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I would like to wonder if a trope too, but I wonder if it's too Chairs. In my case, I can cite an example of my head:
- In Slow Start, Hana is known to be rather bad at sports. This is due to her one-year stint as Rōnin, when she is mainly cooped at home studying, and became out of shape.
Yeah, "out of shape" by itself is a little weak — in Geek Physiques they are out of shape because they're nerdy, in Weight Woe being out of shape might be a motivation, in Formerly Fat or Formerly Fit being out of shape is a backstory element. "Getting in Shape Plot" might work.
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maybe i should elaborate, like SamCurt said, just "out of shape" is too chairsy. i mean like out of shape to a comical extent.
here's the video
i was talking about earlier. hololive is ostensibly made solely of idols, then you have this livestream come along showing that the red-headed one has terrible endurance to a comical degree.
i guess to throw another example out there, one of the more recent episodes of A Certain Scientific Railgun T has the main character and resident Ojou Sama invade the big bad guy's base. Main character breaks out into a sprint, looks behind her and finds Ojou Sama isn't there, freaks out over the possibility of her betrayal, and while she's doing that, Ojou Sama comes on screen in a limping jog looking like death.
weaponizing Dungeon Fighter Online elitism since 2018
Sucks at Dancing for the original example, but "comically out of shape" of the exhausted-after-one-push-up or coughing and wheezing after sprinting ten meters variety seems tropable, if we don't have it.
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it's not that she Sucks at Dancing, she just can't keep up because of a surprising lack of stamina, something the other girl in the video pokes fun at.
if i had more examples i'd try to run it through Trope Launch Pad, but i don't, so...
weaponizing Dungeon Fighter Online elitism since 2018
Yeah, Comically Out Of Shape might work as a gag. Would be related to Unimpressive Progress Reveal.
do we have a trope for people who just simply don't get enough exercise? the closest thing i've found so far is Geek Physiques and the example i have in mind (a supposed "idol" who, as her friends put it, "dances like an old lady") doesn't really fit that trope.