User blog comment:Gogogadget831/Character Appreciation - Week 48: Sugar/@comment-4742462-20171128231712/@comment-25285054-20171129191330

The reason it comes off as fatshaming is because the same people are making a big deal about the Owen comparision, as if it's somehow a legitimate writing flaw to have multiple overweight characters with large appetities.

The problem lies in the fact that Owen and Sugar are similar in lifestyle, not at all in their actual character or humor. Sugar is a narcisstic jerk and the jokes revolve around how her over the top behavior affects other people. Even if she does something particularly gross, the punchiline is usually how the others react to it, not the inherit fact she did something gross.

Contrast Owen, whose over the top niceness is used to make him an easily likable guy, and he'd be too kind to ever consider doing half of the stuff Sugar does. When he does something gross, the punchline is usually the fact that it's nasty, rather than it bothering someone else. His interactions revolve around how either his kindness affects other people, or how it makes him naive or guillable around the antagonist of the week.

Do the characters have similarities? Sure, but like I said, it revolves entirely around their habits and their personalities are night and day. You can compare them but it's entirely pointless to do so and does not serve as a legitimate criticism; saying Sugar is functionally the next Owen is nonsense because they have entirely different functions and purposes in both the stories of their seasons, and their brands of gross out humor. That's where the "fatshaming" argument comes into play, the two are only similar on a very shallow surface level.