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Practically every single known male character in some works, excluding the occasional weakling, is unquestionably well-muscled. No matter what their body type (including fat) male characters have larger-than-average muscles. This is especially evident when there is a wide-range of body types, and the only common feature is heavy muscles. This can be enforced in Video Games where everyone looks familiar because they all use the same model. If one male NPC has large muscles, all male NPCs have them. If it's a 3D game on a 5th-generation console, it may even be a technical limitation, as those consoles tend to make men be all or nothing, due to polygon count. Also particularly common in MMORPGs. This is not about a lot of large-muscled men. This is where over 90% of the male cast shown has large muscles, making it seem like this body type is the norm rather than a slightly uncommon occurrence (as in Real Life). Most of the time the same thing does not apply to women due to differing notions of what makes males and females attractive. It may even make all females look thin and frail while still being as strong as the men. However, some examples of this trope include all of the women being jacked as well. Usually occurs as a result of Author Appeal. This can be a major source of Muscle Angst for the 10% that are not well-muscled. Compare World of Buxom (the Distaff Counterpart) and Heroic Build, as well as World of Badass, which this might become if the men know how to use their muscle. Sub-Trope of Men Are Tough. Contrast Cast Full of Pretty Boys. Examples |
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In He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983): Virtually all male characters (save for Orko) have bulging muscles, especially in the upper body. This is even more apparent because many characters either wear very little, to begin with, or have some sort of clothing that fits extremely tight, almost like a coat of paint. It's possible the toyline dictated this: in the He-Man toyline, every single male having the same muscular body meant that they could produce them all from the same plastic mold. This is parodied in He-Man sketches on Robot Chicken, where random extras all have broad chests and buff, sleeveless arms. |
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If you are male, adult, and some flavor of Martial Artist in Fist of the North Star, chances are you will be ripped, as seen in the trope image. Even if you're a Pretty Boy like Rei, an Acrofatic Mighty Glacier like Mr. Heart, an effeminate Fighting Narcissist such as Yuda, or a Apunkalypse Mook. | |
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Toriko. Nearly every major male character in the series has an extremely muscled body. Except Komatsu. | |
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World of Warcraft has this in full effect. This brought some jokes over how beefy the elven races became compared to their slender(-ish) Warcraft III designs. | |
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In Oblivion, similarly, all members of a race and sex combo have the same model for the torso and limbs. For the males, it is slim and well-muscled, and for the females, it is frailer. | |
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Power Rangers have a lot in comics. However, it avoids the usual Double Standard that this trope usually has since the women are just as muscled. | |
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In Skyrim, although players are allowed to change how much body mass their character has, it's decided by a single slider, which changes muscle mass only. The same applies to females, but the slider also affects bustiness. | |
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If you're a male character that is between the ages of 15 and "old" in NEEDLESS, you're ripped. No exceptions. | |
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The character designs in Spider-Man: The Animated Series tend to look this. While it's not as extreme as say, He-Man, one has to wonder if the only reason Peter Parker manages to keep his ID a secret is because apparently all newspaper workers and science nerds are buff to start with. | |
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An examination of the models in the Starcraft II game will show that all the humans are heavily muscled, which makes sense since it's made by the same company that made World of Warcraft. | |
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Exiern: Even the nerdy librarian looks like a fitness model. The women in the series are given similar treatment. Here's to Equal Opportunity Fanservice! | |
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From The Elder Scrolls: In Morrowind, all the members of a given race and sex have the same model below their head, and the models used for males have well-defined muscles. In Oblivion, similarly, all members of a race and sex combo have the same model for the torso and limbs. For the males, it is slim and well-muscled, and for the females, it is frailer. In Skyrim, although players are allowed to change how much body mass their character has, it's decided by a single slider, which changes muscle mass only. The same applies to females, but the slider also affects bustiness. |
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An overwhelming majority of male characters in King's Raid have remarkably muscular physiques. Unlike most examples, their muscular builds are surprisingly diverse. As a result, despite the series having an ever-expanding cast, the number of male characters who aren't built like professional athletes can be counted on one hand. | |
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Aka Akatoretachi no Monogatari is a series where basically every male close-range fighter is a Lightning Bruiser with a bodybuilder physique. Hayato, the Best Friend of The Hero is a tall, yet incredibly buff young man and initially looked roughly twice as big as Itsuki. The Hero Itsuki himself starts of as relatively normally built, until Training from Hell and several battles against the vampire forces results in him becoming so ripped that even the Big Bad lampshades the incredible development. | |
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Basically all teenage or adult males in One Piece who are not fat have a six-pack (and sometimes even when they are fat, like Hannyabal whose belly's upper part is well-toned and lower part is a beer belly). Most strong characters also have other visible muscles, but the series also likes to make the point that muscles are not everything, so while a muscular character will typically be strong, an extremely muscular character may very well be weaker than a medium-muscular one. Hell, the protagonist is a scrawny brat made out of rubber; despite having sharp muscle definition, he's also very slender, somewhat downplaying the trope. It's played straight post-timeskip though, considering he grows fairly buff after his intense training. And after his ordeals in Whole Cake Island Arc, Luffy gets even buffer still. | |
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The Cho Aniki series is full of ridiculously muscular men, though the first game is a bit less so than the sequels. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's male cast at the start are almost entirely buff, manly men. Way back at the beginning of the series, Jonathan Joestar and Dio Brando can, at age 12, be easily mistaken for older because of this trope. And in Part 3, one of the best clues for readers to identify the latest enemy Stand user would if there's a new 180+ cm tower of muscle in the crowd. At the start of Part 4, many characters were also huge and buff, but as the story progressed, Art Evolution kicked in and caused the cast to gradually slim down, with latter parts opting for a much leaner yet still fit look for the male characters. | |
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Wave!! Let's Go Surfing!! is a more realistic example. The characters are surfers and they have the type of athletic bodies that surfers and swimmers generally have. It is nevertheless played up for all the Fanservice it is worth. | |
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This is parodied in He-Man sketches on Robot Chicken, where random extras all have broad chests and buff, sleeveless arms. | |
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In Morrowind, all the members of a given race and sex have the same model below their head, and the models used for males have well-defined muscles. | |
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Baki the Grappler: Yujiro, Baki, Jack, Kaoru, Retsu, Biscuit, Doppo, etc. A list of characters who don't fit this trope would be much, much shorter. | |
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Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Pretty much every male character of significance, and many of the extras, are Mr. Fanservice. Emphasized further by frequent nudity and/or fighting while wearing nothing but loincloths. | |
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Fairy Tail is a series where every male has well toned muscles. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: While humanity as a whole presents a wide range of body types from starving factory slaves to grotesquely overweight planetary governors, the Imperial Guard's miniatures are all fighting men and thus tend towards the visibly-muscular. The Catachan Devils are a literal World of Muscle Men (and women): since their Single-Biome Planet consists of Hungry Jungle where making it past age ten is a considerable feat, each and every Devil has the muscles of Rambo and looks like the cast of Predator. To put it in perspective from a gameplay perspective - Catachan Jungle Fighters enjoy a 5+ armor save on the tabletop in their basic forms without any body armor. This is the same rating as a Cadian Shock Trooper, the resident Badass Normals of the 40K Imperium, who is wearing a full suit of flak armor and a flak helmet. Assuming they didn't have them from violent lives before the transformation, Space Marines are seven feet tall and genetically engineered to have huge muscles to aid them in fighting the many horrible things the galaxy throws at them. Devotees of Khorne are even bulkier to better suit spilling blood for the Blood God. The Tau's Fire Caste (aka the warriors) are noted as being physically bigger than other castes due to their role in Tau society. |
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Friendship Is Manly is series of web videos that portray the cast of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic as incredibly muscular human men in biker shorts. | |
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Dragon Ball takes this trope to ridiculous level. Gohan developed a muscular body by the time he reached the age of five. Granted damn near every character, regardless of age, gender or even species, is a advanced martial artist in some degree in Dragon Ball, so having a muscular body at that young age wouldn't seem strange to anyone In-Universe, but still... This becomes a Downplayed Trope in Dragon Ball Super. Due to taking cues from Akira Toriyama Art Evolution, many fighters and gods actually have a slender build instead of being a powerpack, giving them somewhat of a realistic bodyfigure. The many Gods of Destruction are pretty slender, most of the angels don't have muscle to speak out in their elegant style, and the Universe 6 Saiyans (Well, with the exception of Kale who hulks up) have realistic child bodies. Even Goku, Vegeta, and Gohan are more slender than before, albeit still obviously muscular. |
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Maybe because it's based on the Superman comics but Smallville has not just Clark but most of the males muscular. | |
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Nearly every recurring character in G.I. Joe Extreme is ripped to hell. Even Inferno, a bald manchild with a high-pitched, screechy voice, sports a visible 6-pack. | |
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F-Zero's setting seems very American comic book inspired, including the fact that virtually every human male character (and Mrs. Arrow) has a shredded, muscular physique with abs visible under their clothes. Even the aged, chubby scientist Dr. Clash has bulging biceps. A few of the characters' endings in GX (namely Michael Chain, Octoman, and Mrs. Arrow) even feature them posing at a bodybuilding competition. | |
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In older issues of Supergirl—and similar "girlie" comics—the men in the super heroine's lives will often be so built, their muscles appear under sweaters. The reasons for this can vary. | |
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Almost all of the fighters in Kengan Ashura have at least a Heroic Build. | |
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True Blood seems to be inhabited entirely by underwear models. Averted with a single vampire, who is effeminate and fat. When Jason wonders why the guy explains that vampires don't change after they're turned. Even if he tried to lose weight, his body would restore to the same state as before (as evidence by Jessica when she lost her virginity only for her hymen to grow back a few minutes later). | |
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It's possible the toyline dictated this: in the He-Man toyline, every single male having the same muscular body meant that they could produce them all from the same plastic mold. | |
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The titular hero in Gods is shown in the intro sequence in every version of the game to be ripped, but the PC98 port takes the cake by showing the hero in dramatic poses. | |
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The Gears of War franchise, so, so very much. Even every single one of the male mooks on both sides of the war fit this trope, in fact. It took the series three games to have a playable male character who clearly wasn't quite muscular, and they remain as distinctly a minority of the cast. | |
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In the Yakuza series, most male characters will inevitably end up ripping their shirts off at one point or another, and they will always have the body of a Greek god. | |
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Parodied in the Strong Bad Email "action figure", where we see a set of Masters of the Universe-esque toys based on the cast. All of them (with the exception of Peanut Strong Bad) use the same body mold with minimal modifications, resulting in the tubby, spherical Strong Sad having a six-pack you can count and Homestar having a massive Top-Heavy Guy build despite still having no arms. | |
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Street Fighter is like this, especially with Street Fighter IV. However, most women are also jacked as well. This is definitely a case of Author Appeal on the character designer's behalf, as he's even admitted to liking Chun-Li's muscular trademark thunder thighs. | |
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Kinnikuman could actually be translated as "Muscleman". Granted, all the characters are pro wrestlers, but the only one who isn't buff is the skeleton. | |
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