"In case you're wondering, yes, he REALLY is that fat! He's ORCA! He's horrific!"
— Sharona Fleming, Monk: "Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale"
Gluttony (Gula), one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
There are the villains who provoke moral outrage. Others are funny or even somewhat likeable. Some arouse carnal desires. A rare few inspire twisted admiration. And then, there's pure disgust. That's what this guy — and it's very commonly a guy — is for. He consumes. He devours. He gives nothing back. Meet: the Villainous Glutton.
The Villainous Glutton tends to run visually opposite to the Lean and Mean character. He will usually be a very bulky Fat Bastard, although not necessarily obese; his eating habits symbolize his Greed and lust for power, rarities, food, or whatever else he may be after. In some cases, some sort of powers may be the source of that bulk, too; alternately, the character may be muscular, but the drawing style will still usually result in a clearly "fat" look. While the Villainous Glutton is often played as an Evil Counterpart to the Big Eater, his consumption can be purely symbolic.
Typically Large and in Charge, and very prone to karmic Death by Gluttony.
Historically, this was a favorite charge of historians trying to tarnish the name of a political enemy. The Romans were particularly fond of the tactic, with emperors like Caligula, Nero, Vitellius, and Elagabalus described as hosting massive and extravagant banquets—usually to highlight their immorality, frivolity, and unfitness to rule. Similarly, Charles the Fat, the last Carolingian emperor, was first given that nickname by a historian three centuries after his death.
If the Villainous Glutton also eats in a way that's just plain disgusting, he's got Jabba Table Manners and is likely a Fat Slob; if his meal consists of endangered species or something similar, it may be an Exotic Entree. If the villain's overindulgence is portrayed as wasteful, it's also a case of Wicked Wastefulness. See also Adipose Rex (specifically for obese monarchs), Fat, Sweaty Southerner in a White Suit, and Seven Deadly Sins. Contrast Fat Bastard (a character who really is fat and is a Jerkass, but may or may not be an actual villain) and Gonk (an anime trope usually played for a combination of Squick and Comic Relief).
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- Air Gear: Buccha was like this before his Heel–Face Turn. He's a subversion (possibly a double one), though. He's a Big Eater who looks very fat... but he's only got about 6% body fat. He looks the way he does due to blood pooling in his stomach from overeating (which means that his gluttony is the reason he looks that way). When he exerts himself, his ridiculously sculpted body is revealed.
- Attack on Titan: The Titans exist to eat. They don't even have digestive organs. So when they get full, they puke up the people they devoured, and go eating some more. But not out of gluttony. They eat people on instinct because they might be Titan Shifters, and eating a Titan Shifter is the only way for a Mindless Titan to regain humanity.
- Black Butler: Sebastian's entire reason for making a deal to be Ciel's butler, and all the hard work that comes with that, is so that he can eat his soul once their contract is fulfilled. To that end, he "seasons" up the already suffering boy's soul by corrupting him further.
- Digimon Tamers: Beelzebumon is known as one of the Seven Great Demon Lords. While the Beelzebumon appearing in the series might not be a member of them, he does display the Deadly Sin associated with the Demon Lord: gluttony. Beelzebumon loads the data of the Digimon he kills into himself, making him stronger and stronger in the progress, to the point that he's able to defeat Megidramon, who is known as one of the Four Great Dragons. He isn't even above to load the data of Digimon his enemy has killed just to get a power boost. However, after getting his life spared by the person whose Partner Digimon he has just killed and consumed, he begins to question his gluttony for power and realizes how empty he feels. When he returns to the Real World and reunites with his two partners, their Power of Friendship and Power of Love give him the true strength he has desired for long, turning him into an Ascended Demon and he abandons his gluttony for good.
- Dragon Ball:
- Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies: The Blood Rubies turned King Gurumes into a monstrous beast with an insatiable appetite which only grows the more he eats.
- Dragon Ball Z: Majin Buu (most prominently Fat Buu, but Super Buu also loves indulging his Sweet Tooth) in the Buu Saga. It says a lot that he transforms people into candy and eats them...
- Final Fantasy: Unlimited: His weight is questionable due to his outfit, but Earl Tyrant definitely fits the glutton part. 90% of his scenes take place with him eating something or other, usually made from the negative emotions of his "subjects".
- Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics: "The Fox and the Wolf": The wolf is always complaining about wanting to eat. It costs him in the end.
- Hellsing: The Big Bad the Major is the only fat character in the cast, causing a few potshots about his weight from other characters, including one of his own minions, though it doesn't seem to affect him. Additionally, some of the vampires are seen gorging themselves during the series, they simply don't get bigger because of it.
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind: Due to his position in the mob, Polpo gets to stay well protected in a posh prison cell, surrounded by food. His Laser-Guided Karma hits him when Giornio changes a gun into a banana and tricks Polpo into shooting himself.
- Kishin Douji Zenki: Subverted. One of the first monsters that Chiaki and Zenki face in the anime is one of these, but just like almost every monster in this series he turns out to be an average person under the brainwashing effects of the Karma Seeds; normally he's just a Reasonable Authority Figure who happens to be a Big Eater and the Principal of Chiaki's high school, and when de-brainwashed he returns to his original self without any memories of what happened. The episode even has a short scene where the future victim's large appetite is Played for Laughs and offers a HUGE contrast to his greedy behavior as a monster.
- Make the Exorcist Fall in Love: A very dark take on it. The Seven Lords of Sin are individually themed around the Seven Deadly Sins. Beelzebub naturally serves as the Lord of Gluttony, and he is easily the most monstrous of them all. Rather than embodying mere overindulgence, Beelzebub represents the inherent malice of survival—all living beings can only survive by killing others, whether directly or indirectly. Beelzebub embraces this aspect of nature, taking glee in inflicting pain and devouring anyone who might satisfy his appetite. The "Gluttony" aspect of his characterization comes into play in that, while it's a necessary part of survival to eat and hurt other beings, Beelzebub relishes in the inherent pleasure of it.
Beelzebub: "I am man's true nature. Take that lass. She smiled as she declared her ability to tear me to bits. The thought of winning wasn't all that brought you joy, correct? You can't hide from the truth. The delight in watching life being snuffed out... the joy in the procedure of it all... you can't deny it. Life is a form of violence."
- My Hero Academia: There is a one-shot villain appropriately named "Glutton God" who leads a small group of bandits who steal food from others during the Darkest Hour where villains are running rampant through the streets (he even appears to have a power that looks like he is producing grease). Glutton God aims to claim all of the food for himself, but is quickly taken out by Best Jeanist.
- One Piece:
- Wapol, who actually has eating as a power: He ate the Baku-Baku (Munch-Munch) Fruit, which not only lets him eat anything, but incorporate the aspects of what he's eaten into his body. In a bizarre subversion though, Wapol ends up being Lean and Mean as well: he actually eats his own excess bulk to fit through a door. Nobody knows how that works. Ask the writer. That'll be good for a laugh.
- Commodore Nelson is extremely obese, almost always seen eating, to the point of immobility that he use his own soldiers to carry him around.
- Alvida, a villainess from an early arc exhibits a distinct cowboy motif and so much pork it's a wonder she can move. She's utterly convinced that she's the most beautiful thing on the seas. Later on she reappears, having eaten the Slip-Slip fruit. In addition to giving her a smooth, frictionless complexion, it seems to have made her excess weight "slip" off as well; she makes a point of stating that "the only change is that my acne is gone", though, so she might not have changed her diet any. (Her name was Alvida the Iron Mace)
- Charlotte "Big Mom" Linlin, who torches countries for failing to deliver candy on time to satisfy her Sweet Tooth, and, oh yeah, eats her own crewmen alive just because. Later events show she has an eating disorder outright, that leads to bouts of hunger-induced rage in which everything between her and a desired meal will get destroyed and devoured without her even being aware of it.
- Sailor Moon: Queen Esmeraude. In episode 76, she binges on pastries alongside Usagi (who is quite gluttonous herself), to the disturbance of all the customers inside.
- Samurai Shodown: Earthquake is a tremendously large and fat ninja, who is actually rather agile.
- Speed Grapher: Prime Minister Kamiya, an incredibly corrupt and greedy high-class politician who is also fat and a Big Eater. It's played even straighter when he becomes an even fatter and uglier Euphoric.
- Tokyo Ghoul has several, as a result of the strong focus on food and consumption.
- Rize Kamishiro is an unusual example. While she looks like a beautiful and slim woman, she is actually an infamous Ghoul known as "Binge Eater" for her tendency to go on brutal feeding sprees. While normally Ghouls only need to eat a single human about once every month or so, she steals hunting grounds from weaker Ghouls and throws any Ward she enters into chaos with her constant feeding.
- Noro, one of the commanders of Aogiri Tree. A towering, silent figure primarily known for his abnormal appetite and an unusual smell of rotting flesh. He uses multiple Combat Tentacles ending in large mouths to devour anything (or anyone) unlucky enough to be within range.
- In the sequel, Seidou Takizawa has become one. His transformation into a deranged Half-Human Hybrid is cemented by his enjoyment of going on killing sprees and feasting on former comrades. He's almost always splattered with blood and gore, messily eating his victims in front of their friends.
- Toriko:
- Midora. Ever since he was born he's been cursed with a hunger that cannot be satiated. He is the biggest and most disgusting eater in a series full of big eaters and he founded an entire organization of like-minded individuals. One of the reasons he is searching for the legendary ingredient "GOD" is because it may be the only food that can satisfy him.
- Taken to the extreme with the Neo demon, main villain of the manga who can eat everything and everyone on the planet in less than a month, and will do it, if someone doesn't stop him. Not only is this thing considered a treat of a galactic level, just because he eats to much, but also he can eat pretty much everything, including enemy attacks.
- Trigun has Legato Bluesummers, The Dragon to the series' main villain, is a more lean Bishōnen example of this trope than usual. His dietary choices in the anime are not huge meals but rather totally mundane foods – but these meals are juxtaposed with acts of ruthless sadism. Whether it's his introduction in episode 12 of the anime where he eats a hot dog and gives a second hot dog to a little girl – pulling it out of the same bag that contains a human head) – or the diner scene in episode 15 where he indulges in cheesecake before forcing several people to kill themselves, Legato somehow manages to make a simple meal unbearably tense. In the manga it's arguably worse, as due to massive injuries he sustains, Legato eventually must eat his meals without the use of his arms, and dives into a plate of steak face-first to messily tear it to pieces.
- Umineko: When They Cry:
- Beelzebub of is the second youngest of the Stakes of Purgatory. At one point in the side materials, she gives Valentine's Day chocolate to Gohda, the Ushiromiya family chef so that he'll return the favor on White Day (and sure enough, he immediately flies to Belgium). She's even willing to use bits of her own flesh if she thinks it will make a good meal. She isn't fat, though.
- She's regarded as the gourmet of the Seven Stakes, and while she is in fact a Big Eater, she's also notoriously picky about her meals.
Comic Books
- Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts: The Spanish Lord in "Salty Horse" is made to look more and more grotesque and unhinged as the story goes on, his desire for horse-meat turning him into a fat, rabid monster.
- Asterix in Switzerland gives us Varius Flavus, the obese and hedonistic Governer of Condatum (modern day Rennes in France), who embezzles tax money meant for Rome to fund lavish orgies in which he can stuff his face. He eats entirely with his hands and is almost always covered in whatever he's eating at the moment. His ally, Governor Curius Odus of Helvetia (modern day Switzerland) isn't much better, also spending time holding similar feasts instead of actually running his territory.
- The DCU:
- Batman: Gregorian Falstaff was a Corrupt Corporate Executive business rival of Bruce Wayne in the 1980s (and ultimately a front man for Ra's al Ghul). He was always depicted eating, usually with a leg of lamb in his hand like Henry the Eighth.
- The Books of Magic: The demon Barbatos is a manipulative scoundrel whose deviousness is matched only by how fond he is of sweets and junk food.
- Green Lantern: While not fat, Agent Orange, leader of the Orange Lantern Corps. In the emotional spectrum, Orange represents selfishness and greed, and Agent Orange is the greediest creature to ever live; When the Controllers discovered his secluded base, they discover he'd been revelling in the consumption of extremely rotten and disgusting food. True to form, he's the only true member of the corps; the others are all spirits of the people he killed in his constant search for more. Interrupting his meal is also the reason why he's became active again.
The Orange Lanterns under his thrall are all immensely greedy themselves, including among their number a literal god of hunger and Glomulus, who was used as a garbage disposal all his life. Agent Orange's hunger is in fact a direct result of being the bearer of the orange light of avarice. He is constantly plagued by a hunger that is seemingly impossible to satisfy no matter how much he eats. When Green Lantern Hal Jordan tried taking away his orange power battery it exerted a similar effect, and even though he just held onto it for a second or so he was starving right after.
Leads to a Funny Moment when he arrives at a casino hotel in Vegas. When he spots the "All-you-can-eat" Buffet, he reacts like a pilgrim finally reaching Mecca. - Plop!: The first issue's final story "The Gourmet" is about an obese man named Vernon Glute who's obsessed with eating frog's legs in large amounts.
- Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter: Guano Cravat is an industrialist and weapons dealer who likes to chow down.
- Titans (2008): Raven discovers that she has six half brothers who each inherited powers based on the Seven Deadly Sins. One of them is a short, fat, bald kid. Three guesses as to which sin he embodies.
- Wonder Woman Vol 1: Zara is a glutton for the finer things in life, though not necessarily food. She has no patience when it comes to spending her ill gotten gains and loves indulging herself, this is somewhat understandable as she was sold as a slave as a child and was therefore deprived of the luxuries she now finds she can steal from others.
- Dick Tracy:
- The villain Oodles. At one point, he orders five gallons of chop suey, twelve frozen t-bone steaks, twenty-five pounds of barbecued ribs, five pounds of shrimp in sauce and five gallons of spaghetti.
- The villain Pouches was one of these, to the point where he once worked as the Half-Ton Man at a carnival freak show. He's since dropped the weight, but was left with so many skin folds he now uses them to hide stolen items and weapons in the skin.
- The Phantom: General Tara of Tarakimo is a classic self-indulgent crassly fat villain. He gobbles whole chickens with only his hands while seated on a throne, and his over-decorated dress uniforms barely disguise his big belly. Obesity, overall, is a characteristic shared by many of the bad guys in this strip.
- Preacher: Allfather D'Aronique, the original leader of The Grail before Herr Starr takes it over - he's too fat to move under his own power, and bulimic to boot. He's so heavy that he wrecks passenger jets upon landing.
Starr: (while watching a jet's landing gear break) Every fucking time...
- Another Marvel villain, the Slug, a drug czar from Miami, is nearly twice the size of the Kingpin, and could smother people in the folds of his fat. He can also barely move at all, though. As you might expect, he's a joke. He is known to be a glutton, eating almost constantly, but that may be out of necessity, simply to survive.
- Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW):
- Whenever things don't go Eggman's way, he typically engages in some Comfort Food, such as after Starline "ruined his good mood", he leaves the room to go grab something to eat, or in Issue #56 after he fails to retrieve the Dynamo Cage, he asks Metal Sonic to have a snack prepared when he returns to Eggperial City. This isn't limited to eating when having a bad time, as in Issue #59, he grabs a bowl of popcorn while watching his Shadow Androids overpower Sonic and his backup during the Eggperial City siege. When he meets with Team Sonic in a diner, he snappily orders a "Super Slam" with Extra Ham and a coffee before discussing his proposition with the heroes. The Super Slam consists of at least two eggs, naturally, and his extra ham is a large portion. He speedily eats through his meal between the time it arrives and when Sonic accepts his deal.
- Much like his game counterpart, Zomom is a Fat Idiot whose primary motivation is eating food. During the Metal Virus Saga, he forces an entire town to give him food under threat of death, and when he's later caged up by the local village, they are able to placate him by simply feeding him food.
- Superman: Secret Origin depicts Rudy Jones as an obese glutton prior to becoming the Parasite, with his Establishing Character Moment having him manipulate Clark into giving him his lunch by presumably lying about skipping breakfast. Incidentally, his transformation into the Parasite happens because he picked up and ate a donut he just dropped onto the floor after it was exposed to some spilled chemical waste, with his ravenous appetite then warped into a desire to drain everyone's life energy.
- Terry and the Pirates: Papa Pyzon is an obese villain who's constantly eating.
- Tomorrow Stories: One of the First American's recurring enemies is Fatwah Arbuckle, the Guzzlin' Muslim. His first story shows him swallowing a live cow and later placated with Mistress Fruit Pies.
- X-Men:
- The Blob is a possible example. In the comics, his bulk is due to his mutation, but in X-Men: Evolution, he was already very fat before he developed his powers. His Ultimate Universe incarnation clearly fits the trope and then some, to the point where he once paused during an attack on the Ultimates' mansion to raid the fridge. Far less funny was the time he was discovered eating the Wasp's corpse.
- Shadow King is a particularly sadistic example. He's a demonic psychic entity that becomes addicted to eating whenever he possesses someone. Shadow King ruins other peoples' physiques while satisfying his own cravings. The really horrifying part is that this isn't even the worst thing Shadow King does to his hosts/victims.
Fan Works
- Ask Jappleack has Appelox, a reality-eating monster who desires to consume the multiverse by devouring entire planes of existence.
- Auditors, Contracts, and Social Worker: The Motor Devil lets Kobeni use its power in exchange for eating whatever food is in her stomach every time she uses it. If Kobeni's stomach doesn't have any food in it when she tries using her contract with the Motor Devil, it will begin to eat her internal organs.
- Avenger of Steel: The Beast feeds on pain, suffering and despair, boasting a morbidly obese human shell. He's willing to work with Trigon because he wishes to feed upon the agony felt by the entire universe as it's snuffed out, even if that results in his own demise.
- Black Queen, Red King has Rex, a changeling who feeds upon emotions, causing his Gluttony to overlap with Lust.
- Cain (MHA): Katsuki's Gluttony takes the form of his all-encompassing desire for attention. Having had his ego fed by all the praise his teachers and peers heaped upon him at Aldera, Katsuki fully believes that everyone should bend over backwards catering to his every whim, and that he deserves to be the only one who gets what he wants.
- Ed, Edd n Eddy/Devilman: crybaby: King Ghidorah feeds upon despair, and constantly compares his rampages to dining out. He also considers Ryo/Satan to be a "waiter" that has served him incredible amounts of delicious suffering to gorge upon.
- Equestria: A History Revealed: As part of her efforts to defame Princess Celestia, Loose Change depicts her as being utterly obsessed with cake, to the point that she accidentally created Chrysalis in a failed attempt to conjure up some magical pastries.
- Kaiju Revolution: The Skullcrawlers devour large numbers of the creatures on the surface of Skull Island not because they're desperate for food, but simply because they're experiencing new tastes they didn't have underground.
- The Legend of Spyro: A New Dawn: Commander Hades is both money-hungry and gluttonous. At one point, he has several of his Mooks fight Spyro while he eats an entire boar by himself.
- Marooned in Madagascar: The Hidden Villain of The Odd Family is a large predator who intends to pick off the lemurs one by one.
- Sing to Me: The gangster Botan is introduced loudly devouring a large tray of food with Jabba Table Manners.
- With This Ring (2013):
- When Paul was fused with The Ophidian, he underwent a form of Avarice Enlightenment as part of regaining his original identity rather than remaining a fusion of himself and the Avarice Elemental. Unfortunately, this included having to confront his own basic urges taken to greedy extremes, including violence, lust, and gluttony, which he wasn't the least bit happy to do, despite knowing that what he experienced himself doing wasn't actually real. At the end of it all, Paul had a vision of himself as The One True Soul, in a universe where he'd used to Orange Light to devour every living thing and turned them all into constructs, essentially turning the whole universe into a giant clockwork where everyone did what they were supposed to do rather than act illogically and unreasonably.
- Blume, The God of Hunger, makes an appearance here as well, as one of the constructs sent out by Larfleeze to find Paul and get his rings back. He devours part of the asteroid fields around Saturn on his way to Earth (which is where Paul kept the gold he mined out), and it's revealed that before Larfleeze consumed him, Blume used to force planets to hand over their mineral wealth for him to devour. One planet didn't have that many minerals to give him, and Blume took their children instead.
Folklore
- The Big Bad Wolf more often than not receives this treatment:
- Little Red Riding Hood: The wolf eats both Little Red and her grandma before falling asleep.
- In some versions of The Three Little Pigs, the wolf eats two of the pigs before succumbing to his eventual fate.
- The Wolf and the Fox: In this story a greedy, lazy and gluttonous wolf enslaves a fox to bring him food. In the end, he falls for the fox's trap and eats all of the farmer's food in the cellar - because of this he cannot escape due to having eaten so much, and eventually dies at the hands of the farmer.
- The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids: The wolf eats six of the young goats, with some versions depicting him as still hungry afterwards.
Films — Animation
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Mayor Shelbourne initially seems to be the well-meaning mayor of Swallow Falls, but when main protagonist Flint Lockwood invents a machine capable of creating food-based weather, he gradually reveals his true colors. He gains increasingly immense weight from overindulging on the machine-generated food, and as his size increases, so does his desire to capitalize off of the machine. Out of a selfish desire to turn Swallow Falls into a tourist attraction, he manipulates Lockwood into inputting increasingly chaotic orders into the machine. This eventually culminates in not just Swallow Falls, but the world itself being devastated by a storm of oversized food.
- Disney Animated Canon:
- Beauty and the Beast (1991): Although not fat, Gaston eats five dozen eggs for breakfast. He's incredibly muscular and athletic, so unlike most versions of this trope, he most likely needs that amount of food.
- The Lion King (1994): The hyenas are gluttonous to a fault; Scar's negligence in reining them in is part of the reason his reign as king results in suffering for Pride Rock, as their greed results in a food shortage for the rest of the animals of the area. In The Lion King (2019), Scar even tells us "A hyena's belly is never full". Unfortunately for him, the hyenas' gluttony make them quick to turn upon him when Simba defeats him and reclaims Pride Rock. Unusual for this trope, Shenzi and crew aren't fat, instead being Lean and Mean.
- The Little Mermaid (1989): Ursula's figure heavily implies that she's this, but it's actually an Averted trope for her in the film on its own. She eats one single shrimp in her first scene and then nothing else for the duration of the film. It's actually the heroes we see eating the big meals. She does monologue about missing the palace's meals, which is likely meant to imply that she was gluttonous before her banishment. The Broadway version adds to this with Ursula's song "I Want The Good Times Back", where it's made pretty clear that what she misses most about living in King Triton's palace is the huge amount of gourmet meals she was allowed to eat.
- Moana: Although Tamatoa is mainly associated with vanity, it seems that anything not shiny enough to go on his shell winds up in his belly. During his brief time onscreen he eats an entire school of fish, tries to eat both Moana and Maui, and even boasts about eating his own grandma.
- Felix the Cat Saves Christmas has the Professor's incompetent henchman Rock Bottom depicted this way. He gets easily distracted by a family's Christmas dinner at one point and in another scene Felix and Poindexter manage to sneak past him by distracting him with a steak.
- In KPop Demon Hunters, the demon king Gwi-Ma is a living flame with an insatiable hunger for human souls. He's enslaved the entire demon race to make them gather souls to feed his appetite.
- The Magic Pudding: Buncle is this in spades, as he's an antagonist who desires the titular magic pudding and has enslaved people to produce more food for him to eat.
- The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie Boogie tries to eat Santa Claus and also Sally when she tries to save Santa.
- Over the Hedge: Vincent the Bear stockpiles food in his cave before he hibernates. Even close to the end of his hibernation, he still has a pile of food even bigger than he is, and given RJ's reaction to the idea of taking some, he isn't keen on sharing. It's noticeable that Vincent also likes to collect the "Do Not Feed the Animals" signs that have been placed near his cave.
- Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure: The Greedy, an Eldritch Abomination of sweets and taffy, is always eating the candy coming out of his body.
- Spirited Away: No-Face is deluded enough by the greed that surrounds the bathhouse to where he pays with gold to eat anything in there. Besides that, he eats the employees themselves. It isn't until Chihiro feeds him medicine from the River Spirit that he spits out everything he ate and is cured of the toxicity of the bathhouse.
Films — Live-Action
- Austin Powers: Fat Bastard is slightly sympathetic after he opens up about his weight problem, and ends up dropping most of the weight by the end of the third movie.
- Barb Wire: Big Fatso appears to live in a crane, and do nothing but eat and get fatter and get money. He's also evil.
- Blade (1998): Pearl is a vampire who has become morbidly obese from overindulging on blood. The script originally called for Pearl to dine on babies.
- Conspiracy (2001): Dr. Klopfer is an obnoxious, obese Nazi who indulges himself with the food and other niceties prepared for the attendees in the Wannsee villa. He's still mowing down leftovers when the other Nazis have already departed.
- The Dark Crystal: The aptly named Gourmand is the only pudgy Skeksis, who normally look gaunt and vulture-like. He was originally the Skeksis' court cook, but over time lost interest in working his kitchens and relegated his former tasks to his Podling slaves, and now just busies himself with eating.
- The Hobbit: The three trolls become a problem for the company because they were hungry and stole some of their ponies and later were going to roast the dwarves after capturing them. Gollum took advantage of an injured goblin to kill and eat and when seeing Bilbo wanted to eat him too, though his emaciated appearance sets him apart from the trolls.
- The Interview: A fictionalized version of Kim Jong-un is displayed as this, eating so well that he's enormous while the millions of people in his country are starving. Instead of feeding his people some genuine food not made of plastic and wood, he feeds them radio and TV propaganda.
- Jurassic Park (1993): We're introduced to Dennis Nedry at a restaurant where he's just finishing up an unnecessarily large meal with his table littered with numerous empty plates. Before the scene changes, he gets Dogdson to pay for his meal after being handed a gigantic bag of money, and then keeps eating. His work station is later seen as completely littered with candy bar wrappers.
- Little Shop of Horrors: Audrey II craves human blood consistently and aggressively demands Seymour to be fed.
- Nosferatu (2024): Orlok's feeding is a disgusting display, with ravenous heaving and visceral sucking and slurping noises. Ellen turns it against him in the end, encouraging Orlok to keep gorging himself on her blood so that he won't notice the break of dawn, stealing the last few seconds where Orlok might have been able to escape death.
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?: Big Dan Teague (played by John Goodman) takes the main characters on a picnic and is seem polishing off the remains before he even starts talking to them. He turns out to be a conman, mugger, and Ku Klux Klan leader. One-eyed, Big Dan represents the cyclops Polyphemus in O Brother Where Art Thou's inspirational source, The Odyssey.
- Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky: The Assistant Warden is introduced eating enough food for a dozen men, with a steak so rare it's bloody as the centerpiece. As the second-in-command of a Hellhole Prison, he's about as evil as they come.
- Spaceballs: Pizza the Hutt. Not only is he a glutton, but he's edible. A henchman tells him that he's "delicious", which he takes as a compliment. Unfortunately for him, at the end of the film, he locks himself inside his limousine and eats himself to death.
- Star Wars:
- Jabba the Huttnote . Jabba can eat people alive.
- In fact, in Hutt society, a Hutt's physical size can determine its social status. Jabba gained a lot of weight between the first movie and the third, and during that time period, he had gained enough influence to practically rule Tatooine.
- This Gun for Hire: Laird Cregar is best remembered as the prissy chocoholic villain Willard Gates, who letches after Veronica Lake and pays off Alan Ladd in "hot" money to sic the cops on him. Ironically, Cregar wanted to be a matinee idol and wrecked his health with a crash diet, dying at age 31.
- This Is the End: Danny McBride. James Franco complains that McBride, who was fat before the movie began, somehow managed to gain weight during the apocalypse by eating up half the food in Franco's house, even when Franco can't just waltz on over to the grocery store and buy some more food when his house is surrounded by fire, lava, monsters and sinkholes.
- Wonka: The Chief of Police is bribed with over thousands of boxes of chocolate by the Chocolate Cartel to put an end to Wonka's services. He accepts, eventually getting so heavy that he is barely able to exit his car.
- Zorro (1975): Sergeant Garcia, the Fat Bastard second-in-command of the main villain, indulges in feasts and gluttony, while the civilians of Nueva Aragón barely have any food. One of his first scenes have Garcia gobbling down a massive three-layer sandwich, on a table laden with food, as several hungry child servants watches.
Literature
- Animal Farm: Napoleon, Squealer, and their pig comrades are very gluttonous and very vile. They slack off, eat much of the food their fellow animals have worked hard to produce, murder anyone threatening their ill-gotten gains, lie about the conditions on the farm, and in truly awful moment sell the ever-loyal Boxer to a knacker, so they can buy beer.
- Animorphs: Taxxons are primarily known for their cannibalistic Horror Hunger, which leads them to devour any flesh available. If a You Have Failed Me occurs they rush to dine. If someone is injured, they'll eat them alive. Multiple times, a Taxxon is maimed and uses its last dying moment to turn and try to eat its own spilled guts. Unlike other host species, the Taxxons are willing allies of the Yeerks, because Yeerks feed them, but even Yeerks can't control the feeding frenzy.
- In The Forgotten, Taxxons in a cafeteria eat multiple pot pies.
- The Test has Tobias morph Taxxon and realize they're more Tragic Monsters than true villains — the screaming, barely-controllable hunger they feel is akin to a monstrously distorted version of a hawk's feeding instinct. It's not aggression so much as terror of starvation. Taxxons are excellent diggers who make tunnels in the earth by eating holes into it. It smells and tastes like food but doesn't provide enough calories to satisfy them or to replace the energy spent digging, so they can literally eat themselves to death.
- Two of the Council of Thirteen in Visser, the rulers of the Yeerk Empire, use Taxxon hosts. Fed fresh meat constantly by Gedd attendants, they're absolutely huge, wrapped in robes comparable to sails. If worked up enough they eat the Gedds along with their meals.
- It turns out that Taxxons are Not Always Evil and in fact hate their endless hunger. In The Answer, some change sides in exchange for the promise to help them escape it by transforming them into something else.
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Augustus Gloop, an child who simply cannot resist chocolate, and eats pounds of it at a time. He ends up sticking his unwashed hands into a chocolate river trying to drink it, which is really awful since he is suffering from a cold, and this what causes his own personal accident.
- The Divine Comedy: None of those damned for gluttony are fat or seen grossly overeating; instead, the image of a man with food overflowing from his mouth continuing to fill his sack with food is used to describe the ever-growing corruption and envy of the author's hometown of Florence.
- The Dresden Files: Madeline Raith, a White Court vampire, is described as such, though without the physical gut. White Court vampires feed off psychic energy of an emotional state, with Madeline favoring lust. After years, maybe decades or centuries, of eating like this, it is second-nature to her. She walks through a crowd and one guy who got too close collapsed from her feeding off of him with no restraint. However, this has a drawback as even if she were to understand feeding off a person isn't smart, her inner demon and reflexes do it anyway. This is used to hurt her by getting a person protected by True Love, a Lust demon's bane, to touch her which leaves many burn marks on the vampire.
- Dune:
- Baron Harkonnen is the ur-example of this trope. Described as so humongously gluttonous that he requires anti-gravity generators in his clothing just to hold himself up. Mentioned as being "baby-fat", so get out a picture of a fat baby, and then imagine a full-grown man having that percentage of body fat! (Probably he somewhat resembled sideshow fat man Happy Jack Eckert.
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- In the somewhat contested prequel novels, the Baron's obesity is actually a consequence of a disease he contracted when he violently coupled with Mother Gaius Mohiam to conceive Jessica as per his agreement with the Bene Gesserit. Mohiam inflicted the disease on him as payback for his brutality during the act. When he learned that it was incurable and untreatable, the Baron decided to invoke this trope to let his enemies think that his obesity was a sign of indulgence and excessive wealth rather than a sign of weakness.
- Baron Harkonnen is the ur-example of this trope. Described as so humongously gluttonous that he requires anti-gravity generators in his clothing just to hold himself up. Mentioned as being "baby-fat", so get out a picture of a fat baby, and then imagine a full-grown man having that percentage of body fat! (Probably he somewhat resembled sideshow fat man Happy Jack Eckert.
- The Elenium, by David Eddings: Hideously exaggerated with Otha, emperor of Zemoch and technically The Dragon to Big Bad evil god Azash (other more competent men are more effective Dragons). Nineteen hundred years of engaging in every imaginable form of excess, vice, and debauchery, combined with never leaving his palace complex, have turned him into a kind of slug-like monstrosity probably not unlike Jabba the Hutt.
- Fat Men From Space and Slaves of Spiegel, by Daniel Pinkwater: Spiegel is a Planet of Hats whose fat Space Pirates have plundered the universe in search of junk food to consume.
- Harry Potter: Crabbe and Goyle do like food quite a lot. Which makes it easier for Harry and Ron to get some hairs in Chamber Of Secrets: levitating cakes laced with a sleeping potion in front of them. And just like that, they fall for the trap.
- The Hunger Games: The Capitol gorges themselves on food while the rest of the Districts starve. In the second book, Katniss attends a Capitol party where there's more food than anyone could possibly eat, at which point another Capitol citizen reveals that they tend to eat their fill, drink emetics to throw it up, and then go back for more, with the citizen even joking that some people do it three or four times in a single night. Unlike most examples, Capitol gluttony extends beyond food to all aspects of life, and the citizens' access to plastic surgery means that none of them grow fat unless they choose to.
- The Keys to the Kingdom: Each of the villains represents a deadly sin, with Drowned Wednesday representing gluttony. This trope is averted, however, when it turns out that she is no longer a villain.
- In the Little Wolf books, Bigbad Wolf loves to eat, and he isn't picky. He mentions having eaten three pigs in the past, tries to eat a bunch of human scouts, and even sends his nephew on an errand to get food for him, while neglecting to feed his nephew. His gluttonous habits prove to be his undoing when his nephew supplies him with three-tinsful of baked beans, which trigger his gastroenteritis and kick off a series of events resulting in his death.
- Nory Ryan's Song: Downplayed. Cunningham is not described to be fat, but Nory notes that his face is "mottled" from eating so much mutton because of all the sheep he owns, and he's an unpleasant sort who serves as the closest thing to an antagonist.
- Rainbow Magic: While most of the goblins aren't fat, they're very greedy when it comes to food. One of the conflicts in the Sugar and Spice series came from them eating Jack Frost's Candy Castle.
- Redwall has many villainous gluttons, with the Unfortunate Implications reduced slightly by also having many heroic gluttons.
- Captain Clogg is known to eat or drink whatever may be by his side when he wakes up, making it pure luck that an assassination attempt involving leaving poisoned wine by his bed never actually reached him.
- Bowfleg has eaten himself into immobility and never leaves his chair. Agarnu is similarly fat, but in his case it may be made worse by his amputated leg and flimsy fishbone prosthetic making walking harder; his son Bladd is simply fat, albeit still active.
- Dingeye and Thura are Punch-Clock Villains so more Neutral Gluttons, but they eat so voraciously and untidily that one somehow manages to try to eat the other's hand in the process and they have to be physically dragged away and induced to vomit for their own health.
- Gruntan Kurdly spends most of his time sprawled in a litter being fed boiled eggs, and eventually dies when he tries to steal eggs from a swan.
- A variation with Vilu Daskar, who is slim and well-mannered but takes great joy in picking daintily at vast spreads of gourmet treats in front of his starving slaves. It's noted he doesn't even eat most of it, which pleases his crew who get to enjoy the rest (about the only positive leadership trait he has).
- The Supernaturalist, by Eoin Colfer: Mayor Ray Shine is suggested to be huge, and is most villainous.
- "The Table, the Donkey, and the Stick": Even after the tailor has kicked out his sons for not feeding the goat enough and takes the goat out to graze himself, it still says it's not satisfied. This makes him realize that his sons were telling the truth, and he drives the goat out.
- Timeline (1999), by Michael Chrichton: The protagonists are surprised to see that this trope is inverted. The "good" king is the one with Jabba Table Manners, stuffing huge gobs of meat into his mouth constantly, while the "evil" king has perfect manners.
- Tolkien's Legendarium:
- The Hobbit: The three trolls William, Bert, and Tom are Obsessed with Food, the first thing Tom wonders about Bilbo is how edible he is; William decides against it, because he's too small. They see the dwarves as much more appetizing. Once they are tricked into staying out until the sun rises, turning them to stone, inspection of their cave finds the remains of several victims.
- The Lord of the Rings: The arachnid Shelob wants nothing more than to consume everything she can; orc, man, elf, or hobbit.
- The Silmarillion: Ungoliant, Shelob's mother, also wanted to consume everyone. In the world. Even Morgoth, the Big Bad of those days, was scared of her. And for a good reason — Ungoliant ate all the artificial gems Morgoth had stolen, after having drunk all the Light of the Trees. *burp*. She would have eaten the Silmarils and Morgoth if he had not summoned some Balrogs to drive her off. Eventually she went South and ate herself. Ungoliant's probably the closest the LOTR universe has to a genuine Eldritch Abomination, and the codifying Animalistic Abomination.
- Warrior Cats: In Code of the Clans, Darkstripe decides to eat some fresh-kill while out hunting instead of feeding his Clan. As a result, Poppydawn, who desperately needed food to fight off her sickness, dies. In spite of Longtail feeling very guilty Darkstripe goes further by saying that Poppydawn was going to die anyway and that the stronger cats should eat first.
- Wear Your Soul Round Your Neck: Thyssa, after becoming a human girl, starts to really enjoy eating, both due to humans having access to most of the food and finally having proper taste buds. Although her human body is very fat, it was like that by default, possibly because she loathed the gauntness of her original body. Notably, nobody seems to fault her for her weight or love of food, whereas she gets a great deal of flak for her vanity.
- "The Wolf and the Fox": All that the the Wolf cares about is food, when he can't catch prey by himself anymore he enlists help from a fox, whom he threatens to eat him if he doesn't, the fox is much more successful in catching prey and bringing back other food, the wolf hogs it all for himself, the fox eventually devises a plan to get rid of him, he takes him to a meat storage cellar where the wolf eats until he can't move which gets him shot by the owner.
Live-Action TV
- Doctor Who:
- Shockeye in "The Two Doctors" spends almost all his time eating, preparing new meals, and thinking about food, although it seems that members of his species can be gluttons without gaining weight.
- The Goblin King, antagonist of "The Church on Ruby Road", so enjoys eating babies like Lulubelle, companion Ruby Sunday's new foster sister, he's become too fat to move, and needs his meals brought to him by conveyor belt.
- The Dukes of Hazzard: Boss Hogg is very fat, very hungry (in one show he devours a tableful of chicken wings), and always leering lecherously at Daisy as his white three piece suit strained to cover his bulk. (Not in The Movie, however.) (Sorrell Booke, who portrayed the character, was only slightly overweight. He wore padding under his suit to make himself look obese.)
- Fargo: Season 3 has V. M. Varga, a bulimic who gorges himself on food before vomiting, with the teeth to show for it. One episode has him eating ice cream from a container while on the toilet.
- Farscape: Grunchlk always seems to be eating something while on camera — even if it's two of his own fingers.
- Game of Thrones:
- Ramsay Bolton is in good shape, but he's often seen eating, usually at an inappropriate time or while discussing something horrible he's done in a matter-of-fact way. In Season 5 this is used in a scene that very deftly summarizes him: in the same episode that both Jon Snow and Stannis express their worry about provisions for the long winter ahead (which should finally be coming, in a matter of only weeks)... Ramsay is enjoying a private feast with heaping piles of meat: foodstuffs he should have saved up for the hard times that are coming. Ramsay does whatever he feels like in the moment, without even pausing to think of something as simple as how to sustain his food supply tomorrow.
- Walder Frey is much the same. His opening scene in any given episode usually involves him eating in a disgustingly loud fashion while someone is talking to him.
- Hannibal is one more to a degree of decadence than amount. When he kills, he usually just takes enough from his victims to last him a couple of meals and disposes of the rest. While he doesn't gorge himself on human meat, the rate at which he goes through murdering folks for a few choice cuts makes him qualify for this trope nonetheless.
- Kamen Rider Double Arc Villain Shinkuro Isaka is both this and Lean and Mean, shown eating dozens of plates of food per meal while his build is quite slender. His gluttony also extends to superpowers: not satisfied with his already broken ability to control the weather, he turns other people into incubators for more powers, which will kill them in a way that allows him to then safely take the power for himself. When his primary power is destroyed, he loses control of the powers he absorbed and they devour him in agonizing fashion.
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent: One killer of the week didn't limit his gluttony just to food (though he was notably overweight): he killed his own son-in-law because he wanted his daughter all to himself. A disgusted Eames comments at the end that now she understands why gluttony is one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
- Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers:
- The Pudgy Pig would eat the world's food supply in 48 hours, and even ate the Rangers' weapons. His Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger counterpart Dora Circe could do likewise, using his Super-Speed to snatch people's food off their plates before they could even take a bite.
- A less iconic example was the Ravenator, but Rita used a very different strategy with him, shrinking him to the size of an insect and tricking Tommy into swallowing him, which gave Tommy a huge craving for junk food. (When he was discovered, the Rangers deduced that Rita's true plan was likely to use Tommy like a Trojan Horse to infiltrate the Command Center.) In Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, he's the Yōkai Gakitsuki, and has a very similar power, entering the body of Seikai and giving him an even bigger appetite than ever until he grows to a gigantic size.
- Hydro Hog (Umibōzu in Kakuranger), the Alien Rangers' Arch-Enemy on their home planet, was a variation. He was obese, but rather than being a Big Eater, he was more of a "Big Drinker", in that he was able to consume entire bodies of water (the size of lakes). Which is why he was such a deadly enemy to them, being of an aquatic species who depended more on water than even most beings.
- Monster Squad: In "The Ringmaster", one of the titular villain's minions was an obese woman named Bonnie Bon who was constantly devouring junk food.
- Pushing Daisies:
- Leo Burns exacts bitter vengeance upon the cook whose food immobilized him with obesity.
- Also the twin funeral parlor directors, who were stealing from their clients.
- Stargate SG-1: Nerus, a Goa'uld, is a relatively sympathetic villain, for his species. Which means he's a devious but Affably Evil bastard. When he turns out to have become a double-agent for the Ori and remains completely unhelpful to Stargate Command, General Landry figures out how to get his cooperation: no food.
- Supernatural: The Leviathans' appetite for human flesh is so great that their entire Evil Plan consists of weeding out the competition and turning humans into docile livestock because they think our population is too low. Yes, six billion humans apparently isn't enough for them.
- Ultraman Mebius: The first ten episodes give us Bogal, a rare female example. She's a vaguely snake-like kaiju who specializes in consuming all creatures on a planet before moving on to the next one. She has a particular taste for other kaiju, whom she awakens from underground or summons from space to be unwittingly eaten. In episode 9, she swallows Gudon and Twin Tail whole one after another! Her children, the Lesser Bogals, are too small to attack kaiju, but have appetites just as ravenous. They scavenge the corpses of deceased monsters, but will also readily devour each other the moment one of them falls dead in order to become even more monstrous.
Music
- The Evillious Chronicles series by Vocaloid producer Akuno-P aka mothy features a one, fittingly, in the Gluttony song, Evil Food Eater Conchita, sung by Meiko. Duke Banica Conchita, a rare female, fairly attractive example of this trope, desires for only the most gruesome foods in the world. Okay, her tastes are bizarre, but why is she a Villainous Glutton? It's because when her chef asks for leave, she eats him instead, and soon following him are the maid and servant. When there's nothing left, she finally eats herself. Expanded on further in the tie-in novel, which reduces the villainy of her eating the chef but slowly details her descent into a monster willing to wage wars with undead soldiers instead.
- In the FLAVOR FOLEY song, BUTCHER VANITY, Yi Xi is portrayed as a gluttonous cannibal.
Music Videos
- Foster the People: The Supermodel Villain Protagonist of the video for Best Friend is shown to be constantly eating other women alive throughout the video. And while she's mainly doing this to absorb these women's attractive features, when she is swallowing her last victim alive, we see her Overly Long Tongue licking the poor woman's desperately kicking legs, implying she enjoys the taste too.
- Miserable: While her trim physique and status as Ms. Fanservice and a Lust Object might not make her seem like it at first, the Giant Woman turns out to be this as the boys in the band find out the hard way, much to their horror.
- Kerry King: The Corrupt Politician in "Toxic" music video is seen eating a huge plate of chicken with his hands.
Myths & Religion
- Aboriginal Australian Myths: Has Tiddalik the frog, who drank all the water in the land and refused to share with any of the other animals, basically just to be a dick. They only managed to get their water back when Nabunum the eel managed to make him laugh, causing all the water to spill from his mouth.
- The demon Beelzebub is considered in Demonology as the Patron Demon of Gluttony and one of the Seven Princes of Hell.
- The Moabite King Eglon in The Bible is described as being very fat—so fat, in fact, that the Hebrew hero Ehud who killed him could not extract his sword.
Tabletop Games
- Dungeons & Dragons:
- Eating is the biggest vice of beholders; according to the 3rd edition Sourcebook Codex Anathema, they actually don't have a sense of taste, but take pleasure from enjoying the physical texture of foods, especially crunchy live prey like humans. Because they can watch themselves eat with their long eyestalks, they also enjoy vibrantly colored food. And they eat a lot of it — up to 200 pounds in a single sitting.
- In the 3rd Edition, there are Famine Spirits, incredibly powerful undead beings who can eat more in a day than fifty men can eat in a week. They were so named because the appetite of one of them could literally cause a famine in a populated area if it was left unchecked.
- Also, there are nalfeshnee, demons that are just below balors in terms of social rank in the Abyss and actual power, who are often depicted like this, especially in the 4th Edition, where they are given a background. They were descended from the Waddling Legions, soldiers spawned by a powerful Primordial who was slain during the war between the Primordials and the gods. His minions devoured his corpse (they saw this as a respectful gesture for some reason) and as a result, absorbed his power, becoming the powerful nalfeshnee. The same source states that their gluttony is legendary, as is their tendency to treat other beings as food. They tend to group other beings in three categories, "Fit to eat" (which is most other creatures, including weaker demons), "Fit to use" (which is any being weaker than they are that is inedible to them for some reason), and "Fit to serve" (a small group reserved for beings that are obviously more powerful than they are, at which point they quickly turn from egotistical blowhards into groveling cowards.)
- The primary trait of hill giants in 5th edition, having been simply "bigger ogres" in previous ones. They spend their spare time eating anything edible, their idea of entertainment involves cramming as many living beings into their mouths as possible, and their leaders are always the fattest and most gluttonous members of their kind.
- In 5th Edition, gnolls have become this. Having become even more closely tied to Yeenoghu, the Demon Prince of Butchery, than they were before, they now exist only to kill and eat humanoid victims. Yeenoghu himself is also one, as his only goal is to kill and eat every other sentient being in creation.
- Leviathan, Lord of the Fifth Hell, takes a more nuanced approach to this. Despite his enormous size, his hunger is for memories and information; which he extracts using his psychic powers.
- Dark Sun: There are undead monsters called faels, who only exist to eat and demand food from anyone who encounters them, violently lashing out at anyone who denies them food or interrupts their feasting.
- Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen has Fewmaster Gholcag, the ogre leading the Dragon Army's attack on Vogler. She's messily chowing down on a barrelful of stolen fish when the party encounters her, and she keeps eating even as she orders her soldiers to kill them.
- Ravenloft: In the 3E supplement Van Richten's Guide To The Walking Dead, the Weathermay-Foxgrove twins pursue an undead beast called Glutton of G'henna. This ravenous ghoul-like creature broke into houses or barns and ate every scrap of food there, whole livestock included; it could be tracked cross-country by the large bite marks it left behind in trees and boulders. While it did eat people, or parts thereof, if they got between it and food, it was not a man-eater by preference.
- In Nomine: Haagenti, the Demon Prince of Gluttony. His whole reason for existing is to consume everything in his path and convince humans to do the same.
Be careful, or you might lose an arm. Mmmmm. Arm. — The beginning of Haagenti's character description
- Scarred Lands: One of the Titans was Gaurak the Glutton, who may have devoured all life in the world (only for his fellow Titans to repopulate it so he could do it again) if the gods had not defeated him by yanking out his hundred teeth and burying him underground. Many of his worshippers are also Villainous Gluttons; they become creatures called fatlings, disgustingly obese and bloated mockeries of the humans they once were.
- Vampire: The Requiem features a bloodline of the Ventrue known as the Macellarius. The bloodline flaw is that anyone inducted in gains a large amount of weight fairly quickly, impairing physical function. The upside? They can consume food again. And they do a very good job of consuming human flesh to add a little variety to all the blood...
- Warhammer:
- Devotees of the dark god Slaanesh can be found engaging in every form of hedonism, gluttony included. A notable example is the wizard Glutos Orscollion from Age of Sigmar, who grew tentacles just to feed himself. Another is the Mistress of Spite from 40,000, a daemon prince who ascended for emptying entire worlds of food and people.
- Warhammer 40,000: The C'tan were driven by nothing but a desire to consume. At first they fed on radiation from stars. Then the Necrontyr approached them and gave them new bodies in the hopes that the C'tan would give them an edge in their war against the Old Ones. The C'tan, now more intelligent and aware of the universe around them while still being the gluttonous beings they always were, manipulated the Necrontyr into swearing fealty to them. Once the terrible pact was made, the C'tan promptly turned the entire race into the robotic Necrons, feasting on their lifeforce and souls in the process. It was then that they realized how much more appetizing souls were than radiation and dedicated themselves to devouring the souls of every living being. In the end, this defining trait of the C'tan led to their downfall. Supposedly, Cegorach the Laughing God manipulated one of the C'tan into eating others, which caused a downward spiral of infighting and cannibalism that reduced the power of the C'tan to the point that the Necrons were able to shatter and imprison them. The C'tan did not learn anything from this: even after being shattered and made into slaves by their former slaves, they still want to eat everyone.
- In Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, this one of the core defining traits of the Ogres. They are entire race of enormous fat humanoids that live only to kill and eat. For them any sort of meat will suffice, be it from other races, or each other.
Video Games
- Clive Barker's Jericho: Governor Cassus Vicus, the ruler of the Roman city inside the Pyxis, was once banished there by Emperor Caligula himself who didn't like that Vicus' vices outmatched his own. He's become a pale, hideously obese monster after literally thousands of years of indulging himself in the hellish realm, and tellingly, he's the only one of the antagonists who enjoys the nightmare world they're trapped in. He's become so fat that he has to be moved around by a crane during his boss fight.
- Costume Quest has Big Bones, a big, fat Grim Reaper who forces his minions to gather candy for him.
- Cursery's version of Humpty Dumpty was an aristocrat cursed with a ravenous appetite after Mother Goose gifts him with a magical (actually cursed) fruit.
- Dante's Inferno: Dante's father. Besides being a Jerkass to his son, he was a complete pig who wasted all of his family's money on wine, women and song. Predictably, when Dante encounters him in Hell, he's become a demon of Greed.
- Dead Rising 3: Each of the Psychopaths correspond to the Seven Deadly Sins. Gluttony is represented by Darlene, a Fat Bitch on a scooter who tries to hoard a buffet for herself and stabs a man to death with a large spork for eating some of her food.
- Donkey Kong:
- The plot of Donkey Kong Country is kicked off by King K. Rool stealing Donkey Kong's entire Banana Hoard so he could eat it himself.
- Donkey Kong Bananza: The Final Boss reveals that, much like Donkey Kong, they also like to eat bananas - but only rotten, mushy ones. King K. Rool's plan with the Banandium Root is to transform the entire planet into a wasteland of rotten Banandium mush for him to feast to his heart's content.
- Dynasty Warriors: Dong Zhuo. Seriously, it's surprising that he can even fight with that bulk weight on.
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles has an unusual take on gluttony. Raem, who subsists on memories (bad and painful memories in particular because they taste the best to him) in order to sustain himself. The spread of miasma throughout the world caused people to endure pain and suffering for a long time, which created painful memories. Because the Meteor Parasite is the source of miasma, Raem relies on the creature to keep producing it so that he himself can stay nourished through the sad memories. Mio, who is his counterpart, only nibbles on memories and can't endure the brilliant memories that the player character has. Both Raem and Mio are the reason why everyone in the world seems to forget things every so often, but Mio demands Raem to stop so people won't suffer any longer. Raem doesn't agree and wants even more memories to consume before proceeding to attack the player character.
- Final Fantasy XIV: Lord Vauthry of the Shadowbringers expansion rests atop a terribly distressed throne and, when confronted by the Warrior of Light and their allies, just won't stop eating his meol long enough to bother with them. He even eats the fork.
- Five Nights at Freddy's: In Five Nights at Freddy's 1, Chica wears a bib that reads "Let's Eat!", and she can often be heard in the kitchen, presumably stuffing her face with pizza. Emphasized further with Glamrock Chica in Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach, who is first encountered by the player hunched over a pile of garbage and viciously shoveling it down her throat.
- Ghostbusters: The Video Game: The Mr. Creosote lookalike, also known as the "Sloth Ghost". He's even worse than Slimer. If you read his description in Tobin's Spirit Guide, you'll learn he committed suicide by devouring a Thanksgiving meal for twenty people.
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: Big Smoke, the fat member of the gang. His rather complicated order at the Cluckin' Bell consist of two Number 9s, one Number 9 large, one Number 6 with extra dip, one Number 7, 2 Number 45s (one with cheese), and a large soda. That alone sounds impressive, if vague, but someone actually did the research to figure out exactly how much food it was, seen here and edited here.
- Grandia II:
- The mayor of Lilligue is one of these. But then, he has been possessed by the tongue of a demon-god, so....
- Pope Zera, a boss with animated jowls, undergoes a Face–Heel Turn by the end.
- Gluttony, one of the Seven Princes of Hell in Hell Pie, is the boss of Flavor Peaks and Nate's Sitcom Arch-Nemesis.
- Hitman: Contracts: Sturrock the Meat King, your first target. His perverse sexual proclivities complement his sizable mass, making it clear that he is evil and unsavory in every possible way.
- Hype: The Time Quest: Mhasse is a morbidly obese monk which is fought on top of the monastery's belfry which guards the ill-begotten Royal Jewel and tries to send Hype plummet down the tower to his death. When he is first met, he is seen gorging himself with beer and a large ham while burping disgustingly.
- Ixion: The very first conversation you have with Giovanni Battista, he's audibly chewing over the comms, instantly characterizing him as a selfish, gluttonous person who places his own instant gratification over others' respect. Surely enough, he ends up taking advantage of the Lunaclysm to become the leader of the Black Market Society, living in unimaginable luxury in space while humanity goes extinct. Even further adding to the symbolism, it's his consciousness that becomes the basis for Naraka, the Piranesi's AI, whose sole purpose in existence is to endlessly devour.
- Jak and Daxter has Krew, a morbidly obese villain fond of stuffing his face.
- Kirby: King Dedede, Kirby's recurring nemesis. The two often end up in a battle over who gets to eat more. This is even the whole point of Gourmet Race, one of the games in Kirby Super Star. The "Villainous" part ends up being dropped after a bunch of Character Development and eventually Heel–Face Turn in Ultra.
- League of Legends has Tahm Kench, the River King, who's not only a giant frog/catfish-shaped being with an enormous maw for eating humans, he's also a demon who feasts on their despair. The strangely comedic, affable side of him presents him as a supernatural dealmaker with the disposition of a high-value customer at a fancy dinner, but Beneath the Mask, he's a sociopathic monster stirring chaos and ruination in those he inevitably screws over as it makes things even tastier.
- The Legend of Zelda CD-i Games:
- Link: The Faces of Evil: Glutko is an obese, green cyclops who enjoys eating people. The cutscene where Gwonam informs Link about Glutko shows him feasting on some Koridians and he attempts to eat Link when the hero finally confronts him. Incidentally, he's beaten by getting him to eat a bomb.
- Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon: Omfak roasts a bird alive before eating it in his introductory cutscene and even states that he intends to devour whatever he sees.
- Little Nightmares: The Guests of the Maw are bloated freaks who do nothing but cram the meals prepared by the Twin Chefs down their gullets, and if they spot Six they will drop whatever they're doing and try to catch and eat her.
- Little Ninja Brothers: The Starter Villain Tub-a-Tummy is a Fat Bastard who stole all the food from the people of Deli-Chous, and used most of it to fatten his kidnapping victims up so that he could eat them, as well.
- Luigi's Mansion: Mr. Luggs. You can hear his eating from the other side of the mansion, he shoots fire at Luigi and apparently ate himself to death by the age of 30. As the description says: He prefers all-you-can-eat buffets to three meals a day. He ate himself to death but still wasn't satisfied.
- Lunar: Eternal Blue: Borgan. So fat he apparently has to have corridors greased to pass through them. Additionally, there are pictures of various characters in-game called bromides, and they usually show people in an attractive pose. Borgan's is bathtime.
- Minecraft Legends: The Devourer is a very fat Piglin who invades the Overworld. He will attack the player on sight.
- Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge: Governor Phatt is the fascist dictator of Phatt Island. He's fat and is shown constantly (even subconsciously at times, it appears) eating whatever it is that's shoved down the tubes that lead to his bed that he never leaves.
- Monster Strike: Abhinivesha is always hungry and has a tendency to try to eat and destroy everything he sees by turning them into food. He pays no attention to the strikers who has come to subjugate him in order to restore the worlds he has eaten, and even reaches out to capture and eat the strikers who have challenged him to a fight.
- Overlord: Melvin Underbelly, an embodiment of gluttony. He's so fat that, when you encounter him again in the Bonus Level of Hell, you use him to play both golf and Breakout...
- Persona:
- Persona 5: The major villains correspond to the Seven Deadly Sins. The third major boss of the game, a Fat Bastard yakuza named Junya Kaneshiro, embodies Gluttony: he is perfectly content ruining the lives of others via threats and blackmail by stealing and hoarding fine luxuries. His Palace is a massive bank where its residents are walking, talking ATM machines (giving it ties to Greed as well), and his Shadow Self transforms into Beelzebub (albeit under the name Baal).
- Persona 5 Strikers: The Jail Monarchs share the same theme as the ones from Persona 5, with Gluttony being represented by Mariko Hyodo, a Sapporo politician. Unlike Junya, she doesn't care about physical luxuries, but for political power; she's a perfectionist who insists that even the smallest things always be done her way- not because she thinks her way is the best, but because she thinks it's the only possibility after a corrupt contractor threatened to pin the accidental death of a young girl (who said contractor inadvertently killed via slipshod work) on her. And while Mariko herself is thin, her Shadow is a Fat Bastard because she's been figuratively gorging herself on all the votes that she used EMMA to get.
- Persona 5: The Phantom X: The Dam Palace Ruler, and true ruler of the Palace, Kei Akashi, represents gluttony in a different way compared to Junya Kaneshiro and Mariko Hyodo. They represent the sin by using their victims' Shadows as living batteries to power their own Palace, making themselves stronger while slowly draining their victims dry of their desires, until they are Driven to Suicide. When they are forcibly transformed into their Demogorgon form, they devolve into eating Shadows for the sake of gaining their power and wanting to destroy everything, regardless of their excess power.
- Punch-Out!!: Zigzagged with King Hippo. He's definitely a glutton, but he's far less malicious than most of Mac's opponents. (He even offers to take him out to lunch!) His food of choice is also a good deal healthier than your average villanous glutton as shown in his Wii game introduction, consisting of large amounts of tropical fruit and grilled meat.
- Rengoku: In the second game Alcmaeon is a fat boss who considers Gram his "meal" and calls his weapons "tasty".
- RuneScape: An early quest, "Let Them Eat Pie", features one of these named Rolo the Stout, who literally eats nothing but pies while the refugees in town suffer in poverty. You trick him into eating a rancid pie so the refugees can receive assistance.
- Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey:
- The monstruous demon lord Horkos from. Often eats his own underlings. Ate dozens of humans during his initial rampage. Wants to consume the entire world.
- Not to mention his humble abode, Sector Carina of the Schwarzwelt. The entire dimension is modelled after a titanic shopping mall, with conveyor belts churning more and more food and luxury items, which are never enough to sate Horkos' eternal hunger for more.
- Sonic the Hedgehog:
- Dr. Robotnik/Eggman is usually portrayed as this to excuse his gimmicky shape, but we've only ever seen him eat something once in the games. However, it involves him eating a submarine sandwich in under two bites, so it has some merit. Adaptations outside of the games have him indulge in comfort food whenever his plans go awry.
- In Sonic Lost World, Zomom of the Deadly Six is portrayed as a Fat Idiot whose priority is eating food, and has to be motivated by Eggman giving him a giant submarine sandwich in order for him to fight Sonic himself. He's always eating something or complaining that he's hungry in various cutscenes of the game and he holds a large piece of meat during his boss fight. He also mentions wanting to eat Sonic, Tails, and Eggman several times.
- Tengai Makyō: The Apocalypse IV: Madame Appetit leads a bizarre cult of gluttony out of Tombstone, AZ. She also proves to be an Acrofatic.
- Trillion: God of Destruction: Trillion devours anything and anyone in its path. If it manages to eat the Underworld's Core, the universe will end! The game's true ending reveals that Trillion was a former Fallen One like the main cast, driven to Revenge over the death of her Great Overlord at the hands of the Heavenly Forces. Sadly, eating her Underworld's Core in a bid to gain power enough to kill God broke her mind and slowly transformed her into the multiverse-devouring monstrosity we see in-game.
- Warframe: Orokin Executor Karishh is as loathsome and gluttonous as they come. Not only was he feasting while the people outside his estate died of malnutrition, he had twelve extra digestive tracts grafted onto him for the sole purpose of eating far more than a single person ever could. He would eventually meet his end by being eaten in turn by the Warframe Grendel, who while also a voracious devourer of all things is also a revered savior of the weak, the sick, and the starving—a Heroic Glutton of sorts.
Web Animation
- Big Bunny: The titular character is a giant carnivorous rabbit who enjoys eating living creatures and frequently encourages the three children to eat fattening foods to ensure they're nice and plump when he's ready to eat them.
- Lobo (Webseries): The Snake from the final episodes symbolizes a snake glutton who digests tons of food for six weeks. A major scene is in which he ate a combo meal number 2 93 times.
Webcomics
- The Beast Legion: Sglutton is an obese and ruthless Shadow Nexus slave Master.
- Girl Genius: The Beast of the Rails is a sapient, Heterodyne-built train that consumes all metal it encounters to convert it into part of itself and bombastically declares:
I want to travel the world and see the rich diversity of wonders which fill it — and consume them! HaHaHaHaHaHA!
- Heartcore: Royce enjoys himself the finest meals on a daily basis along with daily birthday cakes. His signature sin is Gluttony after all. It is a miracle that he has managed to stay in shape during his hundreds of years of gorging himself with one-man buffés.
- Jack (David Hopkins): The Vorshes are Gluttony personified. They are vicious demonic cannibals but in a subversion are extremely emaciated, and cannot gain any enjoyment from their food.
- Kill Six Billion Demons: The Demiurge Nadia Om's gluttony isn't just a personal one; she is a Planet Looter who constantly strips entire worlds bare for foodstuffs, slaves, and luxuries to sate herself and flaunt her power to her Decadent Court. She also constantly consumes fruit grown from Human Resources in order to remain young and beautiful, requiring ever more of it to keep her youth. She displays Jabba Table Manners when eating it.
- The Order of the Stick has the Empress of Blood, an incredibly obese red dragon who seems to do very little other than eating. Her warlord explains that she does so because she's confused correlation with causation and thinks that larger dragons can cast more powerful spells because they're larger. In fact, they can cast those spells because they're older, which is also the reason they're larger.
- The Unspeakable Vault (of Doom): Cthulhoo, whose gluttony and tendency to eat large quantities of mortals is Played for Laughs. Sort of.
Western Animation
- Adventure Time: The first Earl of Lemongrab becomes this after he has a psychotic breakdown and eats his clone brother's legs and part of his head. The episode "Too Old" shows that Lemongrab 1 has become morbidly obese, with his appetite demonstrated during a dinner scene featuring him eating a large spread of food while the Lemon Children and Lemongrab 2 have rather measly offerings. He even steals a piece of bread off someone's plate while Lemongrab 2 shares his.
- The Batman (2004): The Cluemaster. After losing a rigged game show as a child, he spent decades plotting revenge against everyone involved, spending most of his time eating the lifetime supply of chocolate he got as a consolation prize from the show. When his revenge plan was actually put into motion, he had become incredibly obese as a result.
- Batman: The Animated Series: Boss Biggis from "The Forgotten". Not only is he incredibly fat and constantly eating, he feeds his workers as little as possible just so he can eat more.
- Beavis and Butt-Head: The titular characters are rare skinny examples. Nonetheless, they are selfish, amoral delinquents who tend to binge on junk food, especially nachos. In "Supersize Me", they became morbidly obese in a misguided attempt to become rich and famous.
- Ben 10: Alien Force: In "Con of Rath", Jarett of the Pantophage lives in a castle straight out of Hansel and Gretel. Ben thought that he was delivering the marshmallow-like Tiffin as a peace offering, but apparently to the Pantophage, that means food.
- The Boondocks: Lamilton Taeshawn is an obese delinquent. One of his crimes is attacking his grandma for not buying him fried chicken — and that's just the tip of the iceberg...
- Brickleberry: Malloy frequently uses Woody's credit card balance to purchase all sorts of junk food.
- Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: NOS-4-A2 is an unusually Lean and Mean example. He's a Classical Movie Vampire who feeds off of electricity, and most of his plans involve gorging himself on it - usually by devouring his fellow robots. In his final appearance, he tries to convert the entire galaxy into mindless "machines exiting only to feed me!"
- Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Hoggish Greedly. He's rather corpulent, and he even has a heavy pig motif in his dialogue and machinery. Despite this, he has been shown to be a good runner at least three times in the series.
- Clue Club: In "The Missing Pig Caper", the main culprit is Mr. Glut, a fat millionaire who wanted to buy the missing prize pig so he can eat him. When Larry interrogates him, he is enjoying a "light snack", a six-foot-long sandwich.
- Danny Phantom: The Lethal Chef Lunch Lady Ghost. It's never stated if she is a constant eater, but she's obsessed with food (especially meat) one way or the other.
- Ed, Edd n Eddy: Eddy may apply. He's obsessed with jawbreakers, and in a Christmas special, he devours Jimmy's gingerbread village in seconds.
- Family Guy:
- Peter Griffin is an alcoholic Fat Bastard who eats copious amounts of junk food. In "Saturated Fat Guy", he became morbidly obese to the point where he was unable to exit his food truck and had to be craned out by the fire department.
- "The Fat Guy Strangler": A half-dead fat guy casually asks Lois and Brian if he could eat the dead fat guy right next to him.
- "Brian Sings and Swings": A Cutaway Gag has John Goodman eating all the Thanksgiving food while his family starves.
Son: Please, daddy.
John Goodman: I told you, when I'm finished, you can have what's left!
Son: There won't be any left. There's never any left.
(Wife tries to grab some food, but Goodman stabs her with a fork)
Wife: (nervously) Happy Thanksgiving.
- Filmation's Ghostbusters: Corpulon, the Jabba the Hutt not-a-like from the planet Specter. This fat slug eats "energy" in the form of a glowing blue goo stored in jars (though not named, it might as well be ectoplasm).
- Gravedale High: When Max Schneider's class needs a new teacher after he leaves because of a misunderstanding in "Goodbye Gravedale", the first substitute is a gluttonous jerk named Mr. Gross, who forbids eating in his classroom unless he's doing the eating. His voracious appetite is ultimately used against him when the class tricks him into overeating until he explodes.
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: The brain-eating monster from "Little Rock of Horrors", gleefully, and to the tune of a Voltaire song, eats the brains of everyone (except Billy) in Endsville. He ends up dooming himself when he eats Mandy's brain, which allows her to possess him.
- Hazbin Hotel: Alastor's more than happy to eat other sinners alive and have an entire deer carcass for breakfast. According to Vivziepop, he is a huge foodie and is quite snobby when it comes to preparing it. Unusually for this trope, he's as thin as a pencil.
- Jackie Chan Adventures: Po Kong the Mountain Demon fits the bill. She is both nasty and horribly fat, and obsessed with food (usually humans). In the "Demon World" story arc, she rules Japan and has the enslaved humans there mine large amounts of salt for her meals.
- Jacob Two-Two (2003) has Principal I.M. Greedyguts, Jacob's obese, selfish principal who is often seen feasting on large amounts of junk food or extravagant dishes. His avarice also extends to non-food things, however, as he often spends vast sums of the school's budget to buy lavish gifts for himself (or just hatches a get-rich-quick scheme of his own whenever the school board is investigating him for said embezzlement).
- Jimmy Two-Shoes: Despite being very small, Lucius has been known to eat a buffet in seconds, keep a well of chocolate all to himself, and put cake on the top of his birthday wishes.
- Kid vs. Kat: Mr. Kat is shown to have a massive appetite. While living with the Crazy Cat Lady, he hoards and eats all of the cat food. Another episode shows him eating an entire parking lot full of Fishy Frisky Bits. On another occassion he eats a large amount of cat food and later a Dagwood Sandwich in half a second.
- Looney Tunes:
- "Bye-Bye Bluebeard": The eponymous Serial Killer is one, and in fact, this trait is his undoing. As he's about to execute poor Porky using a homemade guillotine, the mouse that Porky had been chasing earlier distracts him with what Bluebeard thinks is popovers, but are actually bombs. The villain eats them and explodes.
- "Pigs Is Pigs (1937)": Piggy may not be evil, but he's the one who causes the most problems for his family in the short. He's a classic greedy pig, always sorrowfully pining for food and whenever he gets the opportunity to eat, he usually tries to eat it all by himself. When he hears dinner is ready, he knocks over his siblings on the way to the table and then when the table is set, devours most of the food set out to feed his family of eight, and doesn't care that his family must now go hungry. When he's captured by a scientist and force-fed for an entire day, he becomes a morbidly obese shadow of his formerly tiny, cute self. Though he insists he's had enough, the weak smile he gives suggests he still enjoyed his ordeal because of how much he got to eat. When offered more food, he begins slogging down more turkey and explodes before waking up in terror.
- Taz is a classic example. He will eat any species of animal and can devour large quantities of food (and other things) without ease. When he starts spinning, he always sends crowds running away. (In his own show, he's still a glutton, but not all too villainous.)
- My Little Pony 'n Friends:
- Queen Bumble is a ravenous drinker of nectar, consuming the bees' entire supply of flowers and starting her crusade against the flutter ponies purely out of a desire to have more flowers to eat.
- "Spike's Search": The dragons are chiefly motivated by gluttony, which drives their actions and also serves as their main weakness. They burn down towns to steal their food, decide to attack Paradise Estate when they hear there's good food there, and start greedily gorging themselves on the treats they find there — gorging so greedily, in fact, that they completely fail to notice the trap the ponies are springing on them.
- The New Adventures of Batman: The villain of the episode "A Sweet Joke on Gotham City" is Sweet Tooth, an overweight crook who likes gorging on candy and other forms of dessert as much as he likes committing crimes.
- Oggy and the Cockroaches: The titular Cockroaches like to antagonize Oggy by stealing food from him and tend to have bottomless appetites.
- Peppermint Rose: All bugs of Bugooyna eat everything, to the point that there are no flowers or trees left in their land and they'll happily dine on visiting humans. Queen Beeteelya plans to eat the peppermint roses, which would plunge the land into ruin.
- The Real Ghostbusters: In one episode, an accident causes Slimer to start transforming into a Superpowered Evil Side that the team dubbs "Big Green", who is far more of a glutton than the regular Slimer (and unlike Slimer, incredibly dangerous).
- Rolling with the Ronks!: Mormagnon likes to take advantage of the Ronk tribe's superstitions by ordering them to make offerings to the gods solely so he'd have a huge pile of food to feast on.
- Rugrats: Much of Angelica's bad behavior involves stealing cookies, which are her favorite food. In an episode where Chuckie discovers what life would be like if he were never born, Angelica boots Tommy out of his house and is so overindulged by DiDi and Stu, she's become a giant.
- Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: Francilee, a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Paula Deen, suffered a major blow to her career thanks to a lapse in judgement (ironically similar to Deen herself at the time of the episode's airing). Seeking revenge, she faked her death and masqueraded as the Gluten Demon, a hugely obese monster who began to devour all the unhealthy foods in Crystal Cove. Thanks to cartoon physics, she devours pretty much all of the food in town, but unlike cartoon physics, she remains morbidly obese from all the weight she gained eating as the Demon at the end of the episode.
- The Secret Saturdays: Piecemeal is a Wicked Cultured Evil Poacher who has an obsession with Exotic Entrees, dedicating his life to eating the most exotic creatures on the planet to the point that he surgically modified his jaw to give himself a Glasgow Grin.
- The Simpsons: In the "Nightmare Cafeteria" segment of "Treehouse of Horror V", Principal Skinner comes up with the idea of having delinquent students killed and used for lunch to deal with discipline problems and the low budget for meals. The teachers know and are all for it, but they gradually become more obsessed and insane, sending kids to "detention" for ridiculous reasons just to eat them later. Mrs. Krabappel is the most blatant example, becoming obese from eating so much and hoping to fatten up the remaining kids for the slaughter.
- South Park:
- Eric Cartman, pretty much from the earliest episodes when he was just a Spoiled Brat, through his evolution into The Friend Nobody Likes, all the way to modern day when he can be either a Token Evil Teammate or an outright Villain Protagonist. Crowning moments includes eating all the skin off fried chicken before his friends can have any ("The Death Of Eric Cartman"), taking over an entire KFC smuggling ring after junk food is outlawed and eats most of the product himself ("Medicinal Fried Chicken"), and furiously ranting himself into two consecutive heart attacks when there's a push for healthier food in the school cafeteria ("Let Them Eat Goo").
- In the Starvin' Marvin episodes, the comically obese Sally Struthers steals much of the food donated to the Ethiopians. By the time of her Heel–Face Turn in the sequel episode, she's gotten to the point where she actually looks and talks like Jabba The Hutt, and is initially convinced to work for the villains (the FBI and fundamentalists christians led by a Televangelist) when they point out that if the Ethiopians no longer need donations, she can't mooch off them anymore.
- Rob Reiner's Knight Templar attitude toward smoking is contrasted with his overeating every second of his life. Tellingly, he's initially idolized by Eric Cartman, until Reiner tries to have him killed so his death can be blamed on second-hand smoking, and when Cartman stabs him with his own fork, all that leaks out is a noxious, yellow goo as Reiner melts away to nothing.
- Spider-Man: The Kingpin is depicted as being overly fond of food in Spider-Woman and Spider-Man: The New Animated Series. This despite his devotion to exercise.
- SpongeBob SquarePants: Bubble Bass is an obese, picky fish who is a sadistic jerk to anybody and everybody, and his obesity is easily spoken for given the amount of food he goes through. It isn't touched on very much in his first (and for years, only major) appearance in "Pickles", but his famous order is actually a 24-patty burger. When he returns in more recent seasons as a main supporting character, more emphasis is put on his reckless appetite and how much trouble it causes. He's usually seen ordering a massive pile of food as big around as he is, and he remains a sadistic jerk to everybody.
- Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Mid-season 2 introduces Mokko, the owner of a supposedly failing ipsium mine who runs a large group of young boys as his workers. It turns out the mine is not failing and that they are actually rich, but Mokko hides the profits so he can hog them to himself. He spends plenty of the mine's earnings on enough food to feed all the boys under his command... but eats it himself, only passing down meager scraps to his boys while gaslighting the boys into thinking he's just barely able to scrape some food up for them to eat due to their failing business. There's more food being splattered away during his greedy feasting than there is in the bowls he does provide to the boys. Thanks to the Bad Batch, the boys eventually learn of Mokko's scheme and turn on him.
- Sushi Pack: Oleander is usually only a villain because she wants to eat the Sushi Pack, who are admittedly living pieces of sushi. She also has the moniker "The Gulping Gourmet", which explains her large frame. According to the coloring books, Oleander is her last name; her first name is Fatima.
- Tiny Toon Adventures: The titular Wolverine from "Buster and the Wolverine" is shown to be this after he captures Hamton. He initially considers eating just Hamton, but then decides to use him as bait to trap the other Tiny Toons so he can eat them all.
- The Transformers: The Insecticons can eat practically anything and think nothing of eating an entire forest in one day.
- Visionaries: "Dawn of the Sun Imps" has a gluttonous Sun Imp named Gorge, whose tremendous appetite proves to be his undoing when the Spectral Knights and Darkling Lords defeat him by presenting him with an enormous cake and putting him in a trunk after eating the whole thing makes him too fat to move.
- Wander Over Yonder: "The Troll": The troll tries to get to the Baaaa-hallans' bountiful stash of food, fully intent on devouring all of it so the Baaa-hallans will starve.
- The Wizard of Oz (1990) has Truckle, the head flying monkey of the Wicked Witch of the West and her main lackey. The main indications of his gluttony are how the title the sequence shows him attempting to eat a big sandwich before the Wicked Witch kicks him away and how his first scene within the series shows him seated in front of a whole bunch of food.