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• Basic Trope: A small person who is very strong.
• Played Straight: Bob is 5'2" and weighs 120 lbs. But he can bench-press 400 lbs.
• Exaggerated: Bob is a midget with super strength
• Up to Eleven: Bob is ant-sized, yet can benchpress mountains or even planets.
• Justified: Strength and size aren't always the same.
  • Bob is a superhero or magic-user
• Inverted: Bob is 6'4" and 200 lbs, but is Weaksauce Weakness personified.
  • Bob is 6'4" and 200 lbs and very strong
  • Bob is 5'2", 120 lbs, and Weaksauce Weakness personified.
• Subverted: Bob claims to be stronger then he looks, but is beaten easily.
• Double Subverted: I Am Not Left-Handed.
• Deconstructed:
• Reconstructed:
• Parodied: Bob is a midget, and he lifts a building and tosses it over his shoulder.
• Averted: Bob is small and weak
  • Bob is big
  • Bob is of average strength and size
• Enforced: Underdog
• Invoked: Bob enters a contest of strength, and he's up against big bodybuilder types.
• Defied: Bob is small, and doesn't do a lot of physical activity. Instead, he prefers things like art and music and chess over sports.
• Discussed: "I'm glad this is just a cartoon. Bob could never do that in reality."
• Conversed: "Damn! Did you just see Bob?" "Yeah! Picked up that car like it was nothing!"
• Played For Laughs: Bob (a midget) bests Goliath (a huge bodybuilder type) in a wrestling match, then juggles an elephant, a kitchen sink, a toilet, a barbell, and a car to show off.
• Played For Drama: Bob wishes for superstrength, but it causes problems for him. Like accidentally crushing his infant daughter.