'''Basic Trope''': An evil or mean character is very thin.
* '''Straight''': EvilOverlord Smith is one of the skinnier characters on the show.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Overlord Smith is [[NothingButSkinAndBones so thin that he should be dead of starvation]], but he doesn't seem to suffer from it.
** An EldritchAbomination consists of various tendrils ranging from cable thin from microscopic. It weighs a few hundred pounds despite wrapping around a planet several times.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Overlord Smith isn't unusually skinny, but he's fairly toned and slender.
** Overlord Smith is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold instead of a villain.
** Overlord Smith is {{Affably|Evil}} NobleDemon for a skinny lad.
* '''Justified''': Overlord Smith is wary of poisoning from his enemies, and so refuses to eat large amounts.
* '''Inverted''':
** VillainousGlutton
** FatBastard
** BigFun
** TheHero Will is very skinny.
** Smith is [[NothingButSkinAndBones very skinny (if looking a bit underweight)]] and a {{Nice Guy}}
* '''Subverted''':
** Overlord Smith was thin in his first appearance, but it turns out he'd just been through a long and difficult journey where food was scarce. Soon, he returns to a normal weight.
** Smith turns out to not be as villainous as first thought, and is at worse an AntiHero...
** Smith is wearing a girdle.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** Even though it's been months after that near-starvation incident, Overlord Smith stays as thin as he first was.
** ...Until he [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumps off the slippery slope]] and crosses the MoralEventHorizon
* '''Parodied''':
** Overlord Smith is drawn as a stick figure among the otherwise normal cast.
** Overlord Smith is so underweight that he weighs the same as he did when he was a newborn.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Overlord Smith's weight seems to be different every time he shows up.
* '''Averted''': Overlord Smith has an average weight and he isn't mean.
* '''Enforced''':
** They wanted a VillainousGlutton character, but obesity campaigners protested.
** They wanted to give him a skeletal look to make him look extra creepy.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Wow, does the EvilOverlord ever eat?"
* '''Invoked''': After his rise to power, Overlord Smith makes sure to eat less to gain that proper evil look.
* '''Exploited''':
** TheBigGuy easily {{Neck Lift}}s Overlord Smith.
** Smith [[CardboardPrison escapes from prison]] by slipping between the bars.
* '''Defied''': Even though he's now an EvilOverlord, Smith knows it's healthiest to maintain a healthy weight, and makes sure to do so.
* '''Discussed''': "''You're'' the EvilChancellor? Huh. [[ExpectingSomeoneTaller I was expecting someone skinnier.]]"
* '''Conversed''': "Yes, I'm skinny. No, that doesn't make me a bad person- what is this, a movie?"
* '''Deconstructed''': Overlord Smith spends so long obsessing over his evil scheme that he never eats; his health is affected dramatically and he begins to suffer from SanitySlippage.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Overlord Smith realizes that failing health will not help him accomplish [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]], so he adopts healthy eating habits.
** Being a beanpole is just Overlord Smith's natural build. He eats well, but his metabolism burns everything it gets.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Overlord Smith's JewishMother [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas lives with him]], and interrupts a dramatic confrontation with the protagonists to [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage nudzh]] him to eat some noodle kugel, claiming she can see daylight through him. "So you weren't going to let me meet your new friends? They can have some too."
* '''Played For Drama''': Overlord Smith's evil originated from needing to prove his masculinity to muscular {{Jerk Jock}}s that bullied him.
* '''Implied''':
** Smith is a creepy thin guy, but he is only AmbiguouslyEvil.
** Smith is repeatedly described as a "nasty little fellow" in a way that implies that it is literal.
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Back to LeanAndMean. [[JewishMother And what, can't you eat something every now and again?]]
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