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  • In 2Dark, The "Princess" Sylvia Scarlett. She hardly ever goes outside her tower, and loves eating cakes by the dozen, making her predictably obese as a result. She also pays her employees well, but uses this as a license to treat them poorly. And that's not mention her hobby of killing children and turning their bodies into stuffed dolls. After the player gets through her level, they can overhear hospice's nurses in the next one gossip about her, and how she was once pulled over for speeding while blind drunk.
  • Col. Perrault, who commands the player's home base in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, is a pretty unlikable guy even before the plot takes a sharp turn when the player's squadron is accused of treason and he shows off just how badly he shoots.
  • Jack Turner of the Art of Fighting games is one of Mr. Big's thugs, and the leader of a tough gang of bikers called the Black Cats. At the age of 13, he subdued a rampaging bear.
  • Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood:
    • Juan "The Banker" Borgia is overweight, which is unsurprising considering how much food is at the lavish parties he throws. According to a database entry, he once accused a steward of serving him false wine and tried to set him on fire. When that didn't work, he had the steward killed anyway.
    • Juan follows in the footsteps of his fat uncle, Rodrigo Borgia. Unlike the first example (Juan was actually a very thin man), Rodrigo has the excuse of being ''historically' of large girth... and coincidentally, one of history's most notorious villains.
  • Wyzen, the fattest (and least intelligent) of the Seven Demigod Generals in Asura's Wrath. Apart from his Mantra being connected to violence, he's not above draining innocent villagers of their souls to empower himself. And when he goes Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever, he tries to squash Asura like an insect via a gigantic Finger Poke of Doom. Guess how well that ends for him, especially since he's the Starter Villain.
  • One of the bosses in Balthazar's Dream is a big, fat cat.
  • BARK (2022): The puppy's owner is a portly man who will angrily come after you if you disturb him too much.
  • Interesting case in BioShock 2. Buck Raleigh is a fat, ruthless, Corrupt Corporate Executive. However, he is the most sympathetic of the multiplayer characters. He was never interested in plasmids but started using them when his wife disappeared. Almost a year later it turns out that she was leading a revolt against him.
  • Farnham from Borrowed Time is an overweight mafia boss.
  • Dr. Qada from Bravely Default, who has no problem with using a chemical weapon that utterly destroys both his and the enemy's armies and renders the land completely uninhabitable for years, and uses wounded enemy soldiers to experiment on.
  • Bully:
    • Mr. Hattrick, the Math teacher, is the chubbiest teacher in Bullworth Academy. He's also one of the nastiest, as it shows in the plot-line — His rudeness to Mr. Galloway over the years has caused the latter to start an extensive drinking habit. Hattrick takes advantage of this to try to fire him using a Think of the Children! attitude. In addition, he also sells test answers to the children of his rich friends, and manages to guilt-trip Galloway into being locked up in a mental asylum. Jimmy manages to help Galloway retain his job by getting picture evidence of him selling tests, which he shows to the school principal, getting Hattrick fired on the spot.
    • Mr. Burton is more muscular with a gut than fat, but he also counts. He encourages bullying, as he believes that it creates fiber, and he gets Jimmy to steal underwear from the girls' dorm for him. Later on in the game, we meet Zoe, who reveals to Jimmy that Burton got her expelled after she reported that he hit on her. The two plot revenge by ramming Burton off a park railing in a port-a-potty, and Jimmy manages to convince Crabblesnitch to fire him and let Zoe back in.
  • Pierce, or Jigglesworth, from The Colour Tuesday, is a creepy Living Doll Collector who moves around on a chair. It's heavily implied that he's a pedophile, judging by his comments to and his harassment of Alex. As Jigglesworth, he's a writhing mass of flabby appendages. Even the ruthless Maxwell is disgusted by him.
  • Crash Bandicoot;
  • Cyberpunk 2077 has Dexter DeShawn, a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing and Dirty Coward who betrays and murders V at the start of the game in an attempt to hide from Arasaka after The Heist went horribly wrong.
  • Danganronpa:
    • In Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Hifumi Yamada, the Ultimate Fanfic Creator, can come off as one. Not only is he highly obese to the point of being almost spherical and a bit of a creep, but he joined up with Celestia Ludenberg on her double murder plan. Granted, Celeste lied to him and claimed that Kiyotaka "Taka" Ishimaru sexually assaulted her but he still kills Taka with no remorse and plans on graduating, which would result in death for the other students. His girth is also a plot point since after his murder, Makoto notes that it would be almost impossible for anyone to move Hifumi's "big dead body" up the stairs to the third floor... except for Hifumi himself.
    • Downplayed with Byakuya Togami in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. He's a lot fatter than since we last saw him, but he's still rather bossy and arrogant about being the Ultimate Affluent Prodigy. However, he also seems to care about his fellow students, and declares his devotion to keeping them safe from Monokuma's Killing School Trip. Then it turns out that he wasn't the real Byakuya, but the "Ultimate Impostor" assuming his identity. The Ultimate Impostor himself is a subversion; while he does have the girth, the jerkishness is just him staying in character as Byakuya, and his real personality is quite nice.
  • Dante's Inferno: Dante's father was an abusive man who often beat his wife and child. Not only was he a fat, disgusting glutton, but horribly greedy as well, once beating his wife when he thought that she had stolen one of his golden coins. He appears in the 4th circle of hell as a fat, grotesque demonic soldier who is spared the torture of other greedy souls by Satan and battles his son for a while before Dante finally ends his cruel father's (un?)life by dumping him into a giant wheel moved by molten gold. Dante absolves his father instead of using him as an excuse for Dante's own sins.
  • Dark Cloud gives us the "Dark Genie", who turns out to simply be a mouse who fell into the real Dark Genie's cauldron and absorbed some of his powers whilst he was hibernating, and who, true to the trope, is a large, aptly dressed fat-ass who spends the game terrorizing the planet by shooting up towns and buildings with laser beams and sitting on a huge throne smoking cigars.
  • Darksiders:
  • Executioner Smough of Dark Souls. He is enormous, even by the standards of Anor Londo's people, and likes to use the remains of the executed as food seasoning. He desperately wants to become one of Gwyn's knights, but fails to understand that his horrid personality is precisely why he's not selected to join. He's actually a subversion, though: His armor makes him look fat, but according to the artbooks, Smough is actually very stocky and muscled underneath it.
  • The Big Bad of Deadly Premonition, Forrest Kaysen, is obese to begin with and reaches Body Horror levels of it as he goes through forms. He started a rumor that killing someone while ingesting his red seeds would make the murderer immortal, driving George Woodman to become the New Raincoat Killer.
  • The Dead Rising games have a thing for this:
    • In the original Dead Rising, there's Jo Slade, an obese female cop who kidnapped several women and violated them with her nightstick for sick enjoyment.
    • In Dead Rising 2, Jo gets a Spiritual Successor in Randy Tugman, an awkward, pornography-obsessed virgin who uses the "outbreak" to kidnap women and marry them.
    • One of the Seven Deadly Sins-themed bosses in Dead Rising 3, whose gimmick you can already guess. Like the other bosses, Darlene is a non-infected enemy who has lost her marbles on account of the zombie apocalypse. She jealously guards a mall buffet, murdering any survivors who try to grab a bite, despite having already overstuffed herself to the point of sickness. In fact, her fat has burst through the seams of her dress and becomes her Achilles heel when an upturned Vespa digs deep into her groaning gut, pinning her flat until she gets sick and chokes to death.
  • Deltarune features the Big Bad of Chapter 1, The King of Spades, an exceptionally portly ruler who is also far and away the game's biggest asshole. He revels in being a despot and is openly racist. His peak bastard moment involved threatening to throw his son Lancer off the roof of his castle. Said son basically a six-year-old, and in stark contrast to his father, Lancer is a goofy, friendly, and generally harmless little guy.
  • Azmodan in Diablo III. "Bastard" is probably an understatement since he's the Prime Evil embodiment of Sin leading a demonic army bent on Sanctuary's destruction. His girth is justified since Gluttony is a Sin.
  • Jasper Horst, the troll parody of Casper Gutman in Discworld Noir.
  • Donkey Kong Country:
    • King K. Rool has an incredibly big belly and is a total madman who has tried to take over DK Island, and on one occasion even tried to outright destroy it. Even his own henchmen aren't safe from his cruelty, as Donkey Kong 64 shows that he's an utter terror who likes to antagonize and mistreat them for his own amusement.
    • Lord Fredrik, King K. Rool's walrus-themed Expy from Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, is just as fat and every bit the bastard he is. He too invades DK Island and also freezes it over to make it more suitable for his people.
  • Doom II: The Mancubi from are ludicrously fat (or at least big-boned), and their idiosyncratic projectile patterns are sure to make more than a few new players find them to be quite the bastards.
  • Dynasty Warriors:
    • Dong Zhuo is a fat, ugly, hedonistic tyrant who uses the Han Emperor as a puppet ruler to get what he wants. He is this in the source material, too. After he's killed, the angry mob made torches by shoving splints of wood into his fat.
    • In Samurai Warriors, this goes to Tokugawa Ieyasu, depending on your interpretation. He's far more amiable and well-intentioned than Dong Zhuo, but considering how most of the characters seem to flock toward the Western army, many of them see him as a Fat Bastard.
    • Warriors Orochi has Orochi's Snake Generals: large, potbellied snake-like warriors who are to a man unrepentant arseholes.
  • Eco Fighters: Kernal Goyolk is morbidly obese and lacks qualms for reducing entire planets to wastelands of death in the name of money and power.
  • The Elder Scrolls:
    • The series has the Sload, a race of "slugmen" native to Thras, an archipelago to the southwest of Tamriel. As they grow, Sload become more and more corpulent, to the point that only being supported by magic or water prevents them from being crushed under their own weight. They are also believed to be The Ageless, with no limit to age or size. One story tells of an "Elder Distended One", who seems to serve as some sort of leader to the Sload. It is said to be "impressively corpulent" and regurgitates some unknown substance that other Sload then "eagerly consume." While the Sload tend to operate under their own Blue-and-Orange Morality (with a heavy dose of The Unfettered), the denizens of Tamriel see them as Always Chaotic Evil. (Attempting a Final Solution on Tamriel using a Mystical Plague which wipes out over half the population tends to have that effect...)
    • Ogrim are a massive form of lesser Daedra that are as dim-witted as they are strong. They're among the largest of the lesser Daedra, with heavy-set frames and huge bulbous stomachs. They are also near-universally hostile to mortals.
  • Executioners:
    • First, you have a Mook who is green, fat, snake-tongued, whacks you around with his belly, and actually shakes the screen when he hits the ground!
    • Then there's the 3rd level boss, who is an Enemy Summoner who disgustingly spits out two Fat Snakes. This boss is even fatter, will actually try to eat you alive, the screen shakes even harder and longer when he hits the ground, and don't bother trying to throw him — you'll suffer damage, apparently because he's too heavy!
  • Fallout:
    • Gizmo in the original Fallout, a crime boss and owner of the casino in Junktown, who in scarce post-nuclear war America somehow became so obese that he can't move on his own. According to the townsfolk, the one time he left his office, his men had to drag him around on a tricycle.
    • In Fallout 2, Big Jesus Mordino is the head of the Mordino crime family in New Reno, who is pushing the highly addictive Jet to gain control over the wasteland. He's described as fat and always "covered in sweat and breathing heavily."
    • Cook-Cook in Fallout: New Vegas is a pyromaniac Serial Rapist, and his victim Corporal Betsy calls him a "fat pile of shit" and "tubby bastard". This is an Informed Deformity in-game due to the game's limited character models.
    • Fallout 4:
      • The ironically-named Skinny Malone, the leader of the Triggermen.
      • There's also Eddie Winter, the pre-war boss of The Irish Mob in Boston and the first ghoul, who is still fat after being sealed in a nuclear bunker for 200 years. He was responsible for numerous robberies and murders, including that of the original Nick Valentine's fiancée.
  • Norton Mapes in F.E.A.R. is a grossly obese, geeky ATC engineer who betrays the protagonist two times.
  • Final Fantasy:
    • Final Fantasy VII has at least three characters that fit this trope to a T:
      • President Shinra is a portly Corrupt Corporate Executive whose extremely powerful company has essentially made him a de-facto dictator.
      • Palmer likes lard in his tea, and while he's not that evil himself, he does still work for the evil Shinra corporation.
      • Heidegger is a very large man who commands Shinra's military forces, which cause rampant death and destruction.
      • In Final Fantasy VII Remake, President Shinra and Heidegger are significantly slimmed down (but just as evil). On the other hand, Don Corneo now has a noticable beer gut, and he's a lecherous crime lord who feeds women to his monstrous pet when they fail to satisfy him.
    • The Seeq in Final Fantasy XII and Final Fantasy Tactics A2. A race of pigs, so the fat factor is already settled in. They are described as being gluttonous, dimwitted, slow, and are mostly common thieves. in FFTA2, sometimes a newly recruited Seeq will ask what is for lunch after he joins your clan, or they may also say that there won't be any problems as long as you feed him. There are a few kind-hearted Seeq in the games, but most are portrayed as unlikable.
    • Vauthry in the Shadowbringers story of Final Fantasy XIV is massively fat and is a tyrannical ruler of the Eulmore city, where his word is law and anyone that dares to cross him are either forced to mutilate themselves or get tossed off the balcony. He also has people fed to sin eaters, which in turn he makes into food that the poor eat, and later mind controls them into attacking the heroes. He's also prone to throwing a temper tantrum whenever things don't go his way, and he looks like a giant baby while doing so. What makes him stand out is that he's so comically fat that he can barely walk, has several folds of neck fat, and is basically several times larger than the average person. The reason behind his massive size is due to him being part sin eater, which very likely enabled him to grow extremely fat without the complications. When you fight him later on, he eventually goes One Wing Angel by shedding all of his fat and becoming a very beautiful but still dangerous angelic being.
  • Fire Emblem:
  • Ghost of Tsushima: Khotun Khan is a pretty heavyset man, like his voice-actor/portrayer, and is the leader of a murderous Mongol army who has invaded the island of Tsushima. That said, he's also fast enough to keep pace with the much thinner hero, Jin Sakai.
  • These are one mook type in God Hand, with many sub-types. Elvis looks like this on the surface (he's certainly fat and ugly), but he's actually a subversion, being more of a Noble Demon.
  • God of War:
    • Cronos has some noticeable fat, and he ate his own children because he was paranoid that they would overthrow him.
    • God of War: Chains of Olympus: The Persian king who Kratos fights at the start of the game is significantly fatter than him. He's also a Holier Than Thou conqueror who wants to invade Greece, and prior to his boss fight, he's seen menacing a couple of slave girls.
  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas:
    • Big Smoke is quite heavy and usually lets the player and the other homies do all the work. In one mission, a rival gang attacks your gang in a car, and during the firefight, Big Smoke eats everyone's food that they ordered instead of shooting back. This becomes more clear when CJ later on finds out that Big Smoke is actually on the side of the rival gang and is selling drugs, something that CJ's gang was fighting to get rid of.
    • Eat too many pizzas or make too many trips to Cluckin' Bell without hitting the gym, and CJ will turn into... Fat CJ. Complete with new lines of dialogue, like how cash he's taking off his victims' bodies is "lunch money".
    • Though to a slightly lesser extent than Big Smoke on the "fat" part, Officer Pulaski is definitely this to a much greater extent on the "bastard" part, as he's pretty much like his partner in crime, Officer Tenpenny, minus the charisma, and is even a racist asshole who would go as far as to insult CJ's mother.
  • Hector LeMans, the Big Bad of Grim Fandango, who is an Expy of Sydney Greenstreet's characters. He somehow manages to be fat despite being a skeleton.
    Manny: [examining the monogram in Hector's casino] I'll bet Hector pauses here every day and thinks to himself... "Boy, I wish I could see past my gut and enjoy my expensive monogrammed floor!"
  • Bob in Gungrave. In the game's storyline, he's depicted as being a real jerk underneath his calm exterior. As the first major boss fight of the game, his initial reaction to Grave is to call him out for his so-called "ingratitude" to his former friends and the syndicate for providing him (Grave) with power, wealth, and a place to call home, without even realizing that it also directly and indirectly led to Grave's undoing.
  • Heavy Rain:
    • The Origami Killer has a huge human figure when Norman Jayden encounters him in the "Fish Tank" chapter. If the players take it into account and guess correctly, that person in question is none other than Scott Shelby.
    • There's also Paco Mendez, one of the Origami Killer associates, who is a jerkass with a huge criminal record and likely a rapist.
  • Hector: Badge of Carnage has Detective Inspector Hector, a surly, corrupt, and lazy Comedic Sociopath who also happens to be one of the few competent individuals on the police force.
  • In Hitman: Contracts, one of the targets in the second mission is Campbell Sturrock, aka the Meat King, a morbidly obese Scottish crime boss who's so fat that he needs a wheelchair simply to move. Clearly a monster, he was prosecuted for kidnapping a wealthy man's daughter (your client), only for his sleazy lawyer (your other target) to get him off on a technicality. Sadly, the girl is dead when you get there, horribly dismembered and mutilated by Sturrock's sociopathic brother, but killing him is not required to complete the mission.
  • The House of the Dead series has its share of fat zombies.
  • Jak and Daxter:
    • Krew from Jak II: Renegade, is a sleazy crime lord obsessed with weapons who needs an antigravity chair to move around.
    • Possible double-subversion in the form of Kliever from Jak 3, who is most definitely not meant to be seen as sympathetic at first (wanting to eat your partner-in-crime Daxter), but by the end, he is shown to be more than capable, and has at least some redeeming qualities. At least until Jak X, when he races for the opposing team.
  • Kindergarten:
    • Buggs is noticeably more heavy-set than his classmates, and he's a Barbaric Bully who steals half of the protagonist's money at the start of the day and throws slop at Nugget during lunch. A few of his lines in Kindergarten 2 indicate that his weight is a bit of a sore subject for him.
    • Ms. Applegate is apathetic towards her teaching job at best and downright murderous at worst, and is a large, easily-winded woman who can't even recognise a salad. Ironically, Buggs calls her a cow for it, and she snipes back that he's no model himself.
  • The King of Fighters has Chang, the morbidly obese fighter from Korea. While he doesn't get much respect from the rest of the cast and was introduced as a criminal being reformed, he's more or less wacky comic relief now.
  • King Dedede from the Kirby series is an overweight Bird King who in his debut steals all the food in the Land to have a personal banquet. More Fat Jerk with a Heart of Gold than utter Bastard, later on though. The anime version is a straighter example.
  • The Boomers from Left 4 Dead attack players Mr. Creosote-style: by vomiting on them to attract the horde, and explode messily when you fire enough rounds into them. May overlap with Dead Weight, although the infected are still living people, acid-filled or not.
  • Wang Wen-Chang, the first boss in The Legend of Tian-ding, is a greedy, overweight bastard who's introduced using his cane to beat up a helpless beggar unable to pay rent. And is a tax collector working for the Japanese invaders, overcharging the locals and destroying the livelihoods of an entire community just for his personal income, while repeatedly ordering his lackey to carry him literally everywhere on a trishaw. He even has a three-story golden statue of himself, funded from the money his men siphoned off the locals.
  • Shyler the Pizza Troll in "Logical Journeyofthe Zoombinis". Even though he is a nice troll and has a pudgy tummy, he is very shy due to his name.
  • Killabilly in Lollipop Chainsaw. Good Lord. As one would expect from an Elvis Presley Expy, he's got quite a gut. And if that wasn't enough, he gets disgusting with his gluttonous tendencies by attacking Juliet with his nauseatingly long tongue as well as trying to eat her outright.
  • Lunch Lady: The titular antagonist is a big fat woman who wants you dead for some reason.
  • Dosgoro from Marco & the Galaxy Dragon is an overweight alien crime boss who thinks nothing of decapitating his own henchmen and threatening the lives of teenagers to get what he wants.
  • Mega Man X:
  • Fatman from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is a fat and bald bomb-building maniac. He considers himself an artist and wants to become known as the greatest bomb-builder who ever lived. He also wears a bomb-disposal coat filled with more explosives which makes him seem even fatter.
  • Monster Hunter 2 (dos): The Congalala is a fat hippo-faced monkey who is known for its unpleasant disposition and disgusting love of fighting with its dangerously powerful farts, rancid breath, and even its own turds. As one would expect, there's a lot of overlap with Fat Slob.
  • Mother:
    • EarthBound:
      • Pokey/Porky Minch, the Enfant Terrible co-Big Bad; his name is something of a Lampshade Hanging.
      • The game also provides a subversion in the form of Apple Kid. He's fat, apparently unhygienic, and socially awkward, and accordingly less popular among the citizens of Twoson than rival Orange Kid, who's thinner, has considerably better social skills, and uses this to get funding for his work. Then the subversion comes into play — Orange Kid is a Small Name, Big Ego with virtually no talent to back up the formidable sums of money he asks for, whereas Apple Kid is an absolute genius who actually cares about the fate of the world, plays a massive role in enabling the heroes to defeat Giygas, and never asks for anything in return.
    • Mother 3:
  • They're a mook type in No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, often seen eating a whole box of pizza if Travis hasn't caught their attention yet.
  • Mother from Octopath Traveler II is one of the heaviest characters in the game, and is also one of the most thoroughly unpleasant antagonists. She frequently whips the Blacksnakes and the children at her orphanage when they displease her, and she gets angry when Throné doesn't scream in pain after being whipped near the start of Throné's story. Mother also hates anyone who isn't fully obedient to her, and dies ranting about how much she hates Throné for daring to defy her.
  • OFF: Enoch, guardian of Zone 3. Runs a factory to turn corpses into sugar to drug his people. And he's actually one of the nicer guardians...
  • Only the Brave Can Rescue the Kidnapped Princess has the unnamed King, a gluttonous boor who acts incredibly rudely towards others. He's also apparently very fond of having people beheaded; his usual response to someone angering him is to threaten to have the offending party's head lopped off, with even his own wife being subject to these threats (although he may not intend to actually make good on them).
  • Orc Attack: Flatulent Rebellion has the Recurring Boss aptly named Big Fat Shaman.
  • In Outlast, you have Chris Walker, the first variant you meet and the most frequent villain. Although he is more an Anti-Villain.
  • Overlord:
    • In Overlord I, the first corrupted hero you fight is a grotesquely obese halfling named Melvin. He represents the sin of gluttony, and his most lethal attack is rolling over your minions. After being killed, he shows up in hell, where his punishment is to repeatedly stuff himself until he bursts.
    • In a minor example, most of the Empire Nobles in Overlord II can count, being quite pudgy and decadent.
  • Overwatch has Roadhog, an incredibly fat and brutally powerful criminal from the Australian outback, who is a notorious thief and sadistic murderer often seen in the company of his rail-thin partner in crime Junkrat.
  • Gourmet Guy from the original Paper Mario downplays this. He's an extremely overweight Shy Guy that frequently complains that he's starving, and is a minion of Bowser who helps carry out his orders. But his obsession with food allows Mario and Peach to successfully bribe him with delicious treats and get him to undermine those very same orders.
  • Persona:
    • Zigzagged with Nozomi Suemitsu in Persona 3. A chubby, abrasive Big Eater who's revealed to be swindling people out of their money for the local Scam Religion. However it's revealed that he ended up like this due to his trauma over the death of his brother, and he genuinely believed in the cult's teachings without intending to scam anyone.
    • Hanako Ohtani in Persona 4. A narcissistic Abhorrent Admirer who sexually harasses the male party members with it being Played for Laughs, destroys Yosuke's moped just by sitting on it without even apologizing, and refuses to share her bucket of curry with the starving protagonists after the Mystery Food X debacle. And then there's her appearance in the beauty contest...
    • Persona 5:
      • Junya Kaneshiro, an oyabun who makes his big bucks blackmailing his under-aged drug traffickers for every cent they're worth, and expresses glee at the prospect of forcing the Niijima sisters (one of whom is still a high schooler) into prostitution. He also represents Gluttony.
      • The egg-shaped Principal Kobayakawa knowingly let Suguru Kamoshida off the hook for his myriad offenses, and forces Student Council President Makoto Niijima to do all the dangerous legwork in investigating both the Phantom Thieves and a criminal case on campus linked to the aforementioned Kaneshiro by essentially threatening to sabotage her academic future if she doesn't do what he says. On top of that, he's a (low-level) member of the Big Bad's evil Conspiracy.
  • In Pokémon: Red, White & Blue, a sequel to PETA's Pokémon parody Pokémon Black and Blue that attacks McDonald's in addition to the usual accusing the Pokémon game series of encouraging animal abuse, one of the opponents faced is an overweight McDonald's customer who has mistreated his Jigglypuff. After his defeat, he also whines about his childhood being ruined and accuses the Pokémon of taking things way too seriously.
  • Punch-Out!!:
    • King Hippo of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! is this on the surface. However, this is 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!
    • Super Punch-Out!! has Mad Clown, a former Italian opera singer who snapped, then became a circus clown, then snapped again, taking up boxing in order to punch people. His expression suggests that he's edging on psychotic by the time of his appearance.
  • In Quake IV, there is a gigantic obese Strogg thing which the player kills by overfeeding.
  • Red Dead Redemption:
    • While the sequel reveals that he wasn't always a complete maniac, by the time of the first game, the rotund Bill Williamson has turned into the vile leader of one of the most dangerous and destructive gangs the Old West has ever seen.
    • Micah Bell from Red Dead Redemption II doesn't seem like an example at first glance, but when he's seen without a shirt he's got a rather nasty-looking beer gut. And as shown by his sadism, rudeness, racism, violent tendencies, and willingness to sell his fellow outlaws up the river for his own benefit, he isn't exactly a moral paragon.
  • Salonbus from the Richman series is an emirate who has a sneaky attitude when setting the opponents up (such as leaving a time bomb.) In his ending in 6, it is mentioned that he learned tactics from The Art of War (Sun Tzu) and Thick Back Theory (a book about being hard-hearted) to be more competitive.
  • Samurai Shodown gives us Earthquake, the greedy 1,380-pound ninja bandit. From Texas. One hundred years before Texas existed. In his profile, it's stated that he likes people fatter than he is, and dislikes "skinny people".
  • Eddie Dombrowski in Silent Hill 2. While the story has more sympathy for him than most of the other characters here, he's still mentally unwell in the worst possible way and eventually turns Ax-Crazy and declares that he'll just flat-out kill anyone who makes fun of him.
  • Mz. Ruby from Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus is a big-bellied alligator who turned to a life of crime, having no friends growing up due to her fondness for voodoo powers.
  • Smile: One of the entities pursuing you is a fat man with a mohawk wielding a sword about half his height.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog:
    • Dr. Eggman, whose level of bastardry has varied over different incarnations.
    • Eggman Nega is Dr. Eggman's physically identical descendant and even worse than him, planning to outright destroy the world rather than "just" conquering him.
  • Sludge Vohaul, the Big Bad of the Space Quest series, and both Roger and the snarky Interactive Narrator never let him forget it.
  • Spirit Hunter series:
    • In Spirit Hunter: Death Mark, Shimi-O is an obese ghost that kills his victims with a drill and uses their corpses as bee hives. In life, he was a cult leader that urged his followers into ritual suicide.
    • Spirit Hunter: NG:
      • Subverted with Maruhashi. He's an obese man with a range of gross expressions that is introduced harassing Hazuki. However, later it's revealed that he was simply over-enthusiastic about his new job as an (ineffectual) Yakuza lackey; he apologizes to Hazuki for his behaviour and is eager to help the protagonists in any way he can.
      • Kubitarou of Kintoki is a giant, obese ghost who decapitates animals to collect their heads. However, not only is Kubitarou not acting out of malevolence (rather, they're just using heads as an offering to try and bring back their little brother) but it's revealed that their obesity in life is partly what led them to be shunned by the rest of their village.
  • Luther from the SSX series, voiced by Oliver Platt, is a hefty and crude Jerkass.
  • Pigma Dengar from Star Fox is the embodiment of this trope. He sold out the original Star Fox team to Dr. Andross, leading to James McCloud's death, and is completely unapologetic about it while working for Star Wolf and fighting James's son Fox.
    Pigma: Daddy screamed real good before he died!
  • Shimada in Star Ocean: The Last Hope. The only overweight character in the game, and also a Villainous Glutton and Corrupt Corporate Executive.
  • Darth Baras from Star Wars: The Old Republic, an exceptionally fat and evil Sith Lord.
  • In Streets of Rage, there's a boss, Bongo, that's a big, fire-breathing Fat Bastard. On top of being That One Boss, if you try to suplex him, your character hurts their back and suffers damage.
  • Sunrider has Veniczar Cullen, an obese PACT admiral whose rolls of fat emphasize his cruel and hedonistic nature. The backstory shows that he previously worked for the New Empire, but defected to PACT when he realized that the Empire would fall and hunted down his former comrades to save his own skin. In the present, he's fond of coercing planets to join PACT by subjecting them to orbital bombardment and is said to surround himself with luxuries. He's also a Dirty Old Man, as shown when he tries to molest Asaga despite her being betrothed to his boss.
  • Sunset Riders:
    • The very first boss is the corrupt cattle baron Simon Greedwell, a rotund, bow-legged, fish-lipped Gonk of a man who is wanted for cattle-rustling, no doubt of less well-to-do ranchers given his name. The fact that he comes out shooting when confronted by the Sunset Riders is a pretty good sign of what kind of person he is.
    • Later, we get the preposterously flabby Paco Loco, Richard Rose's violent dimwit bodyguard (bearing a coincidental resemblance to Heart of Fist of the North Star). He's even Gonkier than Greedwell, resembling a blobfish with a Maxim gun. He's also pure Dumb Muscle, speaking in a mixture of broken Spanish and baby talk.
  • Super Mario Odyssey has Madame Broode, the leader of the Broodals. She's a humongously tall, morbidly obese rabbit woman with a face that only a mother could love, and has quite the attitude problem. When Mario asks for her Power Moons so he can power his ship, she simply mocks him and tries to kill him with the help of her prized Chain Chompikins for daring to suggest that she part with her Moons.
  • The Heavy is seen as one of these by the other classes in Team Fortress 2, or so their domination/revenge quotes would seem to indicate:
    Scout: I am owning you, you fat bald bastard!
    Spy: Dominated! You fatuous, fat-headed fat man!
    Demoman: Little too much caber-tossing pie down yer own throat, eh, Chubby?
    Sniper: Oi! Yer bleedin' gravy, fatso!
    Engineer: Gotcha, pork drippin's!
    However, he only qualifies as this if he's on the enemy team. Friendly Heavies are more of a Boisterous Bruiser with shades of Big Fun.
  • The eponymous character of Tongue of the Fatman (a.k.a. Mondu's Fight Palace and Slaughter Sport), an Activision fighting game from the late '80s/early '90s, is a morbidly obese regent who can somehow contort himself into an egg-shaped mass that can bounce around the screen. Sometimes it glitched and became a 1-hit KO.
  • In Touch The Dead, some of the zombies are pretty large in frame.
  • The Twins (2020): Bob is the fat of the Fat and Skinny duo of murderous cannibalistic criminals he forms with his brother Buck.
  • General Failure Damon von Grant from Valkyria Chronicles is a fat, arrogant aristocrat who only occupies his position because of his wealth, and is otherwise completely incompetent. He despises the militia and considers them disposable trash, steals their merits when Welkin's strategies work, is completely unsympathetic towards Isara's death, thinks of Alicia as a weapon when her Valkyria powers awaken, and uses illegal weapons to cover up for his failures on the battlefield. Luckily, he gets a Karmic Death when The Dragon Selvaria self-destructs and takes him (and a large chunk of Gallia's army) with her.
  • Though you never get to see the full body of Duke Radcot in Vanguard Bandits, you don't really need to. His portrait alone has three chins. Trying to load that much fat on-screen at once might break the PS1.
  • Vermintide II: All the Chaos Sorcerers are hugely obese — many of them Walking Shirtless Scenes to boot — and are part of an Apocalypse Cult trying to end the world. As servants of the Plague God Nurgle, some of their bulk is due to being literally bloated with disease and decay.
  • Wario Land:
    • Wario is as tubby as he's greedy and lazy, though he's got plenty of muscle as well.
    • In Wario Land 3, Brrr Bears are one of Wario's enemies. Their bellies jiggle every time they walk and when they breathe ice on Wario.
  • Whiplash: The Rent-a-Cop enemies are fat security guards working at Genron, a company that subjects animals to horrible experiments For Science!.
  • World of Warcraft:
    • Trade Prince Jastor Gallywix, leader of the Horde-aligned goblins, is an obese and highly unpleasant individual. No one else in the Horde likes him, even his own people, and considering how ruthless and greedy goblins can be, that's saying a lot.
    • In Warlords of Draenor, Teron'gor, having fallen into the depths of Auchindoun after his defeat at the players' hands, absorbed so many souls that he became a massive and bloated demon known as Gorefiend.
    • The imp mothers are floating and highly overweight demons who, as the name implies, birth many imps and sic them on players.
    • Priscilla Ashvane, Arc Villain of the Tiragarde Sound storyline in Battle for Azeroth, is, like some Kultirans, fairly stocky. She's also a Corrupt Corporate Executive and False Friend to Lord Admiral Katherine Proudmoore and is in the process of scheming to undermine Katherine's rule and get her to step down so that Priscilla can replace her. When that fails due to the player character and Taelia Fordragon exposing her, Priscilla flees and returns with an invasion fleet.
  • The X Men arcade game features the nearly-spherical mass of Kevlard Fred Dukes, AKA The Blob. He's every bit as grossly obese as his name implies and serves as the boss of stage 2.
  • Rogue Trip: Big Daddy is grossly overweight and the game's main antagonist. Big Daddy is so obese that when he lands on the moon during the game's endings, it shakes on impact.

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