Basic Trope: A man with a buff upper body but a disproportionately smaller lower body.
- Straight: Big Bill has muscular arms and a broad torso but thin legs.
- Exaggerated: Big Bill's upper body is so muscular, his biceps have biceps; his legs, however, are downright bony.
- Downplayed: Big Bill's legs are small compared to his bulky body but can still realistically support his frame.
- Justified:
- Big Bill only focuses on his upper body when working out.
- … because he's paraplegic.
- Big Bill is a gorilla, penguin, or other non-human that naturally exhibits this trope.
- Inverted:
- Big Bill has a scrawny torso and sticks for arms but has ridiculously muscular legs.
- Hartman Hips
- Gender Inverted: Rippin' Roberta has a ridiculously big torso, yet a really tiny lower body.
- Subverted: Big Bill was merely wearing a prop to make his upper body look bigger than his lower body...
- Double Subverted: ...but Big Bill was also wearing pants that made his legs look larger than they really were.
- Parodied: Big Bill has the arms and chest of Superman but the legs of a stick figure.
- Zig Zagged: Big Bill's dimensions tend to fluctuate constantly.
- Averted: Big Bill's body is completely proportional.
- Enforced: The producers gave Big Bill a top heavy build to stand out among the other characters.
- Lampshaded: "With arms like these, who needs legs?"
- Invoked: Big Bill prefers sports that rely on the upper body and trained accordingly.
- Exploited: Annie kicks Big Bill in the knee and brings him down.
- Defied: Big Bill tries to exercise all his muscles including his leg muscles.
- Discussed: "Bill, you'd make a great boxer with a build like that!"
- Conversed: "How does a man with a body like that walk?" "Like a gorilla."
- Deconstructed:
- Big Bill's legs are too thin to properly support his upper body and suffered from health problems.
- His short legs mean he can't run as fast as a regular human being and he's discriminated against when it comes to jobs that require fast running.
- Reconstructed: Big Bill's legs are Stronger Than They Look and are able to support his body.
- 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.
- Played For Drama: Big Bill is a topheavy guy in a normally-proportioned universe, and is viewed as a deformed freak .
- Untwisted: Big Bill's thick legs turn out to be a waist down Power Armor. His real legs are small and scrawny.
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