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* In ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', the [[Gonk]] fetishist has a couple of these in his employ, but the summon spirit Virgo takes the cake; she's approximately the size of a minivan, with a face like a pug that hates everyone in the world, alarmingly out-of-place [[Girlish Pigtails]], and such an expansive bosom that [[Absolute Cleavage|her blouse's buttons burst]]. Later, when Lucy makes a contract with her, it turns out she actually can look very attractive if she wants, but she always takes on the form she thinks will please the contract-holder. Contrary to Natsu's observation, [[Muscles Are Meaningless|she's not any less powerful in a more compact form.]]

* Biscuit's real form in ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]''.

 

== Comic Books ==

* The Baker Twins in ''[[Strangers in Paradise]]'' are big, tough and battle-scarred. They tower at least one head height over every other character and are the top enforcers for [[The Syndicate]]. They are never portrayed as "ugly," but are also never portrayed as feminine.

* Bianca Castafiore in the ''[[Tintin]]'' books ("The Milanese Nightingale") is somewhat like this.

 

== Film ==

* The Trunchbull from ''[[Matilda]]''.

* One of these appears as a wedding singer in ''[[The Illusionist (animation)|The Illusionist]]''.

 

== Literature ==

* Eorache of ''[[Bored of the Rings]]'', as a parody of [[The Lord of the Rings|Eowyn]], a Germanic warrior-maiden.

** Wodehouse's description of the Bellinger (in ''Very Good, Jeeves!'') is priceless:

{{quote|... she proved to be an upstanding light-heavyweight of some thirty summers, with a commanding eye and a square chin which I, personally, would have steered clear of. She seemed to me a good deal like what Cleopatra would have been after going in too freely for the starches and cereals. I don't know why it is, but women who have anything to do with Opera, even if they're only studying for it, always appear to run to surplus poundage ... [she] had sung us a few songs before digging in at the trough, and nobody could have denied that her pipes were in great shape. Plaster was still falling from the ceiling.}}

* Though not foreign, Lieutenant Violette Retancourt, a recurring character of Fred Vargas' crime novels, is positively huge, often described as unattractive (and disliked by some of her fellow policemen solely because of her appearance) and physically stronger than any of the men at the Brigade. While she is not portrayed very sympathetically when she is first introduced in ''Have Mercy On Us All'', the main character, [[Cloudcuckoolander|Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg]], eventually develops a [[Vitriolic Best Buds|vitriolic friendship]] with her, and her incredible strength and resilience become essential points in some novels (especially ''This Night's Foul Work'').

* Millicent Bullstrode from ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' is described as reminding Harry of a picture he'd seen in "Travels With Trolls" and enjoys putting Hermione in headlocks whenever she corners her.

 

== Live Action TV ==

* Hellga in the reboot of ''[[American Gladiators]]''.

* Brienne in ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', a towering woman who wants to be a knight, but is generally mocked behind her back by the same men she beats up in tournaments.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* Sergeant Louise Lugg from ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'' is [[Distaff Counterpart]] to Sergeant Snorkel, so what else could she be? She's not foreign, but is blonde, obese, physically powerful, aggressive, and foul-mouthed (though often also femininely sensitive in some ironic way). The biggest difference between her and Sarge is that she's [[Abhorrent Admirer|sexually aggressive]], whereas he's afraid of women.

 

* This happens a good deal in opera, particularly with ''Heldensopran'' parts, due to the necessity of finding women with sufficient lung power to outsing a 100-piece orchestra without amplification. This is also sometimes done deliberately for comedy effect, as in the part of the Fairy Queen in [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s ''Iolanthe''. Other common examples include:

** A situation similar to the Wagner example in the main description comes up in productions of Puccini's masterpiece ''Turandot''. The eponymous princess is supposedly so beautiful, men will risk beheading for her hand in marriage—and yet, because you need "a silver trumpet instead of vocal chords" for the part, most of the sopranos cast in the role fall squarely in this category: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EI0qzcXMOA Monserrat Caballé][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b7E1q8nVss Gwynneth Jones]; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ4sAJi4304 Eva Marton]; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWle3od3BCc Birgit Nilsson]

* Such a woman is a [[One-Scene Wonder]] in ''[[The Sound of Music]]'', when she wins second place at the concert and won't get off the stage to keep soaking up applause.

* Fruma Sarah, Lazar Wolf's deceased wife in [[Fiddler on the Roof]], is sometimes depicted as one of these.

 

== Video Games ==

* Big Bertha is considered the strongest human in all of Almia in ''[[Pokémon Ranger|Shadows of Almia]]''.

 

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101123210854/http://humoncomics.com/iron-lady Lady Germany] from ''[[Scandinavia and The World]].'' She has considerable physical power, a no-nonsense attitude, and, apart from her [[Boobs of Steel]], is fairly masculine looking, at least for a chibi.

* Quain'tana of ''[[Drowtales]]'' is either this or an [[Amazonian Beauty]] (her character in general is a [[Base Breaker]]), seeing as she's built like a bodybuilder to the point of [[Viewer Gender Confusion]] on the part of many readers.

* Sauerkraut of ''[[Trigger Star]]'', the party's resident [[Genius Bruiser]]. Take the traditional portrayal of [[Conan the Barbarian]]. Now add breasts. Suitably big ones. Add a [[Lantern Jaw of Justice]] and you have Sauerkraut.

 

== Western Animation ==

* Both Muscle Princess and Susan Strong in ''[[Adventure Time]]''. Both of them are about three times Finn's height and as big across at the shoulders as Finn is tall. Neither one is actually presented as explicitly attractive or ugly, since everyone's pretty cutesy in the show's signature noodle-style, but Muscle Princess is pretty proud of her beef; in one episode she remarks that her hairstyle is deliberately unflattering because if her hair was any good people might pay too much attention to that and not enough attention to her muscles.

* Alice from [[Superjail]]. A slight variation in that she's transsexual.

 

== Real Life ==

 

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