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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Exactly What It Says
* 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
* 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
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Victor Tugelbend is the hero of the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld
* 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]]''.
{{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 (
* 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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* [[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:
** 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
{{quote| '''Rainbow Dash''': I ''was'' busy. Napping.}}
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