History Main / FatBastard

* 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 a footnote says that it's stereotypical to say that someone like that is evil, 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.

*** Agnes, the fat girl In Masquerade [[spoiler: is one of Pratchett's few heroes who has a decidedly miserable ending. The tone of the book is not sympathetic, but seems to say "that's the way life goes, get over it"]].

** So overweight, in fact, that at one point it takes her nervous system about two minutes to relay pain to her brain. Said pain was a sword Xandir stabbed into her back as a bet.

** Dialed UpToEleven with the UltimateUniverse version of the Blob, to the point where he once paused during an attack on the [[strike:Avengers]] Ultimate's mansion to raid the fridge. Less funny was the time he was discovered [[ImAHumanitarian eating]] the Wasp's corpse.

** Also from X-Men is Mojo from the same series.
** When Shadow King possessed Karma for several months in ''New Mutants'', she became ludicrously bloated through Farouk's gluttony. She got better.

** Mojo from the same series.

* Just in case anyone missed it in the opening paragraphs, Fat Bastard from the ''AustinPowers'' films is the TropeNamer.

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[[caption-width-right:350:On the inside you will ''[[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk not]]'' find [[TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside true beauty]].]]

* [[{{Film/WonderWoman}} Wonder Woman]]'s depiction of Hades.

* ''Brewster Rockit: Space Guy'' - Cliff Clewless. The idea is in his name. He's supposed to be the station's engineer, but knows nothing beyong making an idiot of himself (though not the same level as Brewster, whose stupidity is beyond measure), lazing around, and causing trouble to himself and his crew mates.

* A good female example is found in the person of The Ancestress, an early villain in ''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 extravagence 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. About the best thing that you can say for the Ancestress is that she was a CompleteMonster long before she was fat.

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* Partially subverted in ''TheGuild'' Clara is overweight, a terrible wife and mother, spends all her time eating, drinking, and abusing her relationships with her friends - but she's also friendliest and probably happiest character, and seems too ditzy to realize that her actions are harmful, even greeting people with hugs and calling Codex her "best friend in the whole wide world".
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[[AustinPowers http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fat-bastard.jpg]]
[[caption-width:800:On the inside you will ''[[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk not]]'' find [[TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside true beauty]].]]
->''I used to say that there were five different levels of fatness -- the original five are 'big', 'healthy', 'husky', 'fluffy', and [[AC: 'Daaayum!']]. People asked, what could be bigger than [[AC: 'Daaayum!']]? [[BeyondTheImpossible The new level is called]] '[[AC:[[WillSmith Aw, HELL naw]]!]]'''
-->--'''GabrielIglesias'''

[[caption-width:800:On the inside you will ''not'' find [[TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside true beauty]].]]

* [[RougeAnglesOfSatin Councilmen]] Arnold of Fanfic/SoullessShell, a convicted [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapist]] ferret who tries to rape two other girls in-story, is even described as a "fat bastard".

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* One of these was an Admiral of the Navy and a Filler Villain in the Dragon Filler Arc of ''OnePiece''. So far he's been the only high-ranking naval officer to not have [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking asskicking skills to back up his rank]]. And he was constantly shown eating a huge piece of meat after piece of meat.

* [[GeneralRipper General Regius Gaiz]] of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha [=StrikerS=]'', though his portrayed evil traits of power-hungriness and petty jealousy turned out to have stemmed from [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned reasons that sort of got overblown]] when he rose in power and got manipulated [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness by the people who saw him as a useful puppet]].

* TheBible [[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%203:12-28&version=KJV describes]] the assassination of a 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.

* TerryPratchett 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 a footnote says that it's stereotypical to say that someone like that is evil, 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.

** The ramen chef's beautiful daughter is kidnapped by a rival, who turns out to be the leader of a platoon of ninja chefs who are bitter about being laid off (this is why the use of [[MartialArtsAndCrafts ninja chefs]] stopped in the testing phase). Next time we see the chef's daughter she has doubled in weight due to enthusiastic feeding by the ninja chefs who are overjoyed to have someone new to taste their creations. Her father is horrified, then embraces the situation as an artistic challenge and invents delicious diet ramen. A few weeks later the daughter is back to normal but the father has become almost skeletal due to dieting too much, which the main characters comment on.
** Ino is assigned the mission of impersonating a princess to finalize an arranged marriage. The princess is in favor of the marriage - so much so that nervous eating caused her to gain a lot of weight since the idea was proposed. Ino, very appearance-conscious, is traumatized by the idea that a girl who looked almost identical to herself could so quickly and easily become quite fat. Then the fiance shows up and Ino is traumatized again - turns out he is quite chubby himself, as well as being a cross between an Elvis impersonator and a flamenco dancer. He does not seem very enthusiastic about Ino. Then he discovers the deception and, wonder of wonders, is much more pleased by the princess' Zaftig figure, telling her she has a sexy body and proclaiming his love. They are married, and everyone is happy except for Ino who seems permanently traumatized by the idea of fat people being considered attractive or being involved in romances.
* One of these was an Admiral of the Navy and a Filler Villain in the Dragon Filler Arc of ''OnePiece''. So far he's been the only high-ranking naval officer to not have [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking asskicking skills to back up his rank]]. And he was constantly shown eating a huge piece of meat after piece of meat.

* ''{{Fist of the North Star}}'' had a lot of fat characters, but several truly stand out. The most famous of them is Mr. Heart, who is ten feet tall, and so fat that if you punch him 'your fist gets stuck up to the elbow.' He is famous for being the first villain to present a challenge and actually do damage to the main hero. Then there's Galf, who looks like an evil version of Mr. Weatherbee from Archie comics, who is obsessed with his dogs. The second series includes Geira, an obese Jabba the Hutt-esque man who hypnotizes people, and Gyoko, a man so fat that he sinks into the ground when he walks.
* In ''DeathNote'', there's Demegawa, the corrupt TV producer and presenter. His greed and corruptness make one of Light's plans fail. Moreover, as Kira grows in power and influence, he throws himself wholeheartedly into the role of ProfessionalButtKisser when it becomes clear who's in charge.

* [[XMen The Blob]], member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. His weight and physical appearance are played up for horror and squick whenever he shows interest in a woman. In a bit of a subversion, his weight comes not from overeating but his mutation. When he was depowered, he ended up as his true weight - which was incredibly thin. After plastic surgery to remove his excess skin, he ended up being a pastiche of Jared from the Subway commercials. In the animated series and depending on the writer, he's still a greedy, slovenly, unhygienic pig, though.

* The writers of MarvelUniverse never seem to be able to decide just what the deal is with the Kingpin. He's an incredibly huge person, but depending on the writer this is because his muscles are so huge they make him look fat or that he's a greedy slob with no sense of control. Some split the difference and write that he's got incredibly powerful arm and leg muscles but is fat everywhere else because of overeating--[[FridgeLogic ignoring the more medically likely explanation that, like sumo wrestlers, he is well-muscled everywhere, but eats enough to maintain a significant layer of padding on top of it]].

* Also in the MarvelUniverse is the Slug; a drug dealer who makes the Kingpin look svelte. He is so obese he cannot move without the aide of a motorised chair and can suffocate people in the folds of his flesh.

* Anyone and everyone played by Sidney Greenstreet, though they usually softened the blow by being AffablyEvil. The most famous is Kasper Gutman (no, really) in ''TheMalteseFalcon''.

**Interestingly, aside from the obvious infantilism of the human race by this point from being overly coddled by their own technology, they're not really shown as degenerate, just ignorant. As well, take a close look at the dates on the Captain photos when they scroll by about 43 minutes into the film. Even though they're getting fatter and more helpless, the captains are living longer (presumably, all the humans are similarly long-lived). While they were {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s the robots really did their job taking care of humanity.
* [[StarWars Jabba the Hutt]]. Yes, he's an alien, but he was originally supposed to just be a fat hairy alien before Lucas's budget got boosted for the two sequels.

* ''TheShawshankRedemption'' has exactly ONE fat prisoner. Don't remember him much? That's because he's the one that breaks down crying on his first night, and is promptly beaten to death by the guards.
* ''PoliceAcademy'' the first movie has one fat recruit, who also must endure having a feminine name of "Leslie Barbara". We first meet him when a bunch of thugs toss the photo booth he works in into the river, and he is the comic relief for any physical-training scene. (also subverted as he clearly has a moment of Win although by Losing. The hand to hand combat instructor, an Amazon if ever there was one, chooses Barbara to be her punching bag on the first day of combat training. Now go read the article on MurderousThighs. That's him on the bottom.)

** To her credit, 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. Of course, then in the last book Dudley turns out to be halfway decent at the last second, so . . .

*** Professor Sprout may not be portrayed as a romantic option (mainly because she's a teacher) but she's certainly portrayed as a heroic character, especially in the second book when she's the one they count on to harvest the mandrakes to cure the people who have been petrified. There is Umbridge, though, who is described as being fat (I think, though I could be wrong). Yet at the same time, most of the major villains (like Voldemort, the Malfoys, Bellatrix Lestrange) are described as being thin. And does Molly Weasley have to be sexually attractive to Harry to be a positive character? I don't think she's the subject of pity at all (outside of having lost family members, which has nothing to do with her weight). It would be more equal to have some fatter students Harry's age who are portrayed in a positive manner, though.

** That's got to be [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. The man weighed 200 kilograms (441 pounds) but could only support one-fourth 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 immobilised 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.

* Early in the ''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 ''{{The Courtship of Princess Leia}}'' 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'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.

* Inverted by Harold Lauder in ''[[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 HeelFaceTurn.

* Averted in ''{{Lost}}'', which has been fairly sensitive dealing with Hurley's obesity. While not often addressed directly, a major part of Hurley's character is guilt related to his weight. He was previously involved in a deck collapse in which two people died. He refuses to ration the food, then is found to have hoarded some. In the fourth season finale, [[spoiler:Frank comments that the helicopter needs to shed [[AmericanCustomaryMeasurements a few hundred pounds]]. The camera focuses on a conflicted Hurley, and then Sawyer jumps from the helicopter so Hurley won't have to.]]

* Naturally averted in ''{{Roseanne}}''. For the most part.

** Somewhat subverted, in that, in his in-between round dialogue, he doesn't taunt Mac like the others do. He even offers to take him out to lunch!

** On a mostly unrelated note, this troper's friend did name his Snorlax FatBastard.

* Eric Cartman of ''SouthPark''. Most notably in two episodes where 1), during his family reunion, all of his family members, save for his mother and grandmother who are thin and caring, are fat annoying slobs. 2) Where Eric from the future, who lost weight and became a better person in general (and wealthy to boot), came to the past to tell Eric to be a good human being. Eric (thinking it was a trick) delivered the generic "screw you" line and said he would stay the way he was, after the other characters were out of view the future Eric transformed into a dirty obese mechanic as a result of his younger self not "changing for the better".

* Speaking of Homer, despite what one may initially think, ''TheSimpsons'' mostly subverts this trope. When 75% of the entire cast is fat -- Springfield is the fattest city in America! -- the fat people come in all temperaments. Everyone who's fat has their FatBastard moments, but it isn't always consistent, especially with the NegativeContinuity.
** There are near-consistent straight cases, though, even if the fat and the bastardy aren't directly related. Mayor Quimby's girth could be taken to represent him being one of the "fat cats" (a derogatory term for over-privileged and corrupt politicians). Comic Book Guy is nasty and self-defeatingly pompous. Fat Tony belongs to an evil profession. Nelson is a big fat bully.

* Tubbimura, the fat ninja from ''XiaolinShowdown''. A moderately competent (and relatively unsympathetic) villain, and quite certainly a Jerkass.

* ''TheOblongs'' gives us Helga, a rude, ugly, mobidly obese little girl with delusions of grandeur. At least, they connect it to being underpriveleged (she can only affored to eat thrown out wedding cakes, she lives next to an abandoned factory...) And she is still awesome!
* One episode of ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' had Bruce Wayne, with amnesia, kidnapped and forced to work in a mining camp by a white-suited obese man who was always munching on a turkey leg. When one of the man's henchmen tried to remind him that the exhausted slaves have to eat, he replied, "''I'' have to eat. ''They'' have to ''work''."

* Roman Emperor [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitellius Vitellius.]] Whether he ''was'' truly as bad or his fame is tied to the saying of his political enemies, though, is in discussion.

** GlennBeck isn't exactly a model of physical fitness, either.

* Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, the early Hollywood star who was accused of raping actress Virginia Rappe at a party and essentially crushing her to death with his weight. The evidence was as ambiguous as it gets, and he was acquitted, but only after two mistrials, and the press and MoralGuardians had instantly assumed he was guilty and had already made the case into such a massive snowball of kneejerk disgust, moral shock and BodyHorror that it utterly ruined him long before there was a chance to look at the facts. No, it is not PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad to be concerned about the dangers of applying this trope in RealLife.