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->''"I should tell you right now, I'm kind of hard to fit. I wear a 66 long and a 31 waist."''
-->-- '''Kronk''', ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''

A caricature style of drawing the human male figure as having a huge torso and arms, but legs that appear too skinny and/or too short to support the upper body. This trope is an exaggeration of male bodybuilders (or any reasonably toned man with low body fat) having the ideal "triangle" figure of a broad chest and shoulders with a narrow waist. The drawn form of this can range from a moderately large torso and legs that are just a bit too skinny, to legs that are short and stubby and the torso is freakishly huge to keep the guy still at normal height.

Anthropomorphic bipedal animals can also look like this. When it involves {{Super Hero}}es, it overlaps with HeroicBuild. Also commonly seen in CaptainSpaceDefenderOfEarth.

This still requires legs being '''proportionately''' small compared to the torso, not simply a guy with a big, muscular chest and/or arms. Real Life humans are unlikely to be Top Heavy Guys [[note]]some Murderball players and other wheelchair athletes may come close due to muscle atrophy in their lower bodies[[/note]]; though some animals such as penguins as well as bears and some apes when they stand on their hind legs would count as real-life examples.

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Compare HeroicBuild, SuperDeformed, LanternJawOfJustice, HartmanHips, MostCommonSuperpower.

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* The cartoon firefighter in the Zantac antacid commercials is built like this.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' has some pretty long legs, but they're ridiculously slim for such a muscular guy, and there's seemingly not enough room in the area they come together in to actually fit a groin. It's the least odd thing about his appearance, really, considering the seventies attire, blond afro, and grill-mark tattoos lining his arms.
* Elfman of ''Manga/FairyTail'' post-TimeSkip. His arm muscles have grown so huge that they dwarf the rest of his body.
* Gluttony in ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'' is extremely deformed, with huge arms and absolutely tiny legs, However, his gut is still a lot wider than his torso.
* The eponymous mecha of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' are odd case where the legs ''and'' arms are similarly lean, but they still have incredibly bulky torsos and shoulders several times the their width of their waists.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': In general this is Oda's art style for musclebound characters, especially prominent for anyone HulkingOut.
** Franky was a prominent example before the timeskip. Afterwards, it became [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130225034035/onepiece/images/8/8c/Franky_Anime_Post_Timeskip_Infobox.png absolutely preposterous.]] Why he looks like that is justified in that he's a cyborg who built himself; how he can stand is left to the imagination.
** Bartholomew Kuma has an enormous chest, but his arms and legs taper quite heavily, giving him a profile strangely similar to a starfish.
** While normally LeanAndMean, Rob Lucci's [[{{Animorphism}} leopard Zoan Fruit]] gives him a hybrid form with a profile similar to Kuma. In fact, this is usually the case for Zoan hybrid forms in general. For example, Zoan characters such as Jabra, Who's Who, Kaku, and Page One also go from having humanly muscular bodies to outright muscle monsters with torsos that dwarf their legs.
* ''Manga/SoulEater'' has Mosquito, while normally a puny old guy, has the ability to bulk himself up to fight. However, his legs do not increase in size, leaving them to dangle while he supports himself by his arms. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]], as the first people to see it found it quite disgusting. [[spoiler:But when he starts rolling back the clock on his age, then his body starts to [[BishounenLine look more proportionate.]]]]
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[[folder:Asian Animation]]
* The title character of ''Animation/GajuBhai'' is an anthropomorphic elephant with a large body that has short legs. Bhagat, Gajrajpuri's military general, has the same kind of body build.
* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'', Brother Tai has quite the beefy upper body, to the point that his legs don't even take up one fourth of his total length.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Every Roman centurion (not the grunts, except in the Olympics one and the palace guard-types) in ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' has a massive torso and arms and tiny wiry legs.
* Krakkaboom of the '80s ComicBook/AstroCity Irregulars, whose bombastic proportions are evidently a side effect of his powers.
* Eddie, the [[AntiHero gangster protagonist]] of ''ComicBook/BlackCherry''.
* ''ComicBook/TheGoon'' has the titular character, who has a body that can only be described as "ape-like"; when he's standing upright, his knuckles nearly brush the ground, his legs are that short compared to his powerful upper body. It's even lampshaded in the first issue, when the Goon, having had to struggle to catch up to a runaway train, asks why he has to be built like a gorilla.
* ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer has massive, if slightly flabby, arms, and torso... and skinny little rubber-hose legs that don't look like they should be able to support the top half of his body, being the same diameter from ankle to thigh.
* ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} has a bit of this look. Considering that he's not human, this might not just be artistic exaggeration.
* [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Mr. Hyde]] in ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' is muscled all around, but his torso is still too large for his legs.
* Strong Guy from Creator/MarvelComics has a massive torso but regular legs. It isn't stylistic, his body was deformed by his powers overloading.
* Amusingly parodied in one of Creator/JhonenVasquez's ''Meanwhile'' strips, which features a pair of dimension-hopping travelers arriving in a parody superhero universe, and end up fighting two heroes there: a woman with ridiculous boobs, and a man with tiny, squat legs, and an upper body so enormously over-muscled that he can't lift his own arms. One of the travelers jumps on his back (which he can't reach), and proceeds to stab him over and over again, exclaiming with glee that he can keep stabbing all day, as there's so much muscle, he isn't getting anywhere near any vital organs.
* Rufo, the former boxer from ''ComicBook/MesmoDelivery''.
* In Tebo's ''[[ComicBook/TheSmurfs Smurfs]]'' tribute album "Qui est ce Schtroumpf? (Who's That Smurf?)", Hefty Smurf is drawn with a massive torso and equally huge arms. Considering how he usually looks like [[FacelessMasses any average Smurf]] even when he has his heart tattoo, this really makes him stand out all the more.
* Jerommeke of the Belgian comic ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske''.
* ''ComicBook/TomStrong'' acquired this physique in adulthood, having been much leaner as a boy. Several characters compare him to an upside-down triangle ("You wonderful, triangular man!") -- which, incidentally, is also his ChestInsignia. Evidently, it's a result of his upbringing [[{{Heavyworlder}} in a high-gravity environment]], coupled with the emphasis on the [[PowerUpFood miracle food goloka]] in his diet. Tom Stone, an alternate version of Tom who wasn't raised in high gravity, is just a regular muscular guy.
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[[folder:Eastern Animation]]
* In the Ukrainian cartoons ''Animation/{{Cossacks}}'', the BigThinShortTrio's BigGuy Sylach has a big torso, muscled arms and short legs.
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[[folder:Film — Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'': The titular Beast is a downplayed example, with broad shoulders and long, but toned, legs. More noticeable in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' due to being less hidden by his cape.
* As part of the distinctive art style of ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'', several male characters' [[HeroicBuild Heroic Builds]] are exaggerated to this, giving them enormous, muscular shoulders and tiny skinny legs.
* Max from ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' is enormous and very strong, and his legs are really small. Most of his body is his torso.
* As quoted above, Kronk from ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' has legs that are long, but are only slightly larger than broom handles.
* ''WesternAnimation/GlobehuntersAnAroundTheWorldInEightyDaysAdventure'': The hunter pursuing Eddie, Sasha, and Trevor has an upper body bigger than his lower body.
* Rattigan from ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' has this build. Being a... um... big mouse [[spoiler: RAT!!!]] he has very broad shoulders, a wide chest, and overall is extremely muscular in the upper body. However, he has a teeny tiny waist and very short legs, easily fitting into a triangle shape. His head is also quite small compared to his shoulder width, despite his genius IQ.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/HellboyAnimated'' movies, Hellboy is drawn with a huge upper body but mere human-sized legs.
* From ''Franchise/TheIncredibles'', Mr. Incredible has puny legs, whether his torso is flabby or muscular.
* Kai from ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' has absolutely ''tiny'' legs, making up less than about 25% of his total height and his extremely bow-legged stance makes them look even shorter. Po actually has pretty short legs as well, though not nearly to the same extreme.
* Mitch from ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman''. His legs are noticeably smaller and shorter than his muscular arms. Despite this he can punt a zombie head 100 yards.
* Don Bluth's ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin'' has BigBad Drake who fits this trope to the point of exaggeration.
* Chanticleer the rooster from ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle''. Justified since such proportions are normal for a rooster.
* ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' is a slightly downplayed version of this. Although his proportions are less exaggerated than usual for this trope, his legs are still fairly short compared to his barrel-sized torso and broader arms.
* Kingpin in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' has [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/37/09/e0/3709e03cb6addf04a12887785f229297.jpg a build]] that can best be described as "brick wall with arms and legs." The legs aren't as skinny as many examples of this trope, but they make up about a quarter of his height and are about the same size as his biceps. In the comics, he normally has a more realistic build, with the film's design being based on Bill Sienkiewicz's take.
* Humorously inverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheTripletsOfBelleville''. Having cycled for most of his life, Champion has a rail-thin torso with overly developed legs.
* WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph is [[http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/10/28/arts/28RALPH2/28RALPH2-sfSpan.jpg a bit more brick-shaped]] than conventionally triangular, but he definitely has far, far more upper body and arm mass than his short, stumpy legs should be able to support. His ''hands'' have more physical mass than his legs. Justified by both his nature as a video-game character designed in the '80s 8-bit era, and being a physical {{Expy}} of Franchise/DonkeyKong in particular. He does not revert to the expected PrimalStance his physique would imply, due to being [[SmarterThanYouLook more intelligent than he appears]].
* Abraham van Helsing of ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania3SummerVacation'' has quite the gargantuan upper body in contrast to his tiny legs... at least, in his prime.
* Baymax of ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' is a squishy example. His tall, soft, slightly beanbag-like body is perched atop stubby marshmallow legs that mostly work by virtue of Baymax being more of a friendly balloon construct instead of a solid entity with mass--therefore, only able to ''be'' a Top Heavy Guy only because his top portion is actually quite lightweight.
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[[folder:Jokes]]
* There's a joke about employees of a clothing store assuming that a person who is buying a shirt for one man and a pair of pants for another is actually buying a complete outfit for one guy who fits this trope.
* The "skipping leg day" meme is about this.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/OldKingdom'': Played for {{squick}} and UncannyValley in ''Sabriel''. In the reservoir, [[OurLichesAreDifferent Kerrigor]] appears inhabiting a magically created construct body he's tried to model to resemble his living appearance -- emphasis on ''tried''. Apparently, 200+ years of undeath leaves one's memories of what being human is like rather foggy, and the construct resembles a twisted parody of a man more than anything, complete with having a grotesquely over-sized chest matched with spindly limbs. As [[DeadpanSnarker Mogget]] points out, it's ''not'' a body that a vain man like Kerrigor would really want people to see.
* Lord Carnuss' Bonecrusher in ''Literature/TrialOfChampions'', a gigantic monster with a muscular, nigh-impenetrable upper body and laughably spindly legs. Fighting it with a sword and shield is borderline suicidal, but using a [[HobblingTheGiant trident and net]] will take it down in no time.
* The supervillain Torso from ''Literature/{{Ward}}'' takes this to the point of near-parody. His costume is basically a concrete vest that makes his chest look huge and makes him extremely top-heavy, to the point he is frequently tripping over his own feet. It's implied that his body may be similarly malformed. However, his teammates (barely) forgive him for it, since his power, when he manages to land a blow, imparts enough force to the target to ''floor a 10-story tall EdritchAbomination'' and ''cause cracks in the fabric of reality''. His favored attack? A headbutt, which takes advantage of his power and odd physique.
* Played straight (huge torso and stubby legs) and inverted (incredibly skinny torso and massive legs) in the beach scene in ''Literature/WheresWaldo''.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* An episode of ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' implied this about an unseen man when a set of his pajamas are found to consist of a huge shirt and a tiny pair of pants.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' once did a skit depicting a show called "How Much Ya Bench?", with Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, David Spade, Jay Mohr, and guest host Emilio Estevez as bodybuilders -- [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial who were totally not on steroids]] -- with tiny stick legs.
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[[folder:Music]]
* "Particle Man" by Music/TheyMightBeGiants has been subject to a wide array of interpretations over the years, but WordOfGod suggests that it was partly based on this trope:
-->'''John Linnell:''' Triangle Man was based on a friend's observation that Creator/RobertMitchum looked like an evil triangle when he took his shirt off in [[Film/TheNightOfTheHunter Night of the Hunter]]. Nothing else not explicitly stated need be inferred.
* ''Big Bad John'' is described thusly by Jimmy Dean:
-->''Kinda broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip\\
And everybody knew you don't give no lip to Big John''
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/KingsOfWar'' ogres have over-muscled upper bodies and small legs. Trolls take those proportions up to eleven.
* From the 3rd Edition of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' onwards, [[OurOrksAreDifferent Orks]] have typically been depicted in artwork and models as having large, heavily muscled torsos with broad shoulders and well developed arms sitting atop a pair of legs that are relatively short and stubby by comparison. Prior to this, Orks had a more humanlike, though still heavily built, appearance.
* Prior to its rework, ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'''s [[https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Howler_(Baboon) Baboon]] Battlemech featured stubby back-canted legs that were ''grossly'' out of scale to its preposterously broad upper torso and its zippy 120kph top speed.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/BaconManAnAdventure'': The titular character's upper body is larger than his lower body.
* [[http://beyond-good-and-evil.wikia.com/wiki/File:Conceptsnapshot.jpg Double H]] from ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Blasto}}'', a third-person action platformer for the original Playstation, had a protagonist whose upper torso to lower body proportions can only be described as preposterous even by top heavy standards, with a hugely exaggerated chest, shoulders, and biceps, but comically tiny hands and legs...[[LanternJawOfJustice and that chin.]] Even with his stance braced for balance, [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Blasto_Coverart.png you get the feeling he's going to tip over any second now.]]
* Brick from ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' isn't one of the most extreme example of this trope, [[http://www.blogiversity.org/blogs/willburns1/Screen%20shot%202009-10-22%20at%2012.15.24%20PM.jpg but his legs are noticeably thinner than the rest of his body,]] which keeps his body distinctly triangular. Bandit Bruisers have similar builds, as well.
** Salvador the gunzerker from ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' follows this trope a bit closer than Brick from the first game, [[http://i1243.photobucket.com/albums/gg541/zegamer/Borderlands%202%20pc%20game/borderlands2gunzerker.jpg with legs that look as if they were placed onto the wrong body]], due to steroid abuse stunting his growth.
** Bullymongs are large gorilla-like creatures with four massive, muscular arms and a torso that tapers into a very small set of legs; their thighs are about the size of any one of their ''fingers''.
* ''VideoGame/BuddyToss'': About 80% of the thrower is his bulky upper body and 20% is his legs.
* VideoGame/BurritoBison, from the game of the same name.
* ''VideoGame/CarriesOrderUp'' has a few in the form of [[FunnyAnimal shark and whale people (and one particularly round koi fish)]]. This actually has an effect on gameplay, as trying to spin past them will consume more of your SprintMeter than usual.
* ''VideoGame/ClockworkAquario'': Gush the robot has shoulders broader than his waist, so the sides of his torso are sloped accordingly.
* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'':
** Koala Kong, especially in his appearances from ''VideoGame/CrashBandicootNSaneTrilogy'' onward where his pecs are so enormous they almost engulf his head and arms that are bigger than many entire characters.
** Kong's successor Tiny Tiger is this except in ''VideoGame/CrashOfTheTitans'' (which redesigned him to give him relatively realistic proportions); though never quite as big up top as Koala Kong, he is still really big and has really tiny legs. Bizarrely, his boss battles tend to have him jumping a lot with said tiny legs.
** N. Brio turns into this at the end of his boss fights, HulkingOut into a massive musclebound form (or a frog) with tiny legs.
** Crunch Bandicoot is the only heroic example and is built very similarly to Tiny, though like Tiny his appearance in ''Crash of the Titans'' is an aversion. Even in ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacingNitroFueled'' he is much shorter than Tiny and completely dwarfed by Koala Kong but retains his tiny legs and big upper body.
* ''VideoGame/CrossbowWarriorTheLegendOfWilliamTell'': [[PlayerCharacter William Tell]]'s upper body looks bigger than his lower body.
* ''Franchise/DonkeyKong'':
** Many members of the Kong family resembles caricatured gorillas, and thus have big, muscular torsos and short legs. Examples of these are [[TheHero Donkey Kong]] himself, [[SurferDude Funky Kong]], [[KidHero Kiddy Kong]], and [[GentleGiant Chunky Kong]]. [[GameShowHost Swanky Kong]] had this type of build in his [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest first appearance]], but somehow gained longer legs in the [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble next game]].
** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'' takes this to an insane degree with [[https://www.mariowiki.com/File:Klubba.png Klubba]] and [[PaletteSwap Kudgel]].
* Minotaurs in ''VideoGame/DragonNest'' have this appearance. They drop an item called Joint Treatment that lampshades it. After all, their poor tiny knees have to support gargantuan tops.
* ''VideoGame/EvilGenome'' has a robotic KillerGorilla boss, Scarlet Storm, whose muscular upper body is already huge enough, even without taking into account it's [[ShoulderCannon gigantic shoulder-mounted laser turrets]] and {{power fist}}s. It's legs in comparison is hilariously dinky.
* ''VideoGame/ExorcistFairy'' has a RockMonster boss whose upper body is ''huge''. It's spindly lower legs though? Not so much.
* Juan from ''VideoGame/{{Guacamelee}}''.
* [[TheBigGuy Potemkin]] from the ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' series. Both his legs together are smaller than one of his gloves!
* ''VideoGame/{{Hamsterdam}}'': The giant rabbit {{Mook}}s in the game have [=MASSIVE=] upper bodies, but also stumpy little legs.
* The defeated warrior who appears in ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxterThePrecursorLegacy''. Jak himself when he enters Dark Giant mode in ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade''.
* In ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'', [[AdiposeRex King Dedede]] becomes possessed by a [[TheCorruption Jamba Heart]] at the start of the game. Under its influence, he [[HulkingOut hulks out]] in the middle of his boss fight and grows a pair of ''enormous'' muscular arms and a ripped torso... but his legs remain the same tiny nubs as before. [[spoiler:The [[DownloadableContent final update]] for the game repeats the same trick with [[TheHeartless Parallel Dedede]], a vicious EvilKnockoff of the real Dedede.]]
* ''VideoGame/KrazyIvan'' has one of the bosses, Fireball, a gigantic robot whose upper body is bristling with turrets, missile launchers, and all sorts of weaponry... and supported by two dinky legs. Surprisingly, it can leap over you easily InASingleBound.
* The Tank from ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' has a massive upper body, supported by fairly normal-sized legs. Its bulk is so great its lower jaw has either been forced off, or crushed, by massive pectoral muscles; it actually walks like a gorilla, using its massive arms to help support itself.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroDawnOfTheDragon'': The Golem has an odd body structure with a huge, broad-shouldered torso ending with a comparatively small pelvis, four insectile legs which looks inadequate to support its body, and an extremely long tail. This is a leftover from early development, which envisioned it as a sort of giant earthen scorpion monster.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** The Gorons have burly arms, big guts, and short, spindly legs. Of course, the fact that their preferred method of travel involves [[BeTheBall curling themselves up and rolling about]] does help to justify this somewhat.
** Ganondorf in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' has his legs obscured most of the time because he's wearing a robe, but the waist is low enough to make it clear his legs are small.
** Also true of almost all male minor characters in this game. Everyone's got bitty little legs, and the men have relatively gigantic torsos. This also carries over to its sequels, particularly [[https://zelda.gamepedia.com/File:ST_Byrne_Artwork.png Byrne]] from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks Spirit Tracks]]''.
** Even some of the humanoid enemies are top heavy guys too, like the [[http://zeldawiki.org/images/5/5b/TWW_Darknut.png Darknuts]], [[http://zeldawiki.org/images/5/55/Wizzrobe.png Wizzrobes]], and [[http://zeldawiki.org/images/0/08/Moblin_WW.png Moblins]].
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword''
*** Groose's HeroicBuild can [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda_gamepedia_en/images/1/1b/SSHD_Groose_Model.png/revision/latest?cb=20210802222858 look this way]] in-game. His head looks rather tiny compared to his torso, even with his [[AnimeHair over-the-top hairstyle]]. A bit of a {{Downplayed|Trope}} example, though, since his pants are baggy enough to make his legs look appropriately sized for his physique.
*** During a boss battle, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Koloktos, boss of the Ancient Cistern]] is this.
*** Also [[spoiler:Demise]], despite being a serious character, [[spoiler:though it's offset by the wide skirt he wears, making his lower portion look much bigger]].
** [[spoiler:Dark Beast Ganon]] in ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'' is a downplayed example, being built like a gorilla.
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', King Dorephan of the [[FishPeople Zora]] looks to be 90% torso, and given how large he is, that is a lot of torso. His son Sidon is a less drastic example.
* Type-8 Construction robots from ''VideoGame/MachineHunter'' have legs the same size as humans, but their upper body is ''huge''. As is their arms, which contains built-in bazookas.
* The Genie in ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' has a gigantic upper body while his legs are very tiny and almost completely invisible, hidden within the smoke cloud he constantly rides.
* ''VideoGame/MountainTroll'': The upper half of [[PlayerCharacter the troll]]'s lower body is larger in size than the lower half.
* ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'': Both the Demon King Odin and Lord Brigan have torsoes that are roughly twice as tall and at least ''three times'' as wide as their waist and legs. This gets accentuated even further by the fact that both of them keep their legs bent when they walk, further emphasizing the size difference. Oddly, they are the only humans in the game with these strange proportions, as all other humans - including Odin's own daughters - are more realistically proportioned.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'':
** Reinhardt is a little more accurately proportioned that most examples, but he still stands 7'4" (taller than resident war machine Bastion and moon-gorilla Winston, who both stand 7'3" at their tallest) and has an [[https://popokupingupop90.deviantart.com/art/Overwatch-Old-Times-Wallpaper-631596993 infamously wide chest]] in some official art.
** Roadhog stands 7'3", with most of his height in his gut.
** On the other end of the spectrum, Torbjörn, the shortest hero who canonically gets mistaken for a dwarf, is only 4'7" and has [[http://www.game-art-hq.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Torbj%C3%B6rn-Overwatch-Reference-Image.jpg incredibly short legs]].
* ''VideoGame/Persona4'' has the ''very'' effeminate Shadow Kanji. The strange thing is, Shadow Kanji has two bodies (sort of); Shadow Kanji's first body resides in a top heavy black and white body while resting in a bouquet of [[BaraGenre roses]].
* Darkrai from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' normally has a triangular torso and a thin, spindle-like waist, with a pair of clawed arms but no legs, but when Darkrai actually ''does'' show its legs, they're actually very thin and bony.
** [[VideoGame/PokemonColosseum The GameCube RPGs]] have the Bodybuilder trainer class, as well as Duking, Battlus[[InconsistentDub /]]Somek, and Agnol (who are all based on Bodybuilders).
** Timburr, Gurdurr and Conkeldurr from Black and White have huge muscular arms and torsos, but tiny legs. Especially Conkeldurr.
** Necrozma from Sun and Moon has large, clawed arms, small legs with claws on them and a relatively large head. Though its "body" is merely its true form's prism armor [[BizarreAlienBiology arranged to make a cohesive body]].
* Inspector Grosky of the ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'' series has a ''huge'' chest. His pecs are so big, the collar of his shirt is actually down near nipple level, tie and all, with his prodigious bush of chest hair poking out.
* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'':
** Edgar Teglee has a wide upper body but skinny and small legs.
** Inverted with Fred Bonaparte, whose has extremely long legs but an incredibly small torso.
* Though averted as far as graphical representation of the hero goes, ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV'' lampshades the trope in an instruction manual emphasizing the need for proper legwork with cautionary tales about top-heavy would-be-heroes. Naturally, it's also the first time any game allowed the hero to do any sort of exercise with his legs.
* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/captain_qwark.jpg Captain Qwark]] of the ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' series, and a few enemies and bosses, such as [[http://en.ratchet-galaxy.com/images/rg/personnages/Shellshock.png Shellshock]], the [[http://images.wikia.com/ratchet/images/9/96/Thug_and_thugs.png Thugs-4-Less leader]], and [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080807184812/ratchet/images/7/78/Slag.png Captain Slag.]]
* Mayor Wilson from ''VideoGame/RagingJustice'', the [[spoiler:HiddenVillain]], whose body is a mountain of fat and lard on two ridiculously skinny legs. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8knOgQ04WI It's even funnier]] ''watching'' him fight.
* ''VideoGame/RingFitAdventure'':
** Dragaux, the [[ItMakesSenseInContext body-building dragon]] BigBad. His oversized, muscular arms and upper torso dominate his form, while his waist and legs are a footnote in comparison. That said, while small, his legs are also clearly well-muscled.
** Armando, the [[EliteFour Four Masters]]' expert in arm exercises, is a barrel-chested man with massive muscled arms, but comparatively tiny legs.
* Cranking the "Weight" slider to max in the first two ''VideoGame/RockBand'' games will turn a male character into this.
* Creator/TimSchafer is fond of this character design; he's used it for ''VideoGame/FullThrottle'', ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'', ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'', and the non-muscular skeletal protagonist of ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'' has it.
* ''VideoGame/{{Scrapland}}'' has the police, who all have very large chests supported by tiny legs.
* About half of the male cast of ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' are this to varying degrees. Notable major examples include Shovel Knight himself, Black Knight, King Knight, Polar Knight, and Treasure Knight. Mole Knight has particularly short & skinny legs even among that crowd, though rather than having a broad chest and shoulders he has a big belly.
* Ariana from ''VideoGame/SinAndPunishmentStarSuccessor'' after [[TurnsRed her blood goes on fire]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'' :
** Samson's independent form, detached from his host, [[HeroicHost Filia]]. Filia is also a downplayed, female version; she has a very heavy midsection (chubby abdomen, large breasts, big thighs, and muscly forearms) but has legs so spindly its a miracle they can support her in the first place. What makes it stranger is that they fight as a team, and most of their strongest attacks are kicks.
** Big Band shows up later as DLC and, while his overall appearance doesn't suggest it, he is in fact built like this: beneath that BadassLongcoat, he turns out to be a normal sized human head protruding from a huge, bell-shaped iron lung, resting atop two relatively small and slender legs. [[https://imgur.com/a/11hs7 This is easiest to see]] when he does his Double Sax snapback.
* ''VIdeoGame/{{Skully}}'' has Skully's first {{golem}} form, Strong Silent, with a massive upper body, muscular arms, and legs roughly the same size as the other two smaller golems Fleet Footer and Jolly Jumper.
* ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'': Muggshot has such an atrophied lower body that his legs ''[[http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130406153160/sly/images/d/df/Muggshot_artwork_(2).png don't reach the floor]]''. He walks on his knuckles, and therefore has to stand still to shoot.
* Kumbhakarna and Cabrakan in ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}''. Cabrakan has a very broad muscular torso with arms longer and thicker than his legs, an exaggeration of the bodybuilder V-taper. Kumbhakarna is built like an orangutan, with an enormous heaving belly, looooong arms, and wee little stubby legs that account for slightly less than a third of his height. Sobek, too: broad, muscular upper body with a narrow waist and very stumpy legs -- about half as long as his arms!
* Sonic the Werehog from ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'' has puny legs.
** As of ''VideoGame/SonicBoom'', Knuckles also qualifies. He has a reason for this; he doesn't like legs day.
** The bigger characters in general such as Vector The Crocodile, Storm The Albatross and Bark The Polar Bear tend to have big, routound upper bodies and stubby legs.
** Of course, who can forget Eggman with his rather round belly and pencil-thin legs? Some designs give him fatter legs, though those designs tend to play this trope even MORE straight by making his legs significantly shorter compared to his arms and torso.
* Nigel from ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestVIRogerWilcoInTheSpinalFrontier'' has a huge upper body and very skinny legs, as best demonstrated when [[spoiler:a behavior-modifying chip causes him to go into a striptease]].
* Bouncer from ''VideoGame/{{Spyborgs}}'', the TokenRobot playable character, have a massive upper body larger than his human-sized teammates, and human-sized legs.
* [[http://spyro.wikia.com/wiki/Agent_Zero Agent Zero]] from ''VideoGame/Spyro2RiptosRage'' has extremely tiny legs.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** {{Downplayed}} with Bowser. His legs are fairly short compared to his arms and torso, but also broadly built and perfectly able to support the rest of his body.
** Wario’s legs are small, yet quite muscular in order to carry his massively built body.
** Petey Piranha is an unusual example. His legs are tiny compared to his torso, but the true bulk of his body comes from his ginormous head that should be way to big for either his legs or torso to support.
** [[VideoGame/SuperPaperMario O’Chunks']] legs are small and skinny, in addition to having a blocky upper body and long muscular arms.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' has the Heavy, which [[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/3/38/Vanguard_Party.png an achievement image]] [[LampshadeHanging points this out.]]
* Craig Marduk in ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' is built this way (even moreso starting with ''Tekken 5''). ''Tekken 7'' newcomer Gigas also has this appearance (in addition to being AmbiguouslyHuman in the first place). The various Jack robots throughout the series are a downplayed version: they don't actually have small legs, but they have huge arms and shoulders.
* Ranger Ken, Uber Frills, and Blue Tongues (both regular and Uber) from ''VideoGame/TyTheTasmanianTiger'' have this build. (So does Bull the boar, but the effect is lessened by his quadrupedal stance.)
* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'':
** [[http://undertale.wikia.com/wiki/Greater_Dog Greater Dog]] has a very large upper body carried around on stumpy legs. The [[TinyHeadedBehemoth tiny dog face]] helps complete the look. [[spoiler:Turns out it's a normal-sized dog in a sort of mechanized suit of armor, so the actual dog is not that top-heavy at all.]]
** Asgore, the King of the monsters, has huge arms and a big torso, making his already short legs look small by comparison.
* Creator/{{Vanillaware}}'s games almost always utilize this trope in their art designs:
** The proportions featured on the Fighter and Dwarf in ''VideoGame/DragonsCrown'' are nothing short of terrifying in this regard.
** The titular character in ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'' has arms that comprise over half of his body weight.
** The adult Oni enemies from ''VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade'' are another extreme example.
* A common complaint about male draenei and worgen in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''.
** Hell, half of the playable races fall under this trope.
* Some of the Blades in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' have this appearance. One of the [[ComMon common Blades]] has this body shape, while the rare Blades Newt and Wulfric also have this. Wulfric has an enormous torso with large arms on top of a narrow waist; although his legs are also fairly muscular. Newt is a normally proportioned female with two extra, gigantic arms; she does push-ups no problem, but the weight distribution makes sit-ups nearly impossible.
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* ''WebAnimation/LaGolda'': Malcom is the top-heavy one of the kids.
* ''WebAnimation/TheRhinoAndTheRedbill'': Niles is built like this, which isn't much of a surprise since real-life rhinoceroses also have relatively thin legs that support their massive bodies. Despite this, they are surprisingly nimble, and the same goes for Niles himself.
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* ''Webcomic/ButtlordGT'''s Mr. Huge, a Vegeta {{Expy}}, has the power to grow his torso and arms to gigantic proportions, while retaining a regular-sized head and legs.
* ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'' has handful of 'em, including [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2009/05/03/lefty/ Moose]], [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2011/02/20/occupied/ Morris]] and [[spoiler: [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2011/06/26/bedside-manners/ Monstersocks]]]].
* Johnny's cohort Ollie Oop in ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}''. [[http://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-5-page-165 Lampshaded by Violet in the student speakeasy]], and later by Max asking him if they just met at the hospital because "they decide[d] to blast the gamma rays at your bottom half this time?"
* The [[MeaningfulName aptly-named]] titular Topheavy is for [[https://scrapandtopheavy.com/ Scrap & Topheavy]]. Even when he was a lot smaller, his legs were a tiny portion of his height.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins'', Zidgel's and Midgel's upper bodies are longer than their legs. Justified in that they are penguins.
* The Hacker from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'' is an extreme version of this -- a 200-to-300 pound torso on top of legs that couldn't be more than 6 inches.
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'':
** Dash, Kwan, Vlad's ghost form, and Skulker's battle suit all have arms and chests wider than their legs or waists, the last one being the most extreme. Vlad's human form also has a large torso, but his arms are thinner.
** Jack Fenton also has thin legs, but his hips are as wide as his shoulders, so he's more of a walking rectangle.
* WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian, even though he's not exactly the heroic type.
* A natural part of the TimmStyle seen in the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, most of it comes from having enormous shoulders and slender legs. Even characters who are supposed to be more trim like The Flash have a similar design. It is downplayed in the original show ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', where [[ArtEvolution the character designs weren't as exaggerated]].
* One of main characters of ''WesternAnimation/DragonHunters'', Lian-Chu, has massive body and arms, but very small and thin legs.
* Launchpad [=McQuack=] from ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' and ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' has this body type.
** Gizmoduck's form also invokes this with the tiny unicycle wheel. Fenton himself, however, has a body type more like normal ducks in the series'.
** Taurus Bulba takes this ludicrous extremes, wherein his lower body, legs and feet are ''so'' small as to be almost nonexistent, whilst his upper body is like that of a champion body builder. A pretty standard build for cartoon bulls, all things considered.
** Comet Guy's design is the most exaggerated of all; he has a huge muscular torso and arms, and teeny tiny legs that would never hold him up if he didn't have SuperStrength.
* Mrs. Beakley from ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' provides a RareFemaleExample: she's given a HeroicBuild with relatively short legs, opposed to the more granny-like figure she had in the original show.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** Joe Swanson. Even in the scenes where his legs work fine (such as flashbacks) his legs are kinda small.
** Stewie Griffin falls under this trope in the episode "Stew-Roids" when he started using steroids.
* Hoss Delgado from ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy.''
* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2021'': He-Man's design in this show falls squarely into this trope -- his hips are about half as wide as his shoulders and his thighs aren't anywhere close to being as thick as his forearms.
* [=Coach McGurk=] has the smallest legs and the largest torso of anyone on ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies''.
* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': When Jade uses the Ox Talisman, she becomes very muscular, but only in her upper body.
* ''WesternAnimation/JadeArmor'': The Crimson Lord has a very muscular upper body but thin legs.
* WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/JohnnyBravo3.gif as can be seen here]].
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'':
** Hego, Shego's [[SuperStrength super-strong]] brother. The cartoon style makes you wonder how he stands up.
** Steve Barkin, Brick Flagg, Pain King and Steel Toe, Dementor's minions (Dementor himself has short legs, but is more boxy), and Drakken to a lesser extent (almost normal-proportioned, but still with shorter-than-average legs, although this is best seen when he's not in his usual lab coat; re: "Dimension Twist" and "Rappin' Drakken"). In fact, any male character who's not rail-thin (like Ron) is almost guaranteed to have short legs.
** Even [[RareFemaleExample female characters]] weren't exempt from this build. It's most noticeable on a heavyset character like [=DNAmy=], but even slim characters often have long torsos and short legs.
* ''WesternAnimation/AKindOfMagic'' leans into ExaggeratedTrope with Gregore the Ogre. He has a very massive upper body and ridiculously tiny legs, that barely encompass 1/6th of his full body height. A one-episode PrinceCharmless has a similar build (he does mention that there are some ogres in his family tree).
* Lampshaded by the normally {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, Lola Bunny, in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' when she and Bugs encounter a bodybuilder at the gym.
-->'''Lola:''' Your body is crazy. You should do more cardio and less weights.
* Several burly GiantMook-ish henchmen (and occasional BigBad for a skit) are drawn in this style in both ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and later ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''. The most well known might be the Arabic henchman Hassan ("[[CatchPhrase HASSAN]] [[CallingYourAttacks CHOP!]]") from ''WesternAnimation/AliBabaBunny''.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiddlemostPost'': Angus has a wide torso and skinny legs.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' does this to a few of its characters.
** Iron Will, the minotaur from the episode "Putting Your Hoof Down", is built like this.
** Bulk Biceps (the MemeticBystander heavily muscled white pegasus most known for his "YEAH!" face) is a quadruped version of this trope, with an enormous head, neck, and torso tapering down to shins and hooves [[http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/File:Bulk_and_Fluttershy_hears_Applejack%27s_voice_S4E10.png demonstrably smaller]] than most of the cast, and even smaller than [[http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/File:Pinkie_jumps_onto_high_striker_S4E23.png some of the foals]]. His occasional [[http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/File:Fluttershy_and_Angel_looking_at_Bulk_S4E10.png bipedal moments]] reveal that he's just as ludicrously proportioned in that stance too. His human counterpart from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' averts it, though, his torso being muscular but his legs more correctly proportioned. Ironic given the opposite effect in the standard bodies.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' episode "Paw and Order", the [[SeparateSceneStorytelling fictional]]/[[FantasySequence imaginary]] villain Nasty Jack is a bipedal horse with a massive chest and and arms but ''[[ExaggeratedTrope really]]'' tiny legs. The other horse thieves aren't as massive but they also have tiny legs.
* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes''
** Several of the male characters, including Radicles, Mr. Gar, and [[KidHero K.O.]] himself to a more minor degree, have huge, muscular upper bodies with spindly legs. There's even some female characters who qualify for this trope, such as Punching Trudy.
** Inverted somewhat by Enid, who has a slender upper body and massive thick legs; occasionally her legs are both drawn thicker than her waist.
** {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in the episode "Gar Trains Punching Judy", wherein before the final round of a fighting tournament, Mr. Gar tells Punching Judy that because of Trudy's muscular arms and thin legs, she'll be easier to knock down compared to Judy's thin arms and muscular legs. When Judy fights defensively, Trudy gets tired out quickly because her tiny legs aren't good at running. This trope is lampshaded at the end, with K.O. saying that he and Mr. Gar should start doing squats.
** In the series finale [[spoiler:an adult K.O. (now a level '''100''' Hero) has a build similar to Mr. Gar's to highlight how much stronger he's become.]]
* Ivan/Ice Cub, the polar bear themed superhero who debuts in the sixth season of ''WesternAnimation/PJMasks'', has a kid version of this. Since he is paralyzed from the waist down, he has to rely on his upper body strength to get around, hence having a bulkier torso and arms compared to his legs. Averted in his daytime form, where his top half is the same size as those of his allies.
* Mojo Jojo, the ArchEnemy of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', has very broad shoulders and muscular arms combined with a tiny waist and ridiculously stumpy legs, and his [[ArtEvolution redesign]] in the [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerPuffGirlsMovie movie]] and seasons 5-6 further exaggerates this.
* Hack and Slash, from ''{{WesternAnimation/ReBoot}}'' although technically robots who roll around on single ball bearings, they fit the mold by their shape and movement.
* ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' features a number of characters with this build, most notably the Salesman. Other characters, such as Anthony's Dad, are similar but more boxy.
* [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Skips]] from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' isn't as triangular as most examples, but he still has massive arms and straw-thin legs.
* In contrast to his rotund main-series counterpart, Dr. Eggman in the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' universe has this kind of build. He's still shaped like an egg, but an upside-down one.
* Eddie Brock in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan''. It becomes a lot more exaggerated once he becomes Venom.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' and Patrick fell under this trope in "The Fry Cook Games."
* Commander Feral from ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'' has a very bulky upper body that contrast his rather skinny legs.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': Leatherhead the mutant alligator falls squarely into this trope. Literally, as his upper body down to about the point where his rib cage ends just squares off and sits on a pair of legs and hips that look like they should belong to someone about one third of his size. That could actually be why he's depicted as being powerful but extremely ungainly.
* ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'''s Buck Tuddrussel is probably the most extreme version. His waist is practically nothing. His DistaffCounterpart[=/=]ex-wife Sheila has the exact opposite [[HartmanHips body structure.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', most of the guys are drawn this way. [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/c5cdad96b7139839fc6c4f71211e59a2/tumblr_mxielqtJCt1sk0po8o1_1280.png A full height chart]] reveals that the boys' waists begin much lower on their body than the girls'. In particular, Duncan tends tower over most of the other characters [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101126070306/totaldramaisland/images/3/33/Glare.PNG when they're all sitting down]], but since his legs are less than a third of his total height, he's actually one of the shortest males on the show.
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' has [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Grandus_(Animated) Grandus]].
** ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' has Strika as a rare female example.
* Brock Samson of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'', who is deliberately drawn with the upper body of a gorilla but stick-like legs. It's more exaggerated in the {{Pilot}}.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Vikingskool}}'' has instructor Hammerson, a guy with a huge torso and arms and teeny tiny legs.
* ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'': Rufus Ruffcut, of the Buzzwagon, has a wide frame, especially around his chest, and thick, muscular arms. His legs, however, are short and comparatively thin.
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