Fat Idiot: Difference between revisions

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"Able Seaman Johnson has gone and eaten Mrs. Beaton's book!"|Fatso Johnson, ''[[The Navy Lark]]''.}}

 

** Sergeant Colon is a straighter example, though he's portrayed more as an average man on the street than a moron.

*** Vetinari [[Invoked Trope|invokes the trope]] when he takes Colon along with him in ''[[Discworld/Jingo|Jingo]].

'''Vetinari''': ''Good''. }}

** Played very straight with Crispin Horsefry in ''Going Postal'', complete with a [[Footnote Fever|footnote]] expressing the author's irritation that people seem to believe in this trope in real life.

* Falstaff in [[Shakespeare]]'s ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'', and the opera based on it, ''Falstaff''.

** Shakespeare also invokes this trope in ''Julius Caesar'':

 

 

* Most of Dean's Prisoners from ''[[The Goode Family]]''.

* The Giant Brain from ''[[Futurama]]''.

'''Brainspawn''': "''Earth'', you [[Fat Idiot]]!" }}

* Eek from ''[[Eek the Cat]]''.