Dead Weight/Playing With

Basic Trope: A fat zombie

• Played Straight: Bob is turned into a zombie, who is a little on the portly side.
• Exaggerated: Bob is disgustingly obese as a zombie
  • Everyone in the Big Fat Future is turned into Dead Weight during a Zombie Apocalypse
• Downplayed: Bob is Hollywood Pudgy at worst
• Justified:
  • Bob has been feasting on flesh...and lots of it
  • Bob's zombification process involved putrification, which led to gases building up and making him look bloated.
  • Bob was rather chubby before he became a zombie
  • Bob is a Mook Maker: he is a containment chamber for smaller creatures that spread the infection. (Think the squid things in Halo or the Swarmers in Dead Space.)
• Inverted: Bob is a very skinny zombie.
• Subverted: Bob appears no fatter than any other zombies around.
• Double Subverted: But after eating plenty of Brain Food, he gains a substantial amount of weight
• Deconstructed:
• Reconstructed:
• Parodied:
  • Bob complains about not being able to fit into his now-ragged clothing.
  • A Zombie Apocalypse in a Big Fat Future setting
  • Fat or Hollywood Pudgy zombies are seen attempting to follow a workout video.
• Lampshaded:
• Averted:
  • No fat zombies
  • No zombies, period.
• Enforced:
• Invoked: Bob's nonstop feasting on flesh causes him to gain weight.
• Defied: Bob doesn't eat too much and doesn't gain weight.
• Discussed:
• Conversed:
• Played For Laughs: Insert any jokes about fat people here.
• Played For Drama:
  • Bob is eating everything in his path...and is really hard to destroy.
  • Bob becomes an Action Bomb

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You know, you seem to have put on a few pounds since you turned into a zombie...