18 video game characters made massively fat

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Saving the world may take a little longer than planned...

We've had enough of game heroes who shamelessly pander to the mythical Hollywood ideal. We've had enough of bigger characters only ever being allowed on-screen as comic relief. And happily, we came to this conclusion just as Matt discovered an amazingly childish but endlessly funny iPhone App calledFatBooth,which instantlybulks upany photo you choose to feed into it. Three guesses what we did.

Yes. And we did it 18 times.

Lara Croft

Nathan Drake



Cloud Strife

Bayonetta

Marcus Fenix

CrimsonViper

Solid Snake

Kasumi

Niko Bellic

Next: All Chris Redfield's workouts come to nothing and Rockstar's more recent hero hits the pies

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