Basic Trope: The Big Guy doesn't necessarily have to be The Stoic.
- Straight: Bob expresses his feelings more often and more openly than the other heroes.
- Exaggerated: All the other heroes are completely expressionless; Bob, a giant man with Super-Strength, reacts with his emotions cranked up all the time.
- Downplayed: Bob expresses certain emotions more openly than other heroes.
- Justified: Bob's strength means people are more reluctant to mock him for being sissy.
- Inverted: Bob is The Stoic; the weaker heroes are more expressive.
- Subverted: Bob looks like a man who is comfortable with his emotions. However, when Emperor Evulz tortures one of the Five-Man Band, the camera pans across all the heroes, looking infuriated/horrified/tear-stricken...and when the camera gets to Bob, he's completely expressionless.
- Double Subverted: ...But then it turns out that the stoicism resulted from Bob going into a Heroic BSoD. Afterwards, he wails for an hour, and, after pulling himself together tenderly patches the wounded member up.
- Parodied: Bob is a Physical God and can mop the floor with everyone. Yet he is Prone to Tears and it's very easy to reduce him to Inelegant Blubbering. Even while he's in the middle of kicking your ass.
- Zig Zagged: Sometimes Bob is really emotional, sometimes he's got his emotions on lock.
- Averted: Bob is no more or less emotional than other heroes.
- Enforced: The executives want to send a message that emotions are not sissy, so they have the strongest hero show his emotions the most often and the most openly.
- Lampshaded:Alice: Bob's built like a boulder, but he's the most expressive of all of us.
- Invoked: Bob's parents, knowing he's likely to become strong, teach him to be emotionally open.
- Exploited: Drake does something horrible around Bob to try and break his spirit, so that his powers are of no use if he's too depressed to actually do anything.
- Defied: Bob intentionally keeps his emotions under a lid so as to avoid getting distracted.
- Discussed: "
- Conversed:Viewer: "I've noticed in movies, it's always the big guys who aren't afraid to cry."
- Implied: Bob walks past, tears drying on his face.
- Deconstructed: Being so emotionally open also means Bob is able to become depressed more easily, especially after extreme trauma.
- Reconstructed: Bob gets therapy after said trauma and eventually starts to become open again.
- Played For Laughs: Bob gets very excited about a theme park he likes, even though by all accounts he's a grim-looking fellow.
- Played for Drama: At a critical moment, Bob, the team's muscle, ends up emotionally compromised, putting him and his friends in peril.
