# Fictional heroes who are overweight **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-heroes-who-are-overweight/946366 **Category:** Cafe Society **Created:** [July 13, 2021, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-heroes-who-are-overweight/946366 "2021-07-13T04:09:26Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 99
### Author: ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir) #### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-heroes-who-are-overweight/946366/99 "2021-07-14T19:50:05Z")
Haviland Tuf, protagonist of George R.R. Martin’s outstanding sf novel _Tuf Voyaging_, is very large, very pale, very smart and has the most cutting sense of sarcasm this side of S’uthlam. Love the guy. And this guy died heroically over the Death Star: [What was Lucas thinking with the Porkins character in Star Wars?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-lucas-thinking-with-the-porkins-character-in-star-wars/510349) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-heroes-who-are-overweight/946366)._