Big Fun/Playing With

Basic Trope: An overweight character is fun, lovable, and funny.

• Straight: Gus, who's quite a bit overweight, is likable and fun.
• Exaggerated: Gus weighs upwards of 600 pounds and throws such great parties that people come from miles around.
• Justified: Gus has always been fun and lovable, and gained that weight from eating all that party food.
• Inverted: Gus is a Fat Bastard, and his skinny companion Hank is a wild party animal.
• Subverted: Gus initially appears friendly and fun, but it turns out it's just a ruse and he's a Fat Bastard...
• Double Subverted: ...which turns out to be another one of Gus's party pranks.
• Deconstructed: Gus's fun exterior personality masks his crippling inner insecurity about his weight.
• Reconstructed: Gus's fun exterior personality, although masking a crippling inner insecurity about his weight, truly makes him very likable and ends up making a lot of friends who like him the way he is. He eventually learns to feel comfortable in his own skin and like himself the way he is.
• Invoked: Gus, tired of getting picked on about his weight, decides to throw an awesome party so people will see him better, and it works.
• Zig Zagged:
  • Gus sometimes throws great parties and sometimes throws really crappy ones.
  • Sometimes Hank throws the good parties, sometimes Gus, and sometimes they throw them together.
• Averted: Gus is neither particularly overweight nor particularly fun or lovable.
• Enforced: "Everyone knows the fat guy is the fun guy! Make him a party animal!"
• Lampshaded: "Are all fat guys this fun?"
• Defied: "Just because I'm big doesn't mean I have to throw parties all the time!"
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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