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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Lazy-Sensei]] from ''[[Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu]]'', who enforces "siesta" time on his class purely to get himself more shut-eye. Nevermind that his students range in age from 9 to late teens, and are all past the need for naptimes.
* Genma Saotome of ''[[Ranma One Half]]'' sits somewhere between subverting this and playing it straight. In the series itself, he almost never bothers to do anything besides loaf around, eat, and play shogi, leaving his son to handle any problem that pops up. [[Sins of Our Fathers|Even if Genma caused that problem in the first place.]] However, prior to the series, Genma willingly left his [[Supreme Chef]] wife and the comfort of his home to travel the highways and byways of Japan and China for over a decade, in order to help his son become a powerful martial artist, and in fact designed two schools of techniques (the Yamasenken and Umisenken) that are amongst the most powerful in the series, with near-perfect invisibility, [[Razor Wind|vacuum blades that can cut through steel like runny butter]], spine-snapping bearhugs, and more. He has also displayed mental sloth in regards teaching Ranma- for example, failing to read the [[Useless Useful Spell|Nekoken]] training scroll [[Now You Tell Me|all the way through]], or taking his son to [[Transformation Ray|Jusenkyo]] simply on the virtue that it sounded impressive, without bothering to find out ''why'' it was called "The Valley of Cursed Springs".
* Played with in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]''. [[Meaningful Name|Belphegor]] represents the sin of Sloth, but is a very hard worker. It's just that if she's the only one doing the work, it advances her vice. Still, when {{spoiler|Rudolf tricks her into a [[Duel to Thethe Death]] in the third arc, she doesn't notice that her master, Eva-Beatrice, is in the line of fire until she only has time to [[Taking the Bullet|take the bullet]] (He apologizes to her, at least).}} As she puts it, ''"I was lazy ?!"''.
* 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 (Light Novel)|Shizuo Heiwajima]], [[Hair-Trigger Temper|of]] [[The Berserker|all]] [[World's Strongest Man|people]], appears to be this. In his official character profile his only hobby is listed as "basking in the sun", and he tells Celty in his "Special Voice" on the character CD that he likes days where there's "just nothing to do".
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Victor Tugelbend is the hero of the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Moving Pictures|Moving Pictures]]'', who puts an extraordinary amount of thought and effort into being lazy. He finds the student life at [[Wizarding School|Unseen University]] very cushy so he studies extra extra hard to get exactly 84% on all his exams. 88% is the minimum passing grade for UU, and he has to get at least 80% to keep his trust fund. He's also in very good shape, so he doesn't have to waste energy hauling around excess body mass.
* Each of the villains in the ''[[Keys to Thethe Kingdom]]'' series represents a [[Seven Deadly Sins|deadly sin]], with Mister Monday representing sloth. He has servants carry him around at all time and the waiting line for people seeking his approval to do something stretches into the hundreds of thousands. Seeing as he keeps an important part of the [[Celestial Bureaucracy]] running... Let's just say that in the ten thousand years of his reign, even some people remain unaccounted for.
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: The Grasshopper in ''The Ant and the Grasshopper'', one of [[Aesop's Fables (Literature)|Aesop's Fables]].
* Mrs Ablewhite in ''[[The Moonstone]]''.
{{quote| My Aunt Ablewhite is a large, silent, fair-complexioned woman, with one noteworthy point in her character. From the hour of her birth she has never been known to do anything for herself. She has gone through life, accepting everybody's help, and adopting everybody's opinions.}}
* 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 (Literaturenovel)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'', who has [[Upperclass Twit|more than enough money to support his lazy lifestyle]] and dreads nothing more than losing [[The Jeeves|his valet]], [[Living Emotional Crutch|who runs his life]] [[Rich in Dollars, Poor In Sense|and sees to it that he doesn't have to do a thing himself]].
* Sol in the ''[[Warrior Cats (Literature)|Warrior Cats]]'' series. He's charismatic enough to convince other cats to do what he wants, but somehow always ends up letting them fight in his place, or having them bring him food. Barley's brothers are also freeloaders that insist they need Ravenpaw to "show" them how to hunt and prepare sleeping areas.
 
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Lister from ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' is one of the ones we root for. He never does any work whatsoever, but it's not like a giant empty spaceship with no crew needs a lot of work, and he's more fun than his [[Control Freak]] nemesis.
* 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 ''[[Corner Gas (TV)|Corner Gas]]'', though he is also [[The Fool]].
* Subverted in ''[[Lazy TownLazyTown]]'' with Robbie Rotten, whose efforts to get everyone else to stop doing things (or just ruin their day) actually take a lot of work; this was [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] at least once.
* 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 Onon the Tin|The Lazy Song]]''. "''Today I don't feel like doing anything...''"
 
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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* [[The Mr. Men Show|Mr. Lazy]].
* 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|Richard Watterson]] Gumballs dad, who's an over grown [[Man Child]] who sits in the couch all day.
* Experiment 625 in ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]: [[Recycled: Thethe 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 (Animation)|Rainbow Dash]], who is [[Brilliant but Lazy|super speedy and athletic but also very lazy]]. Even ''she'' lampshades this sometimes:
{{quote| '''Rainbow Dash''': I ''was'' busy. Napping.}}
 
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