Basic Trope: An otherwise non-skeletal being has a body part that is bone.
- Straight: Alice has a skeletal right arm, despite being otherwise alive.
- Exaggerated:
- Multiple parts of Alice's body have turned into bone.
- Pretty much everything that's not Alice's vitals are turned to bone.
- Downplayed:
- The tip of Alice's finger is skeletal.
- Alice has some skeletal body parts, but is also a non-human/non-living being, so it's not too ubiquitous.
- Justified:
- Alice was cursed.
- Alice had a close encounter with Hollywood Acid and survived.
- Inverted: A skeleton has a part of their body still with skin and muscle on it.
- Subverted: Alice freaks someone out with her skeleton hand, but then takes off her glove.
- Double Subverted: An actual skeletal hand is beneath it.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody has any skeletal body parts.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "So, you don't have any flesh on your hands. How exactly do you hold things, Alice?" "Don't question it."
- Invoked: Alice agreed to a magical contract where the price was her right arm. However, she cleverly offered up her "flesh and skin", leaving out her bones.
- Exploited: Alice uses her right hand to pick up hazardous materials because there's no flesh to injure.
- Defied: Alice is so horrified by her skeletal arm that she immediately has it amputated.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Without tendons, muscles, and ligaments, Alice's skeletal arm can't really move and is basically dead weight. Bonus points if it's her dominant hand.
- Reconstructed: Cybernetic augmentations make Alice's skeletal arm functional again.
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