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{{trope}}
[[File:AtlasAwardLG.gif|frame|Lift with your legs, dude.]]
A strong or [[Super Strength|superstrong]] character picks up an object that is obviously too bulky, if not also too heavy, for him to carry properly. This character holds the object in question between his head and the supporting shoulder. This is at least [[Older Than Steam]], since the earliest atlas had Atlas in the Atlas Pose on the cover holding up the globe. The most famous incidence of this trope probabily the Atlas statue in front of the Rockefeller Center in New York city.
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Not to be confused with the "''Atlus'' pose", a look of sheer despair that one gets after staring at their [[Nintendo Hard|millionth]] [[Game Over]] screen in an [[Atlus]] game.
Bears minimal relation to ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'', though this pose is [[Title Drop|mentioned once]] and shows up on the cover of some versions.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Dragon Shiryuu in ''[[Saint Seiya]]'', when the tunnel underneath the Sagittarius House collapses and he stays behind to support it as the others escape.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* This pose is one of the iconic images of [[
* [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|The Thing]] has been known to do this when moving lab equipment around for Mr. Fantastic.
* The cover to ''[[
* [[Spider
== [[Film]] ==
* in ''[[The Incredibles
== [[Live
* There was a British sketch show from many years ago, the title of which has long since fled this troper's memory, which had a scene where a man was under the delusion that he was Atlas - so he was posing ''upside-down'' on the ground. Think about it.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Rayman 2:
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' has their very own superhero named Atlas. He died defending Paragon City during the sneak attack that started World War II, and was immortalized with a life-sized statue of
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Karate Bears
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In [[Chaotic]], a [[Combining Mecha]] that went on a rampage [[
* Done by ''Megatron'', of all bots, in episode 5 of ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' (but it's with {{spoiler|a chunk of Dark Energon}}).
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