History PlayingWith / BigFatFuture

** In 2025, most people are overweight and subsist on fatty, sugary food.
** [[Website/TheOnion By 2025, most American children are too obese to ride hoverboards.]]
* '''Exaggerated''': In the 2100s, most people are far too fat to even move without hoverboards and have never even seen vegetables.

** 5 millions year in the future, evolution has resulted in humanity evolving into a race of FatAndProud {{Kevlard}}s of {{Posthuman}}s as heavy as the Mammoths of the past.

** During a conversation, a HumanAlien ambassador mentions their species [[FormerlyFat used to have a generation-spanning obesity epidemic]] in the past.

* '''Played For Laughs''': People in the future are all portrayed as AcceptableTargets who are obese.

** During a conversation, a HumanAlien mentions her species [[FormerlyFat used to have a generation-spanning obesity epidemic]] in the past.

** By the year 50 million, humans have become so huge they now occupy the megafaunal niche last seen with the sauropods.

** By the year 50 million, humans have become so huge they now occupy a megafaunal ecological niche last seen with the sauropods.

** 5 millions year in the future, evolution has resulted in humanity evolving into a race of FatAndProud {{Kevlard}}s of {{Posthuman}}s.

** With no means of stopping the obesity rates, evolution itself would instead tweak humanity in a way that lets them function better as creatures with blubber than be skinny and scrawny primates. Perhaps their brain power multiplies to compensate for their lack of agility.

** A [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning AI]] tries to attend to humanity's every need in an attempt to bring about world peace, ending world hunger included. On that front, it succeeds by making a breakthrough in cheap, easily mass-produced foodstuffs that tastes genuinely delicious... ''[[GoneHorriblyRight too]]'' [[GoneHorriblyRight delicious]].

** Obesity is a growing problem in the developed world, and if people don't start taking better care of themselves, this very well could become TruthInTelevision eventually.
*** Alliteratively, Obesity has become so common and impossible to eradicate that we, as a species, decide to [[FatAndProud embrace it rather than fight it.]]

* '''Parodied''': People have literally been reduced to immobile, greedy balls of lard in the future.
* '''Zig Zagged''': While there is some percentage of obesity in society, thanks to scientific developments in the medical fields, the obesity isn't a major problem.

* '''Exploited''': The small portion of healthy people, including Emperor Evulz, is able to manipulate the fat people by threatening to take their televisions and gaming consoles.
* '''Defied''': People take better care of themselves, and technology comes in handy for helping with this (i.e. modifying sweets so they have all the flavor with fewer empty calories, improvements in exercise techniques and equipment, diet pills that actually work, bariatric surgery, etc.)

** Alice was put in a cryo-stasis chamber in the near-future, where not everybody was overweight. When she gets woken up in the distant future, her guide to the 24th century, Bob, is morbidly obese, and tells her that ever since medical science made it a perfectly viable option, it has become popular, so Alice agrees that she would quite like to fatten up that much, to be considered attractive.

* '''Deconstructed''': Obesity has been linked to serious long-term health problems; technology may not be able to help people overcome these problems.
* '''Reconstructed''': The Big Fat Future relies on circumstances staying the same for decades in order to continue. Outside factors such as advancement of weight reduction technology and scarcity of resources end up emerging and disrupting the trend.
** Alternatively, with no means of stopping the obesity rates, evolution would instead tweak humanity in a way that lets them function better as creatures with blubber than be skinny and scrawny primates.

** The MegaCorp [[OneNationUnderCopyright which rules the world]] (free of pesky external regulation), in order to keep people docile and profits flowing, markets to them a steady diet of addictive, ultra-processed foods, labour-saving robots, mobility chairs so they don't have to exert themselves, mindless televisual and computer-based entertainment which can all be paid for on easy credit terms backed up by the wages from their sedentary, mindless, makework SoulCrushingDeskJob, everything which might require the least physical exertion having been automated away by a JobStealingRobot. [[BlackComedy Bonus points: all those early-onset heart attacks mean there's no nead for a pension plan!]]

** The MegaCorp [[OneNationUnderCopyright which rules the world]] (free of pesky external regulation), in order to keep people docile and profits flowing, markets to them a steady diet of addictive, ultra-processed foods, labour-saving robots, mobility chairs so they don't have to exert themselves, mindless televisual and computer-based entertainment which can all be paid for on easy credit terms backed up by the wages from their sedentary, mindless, makework SoulCrushingDeskJob, everything which might require the least physical exertion having been automated away by a JobStealingRobot. Bonus points: all those early-onset heart attacks mean there's no nead for a pension plan!

** The MegaCorp [[OneNationUnderCopyright which rules the world]], free of pesky external regulation, in order to keep people docile and profits flowing, markets to them a steady diet of addictive, ultra-processed foods, labour-saving robots, mobility chairs so they don't have to exert themselves, mindless televisual and computer-based entertainment which can all be paid for on easy credit terms backed up by the wages from their sedentary, mindless, makework SoulCrushingDeskJob, everything which might require the least physical exertion having been automated away by a JobStealingRobot. Bonus points: all those early-onset heart attacks mean there's no nead for a pension plan!