Chubby Chaser/Playing With

• Basic Trope: Someone is attracted to people who are overweight or obese.
• Played Straight: Bob lusts after Alice, a BBW.
• Exaggerated: Bob thinks that Alice is still far too thin to be attractive, despite her being twice his size.
• Justified: People can be attracted to all different body types, and Bob likes 'em full-figured. Furthermore, he is not only attracted to Alice physically, but likes her personality too.
• Inverted:
  • Bob only likes women who are thin.
  • Bob is a chubby man who lusts after the rail-thin Alice.
• Subverted: Bob likes Alice who is, at worst, Hollywood Pudgy.
• Double Subverted:
  • But he likes her figure, compared to that of her size-2 best friend.
  • Bob finds Alice attractive. But he reveals that he finds her attractive despite her skinny physique, not because of it.
• Deconstructed: Bob is attracted to Alice, but doesn't want to be seen with her in public.
• Reconstructed:
  • Bob gradually comes to terms with his attraction to Alice.
  • Bob might not want to be seen with Alice, but Charlotte is happy to date her in public.
• Parodied: Bob goes to Weight Watchers' meetings to pick up women.
• Lampshaded: Alice, a slim woman, wants to ask Bob out. But her friend Charlotte points out that Every woman Bob ever dated got fat within the month."
• Averted:
  • Bob does not have any Love Interests in-story.
  • There are no women in the story who are fat or even a little chubby.
  • Bob has no weight preference whatsoever.
• Enforced: There are no skinny women in the series, or skinny women are portrayed as unappealing.
• Invoked: Bob puts an ad in the personals or uses a dating website specifically to find a Big Beautiful Woman.
• Defied: Bob thinks an obese woman is unhealthy and unattractive, and only dates unhealthily skinny women.
• Discussed: Danny is talking to Bob about "That episode of Family Guy, where Lois gets fat for Peter." Bob, who claims not to understand the appeal of full-figured women, later falls in love at first sight with the new girl, Alice, and acts like Peter, asking her to gain more weight.
• Conversed: Two characters talk about how annoying it is that their neighbourhood seems to have absolutely no full-figured women.
• Played For Laughs: There are constant corny sight gags about Bob trying to pick up Alice and failing, and buying her enormous slices of cake and so on...
• Played For Drama: Alice has always felt bad about her size, and has tried every diet and trick out there. Bob finds her attractive, and helps her become more confident in herself.

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