History Main / Kevlard

* In the Marvel Universe, ComicBook/TheKingpin is an extremely obese man who can harness the power of kevlard. However, once he actually takes off his shirt and starts fighting, it's apparent his kevlard is also wrapped around a hugely muscular body, as well.

* In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episode [[Recap/PokemonS1E41WakeUpSnorlax "Wake Up Snorlax!"]], Ash tries to catch a Snorlax that fell asleep and is blocking a river ([[spoiler:actually, the riverbed was already dry because of an overgrown bramble thicket upstream from the Snorlax]]). The Snorlax's body fat causes the Pokéball to bounce off without triggering.

This ''is'' TruthInTelevision, but not to the extent that fiction portrays it. On human scales, it might add some cushioning against a punch or two[[labelnote:note]](it also protects against cut wounds and shields nerves and blood vessels in a fight)[[/labelnote]], but it does nothing against a bullet. However, characters with Kevlard seem to bypass this downside entirely.

This ''is'' TruthInTelevision, but not to the extent that fiction portrays it. It might add some cushioning against a punch or two[[labelnote:note]](it also protects against cut wounds and shields nerves and blood vessels in a fight)[[/labelnote]], but it does nothing against a bullet. However, characters with Kevlard seem to bypass this downside entirely.

* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' provides a surpising subversion: while the heavily-muscled and aptly named Tank has the highest health, the next largest of the infected cast, the Boomer, has the ''lowest'' health. Pretty much justified by the fact that he serves as the suicide bomber of the group, deals the most claw damage, and is mostly combustable gas under all that fat.

* The GladiatorGames of AncientRome. Despite the SwordAndSandal stereotype of relatively lean, muscular gladiators, historic gladiators lived on fat-building diets. The layer of fat helped protect them from the bloody, slicing wounds that audiences loved.
** That's one hypothesis, at least. The other, backed by the Roman love of realistic art, is that gladiators ran about the same spectrum of body types as modern power-lifters, and that their grain- and legume-heavy diet was simply the cheapest way to provide a high-calorie, high-protein diet.

** One Emergency Room doctor reported seeing an obese man that had been stabbed in the stomach with a gutting knife, which is a knife designed to help hunters remove the guts any animals they kill. [[CaptainObvious Hence the name.]] They remarked that on most people, the patient would have been wheeled into the ER with their intestines' in their lap if not to the morgue. But the man didn't even need stitches to treat the wound.
* Pigs are sometimes believed to be immune to snake venom. In reality, they are as vulnerable as anyone. However, since the venom is only lethal when getting into the blood, this trope provides pigs with considerable immunity to snake ''bites''.
* Male elephant seals have thick layers of blubber and skin, especially on their necks, that protect them when they fight for dominance. They viciously bite each other's head and neck region and try to angle themselves so the rival bites into an area of thicker blubbler.

* The Lard powerup in ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' makes Isaac fat, and raises his maximum HP. In addition, the variants of the "Fatty" enemy have large health pools compared to other enemies found on their floors, and Fat Bats are much tankier than the standard bats. The bosses Mega Fatty, The Cage, and Sisters Vis have [[DamageSpongeBoss tremendous amounts of health]] compared to other bosses of similar difficulty, and are all morbidly obese.

* [[DeadWeight Fat zombies]] in ''VideoGame/TheLastStand: Union City'' are three to four times as tough as regular zombies. It makes no difference on how fast they can run either.

* The Grael from ''TabletopGame/Fifty Fathoms'', being a race of seal-people, have a natural layer of blubber, which is thick enough to act as armour.

* In the''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode, "Uniform Behavior", Heffer gets into an accident when he borrows his dad's car. Since he was too fat for the seatbelt, he was launched out of the vehicle, but due to his size, he was completely unharmed. The same could not be said for the car however. Needless to say, his dad was pissed, and made him get a job to pay for the damages.

** There's also [[StoutStrength Strong Belwas]], who, when fighting, lets each enemy cut his massive, scar-covered belly once before killing them. His fat also sort of served him as a protection [[spoiler: when he ate a bowl of poisoned food intended for Daenerys. It would be lethal for a smaller person, but Belwas survived, though he became horribly ill and lost most of his weight. Fortunately, he is starting to recover]].

* ''Animation/{{Mechamato}}'': Played with. An accidentally mechanised tyre around Amato's torso forms a sort of belly around Mechamato. Said tyre belly can bounce off Ninjamera charging at him and deflect his nunchucks back in his face.

In VideoGames, many {{Giant Mook}}s and {{Smash Mook}}s will use this trope to justify their toughness, usually wearing ''less'' armor than their counterparts.

In VideoGames, many {{Giant Mooks}} and {{Smash Mooks}} will use this trope to justify their toughness, usually wearing ''less'' armor than their counterparts.

* Po, the protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', is an average fighter overall, but his sheer mass allows him to absorb attacks that would incapacitate a less solidly built person. By the end of the movie, it becomes a ChekhovsSkill [[spoiler:as his adipose layers diffuse Tai Lung's deadly PressurePoint attacks into tickles]]. In [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2 the sequel]], Mr. Ping points out that Po has lost weight, but while this makes him more agile than before, he also seems to be less able to take a hit.

* Po, the protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', is an average fighter overall, but his sheer mass allows him to absorb attacks that would incapacitate a less solidly built person. By the end of the movie, it becomes a ChekhovsSkill [[spoiler:as it renders him immune to Tai Lung's paralyzing nerve strikes]]. In [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2 the sequel]], Mr. Ping points out that Po has lost weight, but while this makes him more agile than before, he also seems to be less able to take a hit.

* Earl in ''[[VideoGame/ToeJamAndEarl ToeJam & Earl]]'' is fatter than the noodle-man [=ToeJam=], and thus has more health than him.

** The game's main example of this is the Thugs, a type of mobsters who are notably fatter than normal ones. They're immune to melee weapons and take a while to die from gunfire.

* There are enemies in ''[[VideoGame/ScottPilgrim Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Video Game]]'' that repel attacks using their prodigious girth.

* ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'' features a type of fat enemies known as Thugs, who are immune to melee weapon strikes [[TimeDelayedDeath and take a while to die from gunfire]].

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* The fat enemies in ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'' are immune to melee weapon strikes [[TimeDelayedDeath and take a while to die from normal bullets]].

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* Sawbuck of the Felt from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' can take a lot of damage, and hops through time every time he's hit by something.

* Sylvia Scarlett from VideoGame/TwoDark is very fat, and is the boss with the highest amount of health in the game, who actually says "Hee hee hee! That tickles!" or "Try a little harder and I might just feel a little sting", in response to getting shot. To offset that, her level is the only one in the game where the player can get a machine gun (though this all-but-requires killing her security), so that they can still bring her down in head-on combat. (Though poisoning her food is the preferred alternative.)