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* [[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.}}
* ''[[One Piece]]'' has a few, though most of them are of the [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]] type:
** Walpol from the Drum Island Arc, though he has an excuse in that his Devil Fruit power involves eating.
** Hody Jones; in fact, a common [[Fan Nickname]] for him is "Fat Arlong", seeing as he is very much an Arlong wanna-be.
** Gecko Moria, the captain of the Thriller Bark pirates and Arc Villain of the arc of the same name. He's a fat vampire-like [[Monster Clown]]... [[Ambiguously Human| person.]] Incredibly lazy too, he seems to have let himself go since becoming a Warlord of the Sea.
** Finally, we have Big Mom, the [[Big Bad]] of the Whole Cake Island Arc, a villain who is ''not'' ineffectual nor sympathetic, [[The Dreaded| but ''truly'' dangerous]]. She is both obese and a [[Villainous Glutton]] demanding shiploads of candy from her subjects as tithes, and is also an [[Emotion Eater]].
 
== Comic Books ==
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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...
* In ''[[Wonka]]'', the police chief is on the take, the Chocolate Cartel bribing him with chocolate; he isn't fat initially, but when he objects to actually killing Wonka, they increase the bribe, doing so again and again throughout the story as their "requests" become more extreme. This causes the chief to gain weight quickly, until by the end of the movie, he's so fat he can barely fit through the door of his own paddy wagon.
 
== Literature ==
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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 it'sits fair share of these, most of them psychopaths. There's the [[Complete Monster|lesbian rapist cop]] Jo Slade and the [[I Am Aa Humanitarian|cannibal butcher]] Larry Chiang in the first game, obese pervert Randy Tugman, cannibal chef Antoine Thomas, and redneck sniper Derrick Duggan in the sequel, and horrific [[Big Eater]] Darlene and lazy rich idiot Teddy in the third game. From the first game, we also have this trope in action regarding one of the survivors" Ronald. In order to get the guy to follow you back to the safehouse, you need to give him some food. And once he reaches the safehouse? You better be ready to feed him every couple of hours, or he'll start an insurrection and he'll run off quite a few of your suvivors in tow.
* 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.
 
== WebcomicsWeb Comics ==
* 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.
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* Eric Cartman of ''[[South Park]]''. Most notably in two episodes where 1), during his family reunion, all of his family members, save for his mother and grandmother who are thin and caring, are fat annoying slobs. 2) Where Eric from the future, who lost weight and became a better person in general (and wealthy to boot), came to the past to tell Eric to be a good human being. Eric (thinking it was a trick) delivered the generic "screw you" line and said he would stay the way he was, after the other characters were out of view the future Eric transformed into a dirty obese mechanic as a result of his younger self not "changing for the better".
** Rob Reiner in the episode "Butt Out" uses propaganda to point out the dangers of smoking while ignoring his obesity to the point he needs butter to squeeze out of his limo.
** "Leeroy Jenkins", the villain in "Make Love Not Warcraft". A [[Griefer]] who is obviously a stereotype of the typical internet troll, he's both fatter and uglier than Cartman.
* In ''[[Family Guy]]'', Peter Griffin's tendency to invoke this trope is probably the most obvious difference between him and [[The Simpsons (animation)|Homer Simpson]]. While Homer can gobble down platefuls of food for laughs, Peter's usually only shown in the same context as food when the point is supposed to be that he's a [[Jerkass]].
** One episode in particular stands out - Peter forms an awareness group for fat people discrimination, and every last one of them conforms to this trope, making disturbing groaning noises, busting out snacks every few minutes, and making excuses for all their actions. One half-dead fat guy actually interrupts the action to ask if he can eat a dead fat guy that's in the same room as he is.
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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 ''[[Complete Monster]]'' to ''[[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]'', but he always qualifies.
* 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 ''[[ThundercatsThunderCats (1985 series)|ThundercatsThunderCats]]'' 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 -killing asshole even before gaining the extra pounds at the end of his life.
** 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.