# Muscleman > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Muscleman > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Muscleman.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscleman > Source revision: 1304055399 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Any man with well-developed muscles}} {{about||the manga series|Kinnikuman}} {{distinguish|Mussulman (disambiguation){{!}}Mussulman}} right|thumb|185px|A bodybuilder, Jacob Allmendinger, posing onstage during a competition. The pose is a variation of the "most muscular". [[Image:0 Écorché - Paulus Pontius - SNR - 3 PONTIUS - BNF (3).jpg|thumb|upright|Écorché by [Paulus Pontius](/source/Paulus_Pontius).]] '''Muscleman''' may denote any man with well-developed muscles, in particular a [bodybuilder](/source/bodybuilding). In art-related and anatomical contexts, the term is also used for a model in wax (or, in modern times, of unbreakable plastic material) showing the muscles of a man.Roberta Panzanelli, ed., ''Ephemeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure, with a translation of Julius von Schlosser's History of Portraiture in Wax'' (Getty Publications, 2008), p. 277. Such a figure showing the muscles of the human body without skin is also called [écorché](/source/%C3%A9corch%C3%A9). ==In popular culture== ''Muscleman'' is the translated title of Japanese manga series ''[Kinnikuman](/source/Kinnikuman)''. [M.U.S.C.L.E.](/source/M.U.S.C.L.E.) was a line of related collectible toy figures produced in the U.S. from 1985 to 1988. ==Notes== {{Reflist}} Category:Bodybuilding Category:Visual arts --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Muscleman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscleman) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscleman?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.