History Main / LeanAndMean

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'': Both [[Characters/BeavisAndButtHeadTheTitularCharacters Beavis and Butt-Head]] are quite slim and have a complete lack of manners to boot.

* Mom in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' is evil and thin, but wears a selection of "fat suits" when she wants to appear as the kindly matron.
* [[Characters/HeyArnoldHelgaGPataki Helga G. Pataki]] in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold''. She's a bully and has a very scrawny build.

** [[Characters/TotalDramaHeather Heather]] is the show's main AlphaBitch, and she has a tall and slender frame.

** Amy is an CruelCheerleader with a petite frame and a worse attitude than Heather, treating her twin sister Samey as her personal slave.
** The 2023 revamp gives us 2 examples in [[Characters/TotalDramaJulia Julia (an internet celebrity)]] and [[AgentPeacock Bowie (a stylish strategist).]]
*** ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'': Josee is an ice dancer with a petite frame and a very bad attitude, regularly bullying her partner Jacques and antagonizing other teams, especially the Police Cadets.

* Terrence from ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''.

* Brad from ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowskiSuburbanDaredevil''.

* Brother Blood in ''WesternAnimation/{{Teen Titans|2003}}''

* Psycho Mantis in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''. {{Justified|Trope}} in that he's a [[PsychicPowers psychic]] who floats using [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]] rather than walking, causing his muscles to wither away to nothing.

* [[CuteMonsterGirl Pheromosa]] one of the [[LovecraftLite Ultra Beasts]] from ''{{Franchise/Pokemon}}''. It can be described as having a borderline stick-figured body. And despite it being 5'11" tall, Pheromosa only weighs 55.1 lbs.

* Andrew Oikonny of ''VideoGame/StarFox''.

* Brother Blood in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''

* Helga Pataki in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold''. She's a bully and has a very scrawny build.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Nightmare Moon, Queen Chrysalis, and the Flim Flam Brothers.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Mr. Burns is an ''excellent'' example. Sideshow Bob and the Blue-Haired Lawyer as well.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' has Squidward, who is often grumpy and sometimes even antagonistic towards the titular sponge, and is also tall and skinny.

** In her first few appearances, Peridot wore a set of limb-enhancers. Though she's actually about the same size and shape as Steven, her limb-enhancers triple the length of her limbs and doubles her height. This gave her a [[GeekPhysiques thin, gangly look]] [[BrainsAndBrawn to contrast]] [[TheBrute Jasper's Amazonian figure]].
** The Diamonds, the absolute rulers of Homeworld, are all [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever very large]] and quite slender, contrasting Rose and Steven's BigFun.

** Heather is the show's main AlphaBitch, and she has a tall and slender frame.

** The 2023 revamp gives us 2 examples in [[BadInfluencer Julia (an internet celebrity)]] and [[AgentPeacock Bowie (a stylish strategist).]]

* The Monarch in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''.

** Of course, Rusty is also bone-thin, and is an [[{{Jerkass}} amoral]], [[TheAlcoholic pill-popping, alcoholic]], [[JerkAss mean spirited]], [[VillainProtagonist horrible excuse for a father and human being]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' has Squidward, who is often grumpy and curmudgeonly towards the titular sponge, and is also tall and skinny.

** The 2023 revamp gives us 2 examples in [[EvilInfluencer Julia (an internet celebrity)]] and [[AgentPeacock Bowie (a stylish strategist).]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'': Josee is an ice dancer with a petite frame and a very bad attitude, regularly bullying her partner Jacques and antagonizing other teams, especially the Police Cadets.

* Säid of the ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' may be more of an anti-hero than an outright villain, but he's undoubtedly [[LackOfEmpathy callous]], [[{{Jerkass}} acerbic]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive exploitative]], and quite amazingly {{greed}}y. Plus, because he's an ancient Egyptian {{Mummy}}, he's horribly emaciated from the embalming process.

* [[MagnificentBastard Izaya Orihara]] from ''{{LightNovel/Durarara}}'' manages to be the skinniest person in a cast of NoodlePeople.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnon Alan Jonah]] naturally, since in Franchise/MonsterVerse canon he was played by Creator/CharlesDance. Vivienne at one point mentally lampshades this trope in passing, noting Jonah has always had this kind of figure about him.

* Freelance cameraman Lou Bloom in ''Film/{{Nightcrawler}}'' promotes himself through theft, blackmail, and ultimately murder. Creator/JakeGyllenhaal lost a noticeable amount of weight for the part, and the character has been compared to a coyote.

* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': [[spoiler:[[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah Mechagodzilla]]]]'s torso is noticeably slim compared to Godzilla's, and it's outright malicious once [[spoiler:Ghidorah's skull grants it sentience]].

* Makhmud Esambayev was a dancer who occasionally did film acting, and he was extremely thin even when well into his fifties. He also specialized in bad guys, using his quick fluid movements to play up their creepiness.
** In ''Film/SannikovLand'', he portrays a sadistic, murderous shaman who manipulates the Onkilons to slaughter the main characters and almost succeeds.
** In ''Upright Magic'', he plays the ElementalEmbodiment of fire who starts as neutral but then begins to work for the BigBad, nearly killing some of the heroes.
** In the film based on ''Literature/WhileTheClockChimes'', he plays a vain violinist from the wicked king’s DecadentCourt.

* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': {{Downplayed}} for Kyril, a GoodIsNotNice AntiHero who invokes a sinister figure and has a lean physique.

** ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'': Dr. Facilier is the villain and he's thin to the point of stylized in an otherwise rounded, naturalistic-proportioned world. He also shows off his belly button with a [[BareYourMidriff midriff-baring shirt]].

* Hoyt Volker, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/FarCry3'', is a [[EvilSoundsRaspy raspy-voiced]] [[AmoralAfrikaner South African criminal]] who runs a massive [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave-trafficking ring]] from the mysterious Rook Islands. Hoyt is the thinnest of the three main [[spoiler:male]] antagonists, but [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking can still hold his own in a knife fight]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', some demons have this appearance to make them look nastier. This includes the [[TheGoomba Imps]] (and Nightmare Imps in ''VideoGame/Doom64''), the [[DemBones Revenants]], and the emaciated [[CombatMedic Arch-Viles]].