History PlayingWith / BigFatFuture

** The MegaCorp [[OneNationUnderCopyright which rules the world]], 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.

** The MegaCorp [[OneNationUnderCopyright which rules the world]], 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 entertainment which can all be paid for on easy credit terms backed up by the wages from their sedentary, mindless SoulCrushingDeskJob, everything which might require the least physical exertion having been automated away by a JobStealingRobot.

** Vegetables , fruits, and grains are extinct, so nobody can get healthy enough. The little dairy and protein left isn't enough to sustain healthiness.

*** Alliteratively, Obesity has become so common and impossible that we, as a species, decide to [[FatAndProud embrace it rather than fight it.]]

** Alternatively, evolution would let humanity function better as creatures with blubber than be skinny and scrawny.

* '''Played For Laughs''': FanDisservice; fat people are still considered AcceptableTargets in TV-trope-land after all.

* '''Discussed''': "Sheesh...if we don't start taking better care of ourselves, we'll all be too fat to function." "Umm...have you looked in a mirror in the past twenty years?"
* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Zig Zagged''': While there is some percentage of obesity in society, thanks to scietific developments in the medical fields, the obesity isn't a major problem.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

'''Basic Trope''': Obesity is the norm TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture

* '''Exaggerated''': Most people are too morbidly-obese to even move without hoverboards and have never even seen vegetables.

* '''Parodied''': People have literally been reduced to immobile, vegetative globs of lard in the future.

** [[TheOnion By 2025, most American children are too obese to ride hoverboards.]]

** A CorruptCorporateExecutive and/or a OneWorldGovernment secretly fattened the people on purpose in an effort to make them easier to control.

* '''Subverted''': TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, most people are HollywoodPudgy at worst.
* '''Double Subverted''': But they get fatter over time as junk food becomes more prevalent and exercise less so.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Just as in the present, people run the gamut of body types, from skinny to HollywoodPudgy to morbidly obese to everything in between.
* '''Averted''': See Zig Zagged, Reconstructed, and Subverted.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Twenty years from now, the average dress size will be a size 20."
* '''Enforced''': SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale
* '''Invoked''': Society becomes more dependent on motorized vehicles for transportation and spends all its time in front of computers and snacking on fatty, sugary foods.

* '''Discussed''': "Sheesh...if we don't start taking better care of ourselves, we'll all be too fat to function."
* '''Conversed''': "Probably not; not everyone's going to become morbidly obese."
* '''Deconstructed''':
** Obesity has been linked to serious long-term health problems; technology may not be able to help people overcome these problems.
** 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.

* '''Played For Drama''': All the health problems this causes; may be used in an attempt to ScareEmStraight

** The Big Fat Future relies on things 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.

** Other factors make the Big Fat Future incapable of staying fat. Advancement of weight reduction technology and scarcity of resources are two of numerous possible causes.

* '''Deconstructed''': Obesity has been linked to serious long-term health problems; technology may not be able to help people overcome these problems.

** Obesity is a [[IncrediblyLamePun growing problem]] in the developed world, and if people don't start taking better care of themselves, this very well could become TruthInTelevision eventually.

* '''Defied''': See "Reconstructed"

* '''Reconstructed''': 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.)

* '''Justified''': Obesity is a [[IncrediblyLamePun growing problem]] in the developed world, and if people don't start taking better care of themselves, this very well could become TruthInTelevision eventually.

* '''Downplayed''': In the future, eveyone is pudgy.

* '''Downplayed''': In the future, eveyone is chubby.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Played Straight''':

** [[TheOnion By 2025, most American children are too obese to ride hoverboards.]]

* '''Deconstructed''': Obesity has been linked to serious long-term health problems; technology may not be able to help people overcome these problems.
* '''Reconstructed''': 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.)

* '''Played For Laughs''': FanDisservice; fat people are still considered AcceptableTargets in TV-trope-land after all.
* '''Played For Drama''': All the health problems this causes; may be used in an attempt to ScareEmStraight

* '''Played Straight''': In 2025, most people are overweight and subsist on fatty, sugary food.

* '''Inverted''': TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, most people are extremely skinny.

* '''Basic Trope''': Obesity is the norm TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture

* '''Inverted''': TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, most people are HollywoodThin.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Just as in the present, people run the gamut of body types, from HollywoodThin to HollywoodPudgy to morbidly obese to everything in between.

** Also, since [[TruthInTelevision one of those problems is]] [[TheLoinsSleepTonight impotence]] in men and pregnancy complications and infertility in women, [[FridgeLogic how would humanity reproduce if the...mechanism for doing so doesn't work?]](GattacaBabies and PeopleJars may not be a viable solution for everyone; only those that can afford it.)