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Basic Trope: A boyish boy/manly man with some feminine traits.

  • Straight: Bob is The Big Guy who happens to have a hobby of sewing.
  • Exaggerated:
    • Bob is the strongest badass in an entire work, and has a side business of knitting sweaters all by himself.
    • Bob is a Testosterone Poisoning type character personality-wise, but he always wears frilly pink clothes and likes knitting and collecting pony dolls.
    • Bob is the deadliest man alive this side of Batman. He has no problem carrying his arsenal in a My Little Pony backpack.
  • Downplayed: Bob is just a normal guy and likes to pick up the needles on occasion.
  • Justified:
    • Bob grew up in a background where sewing is considered a sign of manhood.
    • Bob used to get picked on for being In Touch with His Feminine Side despite having more masculine interests than feminine ones. He decides to starting training for fights & exercising in order to become a badass, so that way no one will mess with him & it works.
    • Bob lives alone or with people who can't fix clothes, so he has to teach himself to sew.
    • "Knitting and sewing keeps my hands nimble so I can wield my sword better. Dancing makes me faster, so I can kill more bad guys."
    • Courage and bravery are traditionally considered traits in masculinity and Bob decides to emphasize it by openly doing feminine hobbies without caring about other people's opinions.
    • Bob just likes knitting and doesn't feel a need to justify it.
    • Bob adopts his girlish hobbies for his daughter.
  • Inverted:
  • Gender Inverted:
  • Subverted:
    • It turns out Bob only sews because it's a side job outside of being a hero, and he doesn't actually enjoy the work…
    • It turns out Bob only sews out of necessity, as his measurements mean either this, expensive custom clothing or One Size Fits None.
    • Bob turns out to not be as tough as he seems.
  • Double Subverted:
    • ...but once he gets his infuriating old sewing machine fixed it becomes much more fun, and he genuinely enjoys it.
    • Bob may not be as tough as he looks, but it turns out the man who taught him to sew is that tough.
  • Parodied: Bob is pink and is more of a man than any of the other characters
  • Zig Zagged: Bob sews just to make a living, except he actually enjoys sewing, but only when the outfits he sews are for men, but especially likes sewing pink outfits.
  • Averted: Bob doesn't have any effeminate hobbies.
  • Enforced:
    • "Why do men always have to have the common stereotypes associated with them? Let's give Bob something to subvert the audience's expectations to make a point."
    • "We need this manly man character to be attracted by girls, so let's add his soft girlish side to make them can relate to!"
  • Lampshaded: "Bob, I never knew someone like you would enjoy sewing!"
  • Invoked: All of Bob's friends tell him that the truest way to manly is to not be afraid to be girly, and he takes those words to heart
  • Exploited: The team decides to let Bob do the work of patching up their outfits after a battle of some kind.
  • Defied: Even though Bob likes to sew, he doesn't do it because it's "not manly".
  • Discussed: "Hey Alice, you know how Bob likes to sew? Why is it that the most manly of men always seem to have the most feminine of hobbies?"
  • Conversed: "Sewing doesn't exactly show a man's masculinity."
    "Of course it does! All men in fiction have to have some kind of habit that's feminine in some way!"
  • Implied: Bob usually does manly things, but every now and then he brings up his love of knitting with his guy friends, but he's never seen actually knitting
  • Deconstructed: Bob's hobby of sewing made him a target of bullying growing up, so he gained a rough personality to prove his manliness, only to be rejected once again out of fear.
  • Reconstructed: Bob decides that it doesn't matter what others think of him, and decides to pursue on with his hobby ignoring those who ridicule him.
  • Played For Laughs: After coming home from a huge war, "Manly" Bob puts on a pink sweater, snuggles up with his kitten, and watches My Little Pony.
  • Played For Drama: Bob used to be a member of a society where his feminine hobbies are seen as reducing his value as a person.
  • Played For Horror: Bob is a copycat of The Joker who wears a pink tuxedo... well, it used to be pink. Now it's got so much blood on it that it looks purple.

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