History Main / BigFatFuture

* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' takes place in the year 2805 and the passengers onboard the Main/GenerationShip ''Axiom'' are all morbidly obese. The film implies that their appearance is the result of spending all their lives in hoverchairs eating fatty foods -- like pizza shakes-- while the ship's robots take care of everything for them. Their appearance and helplessness makes them reminiscent of infants, as one of them falls out of his chair and is completely unable to right himself. [[spoiler:However, this is not an example of SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale; as everything on the ''Axiom'' was planned by a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and this transformation was a result of the carefree, relaxed lifestyle intended for a 5 year cruise being stretched out over 7 centuries.]] In a video broadcast from before the Axiom was launched, humans are skinny and live-action. In a video to the Axiom crew, the Buy 'n Large president claims that the inhabitants may experience "slight bone loss" from spending long periods of time in space, before showing a diagram of a very obese human that resembles the captain's body shape.

* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' takes place in the year 2805 and the passengers onboard the Main/ColonyShip ''Axiom'' are all morbidly obese. The film implies that their appearance is the result of spending all their lives in hoverchairs eating fatty foods -- like pizza shakes-- while the ship's robots take care of everything for them. Their appearance and helplessness makes them reminiscent of infants, as one of them falls out of his chair and is completely unable to right himself. [[spoiler:However, this is not an example of SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale; as everything on the ''Axiom'' was planned by a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and this transformation was a result of the carefree, relaxed lifestyle intended for a 5 year cruise being stretched out over 7 centuries.]] In a video broadcast from before the Axiom was launched, humans are skinny and live-action. In a video to the Axiom crew, the Buy 'n Large president claims that the inhabitants may experience "slight bone loss" from spending long periods of time in space, before showing a diagram of a very obese human that resembles the captain's body shape.

* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'': The passengers onboard the ''Axiom'' are all morbidly obese, implied to be from spending all their time in hoverchairs eating fatty foods -- like liquid pizza-- while the ship's robots take care of everything for them. Their appearance and helplessness makes them reminiscent of infants, as one of them falls out of his chair and is completely unable to right himself. [[spoiler:However, this is not an example of SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale; as everything on the ''Axiom'' was planned by a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and this transformation was a result of the carefree, relaxed lifestyle intended for a 5 year cruise being stretched out over 7 centuries.]] In a video broadcast from before the Axiom was launched, humans are skinny and live-action. In a video to the Axiom crew, the Buy 'n Large president claims that the inhabitants may experience "slight bone loss" from spending long periods of time in space, before showing a diagram of a very obese human that resembles the captain's body shape.

* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'': Everyone on the ''Axiom'' lives in space, in low gravity, and spends all their time in hoverchairs eating fatty foods -- like liquid pizza-- while the ship's robots take care of everything for them. As they also have extremely stubby limbs and digits and wear one-piece jumpsuits, their appearance and helplessness gives the impression of infantilism. [[spoiler:However, this is not an example of SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale; as everything on the ''Axiom'' was planned by a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and this transformation was a result of the carefree, relaxed lifestyle intended for a 5 year cruise being stretched out over 7 centuries.]] In a video broadcast from before the Axiom was launched, humans are skinny and live-action. In a video to the Axiom crew, the Buy 'n Large president claims that the inhabitants may experience "slight bone loss" from spending long periods of time in space.

* ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'': In the first-ever entirely computer-animated film that is R-rated, Firewater claims that humans have constantly gotten fatter ever since there were supermarkets.
* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'': Everyone on the ''Axiom'' lives in space, in low gravity, and spends all their time in hoverchairs eating fatty foods -- like liquid pizza. As they also have extremely stubby limbs and digits and wear one-piece jumpsuits, the overall impression is a combination of obesity and infantilism. [[spoiler:However, this is not an example of SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale; as everything on the ''Axiom'' was planned by a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and this was a result of an absolutely carefree lifestyle gone on for too many centuries.]] In a video broadcast from before the Axiom was launched, humans are skinny and live-action. In the video, it's outright stated that spending long periods of time in space will result in bone mass loss. The implication is that centuries in space turned people into fat cartoon characters.

This is usually played for either comedy (because fat people are still targets) or BodyHorror, if not both.

* Baron Vladimir Harkonnen from ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' is an individual example of this, albeit apparently on purpose: he could easily have his fatness corrected medically, he just ''likes'' showing off the evidence of his excesses. [[Literature/PreludeToDune The prequels]] retcon this, explaining that his obesity is caused by a non-treatable disease that a Bene Gesserit caused him to contract while he was raping her. This was an AuthorsSavingThrow.

* ''Webcomic / Addictive Science'' Featured a short story depicting what would happen if machines were invented to automate everything. The cast quickly become huge fat blobs that burst their homes

* Jack Vance's 1952 novella ''Abercrombie Station'' involves a zero-G space station where almost everyone is fat, and aesthetics favor it. The [[AntiHero heroine, so to speak]], who's from Earth, ''isn't'' fat (and actually a bit amused about being considered too skinny to be attractive). [[spoiler:The main antagonist, a native of the station, isn't fat either. And he's [[WeightWoe bitter as all hell about it]].]]

** This also happened a few times on the TV series.In the first instance, in season two episode 15, Tetsuo visited a world where robots did all the work and humans had become obese blobs who become so fat they regularly burst out of their own homes. The primary crux of the plot is a woman who wants to escape the planet with her boyfriend (who is already one of the aforementioned blobs, and despite trying to keep it down has put on weight herself due to the robots not allowing her to work).

This is usually played for either comedy (because fat people are still AcceptableTargets) or BodyHorror, if not both.

It would be too long to list every effect of technology and lifestyle on modern health but here are some common other problems, often health issues do stack, come together, have back and forth consequences, sometimes the relation is one wayed, sometimes it's rather a domino, other times thresold effect, and even other times it's a Time Bomb but not in literal meaning;