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{{trope}}
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'''Queenie:''' Then why don't you?
'''Joe:''' It ain't necessary.'' ''</poem>|''[[Showboat]]''
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A more metaphorical example of this trope would be moral laziness. Usually seen in villains, anti-heroes and anti-villains this type of laziness applies to those who "take the easy way out" in a psychological sense. Usually, this includes murder, being an [[Extreme Doormat]], allowing oneself to be easily manipulated, [[Lack of Empathy|lacking empathy]] [[The Sociopath|toward others]] or just lacking the drive and willpower to say "no".
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Then there are the ones who are supposed to be sympathetic, because they're [[This Loser Is You|just like you]]. These may be the most common type of all.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Exactly What It Says
* Genma Saotome of ''[[Ranma
* Played with in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* Ryner Lute from ''[[The Legend of the Legendary Heroes]]'', who much prefers taking afternoon naps to fighting evil.
* [[Fullmetal Alchemist|The Homunculus Sloth]]. It's in his name. But if you get him going, he becomes a [[Lightning Bruiser]].
** Interestingly the first anime double subverts this. Sloth is portrayed as a beautiful woman who can turn herself into water. In her human disguise as [[Pride|King Bradley's]] secretary she's a very hard worker. But when in combat, she appears to be rather lazy, as it's been shown at least once that she can actually [[Making a Splash|turn her entire body into water and drown anyone and everyone around her]], but she usually just uses a small amount of her power (usually in her arms) and kind of just stands there in one spot while trying to hit her target.
** Both Sloths are also morally lazy. The anime Sloth tries to take the easy way out, killing the Elric brothers rather than psychologically coming to terms with the fact that she is {{spoiler|the reincarnation of their mother}}. Manga Sloth, in a similar vein, tends to use his [[Super Strength]] to go through objects rather than around them, and commits crimes because he simply lacks the willpower and drive to say no. In his case it's justified as he's the literal embodiment of the sin he's named for.
* [[Durarara
* Teppei Tairyobata (called simply Trout in the dub) from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V]]'' is an exaggeration of the type of guy who engages in a passive activity (fishing, in this case) to claim he's exercising. Also something of a [[Con Artist]] and [[Dirty Coward]], Tairyobata formed a partnership with Mokota during the tournament, with the intent to let Mokota do all the work dueling the opposition and then defeat him and gain all the Pendulum cards when Mokota was exhausted. To his credit, Tairyobata had something of a [[Heel Realization]] when the Obelisk Force showed up and tried to help fight them, only to be beaten [[Phantom Zone Picture| and carded]] along with Mokota and several other contestants.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe/Characters|Gladstone Gander]]
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Victor Tugelbend is the hero of the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[
* Each of the villains in the ''[[Keys to
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: The Grasshopper in ''The Ant and the Grasshopper'', one of [[
* Mrs Ablewhite in ''[[The Moonstone]]''.
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* The protagonist in the [[Robert A. Heinlein|Heinlein]] story ''[[The Man Who Was Too Lazy To Fail]]''.
* In ''[[Tobacco Road]]'', Jeeter Lester believes himself to be a hard-working farmer who's not to blame if other people won't give him credit to buy seed cotton and fertilizer. His actions, or rather his inactivity, suggests otherwise.
* Bertie from ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (
* Sol in the ''[[
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Lister from ''[[
* Almost every season of ''[[Survivor]]'' has at least one contestant who makes a big show of not doing work, gloats about how funny it is that other people do work instead of them, and then has no clue why the other contestants (and the audience) hate them.
* Basi from the Nigerian TV show ''[[Basi And Company]]'' was a man whose goal in life was to become a millionaire without ever doing work. In the pilot episode, he tells an unemployed friend to try throwing himself off a bridge instead of job hunting...because some good Samaritan will save him and get him a job, just like happened to one of the current cabinet ministers.
* George from ''[[Seinfeld]]''.
* Maynard G. Krebbs from ''[[The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis]]''. The mere mention of work was enough to scare him.
* Hank on ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[
* Nathan from ''[[Misfits]]''. Not quite smart enough to be [[Brilliant but Lazy]], not nearly dumb enough to qualify as [[The Ditz]]. He's capable, but ''oh so'' lazy.
== [[Music]] ==
* In Akuno-P's [[Seven Deadly Sins]] [[Vocaloid]] series,[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HsIBQkAk7Q Gift from the Princess Who Brought Sleep] represents Sloth, sang by Hatsune Miku. Unlike most examples, this one is rather metaphorical. Miku (who is a very [[Broken Bird]]) grows discontent with everyone's unhappiness, and starting with her unfaithful husband, gives everyone her "gift" ([[Bilingual Bonus|"poison" in German]]). The metaphor is: life is a struggle to gain happiness, Miku is too "lazy" to work for her and everyone else's happiness, so she took the "lazy way out" by granting everyone eternal sleep.
* And then there's Bruno Mars' ''[[Exactly What It Says
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [[Squid Row]]: Grace. Let special orders accumulate for
* In [[Sequential Art]], [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=766 the prospect of working to pay the rent can cause fainting.]
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* As mentioned above, the hands-down most common flaw in a [[This Loser Is You]] protagonist is laziness. To take just a few:
** [[The Simpsons (animation)|Homer and Bart Simpson.]]
** Fry from ''[[Futurama]]''.
** Peter Griffin from ''[[Family Guy]].''
** ''[[Danny Phantom]]''.
** Timmy Turner from ''[[The Fairly
** Oscar from ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'', who couldn't even ''read'' until Arnold taught him how.
** Most of these characters are [[Book Dumb]] as well, and it's hard to say if they really "don't test well" or if they're just plain lazy.
* The ''[[Dick Tracy]]'' animated series had the [[Ethnic Scrappy]] Go-Go-Gomez, a lazy Mexican detective who solved crimes from his hammock.
* Mr. Lazy from ''[[The Mr. Men Show
* Dodsworth the cat in a couple of Robert McKimson's [[Looney Tunes|Warners shorts]] (''Kiddin' the Kitten'' and ''A Peck o' Trouble'') in [[The Fifties]].
* Bird from ''[[Skunk Fu!]]'' fits this trope rather well. He also induces this on Ox as well.
* Beezy on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' literally schedules his sloth.
* ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball
* Experiment 625 in ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]: [[Recycled: the Series|The Series]]'' is every bit as powerful as Stitch... but he has no interest in using his abilities, and would rather make sandwiches. He does get to work to help Lilo a few times, though.
** In the [[Grand Finale]] movie, ''[[Leroy and Stitch]]'', in addition to finally getting his own name, Reuben, he gets a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when he successful repairs Gantu's crashed ship, something Gantu had been unable to do all series.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'':
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== [[Real Life]] ==
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