'''Basic Trope''': A manly character is hairy.
* '''Straight''': [[TheHero Bob Badass]] has a hairy chest visible during his ShirtlessScene.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Bob is covered by a thick pelt ''everywhere''.
** Bob is so covered in hair, he's practically a WolfMan.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob's chest is hairy, though not unrealistically so.
* '''Justified''': Bob is [[TokenAdult much older than the rest]] of the male cast that consists primarily of teenagers and very young adults.
* '''Inverted''':
** Bob Badass has a smooth chest, though the rest of his body is very hairy.
** Bob has a hairy chest, but he's very sensitive and WeaksauceWeakness personified.
** Bob is hairy, but he is actually quite feminine.
** Bob is very manly and does not have chest hair. His waxing sessions are considered manly instead.
* '''Gender Inverted''': Alice is a very hairy woman, which she may or may not feel self-conscious about.
* '''Subverted''':
** Bob does all these ActionHero things, but no attention is drawn to his chest.
** Bob has a hairy chest, but waxes it.
** Bob is quite hairy, but he's also [[CampGay a particularly effeminate]] [[TheBear gay man]] who [[MistakenForBadass doesn't have a lot of "badass" qualities to him]].
* '''Double Subverted''':
** Until a brief ShirtlessScene or nude scene comes on, and Bob's chest hair is visible.
** Only because he's a competitive swimmer and has to wax ''everything'' to attain higher speeds; it's not something he'd do otherwise.
** When a group of thugs hear that Bob is gay, they try to beat him up, (thinking he will be just a hairy sissy) only to discover he's also a OneManArmy who can swiftly pound their sorry asses into oblivion, and whose [[TestosteronePoisoning feats of strength and courage]] [[TheParagon inspire his straight comrades to be more like him]].
* '''Parodied''':
** Bob is mistaken for {{Bigfoot|SasquatchAndYeti}} because he's so hairy.
** Bob feels self-conscious, as body hair goes out of style, and heads to a salon for PainfulBodyWaxing.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob, Carl and Dave are all equally manly characters, but their level of hairiness varies.
* '''Averted''': Bob is a smooth-chested {{Bishounen}}
* '''Enforced''': "We need to show that this guy is so badass that [[TestosteronePoisoning he sweats testosterone!]] Let's give him a nice chest rug!"
* '''Lampshaded''': "Bob, could you put a sweater on or something? That chest rug of yours is too pornographic for my eyes."
* '''Invoked''': Bob starts taking anabolic steroids, and this is an unintended side effect.
* '''Exploited''': After an extended ShowerScene, Bob becomes MrFanservice.
* '''Defied''': Bob doesn't like body hair, and so removes it.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Played For Drama''': As body hair goes out of style, Bob gets teased for being hairy.
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob finds having chest hair uncomfortable and ugly, but because people think it's manly, he doesn't feel comfortable removing it.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob trims his chest hair significantly so it's not uncomfortable
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%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???