Carpet of Virility/Playing With

Basic Trope: A Rated "M" for Manly character is hairy.
 * Played Straight: Bob Badass has a hairy chest visible during his Shirtless Scene.
 * Exaggerated:
 * Bob is covered by a thick pelt everywhere.
 * Bob is the Trope Codifier for Testosterone Poisoning.
 * Justified:
 * More testosterone = more body hair
 * Inverted:
 * Bob Badass has a smooth chest, though the rest of his boddy is very hairy.
 * Bob has a hairy chest, but he's very sensitive and Weaksauce Weakness personified.
 * Gender Inverted: Alice is a very hairy woman, which she may or may not feel self-conscious about.
 * Subverted:
 * Bob does all these Badass Action Hero things, but no attention is drawn to his chest.
 * Bob has a hairy chest, but waxes it.
 * Double Subverted:
 * Until a brief Shirtless Scene or nude scene comes on, and Bob's chest hair is visible.
 * Only because he's a competitive swimmer and has to wax everything to attain higher speeds; it's not something he'd do otherwise.
 * Deconstructed:
 * Reconstructed:
 * Parodied:
 * Bob is mistaken for Big Foot because he's so hairy.
 * Bob feels self-conscious, as body hair goes out of style, and heads to a salon for Wax On, Wax Scream
 * Lampshaded: "Bob, could you put a sweater on or something? That chest rug of yours is too pornographic for my eyes."
 * Averted: Bob is a smooth-chested Bishounen
 * Enforced: "We need to show that this guy is so Badass that he sweats testosterone! Let's give him a nice chest rug!"
 * Invoked: Bob starts taking anabolic steroids, and this is an unintended side effect.
 * Defied: Bob doesn't like body hair, and so removes it.
 * Discussed:
 * Conversed:
 * Played For Laughs: See "Parodied"
 * Played For Drama: As body hair goes out of style, Bob gets teased for being hairy.

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