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{{quote|''So [[Adolf Hitler|I]] [[Those Wacky Nazis|surrounded myself with some unusual cats]]
''There was [[Lean and Mean|skinny little Goebbels]] and Goering, Mr. Fats.''
|[[Mel Brooks]], ''[[To Be or Not to Be|The Hitler Rap]]''.}}
Also called ''fatbastarditis''. Once a television character reaches a certain level of tubbiness, the show they are in will lose all sympathy for them. It is generally assumed that overweight people are either pathetic, obnoxious losers or [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]s. They also tend to be portrayed as ludicrously obsessive eaters. Furthermore, most are portrayed as [[Fat Slob|lazy, having poor hygiene, bad grooming, and no fashion sense]]. Glandular conditions, genetic tendencies, a natural endomorph body type, and low metabolism are treated as lame excuses alongside the "I'm just big-boned" mold.
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Interestingly, some comedians ([[Straw Traitor|usually fat ones]]) complain about [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]] when it comes to fat jokes... although the sheer quantity of recent examples we have amassed tend to disagree on this front. Obesity is so universally seen as a negative character trait that it's relatively common for characters to be given some [[Adaptational Attractiveness]] to offset this fact.
Compare [[Big Eater]] and [[Villainous Glutton]] (often with [[Jabba Table Manners]]). '''Fat Bastard''' and [[Big Eater]] are usually (but not always) mutually exclusive. While '''Fat Bastard''' is often fairly ugly, the [[Big Eater]] usually has a somewhat pleasant appearance. This is because the first character is played for villainy and the second for laughs. [[Dead Weight]] is this type... {{
This trope is named after the character from the ''[[Austin Powers]]'' movies. He epitomizes this trope to such a ridiculous extreme that it qualifies as parody.
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* ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' had a lot of fat characters, but several truly stand out. The most famous of them is Mr. Heart, who is ten feet tall, and so fat that if you punch him 'your fist gets stuck up to the elbow.' He is famous for being the first villain to present a challenge and actually do damage to the main hero. Then there's Galf, who looks like an evil version of Mr. Weatherbee from Archie comics, who is obsessed with his dogs. The second series includes Geira, an obese Jabba the Hutt-esque man who hypnotizes people, and Gyoko, a man so fat that he sinks into the ground when he walks.
* In ''[[Death Note]]'', there's Demegawa, the corrupt TV producer and presenter. His greed and corruptness make one of Light's plans fail. Moreover, as Kira grows in power and influence, he throws himself wholeheartedly into the role of [[Professional Butt-Kisser]] when it becomes clear who's in charge.
* ''[[Dragonball Z]]'': Fat Buu ''seems'' to be this... but while [[Psychopathic Manchild|fat and childish]], [[Obliviously Evil|he is not intentionally cruel]] and, in the end, winds up [[Heel Face Turn|as one of the good guys.]]
** Definitely an inversion, as he gets ''eviler'' as he gets thinner, from Fat Buu, to the trim-but-buff Super Buu who is evil but at least has a sense of purpose and a tiny germ of honor, to half-pint Kid Buu who's just a [[Complete Monster]] [[Omnicidal Maniac]].
* [[General Ripper|General Regius Gaiz]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS'', though his portrayed evil traits of power-hungriness and petty jealousy turned out to have stemmed from [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|well-intentioned reasons that sort of got overblown]] when he rose in power and got manipulated [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness|by the people who saw him as a useful puppet]]. One [http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z45/thekrazycow/StrikerS_nano/strikers_nano161.png 4koma strip], based around the scene at the end of Episode 23 when Zest confronts him with a picture of the two and asks what happened to the justice he hoped to pursue, has Zest also ask what happened to his muscles.
* Haruka Nishiharu from ''[[Girls Saurus]]'', until she's forced go through a miracle diet. She still remains a pretty violent [[Tsundere]] afterwards.
* The Major from ''[[Hellsing]]''.
* Averted with Kurita from ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'', who is both one of the heaviest characters in the series and [[Gentle Giant|one of the nicest]].
* Fat Buttcha from ''[[Air Gear]]''. The guy (when first introduced) takes this term to a new extreme: apparently his "fat" is nothing more than a pool of blood, blood that he can subsequently pump into his arms. The Bastard part? Ikki thinks that he can will a race against Buttcha because the guy is so fat, but the latter tells the former that (in his mini-hulk mode) he is just thin enough to fit down the alley they both need to pass through, but fat enough that no one can get around him.
* Taikon from the fourth ''[[Bleach]]'' movie.
* Averted to the extreme in ''[[The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer]]''. While Shimaki is fat, he is very smart, competent, and probably the most valuable member of the group he's in. Hell the fact that he is fat is barely even addressed in the series since it's just a physical characteristic and not part of his personality.
* [[Depraved Homosexual|Captain]] [[Complete Monster|Continental]] in ''[[Legend of the Blue Wolves]]''.
* Nakai in ''[[Bakuman｡]]'' used to be sympathetic despite being overweight. But then he [[Took a Level in Jerkass]] and starts being manipulative once success starts going to his head, which disgusts the woman he viewed as his love interest. He ultimately gets [[Put on a Bus]] and moves back home with his mother. {{spoiler|By the time he returns from his bus trip, he's even more overweight, has an even more repulsive personality and is currently working with the current antagonist of the series.}}
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[X-Men]]'':
**
** Dialed [[Up to Eleven]] with the [[Ultimate Universe]] version of the Blob, to the point where he once paused during an attack on the <s>Avengers</s> Ultimates' mansion to raid the fridge. Less funny was the time he was discovered [[I'm a Humanitarian|eating]] the Wasp's corpse.
** Also from X-Men is the alien Mojo, a sort of fat evil television executive.
** When Shadow King possessed Karma for several months in ''New Mutants'', she became ludicrously bloated through Farouk's gluttony. She got better, thanks to the Desert Starvation Diet.
*** Amahl Farouk's original body was also obese. One version of the Shadow King's origin states that he not truly Farouk, but an ancient demon and Farouk was simply another victim of his body theft. Whichever is true, it seems uncontrolled weight gain is a side effect of this villain's [[Demonic Possession]].
* Shape from [[Supreme Power]], who is also a [[Rubber Man]].
* The writers of [[Marvel Universe]] never seem to be able to decide just what the deal is with the Kingpin. He's an incredibly huge person, but depending on the writer this is because his muscles are so huge they make him look fat or that he's a greedy slob with no sense of control. Some split the difference and write that he's got incredibly powerful arm and leg muscles but is fat everywhere else because of overeating--[[Fridge Logic|ignoring the more medically likely explanation that, like sumo wrestlers, he is well-muscled everywhere, but eats enough to maintain a significant layer of padding on top of it]].
** Whatever the explanation, it doesn't stop [[Spider-Man]] from going to town on him for it, at one point responding to being told that Kingpin was planning a huge operation using most of his available mercenaries by commenting, "Oh, he must be getting take-out."
*** Another example from Spider-Man's corner of the MU would be Nick Katzenberg, a Daily Bugle photographer and professional rival to Peter Parker. While not evil, Katzenberg was sleazy, immoral, and generally unpleasant.
* Also in the [[Marvel Universe]] is Ulysses X. Lugman, aka the Slug; a Miami drug
* Another Marvel example is Douglas Carmody, one of ''[[Power Pack]]''{{'}}s few recurring bad guys. A fat, middle aged, balding, jobless, [[Fantastic Racism]] fueled, ex-bureaucrat who barely fits in his low-end [[Power Armor]] that manages to remain one of the group's biggest threats simply because he knows their secret identity, fights them one at a time and is not afraid to trick the small children. {{spoiler|This is taken to an extreme during ''[[Inferno (Comic Book)|Inferno]]'' when [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|he's thrown into limbo and demons eat his "greasy" soul away]] turning him into a grotesque obese shark monster.}}
* Allfather D'Aronique from ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'' is fat to the point that his personal aircraft inevitably sustains damage landing. On the top of that, he's also bulimic. As such, D'Aronique has no qualms about [[Jabba Table Manners|messily gorging himself with food and then vomiting all over himself in front of his subordinates]].
* ''[[Brewster Rockit: Space Guy]]'' - Cliff Clewless. The idea is in his name. He's supposed to be the station's engineer, but knows nothing beyond making an idiot of himself (though not the same level as Brewster, whose stupidity is beyond measure), lazing around, and causing trouble to himself and his crew mates.▼
* The cynical fatty tabby, ''[[Garfield]]''. Other than abusing Odie and making his owner's life hell, he does nothing but eat and sleep.▼
▲* ''Brewster Rockit: Space Guy'' - Cliff Clewless. The idea is in his name. He's supposed to be the station's engineer, but knows nothing beyond making an idiot of himself (though not the same level as Brewster, whose stupidity is beyond measure), lazing around, and causing trouble to himself and his crew mates.
* [[Corrupt Politician]] Amanda Waller is one in most adaptations of ''[[Justice League]]''.
* Both Roark brothers in the comic version of ''[[Sin City]]'' are overweight and look unhygenic. Herr Wallenquist also has this look. They are all extremely evil crimebosses.
** A lesser example would be Agammemnon, the sleazy porn-obsessed boss of Dwight and later, Wallace. He was an art dealer that was overweight, ugly, and smelled bad. He didn't pay well, either.
* [[Spawn]] has a few Fat Bastard enemies:
* Subverted with Sam from [[Spawn]]. While he basically caters to every single characteristic of the trope, he's as good a guy as they come who always strives to right wrongs. The bastard tendencies tend to be directed towards bad guys.▼
** Violator, whose usual human form is a short, fat, ugly clown. While he is a shapeshifter who can make himself look like any type of human, he prefers the clown as a way to mock humans, whom he considers to be disgusting and insignificant creatures.
** Billy Kincaid, child-murderer and pedophile; he was a Fat Bastard when he was alive, and still is one as a demon.
▲** Subverted with Sam,
* For a while, Lex Luthor from ''[[Superman]]'' was drawn as one of these, looking quite a bit like a less-heavy Kingpin. Makes quite a bit of sense, as it really plays off of his envy for Superman by making him overweight while Supes is of course built like a god.
* In one ''[[The Punisher|Punisher]]'' story, [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix4/medaillonpun.htm| Medallion] was a lot like Lugman, only with far less humor involved. Believing himself to be a "criminal mastermind", he was more like a crazy and paranoid megalomaniac, possibly suffering from ADD and a very bad diet.[[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain| Even Frank considered him a big joke.]] Like most foes of the Punisher, he didn't survive past the arc he was introduced.
* ''[[Dick Tracy (comic strip)|Dick Tracy]]'' villain Oodles; one strip where he weighed himself had him at 465 lbs (without his guns) and ''happy'' because that meant he lost weight!▼
== Fan
* [[Rouge Angles of Satin|Councilmen]] Arnold of ''[[Soulless shell|
* [[Sadist Teacher|Mr. Davidson]] in ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew No Hope Left]]''. He "talks about George Bush and shit" and shoots aliens in the leg.
* {{spoiler|Sasuke}}, [[Estrogen Brigade Bait|of all people]] in ''[[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]]''. His evil scheme involves, among other things, turning everyone in the shinobi nations fat.
* The Rookie Crusher from ''[[Pokémon: Reset Bloodlines]]'' is an unpleasant, rotund brute of a man who loves nothing more than crushing the dreams of fledgling Pokémon trainers by humiliating them in the Indigo League's highly publicized battles. When Ash beats him fair-and-square, he throws an unsightly temper tantrum and accuses him of cheating, refusing to believe that he had been outmatched and outplayed.
== Film ==
* Played with in ''[[WALL-E]]''. After centuries of living in a low-gravity environment, being waited on hand and foot by robots, and near-constant bombardment by [[Mega Corp|Buy 'n' Large's]] consumer culture run rampant, every human aboard the ''Axiom'' is fat, slothful (both physically and mentally), and almost helpless... until the title character shows up and shakes up the status quo. And being fat and almost completely out of shape doesn't stop the Captain from {{spoiler|stopping the rogue autopilot from taking over the ship and making sure the ''Axiom'' gets back to Earth.}} Nor does it stop the rest of them from {{spoiler|rebuilding civilization on Earth, which, as depicted during the end credits, results in them becoming fitter and stronger...but still quite fat!}}▼
** Interestingly, aside from the obvious infantilism of the human race by this point from being overly coddled by their own technology, they're not really shown as degenerate, just ignorant. As well, take a close look at the dates on the Captain photos when they scroll by about 43 minutes into the film. Even though they're getting fatter and more helpless, the captains are living longer (presumably, all the humans are similarly long-lived). While they were [[Well-Intentioned Extremist
▲* Played with in ''[[WALL-E]]''. After centuries of living in a low-gravity environment, being waited on hand and foot by robots, and near-constant bombardment by [[Mega Corp|Buy 'n' Large's]] consumer culture run rampant, every human aboard the Axiom is fat, slothful (both physically and mentally), and almost helpless... until the title character shows up and shakes up the status quo. And being fat and almost completely out of shape doesn't stop the Captain from {{spoiler|stopping the rogue autopilot from taking over the ship and making sure the Axiom gets back to Earth.}} Nor does it stop the rest of them from {{spoiler|rebuilding civilization on Earth, which, as depicted during the end credits, results in them becoming fitter and stronger...but still quite fat!}}
* ''[[Monsters
▲** Interestingly, aside from the obvious infantilism of the human race by this point from being overly coddled by their own technology, they're not really shown as degenerate, just ignorant. As well, take a close look at the dates on the Captain photos when they scroll by about 43 minutes into the film. Even though they're getting fatter and more helpless, the captains are living longer (presumably, all the humans are similarly long-lived). While they were [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Well Intentioned Extremists]] the robots really did their job taking care of humanity.
▲* ''Monsters Vs. Aliens'': In the early concept art, the alien villain Gallaxhar was originally designed to be an obese, four armed alien woman.
* Sykes in ''[[Shark Tale]]''.
* King Malbert in ''[[Igor]]''.
* ''[[Wonder Woman (animation)|Wonder Woman]]''{{'}}s depiction of Hades.
* Pete in all of his roles in [[Disney]] stuff is incredibly fat and an incredible bastard.
** Interestingly averted in ''[[Goof Troop]]'', where Pete is still a fat bastard but his son P.J., who's shaped pretty much like him (but with less of the ugly) is a really nice kid.
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* The corrupt mayor, after eating one too many falling cheeseburgers and hotdogs from ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]''.
* The Big City Agent from ''[[The Trumpet of the Swan]]''.
* Anyone and everyone played by Sidney Greenstreet, though they usually softened the blow by being [[Affably Evil]]. The most famous is Kasper Gutman (no, really) in ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]''.
** Bonus points as Gutman is called "The Fat Man" by the characters.
* Most of the characters played by Laird Cregar, perhaps most memorably the prissy chocoholic villain Willard Gates in ''This Gun for Hire''.
* Jabba the Hutt of ''[[Star Wars]]'' fame. Yes, he's an alien, but he was originally supposed to just be a fat hairy
* The cruel and corrupt Porky from the ''[[Porky's]]'' series of movies.
* Rasputia from ''[[Norbit]]''.
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* George from ''[[Mean Creek]]'' played by Josh Peck.
* Just in case anyone missed it in the opening paragraphs, Fat Bastard from the ''[[Austin Powers]]'' films is the [[Trope Namer]]. He weighs a metric ton and [[Eats Babies]].
* ''[[Blade (film)|Blade]]'' - Pearl, the morbidly obese blob of a vampire record keeper. Heck, the only record keeping she keeps is her mouth! Might have been the basis for Balthazar in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
** That character was supposed to be a ''woman''? I thought it was just a guy with a high voice.
** He is. He's supposed to be a femme gay. Blade even said, "If HE moves, fry HIM."
* ''[[Overdrawn at the Memory Bank]]'' had "really,
* ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' has exactly
▲* ''[[Overdrawn at the Memory Bank]]'' had "really, REALLY big brother". Can someone please turn off the revolving fat man?
▲* ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' has exactly ONE fat prisoner. Don't remember him much? That's because he's the one that breaks down crying on his first night, and is promptly beaten to death by the guards.
* ''[[The Commitments]]'' about an Irish R&B group has lead singer Deco an obnoxious and egomaniacal lout.
* Mr. Creosote from ''[[Monty Python's The Meaning of Life]]''. He is ''unquestionably'' fat, and also rather rude to the restaurant staff. If going out of your way to puke on them isn't poor etiquette...
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* Gorge in ''[[Gamer]]''.
* Dennis Nedry from ''[[Jurassic park]]'' is not only obese, but is also quite unpleasant and whiny and decides to shut down Jurassic Park's security system so he can run off with a bunch of dinosaur embryos to sell on the black market. Needless to say, [[Laser-Guided Karma|the guy does NOT leave the park alive.]]
* In ''[[Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves]]'', Themberchaud is an obese dragon (Holga remarks that he is "pudgy" but it's sarcasm). He can't fly and can't move as fast as a typical dragon, but unfortunately for the heroes, ''that'' is still ''much'' faster than a human can run...
== Literature ==
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* ''[[Billy Bunter]]'' has got to be one of the archetypes for this trope, having made his first appearance in 1908 and becoming so well-known that his name was long used as an insult for real life Fat Bastards (in the UK). Comically greedy, snobbish, dishonest, inept, self-centred, lazy, stupid, mean, cowardly and always, always on the scrounge, he provided the perfect foil for his upright and honest classmates and became so popular that he eventually took on the [[Ensemble Darkhorse|title role]] for the series.
* ''[[Harry Potter]]''
** The male Dursleys, particularly Dudley. Indeed, in Dudley's introductions in the first book, Rowling spends nearly as much time going over how fat he is as she does over his actual bullying of Harry. Rowling did eventually become uncomfortable with how she was using this trope to equate evil with being overweight, and eventually gave Dudley enough physical training for him to be a competent boxer. Of course, then in the last book Dudley turns out to be halfway decent at the last second, so...
** Peter Pettigrew, evil murderous traitor extraordinaire, is described as having been fat or 'chubby' in his youth, though when they first see him as an adult he has the look of 'having lost a great deal of weight in a short amount of time' which is equally unflattering.
** Umbridge is described as having rolls of fat. [[Adaptational Attractiveness|She is much thinner in the movies.]]
* Terry Pratchett lampshades this in ''[[
* Basu, [[The Morbidly Obese Ninja]] from the novel of the same name by [[Carlton Mellick III]]. when he was lean he was the deadliest ninja in town, after he reached 700 pounds of weight, he also became the meanest. {{spoiler|post-character development he's more a Fat Bastard [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|with a heart of gold]].}}
* [[Dune|Baron Harkonnen]]'s girth is used alongside his [[Depraved Bisexual|sexual deviancy]] and torture of slaves to emphasize [[Complete Monster|how disgusting a person he is]].
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* Augustus Gloop from ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]''.
** And how. Like all the kids in the book he's an [[Anvilicious]] [[Aesop]], in his case about gluttony. Alongside [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|avarice, sloth, and...]] [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|gum-chewing]]. Hmm.
* Early in the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'', Warlord Zsinj was an enemy of the New Republic and one of the very few humans in Star Wars described as overweight at all. His portrayal in ''[[The Courtship of Princess Leia]]'' showed him as venal, highly evil, self-important, and very, very [[Fat Idiot|stupid]]. His successes seem to be all related to the size of his fleet and the programs his scientists set up. The ''[[X Wing Series]]'' [[Retcon
** Hutts, which are specifically said to be lithe and muscular when young and become progressively more obese as they grow older and gather more power, are almost universally disgusting. Almost. There's some record that a Hutt was once a very fair and very popular Chancellor of the Republic.
*** There is also a subversion in at least one Hutt Jedi, who is implied to get more powerful in the force as he gets fatter, presumably because he has more life force, or something.
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{{quote|[...] he stood to reveal a modest paunch curving gently from beneath his sternum [[Purple Prose|like a frozen waterfall of suet]], to crash and tumble [[Squick|somewhere below the waistline]] in a jumble of uniform.}}
* This trope is closely examined in [[Robin Hobb]]'s ''Soldier Son'' trilogy. After {{spoiler|Nevare}} grows extremely fat as a side effect of a disease, he notices how people's attitudes towards him have changed drastically to the worse. People who haven't even talked to him make fun of his size in his presence, and some are even openly hostile. He pretty much has to prove to those he meets that he ''isn't'' a bastard, because they tend to assume he is.
* Inverted by Harold Lauder in ''[[
* ''[[The Bible]]'' [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%203:12-28&version=KJV describes] the assassination of a [[Adipose Rex|very fat king]] who leaks excrement when he is stabbed. He oppressed the Israelites for eighteen years, which perhaps explains why this particular detail was included by those who wrote the account.
* A good female example is found in the person of The Ancestress, an early villain in ''[[Bridge of Birds]].'' Li Kao recalls her as a beautiful, scheming concubine who butchered all of her rivals and their children, then had the Emperor murdered and set herself up as a regent over her weak-willed son for years, where her extravagance ran the empire into the ground; her son got blamed and subsequently executed in a coup, while she retired to a life of luxury. By the time we see her, however, she has gained two hundred pounds out of overindulgence. When she finally meets her end, in a gruesome manner typical to this series, she is described as blundering around the room crushing her own guards with her monstrous weight while {{spoiler|Henpecked Ho}} pursues her with an axe. About the best thing that you can say for the Ancestress is that she was a [[Complete Monster]] long before she was fat.
* [[Tim Powers]] uses this villain archetype in several of his novels—Leo Friend in ''On Stranger Tides'' and Loretta deLarava in ''Expiration Date'' are both described as extremely, grotesquely fat.
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' story "The Phoenix on the Sword", Ascalante sneers at one of the nobles who thought they had hired him as "the fat baron of Attalus."
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire
** ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' is filled with this trope. There's Yezzan zo Qaggaz, an extremely wealthy slave owner who is called (behind his back) the Yellow Whale for his yellow eyes and the fact that he is so obese that he cannot stand unassisted. Ser Amory Lorch isn't as fat as him, but still quite fat and also a [[Complete Monster]]. Magister Illyrio is morbidly obese and seems to be decidedly amoral.
** However, this trope is subverted with Lord Wyman Manderly, who is another morbidly obese person who at first seems to be this trope, but it turns out this was a ploy and he is actually a pretty good guy.
* The [[Big Bad]] of book 1 and 2 of ''[[Detectives in Togas]]''.
== Live-Action TV ==
* Inverted/Avoided in ''[[Mike and Molly]]''; both of the main characters are overweight, but generally kind (if [[Deadpan Snarker|snarky]]) people; sometimes the kindest ones on the show.
* There's a character on ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]'' who's overweight, a geek, and has a medical condition that makes him smell bad. The three main Geeks avoid him for the first half of the season, but once he is paired with Sam (instead of Sam's crush) he confronts Sam, and he is seen hanging out with them occasionally throughout the rest of the series.
* Exception: on ''[[House
* Averted in ''[[Lost]]'', which has been fairly sensitive dealing with Hurley's obesity. While not often addressed directly, a major part of Hurley's character is guilt related to his weight. He was previously involved in a deck collapse in which two people died. He refuses to ration the food, then is found to have hoarded some. In the fourth season finale, {{spoiler|Frank comments that the helicopter needs to shed [[American Customary Measurements|a few hundred pounds]]. The camera focuses on a conflicted Hurley, and then Sawyer jumps from the helicopter so Hurley won't have to.}}
** Fairly sensitive? Maybe in season 1, when Hurley was a character with many traits (decent, kind, somewhat crazy, obsessed by the numbers...) who also happened to be fat. In season 2, his being fat became the focal point of his character - the most important thing about him, what caused his mental illness, his [[Fatal Flaw]], etc. And all those Sawyer fat jokes - sure, James was still a [[Jerkass]], but Hugo's weight was by far his favourite target. Then there was that bit about Libby falling in love with him, and after she is revealed to be a former patient in a mental hospital - [[Unfortunate Implications|implying that an attractive young woman would fall for an obese guy only if she's not completely sane]]. After season 2 it got better, admittedly.
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** Also the Marshal from "The Mutants," an obese human colonialist who refuses to relinquish his power over an apartheid-like regime.
** Or maybe you're stealing food rations during WWII.
** However, basically subverted in the ''[[Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'' books. The Doctor's [[Worthy Opponent]] Sabbath (who serves as an [[Expy]] of the Master, but more reasonable) is rather on the chubby side of [[Stout Strength]], because he just doesn't care about his appearance (for the same reason, his hair is so short as to almost count as [[Bald of Evil]]). Once in a while, [[I Shall Taunt You|other characters make unflattering remarks about it]], but only rarely. And it provides for an excellent [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] opportunity in one book, where with a suit which is ''only slightly'' [[Bigger on the Inside]], he almost effectively disguises himself ''and'' proves that the Doctor doesn't realize that humans can lose weight or something.<ref>''‘Your suit distracted me for a while,’ he added. ‘I couldn’t understand how you managed to squeeze your rather ample form inside it.’''</ref> He falls just short of being [[Affably Evil]], and has a number of [[Enemy Mine]] situations (and quite a lot of [[Foe Yay]]) with the Doctor. He just happens to be quite evil and quite large.<ref>And [[Big Eater]] Fitz, who is in actual fact described as looking like he's "made of pipe cleaners", seems to eat more than he does, so Sabbath is hardly a [[Villainous Glutton]].</ref>
** Also subverted by the Adipose. Sure, the species are comprised of fat-cells, but the villain helping them get born is extremely thin and the only way for them to breed is for people to ''lose weight''. If people were happy with how fat they were, there would have been no problem.
*** And they're [https://web.archive.org/web/20121103021622/http://images.wikia.com/tardis/images/f/f1/Hello%21.jpg so cute!]
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* Boss Hogg from ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]''.
* Newman from ''[[Seinfeld]]''. He's so obese that he often becomes short of breath in his angry, hateful rants.
* Downplayed with [[Da Chief|J.L. McCabe]] from ''[[Jake and the Fatman]]''; not a villain, but [[Good Is Not Nice| clearly a grouch]] and a [[Mean Boss]].
* Balthazar from the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode ''Bad Girls''.
* Naturally averted in ''[[Roseanne]]''. For the most part.
* ''[[24
* Ugly Naked Guy in ''[[Friends]]''.
** Interestingly enough, in a flashback episode, the character was described by Phoebe as "cute naked guy" who was just starting to put on some weight. By the time of "The One Where Monica Gets a Room-Mate", he was fat.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'': has two examples: Jim and Nerus. Jim was the persona of Anubis's projection onto the [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|Ascended Plane]]. He was a fat, abrasive man at the Astral Diner who delighted in mocking the ascended being who made his ascension possible: {{spoiler|Oma Desala}}. Keep in mind that Anubis was a [[Complete Monster]] [[Omnicidal Maniac]] with [[A God Am I|a god complex]] [[Even Evil Has Standards|who was considered evil even by Goa'uld standards.]] Nerus was a minor Goa'uld who appeared in two episodes: "Beachhead" and "Off the Gird", both in Season 9. He was likely inspired by [[Greek Mythology|Dionysus]]/[[Roman Mythology|Bacchus]]. He was described by Vala Mal Doran as the definition of "avarice and gluttony". He was deceitful and had many [[Squick|...appetites]]. He got what was coming to him though when the SGC sent him back to Ba'al (whom he had betrayed in his first appearance) with a box of the Hostess cakes he so loved with claiming to have only served the [[Religion of Evil|Ori]] as a spy. {{spoiler|[[Hoist by His Own Petard|The cakes contained subspace transmitters that planted a virus in the ship's shields and navigation systems and broadcast their location to human forces who quickly arrived and took them all out,]] [[You Have Failed Me...|though not before Ba'al killed him.]]}}
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* The cynical fatty tabby, ''[[Garfield]]''. Other than abusing Odie and making his owner's life hell, he usually does nothing but eat and sleep. However, he proves time and time again that there's a [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold|good heart under all that blubber]].
▲* ''[[Dick Tracy (comic strip)|Dick Tracy]]'' villain Oodles; one strip where he weighed himself had him at 465 lbs (without his guns) and was ''happy'' because that meant he lost weight!
== Professional Wrestling ==
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== Radio ==
* [[Real Life]] example: Comedian Artie Lange is constantly mocked on ''[[Howard Stern|The Howard Stern Show]]'', where the Stern sidekick's obsession with junk food caused him to gain more than fifty kilograms in less than a year.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The [[Jabba Table Manners|Macellarius]] [[Prestige Class|bloodline]] from ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]''. Hell, their nickname is "Gluttons." Once someone's initiated into the bloodline, they gain up to 150 pounds in the next few nights. Oh, and the bloodline is made up mostly of cultured gourmands with a special taste for [[I'm a Humanitarian|long pork]].
* Subverted and lampshaded in ''[[Exalted]]'': Sesus Nagezzer, one of the canonical Dragon-Bloods, [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|deliberately ignores his obesity problem]], to the point where he's been nicknamed "the Slug". [[Retired Badass|Before he became so]], [[Colonel Badass|he was a brilliant officer in the Realm's army]], and he's picked up [[The Chessmaster|a few]] [[Manipulative Bastard|tricks]] since he lost the use of a leg. Did we also mention he's one of the best hopes for the Realm to survive the Time of Troubles? And that his almost-official position in the Scarlet Dynasty is [[The Pornomancer]]?
* Dominar Rasheth from Skorne Empire in ''[[Iron Kingdoms
* [[Dungeons and Dragons]]:
** Hill giants in 5th edition are this and [[Villainous Glutton]]s. Giant society as a whole lives by a caste system where the the larger the giant is, the more authority he has, but hill giants tend to misinterpret this custom, and believe the fatter they are, the more important they'll be. Most other giants view them with disgust and contempt.
** Nalfeshnee are demons that are just below balors in terms of social rank in the Abyss and actual power. They are often depicted as obese and [[Obsessed with Food]].
* [https://www.deviantart.com/bryansyme/art/Flab-Giant-620366030 The flab giant], from the third-party sourcebook ''Tome of Beasts''. Obese, ugly, lazy, stupid, and disgusting, many believe this was some sort of curse inflicted upon ordinary hill giants.
== Theatre ==
* Shakespeare's Falstaff. A witty [[Loveable Rogue]] whom audience considers the [[Big Fun]], but considering what he does, he is a total [[Jerkass]].
* ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'': [[Gentleman Snarker|Cyrano]] gives us the [[Flowery Insults]] version at Act I Scene V, talking about Montfleury:
{{quote|'''Cyrano:''' This Silenus,
Big-bellied, coarse... }}
* The title character of ''[[Ubu Roi]]''.
== Video Games ==
* Fatman from ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'' is a fat and bald bomb-building maniac. He considers himself an artist and wants to become known as the greatest bomb-builder who ever lived. He also wears a bomb-disposal coat {{spoiler|filled with more explosives}} which makes him seem even fatter.
*
** Cronos is actually described as this by Ben Croshaw.
** Clotho also qualifies so much she actually makes Jabba the Hutt seem like Michael Phelps. Describing this… thing with words like “ugly” or “hideous” would not do it justice. It seems to be the godly embodiment of Ugliness. It’s actually a giant, bloated, obese mound of lumps that seem to be female mammaries. Few Body horrors are more horrifying...
** Thor is [[Sarcasm Mode|lovingly]] referred to as a "fat dobber" by Mimir, and indeed: he's a violent, gluttonous brute with the waistline and sadism to match the horror stories told about him.
* Well, except maybe the Brood Mother from ''[[Dragon Age: Origins]]''. These thing look like Clotho, but have tentacles, rotting pink flesh, and is fought in a [[Womb Level]]. Just keep reminding yourself that it is a victim of the Dark Spawn - meaning the battle is a [[Mercy Kill]] - and you might resist the urge to throw up upon seeing this obese monstrosity.
* Interesting case in ''[[BioShock (series)|Bioshock 2]]''. Buck Raleigh is a fat, ruthless, [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]. However, he is the most sympathetic of the multiplayer characters. He was never interested in plasmids but started using them when {{spoiler|his wife disappeared. Almost a year later it turns out she was leading a revolt against him.}}
* [[Wario Land|Wario]], though he's got [[Stout Strength|plenty of muscle]] as well.
* Porky Minch, the [[Enfante Terrible]] co-[[Big Bad]] of ''[[EarthBound]]''; his name is something of a [[Lampshade Hanging]], and {{spoiler|his Fat Bastard status is later played up in full force as an [[Animal Motif]] in his [[Big Bad]] status in ''[[Mother 3]]'', where his [[The Empire|empire]], army and everything else are pig-themed while one of his highest-ranking servants ([[Arab Oil Sheikh|Fassad]]) is another [[Fat Bastard]] who's every bit as despicable as he is.}}
** ''[[EarthBound]]'' also provides a subversion in the form of Apple Kid. He's fat, apparently unhygienic and socially awkward, and accordingly less popular among the citizens of Twoson than rival Orange Kid, who's thinner, has considerably better social skills, and uses this to get funding for his work. Then the subversion comes into play - Orange Kid is a [[Small Name, Big Ego]] type with virtually no talent to back up the formidable sums of money he asks for, whereas Apple Kid is an absolute genius who actually cares about the fate of the world, plays a massive role in enabling the heroes to defeat Giygas, and never asks for anything in return.
* Jack Turner of the ''[[Art of Fighting]]'' games is one of Mr. Big's thugs, and the leader of a tough gang of bikers called the Black Cats. At the age of 13, he subdued a rampaging bear.
* Executioner Smough in ''[[Dark Souls]]''. In fact, he's more of a bastard than [[Dual Boss| his partner, Dragon Slayer Ornstein]]. When one of them is defeated, the other absorbs his power. Ornstein hesitates if Smough falls first, but if Ornstein falls first,
* Dong Zhuo, as depicted in the ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]'' games.
** The [[Romance of the Three Kingdoms|source material]], too. {{spoiler|After he was killed, the angry mob made torches by shoving splints of wood into his fat.}}
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*** Priscilla also has an accomplice who qualifies, [[Pirate| Irontide Captain Harlan Sweete.]] A [[Shout Out]] to [[Pocahontas| Governor John Ratcliffe]], his [[Acrofatic| speed, agility and fighting skills]] are uncanny for a man of his girth.
*** There is a whole class of [[Elite Mooks]] found in employ of Ashvane Trading who are the [[Stout Strength]] type of fat.
*** Unlike Sweete, however, the slovenly [[Pig Man]] Raal the Gluttonous from Waycrest Manor can [[Stationary Boss|
* In ''[[Quake 4|Quake IV]]'' there is a gigantic obese Strogg thing which the player kills by overfeeding.
* King Hippo of ''[[Punch-Out!!|Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!]]''.
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* ''[[Samurai Shodown]]'' gives us Earthquake, the 1,380-pound ninja. From Texas. One hundred years before Texas existed. In his profile, it's stated that he likes people fatter than he is, and dislikes "skinny people"
* ''[[King of Fighters]]'', another SNK game, has Chang, the morbidly obese fighter from Korea. While he doesn't get much respect from the rest of the cast, and was introduced as a criminal being reformed, he's more or less wacky comic relief now.
*
* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' has at least ''three'' characters that fit this trope to a T: President Shinra, Palmer, and Heidegger.
* The Seeq in ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' and ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics A2]]''. A race of pigs so the fat factor is already settled in. They are described as being gluttonous, dimwitted, slow, and are mostly common thieves. in FFTA2, sometimes a newly recruited Seeq will ask what is for lunch after he joins your clan or they may also say that there won't be any problems as long as you feed him. There are a few kind hearted Seeq in the games, but most are portrayed as unlikable.
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* ''[[Pokémon]]'' [[Hello, Insert Name Here|nicknames]] have a maximum length of ten letters. Given that the earlier games came out concurrent with the [[Austin Powers]] movies, someone, somewhere ''had'' to have named their Snorlax FatBastard.
** Although their size and [[Heavy Sleeper|sleeping habits]] are a [[Broken Bridge|game-important obstacle]] for both players and Ash of the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime, and their habit of [[Big Eater|eating islands worth of food]] when awake aside, Snorlax can be [[Gentle Giant|pretty nice otherwise]].
** Certain Pokémon ''trainers'' however play this trope as straight as can be. Cue Balls/Roughnecks are trouble-making thugs who often threaten to beat you up and steal your Pokémon when you fight them, usually because they're feeling cranky or think it'd be funny. Male Team Yell Grunts are also obnoxious nuisances who cause trouble in the name of hyping up Marnie, their favorite trainer.
* [[General Failure]] Damon von Grant from ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'' is a fat, arrogant aristocrat who only occupies his position because of his wealth, and is otherwise completely incompetent. He despises the militia and considers them [[We Have Reserves|disposable trash]], steals their merits when [[The Hero|Welkin]]'s strategies work, is completely unsympathetic towards {{spoiler|Isara's death}}, thinks of [[Love Interest|Alicia]] as a weapon {{spoiler|when her Valkyria powers awaken}}, and even uses illegal weapons to cover up for his failures on the battlefield. Need I go on? Luckily, {{spoiler|he gets a [[Karmic Death]] when [[The Dragon]] Selvaria self-destructs and takes him (and a large chunk of Gallia's army) with her.)}}
* Oliver in ''[[Fire Emblem|Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance]]''. {{spoiler|Though he [[Unexplained Recovery|somehow]] survives the game and joins your party in ''Radiant Dawn'' thanks to his status as the [[Ensemble Darkhorse]].}}
** He gets an [[Expy]] in the form of Duke Ludwig von Aegir in ''[[Fire Emblem: Three Houses]]'', a similarly fat, selfish, and arrogant nobleman who comes off as even worse, given the role he played in ruining the lives of Edelgard and her father.
* ''[[Dantes Inferno]]: An Animated Epic'' - Dante's father was an abusive man who often beat his wife and child. Not only was he a fat disgusting glutton, but horribly greedy as well, once beating his wife when he thought she had stolen one of his golden coins. He appears in the fourth circle of hell as a fat, grotesque demonic soldier who is spared the torture of other greedy souls by Satan and battles his son for a while before Dante finally ends his cruel father's (un?)life by dumping him into a giant wheel moved by molten gold.
** In the game, Dante {{spoiler|absolves his father instead of using him as an excuse for Dante's own sins}}.
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* The Fat Guard (Politician) in the original ''[[Prince of Persia]]''.
* Burnov in ''[[Double Dragon]] II: The Revenge''.
* In ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', Dr. Eggman, Eggman Nega, and Storm the Albatross. Of course, in the former's case, [[Affably Evil|his]] [[Faux Affably Evil|level]] [[Complete Monster|of bastardry]] has varied over different incarnations.
* The [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Deadly Premonition]]'', {{spoiler|Forrest Kaysen}}.
* The emperor of Blobolonia in ''[[A Boy and His Blob]]''.
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* Pierce, or Jigglesworth, from ''[[TCTRPG|The Colour Tuesday,]]'' is a creepy [[Living Doll Collector]] who moves around on a chair. Its heavily implied that he's a pedophile, judging by his comments to and his harrassment of Alex. As Jigglesworth, he's a writhing mass of flabby appendages. Even the ruthless [[Big Bad|Maxwell]] is disgusted by him.
{{quote|'''Maxwell''': [[Even Evil Has Standards|"You're a disgrace, little man."]]}}
* King Dedede from the ''[[Kirby]]'' series started as a straight example of this trope, stealing all the food belonging to his subjects because he's that much of a glutton. But his defeat at Kirby's hands changed him for the better, and nowadays if they come to blows it's usually over a misunderstanding or Dedede being a victim of some kind of brainwashing or possession.
* Dingodile and Papu Papu from the ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' series, though they're downplayed as far as this trope is concerned. While he starts off a gleefully evil minion of Cortex, Dingodile's mellowed out considerably by the fourth game and has retired from villainy. Papu Papu on the other hand isn't really evil so much as he is hostile towards outsiders that intrude upon his home.
* In ''[[Streets of Rage]]'', there was a boss that was a big, fire-breathing Fat Bastard. On top of being [[That One Boss]], if you try to suplex him, ''[[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|your character hurts their back and suffers damage]]''.
* ''[[Hector: Badge of Carnage]]'' has Detective Inspector Hector, a surly, corrupt and lazy [[Heroic Sociopath]] who also happens to be one of the few competent individuals on the police force.
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* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|Pigma]] [[Only in It For the Money|Dengar]] from ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star Fox]]'' is the em[[Stealth Pun|bodi]]ment of this trope.
* Azmodan in ''[[Diablo III]]''. "Bastard" is probably an understatement, since he's the Prime Evil embodiment of Sin leading a demonic army bent on Sanctuary's destruction. His girth is justified since Gluttony is a Sin.
* The [[Dead Rising]] series has more than
* Roadhog in ''[[Overwatch]]'' is one of the most psychopathic characters of the main cast and also the fattest.
* In the ''[[Mega Man X]]'' series, there's an unspoken rule that the fatter a Maverick is, the more unpleasant they'll be. Flame Mammoth is a power hungry jerk who loves to bully the weak, Frost Walrus is a violent asshole (and in the manga, a ''total fucking psychopath'') who was unpleasant long before being declared Maverick, and Silver Horn is a sadistic prison warden who delights in torturing and maiming his victims.
* Millibelle from ''[[Hollow Knight]]'' is a monstrously fat, but otherwise unassuming banker that you can lend money to so it won't be lost upon dying [[Nintendo Hard|(Which will happen. A lot.)]] {{spoiler|Once you give her enough, she'll take the money and run for the City of Tears' luxurious hot springs. Thankfully, you can track her down and beat your stolen funds out of her (plus interest!).}}
* In ''[[Octopath Traveler]]'', Primrose's story route gives us a ''very'' bastardly example in the form of Helgenish, her [[Starter Villain]]. An obese, violent, psychopathic tavern owner, Helgenish treats the dancers working for him as little more than sex objects that he can abuse to his heart's content, whether it be viciously beating them for displeasing him or selling them into sexual slavery. This trope is reflected in his [https://octopathtraveler.fandom.com/wiki/Helgenish#Battle_ battle sprite], which shows him reclining in a chair with [[A Glass of Chianti]] in one hand while grasping a dagger in the other and hiding it behind his back, all with a shit-eating grin on his face.
** [[I Own This Town|Mr. Morlock]] and his bodyguard [[Stout Strength|Omar]], the [[Arc Villain]]s of Tressa's chapter 2 are nowhere near as vile as Helgenish, but are still very bastardly. Morlock runs the mining town of Quarrycrest as his own personal fiefdom and forces his employees to fork over any gold they find for a tenth of what it's worth, and when Tressa and her rival Ali try to sell precious stones in his town, he's quick to seize imminent domain over their goods and takes them by force. Omar, on the other hand, [[The Dragon|is more than happy to be Morlock's attack dog]] and beats Ali for defying his master before the pair kidnap and try to sell him into slavery out of spite.
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* Used straight in [https://web.archive.org/web/20101213211159/http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/423 this] strip of ''[[Loserz]]''.
* Tharqa from ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'' practically defines this trope. The only overweight character in the entire strip, and she couldn't be more venial. Karen, while having lost weight and shaped up considerably, is still bigger than every other character except Tharqa, and is well on her way to becoming the [[Big Bad]] of the comic with her Machiavellian plans against the titular characters.
* Subverted with Sidney Burns of [https://web.archive.org/web/20130720003725/http://www.drunkduck.com/Mob_Ties/ Mob Ties]. Enormously fat, but still just about the most heroic and driven of the psychotic cast.
* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]:'' Emperor Krelchzeeber, the guy who {{spoiler|killed Riboflavin's dad.}} Nemesites are butterfly people, and therefore normally very skinny with big wings; not so with Krelchzeeber.
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** When Chris in one episode makes an attempt to lose weight, Stewie taunts and mocks him relentlessly. As the episode goes on, Stewie pigs out and eats more and more to taunt Chris with the food he cannot eat. This causes Stewie to gain lots of weight over time and as he gets bigger, he becomes more of a slob (he slams his face into a chocolate cake and eats like a pig), his girth breaks his high chair, and he grows so lazy to the point where his insults are lazily made and he falls asleep in the middle of it before he can finish his ice cream.
* Speaking of Homer, despite what one may initially think, ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' mostly averts this trope. When 75% of the entire cast is fat - Springfield is the fattest city in America! - the fat people come in all temperaments. Everyone who's fat has their Fat Bastard moments, but it isn't always consistent, especially with the [[Negative Continuity]].
** There are near-consistent straight cases, though, even if the fat and the bastardy aren't directly related. Mayor Quimby's girth could be taken to represent him being one of the "fat cats" (a derogatory term for over-privileged and corrupt politicians). Comic Book Guy is nasty and self-
*** Fat Tony [[Karma Houdini Warranty|died of a heart attack]] in the appropriately-named episode "Donnie Fatso"; his thinner, healthier cousin Fit Tony took over as leader of his gang. Sadly, Fit Tony started overeating after taking the job (due to stress over assassination attempts) changing his moniker to "Fit-Fat Tony" until he was just as fat as his cousin.
*** Never, ever forget the episode where Homer selfishly and stupidly became horrendously obese just to be able to work at home and avoid 15 minutes of exercise a week.
**** Slightly inverted in that the most actively evil characters on the show, Mr. Burns and Sideshow Bob, are thin.
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* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'', a lot of the recurring adult villains the KND face are rotund in appearance.
* ''[[The Oblongs]]'' gives us Helga, a rude, ugly, mobidly obese little girl with delusions of grandeur. At least, they connect it to being underpriveleged (she can only affored to eat thrown out wedding cakes, she lives next to an abandoned factory...) And she is still awesome!
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]''
* One episode of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' had Bruce Wayne, with amnesia, kidnapped and forced to work in a mining camp by a white-suited obese man who was always munching on a turkey leg. When one of the man's henchmen tried to remind him that the exhausted slaves have to eat, he replied, "''I'' have to eat. ''They'' have to ''work''."▼
** Recurring villain, Rupert Thorne, an overweight mobster.
▲** One episode
* A ''Pith Possum'' segment of ''[[The Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show]]'' gives us Supper Squirrell, who was planning on using his [[Big Eater]] stature to drive Possum City into famine.
* Patrick from ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' occasionally shows traits of this. For example, "Spongebob Naturepants".
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* The protagonist of the animated short ''La Faim''. While he is not a particularly nasty person, he disgusts the audience due to his complete and utter selfishness; he cares about absolutely nothing in life outside of his own pleasures. His gluttonous gorging gets more and more over-the-top as the short goes on (facing a full banquet table, he becomes an [[Eldritch Abomination]] made of mouths and arms so he can eat it all, and then literally becomes a steamshovel as he devours the table itself), and he morphs from a handsome young man into a morbidly obese slug. Finally the short ends when the man realizes the cost of his lifestyle: {{spoiler|millions of children across the world are starving. He is surrounded by starving waifs, who proceed to...well, you can probably guess from here}}.
* In the third Aladdin movies, one of the forty thieves is a goofy, clumsy fat guy. [[Beware the Nice Ones|He must be a terrible bastard though]], considering how one becomes one of the forty thieves: [[You Kill It, You Bought It|you must kill another thief...]]
* Gargamel's godfather Baalthazar from ''[[The Smurfs]]'' is an overweight wizard; some episodes suggest his taste for rich foods is the cause.
* Fat Cat from ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]''.
* [[Fat Idiot|Rancid Rabbit]] from ''[[CatDog]]''.
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* Ms. Teets from ''[[Good Vibes]]''.
* Penny from ''[[The Mighty B!]]''.
* Peg-Leg Pete from ''[[Classic Disney Shorts]]'' (usually just called Pete in modern cartoons) and the rest of the Disney canon. The degrees of bastardy have varied over the years, from being a
* There's [[The Don|the mob boss Mandragora]] from [[Justice League Unlimited]], a homage to the Kingpin. Not only is he both fat, yet very physically powerful, he's also a repulsive, murderous bastard.
* There were a few ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' shorts from 1941 and 1942 that portrayed Elmer Fudd this way, his appearance based on that of Arthur Q. Bryan; unfortunately, the fat-jokes Bugs made at Elmer's expense got old quickly, and in these shorts, Bugs became far more of an unprovoked aggressor. After five of these cartoons, he was changed back.
* Ratarro from ''[[ThunderCats (1985 series)|ThunderCats]]'' was a portly [[Rat-Man]] who, while a more competent villain than most of the mutants, was so nasty that even ''they'' hated him.
* One ''[[Secret Squirrel]]'' short featured an obese panda thug named One-Ton as the [[Villain of the Week]], both a [[Meaningful Name]] and [[Punny Name]].
== Real Life ==
* [[Adipose Rex|King]] [[Henry VIII]], though he was a wife
** Which makes it a subversion - as a young man he was a tall, powerful and magnificent athlete and was described as handsome. The fat really piled on when he stopped exercising and kept eating and drinking as much as ever.
*** There was also the debilitating leg injury that ''kept'' him from exercising.
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