Line #5 PlayingWith/RubberMan


1	'''Basic Trope''': A person, usually a superhero, can literally stretch their bodies as if they were putty.
2	* '''Straight''': Our hero, Bouncin' Bob, turns into all sorts of shapes and noodles to stop the BigBad, making wisecracks all the while.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Bob has no default form whatsoever, he's just a formless, highly elastic BlobMonster who can transform into absolutely anything he can imagine [[ShapeshifterBaggage as long as it conserves his original mass]].
4	* '''Downplayed''':
5	** Bob is a BadassNormal [[AbnormalLimbRotationRange contortionist]].
6	** Bob has ExtendableArms.
7	* '''Justified''': Bob is in reality [[GreyGoo a colony of nanites]] with a collective intelligence.
8	* '''Inverted''': Bob has the ability to make his entire body [[SuperToughness diamond-hard]] at will.
9	* '''Subverted''': Our hero has the power to [[ThinkingUpPortals create his own short-distance portals]], and uses them to send attacks across the room, leaving an energy trail suggesting elastic limbs.
10	* '''Double Subverted''': After years of Bob only using his power to simulate elastic powers, Bob experiences a {{Freak\|LabAccident}} [[TeleporterAccident Portal Accident]] that leaves him unable to use his old power but with genuinely elastic limbs.
11	* '''Parodied''': "Superheroes" with as much physical elasticity as Jim Carrey are treated like they have actual stretching abilities.
12	* '''Zig Zagged''':
13	** The respected elastic ascended fanboy gets the job done perfectly after years of training, [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer yet is still ridiculed by the greats he admired despite impressing them]].
14	** Bob has the ability to stretch, but it's only part of his shapeshifting abilities. Then he's BroughtDownToBadass, and it turns out he has stretching abilities the whole time and never knew. It turns out this is because of [[CursedWithAwesome a viral disease]], however, and after being cured he's completely normal...until the next DiscardAndDraw, anyway...
15	* '''Averted''': No-one is strechy.
16	* '''Enforced''': "I like Plastic man, why not make this guy have his powers? ...What, no one likes 'Plas?"
17	* '''Lampshaded''': "Why do you think they call me Rubberman? It isn't because I erase crime from the streets, that's for sure!"
18	* '''Invoked''': "Hey, if I get to choose my own power, can I be stretchy? Like, all over?"
19	* '''Exploited''':
20	** Bob uses his rubber powers not just to fight crime, but to perform actions that would be impossible for a non-rubber humanoid, [[PowerPerversionPotential some less respectable than others]].
21	** Emperor Evulz grabs Bob by the head and ties him in a HumanKnot so he can't fight back.
22	** Bob uses his elasticity to effectively act as the tank of any group; Anything you hit him with, it bounces right off.
23	* '''Defied''': "Elastic powers? Me? Dude, no. Fire is a lot more awesome!"
24	* '''Discussed''': "So wait, you want a stretchy body to fight crime and have fun on the side, rather than do something rational with a different superpower?"
25	* '''Conversed''': "Did you see that guy there? He was moving so fluidly and he was elongating! Almost like he was a... a rubber man!" "Those creative writing classes aren't working for you, are they?"
26	* '''Implied''': Bob sees a cookie jar on top of a shelf very high from the floor, and as Alice walks in, she wonders how he got the jar, and Bob says that his body is soft, whatever that means.
27	* '''Deconstructed''':
28	** Every time our hero uses his powers, it causes him agonizing pain from the stretching organs, bones, and muscles, and also leaves him nearly useless because he can't apply proper leverage after stretching his muscles beyond a certain point. This leaves him a bitter, reluctant hero.
29	** Bob finds his power embarrassing because he was a [[ButtMonkey butt-monkey]] in his childhood; people like bullies or his overly-affectionate parents kept toying with him, and now he's a grump blending into society.
30	* '''Reconstruction''':
31	** Bob stretching his body does cause immense pain, but he [[RequiredSecondaryPowers trains to withstand it]], eventually mastering his power.
32	** Bob gets a superhero friend who gives him a reason to accept his power, such as saving his past bullies from the [[BigBad supervillain]], letting them apologise for underestimating him, or through friendship therapy.
33	* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob is driven to supervillainy [[PowerPerversionPotential due to the constant jokes about the many...obscene uses of his power]].
34	* '''Played For Drama''': Bob is a glass cannon: [[LogicalWeakness If he stretches himself too thin, he'll tear himself apart or worse leave himself vulnerable to others tearing HIM apart]], so much tension is gained from him applying his powers VERY carefully.
35	* '''Played For Horror''': Bob uses his [[LovecraftianSuperpower powers]] to twist his body into [[BodyHorror grotesque, impossible shapes]], and he ultimately kills someone by ''[[EyeScream stretching himself into their eyesockets]]''.
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