INCREDIBLE VALOR, RESPECTABLE MUSCLES!
Not just strong and not necessarily big, but tropes about having good muscle tone; being physically fit and trim, having a brawny physique unhidden by fat or about gaining said physique like from working out, especially in a gym. Also about being tough and forceful as if with muscle.
Compare Skeletal Tropes, Fight Scene (where muscles come in handy), Masculinity Tropes.
Tropes:
- Adaptational Curves
- Amazonian Beauty
- Beauty, Brains, and Brawn
- Bicep Kiss
- Bicep-Polishing Gesture
- The Big Guy
- Brains and Brawn
- Brawn Hilda
- Bruiser with a Soft Center
- The Brute
- Clark Kent Outfit
- Dumb Muscle
- Fake Muscles
- Fat Flex
- Final Battle-Induced Shirt Loss
- Fitness Nut
- Flexing Those Non-Biceps
- Genius Bruiser
- Gentle Giant
- Growing Muscles Sequence
- Gym Bunny
- Heavyworlder
- Heroic Build
- Hulking Out
- Hunk
- Macho Camp
- Mechanical Muscles
- Mr. Fanservice
- Muscle Angst
- Muscle Beach Bum
- Muscles Are Meaningful
- Muscles Are Meaningless
- Outclassed at the Gym
- Pec Flex
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse
- Prisons Are Gymnasiums
- Temporary Bulk Change
- Weight Taller
- World of Muscle Men
- Workout Fanservice
