History FatBastard / Literature

** All of the Dursleys besides [[LeanAndMean Petunia]] (who married into the family), particularly Dudley. Indeed, in Dudley's introductions in the first book, Rowling spends nearly as much time going over how fat he is as she does over his actual bullying of Harry. The [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire fourth book]] mentions Dudley "had finally achieved what he'd been threatening to do since the age of three, and become wider than he was tall."\\
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Rowling did eventually apparently become uncomfortable with how she was using this trope to equate evil with being overweight, and eventually gave Dudley enough physical training for him to be a competent boxer (though he's still "vast as ever"). Then in the last book Dudley turns out to be halfway decent at the last second, and is merely described as "muscular."

* ''Literature/{{Dune}}'': Baron Harkonnen's girth is used alongside his [[DepravedBisexual sexual deviancy]] and torture of slaves to emphasize how disgusting a person he is.

** Lulu Toomaloo, [[AcceptableTargets as the author will frequently remind you]]. She's always out to make trouble, and is described as looking "like she was in training as a replacement for the Goodyear Blimp".

** All of the Dursleys besides [[LeanAndMean Petunia]] (who married into the family), particularly Dudley. Indeed, in Dudley's introductions in the first book, Rowling spends nearly as much time going over how fat he is as she does over his actual bullying of Harry. One book mentions Dudley "had finally achieved what he'd been threatening to do since the age of three, and become wider than he was tall."\\

** Hutts, which are specifically said to be lithe and muscular when young and become progressively more obese as they grow older and gather more power, are almost universally disgusting. Almost. There's some record that a Hutt was once a very fair and very popular Chancellor of the Republic.
*** There is also a subversion in at least one Hutt Jedi, who is implied to get more powerful in the force as he gets fatter, presumably because he has more life force, or something.
*** The Hutts in general are one of the few races that are immune to the "mind tricks" of the Jedi or Sith, indicating perhaps a naturally strong connection to the force as a species trait.
*** Wait - fat, toadlike, powerful telekenetics? ''[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} The Old Ones]] [[WildMassGuessing were Jedi!!]]''

** All of the Dursleys besides [[LeanAndMean Petunia]] (who married into the family), particularly Dudley. Indeed, in Dudley's introductions in the first book, Rowling spends nearly as much time going over how fat he is as she does over his actual bullying of Harry.\\

* ''Literature/AConfederacyofDunces'': Ignatius Jacques Reilly is a fat, [[JerkAss obnoxious]], [[KnowNothingKnowitAll over-educated]] Manchild who still [[BasementDweller lives with his widowed mother at age thirty.]]

** The male Dursleys, particularly Dudley. Indeed, in Dudley's introductions in the first book, Rowling spends nearly as much time going over how fat he is as she does over his actual bullying of Harry.\\

* ''Literature/{{Thinner}}'': [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] Billy Halleck is a seemingly nice guy with a good marriage and is a doting father (his daughter in fact [[DaddysGirl prefers Billy to her mother]]). However, he is clearly aware of his firm's tie to TheMafia, and is in fact good friends with a man who may be the head of the local mob family. After the accident, he doesn't deliberately use his connections to get him out of trouble, but he does nothing to dissuade them either. [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped There is blame enough to go around, but no one is willing to accept the consequences for their actions.]]

* The ''Literature/SallyLockhart'' novels by Creator/PhillipPullman introduce opium lord Ah Ling in book one, ''The Ruby in the Smoke''. At the end of the book, he seems to have died after being shot by Sally but he returns as the main antagonist in the third novel, ''The Tiger in the Well'' having survived but been paralysed from the neck down by the bullet severing his spine. As a result of the depression that comes with not being able to move, he seems to have taken to comfort eating which together with his inability to exercise has caused him to become preposterously obese. He's chowing down in every scene in which he appears and Pullman never lets a page with him on go by without reminding us what a pig he is. It's even brought up by Sally Lockhart in her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech against him in the denouement in a scene robbing him of what credibility he had left as a villain.