INCREDIBLE VALOR, RESPECTABLE MUSCLES!
Not just strong and not necessarily big, but tropes about having good muscle tone; being physically fit and trim, having a brawny physique unhidden by fat or about gaining said physique like from working out, especially in a gym. Also about being tough and forceful as if with muscle.
Compare Skeletal Tropes, Fight Scene (where muscles come in handy), Masculinity Tropes.
Tropes:
- Adaptational Curves
- Amazonian Beauty: A beautiful muscular woman.
- Asymmetrically Jacked
- Beauty, Brains, and Brawn
- Bicep Kiss
- Bicep-Polishing Gesture
- The Big Guy: The strong member of the team.
- Brains and Brawn
- Brawn Hilda
- Bruiser with a Soft Center
- The Brute: A villainous team's muscular enforcer.
- Clark Kent Outfit
- Dumb Muscle: Strong and stupid.
- Fake Muscles
- Fat Flex
- Final Battle-Induced Shirt Loss
- Fitness Nut: Someone obsessed with working out and staying healthy.
- Flexing Those Non-Biceps
- Genius Bruiser: Strong and smart.
- Gentle Giant: Enormous and strong, but kind.
- Growing Muscles Sequence
- Gym Bunny
- Heavyworlder
- Heroic Build
- Hulking Out
- Hunk: A strong and stunning man.
- Lightning Bruiser: Strong and fast.
- Macho Camp
- Mechanical Muscles: Robots who appear muscular.
- Mr. Fanservice
- Muscle Angst
- Muscle Beach Bum
- Muscles Are Meaningful
- Muscles Are Meaningless: Muscularity has no bearing on a character’s strength.
- Outclassed at the Gym
- Pec Flex
- Phasmophobic Bruiser
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Tiny, but strong.
- Prisons Are Gymnasiums: Working out and getting buff while incarcerated.
- Temporary Bulk Change
- Weight Taller
- Workout Fanservice
- World of Muscle Men
