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** 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. |
** 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. |
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** Umbridge is described as having rolls of fat. [[Adaptational Attractiveness|She is much thinner in the movies.]] |
** Umbridge is described as having rolls of fat. [[Adaptational Attractiveness|She is much thinner in the movies.]] |
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* Terry Pratchett lampshades this in ''[[ |
* Terry Pratchett lampshades this in ''[[Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'', where one of the chairmen at the Grand Trunks Company is described as fat, multi-chinned and having a grating voice and an expression like a piglet, and a footnote says that it's stereotypical to say that someone like that couldn't be a kind and generous man, like it's stereotypical to say a man in a striped shirt coming in through your window in the middle of the night is a burglar. |
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* 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]].}} |
* 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]].}} |
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* [[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]]. |
* [[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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