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1!!Muscles count as much as shape.
2Musculature is an important part of this trope. Even when not displaying the character in a typical pose, comic book artists will go to great lengths to layer upon layer muscles and their definition onto the heroes bodies. Male and female forms will have their body structure in fact strongly impressed upon us by the muscular definition and in some bad cases that leads to what, when you think about it, must be a body missing some joints and bones in important cases. Muscles that you probably just wouldn't so developed on a normal person such as the [[http://www.exrx.net/Muscles/SerratusAnterior.html Serratus Anterior]] (aka Boxer's Muscles or "The things that seem to be bursting out of Franchise/{{Superman}}'s ribs all the time") or the lower insertion of the obliques being highly peaked to emphasise female hips (see every bad drawing of Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}). That sort of error is so common and cases of the builds without the over the top musculature are so rare (''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' managed to knock me for six just by doing so), that the pic should show it off.
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4We must consider the trend that has been continuous upheld as part of the bodybuilder image since TheEdwardianEra, has appeared in art frequently ever since the Classical age and is immortalised in our many ancient sculptures. Muscles count, whether we are looking at the sculpted precision of [[http://www.sandowplus.co.uk/sandowindex.htm Eugene Sandow]] or the flesh obsessed madness of MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks as exemplified so well by the artistic calamities of Creator/RobLiefeld.

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