History Main / StoutStrength

* WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse has Chunk, Coach Pacowski, Mr. Grouse, and the Stankos.

** His son Chris is just as fat, but is also shown to possess great physical strength; many episodes mention him having strong arms (which "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS15E2BookieOfTheYear Bookie of the Year]]" reveals to be the result of [[ThisIndexTouchesItself years of masturbation]]), and "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS17E6StandByMeg Stand By Meg]]" has a scene where he's shown lifting very heavy-looking weights with relative ease in his living room.

** His son Chris is just as fat, but is also shown to possess great physical strength; many episodes mention him having strong arms (which "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS15E2BookieOfTheYear Bookie of the Year]]" reveals to be the result of years of masturbation), and "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS17E6StandByMeg Stand By Meg]]" has a scene where he's shown lifting very heavy-looking weights with relative ease in his living room.

** His son Chris is just as fat, but is also shown to possess great physical strength; many episodes mention him having strong arms (which "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS15E2BookieOfTheYear Bookie of the Year]]" reveals to be the result of [[ADateWithRosiePalms years of masturbation]]), and "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS17E6StandByMeg Stand By Meg]]" has a scene where he's shown lifting very heavy-looking weights with relative ease in his living room.

* Blob, post-eating disorder in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''. Add the bulky composition with an elastic skin...

* ''ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers'' member Big Bertha fits this exactly in her superform. As Ashley Crawford, her looks can stop traffic. As Big Bertha, her body can stop a runaway semi and leave a nice dent in its front.

* Numerous characters from ''Franchise/DragonBall''. Notable examples include Majin Buu, Champa, and Toppo.
** This only applies to the "Fat Buu" and "Mr. Buu" forms of Majin Buu, though. The other forms are either slim, scrawny, or buff, but all quite strong.

* Comicbook/LittleLotta is the epitome of this trope. She's depicted as being unrealistically strong, able to lift a grand piano easily.
* Fat Cobra from the ''ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist''. While he easily weighs 400 lbs and has a seemingly boundless hunger, he's strong on the level of Hercules himself.
** Fat Cobra is also a LightningBruiser, given that he has a speed technique that actually lets him ''speed-blitz the Iron Fist''.
* Volstagg of the [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Warriors Three from Asgard]] in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.

* Horrorshow of the Oktober Guard in ''Franchise/GIJoe'' comics. No, he isn't named for his intimidating girth, but for his astounding strength ("khorosho" means "good" in Russian)

* Sergeant Crumb in ''Adventures in the Rifle Brigade'' is the largest man to serve in the British armed forces, and his strength is practically supernatural. Indeed, it's not uncommon for Captain Darcy to commend him with "Stout fellow!" as he punches an enemy soldier's head clean off.
* The ComicBook/RedTornado from the ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' was a portly middle-aged housewife who dressed up like a ([[SweetPollyOliver male]]) superhero and beat up crooks in her neighborhood. She was very much a BoisterousBruiser, verging on DumbMuscle. Nowadays she's pushing 90, and she can ''still'' beat the livin' daylights outta any palooka who looks at her funny.
* Creator/RobertCrumb seems to have a fetish for women of this type, though not so much fat as extremely wide and bulky.

** [[Characters/XMenTheOriginalTeam Beast]], depending on the version. The ''Comicbook/UltimateXMen'' graphic novel that has him as one of the first students of Charles Xavier shows him as basically looking like the human equivalent of a gorilla, and as agile as a spider monkey. Which is part of the reason that his hair turns blue. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Just read the comic...]]
** [[http://www.comicvine.com/landslide/4005-15079/ Landslide]] of Cerebro's X-Men has this ability, which is fitting as he is an artificial construct molded after Blob as well as Beast and Sabertooth.
* ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers member Big Bertha fits this exactly in her superform. As Ashley Crawford, her looks can stop traffic. As Big Bertha, her body can stop a runaway semi and leave a nice dent in its front.
* Subverted in ''[[ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative Avengers: The Initiative]]'', where to all initial appearances the rotund [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Emery_Schaub_(Earth-616) Butterball]] seems like a wall-busting powerhouse. In reality, he's invulnerable to harm... and that's it. He can't lose weight or build muscle, meaning he'll never develop any useful offensive capabilities. Due to the fact that, accordingly, the Initiative can't use him as he is and he doesn't respond to training, they're forced to let him go.
* Believe it or not, Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk used to be this. Never ''fat'', but early on he was lacking in definition, which has become almost a trademark of the character. This may be the result of time marching on; when the Hulk was first made the popular idea of strong men still had a bit of fat on them and didn't care about being as cut.
** While the Hulk may be extremely ripped he's still occasionally drawn to fit the trope. [[http://i.imgur.com/pWEwS.jpg Dale Keown]] is a good example of an artist who draws a Hulk with lots of definition and a thick rectangular mid-section.
** The Thing of the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' often had the same thing going for him in early stories. Jack Kirby drew both characters with a wide, boxy body type.
** He's also like this in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''.
* Strong Guy from ''Comicbook/XFactor''.
* Ted Leeman, the hippo detective in the fourth ''Comicbook/{{Blacksad}}'' album, as well as Jake Ostiombe (a gorilla boxer) from the first album, as well as the ''VideoGame/BlacksadUnderTheSkin''.
* Armstrong from ''ComicBook/ArcherAndArmstrong''. While not as fat as some of the examples listed here, he does have a fairly substantial gut, as well as a fairly substantial ability to kick your ass.
* [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2009/07/wayne-borings-superman.html Wayne Boring]] drew a Characters/{{Superman|TheCharacter}} who took the phrase "FlyingBrick" and ran with it.
* Mr. Block of ''ComicBook/BlackScience'' looks like a typical overweight executive but he's able to throw Pia around like a ragdoll.
* ''ComicBook/KidColt'': Much like [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin The Kingpin]], the Fat Man is a large mass of muscle, with a nice layer of fat on top for decorative purposes. He is much stronger than an average-sized man and can throw and take a punch with the best of him.
* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' has the recurring antagonist Slash, an EvilCounterpart (Though usually more of an AntiHero or simply misguided) humanoid turtle across multiple continuities. To emphasize his great strength compared to the Turtles, he's usually depicted as notably wider and bulkier, often modeled after (if not mutated from) a snapping turtle.

* In ''FanFic/RobbReturns'', Illyrio Mopatis may be one of the series' resident AdiposeRex... but remember that underneath all that blubber is still the man that survived for years as a member of a sellsword company, and was able to retire as a rich man. [[spoiler:Which he aptly demonstrates by almost killing Viserys and tanking through the Targaryen's mad stabbing, as a fire rages around them.]]

* In ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' there are a few characters who are notable for this trope. [[TheAlcoholic Gragas]], the Rabble Rouser, is pretty much the fattest character in the game by far and is stated in his background to loom over the tallest man. At first glance he's doesn't seem anything more than an uncouth though impressively large drunkard but nonetheless, he holds his own among the League's experienced soldiers and deadly assassins.

* ''Series/CobraKai:'' Aisha Robinson might be a bit on the thick side, but there's a reason Johnny said the "girl's a natural Cobra." She also yanked her principal tormentor, roughly a hundred pounds lighter, off the ground by her [[GroinAttack underwear]]!

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* ''Film/WildRiver'': Joe John Garth is not a thin man. But after Chuck calls Mrs. Garth senile, Joe John is capable of picking up Chuck head over heels, marching him several feet, and throwing him in the river.

A character is stout, or overweight, or even obese, but quite strong.

** Jinbe is an interesting looking Fishman (a whale shark type) reminiscent of the Oni in Japanese mythology. A tough guy of large girth, he's a master of the distinct Karate of his people along with a variety of other martial arts. There's so much power behind his strikes that even their force can knock an opponent down without physical contact. He's got a good heart and is very honor-bound; he's also got a stylin' outfit.

** Charlotte Linlin AKA Big Mom is an overweight elderly woman in her late 60s, but as one of the [[TheDreaded Four Emperors]], she was able to earn that title due in part to her absurd physical strength. The same applies to her when she was only 5 years old, as she ''accidently killed a bear'' by smacking it once during a scolding!

* Genma Saotome from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. His reputation as being fat is actually greatly exaggerated, he's more stocky than anything, but his panda-form is rather bloated looking (particularly in the manga) and, in either form, he is quite strong.

* In ''Manga/PlusSizedElf'', three of the monster girls, despite being overweight, are still considered quite strong. The best example is a cyclops girl known as Hitome, who is not only the tallest monster girl, but despite looking stocky, all her fat is firm padding for her well muscled physique. In fact unlike most of the monster girls, she seems to have always had a husky figure, barring the paunch and plumpish thighs she developed from her stay on earth.
** Oga is another example as despite the beer belly a majority of abs melted into from bar hopping, she is still quite beefy with muscle power. And is the only one who can match Hitome’s bulk and raw strength in a battle.
** Oeda lost a portion of her strong abdominal muscles as she indulged in soft serves and grew a plump potbelly. But despite being somewhat out of shape like her niece, oeda is still considered very robust and can be more than capable of utilizing her centuries of combat skills.

** Fat Cobra is also a LightningBruiser, given that he has a speed technique that actually let him ''speed-blitz the Iron Fist''.

** Obelix is actually a case of MusclesAreMeaningless, since his strength isn't muscular, but come from the magic potion (even if its effects are permanent on him, after, as a child, he fell in a full cauldron of it, and drank it all...). He's also ''very'' sensitive about his size and insists that he isn't actually fat.

* The ComicBook/RedTornado from the ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' was a portly middle-aged housewife who dressed up like a ([[SweetPollyOliver male]]) superhero and beat up crooks in her neighborhood. She was very much a BoisterousBruiser, verging on DumbMuscle. Nowadays she's pushing 90, and she can ''still'' beat the livin' daylights outta any palooka what looks at her funny.

** The Thing of the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' often had the same thing going for him in early stories. Jack Kirby drew both characters with a wide, boxy body-type.

** ''Film/{{Thor}}'': Volstagg of the Warriors Three is a classic version of this trope, being the [[BigEater most heavyset]] of Thor's companions, as well as a BoisterousBruiser who share's Thor's love of drink and battle.

* All characters played by Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, a 6'6, 340-lb actor, opera singer and Olympic wrestler:

* ''Film/WildRiver'': Joe John Garth is not a thin man. But after Chuck calls Mrs. Garth senile, Joe John is capable of picking up Chuck head over heels, marching him several feet and throwing him in the river.

* Friar Tuck from the RobinHood legends is usually portrayed as very fat. The most common version of how he joined the band involves him fighting Robin to a stand-still.

* Monk in the ''Literature/DocSavage'' series pretty much exemplifies this trope. Next to Doc himself, he's generally treated as the physically-strongest of the Fabulous Five, no mean feat when one of the "weaker" member's common habits include punching his way through locked doors.

* Caramon from the ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' series. Practically a paint by numbers TheBigGuy in the original trilogy, he had to battle obesity (with varying levels of success) his entire life yet, for the most part, remained quite powerful.

** Dudley is a less extreme example, being a Muggle and a pre-teen when the series starts out, but is still capable of some pretty impressive physical feats for a FatSlob. In the [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix fifth book]], when he takes up boxing, he very quickly becomes quite formidable, and a growth spurt helps him [[FormerlyFat shed the weight]]. As an adult, Dudley is described as being large and muscular.

* In Creator/MaryGentle's ''Literature/WhiteCrow'' stories, recurring character [[GeniusBruiser Baltazar Casaubon]]. In ''Rats and Gargoyles'', he effortlessly lifts up his sometime love interest Valentine (who seems fairly average-sized) and [[CelebratoryBodyTossing tosses her into the air in his joy at being reunited with her]], then is scarcely slowed down by the much smaller Lucas hanging onto his arm as he walks off. He's 6'5" and large-framed in the bargain, and is described both that book and ''The Architecture of Desire'' as not so much being a fat man as a ''huge'' man who ''also happens to be'' fat.

* "Two-Ton Harley" from the eponymous episode of ''Series/SupahNinjas'', played by Wrestling/BigShow, [[FormerlyFit used to be a beanpole]] before bulking up like he did entirely on fat to break his fellow biker gang members out of prison by literally throwing his weight around.
* ''Series/CobraKai'': Captain Turner, Kreese's CO in Vietnam, is a Green Beret and Tang Soo Do master. He has a fairly sizeable gut, but can use the significantly more overtly athletic Kreese as a punching bag.

** {{Subverted|Trope}} in one longer story where Sarge actually became skinny via hypnosis that made him a compulsive jogger and to detest food. Everyone saw him as puny and unimpressive, but he still literally killed a bull with a single blow of his bare fist. In the same story, Lt. Sonny Fuzz effectively tried to take his place by first being stout and then becoming strong. That came to an end when he punched the re-obesified Sarge (he ate the bull) on the chin, and broke his newly acquired bicep.

* Wrestling/CaptainLouAlbano was certainly a round, and stocky individual, but there was definitely some muscle under there, although ''he'' would have argued that it was [[IAmBigBoned ALL muscle]]. He did slim down a bit in the 90s though.

** Dwarves are short, squat and tend to have prominent pot bellies. And axes. And short tempers. And if the shirtless dwarf with the obvious gut has orange-dyed hair and a broken nose, what you have is a Slayer, one of the most brutal hand-to-hand combatants in the world, as more than a few clumsy bar patrons have learned just a little bit too late.

** Brick in [[VideoGame/Borderlands1 the first one]], and Salvador in [[VideoGame/Borderlands2 the second]]. Brick's weapon outside of the uncountable guns the game provides is a huge sledge hammer, and he is built like a bouncer. Salvador is similar in build, but the shortest of the playable characters in ''VideoGame/Borderlands2''. He is also the only character in said game able to [[GunsAkimbo dual-wield]] any combination of guns, from pistols to sniper rifles to [[ExaggeratedTrope missile launchers]]!

** E. Honda and Rufus. They're also {{Lightning Bruiser}}s. Honda has moves which grant him great mobility, and Rufus is a bit more of a traditional LightningBruiser.

** Seeq, from the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games revolving around VideoGame/{{Ivalice|Alliance}}. You can tell right off that the intelligent and wiry Bangaa are physical powerhouses. The Seeq who coexist with them, on the other hand, are played more comically with their dim wit, jiggling bellies and snorting, but they are just as powerful as Bangaa -- and surprisingly fast to boot.

* The ''Jydge'' from 10tons, is a cyborg law-enforcer. In a blatant case of BiggerIsBetter, the Jydge can get the Shrinkify mod fairly early. This makes the Jydge [[IncredibleShrinkingMan 30% smaller]], so he's a harder to accurately target and can fit in narrower spaces. Late in the game, there's the [[WeightTaller Giant]] mod which makes the Jydge much wider and taller so he's a bigger target and can't fit small spaces. However becoming a Giant has its upside, the Jydge has 4 times more health and it does far more damage in Melee plus the Jydge's reach greatly increases as well. Interestingly both Shrinkify and Giant can be combined, the resultant Jydge is now slightly beefier than the average man and is a slightly larger target, but the Jydge has all the bonuses that being a giant gives.

* Hugo Strange from ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' apparently trains his body to the limits every day in an attempt to be as physically fit as his hero/obsession Batman, to the extent where he could punch a dent in steel and not feel it. [[spoiler: [[InformedAbility He dies before we find out if this was empty boasting or not.]] ]]

* Guts Man and Hard Man from ''VideoGame/MegaMan1'' and ''VideoGame/MegaMan3'' respectively. The former can jump hard enough to create tremors and dislodge boulders to catch with one hand and throw at you, while the latter jumps pretty high up and launches its fists as boomerangs at you. ''VideoGame/MegaMan8'''s Grenade Man and Frost Man also have some swift physical attacks for someone their builds. And this says nothing about various other robots such as the Devil series.

** Simularly, Torbjorn is a lot rounder than his squadmates from the original Overwatch strike team, but he's far more muscular than all of them save for Reinhardt and capable of kicking ass even as an old man. His first comic story even has him infiltrating and disabling a gigantic mech before effortlessly defeating its pilot.

** King Henselt of Kaedwen is also a heavily built but powerful fighter, though neither as fat or as dangerous as Dijkstra.

** Shigeru Nakahara from ''Videogame/Yakuza3'' is a short, pudgy , grey-haired grandpa, who is also strong enough to wrestle a bull into submission and call an ambulance for himself after being shot three times at close range. A villainous example would be Tsuyoshi Kanda, the current boss of the Nishikiyama Family, who's a screaming wall of flab but also physically strong enough to rip off a massive stone plaque from a wall and swing it around as a weapon.

* Kabbu from ''VideoGame/BugFables'' is a thickly built beetle whose waistline is subject to a few wisecracks from his friends Vi and Leif. He's also the powerhouse of Team Snakemouth, sporting enough strength to hurl solid blocks of ice in the air and shatter huge boulders by ramming into them. Fellow beetle Stratos of Team Slacker is even bigger around the middle, and is so insanely powerful that he can easily be considered to be one of the strongest characters in the setting, bar none.

-->"The Iron Bull's body is fascinating. He's both muscley and fat; sometimes he looks like horned Adonis, sometimes he looks like Obelix wearing a Goth hat."[[https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/dragon-age-the-ferelden-scrolls-3-iron-bulls-nipples]]

* In ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'', the badly-overweight programmer Dexter demonstrates superhuman strength on a couple of occasions - most notably during the Battle of Liberty, when he took on C.R.U.D.E's GiantMook, Mr. Inertia, singlehandedly. Despite Inertia being a literal giant, at least 12 feet tall and nearly as wide across the shoulders, Dex somehow managed to knock him out. In a more recent arc, while trying to lose some of his mass to avoid health complications, he's seen knocking punching-bags straight off their ropes, and into the wall hard enough to leave cracks.
** Mr. Inertia himself also qualified as a particularly extreme example - he's not just tall, he's MASSIVE. Later hints, however, seems to point to there being more to him than meets the eye...

** Tohru is huge and heavily built, like a sumo wrestler, but he has strength like....well, a sumo wrestler. (He claimed that he was "too small for sumo", although his stated weight of 480 pounds is actually typical for the sport.) He's been seen taking on demons, ninjas and all manner of monsters, both when serving [[spoiler: the Big Bad of the series, the dragon-demon Shendu]] and [[spoiler: being Uncle's apprentice after seeing the error of his ways.]] He is also more intelligent than one would think based on his size and strength.

** Hank Hill himself counts. He has a thickset build and a noticeable beer belly, but has also outrun charging bulls and kicked through a chain link fence to chase down a man who almost got his son hurt. In one episode, him not being able to lift multiple propane tanks at once is a sign he's having serious back problems (which he solves with yoga, regaining his strength).

* A repeated trope in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', filled as it is by heroes and villains who are past it but determined to carry on reliving the glory days. Amongst the main cast, Sergeant Hatred, 21, and Brock Samson all fit the bill.

* IdiotHero Coop of ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' is a prime example: he's [[FatSlob fat]], [[LazyBum lazy]], and a BigEater extreme, having won the "Lord of the Large Pants" eating contest several years running, but he also has enough physical strength to easily lift car parts and destroy a radio with a single punch. On his own he's a MightyGlacier, given that he lacks genuine fitness--in one episode, he angrily complains that a villain dared to "make him run half a block"--but thankfully he has a HumongousMecha to provide agility and speed.

** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Alekseyev Vasily Aleksyev,]] holder of 80 world records in weightlifting, a gold medal winner at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, and [[https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/08/08/sports/08LONGMANweb3/08LONGMANweb3-master675.jpg possessor of an awe-inspiring gut.]]

** Discussed in an video made by Vice detailing strongman Robert Oberst's (the second strongest man in the world at that time) diet, which amounted to 20,000 calories a day. Oberst and most of his workout buddies looked like huge fat guys but were all immensely strong. One of them was slim and had the classic "inverted triangle" physique, and the others all lightly ribbed him for all the extra pain he put himself through to keep his shape.
* When pro [[UsefulNotes/{{Bodybuilding}} Bodybuilders]] are "off-season" they focus on bulking, exercising mainly to increase their muscle mass and eating large amounts of food to fuel their growth. The side-effect of this is that they also gain fat and water weight, making them look husky or even fat despite their bulging muscles. It’s only in the months leading up to the competition that they get off the bulk and start "prepping" for the show, which involves a cutting program of dieting and cardio exercise intended to burn off all the fat while losing as few of their muscular gains as possible. Right before the competition, they’ll go to the extent of dehydrating themselves so that their skin will look paper-thin, and no fat or water will be present to hide the separations or striations of their muscles. This means that they’re actually at their weakest and most depleted when they’re on stage at their most visually impressive, while being at their strongest when they’re in their flabby-looking offseason. After the contest, they'll start the bulk/prep cycle all over again. Repeatedly gaining and losing a large amount of weight is hard on the body, and it's one of the many ways in which bodybuilders risk their health in pursuit of fame and glory.

* The USMC has two fitness standards because the old PFT favors small, wiry cross country runners. The new CFT (Combat Fitness Test) consists of an 800-meter sprint, followed by lifting a light but awkward weight and overhead press it, then an obstacle course-like event where you have to fireman carry and drag someone your size through parts of it. The big guys do a hell of a lot better because power and speed are more important than endurance for that test.

* Harold Sakata (famous as hat throwing henchman Oddjob in ''{{Film/Goldfinger}})'' only measured at 5 foot, 10 inches, and came in at a billed 230 pounds. A lot of that was muscle, hence his Olympic silver medal in weightlifting at the 1948 games.

* Zion Williamson is best described as being Shaq stuffed into the body of Charles Barkley. 6 feet 6 inches, 285 pounds, 44-inch + vertical leap, and strong enough to yank basketballs out of competitors mitts with one hand while crushing his fingers into the ball. Zion may only be a rookie but he's already manhandling 300-pound beasts like Steven Adams (prior to Zion considered by many to be the strongest player in the Association). Hopefully, his knees hold out.

* Jamie Hyneman of ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}''. Among other feats, the barrel-chested Hoosier has bashed through a wood-frame door with his shoulder and climbed up the side of a building using only a knotted rope. He also water-skiid behind a cruise ship and swam a quarter-mile in a drysuit and SCUBA to demonstrate that SpyTuxReveal is plausible in real life.

** Oga is another example as despite the beer belly a majority of abs melted into, she is still quite beefy with muscle power. And is the only one who can match Hitome’s bulk and raw strength in a battle.
** Oeda lost a portion of her strong abdominal muscles as she indulged in soft serves and grew a plump potbelly. But despite being out of shape like her niece, is still considered very robust and can be more than capable of utilizing her centuries of combat skills.

** Dudley is a less extreme example, being a Muggle and a pre-teen when the series starts out, but is still capable of some pretty impressive physical feats for a FatSlob. In the fifth book, when he takes up boxing, he very quickly becomes quite formidable, and a growth spurt helps him [[FormerlyFat shed the weight]]. As an adult, Dudley is described as being large and muscular.

* ''Film/SuperMarioBros'': Mario and Luigi run into Big Bertha, a corpulent (VERY corpulent), hulking woman who introduces herself by lifting an old lady overhead and hurling her off a catwalk (she deserved it). Later she manhandles Mario during a dance and knocks out a Koopa guard with one punch.

* Both played straight and inverted in ''Literature/TheBarsoomProject'': Max Sands is a hefty wrestler and TheBigGuy of his group during the "fat ripper" Fimbulwinter Game. However, when the team needs to shove their way through an icy barrier, it's the skeletal-scrawny bulimic Keven whose meager muscles achieve what his heavyweight companions can't, due to the strength-enhancing magical token he'd received in-Game.

** Brick in [[VideoGame/Borderlands1 the first one]], and Salvador in [[VideoGame/Borderlands2 the second]]. Brick's WeaponOfChoice outside of the uncountable guns the game provides is a huge sledge hammer, and he is built like a bouncer. Salvador is similar in build, but the shortest of the playable characters in ''VideoGame/Borderlands2''. He is also the only character in said game able to [[GunsAkimbo dual-wield]] any combination of guns, from pistols to sniper rifles to [[ExaggeratedTrope missile launchers]]!

* In ''Film/AReasonToLiveAReasonToDie'', Eli is the largest of the {{Boxed Crook}}s and is contantly insulted being called fat. However, he is also strong enough to lift up a man in each hand before [[PutTheirHeadsTogether slamming their heads together]]. Given he is played by Creator/BudSpencer, this comes as no surprise.

* Buccha from ''Manga/AirGear''.
** Possibly subverted in that Buccha isn't actually fat; his appearance is due to blood pooling in his stomach area. He can control where that blood flows, [[LetsGetDangerous giving himself a leaner and more muscular appearance]]. However, he's plenty strong in his [[MightyGlacier normal state]], too.
*** Recently revealed that [[spoiler: he can pump that excess blood into his legs instead. So we have an {{Acrofatic}} guy with Stout Strength, who has a LetsGetDangerous mode ''and'' a LightningBruiser mode. [[OhCrap Meep.]]]]

* Banba in ''Manga/{{BioMeat|Nectar}}'' is chubby as part of his role as the {{Gonk}}, but we quickly learn he has impressive physical strength as well.