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"You lot and I accept a trend towards corpulence. Corpulence makes a man reasonable, pleasant and phlegmatic. Have you noticed the nastiest of tyrants are invariably thin?"

The big, fun, lovable fat guy. May exist a Boisterous Bruiser depending on how much they like to fight and shout, or just a Gentle Giant. Oft a king or other aristocrat whose wealth and lifestyle lends itself to fabled feasts, a Stubby Chef who delights in his/her arts and crafts, or in dissimilarity a mod young homo whose weight makes him more identifiable. Depending on the fandom, he can also be a Big Beautiful Homo.

Almost Always Male person it seems, probably because of the usual Double Standard about bewitchery and such and most probable classed equally a Tomboy. If female person, though, she'southward probable to be a Big Beautiful Adult female and maybe a Sassy Blackness Woman, or often, simply a female variant.

Dissimilarity the Fat Bounder, which is when the fat person is, well... a bastard, and this trope'south corollary Lean and Mean, when a skinny person is unpleasant. See likewise Fat Comic Relief.

Nothing to do with the song from the musical adaptation of Heathers.

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Examples

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    Anime and Manga

• Tetsuro "Poppo" Hisakawa from Anohana: The Flower Nosotros Saw That Mean solar day. And then it's subverted, because in good part this is a facade. In reality, Menma'due south death affected him way more than than he lets others see, specially because he saw her die and couldn't practice annihilation about it.
• Bleach has Kirio Hikifune, a genial Big Beautiful Adult female who's a Supreme Chef and a member of the Zero Division and former captain of the 12th Division. However, when she expends nigh of her spiritual energy, she turns into a hot lady that tin can give Rangiku a run for her coin.
• Junpei "J.P." Shibayama of Digimon Frontier. Bit of a Indomitable Nice Guy. Known for his magic tricks and giving of chocolate. He was actually rather friend-less and insecure deep downwards, every bit revealed in his backstory, but with some Character Evolution he fits in meliorate.
• Dragon Brawl:
  • The Ox King, Chichi's father - originally introduced in the originalDragon Brawl every bit a wicked warlord, simply chop-chop turns out to be a decent guy and a doting father (and as the series progresses, doting grandfather).
  • Dragon Brawl Z has Android #16, the biggest and tallest of the trio with Androids #17 and #18. While #17 & #xviii are bratty, cocky, and hotheaded, #16 is at-home, gentle, and cherishes things like nature. He refuses to engange in whatever fight, unless it fulfulls his programming to stop Goku; but he eventually steps into battle confronting Cell when he realizes that Prison cell will destroy the nature he came to love.
  • DBZ as well introduces Majin Buu'south fat form, especially after his Heel–Face Turn. He'south childishly cheerful and treats combat as a fun game.
• Kurita of Eyeshield 21 is a more than subdued version of this trope. He's gentle, friendly and fun, simply inappreciably bouncy.
• Rider ( Iskandar/Alexander the Great) in Fate/Zero is a downplayed version in that he was incredibly muscular instead of fat (he has artillery bigger around than about people, period). He is easily the largest Servant in terms of both height and full general body mass, and at the same time thinks that every new affair in the modern world is simply Crawly and is an gorging gamer, naturally (being who he is) he plays strategy games. Nosotros tin can merely assume that he was pretty damn expert at them too.
  • Honestly, this guy takes both Bouncy Bruiser and Big Fun to the max, everything he does is specifically meant to be both crawly and fun. Really, it seems that by his definition, for something to Be awesome at all information technology has to be fun. Have for example the infamous King's Feast, where he shows up out of nowhere at the Einzburn castle with a literal cask of wine and asks saber to join him in drinking it. He shows up in a T-shirt and jeans while driving a lightning bolt shooting chariot. And he somehow managed to convince Gilgamesh of all people to come as well?
• Naruto:
  • The series has Choji who is a Big Eater with a Big Centre who's willing to defend his friends with his life. Simply recollect not to call him fat.
  • His dad Choza likewise qualifies; in the databook, he's described every bit 'an extreme glutton' and 'very loving'.
• In Assassination Classroom, Akira Takaoka comes off equally this. A big guy who is a lot friendlier than Tadaomi Karasuma, even bringing snacks to his first day of pedagogy the class. It is soon revealed this is a complete act as he is actually a Sadistic Teacher who fully enjoys inflicting pain on children if they go against his orders.
• In Great Pretender, Kim Shi-won is a Rare Female person Example. She's a heavyset Absurd Quondam Lady who just loves existence a con woman. She seems to care for it as a game, and is e'er boisterous and open to her fellow team members.

    Comic Books

• Exist Prepared: When Vera and Phillip get-go go far at camp, ane of the counselors, Grusha, greets them in a very enthusiastic way.
• Volstagg from The Mighty Thor, who is explicitly based on Falstaff. (In one comic, two orphaned children - who he would subsequently adopt - mistook him for Santa Claus.)
• Obelix from Asterix [PUNCH] "It'due south all muscle, that'southward what it is!" He'southward not fatty, he's "low chested."
• Generation X: Subverted. Mondo seemed at starting time to be a party animal. As information technology turned out, he was a spy planted past the villain Black Tom Cassidy, who eventually turned confronting them. He too wasn't the real Mondo.
• Fat Cobra from Immortal Iron Fist is a Big Eater and womanizer who loves a good fight and is quite friendly.
• 100 Bullets: Daniel Peres more serious than most versions of this, but he's introduced lounging past the pool with Benito and Megan and later on spends the dark at a casino, while never displays any cruelty or snobbery, dissimilar so many of the other Trust leaders.
• Wonder Adult female
  • Wonder Woman (1942), Sensation Comics & Comic Cavalcade: Aureate Age Etta Candy, who was a cheerful prankster, Boisterous Bruiser and unapologetic candy loving Big Eater.
  • Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman "Ghosts and Gods": Etta is a plump expert natured prankster who loves to dial Nazis.
  • The Legend of Wonder Adult female (2016): Etta is a Big Beautiful Woman with a great sense of humor who is kind, fun and the life of the political party.

    Comic Strips

• Flash Gordon has Vultan of the Hawkmen. The dude can wing, likewise! Those are some strong wings!

    Fan Works

• A Diplomatic Visit: Large-Cheer the wolf, the widest and friendliest of the trio from Big Apple Orchard, who got his name for always being a little bigger than his littermates and having a most-constant grinning on his face.
• Quill Blayde from The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World. Quite the sensualist.
• Kindred: It's mentioned that Salma, one of the Sultan's at present-deceased concubines, was a Large Beautiful Woman who could make people laugh easily.
• Diplomatic Incident from Legionnaire is a senior statesman, an accomplished spy, a political mastermind, and this.
• Fredbear and Freddy Fazbear are both large and have this as their programmed personalities in Something E'er Remains. In this universe, information technology's because Fredbear's personality and girth were based on the owner's - Bonnie Wickes - dead hubby, Freddy Wickes. Freddy Fazbear kept this personality and design when Fredbear's Family Diner was retooled into Freddy Fazbear's Pizza after Bonnie'southward death.
• Hurley from Nosotros Can Be Heroes! (Steven Universe) is a fat, jolly, Muppetesque alien and 1 of the nicest people Lapis meets in the Nova Veluti organization. Thanks to him letting her hitch a ride when her ship ran out of fuel and got towed away on top of that, he endears himself to her in a hurry.

    Films — Animation

• Maui of Moana is a large demigod (while muscular, he'south also on the hefty side) who, in addition to being fun-loving and cheerful, is too very boisterous and full of himself. It's eventually revealed that some of this personality is a mask: he was abandoned by his parents as a baby, and thinks that nobody really loves him. Equally such, he'due south compelled to give humans gifts and miracles to keep their affection.
• PJ develops in this direction in An Extremely Goofy Movie, becoming the center of attention at the disco briefly and spending much of the last function of the motion-picture show enjoying himself (except for one brief relapse and a moment of peril). Earlier that point—in the first function of the movie, the predecessor, and the serial—he was kind and friendly, but "fun" was not how he would be described most of the time. He was a Nervous Wreck and a Shrinking Violet who was very pessimistic, sometimes downright despondent, not usually enthusiastic, and fifty-fifty when he was information technology would be subdued compared to those effectually him with like goals. The reason for this change? He earned his happy ending.
• Nim Galuu from Ballsy (2013).
• Po the Panda from Kung Fu Panda acts like this, to mask his insecurity at being the fatty oaf at the Furious Five's kung-fu school. He gets more serious as the moving-picture show goes along, but is even so the nicest guy in the movie.
• Shrek, in a Wiggle with a Heart of Gold sense. He puts on a Fat Bastard facade (literally since he's voiced past Mike Meyers) because he doesn't like how "people judge me before they even get to know me."
• The Book of Life:
  • The Rodriguez Brothers are all jolly and love to play.
  • The Candlemaker is a rather big jovial ball of wax.
• Baloo, from The Jungle Book and TaleSpin, is this, only in conduct course.
• "Large Daddy" LaBoeuf of The Princess and the Frog, who is a rare positive instance of a Fat, Sweaty Southerner in a White Accommodate.
  • Lewis the Alligator - notable in that he'south the very first alligator to not be a total jerk.
• Jethro from The Prince of Egypt is both tall and broad, and his mental attitude helps bring Moses out of his depression.
• Benjamin Clawhauser from Zootopia is portly and has a very exuberant personality, both in his mannerisms and interests.
• Cats Don't Dance: Tilly the hippo is i of the friendliest characters and the starting time of the beast actors to give Danny a warm welcome.
• Gloria the Hippo from Madagascar is a rare female case. Her kind personality gets others to savour her company a lot. Many male characters notice her bonny likewise.
• John Silver from Treasure Planet, fifty-fifty subsequently his reveal every bit the Big Bad Friend. He's savvy, charismatic, an irrestible Large Ham, and an encouraging mentor to the insecure protagonist.
• Barbie in a Christmas Carol: As per usual, the Spirit of Christmas Present—although it's a rare female example.

    Films — Alive Activeness

• In Remember the Titans, Louie is the first to easily intermission racial tension, and can crack a joke or two: "I just gave your mamma a piggy-back ride, and she weighs twice as much equally I do!". His player Ethan Suplee may have been this before he lost 200 pounds.
• Thudbutt, 1 of the Lost Boys, in Hook; also a Bouncy Bruiser.
• Varsity Blues has Baton Bob.
• Best Night Ever has a female person case. Janet is chubby (past Hollywood standards; past normal standards she's average size) and constantly cheerful and bubbly.
• Pitch Perfect has Rebel Wilson as this character. In fact she has played this role a lot in her films.
• The Trunchbull of Matilda is near definitely not an example, but she claims to exist in a one-off line, saying "I like a joke as well as the next fat person".
• Julie & Julia has both Julia and her sister, more tall than fat at 6'2" and 6'4" respectively, but boisterous and bursting with good humour.
• The Three Musketeers (1993) has Oliver Platt's version of Porthos, the life of any party and (he claims) quite successful with the ladies.
• Mystery Route: The shopkeeper (who is credited equally Robbo just called Mick in the movie itself) is a flake paunchy and is pleasant in a casual manner. He seems to go along well with Jay (who buys ammo from him) and is quick to cooperate when Jay asks about who has been buying knives like the one used in the murder.
• Land of the Dead: The heroes are accompanied past several of Kaufman's soldiers, one of which is a fatty Samoan named Pillsbury. He'southward just there equally comic relief, basically.
• Tracy Turnblad from Hairspray is a rare female example. She's energetic and optimistic, which gets her to be a popular dancer in the Corny Collins Show.
• Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is a significant Trope Codifier for his Acrofatic turns in the silent film era (even some times winding upward with the girl, every bit in Leap Yr and The Life of the Party (both 1921).)
• Hagrid in Harry Potter.
• In Antebellum, Veronica's friend Dawn is Large Beautiful Woman and Sassy Black Woman who makes no surreptitious of the fact that she intends to use their night out to get laid and text Veronica all of the details as it is happening.
• Shotgun Stories: Boy is 1 of the paunchier characters in the picture show, is more easygoing than his brothers, and coaches basketball for petty kids.

    Folktales

• Friar Tuck is usually portrayed equally this in most versions of the Robin Hood legend.
  • The animated adaptation featuring Mr. Magoo portrays Friar Constrict as beingness a Big Eater with food nearby.
• Santa Claus himself! As far back equally 1837, Clement Clark Moore'south verse form A Visit From St. Nicholas described his "fiddling round abdomen, that shook when he laughed, similar a basin full of jelly."

    Literature

• Porthos of The Three Musketeers starts off the rollicking, boozing, adult female-chasing party animal of the Musketeers. Every bit the series wears on, Porthos seems to get physically larger every time he'south described, until past the final book, he's practically a giant.
• Mr. Fezziwig from A Christmas Carol, Scrooge's jolly, jovial employer who hosts a Christmas political party for his employees, including Scrooge, is known for his generosity, and is quite a bit of a dancer.
  • The Ghost of Christmas Present has a big banquet laid out when Scrooge meets him, and shows Scrooge the festive mood of the yuletide season beingness historic by miners, the Cratchit family unit, and Fred's party guests.
• In the Aubrey-Maturin serial, Captain Jack Aubrey has often been chided by Stephen Maturin over his weight. He weighs effectually 18 rock, which is roughly 250 pounds. Of course, he's also an excellent fighter, which puts him squarely in Stout Strength (and Genius Bruiser, considering his tactical prowess and achievements in astronomy and mathematics) territory. He also loves to party when he has the take chances, and he's been known to brand an utter fool of himself in social occasions, which makes him a Bouncy Bruiser too. The ladies seem to appreciate it too: He'due south practically the James Bond of the Napoleonic War era.
• A Vocal of Ice and Fire:
  • Rex Robert Baratheon. Also a slight deconstruction; every bit a Boisterous Bruiser put into the role of king and forced into a loveless political marriage later the woman he fought the state of war for in the first place died, Robert's been unable to exercise most of his appetites (the ones that aren't drinking and whoring), which has led him to grow fatty. The jovial sense of humour masks a heavy accumulation of grief, rage, and utter disappointment.
  • Wyman Manderly is widely seen every bit this, a massive human being who enjoys food, wine, and jests. In A Trip the light fantastic toe with Dragons, it's shown that this is a ruse; his revenge confronting the Freys reveals a cunning and ruthless heed behind the merry facade.
  • Deconstructed with the historical ruler Viserys I, the "Immature King" who presides over the Targaryen dynasty at arguably the peak of its power. By all accounts, he was a blast to be around in court, but his intent to preserve the peace and prosperity that his predecessor and royal grandsire had accomplished fifty years ago fabricated him blind to the rifts forming within that court. As time goes on, the conflicts burst out into the open, and Viserys' wellness slowly begins to fail, to the point that he grows and so fat and out-of-shape that he has to exist carried round in a chair—but as long as he nevertheless lives, he'due south the only thing from turning that disharmonize into open war. And certain enough, when he does die, it's not long before the Targaryen line fractures into a crisis of succession and a civil state of war that leaves almost no i in Westeros unscathed—least of all the Targaryens.
  • Also deconstructed in that Westeros is a highly martial feudal society, and then existence fat is a sign of weakness. Being fatty is i of the reasons why Samwell Tarly got exiled to the Wall by his warrior of a begetter.
• Discworld:
  • Nanny Ogg — a very plump witch who loves food, booze, and music and can even get a date despite having "a face like an elderly apple," because she'due south that much fun. A good sit-in of this occurs when she meets Casanunda, who asks her out mainly considering he has an Anything That Moves policy, simply it's noted he has a great time in the process.
  • Archchancellor Ridcully is i of the few wizard examples; many other wizards are fat and love food, but are exercise-nothings or actually nasty. Ridcully on the other hand likes sports and jokes and is a Boisterous Bruiser.
• Harry Potter:
  • Hagrid (whose size comes from being half-giant) is one of the more amicable characters in the serial. He is a very kind warmhearted man, who likes to invite Harry and his friends for tea and biscuits every once in a while during their stay at Hogwarts. Hagrid is essentially the first true friend of Harry.
  • Subverted with Professor Horace Slughorn. Slughorn is explicitly described every bit being obese, has a friendly larger than life personality and occasionally throws parties at Hogwarts. On the other hand, he shows obvious favoritism to students with good family connections or great academical talent. Only these students are invited to his parties.
  • Subverted by the entire Dursley family, sans Petunia. Uncle Vernon, likewise as his son Dudley, are described to be obese merely only e'er display reprehensible behavior, nearly prominently seen in the way they care for Harry. Even worse is Vernon's sister Marjorie, a ascendant and nasty adult female who only seems to be just tolerated by her family members. Fortunately, Dudley gets better through Character Development.
  • Subverted with Ludo Bagman. A strongly-built man gone to seed after leaving Quidditch, he constantly acts similar this, simply is is a self-centered gambling aficionado whose personality may but be a facade.
  • Played direct with Friendly Ghost, The Fat Friar. He is an overweight friar who died from being hanged.
• Sgakahav "Sig" Wilobst, the owner of the Wilobst Pioneers Ltd mercenary/gun-running firm in Riesel Tales: Two Hunters. He is this to an extreme literal level — his species is, on average, 18 feet tall, and he has a large, jolly personality to match. Sookaiya Venatosh, one of his mercenaries, is this to a bottom extent.
• Knaves On Waves has Carnage, who is exceedingly huge, charismatic and festive, fifty-fifty while he'due south committing atrocities.
• According to 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, and to almost every delineation that's followed it since, Santa Claus has "a broad confront, and a little circular belly / That shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly."
• Delly Carwright from The Hunger Games, comparatively. Katniss says that Delly wasn't really fat, but she had a few pounds to spare (in contrast to the majority of District 12). Fittingly, she's friendly, cheerful, and a full Dainty Daughter.
• BattleTech Expanded Universe novels innovate Chandrasekhar Kurita, a portly, good-natured fellow member of the Draconis Combine majestic family unit. Described as "buddhaesque," he was oft regarded as "the fat fool" considering of his cheerful nature and hedonistic love for food, women, and parties. This was about certainly a form of Obfuscating Stupidity, because he proved to have amazingly sharp political and business acumen to brand up for his lack of military machine aptitude or majestic ambitions. In i of the most brilliant applications of his natural talents every bit the Big Fun, he even tried to undermine the strength of their hidebound, honor-obsessed foes the Clans by encouraging their supporting castes to only have fun, enjoy their lives, and non be beholden to the warrior degree's whims. Stories set in late 32nd century suggest that his efforts to tempt the lower castes really succeeded where almost all other efforts to undermine Clan civilisation failed.
• Enforced and deconstructed in the 1929 brusque story Large Blonde. The once played-straight Hazel Morse ends up suffering from a suicidal depression, but her peers dislike being around her when she's sad. As a result, Hazel pretends to be happy even though she isn't.
• Falstaff in Henry Four and The Merry Wives of Windsor— though he's also something of an Inappropriate Role Model for Prince Hal.
• Hangbelly, the jovial, big Kickoff-Walker, from Tailchaser'south Vocal.
• Deconstructed in Fat Child Rules the Globe. The depressed and obese Troy doesn't understand why people seem to remember fat people are inherently funny. People always seem to laugh at him no affair what he does, and he's seen this trope then much in media, simply he doesn't get what is so funny. Troy himself is anything but Big Fun—being a friendless, awkward Loser Protagonist on the verge of suicide until he meets Brusk.
• The Horse and His Boy: King Lune is heavily implied to be this: he's certainly fatty, but he's described equally jolly, and he throws cracking parties.
• The Reluctant King: King Ishbahar of Iraz is obese due to loving food (even his "tea" features an enormous amount) while as well very dainty and cheerful, all together fun beingness effectually.
• Chocoholic Mysteries: Red-headed Dorothea "Dolly" Jolly, introduced in Frog Frame-Upwards, is six-foot-three, 250 pounds, and pretty much always cheerful.

    Alive-Activity TV

• Game of Thrones: For all his flaws, Robert's boisterous amiability amidst fighting men is the main thing holding his kingdoms together. In the Histories and Lore segments, Stannis—who is usually very critical of his brother—admits and praises Robert'southward souvenir for inspiring loyalty and converting sworn enemies into True Companions with his carousing.
• Kimmie Boubier from Super Fun Night. The title of that prove even supports the trope.
• Power Rangers
  • Bulk from the commencement few years of the serial started as The Bully and one of Those Ii Guys, but Graphic symbol Development resulted in his mellowing out and showing a nicer side. Best exemplified past his return to the franchise in Power Rangers Samurai, where he is (or at least tries to be) the mentor to his best friend's son.
  • Ernie, the possessor of the Youth Center in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers to Power Rangers Zeo is this. He is oftentimes seen helping his clientele, past listening and advising them about his bug and besides organizes many kinds of fun activities at the Youth Center.
  • Ms. Appleby, also from MMPR, is the kindhearted teacher of Angel Grove High. She shows a lot of interest in her educatee's activities and has massive amounts of patience with Bulk and Skull, even playing along in their antics sometimes.
• James Earl Jones played himself as this character classic in The Big Bang Theory.
• Gordon Well-baked on Freaks and Geeks. At one point he and Harris even lampshade the trope.

  Gordon: My whole family unit's big-boned. It's genetic.
  Harris: Besides, the world loves jolly fat guys. Burl Ives. Jackie Gleason.
  Gordon: Santa Claus. Curly. Raymond Burr.
  Neal: No. Raymond Burr isn't jolly.
  Gordon: Well he was extremely overnice to me at last year'southward auto show.

• All of the gnomes that announced in the Belgian children's series Kabouter Plop by Studio 100. Well at least the main v characters except Smal who is thin.
• Deconstructed in an episode of Empty Nest where a one-shot graphic symbol appears to be this, just turns out to be a Stepford Smiler who's adopted a cheerful persona because Big Fun is but about the just positive trope that overweight people tin aspire to.

  Danny: I learned a long time ago that if you lot're fat and funny, people similar having you effectually - you're a "smashing guy." But if yous're not funny, then all y'all are is fat.

• Parodied on MadTV. After cast fellow member, Will Sasso, ended upwards losing a lot of weight, Debra Wilson pulls him aside backstage, and tells him he was much funnier back when he was fatty, leaving Will desperate to effort and put the weight back on.
• Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes from Lost.
• The Twilight Zone (1959) has Marge in the episode "A Piano in the House," a heavyset woman who is extremely cheerful, friendly, and jovial, and cracks more than jokes nearly her weight than anyone. In a rather sorry scene, the magical piano forces her to acknowledge that deep downwards, she wants to be loved and to be seen as beautiful, only fears information technology'll never happen. While she is genuinely kind and fun-loving, it'due south implied she'due south making jokes at her own expense so no one else tin do information technology behind her dorsum.
• Referenced in Seinfeld when Jerry is worrying about some recent weight gain.

  Kramer: You lot know, for a fat guy you're not very jolly.

    Music

• Paul Baloff, the late lead singer for Thrash Metal band Exodus, fit this trope. Some people even nicknamed him "The John Belushi of Heavy Metallic" because of his outgoing, uninhibited, political party animal personality.
• Fats Domino, of form. His beginning hit was "The Fat Man."
• Most members of Bowling for Soup are at to the lowest degree overweight, and they sing songs near being happy and are sometimes downright silly. Fifty-fifty almost of their songs about heartbreak are fairly optimistic and/or funny.
• "B.F.F.!" by The Aquabats!, a vocal about Fat Best Friends, has this to say on the matter:

  These jolly giants are never roughshod.
  All big people are really cool!

• Fats Waller exuded this image of a performer who is big, fat and entertaining and fun to be around, then much so that his stage name "Fats" was based on information technology.
• The fourscore's rap group The Fatboys made this an Invoked Trope with their large sizes and their upbeat party-friendly music, including a collaboration with the Embankment Boys.
• Lizzo, with her big size and infectious personality to match. Best known for her upbeat Cocky Empowerment Anthems.
• George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher of Cannibal Corpse. Standing tall at 6'1, his long hair, shadowed eyes, and thick girth (and neck) makes him look like someone who'due south not to be fucked with. But he'south besides a Earth of Warcraft player, a loving husband and begetter to his two daughters, and a Nice Guy overall.

    Myths & Religion

• Every bit pictured, Budai, too known equally Hotei. (This particular statue is located past Emei Lake, Taiwan.) He fits into both Japanese Shinto and Buddhist traditions, as he's one of the Seven Gods of Fortune in Japanese belief, simply also considered to exist an incarnation of the future Buddha Maitreya, who will appear in a nighttime age when the tenets of Buddhism are forgotten and nobody tin can reach enlightenment - a time where everyone needs a laugh, as you'd imagine. He's commonly mistaken for the genuine Buddha (A.Yard.A. Siddhartha Gautama) by non-Buddhists, although it is truthful that he brings good luck if you lot rub his belly.
• In Hinduism, Lord Ganesh (the elephant-headed god of knowledge) is oft depicted with a potbelly. He's likewise known for being jovial, fun-loving, and good-natured with a major sweet-tooth.
• The Dagda of Celtic Mythology. Some religions regard their father gods equally stoic, handsome loving figures. The aboriginal peoples of Republic of ireland thought of theirs as a comical, singing, dancing, fat old guy with his rump hanging out of his trousers. And he is awesome.
• Shinto goddess of merriment Ame-no-Uzume, a Big Beautiful Woman who loves to political party and invented the strip-tease.

    Pinball

• The gambler in High Roller Casino is a large, bulky Texan (complete with hat) who speaks very bombastically.

    Professional Wrestling

• The "Traveling Face Enforcer" Haystacks Calhoun, as the title implies, was a honey allure for his honour and friendliness, also as for his surprising athleticism considering he was 600lbs.
• This was André the Giant's gimmick for most of his career, a big fun heavy drinker who would parade multiple fans around on his artillery, that being the parts when he wasn't under the corrupting influence of Bobby Heenan.
  • Information technology wasn't simply a gimmick. He actively cultivated this trope in Existent Life as well. Knowing that his acromegaly would kill him at a young age, he set out to have fun in his life while he was live and make others happy also.
• The National Wrestling Alliance cultivated such an image for Dusty Rhodes to contrast him with Ric Flair during their long running feud.
• While wrestling in CMLL, Brazo De Plata's waistline steadily expanded to the point fans started calling him Súper Porky. Hearing this, Plata embraced the name and started adding more comedy to his matches, which ended up making him a special attraction. These traits would carry onto his girl, Goya Kong.
• Both All Nihon Pro Wrestling and New Japan have had Yutaka Yoshie of the "air handbag" suplex fame on their rosters. Initially his defining trait was his judo background, merely after leaving the country for the German language Catch Wrestling Clan, he returned to Japan in 2000, having gained muscle and fat, becoming a pinkish clad sumo and a comedic counterpart to Hiroshi Tanahashi. He would subsequently do similar with Steve Corino as Y2P–160 kg in Pro Wrestling ZERO1.
• This was The Blue Meanie's gimmick for most of his career, especially when parodying Scott Hall as part of the "blueish World order".
• Koji Kitao became such after returning to puroresu via Wrestling Association R to absolve for his past misdeeds as a sumo and as a pro wrestler, also forming an alliance with the similarly shamed joshi Shinobu Kandori. This lead to further investigation into his blackballing from Sumo, which allowed his official return to that sport as well.
• Rikishi, afterward he became the hip hop dancing sumo wrestler of Too Cool and gained a reputation for shaking his butt.
• Montel Vontavious Porter formed the Earth'southward Strongest Tag Team for the purpose of defeating Chris Jericho, who was teaming with Big Show. Merely then Motive Decay set in as he spent more time trying to prove The Miz incorrect, to prove his partner Mark Henry did in fact have personality. He was successful in getting Henry to open up up and take fun at start but then the aforementioned Big Bear witness tried to pause Henry's leg, causing Henry to snap, resent the "personality" reveal and vow to destroy everything.

    Tabletop Games

• Grim Hollow: Ogresh are a humanoid race known for being very obese (adults in the latter stages if their lives can reach up to seven-hundred pounds), and besides existence incredibly charming and likable. These become hand-in-mitt: the Ogresh take such insanely large appetites that they rely on other species to survive. Ogresh are built-in with instincts that make them The Social Expert, and so they can attach themselves to a community that can feed them, oftentimes getting positions as advisors and ambassadors.
• Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer twoscore,000: Disturbingly used with followers of Nurgle, who are indeed fat (or morbidly obese) and jolly... and also evil to the core, devoted to spreading affliction and pestilence everywhere they get. Nurgle himself is substantially Santa Claus who truly loves all his followers; it's just that rats, vermin and bacteria are worthy of honey too.

    Video Games

• There is a shown aversion in Stuart Black of the Campaign of Age of Empires III. It is said that fatty men nearly always prove joy, but Stuart only shows cowardice.
• Following his retirement from villainy and Heel–Face Turn in Crash Bandicoot 4: It'due south Most Fourth dimension, Dingodile has not only put on some extra pounds, but has get a lot more open and friendly than earlier, wanting nothing more than to run a successful diner in the bayou, and being on adept terms with the Alternating Universe Tawna. Not to mention his Shipper on Deck antics with the two N. Tropys.
• The borderline circular Sasquatch from Darkstalkers. It'southward generally fluffy fur, only he's got no major issues to deal with involving the other characters of the series. He enjoys making snowmen in the heart of a fight too.
• Forrest Kaysen of Deadly Premonition is an enormous sapling salesman with an unfailingly jolly mental attitude and a friendly pet dalmatian. He'south good with kids and becomes a steadfast ally in some of the game'south later acts. Absolutely none of this ways that he's dainty. He isn't. He really, actually isn't.
  • Forrest Kaysen of D4 is a jovial Big Eater detective who helps out his former partner, David, in his work and everyday life. He is currently the most laid-dorsum character in the game. Merely time will tell if this will modify.
• In Dragon Quest 5, Rodrigo Briscoletti is very fat and very jovial.
• Lieutenant Amodar of Final Fantasy XIII is a Reasonable Authorisation Figure from the seaside town of Bodhum who encourages Lightning to have some time off fifty-fifty in the middle of a suspiciously unpleasant string of events. XIII-2 also reveals that he's addicted of quizzes and likes to spin a chaingun with a grin on his face.
• Both Brom and his daughter Meg from Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn are rather upbeat, cheerful country folk. Brom explains that the girth itself is rather useful for managing farm equipment.
• Big Smoke in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
  • Sadly, just like Zeke beneath, Smoke ends up betraying y'all. But unlike Zeke, Smoke doesn't recover from it.
• Bobby Grail in Growing Up is a plus-sized woman who enjoys belting out her favorite showtunes with the Actor Character. She doesn't like it when she's told to be quiet.
• Zeke in inFAMOUS. By all accounts, a friendly, easygoing kind of guy. Sadly, his urge to become a superhero results in him betraying Cole afterwards in the game. Thankfully, he recovers in the sequel, becoming a much amend friend to Cole in the process.
• Coach from Left 4 Dead 2, being the virtually level-headed member of the survivor team and serving equally a middle ground in personality between Rochelle, Ellis, and Nick.
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has Daruk, the Goron Champion. A Boisterous Bruiser who laughs in the face of danger, he brings levity to about any state of affairs and will give back slaps and group hugs at the drop of a guild.
  • Most of the gorons from The Legend of Zelda serial equally a whole would also qualify, likewise a few of the more serious ones. For case, in The Fable of Zelda: Ocarina of Fourth dimension, they are very welcoming to Link and eventually offer him a "goron hug", despite all of them beingness at least three times his size.
• Fatman from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty would qualify, except for the detail that his idea of fun is bravado things up with bombs. Still dandy fun at parties if you check him for C-4 at the door.

  Fatman: Laugh, and grow fatty!

• While Reinhardt of Overwatch isn't exactly fat, he is both the largest character in the entire game (clocking in at 7'v") and the biggest Boisterous Bruiser in the cast, likewise as a 18-carat Nice Guy.
• Hala from Pokémon Sun and Moon is a heavyset Cool Old Guy who is very friendly towards the player character and is a bit of a Boisterous Bruiser (for example, he's shown riding on height of a Tauros like information technology'southward a surf board during the credits).
  • In the aforementioned games, Mohn is an amnesiac castaway who's decided to turn the island chain he's stranded on into a Pokemon resort. He admits his size is from living on loftier-calorie Poke Beans.
• The Wii version of Punch-Out!! gives u.s.a. returning challenger Bear Hugger, who, while easily one of the physically widest and nigh rotund boxers to get in Trivial Mac'southward fashion, is also an entertaining, goofy Bouncy Bruiser with a large laugh, whose lines are pure comic gold, usually playing into his Canada, Eh? stereotype for all it'south worth. He as well seems to be in it for fun rather than harboring any serious thoughts of contending or being outright Ax-Crazy.
• Resident Evil Village: One of Ethan'due south few allies in the game is the Duke, an affable and very rotund man who serves as the game's merchant, providing Ethan with weapons, supplies, and data.
• Mike from River City Ransom: Underground. He loves a ball, always has a huge smiling on his confront and is e'er stuffing said face. His sprite actually has his belly poking out from nether his shirt! His fighting style is fifty-fifty the most comedic and over-the-peak of all the playable characters.
• In RuneScape, the patron gorilla god of Ape Atoll turns out to exist a fun-loving Difficult-Drinking Party Girl, in contrast to her violently xenophobic simian followers.
• E Honda in his various adaptations throughout Street Fighter seems to have many friends and allies. Probably due to exactly how seriously he's taking the tournament. Equally of Street Fighter IV, he wants to join the IOC to brand Sumo Wrestling an official Olympic sport, he has friendly-yet-serious wrestling matches with Hakan over whether Sumo or Turkish Oil Wrestling is the "better" sport, and he's more than happy to supply El Fuerte with his recipe for Chenko Stew.
• Gordo the Circular in Skies of Arcadia starts off as a Fat Bounder, but he pulls a Heel–Face Turn, opens up his own gourmet eating house, and becomes the game's Large Fun after he is defeated.
• The Heavy of Team Fortress two, at least to his ain team. To everyone else, he's describable every bit "a big, shaved bear that hates people."
  • And unlike well-nigh other examples of this trope, the Heavy is actually strong and very well capable of fending for himself.
• Despite existence a skeleton, Sans from Undertale is rotund, and he unremarkably enjoys pulling pranks and making puns.
• The pandaren of World of Warcraft and its Mists of Pandaria expansion are an unabridged species of anthropomorphic pandas that beloved to swallow, drink, and be friendly. They besides practice kung fu, and the reason they're so jolly is because in Pandaria, negative emotions turn into demons.
  • They besides have a philosophy that the fatter you lot are, the stronger you lot are. To quote Chen: "Size equals strength" when his niece pointed out that he merely liked being around a fatter panda because he looked sparse in comparison. If you're familiar with Chen, he's definitely the WoW incarnation of Big Fun and Acro Fatic. Sentinel the cinematic where he kicks the donkey of two very stiff human being and orc warriors, WITHOUT BREAKING A SWEAT. Using only the handle for a barrel of beer.
• Miqol, father of Egil and Vanea from Xenoblade Chronicles and the leader of the Machina, is the fattest (semi-)biological character in the game, being about the size of the world's biggest ball of twine, and he's incredibly friendly and forthcoming to the party, who all hail from the opposing continental Titan of Bionis.

    Web Comics

• Reagan from Templar, AZ. Too existence a BBW and the owner of a porn store, she'south probably the funnest of all the cast to exist around.
• Another female example is Jamie from Girls with Slingshots, a BBW who is equally sweet, friendly, and helpful every bit she is... uh... boobs.
• Dead Winter's Lou Panzetti is the local fat Italian-by-claret plumber, whom is as cheerful, communicative, friendly, kind and smart as he is overweight. He's got a lot of flab just he'southward got a lot of centre to match.
• El Goonish Shive has Jerry, who proclaims himself to be "a friendly, jolly fat guy [...] like Jackie Gleason, or Santa Claus" to reassure Grace about his benign intentions (unfortunately, Grace has never heard of Santa Claus).
• Mooner, the "overweight political party catalyst" from Chainsawsuit's Boner College.

  Mooner: The fat makes me party way more and improve.

    Web Original

• BFF Nella. She has issues, of class (mostly to practise with being driveling) but she'due south a lot happier than the more conventionally pretty, jerkass, Broken Bird Nostalgia Chick.
• Both Jessica and Janel of Fat, French and Fabulous qualify, and they spend almost of the show cheerfully discussing death and dismemberment and joking back and along.
• Jon Jafari. Despite having been one one-half of Game Grumps he spends 70% of the show laughing, singing and being generally likeable and fun with his more reserved co-star Arin Hanson (Egoraptor).
• Large Chungus, an crawly variation of Bugs Bunny. Also, he's not fat, but thicc.
• Eddsworld: If the designs from the episode "Saloonatics" are canon, then Edd is both chubby and also enthusiastic and kindhearted (though he occasionally has moments where he acts similar a wiggle). It's worth noting that the real life Edd Gould (the show's creator and inspiration for the character of Edd) was this in existent life also.
• Manic Pixie Dream Wife: Chance is a big, fat, fun and fun-loving guy. Only occasionally he feels down... specially when his wife's antics become too much. And information technology turns out his work and life in full general made him very depressed, and that's why Simone felt she needed to go on auspicious him up and act her crazy and fun role-plays associated with manic-pixies.
• Shaz from Less Is Morgue is one of the largest characters in the cast, and they're also a limitless font of bizarre free energy and enthusiasm.
• Queen Lilie from the Britsune Garden Series. She isn't very fat, only she's often described every bit being "plump". At the same time, she's oftentimes shown to be a Cool Old Lady (though she has her moments where she acts serious).
• Professor Peter Port of RWBY is a, well, portly old professor, besides as a Boisterous Bruiser and Absurd Old Guy, whose lectures mostly consist of giving long-winded narrations virtually his youth hunting monsters, and giving some surprsingly deep advice to his students when they need it.

    Western Animation

• Both Flavio and Marita, the Hip-Hippos from Animaniacs. (Unfortunately, they're also Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense.)
• Iroh from Avatar: The Last Airbender is a jovial and amiable quondam man with a big belly. He's even funnier alongside his thinner and younger nephew, who takes everything seriously.
  • Pipsqueak acts this style. The fact that he calls himself "Pipsqueak" should be proof enough.
• Nanny from Count Duckula is this. She's jolly, appreciating and means well, if clumsy and scatterbrained.
• In The Legend of Korra, Bumi is a bouncy, pot-bellied guy who serves as a Cool Uncle to Tenzin's kids. He's fitter than nigh examples, though, since he does seem fairly active.
• Broadway from Gargoyles. Rarely seen without food, but is withal a fun guy.
• Kon Kujira from Grojband is the largest and heaviest member of the band, but also a cheerful, energetic, and fun-loving goofball.
• Referenced in Family unit Guy, when Peter angers Lois by commenting on her gaining weight;

  Peter: Geez, I thought you lot people were supposed to be jolly.

  • Before Flanderization, Peter used to be Big Fun Jerk with a Heart of Gold, but now is just a Fat Bounder.
• Fat Albert, of form! HEY, HEY, HEY!
• Gunther from Boot Buttowski.
• Badgerclops from Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Centre. His contagious express mirth helps.
• Coop from Megas XLR.
• The titular graphic symbol of Steven Universe along with Absurd Big Sis Amethyst. Both are very energetic and playful.
  • Smoky Quartz, their fusion, takes it upward to xi. They have the biggest BMI out of the main cast and tin can't resist whatever opportunity to brand a joke.
• Homer Simpson from The Simpsons, at to the lowest degree to himself.

  Homer: Marge, the boy was wearing a Hawaiian shirt.
  Marge: So?
  Homer: There's only two kind of guys who habiliment those shirts: gay guys and big, fat party animals. And Bart doesn't look like a big, fat party animal to me...
  Marge: So, if you wore a Hawaiian shirt, it wouldn't be gay?
  Homer: Right. Thank you.

  • Mr. Burns, of all people, is briefly this in "Guess Who'southward Coming To Criticize Dinner." During Homer'southward stint as a food critic, his blind love for all things food leads to a few Springfielders getting fattened up. The now obese Burns happily declares he's "never felt jollier" but his shins suddenly collapse once again.
• Meat from Sym-Bionic Titan has shades of this, although he might exist more of a Dumb Musculus.
• Spud, a member of the original Titan Forcefulness Five in Titan Maximum. By the events of the outset episode, he'south been expressionless for a while — he fell off a 400-story building during a cocaine binge with a prostitute. That guy really loved to political party.
• Owen from Total Drama. Easily one of the most excitable characters amidst the first generation.
  • Leshawna, but non to the aforementioned extent as Owen.
• Hoppopotamus from The Wuzzles is a rare female example.
• Gravity Falls has Soos, the portly, fun-loving Manchild handyman at the Mystery Shack. He's almost always eager to join Dipper and Mabel in their hijinks, whether it'southward hunting for monsters or using Mabel's "bezazzler" to make him a human disco ball.
• Sir Morris and Sir Boris from The Big Knights count equally this; the princesses' aunts Lily and Iris fifty-fifty more so, being fifty-fifty more jovial and boisterous distaff counterparts to the Big Knights.
• In an episode of The Critic, Jay meets with an image consultant in an endeavour to meliorate how people perceive him. At beginning, he thinks that the consultant will tell him to lose weight, but instead, he tells him he needs to exist "circular and jolly similar Santa Claus or Rush Limbaugh." Jay takes the advice too shut to heart and ends up about three times his original size! It turns out that Marlon Brando had the same image consultant.
• Gene from Bob'southward Burgers is hands the zaniest of the three Belcher children, too every bit the heaviest.
• Molly of Denali: Gramps Nat is just every bit energetic and fun-loving as his granddaughter, and, judging from his design, he appears to be a bit on the burly side.

    Real Life

• Gabriel Iglesias is a perfect example. But he's not fat, he'south "fluffy"!
• Daniel Lambert. Despite having worked every bit a gaol-keeper, he is all-time described as a squeamish guy and a loved local figure. Information technology helped that morbidly obese people weren't viewed every bit harshly in 18th/19th century England every bit they are now, but are rather regarded as marvels to be seen.
• Benjamin Franklin is the quintessential American case. As a junior printer, though, he was in excellent shape from carrying large cases of heavy lead type.
• U.S. President William Howard "Big Bill" Taft, known for his ambition and enormous size, was a man with impeccable morals. He was incredibly loyal (some might say blindly loyal) to his friends and his political party. One journalist wrote of him, "He seemed to me an American bison, a kind and gentle one." He was besides known for throwing lavish and expensive banquets at the White House.
• King Edward VII of the U.k. was fat and reputedly a Big Eater, yet he was a very competent ruler and one of the the most popular Kings the British people had.
• Andrew Zimmern, the bald and huge host of the bear witness Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. His usual arroyo to everything in life is with a smile and an optimistic mental attitude. He'll at least attempt a food, even if he finds it disgusting. He never gets outright angry or shows incredible disgust for anything. Not even the infamous durian, the only nutrient he absolutely cannot eat (even later trying 3 times, he withal couldn't swallow), was enough for him to direct upwards turn away from.
• A lot of rappers seem to cultivate this image. Guys like The Notorious B.I.G.., Fat Joe, and Cee Lo Green (despite simply being 5'five") are all pretty heavy and generally seeming like the blazon of people who knew how to party.
• Fitness guru Richard Simmons mocked this trope in his first self-assistance book, Never Say Diet, by way of a true-or-false quiz entitled "Are Fat People Jolly?" Basically, the reader was invited to choose whether or not certain health-related or societal consequences of existence overweight were fun to deal with:

  Not getting into the college of my choice because of a weight problem is jolly.

  Dying twenty years earlier than necessary is jolly.

  Being passed over for a job for an every bit-qualified candidate of ideal weight is jolly.

• G. Yard. Chesterton was six'4", weighed about 300 pounds, and had a famous beloved for nonsense, paradox, and whimsy.
• This article noting the personality traits that crusade weight gain are: being neurotic, being an extrovert, being open to feel, and agreeability. The last three are very jolly traits.
• Downplayed with the late weatherman Willard Scott. He was six'3'', butterball, and certainly jovial, just nearly of the time he possessed a childlike naïveté and made friends easily. To the signal where similarly Big Fun weatherman Al Roker made a joke almost it in the 1995 Macy's Thanksgiving Mean solar day Parade: "We got 45 meg people watching [the parade] at habitation[...] that'southward only about 8 more than than Willard knows personally."
• The antidepressant Mirtazapine, as a side effect, causes an increased appetite and every bit such people who are taking it oft put on a decent amount of weight. Not exactly "fun", merely antidepressants will usually make yous more sociable, at least.
• BRIAN BLESSED has a reputation for both loudness and a mostly expert nature. Though more than soft-spoken and moderated in private, he fully understands that the public love his Large Ham tendencies and he goes right forth with it, complete with infectious laugh and a voice that can just be described equally 'distinctive.'
• Jazz pianist Fats Waller wasn't chosen that for nothing. He was likewise a man of impressive summit (both fat, tall and jolly). He was surely 1 of the funniest and nearly likable guys to hang around with in Harlem during The Peachy Depression.
• Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has this as his public epitome.
• Guy Fieri has a persona of existence a big cheerful goofball for his evidence Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, but other shows reveal that he'due south e'er had an enthusiastic goodnatured streak. Even when presented with food that isn't to his taste, he nevertheless goes for information technology and never talks down a host restaurant.
• Jack Black certainly plays up this persona. Definitely a stubby guy, he comes off as a lovable, gregarious goof.
• Steve Irwin was a bit on the burly side and was Fun Personified, taking great pride and joy in his piece of work as an animal conservationist - a career that saw him come face-to-face with all manners of dangerous creatures, all of whom he faced with a large heart and a big personality.

• Comedian Bert Kreischer certainly plays upwards this persona. A big guy at half dozen feet with a prominent belly (even more than visible since he's also a Walking Shirtless Scene), several $.25 in his standup are about him existence quite the political party fauna, and sometimes even has drinks with his fans after shows.
• Part of the reason why actors and crews loved working with Albert R. Broccoli on the James Bail films was considering he'd have them to shoot in exotic locales and make certain people enjoyed the experience. If things went wrong, he'd do what he tin can to cheer people upward. For example, when everyone became miserable over bad food during the production of The Spy Who Loved Me, he first arranged for familiar treats to be trucked in from England. When the cargo arrived more often than not stolen and spoiled, he cobbled together a big pot of spaghetti which was greatly appreciated and raised people'southward spirits.
• Children's author and illustrator Tomie dePaola is remembered by those who knew and loved him — family, friends, colleagues, and the lucky fans who met him — every bit a big sweetheart, with a childlike sense of joy and a ready express joy. Around the late 90's and early 2000s, he put on a off-white corporeality of weight ^note though it seems that he slimmed down slightly toward the end of his life, which added to his image equally a true teddy acquit of a man.
• Fat cats (as in literal ones, not rich corporate executives) are very pop due to their reputation as lazy however adorable every bit well equally a meme about "chonky" cats, or "chonks" for brusque. The Facebook group "THIS True cat IS C H O N Chiliad Y" was initially focused around these types of cats, although information technology has since become a general purpose true cat appreciation grouping.

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