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1'''Basic Trope''': A character is fat, although is athletic and can move like he wasn't.
2* '''Straight''': Alice is overweight but manages to compete with the much slimmer [[FragileSpeedster Bob.]]
3* '''Exaggerated''':
4** Alice is morbidly obese, and yet is able to run constantly and moves effortlessly.
5** Alice is the size of a large mansion, and is a master of every martial art ever created and even can run faster than Usain Bolt himself!
6* '''Downplayed''': Alice is a bit overweight, but manages to be a bit more athletic than other people who are not overweight.
7* '''Justified''':
8** Alice has been training for years. Her fat is no impediment, merely a result of doing a diet and exercise regimen based more on practicality and performance, than on her appearance.
9** Alice trains hard but simply eats more calories than she burns.
10* '''Inverted''': Alice is slim, but she is slow and clumsy.
11** GlacierWaif
12* '''Subverted''': Alice moves incredibly well, very fast and agile... but then she gets out of breath and has to sit down.
13* '''Double Subverted''': Actually, she's not really out of breath at all: She was just faking it to draw an enemy in closer.
14* '''Parodied''': Alice is morbidly obese, but also the world's greatest acrobat and cat burglar.
15* '''Zig-Zagged''': Alice is the world's greatest acrobat! But then Bob sees a picture of her and her file and realizes that she got fat. But then Bob is told that she was always fat, and still the world's greatest acrobat! But then, when Bob meets Alice in person, he realizes that she's fattened up way more than ever, and she's morbidly obese now. But then she does some acrobatics that proves that she's ''still'' the world's best acrobat!
16* '''Averted''': Bob, the acrobat is slim, while Alice is not very acrobatic.
17* '''Lampshaded''': "I know what you're thinking. How does a girl that big move like that?"
18* '''Invoked''': Alice, the world's best acrobat, gets fat on a secret undercover mission, but she doesn't find it affects her speed or agility.
19* '''Exploited''': Alice's obesity is part of his strategy to make her competitors not take her seriously so that she can surprise them during the race.
20* '''Defied''':
21** Alice works to lose weight and regain a healthy weight.
22** Alice drops speed and agility training in favor of becoming a MightyGlacier.
23* '''Discussed''': "I bet tubby over there is going to beat all of us down single-handily."
24* '''Conversed''': "Alice is so fat, but she can run so fast. Movie logic."
25* '''Implied:''': Alice is shown to be fat. When Bob calls her over from a faraway place and looks away for five seconds, she is suddenly there when Bob looks back.
26* '''Deconstructed''':
27** Alice may run fast, but due to her fat, she runs out of breath easily.
28** Alice's huge size combined with her relentless speed led to ''serious'' problems with inertia. She handles turns like a brick covered in Crisco, [[TooFastToStop and God help her if she ever needs to hit the brakes.]]
29** As a result of her incredible weight and the SquareCubeLaw, Alice's legs have to work extremely hard to get her up to speed, causing her to overheat easily. Eventually, this leads to her becoming hospitalized when she overexerts herself and gets heatstroke.
30* '''Reconstructed''':
31** She learns to control her breathing a bit better.
32** Alice may occasionally run into things, but [[{{Kevlard}} her large mass protects her from impact.]] Unless they hit her in the head or happen to be sharp, on fire, moving vehicles, large animals, or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs moving vehicles transporting large animals]], she's not in much danger of getting seriously hurt by it.
33* '''Played for Laughs''':
34** Alice is shown running the race while her fat bounces up and down and she barely breaks a sweat, while the fitter Bob is shown hardly keeping up.
35** Alice is the first to cross the finish line, but loses the race on a technicality: too many of the people who ''were'' ahead of her couldn't get out of the way in time, and got SquashedFlat.
36* '''Played for Drama''': Alice had to overcome many ordeals to make it this far into the race, constantly being mocked for being different. The race becomes intense as she and Bob race neck and neck to the finish line.
37* '''Played for Horror''': A disgusting monster that resembles a lump of adipose is able to move at breakneck speed to catch up to and devour its prey.
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