Peter Griffin and his son Chris are both slobby dopes there’s an entire scene where Stewie follows around fat people with a tuba, soundtracking their every step. When fatness is involved, it threatens to overwhelm a character’s entire personality.Ĭonsider Family Guy, which makes a joke out of weight at every opportunity, using fat people as quick, throwaway gags. Protagonists are usually varying degrees of remarkably thin, and when larger characters do appear, they’re kept to the sidelines or mocked for their size. “What does that have to do with anything?” “He’s a Minion! Who cares?!”īut it’s a rare thing to see fat characters, or body diversity of any kind, in mainstream animation. In fact-and it truly blows my mind to say this-Otto is the best fat character in a major animated film since the iconic Shrek. Hand-curated by me.Otto has a tuft of hair, a mouth full of braces, and, most excitingly, he’s fat.
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