World Federation of Bodybuilding. The International Federation of Bodybuilding owned by the Weider Brothers had by that time crushed most of its competition, but Vince thought he could beat them at their own game. First, as his Trojan Horse, he established a magazine called Bodybuilding Lifestyles, and got famous IFBB pro Tom Platz to oversee it. The magazine got a booth at the IFBB Mr. Olympia competition on September 15, 1990; Tom Platz tricked them into letting him make a speech, which he used to announce the creation of the WBF, and the magazine booth handed out press releases (Platz got a lifetime ban for this). McMahon promised higher production values and more pay for the competitors, which was tempting enough to lure away several IFBB pros such as Gary Strydom, Danny Padilla, and Tony Pearson, despite knowing they'd recieve a lifetime ban from the IFBB. Unfortunately, the only shows in 1991 and especially 1992 were kind of a disaster. Vince promised that he wasn't going to try to turn bodybuilding into Pro Wrestling, but in the end he couldn't help giving the bodybuilders wrestling-style personas and skits which a lot of bodybuilding fans thought were corny. He also hired a diet expert for the bodybuilders who prescribed a keto-tyle diet, which worked well for some and terribly others; Mike Quinn appeared on stage in 1992 with visible belly fat and love handles on him. Finally, Vince had the unfortunate timing of starting the WBF in the wake of the Ababolic Steroids Control Act of 1990, which created severe penalties for promoters who provided steroids to their athletes. As a result, Vince required the competitors to be drug tested, which resulted in a general lack of size and conditioning. Gary Strydom, who was Vince's favored star and won both championships, was allegedly exempted from the diet and drug test. The sale of pay-per-views of the 1992 competition was dismal, and Vince was forced to disband the WBF. Despite its failure, it's earned its place in history as the reinforcement of Vince's entire philosophy. In a bit of irony one of the promotions that relies on this trope the least, CMLL, proved more successful at promoting fitness and body building(though they never had aspirations of leading the international field). Other good examples are Sheamus, Wade Barrett, and Alberto Del Rio in decending order. Sheamus first appeared on TV as a (supposed) jobber before plowing through on his way to being a monster heel. In Rey Mysterio's case, even after years of being a fan favorite and firmly establishing himself as a skilled ring worker, his run as World Heavyweight Champion had him always treated the underdog against his larger, more muscular challengers. This booking seems to have been specifically designed to make it harder for fans to take him seriously as champion. This trope appears to be on it's way to becoming discredited in recent years. Smart Mark fans tend to prefer smaller, more athletic wrestlers who perform lots of technical and high-flying moves and will often pre-judge any large wrestler (anyone above 6 ft and weighs more than 230 pounds) as untalented and only being pushed because of Vince McMahon's hard-on for big men. Ever since Triple H gained more control within WWE, they have been pushing more and more smaller wrestlers. CM Punk (6 ft., 218 lbs and not very defined) got his much overdue main event push in 2011. Daniel Bryan (5'8" and 180 pounds) became massively over to the point where WWE had to either give him the World title or endure a fan riot. Seth Rollins (6' and 218 pounds) made a Face–Heel Turn and became WWE's top heel from 2014-2015. The aforementioned AJ Styles made his WWE debut in January 2016. He went straight to the main roster, skipping NXT entirely, his first match was in the Royal Rumble and he was participating in main event feuds with both Roman Reigns and John Cena within 3 months of his debut. Also, Finn Balor (5'11 and 190 pounds) who is the inaugural WWE Universal Champion. This extends to "fat" wrestlers too, who generally do not get any significant pushes unless they are tall in addition to being fat. Kevin Owens, after making his main roster debut, got a clean win over John Cena in his first match, became one of WWE's top upper midcarders, and eventually became a top heel upon winning WWE Raw's Universal Championship. Samoa Joe also got to keep his name, and has been pushed as a total badass in NXT, even getting an NXT championship run. So, in short, while muscle men tend to get the biggest pushes, there is still room for small, average or overweight wrestlers to get their spot on top, even if it's a brief one. WWE also used a much more realistic(in relation to all other sports besides MMA, which betrays its pro wrestling roots with 225 lbs cruiserweight average) 205 lbs for the standard of its revived cruiserweight division, meaning even wrestlers considered "average" in Ring of Honor like Cedric Alexander(smaller than Punk at 209) had to cut weight to qualify.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_95d534e1	comment	The Dragon Prince: When the Sky mage Ibis is introduced, his body is revealed to be a knot of muscle. Rather unusual for mages, but unlike magic-users of other Primal Sources, Sky mages like Ibis can transform their arms into wings, which likely takes quite a bit of strength and stamina to use.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_960062b7	comment	In My Hero Academia, heroes with Super-Strength tend to be very brawny in order to draw out the most from their Quirks. Even those who don't work out extensively to obtain a Charles Atlas Superpower to compete with those whose Quirks grant them superhuman physical attributes. Midoriya in particular needs to work out a lot and build muscle in order to handle One For All without exploding, compared to the unbelievably tall and brawny All Might who can handle it without issue.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_985ad25d	comment	Kale, from Dragon Ball Super, is a straight example. Her Super Saiyan Berserker form is bulkier and taller than most of her fellow Universe 6 Saiyan (including her normal form), and easily steamrolls Cabba.note He, ironically, normally provides an example of the opposite.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_99c0e061	comment	Thanos is stronger and bigger with the build of a giant and is consider the greatest threat in the Marvel universe.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_9b213348	comment	EXTRAPOWER: In this World of Badass, no character has purely cosmetic muscles. Buff heroes like Sharkungo, Forcestar or Wolf are powerhouses of physical fitness. Zophy is perhaps the most powerfully built human in terms of muscle mass, and that grants him the power to punch through solid boulders or fling humans or even elephants with ease. While other teammates in Attack of Darkforce make do with weaponry, alien powers, magic, or whatever else, a solid punch from Zophy gets the job done just as well or even better.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_9e202b7b	comment	Played gloriously straight in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple: while skill matters so does strength, and the near totality of the martial artists are quite muscular. Best shown by Kenichi's progress into martial arts including him bulking up and Hayato Furinji, who has earned such names as "The Invincible Superman", "He who has no Enemies", and "The Strongest Man in the World", being a massive giant over two meters tall and weighing over 100 kilos of muscles.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece ironically tends to play this trope straight with the weaker characters. If a character is muscular, it is a good sign that he is not entirely without fighting ability, and big, muscular Mooks tend to be somewhat stronger than the small, lean ones. But when it comes to the really badass characters, Muscles Are Meaningless (some are very muscular, some are slightly muscular, some are scrawny). The Noodle People art style really plays with this, Zoro is obviously more muscly than Luffy and Sanji who are quite skinny and one of Zoro's attacks "Two Gorilla" involves making his biceps bigger to increase attack power. However, Luffy and Sanji are actually pretty damn muscular beneath their clothes are capable of great feats of Super-Strength, never mind Luffy's Gear 4. Top-Heavy Guy Franky has more muscle mass than all three of them, yet is considered weaker than the trio and admits it himself in the Thriller Bark anime. Chopper's Heavy Point and Arm Point give him much greater attack power and his Monster Point can level a whole village and almost destroyed the Tower of Justice. Usopp's power increase in the Time Skip was marked by a new muscly physique. He's still the weakest in the crew, however. Emperors Whitebeard and later Kaido are considered the strongest man/beast in the series and they're muscle-bound titans. Played with Big Mom she's just as strong as former two but is an overweight old woman, albeit a giant one. Played straight with Big Mom's second son Katakuri who trounced the much smaller Luffy, who only barely won the fight.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_a4517c92	comment	Shows up in the WWE games, character's less than a heavyweight can never have the highest levels of strength (a strength of 10). Additionally in some versions, a character who's weight-class is two ranks heavier than an opponent's cannot be power-lifted by them (except by taking advantage of certain bugs). This makes Andre the Giant (who's got the unique Ultra-heavy weight class) almost unstoppable in a royal rumble, as heavyweight characters can't lift him.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_a6543322	comment	Plenty of Touhou Project fanworks tend to portray Yuugi Hoshiguma as an Amazonian Beauty to emphasize her status as "Yuugi The Stong", the physically strongest of all oni. Given that many fanworks latch on to the theory that Yuugi's suitably vague signature ability, "The Power to Wield Kai-Riki-Ran-Shin" — a nebulous Buddhist concept meaning "Anomalies, Strength, Disorder, and Spirits", a metaphor for "Unexplainable Phenomena" — is an extension of her physical power, the meaningfulness of Yuugi's muscles seems to be that she can accomplish feats of strength that defy explanation... This says quite a lot what with Suika Ibuki, the oni who is second only to Yuugi in strength, once shattering the Moon as if it was made out of glass using nothing but physical strength alone while still standing on the Earth. (Thankfully, Suika is also magically powerful enough that she was able to repair the Moon again by pulling the shards back together.)
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_a6827dcf	comment	In 3×3 Eyes, Benares is the strongest opponent in Yakumo's way, and even in his depowered human form he's a giant of a man easily capable of surpassing his younger opponent in strength, at one point even crushing his hand into paste with his grip.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_b0ec0986	comment	Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep: Terra is the buffest character out of the trio of himself, Ventus, and Aqua; fittingly, in-game, he's the most powerful in terms of damage-dealing.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_b241dafb	comment	Female example in Thou Shalt Not Die with Mashiro. While she doesn't look all that impressive normally, during a fight, her muscles will expand significantly thanks to her body enhancement powers making her role as a frontline brawler very clear. In fact, whenever she uses her powers, her skin will temporarily turn transparent allowing for a much clearer view of her muscles swelling and tensing to put further emphasis on this.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_b323ef4	comment	Hitman: Absolution: Sanchez is a defective super soldier experiment after the treatment gave him gigantism, he can't blend in the crowd and is easy target in a gunfight but the muscles he gained alone is enough to make him a great bodyguard and is one of the few who take down agent 47.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: The "strong" villains are always large and muscular (e.g. the Rhino) while the villains who have other powers are slimmer (e.g. the Chameleon.) Carnage subverts this trend; he is at least as strong as Venom if not stronger (and thus stronger than Spider-Man) but is actually smaller and less muscular than Peter Parker without his symbiote. Venom himself is an aversion; he's much larger and muscular than Spider-Man, but also somewhat faster, more agile, sneakier due to his use of the symbiote's camouflage, and just about the only Spider-villain who could reliably catch Peter by surprise (being immune to the Spider-Sense helps a lot in that regard). Stealth and psychological intimidation were Venom's favored tactics, even when his size and strength gave him an advantage in fights.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_b50cc7e6	comment	The Incredible Hulk: This is almost the entire plot for the Hulk, as any character's superpower can be easily identified by which body part is the largest (The Leader, the Abomination, etc.) The Hulk is among the strongest individuals in the Marvel Universe, and is ripped as hell.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_b67b702b	comment	Biscuit Oliva from Baki the Grappler is a mountain of muscle with arms bigger than his head and a neck wider than his ears. He's the second strongest person on Earth (at least at first), uses a supermax prison as a private suite, and can block shotgun blasts and sword strikes with ease using nothing more than his sculpted physique. Gets downplayed later on, when Baki (a kid barely a third of his size) overpowers him in an unarmed brawl.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_b692113b	comment	Other good examples are Sheamus, Wade Barrett, and Alberto Del Rio in decending order. Sheamus first appeared on TV as a (supposed) jobber before plowing through on his way to being a monster heel.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_bb92ac7e	comment	In Survival Storyofa Sword Kingina Fantasy World, Protagonist Ryu Han-Bin is amazingly ripped from surviving his non-stop days of battling Hellhounds in the Tutorial, and in fact, his muscles are actually the best indicator of his true strength, give his faulty guideline and level. This comes in handy when Hanbin builds himself up under the false identity of a Valarian warrior, a race of people known of considering their bodies sacred, and universally considered to be barbarian warriors in the same vein as Conan the barbarian. With his existing appearance, Harbin already resembles the popular image of them enough that all it takes is a tan and for him to start walking around shirtless to complete the look.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive, the O.P. Aludrakrala card is depicted as a monster with huge muscles to reflect its overpoweredness.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_c154d9b6	comment	Kasumi Gyoubu from Basilisk is by far the most muscular character in the series, and he can breaking necks with his bare hands... and we're not talking about the basic neck twist, but a one hand grab n' crush!
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_c33303d9	comment	"The Glamazon" Beth Phoenix competed in the Royal Rumble, even eliminating The Great Khali. She and Natalya Neidhart also formed a tag team at one time called "The Divas of Doom" whose gimmick focused on being more able ring-workers than the "Barbies" who lacked their musculature. Unfortunately, they were regarded by fans to be the only women in the company who could wrestle. Now the company was relying on a slew of rookies at this point, having lost every woman previously listed except Alicia Fox and Layla but their dismissal (along with Eve Torres and the Bella Twins) by fans illustrates the trope's pervasiveness even after WWE had spent decades defying it. There was backlash against "small" wrestlers after the diva search though and Beth's designated opponent, recent graduate from jobberdome Kelly Kelly, was still not taken seriously by critics-this trope was not the only factor.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_c4771251	comment	Feruchemists in Mistborn: The Original Trilogy get bigger muscles when they tap strength, to the point where one protagonist briefly ends up about nine feet tall and built like a bear. While Allomancers do not gain extra muscles to go with their magical Super-Strength, a burly man will still be that much stronger than the skinny girl if both are burning pewter.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_cae652c	comment	Hunter × Hunter regularly has skinny, plot-important characters easily overpower muscular bit players, but among peers the largest ones usually have the most physical strength. The (physically) strongest Phantom Troupe member, Uvogin, is a perfect example of The Brute, being 8 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 416 pounds. One of Gon and Killua's teachers, Biscuit Krueger, is actually a humongous hunk who disguises herself as a little girl because it hides her true strength, and because it's cute. She's actually really strong because she's extremely muscular and just hides that.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_cceb25de	comment	The Locked Tomb: Gideon the Ninth: Zig-zagged. The cavaliers, who are the "sword" part of a Sword and Sorcerer duo with necromancers, are in general pretty built, and the younger ones are very impressed with Gideon's biceps. A key plot point is that necromancers can merge with their cavaliers to become the super-powerful Lyctors. This turns out to be the reason rapiers are the traditional cavalier weapon—the cavalier always ends up inside the necromancer, so they need to carry blades the less-fit body can handle. However, when a particularly Jerkass necromancer figures this out and forces a merge, the fact she's tiny and stick-thin means she quickly has to switch to magic when dueling a rival cavalier, because all the skill in the world does not make up for the fact he's about twice her size. However, this seems to be at least partially because her cavalier is actively fighting her. When Gideon willingly sacrifices herself to turn her necromancer Harrow into a Lyctor, they wield Gideon's longsword with only momentary trouble (though Gideon mentions Harrow will have to start lifting weights). In the sequel, this is played straight. Ianthe starts actually building muscle; Harrow doesn't and so has to rely on necromantic life hacks to carry anything that weighs more than a couple pounds.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_ccfdfab1	comment	In Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, Akira is still in pretty good shape thanks to his rugby days in college and the occasional Shirtless Scene shows that he still has well-defined arms, pecs, and abs. This proves especially handy when the Zombie Apocalypse hits, as his athleticism lets him shimmy up and down poles, tackle and wrestle zombies, and help with hard labor when needed.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_d0d11190	comment	Batman is an especially obvious example of this trope. In comics where he had to fight, he was drawn larger than average (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns). In comics where he used his detective skills, he was drawn slimmer and less muscular (The Brave and the Bold).
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_d2bae484	comment	Both teams and fans of The Amazing Race fully believe this trope, no matter how many times the show subverts it or deconstructs it. At the beginning of each season it's the biggest and strongest teams that are generally the most feared by the other teams, and who are usually picked to win by the fans. Though justified in the first four seasons, where physical strength was only challenged by those with travel knowledge, in later seasons it's much more likely for an "Alpha Male" team to eliminate themselves with a stupid mistake than to dominate a season. Derek & Drew serve as an excellent deconstruction of this concept on the Race during Season 3. On the tails of fit male teams winning the first two seasons, many of the teams became immediately obsessed with beating the "wonder twins", despite Derek & Drew viewing themselves as barely hanging on for the first few legs. At the same time, Ken & Gerard talked about how no one was giving them any thought because of their pudgier physiques, and Teri & Ian were outright disregarded as fodder. While Derek & Drew did end up being formidable opponents, so did Ken & Gerard and Teri & Ian, who both edged out Derek & Drew to make it to the Final 3. The twins lost not because they got beat in some head-to-head competition, but simply because they couldn't find a clue. Season 5 winner Chip was a huge proponent of this trope, especially when writing for the "Return of the Racers" blog for CBS.com. He constantly talked about how "alpha male" teams had a unfair advantage over all other teams, and how he and his wife never would have had a shot against one of these teams (even though they did beat the arguably stronger team of Colin & Christie). When he made a list of the strongest individual racers, the top 11 spots all went to men, with the top female racer being a physical trainer.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_d4fa168d	comment	Fable: Investing points in Strength leads to your character getting more and more visibly muscular.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_d5313f06	comment	Fighting Force Has Ben "Smasher" Jackson who looks strong and IS strong. His attacks do the most damage out of the 4 characters.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_d6b6971d	comment	Survivor has a similar situation. In the early stages when tribes compete for team immunity, women and older players often get targeted due to perceived weakness; and when it shifts to an individual competition then the young fit guys become the targets due to being perceived as threats in immunity challenges. Like in The Amazing Race, physical strength usually doesn't affect challenge success as much as some people think it does, and the social game is more of a factor overall. Survivor: One World has a good example of the perception vs. the reality of this. Matt, an alpha male, picked out some other alpha males to work with and believed they ran the tribe; at one point describing them as "roosters" leading the "chickens" around. Then the tribe actually had to go to Tribal Council; and it was pointed out to him that there were five "chickens" and only four "roosters". Goodbye, Matt.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_d73353ba	comment	In Jigoku no Gouka de Yakare Tsuzuketa Shounen, Flare is ripped to kingdom come and is strong enough to beat multiple people senseless with his bare hands even while they're flinging magic at him. After emerging from Hell, his strength is enhanced to the point that a huge sack full of supplies and even a suit of heavy armor feels like a backpack to him. He casually riddles a suit of treasured holy mithril armor from the White Pearl Kingdom full of dents with regular punches.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_d908efc	comment	In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, physical prowess is taken very seriously among the demon slayers in the setting, individuals with bigger musculature and body mass are seen as the strongest, save one special female with an extremely rare body condition that allows her to be strong with a slender body; the male protagonists: Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke get visibly more well defined and bigger muscles as the series progresses, seen through the several training regimes they go under.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_db404a1a	comment	Played completely straight in Kengan Ashura. This is exemplified with Julius Reinhold, "The Most Muscular Man On Earth". A literal walking mass of pure dense musculature, Julius completely blocked Sawada's strongest attack using only his trapezius muscle. In general, though the series shows quite regularly that a sufficiently skilled or lucky little guy can beat a big guy, and being big isn't entirely a bonus, it's still a major advantage that has to be worked around.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_df7e11cd	comment	Manly Guys Doing Manly Things. Of the main characters, Commander Badass is obviously the strongest and has the largest muscles. (Unless you count Jared's Gyarados.) However, the weakest of them, Jared, has no muscles at all. Much to his dismay.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_e388fcf7	comment	DSBT InsaniT: Andy and Dave get them as part of the Art Evolution in episode 7. Andy's battle against brainwashed Bill and Martha shows he can put them to good use, and Dave has been shown plenty of times beforehand to be quite the brute.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_e46d33d6	comment	Luisa in Encanto has Super-Strength as her magical gift, and has a very muscular body as a result. However, her magic means that she is significantly stronger than should be possible, even for someone with her build.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_ec28245c	comment	Zigzagged with Nappa in Dragon Ball Z. He's big and buff, and easily wipes the floor with most of the Z-Fighters... but at the same time, Goku and Vegeta, both of whom are considerably smaller, both manage to beat him, though neither do so effortlessly: Goku had to resort to using a recently gained power-up to defeat him, and struggled fighting him beforehand, whereas Vegeta took advantage of his weakened state by killing him.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_ef661e97	comment	Zangief of Street Fighter fame is probably the Trope Codifier in tournament fighter video games, looming over his fellow cast members with muscles bulging everywhere and slow but powerful attacks. He can canonically break a katana with his pecs.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_f1c84c54	comment	Thriller author Lee Child has almost always depicted his protagonist, Jack Reacher, as being the biggest man in the book. This is consistent with Reacher's nearly-effortless thrashing of anyone dumb enough to ignore this trope, although some of his combat prowess does come from skill and experience.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_f565604d	comment	In Eyeshield 21, you can basically rate physical strength of a player by seeing their bulk. Their effectiveness, however.... Played straight with Gaou whose muscles and size basically translates to: must bench over 150 kg to have a chance against him.
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Muscles Are Meaningful / int_f8883446	comment	Tessa Blanchard was notoriously slim, but bulked up considerably in preparation for winning the Impact Wrestling World Championship belt from Sami Callihan, even though Impact had removed "heavyweight" from the title to ensure Blanchard's victory would be as believable as possible. She was also dominated shorter and or slimmer knockouts to justify her leaving the division while keeping those of similar size or larger away from her.
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