Stout Strength: Difference between revisions

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[[File:Heavy.jpg|link=Team Fortress 2|frame|[[No Indoor Voice|IT IS GOOD DAY TO BE]] '''[[Husky Russkie|GIANT MAN]]'''!]]

 

{{quote|''"Careful Fry, he's bulging with what could be muscle!"''|'''Leela''', '''''[[Futurama]]'''''}}

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Ryoukan Kurita in ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'', who is explicitly the strongest lineman in the country. There's also Niinobu Kasamatsu of the Taiyou Sphinx, who is incredibly squat and wide, but as a member of the Sphinx' powerful offensive line, is tremendously strong.

* In [[Poul Anderson]]'s [[Technic History]], space merchant tycoon Nicholas Van Rijn ''looks'' like a tub of lard, but most of that is muscle earned in a lifetime of hard work and brawling. One fellow ''bruised his knuckles'' punching van Rijn in the gut. And then van Rijn hit ''him'' ... just once ... and the lights went out. It's also been shown that he's fast enough to safely catch a tomahawk thrown at his face.

* [[Discworld]] series:

** To a lesser extent, Agnes Nitt in the Lancre Witches subseries. It takes her split personality to notice that she's much stronger than she believes herself to be, because the fat hides a lot of functional muscle mass.

*** Also notable is that her heavy build is considered desirable in Lancre, where a woman is expected to be able to carry a pig under each arm and a young man is given to consider the evidence of how well a family enjoys it's food. It is her emotional isolation and personality that keeps her single, not her looks.

**** Made even more badass by him being in his 70s. Witches and Wizards live longer than the human norm (generally capping out around 130), but age at the same rate other people do.

** The Upwright brothers, Harry and Jim, who run the Ankh-Morpork's mail carriages are this, with their apparent obesity looking even more so due to their heavy clothing.

*** ''Going Postal'' is rife with these characters, in fact. Though it serves no real purpose other than to highlight his threat and contrast him with Moist, Reacher Gilt is described as wearing clothes fit for two men and being capable (though he deliberately refrains from it) of a bonecrushing handshake.

** Lady Sybil as well, capable of whacking a werewolf with an iron bar so hard that '''she bends the bar'''.

 

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