History Main / BigFatFuture

* Deconstructed in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' Missing Adventures novel ''Last Man Running'', with two colony planets, one fat with upper-class accents (called Twodies) and one thin with working-class accents (called Firsters). The two Twodie police encountered by the Doctor and Leela are casually prejudiced against them, taking from their weight that they are Firsters and viewing their upper-class accents and the Doctor's expensive clothes as tasteless NouveauRiche pretension.

* Zigzagged in ''Literature/TheMoonMazeGame'', in which standards of beauty in 2085 have swung the other way, making plumpness desirable in women. Instead of being unhealthy, however, the ideal ''zaftig'' woman adheres to a "Fit/Fat" model, in which well-padded curves overlie toned muscles and a blood chemistry maintained at the peak of physiological health.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3520 SCP-3520 ("Fourteen Orangutans")]] is a radio signal in Pennsylvania broadcasting... [[BrownNote something]] that is trying to get the Foundation to enforce a future where this is reality. The entity behind it seems to have a furious vendetta against Western consumption habits and [[MassHypnosis is hypnotizing people]] into leading gluttonous, [[ChubbyChaser obesity-admiring]] lifestyles, and because of this gambit it can only be assumed to be [[ForTheEvulz deliberately perpetuating the problem so it can delight in humanity suffering the consequences]]. Worse, the broadcast seems to be working, and is counting down (by shooting an orangutan at the end of every broadcast, hence the title) to an unknown event...

** In fact there was a similar story ([[http://www.artofmanliness.com/2015/07/09/a-prescient-prophecy-from-1952-on-how-were-turning-into-blobs/ "Blobs!"]]) printed in the very first issue in 1952, that traced how humankind became reliant on technology and unable to even use most of their muscles to the first moment a caveman invented the club so that he could club a woman over the head with it and kidnap her. The men in it aren't fat but rather large-headed and tiny-bodied. [[MsFanservice The women are still hotties, though.]]

* In Dougal Dixon's ''Literature/ManAfterMan'', some of the early descendants of humanity are the Hitek: humans so sickly and out of shape that they must spend their entire lives sealed into life-sustaining personal vehicles. This isn't due to poor lifestyle choices, so much as massive numbers of genetic flaws, accumulated over hundreds of years in which natural selection against hereditary illness was suppressed by medical intervention.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Saturated Fat Guy", PBS releases a documentary warning against obesity predicting that at some point in the future everyone will be overweight and drive hovercars. The cars are all barely above ground level and when one passenger gets out, her still-running vehicle immediately shoots up into the sky. This scares Lois into her making her family eat healthier.

* ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'': In "Welcome to Tickle Town", the Doctor and Clara arrive in the Tickle Town amusement park 300 hundred years in the future. Clara comments on the size of most the attendees, hoping that the entire human race doesn't evolve into size XXX-L. It turns out everyone is trapped in the park, unable to leave. "Lifers" are those who have given up hope, eat the munchies (laced with sedatives) and ride the rides all day, becoming obese blobs.

* ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'': In the first-ever entirely computer-animated film that is R-rated, Firewater claims that humans have constantly gotten fatter ever since there were supermarkets.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'', Boingo announces his plans to fatten up children by adding his addictive chemical "Boingonium" onto baked goodies so that they'll buy more goods.

* Robert Rankin's ''The Witches Of Chiswick'' takes place in a utopian alternate ''present'' where everyone is fat. Except, of course, the main character.
** What's more, obesity is considered attractive, so said main character is looked down on by his peers as a freak. Even his parents think he should run off and join a freak show.
* In one of the timelines of ''Literature/TheGreenFuturesOfTycho'', the main character's brother is too obese to move, so he lives in a zero-gravity environment in space.
* Baron Vladimir Harkonnen from ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' is an individual example of this, albeit apparently on purpose: he could easily have his fatness corrected medically, he just ''likes'' showing off the evidence of his excesses. [[Literature/PreludeToDune The prequels]] retcon this, explaining that his obesity is caused by a non-treatable disease that a Bene Gesserit caused him to contract while he was raping her. This was an AuthorsSavingThrow.
* In Dougal Dixon's ''Literature/ManAfterMan'', some of the early descendants of humanity are the Hitek: humans so sickly and out of shape that they must spend their entire lives sealed into life-sustaining personal vehicles. This isn't due to poor lifestyle choices, so much as massive numbers of genetic flaws, accumulated over hundreds of years in which natural selection against hereditary illness was suppressed by medical intervention.

* Zigzagged in ''Literature/TheMoonMazeGame'', in which standards of beauty in 2085 have swung the other way, making plumpness desirable in women. Instead of being unhealthy, however, the ideal ''zaftig'' woman adheres to a "Fit/Fat" model, in which well-padded curves overlie toned muscles and a blood chemistry maintained at the peak of physiological health.

* Deconstructed in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' Missing Adventures novel ''Last Man Running'', with two colony planets, one fat with upper-class accents (called Twodies) and one thin with working-class accents (called Firsters). The two Twodie police encountered by the Doctor and Leela are casually prejudiced against them, taking from their weight that they are Firsters and viewing their upper-class accents and the Doctor's expensive clothes as tasteless NouveauRiche pretension.
* In the ''Creator/FritzLeiber'' novel ''Literature/ASpectreIsHauntingTexas'' the satellite colony The Sack is inhabited by three types of actors: Thins, who are also tall and appear in tragedies, Fats, who specialize in comedies, and Musculars, who carry around an unneeded amount of muscles to appear in action/adventures.

* There are 3 examples in ''Series/FullHouse'', but in 2 episodes. In "Those Better Not Be The Days", where the men in the house were thinking of their future with the DJ, Stephanie and Michelle still in the house as adults and still being spoiled brats. The episode shows Joey huge and fat in his golden years as well as Becky as an elderly woman with a big rear end, from eating sweets like cake when she came over to visit Jesse. The final example is in "Yours, Mine and Ours", where Jesse and Becky thought of a future of how their sons Alex and Nicky would be like as teenagers when raised by Jesse's way or Becky's way. The future shows Jesse with a noticeable middle-aged gut.

-->-- '''Andrea Bennett''', ''Website/TheOnion'' [[http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_drastically_scales_back this News Network short]]

* Outside the USA. a food show like ''Series/ManVFood'' gives the unfortunate impression (based on portion size, eating challenges and members of the crowd cheering Adam Richman on during his ordeals) that [[{{Eagleland}} the USA]] is a nation of actual or soon-to-become three hundred pound waddling gutbuckets. Given the portion sizes, it is only a matter of time and diligent eating...

Contrast with WeWillHavePerfectHealthInTheFuture.

Alternatively, if medical technology and practices allows us to WeWillHavePerfectHealthInTheFuture, most of the health problems of obesity might become a worry of the past. Along with BeautyEqualsGoodness, the main characters (or one of the main characters) might be a FatAndProud BigBeautifulWoman or BigHandsomeMan. This might be a ChubbyChaser fantasy.

''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' features this in the episode "Food For Thought", Raven had a vision of what things will be like if the food court stays in school, which involves everyone eating so much fatty foods, they all have rear ends the size of their heads, including Raven. Luckily, she and Chelsea prevented all that.

* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' issue #54 (April 1960), in a Dave Berg story called [[http://imgur.com/a/rIK6T "America Is Getting Soft"]], posited a {{Zeerust}} future where Western man, relying more and more on wheeled mobility, ends up round-bottomed with vestigial legs. The article was reprinted in the paperback ''Three Ring MAD''.

** This happens in the second story arc of the manga. The new BigBad basically conquers Earth by giving everyone all the food they can eat & turning everyone who wasn't cyborged in the first story arc into a hideously fat {{Gonk}}. The rest of the galaxy's human population, [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished especially the women]] remain as impossibly waifish as they are in the rest of Creator/LeijiMatsumoto's work, though.

* ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'': In the first ever entirely computer animated film that is R-rated, Firewater claims that humans have constantly gotten fatter ever since there were supermarkets.

* In Dougal Dixon's ''Literature/ManAfterMan'', some of the early descendents of humanity are the Hitek: humans so sickly and out of shape that they must spend their entire lives sealed into life-sustaining personal vehicles. This isn't due to poor lifestyle choices, so much as massive numbers of genetic flaws, accumulated over hundreds of years in which natural selection against hereditary illness was suppressed by medical intervention.

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* There are 3 examples in ''Series/{{FullHouse}}'', but in 2 episodes. In "Those Better Not Be The Days", where the men in the house were thinkin of their future with the DJ, Stephanie and Michelle still in the house as adults and still being spoiled brats. The episode shows Joey huge and fat in his golden years as well as Becky as an elderly woman with a big rear end, from eating sweets like cake when she came over to visit Jesse. The final example is in "Yours, Mine and Ours", where Jesse and Becky thought of a future of how their sons Alex and Nicky would be like as teenagers when raised by Jesse's way or Becky's way. The future shows Jesse with a noticabel middle-aged gut.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Saturated Fat Guy", PBS releases a documentary warning against obesity predicting that at some point in the future everyone will be overweight and drive hovercars. The cars are all barely above ground level and when one passenger gets out their still running vehicle immediately shoots up into the sky. This scares Lois into her making her family eat healthier.

* The people of the [[GratuitousFrench République Venus]] from ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita: Last Order'' have developed into "Humpty-Dumpty" forms due to nanotechnology and limitless surgery.

* The people of the [[GratuitousFrench République Venus]] from ''[[Manga/{{Gunnm}} Battle Angel Alita: Last Order]]'' have developed into "Humpty-Dumpty" forms due to nanotechnology and limitless surgery.

* There are 3 examples in ''Series/{FullHouse}'', but in 2 episodes. 2 examples are in "Those Better Not Be The Days", where the men in the house were thinkin of their future with the DJ, Stephanie and Michelle still in the house as adults and still being spoiled brats. The episode shows Joey huge and fat in his golden years as well as Becky as an elderly woman with a big rear end, from eating sweets like cake when she came over to visit Jesse. The final example is in "Yours, Mine and Ours", where Jesse and Becky thought of a future of how their sons Alex and Nicky would be like as teenagers when raised by Jesse's way or Becky's way. The future shows Jesse with a noticable middle-aged gut.

** This also happened a few times on the TV series.In the first instance Tetsuo visited a world where robots did all the work and humans had become obese blobs who become so fat they regularly burst out of their own homes. The primary crux of the plot is a woman who wants to escape the planet with her boyfriend (who is already one of the aforementioned blobs, and despite trying to keep it down has put on weight herself due to the robots not allowing her to work).

** This also happened a few times on the TV series.In the first instance Tetsuo visited a world where robots did all the work and humans had become obese blobs who become so fat they regularly burst out of their own homes. The primary crux of the plot is a woman who wants to escape the planet with her boyfriend (who is already one of the aforementioned blobs, and despite trying to keep it down has put on weight herself).

** This also happened a few times on the TV series.In the first instance Tetsuo visited a world where robots did all the work and humans had become obese blobs who become so fat they regularly burst out of their own homes. The primary crux of the plot is a woman who wants to escape the planet with her boyfriend (who is already one of the aforementioned blobs).

In ''Creator/FritzLeiber'' novel ''Literature/ASpectreIsHauntingTexas'' the satellite colony The Sack is inhabited by three types of actors: Thins, who are also tall and appear in tragedies, Fats, who specialize in comedies, and Musculars, who carry around an unneeded amount of muscles to appear in action/adventures.

In ''Creator/FritzLieber'' novel ''Literature/ASpectreIsHauntingTexas'' the satellite colony The Sack is inhabited by three types of actors: Thins, who are also tall and appear in tragedies, Fats, who specialize in comedies, and Musculars, who carry around an unneeded amount of muscles to appear in action/adventures.

* Outside the USA. a food show like ''Series/ManVFood'' gives the unfortunate impression (based on portion size, eating challenges and members of the crowd cheering Adam Richman on during his ordeals) that [[UsefulNotes/{{Eagleland}} the USA]] is a nation of actual or soon-to-become three hundred pound waddling gutbuckets. Given the portion sizes, it is only a matter of time and diligent eating...

* Outside the USA. a food show like ''Series/ManVFood'' gives the unfortunate impression (based on portion size, eating challenges and members of the crowd cheering Adam Richman on during his ordeals) that [[UsefulNotes/EagleLand the USA]] is a nation of actual or soon-to-become three hundred pound waddling gutbuckets.