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[[File:fat-bastard.jpg|link=Austin Powers|frame|On the inside you will ''[[Jerk with a Heart of Jerk|not]]'' find [[True Beauty Is on the Inside|true beauty]].]]

 

''There was [[Lean and Mean|skinny little Goebbels]] and Goering, Mr. Fats.''

|[[Mel Brooks]], ''[[To Be or Not to Be|The Hitler Rap]]''.}}

* [[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 ==

* 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 ==

** There's also the Toydarians, who are related to Hutts, are almost as bastardly, and they all have big guts. Though, as extra materials point out, their guts aren't filled with fat, but helium. Which explains why such a being can fly around on those puny wings. Fatness may be the least of their [[Space Jews|unfortunate stereotyping.]]

** Another fat bastard human featured in ''Tatooine Ghost'' - one of Leia's fellow survivors of Alderaan is fat enough to need a hoverchair. He's small-time compared to the other bad guys in the fic, but a greedy wretch nonetheless.

{{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.

* ''[[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.

* The Heavy is seen as one of these by the other classes in ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'', or so their domination/revenge quotes would seem to indicate.

{{quote|'''Scout:''' I am owning you, you fat [[Bald of Evil|bald]] bastard!}}

* Though you never get to see the full body of Duke Radcot in [[Vanguard Bandits]], you don't really need to. His portrait alone has three chins. Trying to load that much fat on-screen at once might break the [[PS 1]].

* Bob in ''[[Gungrave]]''. In the game's storyline he's depicted as being a real [[Jerkass|jerk]] underneath his calm exterior. As the first major boss fight of the game, his initial reaction to Grave is to call him out for his so-called "ingratitude" to his former friends and the syndicate for providing him (Grave) with power, wealth and a place to call home, without even realizing that it also directly and indirectly led to Grave's undoing.

* 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.

* 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.

*** There was also the debilitating leg injury that ''kept'' him from exercising.

** Then there is King George IV (of the Regency fame), who ended his life as a fat, lecherous, boozing pig of with a body weight of 111 kg.

* Pick your [[Strawman Political]]: [[Michael Moore]] on the left, [[Rush Limbaugh]] on the right.

* [[Those Wacky Nazis|Hermann Goering]], possibly the reincarnation of [[The Caligula|Ceasre Nero]]. Like Henry VIII, he was a thin and good-looking in his youth. But after [[World War I]], he ballooned up to enormous size, and also got a lot more evil as he enthusiastically joined the Nazis. When he was captured at the end of [[World War II]], the pilot assigned to fly him to Nuremberg ''requested a larger airplane, because he was unsure his two-seater could handle Goering's weight.''

* [[Camp Gay|Perez]] [[Small Name, Big Ego|Hilton]]