Line #17 PlayingWith/TopHeavyGuy


1	'''Basic Trope''': A man with a buff upper body but a disproportionately smaller lower body.
2	* '''Straight''': Big Bill has muscular arms and a broad torso but thin legs.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Big Bill's upper body is so muscular, his biceps have biceps; his legs, however, are downright bony.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Big Bill's legs are small compared to his bulky body but can still realistically support his frame.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** Big Bill only focuses on his upper body when working out.
7	** … [[HandicappedBadass because he's paraplegic]].
8	** Big Bill is a gorilla, penguin, or other non-human that naturally exhibits this trope.
9	* '''Inverted''':
10	** Big Bill has a scrawny torso and sticks for arms but has ridiculously muscular legs.
11	** {{Hartman Hips}}
12	* '''Gender Inverted''': Rippin' Roberta has a ridiculously big torso, yet a really tiny lower body.
13	* '''Subverted''': Big Bill was merely wearing a prop to make his upper body look bigger than his lower body...
14	* '''Double Subverted''': ...but Big Bill was also wearing pants that made his legs look larger than they really were.
15	* '''Parodied''': Big Bill has the arms and chest of Superman but the legs of a stick figure.
16	* '''Zig Zagged''': Big Bill's dimensions tend to fluctuate constantly.
17	* '''Averted''': Big Bill's body is completely proportional.
18	* '''Enforced''': The producers gave Big Bill a top heavy build to stand out among the other characters.
19	* '''Lampshaded''': "With arms like these, who needs legs?"
20	* '''Invoked''': Big Bill prefers sports that rely on the upper body and trained accordingly.
21	* '''Exploited''': [[PintSizedPowerhouse Annie]] kicks Big Bill in the knee and brings him down.
22	* '''Defied''': Big Bill tries to exercise all his muscles including his leg muscles.
23	* '''Discussed''': "Bill, you'd make a great boxer with a build like that!"
24	* '''Conversed''': "How does a man with a body like that walk?" "Like a gorilla."
25	* '''Deconstructed''':
26	** Big Bill's legs are too thin to properly support his upper body and suffered from health problems.
27	** His short legs mean he [[MightyGlacier can't run as fast]] as a regular human being and he's discriminated against when it comes to jobs that require fast running.
28	* '''Reconstructed''': Big Bill's legs are StrongerThanTheyLook and are able to support his body.
29	* '''Played For Laughs''': Big Bill is so top heavy that his arms and torso make up over 75% of his body weight and he runs with his fists. When Alice kicks him in the knee to take advantage of his physique, his massive body crashes down onto her like a brick wall.
30	* '''Played For Drama''': [[NonStandardCharacterDesign Big Bill is a topheavy guy in a normally-proportioned universe]], and is viewed as [[TheGrotesque a deformed freak ]].
31	* '''Untwisted''': Big Bill's thick legs turn out to be a waist down PowerArmor. His real legs are small and scrawny.
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