Basic Trope: Fat people portrayed as massive jerks, if not outright evil.
- Straight: Bob is overweight, and a jerkass.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob is morbidly obese, and a horrible villain.
- Bob is the fattest person to ever live, and an Omnicidal Maniac.
- Downplayed:
- Bob is pudgy and quite irritable, though he's not really much of a bad person.
- Bob is overweight but fairly friendly and affable, though still being one of the bad guys.
- Bob is not particularly overweight, he just seems that way compared to his muscular guards and his malnourished subjects.
- Justified:
- Bob's greed and entitlement are the reason he's fat in a setting where food is scarce and many people are starving.
- Bob suffers from health issues caused by his obesity. His severe pain makes him grumpy all the time.
- Inverted:
- Bob is thin as a twig, and the nicest person ever.
- Bob is skinny as a rail, and one of the nastiest people you could ever meet.
- Bob is obese, yet also kindhearted and fun-loving. He's also so saintly that he feeds millions of hungry people.
- Subverted:
- Bob is fat, and a jerk, but he's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
- Bob slims up but remains as bastard-ish as ever.
- Bob only SEEMS like a jerk, but is really Not Evil, Just Misunderstood, and is quite a Gentle Giant when you know him.
- Double Subverted:
- Bob is fat, and a jerk, and if you think he's got a Hidden Heart of Gold... he does not. He's a total Jerk with a Heart of Jerk.
- Bob eventually gets sick of his diet and ends up getting fat again.
- Bob is fat, a jerk, and the villain, but while he can seem like he is Not Evil, Just Misunderstood and all things considered, he's still an Anti-Villain at best who might be Affably Evil when he's having a good day.
- Parodied:
- Bob does ridiculously petty things, but he's still treated as the ultimate evil.
- Bob starts out as a skinny Nice Guy but undergoes a massive weight gain, which instantly turns him into a Card-Carrying Villain.
- Bob is a fat supervillain whose main gimmick is his Villainous Gluttony. In fact he's so obese, he jiggles as he walks, wears a supervillain costume that barely fits him, goes around merrily hopping down the streets (causing slight tremors as he does so), kicking (or eating) any dogs along the way. Oh, and he's also a cannibal who devours little kids.
- Zig Zagged:
- Some fat people are jerks, others aren't.
- Bob is a Con Man and Master of Disguise, ready to gain or lose large amounts of weight on short order for the sake of a new identity.
- Averted: Weight has nothing to do with how nice a person is.
- Enforced: "We want to add another negative quality to our villain. I know, let's make him fat."
- Lampshaded:
- Invoked: Hiro constantly antagonizes Bob, under the "reasoning" that all fat people are evil. Create Your Own Villain ensues.
- Exploited: Alex figures his appearance will help him gain the trust of human traffickers to gather enough evidence to bring down the whole ring.
- Defied: Bob, a villain of average build notes that being too fat limits them. "You need to be in good shape in near everything in this business. Getting too out of shape at the top is just asking to be replaced."
- Discussed: "Why does Bob put the 'fat' in 'fatal'?"
- Conversed: "Figures that Hollywood will vilify anyone that doesn't fit their impossible standards of beauty, without having plastic surgery and hours of makeup."
- Implied: Bob is The Ghost, and many people mention him being unlikable and rude.
- Deconstructed: Bob tries to be nice, but everyone assumes him to be a jerk because he's fat.
- Reconstructed: People eventually realize that Bob isn't a jerk, and start treating him nicely again.
- Played For Laughs:
- Bob is a constant target of fat jokes by all his enemies (and his own allies or underlings whenever he's not around).
- Bob proves to be a very dimwitted and incompetent villain whose binge-eating habits tend to ruin his own schemes.
- Played For Drama:
- Bob is intentionally hoarding food while millions of hungry poor people are starving, with his weight simply being another way to flaunt that he alone lives in luxury.
- Bob may be The Emperor in charge of a warmongering empire, but he becomes an Adipose Rex from overeating due to having no real friends.
- Bob has suffered domestic abuse. The trauma makes him overeat, and then he uses the trauma as a Freudian Excuse to seek revenge against humanity.
- Bob is Hated by All simply for being obese, and upon realizing he couldn't possibly be more despised, Bob becomes a villain.
- Untwisted: Bob's personality takes a turn for the worst after he loses weight, only for flashbacks to reveal he was bad back then only better at hiding it.
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