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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8069916" data-attributes="member: 7023840">So, back to the point you made, which I think you are (correctly) clarifying.There is a correlation between size and strength. Still, and obviously. In fantasy. In modern fantasy. However you want to put it, and however elastically you define the terms. It's a normal visual cue that someone has gotten &quot;stronger&quot; by getting &quot;bigger&quot; and always has been- from Bane to Hulk (superheroes); and Hercules is almost always depicted with a large physique:Schwarzenegger, Sorbo, The Rock, and so on. Hardly small guys! Even &quot;Young Hercules&quot; was played by a pretty buff Ryan Gosling. But I do agree with you that there is a premium on dexterity and agility. It's just not .... new. The idea of the protagonist defeating the bigger, stronger baddie with agility and smarts is as old as time. It's appearance in movies predates even Errol &quot;Not a BodyBuilder&quot; Flynn's swashbuckling. So .... yeah. Not sure where your original statement came from. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 8069916, member: 7023840"] So, back to the point you made, which I think you are (correctly) clarifying. There is a correlation between size and strength. Still, and obviously. In fantasy. In modern fantasy. However you want to put it, and however elastically you define the terms. It's a normal visual cue that someone has gotten "stronger" by getting "bigger" and always has been- from Bane to Hulk (superheroes); and Hercules is almost always depicted with a large physique: Schwarzenegger, Sorbo, The Rock, and so on. Hardly small guys! Even "Young Hercules" was played by a pretty buff Ryan Gosling. But I do agree with you that there is a premium on dexterity and agility. It's just not .... new. The idea of the protagonist defeating the bigger, stronger baddie with agility and smarts is as old as time. It's appearance in movies predates even Errol "Not a BodyBuilder" Flynn's swashbuckling. So .... yeah. Not sure where your original statement came from. :) [/QUOTE]

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