Basic Trope: The strongest, most proficient in physical combat and often the largest of a team.
- Straight: Biggs is an expert in most forms of martial arts and has the build of a bodybuilder.
- Exaggerated:
- Biggs is the size of a house.
- You know how we have the expression "knee-high to a grasshopper"? The Kaiju has the expression "knee-high to Biggs".
- World's Strongest Man.
- (In terms of reliability) Biggs is capable of doing some of the craziest stunts and is pretty much the entire back bone of the team in terms of heavy labor; Without him, everyone else would have to resort to extreme guerilla tactics to even make a dent in their enemies' plans.
- Downplayed: Biggs certainly doesn't have much trouble unscrewing the lids from jars or beating most of his peers at arm wrestling.
- Justified:
- Inverted:
- The Brute
- Brian is the smallest and physically weakest of the team, but he makes up for it with his great intellect.
- Subverted:
- Biggs's physical size is far disproportionate to his strength.
- Biggs, though tall and fat, is weak and pacifistic.
- Double Subverted:
- Biggs's reveals his size-changing power which makes him bigger and stronger.
- Biggs has a very effective Berserk Button that shows he is Willfully Weak.
- Parodied: Biggs is so big and strong that he causes more property damage than the team would like.
- Zig Zagged: Due to liberal use of The Worf Effect and Worf Had the Flu, the audience can never ascertain whether or not Biggs is pulling his weight.
- Averted: There is no one among the team more capable of drastically toppling the others, in neither size nor strength.
- Enforced: There's one actor who's good as a strongman, but he lacks the acting chops to really do something. So they just cast him as this, and don't pay him much attention to others.
- Lampshaded: "I'm Biggs "Large'n'Charge!" Mitchelson!"
- Invoked:
- Biggs spends most of his youth bodybuilding so he can join a hero team.
- In searching for an addition to their group, The Team searches for someone strong, realizing that physical strength is where the team is most lacking.
- Exploited:
- Of course, he can be exploited if he's Dumb Muscle, a Mighty Glacier, or anything related to his size and strength.
- (In regards to the big guy himself) Biggs is more often than not ignored by just about all of his team members, primarily being regarded as Dumb Muscle himself. Perfect for going off on his own adventures whenever they're not looking. And due to being the one that's consistently ignored, he could very easily foil the Big Bad's plans due to being underestimated all the time.
- Defied: Biggs's first day on the job ends when The Dragon injures him so badly he's paralyzed for life.
- Discussed: "You know how every team has a guy on it that looks like a bodybuilder? Why can't we get one of those guys?"
- Conversed: "You can't miss him. He's the giant."
- Deconstructed:
- 1.) Biggs's physical strength and durability hides the fact that he is getting hurt by the enemy. It takes its toll on him and then, just when they need him most, he dies.
- 2.) Biggs' strength is useful to the team in battle, but when he's not crunching villains he faces other aspects of his job: his teammates' opinion of him is based on his ability to hurt people, some people fear him for his strength, and he can't find clothes that fit his large frame for anything less than a mint.
- 3.) Biggs's fighting style focuses on raw strength. If an enemy turns out to be significantly stronger than him, he has no way to counter it.
- Reconstructed:
- 1.) Biggs fights through the pain without letting his teammates know that he is grievously injured and dies peacefully. Alternatively, he wears body armor.
- 2.) Biggs learns that the answer isn't to always try to be a One-Man Army and that receiving medical attention or asking for help from others isn't a sign of weakness. With The Power of Friendship on his side, his power is unparalleled. Also, Hattie makes him extra big shirts in her downtime.
- 3.) Biggs still shines in fights against weaker enemies. If there ever is an enemy who cannot be defeated via brute force, Biggs is happy to let Hiro come up with a different plan.
- The Tank shows that "the biggest and strongest" can do more than simple fighting. Instead of being the guy who "takes care of fighting" on a team where everyone can fight, only to be undone by Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards, he finds a niche that benefits the team as a whole.
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