Basic Trope: A character lacks a navel because of their unusual or artificial birth.
- Straight: Bob has no navel because he is a clone and was grown in a lab.
- Exaggerated: Bob doesn't have any non-necessary artifacts from fetal development: no navel, no nipples, no tailbone, etc.
- Downplayed: Bob's navel is unusually small because it developed incorrectly in the lab.
- Justified: Bob did not develop in a human womb, and as such, never had an umbilical cord.
- Subverted: Alice notices Bob's lack of a navel, and accuses him of being a lab-grown experiment. Bob explains that his navel was just removed during an abdominal surgery.
- Double Subverted: He doesn't mention that the abdominal surgery was to remove the false navel all homunculi are born with before it grows into an evil serpent.
- Parodied: ???
- Inverted: Most members of Bôzb's alien species hatch from eggs, but Bôzb has a navel, indicating that he's secretly a Half-Human Hybrid born to a human mother.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- All of characters have navels (or at least the humans and other placental creatures do).
- Bob's lack of navel is the result of a surgery, and no one assumes otherwise.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "As you can tell by my strangely bellybuttonless abdomen, I was grown in a lab."
- Invoked: The scientist in charge of growing Bob in the lab chooses not to give him a false belly button to make his status as the first lab-grown adult clone more visible.
- Exploited: Alice can tell apart the real Bob from his clones because the clones don't have bellybuttons.
- Defied: Bob gets surgery to construct a fake bellybutton.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: ???
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