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I seem to recall the Stainless Steel Rat (futuristic space-heist fantasy) being a big dude but now that I think about it he was also a pacifist atheist esperanto cuck so I don't recall him ever actually using muscle.

Robert Asprin's comedic MythAdventures series that expands wizard fantasy into dimension-hopping pop culture-riffing buffoonery has a pair of italian-esque goons named Guido and Nunzio who start as side characters and gradually take on stronger roles, I think Guido has his own full length sidestory or two.