Superhuman muscles that can stop bullets; would they look vastly different?

I've plans for somewhat 'realistic' (and that's already quite a stretch of the word) superhuman characters whose muscles have the strength, density, and tensile strength that can stop most low-powered firearms (probably a 9mm pistol at the most). I figured that strength and density doesn't play a huge role with stopping bullets, but do offer some defense against stabs and slashes (and the super strength thing). An object's tensile strength is usually what stops bullets, but a muscle's tensile strength is usually quite low (no matter how much you weightlift), so I was wondering if having bullet-stopping tensile strength on one's muscles would drastically change a character's physical characteristics? Specifically, would it change what they look like? Would they still even look human?

posted about 5 years ago

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