Lean and Mean: Difference between revisions

When the hero is stronger and/or dumber, this often leads to [[Brains Evil, Brawn Good]].

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Loki is probably the skinniest male in Asgard. He is also one of [[The Mighty Thor|Thor's]] meanest villains. Mind you, it only holds when compared to Asgradians. When compared to most normal humans, he seems pretty toned.

 

* ''[[Ratatouille]]'': [[Straw Critic]] Anton Ego is thin for someone who eats for a living. As he explains, "If I don't love it, I don't ''swallow''."

* Franklin Bean in ''[[Fantastic Mr. Fox]]'' is noted for being skinny because he subsists only on cider.

* Tzekel-Kan, the evil High Priest in ''[[The Road to El Dorado]]'', highlighting his asceticism and religious devotion beside the comfortably worldy (and obese) Chief Tannabok.

* From ''[[Kung Fu Panda 2]]'', we have Lord Shen, an albino peacock who is the movie's [[Big Bad]].

* ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'': Creepy Thin Man from the movie had a [[Heel Face Turn]] which triggered [[Redemption Equals Death]].

* '' [[Metropolis]]'': Joh. Fredersen, ruler of Metropolis, has an assistant only credited as "The Thin Man". And while most of his scenes got chopped out in subsequent releases, it's indicated in the 2002 restoration that he beat the crap out of Josaphat trying to find out what Freder was up to. (This may need to be edited once the full restoration with the missing scenes comes out.)

* In ''[[Hellraiser]]'', all Cenobites are rather slender, except [[Fat Bastard|Butterball]], of course.

* Loki in ''[[Thor (film)|Thor]]''.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[The Thick of It]]'': Malcolm Tucker keeps his weight down by [[Girly Run|running everywhere]], being permanently stressed out, and living on [[Forgets to Eat|a diet consisting mainly of coffee]]. Policy adviser Olly Reader likens him to "a thin white Mugabe".

 

== Literature ==

** Lord Vetinari is a scheming Machiavellian dictator and is thin as a rail, voluntarily subsisting on nothing but bread and water. However, while he describes himself as evil, he is never an outright antagonist and is often on the heroes' side. Strangely, his (unnamed) appearance in the first book is as a [[Fat Bastard]], and was generally considered to be his predecessor until [[Word of God]] confirmed they were the same character.

** Granny Weatherwax, a manipulative [[Good Is Not Nice]] character in the same vein, is also tall, thin and wears black, though her slimness is not quite emphasised as much. It's more obvious contrasted with her fellow witch and lifelong friend, the short, plump, amicable Nanny Ogg.

* Utilized, and oft-lampshaded, in Robert Jordan's ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' novels, in that all skinny innkeepers that the protagonists come across in their journeys are invariably up to no good.

* ''[[Timeline-191]]'': Jake Featherston, the Hitler-esque Southern dictator of [[Harry Turtledove]] alternate history series, is described as whipcord-lean.

* ''[[Ship Breaker]]'': Most crew are pretty lean, but [[The Heavy|Richard Lopez]], [[Archnemesis Dad]] and [[Combat Sadomasochist]] adds a naturally whippy build and an [[Drugs Are Bad|addict]]'s decaying physique, for a truly ravaged appearance.

* [[Big Bad|Professor James Moriarty]] from [[Sherlock Holmes]] is described as being very tall and thin and like a lizard.

 

== Music ==

* [[David Bowie]]'s late seventies persona, The Thin White Duke, although not being evil, per se was definitely a bit sharper edged than his other characters and more than a bit coke-fueled, therefore somewhat delusional. This incarnation of Bowie has been described as "an amoral zombie", "an emotionless Aryan superman", [[Aristocrats Are Evil|"a mad aristocrat"]] and by the man himself, "a nasty character indeed". As far as the lean side goes, his weight plummeted to less than ninety pounds, extremely underweight for a 5'10" frame.

* Many punk rockers in the 1970s were regarded as this by the [[Moral Guardians|establishment]].

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'': The Dark Eldar are half Lean and Mean, half [[Spikes of Villainy]]. It even extends to their vehicles.

 

* Cassius from [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Julius Caesar]]''.

 

== Video Games ==

** There's also Foxy who is a great deal less-heavier built than the other members of the Fazbear Four (Which probably aids in him jetting towards your office at high-speed) as well as his Toy Animatronic counterpart "Mangle", who counts even more thanks to being a snakelike, spidery mess of tangled limbs. And while her older counterpart is bulky to the point of almost being fat, Toy Chica is incredibly slim.

 

* ''[[Homestuck]]'''s Jack Noir is very lean, and very [[Complete Monster|mean]].

* ''[[Daddy Long Legs (webcomic)|Daddy Long Legs]]'' has Mr. Scapegrace, who is one of the thinnest characters seen so far and the creepiest.

* Janice Jamison, the head of Magical Research in the Souballo Empire in ''[[Our Little Adventure]]''.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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[[Category:Evil Tropes]]

[[Category:Slim Tropes]]

[[Category:Sublime Rhyme]]

[[Category:The Jerk Index]]