1 | '''Basic Trope''': A man with a buff upper body but a disproportionately smaller lower body. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Big Bill has muscular arms and a broad torso but thin legs. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Big Bill's upper body is so muscular, his biceps have biceps; his legs, however, are downright bony. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Big Bill's legs are small compared to his bulky body but can still realistically support his frame. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** Big Bill only focuses on his upper body when working out. |
7 | ** … [[HandicappedBadass because he's paraplegic]]. |
8 | ** Big Bill is a gorilla, penguin, or other non-human that naturally exhibits this trope. |
9 | * '''Inverted''': |
10 | ** Big Bill has a scrawny torso and sticks for arms but has ridiculously muscular legs. |
11 | ** {{Hartman Hips}} |
12 | * '''Gender Inverted''': Rippin' Roberta has a ridiculously big torso, yet a really tiny lower body. |
13 | * '''Subverted''': Big Bill was merely wearing a prop to make his upper body look bigger than his lower body... |
14 | * '''Double Subverted''': ...but Big Bill was also wearing pants that made his legs look larger than they really were. |
15 | * '''Parodied''': Big Bill has the arms and chest of Superman but the legs of a stick figure. |
16 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Big Bill's dimensions tend to fluctuate constantly. |
17 | * '''Averted''': Big Bill's body is completely proportional. |
18 | * '''Enforced''': The producers gave Big Bill a top heavy build to stand out among the other characters. |
19 | * '''Lampshaded''': "With arms like these, who needs legs?" |
20 | * '''Invoked''': Big Bill prefers sports that rely on the upper body and trained accordingly. |
21 | * '''Exploited''': [[PintSizedPowerhouse Annie]] kicks Big Bill in the knee and brings him down. |
22 | * '''Defied''': Big Bill tries to exercise all his muscles including his leg muscles. |
23 | * '''Discussed''': "Bill, you'd make a great boxer with a build like that!" |
24 | * '''Conversed''': "How does a man with a body like that walk?" "Like a gorilla." |
25 | * '''Deconstructed''': |
26 | ** Big Bill's legs are too thin to properly support his upper body and suffered from health problems. |
27 | ** His short legs mean he [[MightyGlacier can't run as fast]] as a regular human being and he's discriminated against when it comes to jobs that require fast running. |
28 | * '''Reconstructed''': Big Bill's legs are StrongerThanTheyLook and are able to support his body. |
29 | * '''Played For Laughs''': Big Bill is so top heavy that his arms and torso make up over 75% of his body weight and he runs with his fists. When Alice kicks him in the knee to take advantage of his physique, his massive body crashes down onto her like a brick wall. |
30 | * '''Played For Drama''': [[NonStandardCharacterDesign Big Bill is a topheavy guy in a normally-proportioned universe]], and is viewed as [[TheGrotesque a deformed freak ]]. |
31 | * '''Untwisted''': Big Bill's thick legs turn out to be a waist down PowerArmor. His real legs are small and scrawny. |
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