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* The Grasshopper in ''The Ant and the Grasshopper'' (one of Literature/AesopsFables), making this one OlderThanDirt.

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* {{TheAmazingWorldOfGumball Richard Watterson}} Gumballs dad, who's an over grown ManChild rabbit who sits in the couch all day.

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* After the NostalgiaCritic successfully invades Molossia in ''{{Kickassia}},'' all he wants to do afterwards is watch Hogan's Heroes all day long and no longer do any reviews.

* [[Characters/ScroogeMcDuckUniverse Gladstone Gander]] -- his perpetual [[LuckyBastard good luck]] has given him a very warped set of morals, including such a disdain for work that he sees the one coin he made on one unlucky day where he ''had'' to work as MyGreatestFailure and hides it in a safe out of shame.

And there's probably others, but it's too much work to write about them. No doubt WikiMagic will take care of it.

* Hank on ''CornerGas'', though he is also TheFool.

* Wally from ''{{Dilbert}}'' is one of those who put more work into avoiding work that it would ever take to do the work itself. This wiki says he was based on a co-worker of Scott Adams who was trying to get fired in a SpringtimeForHitler situation.

* The Grasshopper in ''The Ant and the Grasshopper'' (one of AesopsFables), making this one OlderThanDirt.

** Fry from ''{{Futurama}}'''.

* Mrs Ablewhite in ''The Moonstone''.

* The protagonist in the [[RobertAHeinlein Heinlein]] story ''The Man Who Was Too Lazy To Fail''.

* Lazy-Sensei from ''JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu'', who enforces "siesta" time on his class purely to get himself more shut-eye. Nevermind that his students range in age from 9 to late teens, and are all past the need for naptimes.

* [[FullmetalAlchemist The Homunculus Sloth]]. It's in his name.

* As mentioned above, the hands-down most common flaw in a ThisLoserIsYou protagonist is laziness. To take just a few:
** [[TheSimpsons Homer and Bart Simpson.]]
** Fry from {{Futurama}}.
** Peter Griffin from ''FamilyGuy.''
** DannyPhantom.
** Timmy Turner from ''TheFairlyOddParents.''
** SailorMoon.
** Oscar from HeyArnold, who couldn't even ''read'' until Arnold taught him how.
** Most of these characters are BookDumb as well, and it's hard to say if they really "don't test well" or if they're just plain lazy.

* Calvin from ''CalvinAndHobbes.''
* Lister from ''RedDwarf'' is one of the ones we root for. He never does any work whatsoever, but it's not like a giant empty spaceship with no crew needs a lot of work, and he's more fun than his ControlFreak nemesis.
* Wally from ''{{Dilbert}}'' is one of those who put more work into avoiding work that it would ever take to do the work itself. This wiki says he was based on a co-worker of Scott Adams who was trying to get fired in a SpringtimeForHitler situation.
* Almost every season of ''{{Survivor}}'' has at least one contestant who makes a big show of not doing work, gloats about how funny it is that other people do work instead of them, and then has no clue why the other contestants (and the audience) hate them.
* The ''DickTracy'' animated series had the EthnicScrappy Go-Go-Gomez, a lazy Mexican detective who solved crimes from his hammock.
* Basi from the Nigerian TV show ''BasiAndCompany'' was a man whose goal in life was to become a millionaire without ever doing work. In the pilot episode, he tells an unemployed friend to try throwing himself off a bridge instead of job hunting...because some good Samaritan will save him and get him a job, just like happened to one of the current cabinet ministers.
* George from ''{{Seinfeld}}''.

* Maynard G. Krebbs from ''DobieGillis''. The mere mention of work was enough to scare him.

* {{Garfield}}.
* Hank on ''CornerGas'', though he is also TheFool.

* [[TheMrMenShow Mr. Lazy]].
* Dodsworth the cat in a couple of Robert Mc Kimson's [[LooneyTunes Warners shorts]] (''Kiddin' the Kitten'' and ''A Peck o' Trouble'') in TheFifties.
* Lazy-Sensei from ''JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu'', who enforces "siesta" time on his class purely to get himself more shut-eye. Nevermind that his students range in age from 9 to late teens, and are all past the need for naptimes.
* [[Characters/ScroogeMcDuckUniverse Gladstone Gander]] -- his perpetual [[LuckyBastard good luck]] has given him a very warped set of morals, including such a disdain for work that he sees the one coin he made on one unlucky day where he ''had'' to work as MyGreatestFailure and hides it in a safe out of shame.
* Subverted in ''{{LazyTown}}'' with Robbie Rotten, whose efforts to get everyone else to stop doing things (or just ruin their day) actually take a lot of work; this was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] at least once.
* Genma Saotome of ''RanmaOneHalf'' sits somewhere between subverting this and playing it straight. In the series itself, he almost never bothers to do anything besides loaf around, eat, and play shogi, leaving his son to handle any problem that pops up. [[SinsOfOurFathers Even if Genma caused that problem in the first place.]] However, prior to the series, Genma willingly left his SupremeChef wife and the comfort of his home to travel the highways and byways of Japan and China for over a decade, in order to help his son become a powerful martial artist, and in fact designed two schools of techniques (the Yamasenken and Umisenken) that are amongst the most powerful in the series, with near-perfect invisibility, [[RazorWind vacuum blades that can cut through steel like runny butter]], spine-snapping bearhugs, and more. He has also displayed mental sloth in regards teaching Ranma- for example, failing to read the [[UselessUsefulSpell Nekoken]] training scroll [[NowYouTellMe all the way through]], or taking his son to [[TransformationRay Jusenkyo]] simply on the virtue that it sounded impressive, without bothering to find out ''why'' it was called "The Valley of Cursed Springs".
* Bird from ''SkunkFu'' fits this trope rather well. He also induces this on Ox as well.
* Played with in ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi''. [[MeaningfulName Belphegor]] represents the sin of Sloth, but is a very hard worker. It's just that if she's the only one doing the work, it advances her vice. Still, when [[spoiler:Rudolf tricks her into a DuelToTheDeath in the third arc, she doesn't notice that her master, Eva-Beatrice, is in the line of fire until she only has time to [[TakingTheBullet take the bullet]] (He apologizes to her, at least).]] As she puts it, ''"I was lazy ?!"''.
* Nathan from ''{{Misfits}}''. Not quite smart enough to be BrilliantButLazy, not nearly dumb enough to qualify as TheDitz. He's capable, but ''oh so'' lazy.

* But all these examples pale in comparison to the ultimate lazy bum: The Sloth. For proof just watch [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAHACe0uc64 this video]].
* ''AtelierAnnie'''s protagonist Annie Eilenberg puts much more effort into [[HeavySleeper sleeping]] than she does in her alchemy.
* Ryner Lute from ''TheLegendOfTheLegendaryHeroes'', who much prefers taking afternoon naps to fighting evil.
* Beezy on ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'' literally schedules his sloth.

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Of course, every now and then you get a LazyBum who is more self-aware. These tend to be {{Smug Snake}}s who think it's hilarious that other people bother to do work instead of just leeching. Then there are the ones who are ''really'' self-aware, and almost [[{{Humphrey}} philosophically devoted]] to being lazy. They [[{{Dismotivation}} scheme so hard at getting out of work]] that it's actually harder work than just doing the work.
yted sympathetically. Usually, because their boss is a humorless ControlFreak who is so annoying that we root for the worthless slacker instead.