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Heavyworlders

Actually thinking about it, I wish more scifi stuff would use heavyworlders. And in a sympathetic way, not making them idiot brutes like Anne mcaffrey did in like dinosaur planet iirc. (it's been thirty years).

Like... the only show I can think of that played with the idea is fucking Fugitive Alien (Star Wolf) -and that's MST3K stuff! Ken has relative super strength in regular gravity because he's an earthling raised high G.

It's a fun concept! Like it's way more plausible than 'powered by a yellow sun' or whatever. And it has a certain amount of stakes since it takes work to maintain and it's still just... human strength. No magic or super technology, just a human body fighting to stand up in huge gravity.

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Shit wait I CAN think of one

John Carter of fucking Mars

He's super strong on Mars because Earth is a relative heavy-world. He's as strong as any of the giant four armed tharks.

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balketh
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This isn't me bein' like what you said in the tags, I promise, because it's an odd one to mention, and I think it's kinda interesting! It's not considered Sci-fi as its major genre, but it definitely is one that does this: The Dragon Ball universe!

The accrual of strength/power seems to predominantly be limited by species, with Saiyans being aliens whose bodies (for various reasons) can withstand vastly increased stressors, and are also then able to become stronger, to the extent of being superhuman and beyond.

There are Other Reasons for power in that specific universe, but it IS shown that training under high gravity makes someone akin to a heavyworlder, if they can survive it. IDK if there's any specific species shown that comes from a high-gravity world and are powerful for it, but its elements definitely exist in the series!

Completely agree, too, that it's such a cool concept.

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The Expanse does this pretty well with the Earther/Belter (i.e. born in the asteroid belt) divide, though kind of in the opposite direction? They're long and thin, and it's only possible for them to survive without massive bone loss via a drug cocktail for the first few years of life. Going to Earth is also not possible, so there's some interesting cultural consequences as a result.

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