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* The masked,[[ChainsawGood chainsaw-wielding]] and green-tinted slime-spitting zombies in ''GunGirl2''.

* The [[ChainsawGood chainsaw-wielding]] zombies in ''GunGirl2''

* 3rd Edition DungeonsAndDragons has a monster in their Monster Manual 2 that's called a "Famine Spirit." It's the reanimated body and spirit of an individual who died of starvation, and returns to eat in undeath what they couldn't eat in life. About the ''only'' thing this creature doesn't eat are other undead. It even comes complete with a vorpal ''bite''.

* MagicTheGathering has a card named Corpulent Corpse. It can travel through time for some reason.
** A better example is the card Gluttonous Zombie, a 3/3 creature with the Fear ability. Its flavour text reads: "Greed and gluttony led him to death. Now they are his greatest assets."

* Flesh golems in WorldOfWarcraft.

-->Cardio. When the zombie outbreak first hit, the first to go, for obvious reasons... were the fatties. Poor fat bastard.

-->'''Columbus, {{Zombieland}}''

** White Wolf's ''Scarred Lands'' supplements had cadavers, giant fat zombies that {{spawn broodling}}s.

* OKing William of England very fat, and died of a cyst developed from a bruised intestine. When they finally boxed him, he burst. The stink was so bad it cleared out the church his funeral was in.

Other times in video games, they tend to fill the role of [[StoneWall bullet]] [[Kevlard sponges]] or [[MightyGlacier battering rams]], somehow more durable than even "regular" zombies.

Other times in video games, they tend to fill the role of [[StoneWall bullet sponges]] or [[MightyGlacier battering rams]], somehow more durable than even "regular" zombies.

* The Boomer from ''Left4Dead'' (pictured). His special attack is to [[{{Squick}} vomit]] a strange bile on surviving humans, which summons a sizable swarm of the speedy regular Infected to attack the afflicted humans. The vomit also [[InterfaceScrew messes up the Survivor's vision]] temporarily. When destroyed, the Boomer explodes in a shower of bile with an effect essentially the same as its vomit for anyone too close to it. Ironically, it has the least health of any of the special Infected as the result of being an undead goo balloon. Notably, the Boomer appears to be stretched out and inflated, implying it wasn't so obese before it got infected.

* 3rd Edition [=DnD=] has a monster in their Monster Manual 2 that's called a "Famine Spirit." It's the reanimated body and spirit of an individual who died of starvation, and returns to eat in undeath what they couldn't eat in life. About the ''only'' thing this creature doesn't eat are other undead. It even comes complete with a vorpal ''bite''.

* 3rd Edition DnD has a monster in their Monster Manual 2 that's called a "Famine Spirit." It's the reanimated body and spirit of an individual who died of starvation, and returns to eat in undeath what they couldn't eat in life. About the ''only'' thing this creature doesn't eat are other undead. It even comes complete with a vorpal ''bite''.

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''[[DawnOfTheDead When there is no more room in Hell's Kitchen, the dead will walk with girth]].''

* In ''Bioshock'' 2, there were new slicers, which are pretty close to being zombies, one called the Brute who charges you like an angry bull.

* Fat zombies exist in DeadRising, which take slighly more hits to die. They all resemble Ronald, a notable {{Scrappy}} fat survivor.

* The ''[[YuGiOh Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' card Plaguespreader Zombie is a walking blob of decaying flesh, apparently stitched together from several different creatures. (It's also a very useful Tuner monster.)

* Horribly, this is a true thing; the gases formed in the chemical process of decomposition will puff up a body to a grotesque degree. When Mary Roach visited a body farm to make observations for her nonfiction book ''Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers,'' she describes the torso of one body as "of a circumference I more readily associate with livestock." [[NauseaFuel It's not any more pleasant when the gas has a chance to escape.]]
** There was one case where a group of people were moving a dead whale through town to take it to a university for examination. The whale was already naturally huge and it was growing bigger from the gasses building up in its dead body. The gasses bloated the body so much that the whale literally ''exploded'', sending a shower of blood and guts everywhere. It sucked for the people being in the town at that time and having to clean the mess up.
** Not really a zombie at all, though.