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* The eponymous lead of ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' seems to suffer from this big time, as she constantly refers to herself as chubby and pudgy (as do some of her teammates, supervillains, the media, random loudmouths on the internet, etc.), though technically she should be on par with a 20-something white chick with some decent curvature. It is telling that the only female character who is significantly skinnier than Emp publicly dismisses her complaints as "grenade-fishing for compliments" and privately [[LesYay considers her extremely sexy]].

* A throw-away gag during the first ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'' tenure has [[Characters/SpiderWomanTitleCharacter Jessica Drew]] entering ''The Raft'', a high security prison, with a bag of donuts in her hands loudly complaining about how fat she got in the previous months of inactivity, and offering to share her breakfast with whoever is able to provide her with suitable information about an impending breakout. While the villains fall for the trick (loudly asking for Jessica to surrender the donuts in exchange for their full, unbridled cooperation, implying that the usual gruel they're usually served is really foul), Jessica's implied image issues are somewhat lessened by her skintight HotLibrarian tailleur, showing off her usual voluptuous physique, busty but nowhere as fat to need dieting.
* [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]], is the subject of a RunningGag where people (usually villains) insult her by saying she's fat. Like Jessica, her build is usually indistinguishable from 99 percent of the other superheroines published by Marvel and DC. The source of the joke may be Carol's bottom, which is canonically large. It's also a likely a result of her original costume, which many artists use to highlight her curves.
* ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'' makes constant jibes about Beast/Henry [=McCoy=]'s weight, but, like the rest of his comic-book brethren, he is drawn as being quite fit and muscular, albeit perhaps larger and more muscular than the others.
* Tarot's mom, from ''ComicBook/TarotWitchOfTheBlackRose''. As expected from a mother of two, now in her late forties-early fifties, she's grown noticeably fatter than her smoking hot daughters. However, instead of looking pudgy and fat, she looks exactly like a wider version of Rowena, her youngest daughter and the titular ''Witch of the Black Rose''.
* Can apply somewhat to Gert in ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', as it [[DependingOnTheArtist depends on the artist]]. Under main artist Adrian Alphona's pen, Gert actually is fairly chubby, but other artists tend to draw her as just having slightly more hips and waist than Nico or Karolina, and even Alphona drew her that way to start with. Here, it may not be so much a case of warped values as it is comic artists just not being used to drawing women with that sort of body. Also, Marvel's official stats list her at 5'1'' and 125 pounds. The Alphona version, if she was 5'1", would probably be at least 140. Likewise, in the Creator/{{Hulu}} [[Series/Runaways2017 adaptation]], while the actress playing Gert is certainly curvier than the other actresses, she's not actually all that big.
* The "Palomar" half of ''ComicBook/LoveAndRockets'' points out how ludicrous this is with Doralis, one of Luba's daughters who stars in a hit TV variety show. She started out as a back-up to an anorexic blond who insults her for her incredibly voluptuous figure. The blond ends up getting edged out of the show and Doralis gains millions of male and female admirers.
* The First American in ''ComicBook/TomorrowStories'' has a classic HeroicBuild, but is referred to frequently by other characters as though he were fat. He ''does'' have rather slovenly eating habits, but he's sculpted like Michelangelo's David for crying out loud! Subverted, in that a couple of panels strongly imply that his "sculpting" is due to support underwear and that he actually is fat.
* From the Threeboot continuity of ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', Saturn Girl and Invisible Kid after Francis Manapul did redesigns of the characters. He made Imra more hippy and Lyle a bit rounder than a typical skinny kid, but neither could be called fat. Although Imra complains that people consider her "dumpy".
* Cornfed from ''ComicBook/{{Livewires}}'', who was designed to look like a big FarmBoy because his frame is meant to store extra amounts of smartware in his body, primarily in his beer belly. But beyond that he's as muscular as Hollowpoint Ninja, and taller.
* In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', Portia laments having gained nine pounds since she lost her powers (and her superhero metabolism).
* Renee Tempete in ''I Hate Gallant Girl'' is subjected to constant disparaging remarks about her weight and figure because she has, like, 3-5 pounds on GG. Part of the point here is that whatever physical flaws Renee has, they're blown ridiculously out of proportion by the superhero old guard; like Gallant Girl, she was a ''beauty queen'' before becoming a superheroine.
* Cloud 9 from ''ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative''. She thinks of herself as being overweight, but really isn't; she's just the only girl in the cast with a halfway realistic body shape.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': Although [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Etta Candy]] started as a rambunctious and sweets-addicted fat girl in the Golden Age ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1942}}'' comics, her more modern depictions can be this trope, DependingOnTheArtist of course. In Creator/GeorgePerez's [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 reboot]], she started overweight, but then worked out and had a military muscular frame. In Creator/GailSimone's [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2006 run]], the artists usually just had her looking slightly thicker than Diana, but otherwise being an average, curvy blonde woman (the change from her old self was eventually explained as being from her government training). The ComicBook/New52 [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2011 reboot]] bypassed this, as that Etta was more conventionally slender and nobody ever commented about her weight. That got some criticism from some fans (similar to the protests about the New 52 Amanda Waller being slimmed down and youthened to become a generic sexpot) and the ''[[ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth Rebirth]]'' Etta went back to being moderately heavy.
* Volcana, a minor super villain introduced in ''ComicBook/{{Secret Wars|1984}}'' is constantly referred to as fat despite being drawn with a curvy hourglass figure. This continued through Secret Wars and into its sequel, which continually mentioned her love of doughnuts and other food. This may be a case of ValuesDissonance as at the time skinny superheroines was the norm and Volcana was indeed bigger than usual, even though her curves were very tasteful. Eventually she began being drawn as somewhat overweight. Although her boyfriend, the omnipotent Molecule Man [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments likes her just the way she is.]]

* {{Discussed|Trope}} in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' when Calvin is complaining to Susie how lucky she is to be a girl and not be expected to play sports, to which she comments, "On the other hand, boys aren't expected to be 20 pounds underweight."
* In ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', Jon occasionally complains about his body, saying he's chubby or even fat. It was a little more understandable in the earlier comics, when the strip was drawn more "realistically" (i.e., Garfield walked on four legs, everyone's proportions were generally more accurate, etc.); in those cases, Jim Davis would give Jon a slightly pudgier belly to justify his complaints (although he never reached fat, or even overweight, by any stretch of the imagination). But as [[LongRunners time went on]], Jon looked more and more like a [[NoodlePeople noodle person]], so the self-criticism makes no sense. Davis apparently agreed, as he gradually phased out the "Jon goes on a diet with Garfield" strips and had the fat cat taking them on alone.

** Dee's mother constantly insinuates that Dee is fat, even though Kaitlin Olson is quite lanky and slender. Her mother, however, is a horrible person. The gang have fat shamed her several times too, but they (along with Dee herself) are also just as awful.
** In "The Gang Exploits a Miracle", Dee insinuates that the vain and athletic Dennis is putting on weight. He freaks out and begins starving himself. When he seems close to death, she finally admits that she was just messing with him, because he's a horrible person.
** Invoked in "Dennis and Dee's Mom Is Dead" where the guys are trying to find more friends and at one point the idea of having a funny fat guy for their group is mentioned. Charlie says he always thought of himself as the funny fat friend, but Mac and Dennis say he's neither fat nor funny.

*** Played straight with Charlie a couple episodes previous where after saying he’s in good shape Dee says for a short fat person but not for an actor. When Charlie gets offended at the latter she backtracks to say husky, then chunky, further offending him.
** The trope was later famously inverted by Rob [=McElhenney=], who, prior to the seventh season of the show, deliberately gained fifty pounds of fat (though he did also exercise to generally bulk up his body) to combat the trend of actors becoming more attractive as their shows become more successful. Within the season, Rob's character Mac ''thinks'' of himself as a now-muscular bodybuilder who's considerably beefed up...but he's really just plain fat.

** Dee's mother constantly insinuates that Dee is fat, even though Kaitlin Olson is quite lanky and slender. Her mother, however, is a horrible person.
** Dee insinuates that the vain and athletic Dennis is putting on weight. He freaks out and begins starving himself. When he seems close to death, she finally admits that she was just messing with him, because he's a horrible person.
** Invoked in one episode where the guys are trying to find more friends and at one point the idea of having a funny fat guy for their group is mentioned. Charlie says he always though of himself as the funny fat friend, but Mac and Dennis say he’s neither fat nor funny.

** Retroactively done when a first season episode revolves around Turk having recently put on a bit of weight (as a surgical intern with limited free time is apt to do). Carla and J.D. taunt Him for it and he asks Dr. Cox for fitness advice. It ends with Turk resolving not to worry about his weight, since he would rather spend his free time with his wife and kids than at the gym (and Carla agrees). Irritatingly, however, Turk is later described by Cox as having been "a fat load", which Turk seems to agree with, even though his appearance has barely changed in the four years between episodes.

** Retroactively done when a first season episode revolves around Turk having recently put on a bit of weight (as a surgical intern with limited free time is apt to do). Carla and J.D. taunt Him for it and he asks Dr. Cox for fitness advice. It ends with Turk resolving not to worry about his weight. Irritatingly, however, Turk is later described by Cox as having been "a fat load", which Turk seems to agree with, even though his appearance has barely changed in the four years between episodes.