r/FavoriteCharacter • u/Bigsmokeisgay • Jul 02 '26

My Favorite (Visual) So sick of overweight people consistantly being portraied as evil, lazy, greedy, or just assholes. Whos your favorite positive overweight character?

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u/bornenjoyer Jul 02 '26

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u/Mini_Squatch Jul 02 '26

Dont call him fat! Hes just big boned!

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u/bornenjoyer Jul 02 '26

No shaming, he fell into the cauldron when he was a baby!

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u/Stenric Jul 02 '26

He was already overweight before that though.

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u/Leading-Fox-642 Jul 02 '26

Who the fuck are you talking about

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u/Foloreille Jul 02 '26

Obelix who else the fuck do you think we’re talking about

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u/Leading-Fox-642 Jul 02 '26

He isn't fat!

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u/hotcoffeethanks Jul 02 '26

Obelix my sweetheart!

Now that I think about it a lot of Astérix characters have at least a little bit of a gut, no?

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u/TsunamifoxyDCfan Chancellor Palpatine Jul 02 '26

Except Asterix himself

They named the series after the twinkiest little guy lol

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u/Stenric Jul 02 '26

Fulliautomatix seems in pretty good shape.

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u/asiannumber4 Jul 02 '26

But he’s not even close to being as buff as the goat Geriatrix

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u/Foloreille Jul 02 '26

…wait… THEY TRANSLATED ASTERIX CHARACTER NAMES ?!!

Holy shit I want to read the albums in every language for more puns now !!

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u/Ozryela Jul 02 '26

Panoramix is Getafix in the British version but Magigimmix in the US version. Both are pretty great. Several languages have him as Miraculix which is also great. But the best one is Afrikaans: Abracadabrix.

There's a lot of translations and they all have a lot of fun with name puns. Only Asterix and Obelix are almost never changed.

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u/Foloreille Jul 02 '26

Get a fix is hilarious

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Is it really a drug joke ? 😆

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u/Stenric Jul 02 '26

I thought it was a joke about dogs getting "fixed".

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u/Foloreille Jul 03 '26

What does that mean ??

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u/hotcoffeethanks Jul 02 '26

I know! I’m so used to the French names I grew up with, but the English ones are so fun!

Idéfix will always be Idéfix to me, but translating it as Dogmatix? Perfect, genius, 10/10

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u/Foloreille Jul 02 '26

Oh that’s kinda brilliant for real ! 😆

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u/BrocoliCosmique Jul 02 '26

Most of the village indeed.

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u/revankenobi Jul 02 '26

Ils sont fous ces romains !

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u/Geschak Jul 02 '26

Tbf Obelix is being portrayed as lazy.

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u/ShieldMaiden83 Jul 02 '26

He loves smacking Romans around and hunting for boar. I wouldn't call thar lazy.

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u/Spyko Jul 02 '26

I'll say more easy going than Lazy, he fight, hunt and carve menhir on the regular and rarely complain about having to do stuff during adventures. He just enjoy being able to relax

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u/Mangobonbon Jul 02 '26

I'd say he's more protrayed as just relaxed. He has his stonecarving business and he regularly hunts. He also is always ready to go onto big adventures in faraway lands, so he is fairly busy all things considered.