Big Fat Future/Playing With

Basic Trope: Obesity is the norm Twenty Minutes Into the Future
 * Played Straight:
 * In 2025, most people are overweight and subsist on fatty, sugary food.
 * By 2025, most American children are too obese to ride hoverboards.
 * Exaggerated: Most people are too morbidly-obese to even move without hoverboards and have never even seen vegetables.
 * Justified: Obesity is a growing problem in the developed world, and if people don't start taking better care of themselves, this very well could become Truth in Television eventually.
 * Inverted:
 * Twenty Minutes Into the Future, most people are extremely skinny.
 * We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future
 * Subverted: Twenty Minutes Into the Future, most people are Hollywood Pudgy at worst.
 * Double Subverted: But they get fatter over time as junk food becomes more prevalent and exercise less so.
 * Deconstructed: Obesity has been linked to serious long-term health problems; technology may not be able to help people overcome these problems.
 * Reconstructed: People take better care of themselves, and technology comes in handy for helping with this (i.e. modifying sweets so they have all the flavor with fewer empty calories, improvements in exercise techniques and equipment, diet pills that actually work, bariatric surgery, etc.)
 * Parodied: People have literally been reduced to immobile, vegetative globs of lard in the future.
 * Zig Zagged: Just as in the present, people run the gamut of body types, from skinny to Hollywood Pudgy to morbidly obese to everything in between.
 * Averted: See Zig Zagged, Reconstructed, and Subverted.
 * Lampshaded: "Twenty years from now, the average dress size will be a size 20."
 * Enforced: Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
 * Invoked: Society becomes more dependent on motorized vehicles for transportation and spends all its time in front of computers and snacking on fatty, sugary foods.
 * Defied: See "Reconstructed"
 * Discussed: "Sheesh...if we don't start taking better care of ourselves, we'll all be too fat to function."
 * Conversed: "Probably not; not everyone's going to become morbidly obese."
 * Played For Laughs: Fan Disservice; fat people are still considered Acceptable Targets in TV-trope-land after all.
 * Played For Drama: All the health problems this causes; may be used in an attempt to Scare'Em Straight

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