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Basic Trope: A person, usually a superhero, can literally stretch their bodies as if they were putty.

  • Straight: Fun Personified character turns into all sorts of shapes and noodles to stop the Big Bad while making wisecracks.
  • Exaggerated: Our hero, the opposition, and his mooks are all elastic.
  • Justified: Our hero is an alien who's race evolved into shape-shifters.
  • Inverted: Our hero is a crime fighting comedian who has pyrotechnic abilities or some other elemental power.
  • Subverted: Our hero has the power to totally control his own portals, and uses them to send attacks across the room with a trail suggesting elastic limbs. (How they are mistaken for changing shape is unknown)
  • Double Subverted: Portal guy gets elastic abilities after some kind of trope that would grant superpowers.
  • Parodied: "Superheroes" with as much physical elasticity as Jim Carrey are treated like they have actual stretching abilities.
  • Deconstructed: ???
  • Reconstructed: ???
  • Zig Zagged: The respected elastic ascended fanboy gets the job done perfectly after years of training, yet is still ridiculed by the greats he admired despite impressing them.
  • Averted: Our hero does not have powers or has different ones.
  • Enforced: "I like Plastic man, why not make this guy have his powers? ...What, no one likes 'Plas?"
  • Lampshaded: "Why do you think they call me Rubberman? It isn't because I erase crime from the streets, that's for sure!"
  • Invoked: "Hey, if I get to choose my own power, can I be stretchy? Like, all over?"
  • Defied: "Elastic powers? Me? Dude, no. Fire is a lot more awesome!"
  • Discussed: "So wait, you want a stretchy body to fight crime and have fun on the side, rather than do something rational with a different superpower?"
  • Conversed: "Did you see that guy there? He was moving so fluidly and he was elongating! Almost like he was a... a rubber man!" "Those creative writing classes aren't working for you, are they?"

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