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A character who's [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|at least overweight]] and [[Always Female]] who is portrayed as being either insecure, unimportant or both. Often, she functions as [[Acceptable Targets|a source of comic relief]], whether or not the subject is her weight. Like the [[Black Best Friend]] and [[Pet Homosexual]] she is the unconventional one who is, likely the [[Satellite Character|all-American main character's best friend]] for her size. Either that or she's the main character of a drama where her big conflict is having an issue with her weight. She can range anywhere from [[Hollywood Pudgy]], where the actress is actually fairly thin and her fatness comes across as more of an [[Informed Flaw]] than anything else to [[BBW]], where large women are portrayed more positively. When the main character is a [[Big Beautiful Woman]] that is an inversion and should simply be listed there. A common characteristic of [[Brawn Hilda]] and the [[Grande Dame]].
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== [[Anime]]
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' had an overweight friend who got [[Brother Chuck]]ed pretty quickly. Her name was never actually given, [[All There in the Manual|not even in the extra material]] (even though most of the extra characters are), so most fans simply call her what the credits did -- "Usagi's fat friend".
** ''Sailor Moon Abridged'' has a field day with this poor girl.
* The main character of ''[[Real Drive]]'' has two friends, a lithe and athletic one and a fairly pudgy one. However, the female body shapes in the series are actually surprisingly realistic, so the protagonist weighs enough that she could probably pass off as a [[Hollywood Pudgy]] Fat Girl in another series herself.
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* And [[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]]'s pal [[Meaningful Name|Little Lotta]] in the 50s. [[Harvey Comics]] never met an [[Anvilicious]] name they didn't like. She is portrayed very positively, much of her material built around her near super-strength.
* ''[[Millie the Model]]'''s friend Daisy is a relatively happy and well-adjusted example of the type.
* ''[[Suicide Squad
== [[Film]] ==
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* [[Seven Deadly Sins|Gluttony]] from ''[[Bedazzled]]''.
* As Rufus T. Firefly says of [[Grande Dame]] Mrs. Teasdale in ''[[Duck Soup]]'':
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* Martha `Dumptruck' Dunstock from ''[[Heathers]]''.
* Michelle, one of Andy's best friend's in ''[[How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days]]'', who believes she's fat inspires Andy to write an article that is a ''How to'' in reverse about dating.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Agnes in ''[[Discworld]]'' has aspects of this, but only from an outside perspective. In fact, given that a major aspect of her personality is how irritating she personally finds the trope, it probably counts as a [[Deconstruction]].
* Brittney from ''[[Gone (novel)|Gone]]'', books 2 and 3, although she is not comic relief and her weight is only mentioned once.
* La Falvine from ''[[Malevil]]'' is an old fat woman. She is given considerable grief from a rival old woman who insists she is a burden to their limited food supplies [[After the End|after the Apocalypse]].
* Carmen of ''[[The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants]]'' is a subversion. Her size and shape are an issue mostly because her Latina curves make her stand out from her father and his new family as seen when she gets so upset when her bridesmaid's dress doesn't fit because it was clearly designed for someone skinny. There's also the fact that she's the narrator and the one who holds the group together.
** There's a racial element to it, too - one of the reasons why she gets so upset when her bridesmaid's dress doesn't fit is because it was clearly designed for someone like the newer, blonder family that her (also white) father seems to be replacing her with - a family that never got Carmen's Latina bottom genes.
* Lois Waller of the [[Sweet Valley High|''Sweet Valley Twins'' series]] is a shy, overweight student who was once friends with popular student Janet Howell but now the only person who's nice to her is the kind-hearted Elizabeth.
== [[Live
* Zev from ''[[Lexx]]'' grew up this way. She didn't have a lot of room for exercise at the [[Path of Inspiration|Divine Order]]'s factory farm for [[Arranged Marriage|brides]].
* Lyndsay in ''[[Teachers]]''. Notably she does get a romance storyline with Matt, the most conventionally attractive member of the cast, but only after an episode of him being shocked by his own attraction to her.
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** Also Sharon, who was played by the (at the time) obese Magda Szubanski. It is speculated that Kim keeps her around to make herself look better by comparison.
* Laura Quinones from ''[[Carrusel]]''
* Harper from ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' is the best friend of the show's main character Alex Russo and is often known for her outrageous fashion ensembles that she designs herself. She is very
* Sookie St. James from ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' is the loveable control freak and scatterbrain/klutzy best friend of Lorelai Gilmore.
** Something of a subversion; while Sookie is skittish, her weight is never mentioned by anyone, she's never seen as fretting about being on a diet, and despite being a chef there's never a single "Ho ho, she should stop sampling her own products" crack made. The character could have been played by a woman of any size without having to be re-written (not that anyone but the awesome Melissa McCarthy should have played it), making her far from the usual "fat girl" type.
*** And yet sadly
* Theresa 'Terri' McGreggor of ''[[Degrassi]]'' is an insecure, overweight girl. Both Ashley and Paige's strong personalities completely dominated hers to the point to where she really could not stand up to them.
* Darlene from ''[[1000 Ways to Die]]''{{'}}s segment "Die it". She's so desperate to stop being this that she orders [[wikipedia:Tapeworm|tapeworm larvae]] and swallows them so they'll eat up anything she eats. But since the tapeworm breed and spread inside of her, two months later Darlene loses both 27 kgs... and her own life.
== [[Music]] ==
* The song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqQjE-ee_QI&pp=ygUSaHVnZ2luIGFuZCBjaGFsa2lu "Huggin' And Chalkin'"] (recorded by numerous artists but most famously by [[Hoagy Carmichael]]) is about a man in love with a woman so fat he can't hug her in one go -- he has to hug her in increments.
== [[Theater]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Eunice, the innkeeper's daughter in ''[[Harvest Moon|Rune Factory Frontier.]]'' Notably, you can marry her.
* Hilda in ''[[Shadow Hearts|Shadow Hearts: From the New World]]'' in her curvy form. She has a hyperactive metabolism, and changes between curvy, slim, and bat forms depending on what she eats.
* Princess Spumoni from ''[[Little King's Story]]''. Almost everything she says revolves around eating. She even has a side-quest that involves gathering ingredients.
* Princess Theredras, in the ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' dungeon Maraudon. She's also butt-ugly. Her mother, Therazane (ruler of all earth elementals) is almost completely spherical.
** Many players make jokes about dwarf and tauren women being overweight. Oddly, the player consensus is that the human female model is also overweight, even though she's really just an example of [[Hollywood Pudgy]].
*** This has led to something of a community backlash from those who don't hold that anyone who isn't a night elf or blood elf is overweight in recent years. Ditto for female dwarves, though not quite to the extent that female humans get defended.
* The protagonist of ''[[Otometeki Koi Kakumei Love Revo]]'' is an overweight girl (as in 220 lbs) who used to be pretty enough to win beauty pageants, until her love of sweets did her in. The point of the game is to lose the weight while pursuing one of five hot guys (plus the pudgy childhood friend who gets hot later, and [[Brother-Sister Incest|your brother]]).
* Sort of the point of ''[[Fat Princess]]''. Make her fatter to keep the other guy from making off with her.
* A morbidly obese version of [[The Bible|Eve]] appears in ''[[Dragon's Lair|Dragons Lair II: Time Warp]]'' who chases Dirk [[Abhorrent Admirer|mistaking him for Adam.]] Her appetite ends up dooming Eden.
* What
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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** Mostly subverted in that both are [[Big Beautiful Woman|considered attractive]] by the other characters, largely because of their...[[Buxom Is Better|ahem,]] assets. They even go out of their way to assure Marigold of this.
** However, both have other characters at some point pestering them to exercise and "improve" themselves, ''even though'' [[Word of God]] is that Faye is more [[Hollywood Pudgy]] than fat.
* The Empress of Blood in ''[[The
* Marilyn "Jackie" Monroe from [https://web.archive.org/web/20131027120219/http://rosalarian.com/meatyyogurt/ Meaty Yogurt], a young woman with a bad case of [[Small Town Boredom]].
* Hanae from ''[[Red String]]'', who is portrayed in a more positive light compared to most examples of this trope.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Mavis Cruet the fairy in ''[[Willow
* Toot from ''[[Drawn Together]]''. In one episode they even lampshaded that she just existed to be a one-dimensional fat joke.
* Sadie from ''[[Total Drama Island]]''.
* Penny from ''[[The Mighty B!]]'' is the title character's clumsy, dim-witted, obese best friend, who loves taffy. Although she and Bessie are best friends, Penny also shows loyalty to Portia who is often opposing Bessie or trying to humiliate her.
* In the TV series of ''[[The Little Mermaid (animation)|The Little Mermaid]]'', one of Ariel's sisters was retconned into a fat girl and she can be seen eating every time she appears.
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