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* [[Literature/{{Dune}} Baron Harkonnen's]] girth is used alongside his [[DepravedBisexual sexual deviancy]] and torture of slaves to emphasize how disgusting a person he is.
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* Dennis Nedry from ''Franchise/JurassicPark''. Arnold even refers to him as such.
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* Basu, TheMorbidlyObeseNinja from the novel of the same name by CarltonMellickIII. when he was lean he was the deadliest ninja in town, after he reached 700 pounds of weight, he also became the meanest. [[spoiler: post-character development he's more a Fat Bastard [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold with a heart of gold]].]]
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* Basu, TheMorbidlyObeseNinja Literature/TheMorbidlyObeseNinja from the novel of the same name by CarltonMellickIII.Creator/CarltonMellickIII. when he was lean he was the deadliest ninja in town, after he reached 700 pounds of weight, he also became the meanest. [[spoiler: post-character development he's more a Fat Bastard [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold with a heart of gold]].]]
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** Same with Bruno Jenkins from ''TheWitches'', an entitled little jerk who enjoys frying ants with his magnifying glass and bragging about his wealthy father. The titular antagonists lure him with food and transform him into a mouse. Even in this state, Bruno continues his gluttonous ways and is no help to the narrator.
* Early in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', Warlord Zsinj was an enemy of the New Republic and one of the very few humans in Star Wars described as overweight at all. His portrayal in ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'' showed him as venal, highly evil, self-important, and very, very [[FatIdiot stupid]]. His successes seem to be all related to the size of his fleet and the programs his scientists set up. The ''XWingSeries'' {{Ret Con}}s this, making Zsinj still fat and faintly ridiculous, still highly evil, but also very, very smart, and deliberately cultivating a [[ObfuscatingStupidity slightly absurd image]] that he knows smart people can see past, but he likes playing to an audience.
* Early in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', Warlord Zsinj was an enemy of the New Republic and one of the very few humans in Star Wars described as overweight at all. His portrayal in ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'' showed him as venal, highly evil, self-important, and very, very [[FatIdiot stupid]]. His successes seem to be all related to the size of his fleet and the programs his scientists set up. The ''XWingSeries'' {{Ret Con}}s this, making Zsinj still fat and faintly ridiculous, still highly evil, but also very, very smart, and deliberately cultivating a [[ObfuscatingStupidity slightly absurd image]] that he knows smart people can see past, but he likes playing to an audience.
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** Same with Bruno Jenkins from ''TheWitches'', ''Literature/TheWitches'', an entitled little jerk who enjoys frying ants with his magnifying glass and bragging about his wealthy father. The titular antagonists lure him with food and transform him into a mouse. Even in this state, Bruno continues his gluttonous ways and is no help to the narrator.
* Early in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', Warlord Zsinj was an enemy of the New Republic and one of the very few humans in Star Wars described as overweight at all. His portrayal in ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'' showed him as venal, highly evil, self-important, and very, very [[FatIdiot stupid]]. His successes seem to be all related to the size of his fleet and the programs his scientists set up. The''XWingSeries'' ''Literature/XWingSeries'' {{Ret Con}}s this, making Zsinj still fat and faintly ridiculous, still highly evil, but also very, very smart, and deliberately cultivating a [[ObfuscatingStupidity slightly absurd image]] that he knows smart people can see past, but he likes playing to an audience.
* Early in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', Warlord Zsinj was an enemy of the New Republic and one of the very few humans in Star Wars described as overweight at all. His portrayal in ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'' showed him as venal, highly evil, self-important, and very, very [[FatIdiot stupid]]. His successes seem to be all related to the size of his fleet and the programs his scientists set up. The
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* This trope is closely examined in RobinHobb's ''TheSoldierSon'' trilogy. After [[spoiler:Nevare]] grows extremely fat as a side effect of a disease, he notices how people's attitudes towards him have changed drastically to the worse. People who haven't even talked to him make fun of his size in his presence, and some are even openly hostile. He has to prove to those he meets that he ''isn't'' a bastard, because they tend to assume he is.
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* Clear Sky from ''Literature/WarriorCatsDawnOfTheClans'' describes Tom as very plump. He's [Tom] also a complete and total asshole.
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** Ramsay Bolton teeters on the edge of this- he's a huge, big-boned brute with a thick, fleshy face, and is described as looking like he will be fat in later life. It appears the only reason he isn't obese is that he's still young enough and leads an active enough lifestyle that his metabolism keeps his weight down.
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* [[Literature/AConfederacyofDunces Ignatius Jacques Reilly]], full stop. He's a fat, [[JerkAss obnoxious]], [[KnowNothingKnowitAll over-educated]] Manchild who still [[BasementDweller lives with his widowed mother at age thirty.]]
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* [[Literature/AConfederacyofDunces Literature/AConfederacyofDunces: Ignatius Jacques Reilly]], full stop. He's Reilly is a fat, [[JerkAss obnoxious]], [[KnowNothingKnowitAll over-educated]] Manchild who still [[BasementDweller lives with his widowed mother at age thirty.]]
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* ''[[Literature/AMagesPower A Mage's Power]]'': Tahart Ligo is an orc so "heavily muscled" that he can't bend over and clip his own toenails. He's not NiceToTheWaiter, or anyone else for that matter. [[spoiler: In fact, he attempts to rape his temporary maid and then bribe her rescuer into looking the other way. When Eric refuses, Tahart decides to eat him instead]]
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* ''[[Literature/AMagesPower A Mage's Power]]'': ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Tahart Ligo is an orc so "heavily muscled" that he can't bend over and clip his own toenails. He's not NiceToTheWaiter, or anyone else for that matter. [[spoiler: In fact, he attempts to rape his temporary maid and then bribe her rescuer into looking the other way. When Eric refuses, Tahart decides to eat him instead]]
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* Dennis Nedry in ''Literature/JurassicPark'', who [[spoiler: sabotages the park's security system, releasing several very dangerous dinosaurs while he steals embryos to sell to a rival company...until he [[LaserGuidedKarma gets eaten by a Dilophosaurus]]]]. He's not too different in [[Film/JurassicPark the movie]].
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* ''[[Literature/AMagesPower A Mage's Power]]'': Tahart Ligo is an orc so "heavily muscled" that he can't bend over and clip his own toenails. He's not NiceToTheWaiter, or anyone else for that matter. [[spoiler: In fact, he attempts to rape his temporary maid and then bribe her rescuer into looking the other way. When Eric refuses, Tahart decides to eat him instead]]
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** SplinterOfTheMindsEye has a villain whose physical description includes this line.
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** SplinterOfTheMindsEye Literature/SplinterOfTheMindsEye has a villain whose physical description includes this line.
---> [...] he stood to reveal a modest paunch curving gently from beneath his sternum [[PurpleProse like a frozen waterfall of suet]], to crash and tumble[[{{Squick}} somewhere below the waistline]] waistline in a jumble of uniform.
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* ''Literature/AnimalFarm'' may have Napoleon be this. It does make sense since he's a pig.
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* In Stephen King's ''BagOfBones'', custody lawyer Elmer Durgin is a Fat Bastard. He is also a [[AmoralAttorney lawyer]], but main character Michael Noonan speculates that Durgin's physical appearance is responsible for his repugnant personality rather than his profession, identifying Durgin as a member of a sub-species he calls "Evil Little Fat Folks/Fucks". Noonan says that most fat people are generally nice, but the Evil Little Fat Folks are naturally hateful (especially toward people who are physically fit) and bent on world domination.
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* In Stephen King's ''BagOfBones'', Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/BagOfBones'', custody lawyer Elmer Durgin is a Fat Bastard. He is also a [[AmoralAttorney lawyer]], but main character Michael Noonan speculates that Durgin's physical appearance is responsible for his repugnant personality rather than his profession, identifying Durgin as a member of a sub-species he calls "Evil Little Fat Folks/Fucks". Noonan says that most fat people are generally nice, but the Evil Little Fat Folks are naturally hateful (especially toward people who are physically fit) and bent on world domination.domination.
* ''Literature/{{Thinner}}'': [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] Billy Halleck is a seemingly nice guy with a good marriage and is a doting father (his daughter in fact [[DaddysGirl prefers Billy to her mother]]). However, he is clearly aware of his firm's tie to TheMafia, and is in fact good friends with a man who may be the head of the local mob family. After the accident, he doesn't deliberately use his connections to get him out of trouble, but he does nothing to dissuade them either. [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped There is blame enough to go around, but no one is willing to accept the consequences for their actions.]]
* ''Literature/{{Thinner}}'': [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] Billy Halleck is a seemingly nice guy with a good marriage and is a doting father (his daughter in fact [[DaddysGirl prefers Billy to her mother]]). However, he is clearly aware of his firm's tie to TheMafia, and is in fact good friends with a man who may be the head of the local mob family. After the accident, he doesn't deliberately use his connections to get him out of trouble, but he does nothing to dissuade them either. [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped There is blame enough to go around, but no one is willing to accept the consequences for their actions.]]
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* Vassily Zhukovsky, head of the Russian Mob in Los Angeles, in ''Literature/MrBlank'' is nicknamed "The Whale." He is not a svelte man.
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* Vassily Zhukovsky, head of the Russian Mob in Los Angeles, in ''Literature/MrBlank'' and [[Literature/GetBlank its sequel]] is nicknamed "The Whale." He is not a svelte man.
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* Early in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', Warlord Zsinj was an enemy of the New Republic and one of the very few humans in Star Wars described as overweight at all. His portrayal in ''TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'' showed him as venal, highly evil, self-important, and very, very [[FatIdiot stupid]]. His successes seem to be all related to the size of his fleet and the programs his scientists set up. The ''XWingSeries'' {{Ret Con}}s this, making Zsinj still fat and faintly ridiculous, still highly evil, but also very, very smart, and deliberately cultivating a [[ObfuscatingStupidity slightly absurd image]] that he knows smart people can see past, but he likes playing to an audience.
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* Early in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', Warlord Zsinj was an enemy of the New Republic and one of the very few humans in Star Wars described as overweight at all. His portrayal in ''TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'' ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'' showed him as venal, highly evil, self-important, and very, very [[FatIdiot stupid]]. His successes seem to be all related to the size of his fleet and the programs his scientists set up. The ''XWingSeries'' {{Ret Con}}s this, making Zsinj still fat and faintly ridiculous, still highly evil, but also very, very smart, and deliberately cultivating a [[ObfuscatingStupidity slightly absurd image]] that he knows smart people can see past, but he likes playing to an audience.
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* Augustus Gloop from ''CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''. Like all the kids in the book he's an {{Anvilicious}} {{Aesop}}, in his case about gluttony. Alongside [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic avarice, sloth, and...]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking gum-chewing]]. Hmm.
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* Augustus Gloop from ''CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''.''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''. Like all the kids in the book he's an {{Anvilicious}} {{Aesop}}, in his case about gluttony. Alongside [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic avarice, sloth, and...]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking gum-chewing]]. Hmm.
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** Same with Bruno Jenkins from ''TheWitches'', an entitled little jerk who enjoys frying ants with his magnifying glass and bragging about his wealthy father. The titular antagonists lure him with food and transform him into a mouse. Even in this state, Bruno continues his gluttonous ways and is no help to the narrator.
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* Laman Griffin in ''Literature/AngelasAshes''. He is Angela's overweight cousin who forces her to sleep with him, makes Frank empty his piss pot and sloppily eats chips while refusing to share them with any of Angela's kids — they have to lick the newspaper he throws out because they are so hungry.
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Rowling did eventually apparently become uncomfortable with how she was using this trope to equate evil with being overweight, and eventually gave Dudley enough physical training for him to be a competent boxer (though he's still "vast as ever"). Then in the last book Dudley turns out to be halfway decent at the last second, so . . .
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Rowling did eventually apparently become uncomfortable with how she was using this trope to equate evil with being overweight, and eventually gave Dudley enough physical training for him to be a competent boxer (though he's still "vast as ever"). Then in the last book Dudley turns out to be halfway decent at the last second, so . . .and is merely described as "muscular."
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Rowling did eventually apparently become uncomfortable with how she was using this trope to equate evil with being overweight, and eventually gave Dudley enough physical training for him to be a competent boxer.boxer (though he's still "vast as ever"). Then in the last book Dudley turns out to be halfway decent at the last second, so . . .
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* Vassily Zhukovsky, head of the Russian Mob in Los Angeles, in ''Literature/MrBlank'' is nicknamed "The Whale." He is not a svelte man.
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* ''BillyBunter'' has got to be one of the archetypes for this trope, having made his first appearance in 1908 and becoming so well-known that his name was long used as an insult for real life Fat Bastards (in the UK). Comically greedy, snobbish, dishonest, inept, self-centred, lazy, stupid, mean, cowardly and always, always on the scrounge, he provided the perfect foil for his upright and honest classmates and became so popular that he eventually took on the [[EnsembleDarkhorse title role]] for the series.
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* ''BillyBunter'' Billy Bunter of Literature/{{Greyfriars}} has got to be one of the archetypes for this trope, having made his first appearance in 1908 and becoming so well-known that his name was long used in the UK as an insult for real life Fat Bastards (in the UK). Bastards. Comically greedy, snobbish, dishonest, inept, self-centred, lazy, stupid, mean, cowardly and always, always on the scrounge, he provided the perfect foil for his upright and honest classmates and became so popular that he eventually took on the [[EnsembleDarkhorse [[BreakoutCharacter title role]] for the series.
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* In the original ''Sleepover Club'' books, one of the girls' enemies was an overweight school bully named Amanda Porter, known to them as "Fatty Bum-Bum." They explained that although they usually disapproved of calling people cruel names, they make an exception for Amanda because she was so cruel to everyone else.
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** Robert Baratheon isn't exactly an evil man, but he's still a morbidly obese [[TheHedonist hedonist]], [[PuppetKing an incompetent king]], [[ParentalNeglect a neglectful father]], and a [[DomesticAbuse terrible]] [[YourCheatingHeart husband]] (though his wife is just as vicious to him in return). [[IWasQuiteALooker Robert was a better man in his youth]], but he really let himself go physically and morally [[HeartbrokenBadass after losing Lyanna Stark]] and being stuck with a [[TheChainsOfCommanding throne]] and a [[UnwantedSpouse wife]] he didn't want.
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* ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'''s mother is a female version. Her father is this in the movie. The Trunchbull is another female version.
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* Kalchan, Skif's cousin in ''[[HeraldsOfValdemar Take a Thief]]'', is described as having rolls of fat bulging over his waistband. He's physically abusive to Skif (and [[spoiler:sexually abusive to the underage server Maisie]].)
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* Kalchan, Skif's cousin in ''[[HeraldsOfValdemar ''[[Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar Take a Thief]]'', is described as having rolls of fat bulging over his waistband. He's physically abusive to Skif (and [[spoiler:sexually abusive to the underage server Maisie]].)
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* A few of the antagonists from the {{Sherlock Holmes}} short stories such as Jephro Rucastle from The Copper Beeches and Blessington (or Sutton) from The Resident Patient.
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* In Stephen King's ''BagOfBones'', custody lawyer Elmer Durgin is a Fat Bastard. He is also a [[AmoralAttorney lawyer]], but main character Michael Noonan speculates that Durgin's physical appearance is responsible for his repugnant personality rather than his profession, identifying Durgin as a member of a sub-species he calls "Evil Little Fat Folks/Fucks". Noonan says that most fat people are generally nice, but the Evil Little Fat Folks are naturally hateful (especially toward people who are physically fit) and bent on world domination.
* ''BillyBunter'' has got to be one of the archetypes for this trope, having made his first appearance in 1908 and becoming so well-known that his name was long used as an insult for real life Fat Bastards (in the UK). Comically greedy, snobbish, dishonest, inept, self-centred, lazy, stupid, mean, cowardly and always, always on the scrounge, he provided the perfect foil for his upright and honest classmates and became so popular that he eventually took on the [[EnsembleDarkhorse title role]] for the series.
* Dennis Nedry from ''Franchise/JurassicPark''.
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** The male Dursleys, particularly Dudley. Indeed, in Dudley's introductions in the first book, Rowling spends nearly as much time going over how fat he is as she does over his actual bullying of Harry.\\
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** Peter Pettigrew, evil murderous traitor extraordinaire, is described as having been fat or 'chubby' in his youth, though when they first see him as an adult he has the look of 'having lost a great deal of weight in a short amount of time' which is equally unflattering.
** Umbridge is described as having rolls of fat.
* Terry Pratchett lampshades this in ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', where one of the chairmen at the Grand Trunks Company is described as fat, multi-chinned and having a grating voice and an expression like a piglet, and a footnote says that it's stereotypical to say that someone like that couldn't be a kind and generous man, like it's stereotypical to say a man in a striped shirt coming in through your window in the middle of the night is a burglar.
* Basu, TheMorbidlyObeseNinja from the novel of the same name by CarltonMellickIII. when he was lean he was the deadliest ninja in town, after he reached 700 pounds of weight, he also became the meanest. [[spoiler: post-character development he's more a Fat Bastard [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold with a heart of gold]].]]
* [[{{Dune}} Baron Harkonnen's]] girth is used alongside his [[DepravedBisexual sexual deviancy]] and torture of slaves to emphasize how disgusting a person he is.
** That's got to be [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. The man weighed 200 kilograms (441 pounds) but could only support 1/4 of that by muscle-power without anti-gravity suspensors. While there are certainly active people who reach that weight, they also develop the body/muscular structure to support it. To be immobilized by his fat at that size, he would probably have needed to eat SO much that he gained weight too quickly for his body to adapt, for a long period of time, and intentionally compensated for it with antigravs rather than making any effort to carry his own bulk.
** It is also implied that the excessive weight gain is a symptom of a hereditary disease common to the Harkonnen. Rabban is stated to be approaching the Baron's girth, while Feyd-Rautha keeps it in check through his... rigorous physical training program. Neither of these is any less of a monster, though.
** The prequels explained that the Baron was originally an exceptionally fit man, in fact fairly obsessive and vain about it. But then one day he was blackmailed into siring a child (Jessica) with a Bene Gesserit and decided to have a little fun with it at her expense. She in turn took the opportunity to tweak his body chemistry a bit.
* Augustus Gloop from ''CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''. Like all the kids in the book he's an {{Anvilicious}} {{Aesop}}, in his case about gluttony. Alongside [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic avarice, sloth, and...]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking gum-chewing]]. Hmm.
* Early in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', Warlord Zsinj was an enemy of the New Republic and one of the very few humans in Star Wars described as overweight at all. His portrayal in ''TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'' showed him as venal, highly evil, self-important, and very, very [[FatIdiot stupid]]. His successes seem to be all related to the size of his fleet and the programs his scientists set up. The ''XWingSeries'' {{Ret Con}}s this, making Zsinj still fat and faintly ridiculous, still highly evil, but also very, very smart, and deliberately cultivating a [[ObfuscatingStupidity slightly absurd image]] that he knows smart people can see past, but he likes playing to an audience.
** Hutts, which are specifically said to be lithe and muscular when young and become progressively more obese as they grow older and gather more power, are almost universally disgusting. Almost. There's some record that a Hutt was once a very fair and very popular Chancellor of the Republic.
*** There is also a subversion in at least one Hutt Jedi, who is implied to get more powerful in the force as he gets fatter, presumably because he has more life force, or something.
**** The Hutts in general are one of the few races that are immune to the "mind tricks" of the Jedi or Sith, indicating perhaps a naturally strong connection to the force as a species trait.
*** Wait - fat, toadlike, powerful telekenetics? ''[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} The Old Ones]] [[WildMassGuessing were Jedi!!]]''
** There's also the Toydarians, who are related to Hutts, are almost as bastardly, and they all have big guts. Though, as extra materials point out, their guts aren't filled with fat, but helium. Which explains why such a being can fly around on those puny wings. Fatness may be the least of their [[SpaceJews unfortunate stereotyping.]]
** Another fat bastard human featured in ''Tatooine Ghost'' - one of Leia's fellow survivors of Alderaan is fat enough to need a hoverchair. He's small-time compared to the other bad guys in the fic, but a greedy wretch nonetheless.
** SplinterOfTheMindsEye has a villain whose physical description includes this line.
---> [...] he stood to reveal a modest paunch curving gently from beneath his sternum [[PurpleProse like a frozen waterfall of suet]], to crash and tumble [[{{Squick}} somewhere below the waistline]] in a jumble of uniform.
* This trope is closely examined in RobinHobb's ''TheSoldierSon'' trilogy. After [[spoiler:Nevare]] grows extremely fat as a side effect of a disease, he notices how people's attitudes towards him have changed drastically to the worse. People who haven't even talked to him make fun of his size in his presence, and some are even openly hostile. He has to prove to those he meets that he ''isn't'' a bastard, because they tend to assume he is.
* Inverted by Harold Lauder in ''[[Creator/StephenKing The Stand]]'', at least in the novel. Harold is a sympathetic character while a fat nerd--it's only after he loses weight, becomes moderately attractive, and gains a few levels of competence outside of bookish pursuits that he does a FaceHeelTurn.
* ''Literature/TheBible'' [[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%203:12-28&version=KJV describes]] the assassination of a [[AdiposeRex very fat king]] who leaks excrement when he is stabbed. He oppressed the Israelites for eighteen years, which perhaps explains why this particular detail was included by those who wrote the account.
* The Ancestress, an early villain in ''Literature/BridgeOfBirds.'' Li Kao recalls her as a beautiful, scheming concubine who butchered all of her rivals and their children, then had the Emperor murdered and set herself up as a regent over her weak-willed son for years, where her extravagance ran the empire into the ground; her son got blamed and subsequently executed in a coup, while she retired to a life of luxury. By the time we see her, however, she has gained two hundred pounds out of overindulgence. When she finally meets her end, in a gruesome manner typical to this series, she is described as blundering around the room crushing her own guards with her monstrous weight while [[spoiler:Henpecked Ho]] pursues her with an axe.
* Creator/TimPowers uses this villain archetype in several of his novels -- Leo Friend in ''Literature/OnStrangerTides'' and Loretta deLarava in ''Expiration Date'' are both described as extremely, grotesquely fat.
* In Creator/RobertEHoward's ConanTheBarbarian story "The Phoenix on the Sword", Ascalante sneers at one of the nobles who thought they had hired him as "the fat baron of Attalus."
* [[ASongOfIceAndFire Strong Belwas]], who is a fat ex-gladiator. Although he's a stone cold killer on Dany's side, so that arguably makes him Grey in a world of BlackAndBlackMorality.
** A Song of Ice and Fire is filled with this trope. There's Yezzan zo Qaggaz, an extremely wealthy slave owner who is called (behind his back) the Yellow Whale for his yellow eyes and the fact that he is so obese that he cannot stand unassisted. Ser Amory Lorch isn't as fat as him, but still quite fat. Magister Illyrio is morbidly obese and seems to be decidedly amoral.
** However, this trope is subverted with Lord Wyman Manderly, who is another morbidly obese person who at first seems to be this trope, but it turns out this was a ploy and he is actually a pretty good guy.
*** This trope is also somewhat subverted by the above-mentioned Yezzan zo Qaggaz. Although one of the foremost slavers in an extremely brutal slaver society, he also happens to be one of the lesser evils among the slavers, arguing that Yunkai should not break a peace treaty while others hope for the riches that will come with sacking Meereen and apparently taking better care of his slaves than most. Well, aside from occasionally sending them out to be fed to lions or having his slave girls raped by giants for his amusement. [[CrapsackWorld Yeah.]]
* The BigBad of book 1 and 2 of ''DetectivesInTogas''.
* [[Literature/AConfederacyofDunces Ignatius Jacques Reilly]], full stop. He's a fat, [[JerkAss obnoxious]], [[KnowNothingKnowitAll over-educated]] Manchild who still [[BasementDweller lives with his widowed mother at age thirty.]]
* Kalchan, Skif's cousin in ''[[HeraldsOfValdemar Take a Thief]]'', is described as having rolls of fat bulging over his waistband. He's physically abusive to Skif (and [[spoiler:sexually abusive to the underage server Maisie]].)
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* ''BillyBunter'' has got to be one of the archetypes for this trope, having made his first appearance in 1908 and becoming so well-known that his name was long used as an insult for real life Fat Bastards (in the UK). Comically greedy, snobbish, dishonest, inept, self-centred, lazy, stupid, mean, cowardly and always, always on the scrounge, he provided the perfect foil for his upright and honest classmates and became so popular that he eventually took on the [[EnsembleDarkhorse title role]] for the series.
* Dennis Nedry from ''Franchise/JurassicPark''.
* ''HarryPotter''
** The male Dursleys, particularly Dudley. Indeed, in Dudley's introductions in the first book, Rowling spends nearly as much time going over how fat he is as she does over his actual bullying of Harry.\\
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Rowling did eventually become uncomfortable with how she was using this trope to equate evil with being overweight, and eventually gave Dudley enough physical training for him to be a competent boxer. Then in the last book Dudley turns out to be halfway decent at the last second, so . . .
** Peter Pettigrew, evil murderous traitor extraordinaire, is described as having been fat or 'chubby' in his youth, though when they first see him as an adult he has the look of 'having lost a great deal of weight in a short amount of time' which is equally unflattering.
** Umbridge is described as having rolls of fat.
* Terry Pratchett lampshades this in ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', where one of the chairmen at the Grand Trunks Company is described as fat, multi-chinned and having a grating voice and an expression like a piglet, and a footnote says that it's stereotypical to say that someone like that couldn't be a kind and generous man, like it's stereotypical to say a man in a striped shirt coming in through your window in the middle of the night is a burglar.
* Basu, TheMorbidlyObeseNinja from the novel of the same name by CarltonMellickIII. when he was lean he was the deadliest ninja in town, after he reached 700 pounds of weight, he also became the meanest. [[spoiler: post-character development he's more a Fat Bastard [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold with a heart of gold]].]]
* [[{{Dune}} Baron Harkonnen's]] girth is used alongside his [[DepravedBisexual sexual deviancy]] and torture of slaves to emphasize how disgusting a person he is.
** That's got to be [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. The man weighed 200 kilograms (441 pounds) but could only support 1/4 of that by muscle-power without anti-gravity suspensors. While there are certainly active people who reach that weight, they also develop the body/muscular structure to support it. To be immobilized by his fat at that size, he would probably have needed to eat SO much that he gained weight too quickly for his body to adapt, for a long period of time, and intentionally compensated for it with antigravs rather than making any effort to carry his own bulk.
** It is also implied that the excessive weight gain is a symptom of a hereditary disease common to the Harkonnen. Rabban is stated to be approaching the Baron's girth, while Feyd-Rautha keeps it in check through his... rigorous physical training program. Neither of these is any less of a monster, though.
** The prequels explained that the Baron was originally an exceptionally fit man, in fact fairly obsessive and vain about it. But then one day he was blackmailed into siring a child (Jessica) with a Bene Gesserit and decided to have a little fun with it at her expense. She in turn took the opportunity to tweak his body chemistry a bit.
* Augustus Gloop from ''CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''. Like all the kids in the book he's an {{Anvilicious}} {{Aesop}}, in his case about gluttony. Alongside [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic avarice, sloth, and...]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking gum-chewing]]. Hmm.
* Early in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', Warlord Zsinj was an enemy of the New Republic and one of the very few humans in Star Wars described as overweight at all. His portrayal in ''TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'' showed him as venal, highly evil, self-important, and very, very [[FatIdiot stupid]]. His successes seem to be all related to the size of his fleet and the programs his scientists set up. The ''XWingSeries'' {{Ret Con}}s this, making Zsinj still fat and faintly ridiculous, still highly evil, but also very, very smart, and deliberately cultivating a [[ObfuscatingStupidity slightly absurd image]] that he knows smart people can see past, but he likes playing to an audience.
** Hutts, which are specifically said to be lithe and muscular when young and become progressively more obese as they grow older and gather more power, are almost universally disgusting. Almost. There's some record that a Hutt was once a very fair and very popular Chancellor of the Republic.
*** There is also a subversion in at least one Hutt Jedi, who is implied to get more powerful in the force as he gets fatter, presumably because he has more life force, or something.
**** The Hutts in general are one of the few races that are immune to the "mind tricks" of the Jedi or Sith, indicating perhaps a naturally strong connection to the force as a species trait.
*** Wait - fat, toadlike, powerful telekenetics? ''[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} The Old Ones]] [[WildMassGuessing were Jedi!!]]''
** There's also the Toydarians, who are related to Hutts, are almost as bastardly, and they all have big guts. Though, as extra materials point out, their guts aren't filled with fat, but helium. Which explains why such a being can fly around on those puny wings. Fatness may be the least of their [[SpaceJews unfortunate stereotyping.]]
** Another fat bastard human featured in ''Tatooine Ghost'' - one of Leia's fellow survivors of Alderaan is fat enough to need a hoverchair. He's small-time compared to the other bad guys in the fic, but a greedy wretch nonetheless.
** SplinterOfTheMindsEye has a villain whose physical description includes this line.
---> [...] he stood to reveal a modest paunch curving gently from beneath his sternum [[PurpleProse like a frozen waterfall of suet]], to crash and tumble [[{{Squick}} somewhere below the waistline]] in a jumble of uniform.
* This trope is closely examined in RobinHobb's ''TheSoldierSon'' trilogy. After [[spoiler:Nevare]] grows extremely fat as a side effect of a disease, he notices how people's attitudes towards him have changed drastically to the worse. People who haven't even talked to him make fun of his size in his presence, and some are even openly hostile. He has to prove to those he meets that he ''isn't'' a bastard, because they tend to assume he is.
* Inverted by Harold Lauder in ''[[Creator/StephenKing The Stand]]'', at least in the novel. Harold is a sympathetic character while a fat nerd--it's only after he loses weight, becomes moderately attractive, and gains a few levels of competence outside of bookish pursuits that he does a FaceHeelTurn.
* ''Literature/TheBible'' [[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%203:12-28&version=KJV describes]] the assassination of a [[AdiposeRex very fat king]] who leaks excrement when he is stabbed. He oppressed the Israelites for eighteen years, which perhaps explains why this particular detail was included by those who wrote the account.
* The Ancestress, an early villain in ''Literature/BridgeOfBirds.'' Li Kao recalls her as a beautiful, scheming concubine who butchered all of her rivals and their children, then had the Emperor murdered and set herself up as a regent over her weak-willed son for years, where her extravagance ran the empire into the ground; her son got blamed and subsequently executed in a coup, while she retired to a life of luxury. By the time we see her, however, she has gained two hundred pounds out of overindulgence. When she finally meets her end, in a gruesome manner typical to this series, she is described as blundering around the room crushing her own guards with her monstrous weight while [[spoiler:Henpecked Ho]] pursues her with an axe.
* Creator/TimPowers uses this villain archetype in several of his novels -- Leo Friend in ''Literature/OnStrangerTides'' and Loretta deLarava in ''Expiration Date'' are both described as extremely, grotesquely fat.
* In Creator/RobertEHoward's ConanTheBarbarian story "The Phoenix on the Sword", Ascalante sneers at one of the nobles who thought they had hired him as "the fat baron of Attalus."
* [[ASongOfIceAndFire Strong Belwas]], who is a fat ex-gladiator. Although he's a stone cold killer on Dany's side, so that arguably makes him Grey in a world of BlackAndBlackMorality.
** A Song of Ice and Fire is filled with this trope. There's Yezzan zo Qaggaz, an extremely wealthy slave owner who is called (behind his back) the Yellow Whale for his yellow eyes and the fact that he is so obese that he cannot stand unassisted. Ser Amory Lorch isn't as fat as him, but still quite fat. Magister Illyrio is morbidly obese and seems to be decidedly amoral.
** However, this trope is subverted with Lord Wyman Manderly, who is another morbidly obese person who at first seems to be this trope, but it turns out this was a ploy and he is actually a pretty good guy.
*** This trope is also somewhat subverted by the above-mentioned Yezzan zo Qaggaz. Although one of the foremost slavers in an extremely brutal slaver society, he also happens to be one of the lesser evils among the slavers, arguing that Yunkai should not break a peace treaty while others hope for the riches that will come with sacking Meereen and apparently taking better care of his slaves than most. Well, aside from occasionally sending them out to be fed to lions or having his slave girls raped by giants for his amusement. [[CrapsackWorld Yeah.]]
* The BigBad of book 1 and 2 of ''DetectivesInTogas''.
* [[Literature/AConfederacyofDunces Ignatius Jacques Reilly]], full stop. He's a fat, [[JerkAss obnoxious]], [[KnowNothingKnowitAll over-educated]] Manchild who still [[BasementDweller lives with his widowed mother at age thirty.]]
* Kalchan, Skif's cousin in ''[[HeraldsOfValdemar Take a Thief]]'', is described as having rolls of fat bulging over his waistband. He's physically abusive to Skif (and [[spoiler:sexually abusive to the underage server Maisie]].)
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