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* ''Film/Dune2021'': Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is so overweight he needs an anti-gravity device to move. He's also very evil and the main source of misery for the protagonist Paul.
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* The film versions of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' do this with Vernon Dursley even more than in the books, courtesy of Richard Griffiths - so much so that he provide the image on the main page.
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* ''Film/{{Kisapmata}}'': Dadong is on the heavy side, likely stemming from [[TheAlcoholic his constant drinking]]; and is also a scumbag of a person who [[DomesticAbuse beats his wife]] and worst of all, [[spoiler:[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] his [[ParentalIncest own daughter]]]].
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* ''Film/{{Pathology}}'': The man murdered by Juliette and Ted is only identified in the credits as '[[NoNameGiven Fat Bastard]]'. However, given Juliette's story about all of the awful things he did is a lie, how much of a bastard he really is remains unknown.
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* ''Film/HarshTimes'': The government spook who tries to recruit Jim and his "talents" for his US task force in Colombia is noticeably overweight and sweaty. He also advises Jim to dump the Mexican girl he wants to marry and just get a bunch of Colombian mistresses.
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* ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves'' gives us a live-action Themberchaud, an adult red dragon who's so fat he can barely walk (definitely can't fly) and spends most of his on-screen time ''rolling'' around killing and eating people, unable even to use his dragon-breath thanks to his size.
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** ''Film/{{Spectre}}'': The bald and fat Italian bodyguard of the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Spectre]] meeting (Peppe Lanzetta), who ends up [[RailingKill thrown by Bond on the meeting's table from the above railing]].

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** ''Film/{{Spectre}}'': The Lorenzo, the bald and fat Italian bodyguard of the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Spectre]] meeting (Peppe Lanzetta), who ends up [[RailingKill thrown by Bond on the meeting's table from the above railing]].
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* The film versions of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' [[AdaptationalVillainy take it to extremes]] with Vernon Dursley - so much so that he provide the image on the main page.

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* The film versions of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' [[AdaptationalVillainy take it to extremes]] do this with Vernon Dursley even more than in the books, courtesy of Richard Griffiths - so much so that he provide the image on the main page.
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** ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'': [[BigBad Blofeld]]'s NumberTwo Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat) isn't a slim woman, and there's also the burly henchman Grunther (Yuri Borienko).
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** ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'': The overweight ArmsDealer half of the BigBadDuumvirate, Brad Whitaker (Creator/JoeDonBaker). A MilesGloriosus, PsychopathicManchild and EvilNerd all rolled into one that Bond still has some difficulty in taking down due to him using an [[MoreDakka automatic weapon with a big magazine]] and a protective front shield.

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** ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'': The overweight ArmsDealer half of the BigBadDuumvirate, Brad Whitaker (Creator/JoeDonBaker). A MilesGloriosus, PsychopathicManchild and EvilNerd all rolled into one that Bond still has some difficulty in taking down due to him using an [[MoreDakka automatic weapon with a big magazine]] and fitted with a protective front bulletproof shield.
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* ''Film/JurassicPark1993'': Dennis Nedry is slobby, he's abrasive, he's played by Creator/WayneKnight, and he's a corporate spy who sabotages the island to steal some dinosaur embryos for [=InGen's=] rival, [=BioSyn=]. He also meets a tremendously KarmicDeath at the claws and poisonous spit of a Dilophosaurus.

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* ''Film/JurassicPark1993'': ''Film/{{Jurassic Park|1993}}'': Dennis Nedry is slobby, he's abrasive, he's played by Creator/WayneKnight, and he's a corporate spy who sabotages the whole island (endangering many innocent people) to steal some dinosaur embryos for [=InGen's=] rival, [=BioSyn=]. He also meets a tremendously KarmicDeath at the claws and poisonous spit KarmicDeath, courtesy of a Dilophosaurus.
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** ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'': The portly Stromberg henchman Sandor (Milton Reid), which Bond doesn't have too much difficulty in dispatching.

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** ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'': The portly Stromberg henchman Sandor (Milton Reid), which Bond doesn't have too much difficulty in dispatching.dispatching [[DisneyVillainDeath from atop a Cairo building]].
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** ''Film/{{Spectre}}'': The bald and fat Italian bodyguard of the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Spectre]] meeting (Peppe Lanzetta), who ends up [[RailingKill thrown by Bond on the meeting's table from the above railing]].
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** ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'': The overweight ArmsDealer half of the BigBadDuumvirate, Brad Whitaker (Creator/JoeDonBaker). A MilesGloriosus, PsychopathicManchild and EvilNerd all rolled into one that Bond still has some difficulty in taking down due to him using an [[MoreDakka automatic weapon with a big magazine]] and a protective front shield.
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** ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'': Henry Gupta (Ricky Jay), a heavyset techno-terrorist who helps engineer the nefarious plans of the BigBad, media mogul Elliot Carver.

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** ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'': Henry Gupta (Ricky Jay), a heavyset EvilGenius techno-terrorist who helps engineer the nefarious plans of the BigBad, media mogul Elliot Carver.
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* Film/JamesBond has fought a few of them:
** ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'': The namesake [[GoldFever gold-obsessed]] and heavyset BigBad who wants to nuke Fort Knox himself, Auric Goldfinger (Creator/GertFrobe), as well as his mute BattleButler and trusted main henchman, Oddjob (Harold Sakata). The latter remains an iconic example of StoutStrength that Bond can't hope to best in a physical fight, resorting to another method to kill him.
** ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'': The portly Whisper (Earl Jolly Brown), a [[TheQuietOne quiet]] henchman of BigBad Kananga.
** ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'': There's a fat bald guy among the {{mooks}} attacking Bond in Beirut. Later on in Thailand, Bond is ambushed by two {{sumo wrestl|ing}}ers.
** ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'': The portly Stromberg henchman Sandor (Milton Reid), which Bond doesn't have too much difficulty in dispatching.
** ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'': Henry Gupta (Ricky Jay), a heavyset techno-terrorist who helps engineer the nefarious plans of the BigBad, media mogul Elliot Carver.
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* ''Film/TheStrangeDoor'': Alain is quite pudgy and is a petty, superficially jovial sadist who casually orders murders and wants to ruin the lives of his brother and niece over a decades-old case of being NotGoodWithRejection in a SiblingTriangle.
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* ''Film/JurassicPark'': Dennis Nedry is slobby, he's abrasive, he's played by Creator/WayneKnight, and he's a corporate spy who sabotages the island to steal some dinosaur embryos for [=InGen's=] rival, [=BioSyn=]. He also meets a tremendously KarmicDeath at the claws and poisonous spit of a Dilophosaurus.

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* ''Film/JurassicPark'': ''Film/JurassicPark1993'': Dennis Nedry is slobby, he's abrasive, he's played by Creator/WayneKnight, and he's a corporate spy who sabotages the island to steal some dinosaur embryos for [=InGen's=] rival, [=BioSyn=]. He also meets a tremendously KarmicDeath at the claws and poisonous spit of a Dilophosaurus.
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* ''Film/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo2011'': Extremely obvious example as Bjurman is thin or at least average build in every other version, but very overweight here, and treated as disgusting even before he violently rapes Lisbeth.
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* Both Herman Goering and Martin Bormann in Film/Downfall2004 are both fairly wide, and are both unrepentant Nazis who are high-ranking members of Hitler’s inner circle. Special mention goes to Bormann, who manages to make good on his bid to make himself the most powerful man in the Nazi Regime.... which is gonna collapse in a few days, courtesy of the Red Army and the Allies.
* Film/FirstBlood: While not exactly fat and more big boned, Teasle has an imposing physique and described by Rambo to be "king shit".

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* Both Herman Goering and Martin Bormann in Film/Downfall2004 ''Film/Downfall2004'' are both fairly wide, and are both unrepentant Nazis who are high-ranking members of Hitler’s inner circle. Special mention goes to Bormann, who manages to make good on his bid to make himself the most powerful man in the Nazi Regime.... which is gonna collapse in a few days, courtesy of the Red Army and the Allies.
* Film/FirstBlood: ''Film/FirstBlood'': While not exactly fat and more big boned, Teasle has an imposing physique and described by Rambo to be "king shit".



* Film/ASerbianFilm: Vukmir's henchman, Raša, a creep who delightfully partakes in raping an infant and later had no qualms partaking in ruining Milos' life. Fittingly, he suffers the most spectacularly gruesome and ironic death in the whole movie.

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* Film/ASerbianFilm: ''Film/ASerbianFilm'': Vukmir's henchman, Raša, a creep who delightfully partakes in raping an infant and later had no qualms partaking in ruining Milos' life. Fittingly, he suffers the most spectacularly gruesome and ironic death in the whole movie.
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* Both Herman Goering and Martin Bormann in {{Film/Downfall2004}} are both fairly wide, and are both unrepentant Nazis who are high-ranking members of Hitler’s inner circle. Special mention goes to Bormann, who manages to make good on his bid to make himself the most powerful man in the Nazi Regime.... which is gonna collapse in a few days, courtesy of the Red Army and the Allies.

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* Both Herman Goering and Martin Bormann in {{Film/Downfall2004}} Film/Downfall2004 are both fairly wide, and are both unrepentant Nazis who are high-ranking members of Hitler’s inner circle. Special mention goes to Bormann, who manages to make good on his bid to make himself the most powerful man in the Nazi Regime.... which is gonna collapse in a few days, courtesy of the Red Army and the Allies.Allies.
* Film/FirstBlood: While not exactly fat and more big boned, Teasle has an imposing physique and described by Rambo to be "king shit".


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* Film/ASerbianFilm: Vukmir's henchman, Raša, a creep who delightfully partakes in raping an infant and later had no qualms partaking in ruining Milos' life. Fittingly, he suffers the most spectacularly gruesome and ironic death in the whole movie.
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* ''Film/ClassOfNukeEmHighPartIISubhumanoidMeltdown'': Since the Honour Students were killed in [[Film/ClassOfNukeEmHigh the first movie]], they were replaced by a gang known as The Squirrels, who were lead by a very fat, very sociopathic man named Yoke.
** ''Film/ClassOfNukeEmHighPartIIITheGoodTheBadAndTheSubhumanoid'': In this movie, Yoke is replaced by his just-as-fat and just-as-unpleasant younger brother named Lil' Eggwhite.
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* ''Film/DDay'' has TheDragon, Gelda, an overweight brute who gleefully intimidates Ivan's daughter Zhenya after kidnapping her, and later [[WouldHurtAChild tries to drown Zhenya]] to force Ivan to fight him, gloating all the way and enjoying himself a little too much.
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* Bluto from ''Film/AnimalHouse''.

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** By the time of his return in the sequel, he's taken his "bastardly" ways into sumo wrestling as a way of "going legit" but quickly proves he's still got his mind in the gutter. This is then subverted by the epilogue when it's shown he has mellowed out and shed about 180 pounds thanks to going on the Subway diet "just like Jared", at the cost of having a lot of excess skin and a neck shaped like female genitalia.
* ''Film/BallsOfFury'''s main protagonist.

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** By the time of his return in the sequel, he's taken his "bastardly" ways into sumo wrestling SumoWrestling as a way of "going legit" but quickly proves he's still got his mind in the gutter. This is then subverted by the epilogue when it's shown he has mellowed out and shed about 180 pounds thanks to going on the Subway diet "just like Jared", at the cost of having a lot of excess skin and a neck shaped like female genitalia.
* %%* ''Film/BallsOfFury'''s main protagonist.



* The annoyed toy store clerk in ''Film/{{Elf}}''.
* Gorge in ''Film/{{Gamer}}''.
* The film versions of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' take it to extremes with Vernon Dursley - so much so that he provide the image on the main page.

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* %%* The annoyed toy store clerk in ''Film/{{Elf}}''.
* %%* Gorge in ''Film/{{Gamer}}''.
* The film versions of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' [[AdaptationalVillainy take it to extremes extremes]] with Vernon Dursley - so much so that he provide the image on the main page.



* Kim Jong-un in ''Film/TheInterview''.

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* %%* Kim Jong-un in ''Film/TheInterview''.
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* ''Film/{{Blade}}'' - Pearl, the morbidly obese blob of a vampire record keeper. The only record keeping he keeps is his mouth! Might have been the basis for Balthazar in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.

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* ''Film/{{Blade}}'' - ''Film/{{Blade}}'': Pearl, the morbidly obese blob of a vampire record keeper. The only record keeping he keeps is his mouth! Might have been the basis for Balthazar in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.



* ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers2022'': After getting blacklisted by Hollywood, [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan Sweet Pete]] lets himself go and turns toons into bootlegs to sell them to the black market.

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* ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers2022'': After getting blacklisted by Hollywood, [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan Sweet Pete]] WesternAnimation/PeterPan lets himself go and becomes Sweet Pete, who turns toons into bootlegs to sell them to the black market.
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* ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers2022'': After getting blacklisted by Hollywood, [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan Sweet Pete]] lets himself go and turns toons into bootlegs to sell them to the black market.



* Cross-dressing John Waters star Creator/{{Divine|Actor}}, playing a man, was always unsympathetic and unlikeable. As a woman, at least "she" was the protagonist (extended to non-John Waters movies like ''Film/TroubleInMind'' and ''Film/RustlersRhapsody''.)
* Both Herman Goering and Martin Bormann in {{Film/Downfall2004}} are both fairly wide, and are both unrepentant Nazis who are high-ranking members of Hitler’s inner circle. Special mention goes to Bormann, who manages to make good on his bid to make himself the most powerful man in the Nazi Regime....which is gonna collapse in a few days, courtesy of the Red Army and the Allies.

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* Cross-dressing John Waters star Creator/{{Divine|Actor}}, playing a man, was always unsympathetic and unlikeable. As a woman, at least "she" was the protagonist (extended to non-John Waters movies like ''Film/TroubleInMind'' and ''Film/RustlersRhapsody''.)
''Film/RustlersRhapsody'').
* Both Herman Goering and Martin Bormann in {{Film/Downfall2004}} are both fairly wide, and are both unrepentant Nazis who are high-ranking members of Hitler’s inner circle. Special mention goes to Bormann, who manages to make good on his bid to make himself the most powerful man in the Nazi Regime.... which is gonna collapse in a few days, courtesy of the Red Army and the Allies.
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* ''Film/TicklesTheClown'': The titular clown is certainly wide in the middle. He's also a thoroughly unpleasant person who's serving a life sentence for an unspecified crime.
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* The film versions of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' take it to extremes with Vernon Dursley.

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* The film versions of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' take it to extremes with Vernon Dursley.Dursley - so much so that he provide the image on the main page.

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