History Main / AdiposeRex

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*** George II's wife Caroline of Ansbach died 18 years earlier in 1732. One morning she was stricken with severe stomach pains and nausea. After going to bed for a few hours she roused herself to make an official appearance before returning to her bed in agony. No contemporary medicine helped but neither did she help herself by refusing to be examined. Caroline was overweight so much so that her attendants did not know that the cause of her illlness was a massive umbilical hernia that had strangulated and not only blocked her bowels (so nothing could go in or go out) but the protuberent mass - starved of blood supply - had started to decay. After 3 days of increasing distress George II - the only one who did know - reveal that real reason for her illness and when the doctors realised it they knew she would die. Nonetheless, they kept cutting away at her increasingly swollen and blocked bowels until 7 days later one touch of the surgeon's knife caused her them to 'explode' sending floods of feces and fluids "soaking through the quilts and over the floor. Ironically that gave poor Queen Caroline some relief from the excrutiating pain caused by the bowel blockage. After 13 days in agony, Queen Caroline died age 56 - conscious to the end.

*** Though the royal family were no longer termed Hanoverian, King [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor Edward VII]] took after his mother UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria (who, visiting Germany in 1884 for a granddaughter's wedding and a chat with Bismarck, was described by one of the latter's entourage as being "as broad as she was tall"), and was notable for bearing his substantial abdominal adipose with some majesty. The quantity and richness of the food his Household produced at 5 daily meals was legendary. For his descendants- George V and George VI - the rationing they apparently endured (and ensured was well-reported) [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI during two]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII world wars]] was substantially alleviated by the plentiful produce from their estates and the game they so enthusiastically shot, along with the substantial 'medicinal' contents of the wine cellars and gifts of delicacies from overseas (the principle that the more one has, the more one shall be given continued to operate). To add to the gluttonous Hanoverian legacy, throughout her long life, the (unrelated) Queen Mother's appearance was at odds with any propaganda about austure diets and more in keeping with her love of chocolates and cocktails, and both her daughters - Margaret in particular - struggled to keep their weight down in their youth and at times in later life. Contemporary Windsors however seem keen to abide by modern preferences for physical fitness and healthy eating; indeed, UsefulNotes/CharlesIII has something of a reputation for being a bit of a New Agey health scold. However, the severe bulimia suffered by his late ex-wife adds another layer of psychological complication to the inheritence[[/note]] as does the persistent rumours around the current Princess of Wales and her whippet-thin appearance.

** UsefulNotes/LouisXVI of France, last king before [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution the Revolution]], is often depicted as chubby and non-threatening for it - and indeed he did turn to fat in his thirties. One English nobleman compared him to a castrato. However, he was also very tall for this time and age, around 6'4, and most of the weight he gained as a younger man turned to muscle (he was famed for being weirdly keen on hunting and other types of physical exercise); so while massive, 'fat' was hardly the way to describe him back in the day.

** Tsar Alexander III of Russia became this as he aged. As a youth, he was noted for his size and strength (over six feet tall) and as he aged the muscle turned to fat.([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_III_of_Russia#/media/File:Alexander-Maria.jpg pictured with his wife]]). It was customary for Tsars after their deaths to have a statue of themselves on horseback, and Alexander's was sculpted in massive form, being nicknamed "the hippopotamus". The sculptor joked that he simply put one massive beast on top of another.

** Emperor Vitellius is depicted by Roman historians as morbidly obese. Also lazy, overly fond of banquets (having four of them each day) and with a taste of exotic foods. Despite that, his short reign (it occurred in CE 69, during the Year of the Four Emperors, and he wasn't the fourth) resulted in some decent reforms on the Roman army and civil service (which were retained by Vitellius's successor, the much longer-lived--and svelte--Vespasian).

** Similarly, the leaders of the Khmer Rouge (including Pol Pot) noticeably gained weight while they ruled {{UsefulNotes/Cambodia}}, though none of them were ever really obese.

*** George III's eldest son, the Prince Regent, later King George IV, became an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A-voluptuary.jpg easy target for caricaturists]] in his later years because of his obesity. From his lifelong tendency to heavy drinking and huge banquets, by the end of his reign, George had a stomach that "spilled down to his knees" and congestive cardiac failure leading to breathing problems. Multiple accounts - beginning in his teens - report signs of mental instability, likely from the porphyria inherited from his father. This George did however have insight into his problems, writing to his doctor that: "Mine is a very nervous and so far a delicate fibre and consequently with me the disorders of the body owe their source to the mind." He regularly corresponded with his many siblings who also suffered from similar symptoms: when his notoriously bloated sister the Queen of Wurtemberg visited him in London she underwent 'tapping' of pints of 'surplus' fluid. Like several of his brothers, he suffered from gout both actual and 'confined' (the latter being his doctors' explanation for the pains from the then-unknown porphyria) and he would inbibed enormous quantities of Laudanum and calorie-laden cherry brandy to get through the day. One of his more polite epithets was ''Prince of Whales''.

*** George II's wife Caroline of Ansbach died 18 years earlier in 1732. One morning she was stricken with severe stomach pains and nausea. After going to bed for a few hours she roused herself to make an official appearance before returning to her bed in agony. No contemporary medicine helped but neither did she help herself by refusing to be examined. Caroline was overweight so much so that her attendants did not know that the cause of her illlness was a massive umbilical hernia that had strangulated and not only blocked her bowels (so nothing could go in or go out) but the protuberent mass -starved of blood supply - had started to decay. After 3 days of increasing distress George II - the only one who did know - reveal that real reason for her illness and when the doctors realised it they knew she would die. Nonetheless, they kept cutting away at her increasingly swollen and blocked bowels until 7 days later one touch of the surgeon's knife caused her them to 'explode' sending floods of feces and fluids "soaking through the quilts and over the floor. Ironically that gave poor Queen Caroline some relief from the excrutiating pain caused by the bowel blockage. After 13 days in agony, Queen Caroline died age 56 - conscious to the end.
*** The temperate King George III was acutely aware of his family's tendency to sloth and flab, and maintained abstemious habits from a young age, preferring light mealsand diluted wine to his forbears' feasts. He also kept active, especially loving vigorous horse riding. In later life, his mental illness affected such careful habits and his weight varied accordingly.

*** George II's wife Caroline of Ansbach died 18 years earlier in 1732. One morning she was stricken with severe stomach pains and nausea. After going to bed for a few hours she roused herself to make an official appearance before returning to her bed in agony. No contemporary medicine helped but neither did she help herself by refusing to be examined. Caroline was overweight so much so that her attendants did not know that the cause of her illlness was a massive umbilical hernia that had strangulated and not only blocked her bowels (so nothing could go in or go out) but the protuberent mass -starved of blood supply - had started to decay. After 3 days of increasing distress George II - the only one who did know - reveal that real reaon for her illness and when the doctors realised it they knew she would die. Nonetheless, they kept cutting away at her increasingly swollen and blocked bowels until 7 days later one touch of the surgeon's knife caused her them to 'explode' sending floods of feces and fluids "soaking through the quilts and over the floor. Ironically that gave poor Queen Caroline some relief from the excrutiating pain caused by the bowel blockage. After 13 days in agony, Queen Caroline died age 56 - conscious to the end.

* Prime Minister Honest, the BigBad of ''Manga/AkameGaKill''. While not the official ruler of TheEmpire, [[PuppetKing he whispers his twisted advice into the ear of his nephew, the child Emperor Makoto]]. So he is the ''de facto'' leader, hence one of the reasons why the Revolution and Night Raid want him dead.
%%* Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu in ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}''.

* Emperor Charles from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is quite portly. He's not actually ''fat'', though; he's more of an extreme case of LargeAndInCharge... that, and [[IWasQuiteALooker he aged like crap]].
* The BigBad of the ''Anime/DragonBallCurseOfTheBloodRubies'', is King Gurumes, who's fat because the cursed rubies he's torn up his kingdom to excavate have given him an insatiable appetite... as well as turning him into a giant monster.
* Prince Jermaine of Asvarre in ''Literature/LordMarksmanAndVanadis'' is corpulent, and prefers to rule through fear and suppression.
* Ahbmad Saluja in ''Manga/MagiTheLabyrinthOfMagic'', but he is pretty short.
* The king of [[TheEmpire Torumekia]] and both of his sons in ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''.
* Wapol of ''Manga/OnePiece''. He has a special power, courtesy of the Munch-Munch Fruit, and that ability is the ability to [[ExtremeOmnivore eat absolutely anything]], and either manipulate it as he sees fit or, for a time, gain its properties. He has to eat constantly and is appropriately obese. Though there is a subversion near the end of the arc he appears in, where he [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum eats himself]] to become thin and fit through smaller gaps.
* The first king in ''VideoGame/{{Utawarerumono}}'', Inkara, is fat, hedonistic and ultimately incompetent.

* In ''Literature/ThePendragonAdventure'', Queen Kagan of the Bedoowan tribe on the medieval territory of Denduron is one of these. It shows how spoiled (and easily manipulated by [[BigBad Saint Dane]]) she is, while the Milago tribe slaves away mining glaze for the Bedoowan.

** King Frederick I of Württemberg was [[LargeAndInCharge incredibly tall]] and weighed around 400 pounds. Some sources say that the king's servants had to use a pulley to help the king mount a horse (poor animal!). He didn't exactly suffer from gigantism; his height is estimated to 2 meters, 11 centimeters (6 feet, 11 inches). Same as some modern athletes, such as Jon Rauch, Aaron Sandilands, and Peter Street.

* Ahbmad Saluja in ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthofMagic'', but he is pretty short.

*** George II's death was mercifully quick, unlike that of his wife Caroline of Ansbach 18 years earlier in 1732. One November morning she was stricken with severe stomach pains and nausea. After going to bed for a few hours. she roused herself to make an official appearance before returning to her bed in agony. No contemporary medicine helped but neither did she help herself by refusing to be examined. Caroline was very overweight so her attendants did not know that the cause of her illlness was a massive 14 year old umbilical hernia that had strangulated and not only blocked her bowels (so nothing could go in or go out) but the protuberent mass -starved of blood supply - had started to decay. After 3 days of increasing distress george II forced her to reveal the real reaon for her illness at which point it became clear she would die. Nonetheless, they kept cutting into her by now rotting exposed loop of bowl. After 7 days of this during which her blocked bowels increasingly swelled, it finally happened that one touch of the surgeon's knife caused her bowels to 'burst' sending floods of feces and fluids over the bed onto the floor, which ironically gave poor Queen Caroline some small relief from her excrutiating pain. She spent 11 days in agony before dying, conscious to the end.

*** Though the royal family were no longer termed Hanoverian, King [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor Edward VII]] took after his mother UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria (who, visiting Germany in 1884 for a granddaughter's wedding and a chat with Bismarck, was described by one of the latter's entourage as being "as broad as she was tall"), and was notable for bearing his substantial abdominal adipose with some majesty. The quantity and richness of the food his Household produced at 5 daily meals was legendary. For his descendants- George V and George VI - the rationing they apparently endured (and ensured was well-reported) [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI during two]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII world wars]] was substantially alleviated by the plentiful produce from their estates and the game they so enthusiastically shot, along with the substantial 'medicinal' contents of the wine cellars and gifts of delicacies from overseas (the principle that the more one has, the more one shall be given continued to operate). To add to the gluttonous Hanoverian inheritance, throughout her long life, the Queen Mother's appearance was at odds with any propaganda about austure diets and more in keeping with her love of chocolates and cocktails, and both her daughters - Margaret in particular - struggled to keep their weight down in their youth and at times in later life. Contemporary Windsors however seem keen to abide by modern preferences for physical fitness and healthy eating; indeed, UsefulNotes/CharlesIII has something of a reputation for being a bit of a New Agey health scold. However, the severe bulimia suffered by his late ex-wife adds another layer of psychological complication to the inheritence[[/note]] as does the persistent rumours around the current Princess of Wales and her whippet-thin appearance.

*** Though he wasn't technically a Hanoverian, King [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor Edward VII]] took after his mother UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria (who, visiting Germany in 1884 for a granddaughter's wedding and a chat with Bismarck, was described by one of the latter's entourage as being "as broad as she was tall"), and was notable for bearing his substantial abdominal adipose with some majesty. For his descendants the rationing they apparently endured [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI during two]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII world wars]] was substantially offset by the plentiful produce and the game they so enthusiastically shot from their estates, along with the substantial 'medicinal' contents of the wine cellars. To add to this Hanoverian inheritance, throughout her long life, the Queen Mother's appearance was at odds with any propaganda about such an austure diet and both her daughters - Margaret in particular - struggled to keep their weight down in their youth. Hence in general, the kings and queens of Windsor, and their descendants, have abided by modern preferences for physical fitness and healthy eating; indeed, UsefulNotes/CharlesIII has something of a reputation for being a bit of a New Agey health scold. However, the severe bulemia suffered by his late ex-wife adds another layer of psychological complication to the inheritence[[/note]]

*** The thoroughly temperate King George III does seem to have done his damnedest to avert this, preferring (unsweetened) tea and light foods to his forbears' wines, spirits, and feasts. He also kept active, especially loving long walks in the country with his wife. However, time and his eventual descent into dementia eventually got to his waistline.
*** George III's eldest son, the Prince Regent, later King George IV, became an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A-voluptuary.jpg easy target for caricaturists]] in his later years because of his obesity. His case is easily explained: his habits included heavy drinking and huge banquets for decades. By the end of his reign, George suffered from gout and arteriosclerosis (also cataracts, though that was probably unrelated to his obesity) and had breathing problems. Also, accounts from his last years report signs of mental instability, possibly inherited from his father. Reportedly, his gout (caused by a lifetime of overindulgence in meat and cheese) was so bad that it took him 100 drops of Laudanum (about 200 mg of opium) to get through the day—which probably exacerbated the breathing problems, since opiates are known respiratory depressants. One of his more polite epithets was ''Prince of Whales''.
*** Though he wasn't technically a Hanoverian, King [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor Edward VII]] ''definitely'' took after UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria (who, for the record, was never so much fat as she was hefty) in the build department, was notable for probably being the monarch who bore his weight the most majestically-"portly" is the descriptor that comes to mind. It should thus come as no surprise that his real vice was not food but tobacco, which is what actually got him in the end.[[note]]Notice this doesn't go any further. Members of UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor have tended to be quite healthy in terms of weight, something often attributed to Edward's spouse, the lissom and slender Alexandra of Denmark. It doesn't hurt that they had to endure rationing [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI during two]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII world wars]]--they were particularly noted to abide by rationing during and after World War II (even at UsefulNotes/ElizabethII's wedding in 1947). Thus in general, the kings and queens of Windsor, and their descendants, have definitely abided by modern preferences for physical fitness and healthy eating; indeed, UsefulNotes/CharlesIII has something of a reputation for being a bit of a New Agey health scold.[[/note]]

** Despite her reign being a byword for elegance, Britain's Queen Anne was reportedly fat (also ugly and unhealthy). [[http://i.imgur.com/JOOGJnp.jpg Her portraits at the time of her marriage in 1683, at the age of 18-years-old, depict her as rather slender.]] By the time she rose to the throne in 1702, at the age of 37, Anne had given birth to six children, had eight stillbirths and four miscarriages. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Queen_Anne_by_John_Closterman.jpg 18 pregnancies didn't exactly do wonders for her figure.]] And it was all for nothing; [[OutlivingOnesOffspring she outlived all of her children]], with the only one who survived longer than two years, Prince William, perishing right after turning 11, a year and a half before she took the throne.

** Louis XVI of France, last king before the Revolution, is often depicted as chubby and non-threatening for it - and indeed he did turn to fat in his thirties. One English nobleman compared him to a castrato. However, he was also very tall for this time and age, around 6'4, and most of the weight he gained as a younger man turned to muscle (he was famed for being weirdly keen on hunting and other types of physical exercise); so while massive, 'fat' was hardly the way to describe him back in the day.

** Gustavus II Adolphus "became quite fat as the years passed" as one historian put it. His obesity once let him survive being shot (with a musket, so not exactly a high-powered rifle) since the bullet got stuck in his fat.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}'': Queen Cadavra, the BigBad, is a fat black widow spider [[BadBoss who treats her bug minions like dirt]]... and food.

%%* The Slurm Queen from ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}''

** Analysis of the (probable) mummy of [[SheIsTheKing King]] Hatshepsut (you know, the one with the ''really'' pretty temple) of the [[UsefulNotes/AncientEgyptianHistory Ancient Egyptian]] Eighteenth Dynasty shows that she was probably obese late in life (assuming that the relevant mummy is in fact Hatshepsut--there is some dispute on that point). None of this shows up in her official portraiture, since that was all propaganda intended to make her look as awesome (and therefore physically fit) as possible. She reigned in the 15th century ''BCE'', making this trope OlderThanDirt.

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->''"I weep for that ''[throne]'', which dies a little each day so that other chairs may live."''

* The BigBad of the ''Anime/DragonBallCurseOfTheBloodRubies'', is King Gurumes, who's fat because the cursed rubies he's torn up his kingdom to excavate have given him an insatiable appetite... as well as turning him into a giant monster.
* Emperor Charles from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is quite portly. He's not actually ''fat'', though; he's more of an extreme case of LargeAndInCharge... that, and [[IWasQuiteALooker he aged like crap]].

* Wapol of ''Manga/OnePiece''. He has a special power, courtesy of the Munch-Munch Fruit, and that ability is the ability to [[ExtremeOmnivore eat absolutely anything]], and either manipulate it as he sees fit or, for a time, gain its properties. He has to eat constantly and is appropriately obese. Though there is a subversion near the end of the arc he appears in, where he [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum eats himself]] to become thin and fit through smaller gaps.

* Prince Jermaine of Asvarre in ''Literature/LordMarksmanAndVanadis'' is corpulent, and prefers to rule through fear and suppression.
* Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu in ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}''.
* Prime Minister Honest, the BigBad of ''Manga/AkameGaKill''. While not the official ruler of TheEmpire, [[PuppetKing he whispers his twisted advice into the ear of his nephew, the child Emperor Makoto]]. So he is the ''de facto'' leader, hence one of the reasons why the Revolution and Night Raid want him dead.

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* The Robo-King from ''Animation/HappyHeroes'' has the appropriate name and getup for royalty, and much of his bulk forms a {{cephalothorax}}-esque shape, with the only thing distinguishing him from a cephalothorax being his head is separate. His arms and legs are also downright stubby.
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* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':

* Caliph Haroun El-Plassid, the jovial and benign ruler from ''ComicBook/{{Iznogoud}}'', is a BigEater and spends most of his days sleeping, making him quite obese.
* Chief Vitalstatistix from ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}''. Given the rather luscious banquets that they have every so often (at least once an adventure) it is not hard to see where it comes from. Everyone gets a seat he just seems to enjoy it more than most. Even then, it doesn't stop him from kicking ass when properly motivated. Compared to Obélix, he may look slim...
* ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'': Mayor King Cole of Fabletown is, as his story goes, "a very large king of a very small kingdom". Noticeably, when reduced to hiding in a cave with a handful of his subjects, he divides the food evenly among everyone according to size and leaves no share for himself. (Not that he loses any weight from starving.)
* King Kash-Kash from ''ComicBook/LesLegendaires'' is this, despite being an [[OurElvesAreDifferent Elf]], a species where this characteristic is rather rare. Surprisingly, he is actually a BunnyEarsLawyer and a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, especially compared to his more strict, almost KnightTemplar Captain [[LadyOfWar Shamira]].

* Otto Soglow's classic comic strip ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_King The Little King.]]''

* In one arc of ''ComicStrip/ShermansLagoon,'' Sherman and Ernest visit another body of water, and the local sharks start treating Sherman with great respect. Sherman explains that this is because the bigger (or fatter, in Sherman's case), the better hunter you are. He gets embarrassed when the other sharks actually start bowing.

* In ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', Queen Cocoon is incredibly gluttonous and bloated and is carried around by her servants. [[spoiler:It's just a facade to make others think she is weak; she's fully capable of moving and is [[LightningBruiser incredibly strong and fast]].]]

* Harren Hoare of ''Fanfic/ForumOfThrones'' is a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] example. After his days of raiding were gone the moment he inherited the crown, he started to put on weight, even more in his advanced age. Currently, he is described as chunky and it is likely only a matter of time until he would become outright fat.

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* The Sultan in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' is perhaps the best-known example of the "fat and jolly sultan" in Western media. He's based on the Sultan of Basra in ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad1940'', who while fat is not actually a particularly ''extreme'' example of this trope; he's only a little paunchy and only a little shorter than the LeanAndMean GrandVizier villain. As opposed to the Sultan of Agrabah, who is ''half the height'' of ''his'' even Leaner (and about equally Mean) GrandVizier villain.

* The King in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''.
* King Hubert in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' has a rather large belly. King Stephan, meanwhile, is tall and slender, making them a regal version of the FatAndSkinny duo.
* The Queen of Hearts in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland''.

* Aunt Figg temporarily dressed up as one near the beginning of her VillainSong from ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie''.

* Hades, king of the underworld, fits this trope in ''WesternAnimation/WonderWoman2009''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'': Ursula is this during the few minutes she rules Atlantica at the climax of the film. She was already fat beforehand though, and the usual ruler Triton is an {{aversion}} for having a fit body type.

* Much like the ''Franchise/MonsterVerse'' version listed below, Godzilla Earth from ''Anime/GodzillaPlanetOfTheMonsters'' and its [[Anime/GodzillaCityOnTheEdgeOfBattle two]] [[Anime/GodzillaThePlanetEater sequels]] is also quite stocky in build, but his abdominal region shows that it's [[StoutStrength more muscle than fat]]. Given that he's the dominant life form of the entire planet, he certainly applies.

%%* ''Film/KingRalph''

* Fat, gluttonous and lazy Don Fernando is cynically made leader of the expedition and Emperor in the New World in ''Film/AguirreTheWrathOfGod''.
* Big Fatso from ''Film/BarbWire'' probably counts because he's head of a group of toughs. Not exactly a kingdom but they are essentially his subjects and he is really fat.
* King George II in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides''.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** Jabba the Hutt, who by the time ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' came around, had so much influence on Tatooine, he was its de-facto ruler. In fact, in Hutt society in general, the bigger a Hutt is, the more influence he has over other Hutts.
** Boss Nass of the Gungans in the prequels. He's so fat he looks like a different species. He's actually of a different subrace (Ankura Gungan rather than the standard Otolla Gungan), which as a whole tends to be fatter.
* The sultan in ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'' is pretty hefty. The members of his harem, even more so.
* Fat glutton King Henry VIII in ''Film/ThePrivateLifeOfHenryVIII'', although the movie actually doesn't make Creator/CharlesLaughton quite as huge as Henry got in RealLife (see below).

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein'': [[MadScientist Doctor Pretorius]] has created life in the form of tiny homonculi. Among them is a tiny king, modeled after Henry VIII[[note]]a ShoutOut or friendly TakeThat to Creator/CharlesLaughton, who had portrayed Henry just two years before – and was Elsa Lanchester's husband[[/note]] and very fat. This drew an objection for Japanese censors, who said it was "making a fool out of a king".
* After defeating [[spoiler:King Ghidorah]], the ''Franchise/{{MonsterVerse}}'' incarnation of Godzilla becomes the titular king in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' and is one of the stockiest versions of the monster to date. However, he's more a case of StoutStrength than obesity since he's shown to be quite strong physically and incredibly [[{{Acrofatic}} agile and fast while underwater.]]

* Roya Orico in ''Literature/TheCurseOfChalion'' by Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold is a lazy and obese king with constant food stains on his clothes, unconcerned with the the affairs of his DecadentCourt, and only caring about his next meal or his menagerie of exotic pets. While he seems like a weak and apathetic character, [[spoiler: it turns out that his refusal to be an active king is voluntary, in order to avoid a curse that plagues him]]. As for his great overweightness, it is noted to the result of his court's constant feasting: when the protagonist starts living at his palace, he goes from being amazed at Orico's weight gain, to being amazed at how Orico managed to ''not'' end up unable to walk with such rich meals every night. [[spoiler: And as we later learn, his enlargement over the years, which is another side-effect of his curse, had a toll on his health, Orico now being diabetic]].

** Referenced in ''Literature/InterestingTimes'' - Rincewind isn't sure what to expect of the Agatean Emperor, but "the mental picture had room for a big fat man with lots of rings". The actual Emperor is a very old man on his deathbed.

* King Runcible and King Mander from ''Literature/SirAproposOfNothing''.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' established that Hutts (as in [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Jabba]]), whose [[PlanetOfHats Hat]] is being crime lords, frequently become fatter the more powerful they become, to the point where they sometimes become unable to move and must rely on antigravity sleds. The inverse is also true: Hutts afflicted with a congenital wasting disease are ostracized.
** Hutts also have a habit of buying slaves only to make them lay around them, gorging, and getting "more attractive" (i.e. fatter) as a sign of wealth and a decadent indulgence of their own. Yarna d' al' Gargan, Jabba's personal fat-dancer (the large, multi-breasted dancer in his palace in Return Of The Jedi), is actually an indentured servant contracted because her species have the ability to instantly get fatter by absorbing water into their body fat. Jabba claimed she resembled his mother, sometimes. All of this is explained in her tale, in ''[[Literature/TalesFromJabbasPalace Tales From Jabba's Palace]]''.

* Joseph Stalin becomes more and more like this in ''Literature/TwilightoftheRedTsar'' , due to his stroke and generally declining health preventing him from losing weight. Still doesn't get in the way of [[spoiler:him committing genocide.]]

-->'''Robert:''' [[HypocriticalHumour You've gotten fat]].\\
(''Ned does an {{eye take}} – Robert bursts out laughing'')

* George IV, mentioned in Real Life below, makes a few appearances on ''Series/HorribleHistories''. He [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore is rather resentful]] that this is what people know about him.
-->'''George:''' Had just ten years on the throne, do you remember that? No, all that you remember is... ''I was really fat''!

* The third-party Tome of Artifacts features a magic item known as the King's Pepper Grinder -- so named because it was made by a court wizard for a king who was obsessed with putting too much pepper on his food. Despite being a glutton, the King in question is shown to be a generally nice guy and a pretty capable fighter (though he is incredibly irritating to cook for).

* The antagonistic Queen Brahne from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX''.

* Emperor Krelchzeeber from ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'', the long-dead Nemesite ruler who [[spoiler:killed Fructose Riboflavin's father.]] It's worth noting that, as insect people, most Nemesites are rail-thin.
* ''Webcomic/HarkAVagrant'': George IV, [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=26 you are too fat to be king.]]

* The alien king Evilfatsozon in ''Webcomic/AxeCop'': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin His name says it all.]]

** Old King Cole in ''WesternAnimation/HaveYouGotAnyCastles''.
* Fattish, King Wallace in the episode "Royal Pain" of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''.

* Played up in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|1987}}'' (1987). The heroes visit a remote island where the king is fat precisely because in their culture the fattest person is made king. Various attempts to buy a rare mask off him with WorthlessYellowRocks fail – and then somebody thinks of trying to pay him with fattening processed foods instead. This episode was based on the Creator/CarlBarks story ''The Status Seeker'', except Scrooge traded a crate of peppermint candies for the "Candy-Striped Ruby".
* As with his original video-game incarnation, King K. Rool from the short-lived ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry'' cartoon is one of the chunkier Kremlings.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' had a folktale where Jon Arbuckle was depicted as an overweight king of an imaginary kingdom, but one day one of King Jonathan's servants grew jealous of him because of his gluttony and decides to make the king's life miserable by sending an orange cat with black stripes (who clearly resembles Garfield) to eat all of the king's food. In that story, the kingdom's yearly gold income depended on how heavy the one wearing the crown was and the evil Duke intended to decrease this income as part of a plot to become King (King Jonathan's weight used to bring enough gold he didn't need to make his subjects pay taxes). King Jonathan foiled the plot by [[LoopholeAbuse placing the crown on the cat's head]].
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** The Earl of Lemongrab temporarily becomes this after he goes nuts, [[spoiler:[[ImAHumanitarian eats Lemongrab 2]]]] and goes into full dictator mode.
** {{Subverted}} with [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain the Ice King]] – his robe [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/adventuretimewithfinnandjake/images/6/64/Original_Ice_King.png/revision/latest?cb=20160405041324 gives this impression,]] but underneath he's actually [[http://images.wikia.com/adventuretimewithfinnandjake/images/3/39/Modelsheet_iceking_-_angryface_-_specialpose.jpg ridiculously skinny.]]
** There's also [[https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/King_Huge King Huge]] from "Walnuts & Rain", who is both a giant and very obese. He spends all his time watching a cuckoo clock he's obsessed with while being fed food by a line of human-sized servants.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Smurfs|1981}}'':
** The unnamed gnome king from the episode "Greedy Goes on Strike", who focuses so much of his attention on food that he neglects his own son, the prince.
%%** King Bullrush of the Wartmongers would also count.
%%* The Slurm Queen from ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}''

** Franchise/SpiderMan's enemy ComicBook/TheKingpin isn't a king, but he's the King of New York Crime, and he's bulky (some would say fat... but they'd be wrong). Taken to the extremes in [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries the '90s Spider-Man animated series]], where he is said to have body mass of which only ''2%'' is fat. The remaining 350 pounds of flesh is stated to be solid ''muscle''... and seeing as how he takes on giant robots with his bare hands, and ''wins'', on several occasions, this may be true. While the comics aren't this drastic, he is more muscle and height than fat, working out every day in a private dojo and being a master sumo wrestler.

** Franchise/XMen's villain Shadow King, while not a real king, fits the trope exactly. When he dies in psychic battle he eventually possesses a New Mutant called Karma and, while in her body, eats it up to beyond morbidly obese.