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Gaining more body strength results in you losing a propotional amount of intellegence for it in exchange, inverse of that is true as well.Playing With page:
Basic Trope: Gaining strength would result in losing propotional amounts of intellegence for it and vice versa.- Straight:
- Bob decides that he wants to become stronger but in the process of doing so, He ends up gradually losing a propotional amount of intellegence for it and ends up becoming simple-minded.
- Bob decides that he wants to get smarter, However, While going in the process of doing so, He ends up getting gardually and propotionally weaker as to how much knowdlege and milage he gains.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob gains Super-Strength after Training from Hell, but loses so much intelligence he forgets how to speak.
- Bob ends up deciding to get smarter and at the end of the day he ends up becoming a super genius, But at the expense of becoming too weak to even stand on two legs properly.
- Downplayed:
- Bob decides to read a book, but when he goes to pick up the packages from the mail, he takes a bit longer than he usually does to carry them inside.
- Bob runs a quick workout routine, but ends up failing his next test.
- Justified:
- After becoming stronger, Bob ends up spending less effort on using his intellegence for doing stuff due to his newfound strength already covering that, Thus ending up as a Dumb Jock.
- After while getting more intellegent, Bob spends less and less time on working out his physique and thus gradually ends up with a one that's much weaker than before.
- Inverted: Getting stronger makes you smarter, while if you're dumb you'd be weak.
- Subverted: Bob is only pretending to have gotten dumber so he could get on the bad guy more easily.
- Double Subverted: ...But he doesn't realize that he's not fooling anybody with that act, and infact has ended up unnecessarily making himelf look even more stupider by doing so.
- Played For Laughs: Bob, Who's the brightest but also the cockiest in his class ends up becoming a total idiot who can't even spell his own full name right anymore after gaining more body strength, and he gets mocked for that afterwards.
- Played For Drama: Bob ends up drinking a super-serum that gives him more body strength at the expense of him becoming mentally retarded permanantly.
UGH, Who needs tropes?, I have huge muscles now and that's what all matters.
