Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
116,470
edits
Acrofatic: Difference between revisions
"comic strips"->"newspaper comics", merged "card games" into "tabletop games"
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) ("comic strips"->"newspaper comics", merged "card games" into "tabletop games") |
|||
Line 2:
[[File:Rufus Acrofatic 1456.jpg|link=Street Fighter|frame|His kung-fu is stronger. And fatter.]]
{{quote|''"For someone who cannot see his feet, you are very light on them!"''
|'''Prince Naveen''', ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]''}}
Simply put, a fat character who can maneuver like a gymnast, sprint like an Olympic runner, or kick your ass like [[Chuck Norris]], despite being... you know... fat. These characters are also usually [[Lightning Bruiser]]s, although [[Fragile Speedster]]s are not unheard of. May intersect with [[Stout Strength]] for characters who aren't actually fat, but rather very musclebound. Originally just made to subvert the idea of [[Mighty Glacier]].
Line 13 ⟶ 14:
{{examples}}
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[The Breaker]]: New Waves'' [http://www.mangareader.net/the-breaker-new-waves/28/10 Right here.]
* Subverted in ''[[Dragon Ball]]'', because every notable fighter in the series in that show are fast and agile
Line 49:
* Iwado the fat judoka from ''[[Holyland]]''. The notes point out that many underestimate the speed of judoka.
* Mr. Legend from ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' was the first Superhero ever and inspired the main character to become a superhero himself. Acts like Superman and has a Superman-like suit, but is fat and in his late 40s when he appears—however he's nonetheless the most badass Superhero out of all.
* The ''[[Ninja Burger]]'' card game, brought to you by Steve Jackson of ''[[GURPS]]'', is about ninja who run a burger delivery service. One ninja takes full advantage of the company discount, and therefore only climbs as well as an Olympic athlete. He does have the weakest climb stat in the game, since the missions are [[Nintendo Hard]]: 30 minutes from our franchise to honorable customer's secret location in Roswell or we commit seppuku!▼
== Comic Books ==
Line 68 ⟶ 64:
* Tobias Whale, an [[Evil Albino]] giant from [[The DCU]] (and [[Alternate Company Equivalent]] of the Kingpin), is regularly able to outmaneuver and outfight Black Lightning, a former Olympic athlete.
* ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire]]''. Buck is huge because he comes from a high-gravity planet, and yet surprisingly quick.
* ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]''. For such a fat cat, he can run like the wind when he really wants to.▼
== Films -- Animation ==
Line 80 ⟶ 71:
* In Disney's ''[[Mulan]]'', Chin Po went from anxiously balancing on poles above water to gracefully cartwheeling over them during training. See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTqIsB98a1E here] at 2:46 and 4:16.
* In ''[[A Goofy Movie|An Extremely Goofy Movie]]'', Pete's rather overweight son PJ shows some surprising dexterity on a bike, a skateboard, and on the dance floor.
== Films -- Live-Action ==
Line 99 ⟶ 89:
* John Belushi as Jake Blues in ''[[The Blues Brothers]]''. A singing, dancing, ''backflipping'' genius.
* Eddie Valiant from ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', especially in his song and dance number. Most impressive of all is when he performs several backflips across the floor of the Acme Gag Factory, despite wearing ''a hat, coat, and trousers''!
== Literature ==
Line 109 ⟶ 98:
* In the [[Star Wars]] book ''The Planet of Twilight'' there is a Hutt who uses a lightsaber quite effectively against Leia. She even comments to herself about how fast he can move for such a massive creature. He of course loses, leading to a very squicky description of what happens to a Hutt's body when it's sliced open by a lightsaber.
* Sergeant Garcia from the [[Zorro]]-stories is a good swordsman and strong, agile and fit enough to be a credible threat to The Fox himself. He is also a distinctly pudgy [[Big Eater]].
== Live-Action TV ==
Line 117 ⟶ 105:
* Who can forget [[Chris Farley]] ice-skating on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''?
* Sammo in ''[[Martial Law]]''.
== Music Videos ==
* Arthur the miner, from the video for The Avalanches' "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUyKdaNKHzo Since I Left You]".
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]''. For such a fat cat, he can run like the wind when he really wants to
== Pro Wrestling ==
Line 132 ⟶ 121:
* [[Mark Henry]] '''was''' an example of this trope. He could hit a sun set flip then lift a 500 pound man off the ground and hold him in [[Bear Hug]]. Injuries severely decreased his mobility [[Real Life Writes the Plot|sadly]], now he's only stronger than everybody else.
* NXT Rookie Husky Harris (son of Irwin R. Schyster) is described as "an Army Tank with a Ferrari Engine," and has quite the speed and vertical leap.
== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[GURPS]]'', having a Fat or Very Fat character give you no penalties to acrobatics and agility, at least not directly.
* The ''Book of Vile Darkness'' from ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' introduces a feat called "Deformity (Obese)" in which a character becomes "grossly overweight... now at least triple the normal weight of creatures of her kind." To be fair this feat does come with a -2 to Dexterity since someone of that size would have a harder time moving around, but really, in terms of ''D&D'', -2 Dexterity is a very minimal penalty and doesn't do much to stop a character from performing crazy feats of acrobatics and agility if they gain them with other feats or class abilities.
▲* The ''[[Ninja Burger]]'' card game, brought to you by Steve Jackson of ''[[GURPS]]'', is about ninja who run a burger delivery service. One ninja takes full advantage of the company discount, and therefore only climbs as well as an Olympic athlete. He does have the weakest climb stat in the game, since the missions are [[Nintendo Hard]]: 30 minutes from our franchise to honorable customer's secret location in Roswell or we commit seppuku!
== Video Games ==
Line 163 ⟶ 151:
** Big the Cat also qualifies. He's enormously fat but also [[Stout Strength|superhumanly strong]], and in ''[[Sonic Heroes]]'' he has no problems navigating the loop-de-loops with his teammates.
* Luther from the ''[[SSX]]'' games. Obese? Definitely. Capable of decatuple backflips under the right circumstances? Oh yeah.
* ''[[Warcraft]]''{{'}}s pandaren are a whole race fitting this trope. They are large and stocky creatures, often even depicted with large bellies which by human standards would qualify as heavily overweight, yet:
{{quote|''Pandaren have a long tradition of mystic warfare and are exceedingly strong and agile. The traditional pandaren fighting style focuses upon mobility, speed and precision, as well as stunning acrobatic tricks.''|[http://www.wowwiki.com/Pandaren The WoWWiki]}}
* Executioner Smough from ''[[Dark Souls]]''; this Boss is not only fat, he's weighed down by full plate armor, yet can still make some pretty impressive leaps and [[Ground Pound]] attacks while swinging his massive hammer. He's not as fast and agile as [[Dual Boss|his slimmer partner, Ornstein]], but he's still a force to be reckoned with.
Line 195 ⟶ 183:
* Murphy from ''Neko the Kitty'' [http://nekothekitty.smackjeeves.com/comics/1241219/863-the-world-is-my-physics-puzzle/ uses fat instead of muscle].
* Butch R. Mann of ''[[Chopping Block]]'' varies between this and just plain fat, depending on the joke. In general, he gains a massive boost of strength and speed when his life is in danger.
== Western Animation ==
| |||