Basic Trope: Weight Woe equals Audience Surrogate.
- Straight: Alice is portrayed as a "real" woman because she has well-defined curves.
- Exaggerated: Alice is fat and suffers for Weight Woe to the point where she becomes anorexic later in the movie. All so that the audience will relate to her.
- Downplayed: Alice is legitimately overweight, but the character that gets teased is the thin one.
- Justified:
- Alice's weight comes with several health problems which are a legitimate concern.
- Alice lives in a society with high standards for beauty, one of which includes being really skinny.
- Inverted:
- Alice is underweight and wishes she was "more curvy". This is either done to help the audience distance themselves from her, or to give the audience some Wish-Fulfillment.
- Alternatively, it is done to make her more relatable.
- Alice suffers Weight Woe so the audience will distance themselves from her.
- Subverted:
- Alice is shown to be Fat and Proud, thus not having Weight Woe.
- Alice is fat, but thinks she's skinny.
- Alice is not the Audience Surrogate, Carol is.
- Double Subverted:
- Alice was just pretending to be indifferent to or confident about her weight.
- Alice is Fat and Proud, despite being bullied. She's an obvious Audience Surrogate combined with a bit of Escapist Character.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: No female character is overweight or having curves.
- Enforced: Polls show that female audiences can't identify with the absurdly beautiful cast, so the network forces a chubbier character to be introduced to offset it.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice refuses to get upset about her weight, attempts to either be Fat and Proud or lose some weight.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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