Basic Trope: An overweight character (usually a male) is lazy, sloppy, and gluttonous.
- Straight: Hank is overweight and does nothing all day but eat like a pig and getting drunk.
- Exaggerated: Hank eats sloppily to the point of leaving food crumbs everywhere, doesn't throw away the trash in his house, gets drunk in parties, and is gassy in public.
- Downplayed: Hank is slighty chubby, and often leaves trash on the floor and burps a lot.
- Justified: Hank was never taught healthy eating habits and good hygiene growing up.
- Inverted:
- Hank is overweight, but isn't lazy, gluttonous, and unhygienic.
- Big Beautiful Man
- Hank is thin and is lazy, gluttonous, and unhygienic.
- Gender Inverted: Hettie lazes on the couch all day and does nothing but watch TV and eat junk food.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Hank is not overweight and is very neat, athletic, and has a good diet.
- Enforced: The author creates Hank as sloppy and fat just to reflect his negative opinion on overweight people.
- Lampshaded: "Ugh! You fat people are nothing but slobs!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Hank decides to improve his hygiene and lose weight.
- Discussed: "You wouldn't want to live with Hank, he's kind of a slob."
- Conversed: ???
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