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** 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.

** [[Billy Bunter]] [[Expy]] and [[Enfant Terrible]] Cyril from ''The Celestial Toymaker'' counts.

* Boss Hogg from ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]''.

 

== Webcomics ==

* 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 [http://www.drunkduck.com/Mob_Ties Mob Ties]. Enormously fat, but still just about the most heroic and driven of the psychotic cast.

* Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, the early Hollywood star who was accused of raping actress Virginia Rappe at a party and rumored to have crushed her to death with his weight. The evidence was as ambiguous as it gets, and he was acquitted, but only after two mistrials, and the press and [[Moral Guardians]] had instantly assumed he was guilty and had already made the case into such a massive snowball of kneejerk disgust, moral shock and [[Body Horror]] that it utterly ruined him long before there was a chance to look at the facts. No, it is ''not'' [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]] to be concerned about the dangers of applying this trope in [[Real Life]].

* 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]]