Basic Trope: Ants carrying several times their own body weight.
- Straight: Bob the ant carries a pin back to base.
- Exaggerated: Bob kidnaps Alice, a human girl, back to base.
- Downplayed: Bob carries a pin back to base but halfway there, he gets tired and drops the pin.
- Justified: Thanks to the Square-Cube Law, Bob has the proportional strength to carry a pin far larger than him back to the base.
- Inverted: Bob struggles to carry a pin back to base.
- Subverted: Bob struggles to carry a pin back to base but then realises there was a pebble on the pin so he pushes it off to carry the pin back to base.
- Double Subverted: Bob struggles to carry a pin, realises there was a pebble on the pin, pushes it off and then struggles to carry the pin back to base.
- Parodied: Bob likes to go to the gym so he can carry pins with ease.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob goes to the gym regularly but he cannot lift a single pin. He must lift them two at a time.
- Averted: Bob struggles to carry a pin back to base, but then a flea steals the pin instead.
- Enforced: A writer wanted people to stop killing ants, so he made Bob the ant strong so he can impress people.
- Lampshaded: "Here is an ant, I'll call this one Bob, he must be collecting pins today."
- Invoked: Bob the ant can lift a pin because all ants can.
- Exploited: Ants are weak and need protection by larger insects, so they offer this as a service for their protection.
- Defied: "Quick, squash that ant before it steals our pins!"
- Discussed: "Ants cannot lift pins, it will squish them!"
- Conversed: "I saw a nature program which said that an ant can lift several times its body weight. I think that only happens in cartoons..."
- Implied: A pin disappears even though nobody came and took it, but an eagle-eyed viewer would spot the lone ant that came up to the person who put it down.
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