Basic Trope: A character is proud that they're fat.
- Straight: Alice is fat and boasts about it.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice tries to be as fat as she can be.
- Alice is proud of weighing over 600 pounds.
- Downplayed:
- Alice doesn't care about whether or not she is fat, but Alice is a bit like her fatness.
- Alice is a bit chubby and likes it.
- Justified:
- Where Alice comes from, fat women are the epitome of beauty.
- Alice lives in a society where nobody's ever made fun of her body size and men don't give her any less attention than her slim friends.
- Alice used to be unhealthily skinny, and she's glad that isn't the case anymore (regardless of if she's at a healthy weight now).
- Alice is proud of her fat because her strength comes from it.
- Alice used to be insecure about her weights, until she saw an inspiring body positivity ad on YouTube that made her feel good about herself. Now, she often uses that ad to cheer herself up.
- Where Alice comes from, fat women are the epitome of beauty.
- Inverted:
- Alice is proud to be skinny.
- Alice has Weight Woe.
- Subverted: Alice starts off being proud to be fat, but deep down, she is just pretending to be proud of it.
- Double Subverted: Fake it till you make it. Over time, she starts being actually proud of her fatness.
- Parodied:
- Other characters who know her well compliment her with You Are Fat jokes.
- Alice encourages girls to gain more weight until they reach the same level as her fatness.
- Zig Zagged:
- Alice is flighty about her feelings towards her weight.
- Alice may not be hung up on her weight and says she considers her bulk to be part of her charm, but she works out regardless to make at least an attempt to keep it at a healthy level: she acknowledges the idea of "too much of a good thing".
- Alice's weight and her self-image vary Depending on the Writer.
- Averted: Nobody likes or hates being fat, or there are no fat characters.
- Enforced: The writers want to let people know that being fat (to a healthy extent) is okay.
- Lampshaded:
- "I like being this fat."
- "Why is Alice proud to be fat?" "Some people just are."
- Invoked:
- Bob gives Alice a pep talk on how being fat is not a bad thing.
- Alice gains more weight to make herself more attractive.
- Exploited: Alice uses her status of being fat and proud as a way of teaching people not to worry about their bodies.
- Defied: Others discourage Alice from having this attitude and insist that she lose weight.
- Discussed: Alice has an in-depth conversation with Bob about why she would be proud of being fat, and why she wouldn't.
- Conversed: "You could learn not to worry about weight from Alice from my shows."
- Implied: The Jerkass tells a joke about mocking fat people, Alice isn't laughing.
- Deconstructed: The rest of the world doesn't see Alice as beautiful as she sees. Since Alice obsessively defends her view of being fat makes her beautiful, she starts to fall into Not Like Other Girls thought and thinks all girls who lose weight must be gaslighted to hate themselves. So she tries to be as fat as she can be to prove they're wrong, but gaining weight way too much makes Alice receives several health problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease.
- Reconstructed: Alice finds a happy medium—being fat enough to be Fat And Proud, but not fat enough to be unhealthy, and her pride in fatness doesn't mean bragging down on slimmer girls.
- Played for Laughs: It takes the Dude, Not Funny! out of You Are Fat jokes In-Universe.
- Played For Drama: The story is about The Pollyanna Alice, who meets a girl with Weight Woe issues.
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