Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 1: The Fat Best Friend

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Vote on whatever character you think best embodies the trope of the day (or just for your favorite character that fits the trope). Feel free to change your vote, but if you do just specify who you're changing from and changing to. Try to include the source the character's from.

Feel free to nominate tropes for future days, preferably ones that have TV Tropes pages to make it easier. If there aren't any nominations I'll probably just hit random page until I get to a character trope (like I did today).

Day will end in 24 hours or so.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FatBestFriend

The Fat Best Friend is a common sidekick to The Protagonist. What makes this different from most of the other Fat tropes is that this character is always a Satellite Character and we rarely see things from their perspectives. They're there to enhance the protagonist's traits and to simply be a friend. A possible reason for this trope's existence is a desire to be more realistic and less discriminatory by showing that not everybody in the world has a generically attractive body shape, but still avoid having a fat main character.
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omg I love tvtropes
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Samwell Tarly (Game of Thrones) gets my vote pretty easily

HM:
Patrick Star (Spongebob)
Mikey (Recess)
Soos (Gravity Falls)
Barry (American Dad!)
Every Nick Frost character in an Edgar Wright movie
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Note for those who haven't used TV Tropes: The pages have lists of many (not all) of the characters fitting that trope, so if you ever have trouble getting what it's trying to say, it might help you think of ideas.
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Hurley (Lost) if he counts
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Sam Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
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Drakeryn posted...

Sam Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)

Yeah actually this

Sam Gamgee

Jakyl25 posted...

Hurley (Lost) if he counts

yeah I'll count it

Lost makes him more of a main character than most "fat best friends" but Jack/Kate and definitely the central characters more than him
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Wasn't too big on Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings so uh... Soos (Gravity Falls)

I'll nominate Enemy Without.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnemyWithout
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Shonen_Bat posted...

I'll nominate Enemy Without.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnemyWithout

damn, digging deep on the first nomination, I love it
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Glottis (Grim Fandango)
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Up
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Daru (Steins;Gate)
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Man that is a shitty TVTropes page, the lists of examples are so empty.

I vote Sam from Lord of the Rings.

And I nominate The Fool

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFool
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Sam Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Man that is a shitty TVTropes page, the lists of examples are so empty.

Yah some are definitely better than others
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Samwise
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Hurley (Lost)
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If George Costanza doesn't count, I'll pick Roadhog (Overwatch)

Do nominated tropes have to only be about characters?
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I vote the stupid fat hobbit
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Soos (Gravity Falls)
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This is a good idea for topics btw!
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Ramus (Lunar SSSC) is still who I immediately think of.
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Oh god Samwise 100% and it's not even close, no offense to other characters but it's gotta be him.
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Is Sam really that fat though? He's a hobbit, and most of them are pretty plump. Or is this just compared to Frodo? Also I think Sam is too big of a role.

I'll vote Soos from Gravity Falls.
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P.J. (Goof Troop)
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Alanna82 posted...

Is Sam really that fat though? He's a hobbit, and most of them are pretty plump. Or is this just compared to Frodo?

Blame Gollum
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Alanna82 posted...

Is Sam really that fat though? He's a hobbit, and most of them are pretty plump. Or is this just compared to Frodo? Also I think Sam is too big of a role.

I'll vote Soos from Gravity Falls.

this was my logic as well. I conflate Sam with stoutheartedness. Not stoutness.
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Patrick Star

Nominate: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenreSavvy
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Ned (Spiderman Homecoming)
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Snake5555555555 posted...

Do nominated tropes have to only be about characters?

I'm gonna say yes for now. Might open it up at a later point
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Current Votes:
Samwise Gamgee - 7
Soos - 3
Hurley - 2
Samwell Tarly - 1
Glottis - 1
Daru - 1
Roadhog - 1
Ramus - 1
PJ - 1
Patrick Star - 1
Ned - 1

Forceful_Dragon posted...

This is a good idea for topics btw!

Thanks!
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Okay, that's fine for now.

Nominate:
The Adjectival Man
Creepy Child
Final Girl
Monster Clown
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Soos
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Samwell Tarly
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Hurley
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Glottis
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I'm gonna throw a vote to Ned

The kid cracks me up and Sam/Frodo was my least favourite part of the movies (never read the books).
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