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  • Adventure Time: The first Earl of Lemongrab becomes this after he has a psychotic breakdown and eats his clone brother's legs and part of his head. The episode "Too Old" shows Lemongrab 1 has become morbidly obese, with his appetite demonstrated during a dinner scene featuring him eating a large spread of food while the Lemon Children and Lemongrab 2 have rather measly offerings. He even steals a piece of bread off someone's plate while Lemongrab 2 shares his.
  • In The Batman, there was The Cluemaster. After losing a rigged game show as a child, he spent decades plotting revenge against everyone involved, spending most of his time eating the lifetime supply of chocolate he got as a consolation prize from the show. When his revenge plan was actually put into motion, he had become incredibly obese as a result.
  • Batman: The Animated Series: Boss Biggis. Not only was he incredibly fat and constantly eating, he fed his workers as little as possible just so he could eat more.
  • Beavis And Butthead: Beavis and Butt-Head are selfish, amoral delinquents who tend to binge on junk food (especially nachos). In "Supersize Me", they became morbidly obese in a misguided attempt to become rich and famous.
  • The Boondocks: Lamilton Taeshawn is an obese delinquent. One of his crimes is attacking his grandma for not buying him fried chicken. And that's just the tip of the iceberg...
  • Brickleberry: Malloy frequently uses Woody's credit card balance to purchase all sorts of junk food.
  • Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Hoggish Greedly. He's rather corpulent, and he even has a heavy pig motif in his dialogue and machinery. Despite this, he has been shown to be a good runner at least three times in the series.
  • Clue Club: In "The Missing Pig Caper", the main culprit is Mr. Glut, a fat millionaire who wanted to buy the missing prize pig so he can eat him. When Larry interrogates him, he is enjoying a "light snack", a six-foot-long sandwich.
  • Danny Phantom: The Lethal Chef Lunch Lady Ghost. It's never stated if she is a constant eater, but she's obsessed with food (especially meat) one way or the other.
  • Ed, Edd n Eddy: Eddy may apply. He's obsessed with jawbreakers, and in a Christmas special, he devours Jimmy's gingerbread village in seconds.
  • Family Guy:
    • Peter Griffin is an alcoholic Fat Bastard who eats copious amounts of junk food. In "Saturated Fat Guy", he became morbidly obese to the point where he was unable to exit his food truck and had to be craned out by the fire department.
    • In "The Fat Guy Strangler", a half-dead fat guy casually asks Lois and Brian if he could eat the dead fat guy right next to him.
    • A Cutaway Gag in "Brian Sings and Swings" has John Goodman eating all the Thanksgiving food while his family starves.
      Son: Please, daddy.
      John Goodman: I told you, when I'm finished, you can have what's left!
      Son: There won't be any left. There's never any left.
      (Wife tries to grab some food, but Goodman stabs her with a fork)
      Wife: (nervously) Happy Thanksgiving.
  • Filmation's Ghostbusters: Corpulon, the Jabba the Hutt not-a-like from the planet Specter. This fat slug eats "energy" in the form of a glowing blue goo stored in jars (though not named, it might as well be ectoplasm).
  • Gravedale High: When Max Schneider's class needs a new teacher after he leaves because of a misunderstanding in "Goodbye Gravedale", the first substitute is a gluttonous jerk named Mr. Gross, who forbids eating in his classroom unless he's doing the eating. His voracious appetite is ultimately used against him when the class tricks him into overeating until he explodes.
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: The brain-eating monster from "Little Rock of Horrors", gleefully, and to the tune of a ''Voltaire'' song, eats the brains of everyone (except Billy) in Endsville. He ends up dooming himself when he eats Mandy's brain, which allows her to possess him.
  • In Jackie Chan Adventures, Po Kong the Mountain Demon fits the bill. She is both nasty and horribly fat, and obsessed with food (usually humans). In the "Demon World" story arc, she rules Japan and has the enslaved humans there mine large amounts of salt for her meals.
  • Jacob Two-Two has Principal I.M. Greedyguts, Jacob's obese, selfish principal who is often seen feasting on large amounts of junk food or extravagant dishes. His avarice also extends to non-food things, however, as he often spends vast sums of the school's budget to buy lavish gifts for himself (or just hatches a get-rich-quick scheme of his own whenever the school board is investigating him for said embezzlement).
  • Jimmy Two-Shoes: Despite being very small, Lucius has been known to eat a buffet in seconds, keep a well of chocolate all to himself, and put cake on the top of his birthday wishes.
  • Looney Tunes:
    • "Bye-Bye Bluebeard": The eponymous Serial Killer is one, and in fact, this trait is his undoing. As he's about to execute poor Porky using a homemade guillotine, the mouse that Porky had been chasing earlier distracts him with what Bluebeard thinks is popovers, but are actually bombs. The villain eats them and explodes.
    • "Pigs Is Pigs": Piggy may not be evil, but he's the one who causes the most problems for his family in the short. He's a classic greedy pig, always sorrowfully pining for food and whenever he gets the opportunity to eat, he usually tries to eat it all by himself. When he hears dinner is ready, he knocks over his siblings on the way to the table and then when the table is set, devours most of the food set out to feed his family of eight, and doesn't care that his family must now go hungry. When he's captured by a scientist and force-fed for an entire day, he becomes a morbidly obese shadow of his formerly tiny, cute self. Though he insists he's had enough, the weak smile he gives suggests he still enjoyed his ordeal because of how much he got to eat. When offered more food, he begins slogging down more turkey and explodes before waking up in terror.
    • Taz is a classic example. He will eat any species of animal and can devour large quantities of food (and other things) without ease. When he starts spinning, he always sends crowds running away. (In his own show, he's still a glutton, but not all too villainous.)
  • My Little Pony 'n Friends:
    • Queen Bumble is a ravenous drinker of nectar, consuming the bees' entire supply of flowers and starting her crusade against the flutter ponies purely out of a desire to have more flowers to eat.
    • "Spike's Search": The dragons are chiefly motivated by gluttony, which drives their actions and also serves as their main weakness. They burn down towns to steal their food, decide to attack Paradise Estate when they hear there's good food there, and start greedily gorging themselves on the treats they find there — gorging so greedily, in fact, that they completely fail to notice the trap the ponies are springing on them.
  • The New Adventures of Batman: The villain of the episode "A Sweet Joke on Gotham City" is Sweet Tooth, an overweight crook who likes gorging on candy and other forms of dessert as much as he likes committing crimes.
  • Oggy and the Cockroaches: The titular Cockroaches like to antagonize Oggy by stealing food from him and tend to have bottomless appetites.
  • In Peppermint Rose all the bugs of Bugooyna eat everything, to the point that there are no flowers or trees left in their land and they'll happily dine on visiting humans. Queen Beeteelya plans to eat the peppermint roses, which would plunge the land into ruin.
  • The Real Ghostbusters: In one episode, an accident caused Slimer to start transforming into a Superpowered Evil Side that the team dubbed "Big Green", who was far more of a glutton than the regular Slimer (and unlike Slimer, incredibly dangerous.)
  • Rolling with the Ronks!: Mormagnon likes to take advantage of the Ronk tribe's superstitions by ordering them to make offerings to the gods solely so he'd have a huge pile of food to feast on.
  • Rugrats (1991): Much of Angelica's bad behavior involves stealing cookies, which are her favorite food. In an episode where Chuckie discovers what life would be like if he were never born, Angelica boots Tommy out of his house and is so overindulged by DiDi and Stu, she's become a giant.
  • Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: Francilee, a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Paula Deen, suffered a major blow to her career thanks to a lapse in judgement (ironically similar to Deen herself at the time of the episode's airing). Seeking revenge, she faked her death and masqueraded as the Gluten Demon, a hugely obese monster who began to devour all the unhealthy foods in Crystal Cove. Thanks to cartoon physics, she devours pretty much all of the food in town, but unlike cartoon physics, she remains morbidly obese from all the weight she gained eating as the Demon at the end of the episode.
  • Piecemeal in The Secret Saturdays is a Wicked Cultured Evil Poacher who has an obsession with Exotic Entrees, dedicating his life to eating the most exotic creatures on the planet to the point that he surgically modified his jaw to give himself a Glasgow Grin.
  • The Simpsons: In the "Nightmare Cafeteria" segment of Treehouse of Horror V, Principal Skinner comes up with the idea of having delinquent students killed and used for lunch to deal with discipline problems and the low budget for meals. The teachers know and are all for it, but they gradually become more obsessed and insane, sending kids to "detention" for ridiculous reasons just to eat them later. Mrs. Krabappel is the most blatant example, becoming obese from eating so much and hoping to fatten up the remaining kids for the slaughter.
  • Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Mid-season 2 introduces Mokko, the owner of a supposedly failing ipsium mine who runs a large group of young boys as his workers. It turns out the mine is not failing and that they are actually rich, but Mokko hides the profits so he can hog them to himself. He spends plenty of the mine's earnings on enough food to feed all the boys under his command... but eats it himself, only passing down meager scraps to his boys while gaslighting the boys into thinking he's just barely able to scrape some food up for them to eat due to their failing business. There's more food being splattered away during his greedy feasting than there is in the bowls he does provide to the boys. Thanks to the Bad Batch, the boys eventually learn of Mokko's scheme and turn on him.
  • South Park
    • Sally Struthers in the Starvin' Marvin episodesnote . She steals much of the food donated to the Ethiopians.
    • Eric Cartman is the main recurring example of this.
    • Rob Reiner. His Knight Templar attitude toward smoking is contrasted with overeating every second of his life
  • Spider-Man: The Kingpin is depicted as being overly fond of food in Spider-Woman and Spider-Man: The New Animated Series. This despite his devotion to exercise.
  • Sushi Pack: Oleander is usually only a villain because she wants to eat the Sushi Pack, who are admittedly living pieces of sushi. She also has the moniker "The Gulping Gourmet," which explains her large frame. According to the coloring books, Oleander is her last name; her first name is Fatima.
  • In The Transformers, the Insecticons could eat practically anything and thought nothing of eating an entire forest in one day.
  • The Visionaries episode "Dawn of the Sun Imps" had a gluttonous Sun Imp named Gorge, whose tremendous appetite proved to be his undoing when the Spectral Knights and Darkling Lords defeat him by presenting him with an enormous cake and putting him in a trunk after eating the whole thing makes him too fat to move.
  • The titular antagonist of the Wander over Yonder episode "The Troll" tries to get to the Baaaa-hallans' bountiful stash of food, fully intent on devouring all of it so the Baaa-hallans will starve.

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