Oh boy! i sure hope the ppl commenting will remember that these are all fictional characters written by a team of writers and moviemakers and that OP is criticizing how those writers decided to use/portray fatness in their writing once they made those characters fat, rather than bothering with the in-universe examinations of those characters and why they gained weight
Oh, look at that, they decided to be stupid abt it. Oh well
How many times do we have to explain this: when someone is being critical of media and how writers treated a character who got fat or is fat, u don't need to give us some in-universe reason for why the character is fat. We're going after the WRITERS. The real-life flesh and blood humans who created the thing we're criticizing. U don't have to go into white knight mode to defend ur pet character from us. We're focusing on the message the writers are sending abt fat ppl and fatness, not trying to cAnCeL ur blorbo. Ffs.
I thing it's also important to acknowledge that the trope of the character 'letting themselves go' and gaining weight is in itself problematic. It casts fat people as lazy/depressed/umotivated. You can gain weight for many many reasons and being depressed is one of them (you can also lose weight then but no one seems to care about that one) but far from the major one.
The depictions showed above also cast those characters as pathetic and worth poking fun at because they are fat
EXACTLY!!! SEE ITS NOT DIFFICULT
It's not "what happened to this character in the story," it's "what were the writers saying when they made them fat, and what messages do audiences typically take away from portrayals like that?"
& please ask yourself “When was the last time a character got fat for no reason and that was treated as a neutral thing to happen to them? When was the last time a character got fat while they were having an amazing time and that was treated as an uncomplicated positive story? When was the last time getting fat wasn’t presented as a tragedy?”.
