Basic Trope: Character is self-conscious about their weight.
- Straight: Alice worries she might be overweight, so she diets and weighs herself frequently.
- Exaggerated: Alice is obsessed with her weight, as that's the only thing she ever talks or even thinks about!
- Downplayed: Alice sometimes has a fleeting worry about her weight.
- Justified:
- Alice has been exposed to media and worries she has to be thin to be attractive.
- Alice is worried about her weight for health reasons.
- Alice is a boxer, and she's naturally a heavyweight, but because there's so little competition in heavyweight, she has to cut down to the middleweight divisions.
- Inverted: Alice does not care at all about maintaining weight. She goes from morbidly obese to morbidly underweight and back to morbidly obese within the span of hours.
- Subverted: Alice reveals she was just joking.
- Double Subverted: But the joke gets her thinking about her weight, leading to this trope.
- Parodied: Alice is In a World… where it's the norm to be attracted to fat people but is worried about her weight because she is not interested in sex, and therefore doesn't want to be fat, lest she is perceived as sexy.
- Zigzagged:
- Sometimes Alice worries about her weight, sometimes not.
- Alice is worried about her weight, but it comes from her heavy armor that limits her movement.
- Averted: Alice does not worry about her weight.
- Enforced: To set up a Very Special Episode.
- Lampshaded: "Does This Make Me Look Fat?"
- Invoked: Bob insults Alice's weight.
- Exploited: Alice is prone to worrying about her weight, but she uses it to avoid getting overweight and protect her heart.
- Defied: "Screw weight! If I was fat, I'd be Fat and Proud!"
- Discussed: "I'm very worried about Alice, she keeps talking about her weight all the time."
- Conversed: "I always have a Dude, Not Funny! reaction when Weight Woe is Played for Laughs."
- Implied: Alice is seen weighing herself and looking worried.
- Deconstructed:
- Alice ends up undergoing malnutrition from skipping meals.
- Alice destroys her health via malnutrition and/or excessive exercise, and ends up slowly killing herself via organ failure or rhabdomyolosis, or putting her life in jeopardy.
- Reconstructed: Weight woes go both ways; Alice doesn't want to be morbidly obese, but at the same time, she doesn't want to be morbidly underweight.
- Played for Laughs: Alice tries to give up a certain food she deems fattening, but Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere.
- Played for Drama: Alice is anorexic.
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