History Main / DeathByGluttony

* [[MeaningfulName Gluttony]] from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' almost dies when he eats Ed, Ling and Envy, and they get out. He gets better. Then he dies at his brother's gluttonous urge.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' uses his [[MesACrowd Shadow Clone Jutsu]] to induce this on a large snake that had eaten him.

* According to Creator/CarlBarks, Gladstone Gander's incredible luck runs in the family - in fact, his parents died of overeating at a free picnic. Creator/DonRosa, who usually cleaves very close to Barks' backstories, decided that they died another way, if only because that particular method of death isn't the sort of thing you could depict in a comic read by children.
** Also, one of Scrooge's ancestors, Sir Roast [=McDuck=], "died of overeating after robbing the king's pantry".

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* The serial killer in the Australian gorn flick ''Feed'' kills his victims via this method, except he uses his plus-size pornography business as a front. A pretty convoluted way to go about it, I dare say. It turns out that he's reliving the day he murdered his mother, who was also obese.
* ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'': Mr Creosote REALLY shouldn't have had that last thin mint, even if it was just [[TheLastStraw "wafer-thin"]]. He survives, somehow.
* In Music/SnoopDogg's ''Hood of Horror'' (yes, he produced another horror flick), a redneck couple is forced to live with some black war veterans in a parody of houseguest reality shows. The vets finally have enough and force-feed the wife caviar (using a vacuum cleaner), causing her stomach to burst. (The husband is dispatched by other means.)
* The Gluttony victim in ''Film/{{Se7en}}'' is forced to eat spaghetti until he passes out, at which point the killer kicks his stomach and it bursts.
* In ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'', Lone Star and Barf learn from a news broadcast that crime lord Pizza the Hutt (to whom they owe 1 million space-bucks) recently became trapped in his limousine and ate himself to death. Since he's an anthropomorphic pizza alien, [[{{Autocannibalism}} make of it what you will.]]
* In the 1973 film ''Film/LaGrandeBouffe'' (The Great Feed) four friends eat themselves to death on purpose.

* In ''Film/{{Tamara}}'', Tamara psychically forces the bulimic Kisha to gorge herself to death. Chloe and Jesse manage to drag her away from the buffet before she can do so, but not before she has [[{{Fingore}} gnawed several of her fingers down to the bone]] in the process.
* In ''Film/TheatreOfBlood'', Lionheart feeds the extremely overweight Merridew his two [[MrMuffykins pet poodles]] (who he regards as his children) baked into a pie, as a revenge based on ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus''. He then finishes Merridew off by ForceFeeding him the rest until he chokes to death.

* Played with in ''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide''. Since zombies don't digest the flesh that they eat, it will eventually force itself out the other way or, usually, burst out of their stomach. Of course they're already dead, but still.
* In the novel ''Film/TheNatural'', Roy has an insatiable appetite that finally comes back to bite him; after devouring 6 cheeseburgers for a midnight snack, his stomach finally gives out (it's unclear what exactly happened, but it doesn't seem like it actually ruptured). He was rushed to the hospital and ended up surviving, but it severely hurt the team's chances of winning the final game.

* An twentieth-century Chinese folktale tells the story of four friends who travel from China to America to better their lot and help their families. Three of the men are given jobs as a tailor, cobbler, and baker, while the fourth (who repeatedly told his friends to take the better jobs at his own expense) ends up as a personal assistant--and virtual slave--of a cruel, rich, gluttonous businessman who gives him countless thankless tasks for next to no money. One day, the rich man commands his servant to get him a new suit, new shoes, and delicious bread for a feast; his friends happen to run into the poor man, discover his pain, and immediately agree to provide the needed items for free. The suit and shoes are an absolute perfect fit, while the bread is so [[ImpossiblyDeliciousFood incredibly tasty]] that the rich man can't stop eating it. As he stuffs his face, he gradually swells up bigger and bigger--but his new clothes are so well-made that they won't tear or expand, which eventually makes him explode in a happy ending for all.

* Happened to a man in ''Series/{{CSI}}'' who had a medical condition known as 'Prader Willi Syndrome' that prevented the signals his stomach sent to say it was full from reaching his brain, making him feel starving all the time even with a full stomach and caused him to literally eat himself to death.

* In the finale of the Spanish soap ''Saramandai'', Dona Redonda (literally, "Round Woman"), a character who is constantly seen eating, finally swells up and explodes, leaving behind a rainbow-colored crater.
* Played for horror in the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' season 5 episode "My Bloody Valentine". The Horseman Famine compels a town full of people to eat and drink themselves to death in truly horrific ways. A young couple eat ''[[ImAHumanitarian each other]]'' to death while having sex. One man binges on Twinkies until he can't swallow anymore, at which point he starts ''shoving them down his throat'' with a ''toilet brush''. Another man wants fries so badly he shoves his hands and then his face into a fryer where the fries are still cooking. Even Castiel, an angel who doesn't feel hunger, is compelled by Famine's presence to devour ''raw meat off the floor''. Eventually Famine itself [[DeathByIrony is defeated the same way]]: When he fails to tempt Sam with the blood of several demons, Famine eats the demons himself. Sam then exorcises the demons, ripping them right out of Famine's guts.
* In the "Reichenbach Fall", the season two finale of ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', children are forced to eat mercury laced candies or starve.
* ''Series/MythBusters'' investigated an UrbanLegend about this happening when one eats Pop Rocks and Cola, by feeding them into a pig's stomach mounted onto a model human skeleton. Normal quantities had no appreciable effect. Larger quantities produced a lot of gas (which would result in bloating and discomfort), but since the gas has... [[{{Gasshole}} avenues of escape]], no explosions. The only way to have this happen from Pop Rocks and Cola? If the stomach is clamped up at both the esophageal and duodenal end... which normally doesn't happen in RealLife. So, at least this variation is busted.

* Blood worms in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' feed on blood until they explode, healing people nearby in what is undoubtedly the game's most Squicktastic healing mechanism.

* Mr. Luggs from ''[[VideoGame/LuigisMansion Luigi's Mansion]]'' ate himself to death and continues to eat more even as a ghost.

Sometimes in fiction, the person's body bursts, [[BloodyHilarious spilling out their stomach contents and entrails]]. This [[IncrediblyLamePun grossly]] exaggerated variation is usually PlayedForLaughs and by extension [[AmusingInjuries not always lethal]].

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->''"If I eat one more piece of pie, I'll die!''
->'' If I can't have one more piece of pie, I'll die!''
->''So since it's all decided I must die,''
->''I might as well have one more piece of pie.''
->''MMM -- OOOH -- MY!''
->''Chomp -- Gulp -- 'Bye."''

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* [[MeaningfulName Gluttony]] from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' almost dies when he eats Ed, Ling and Envy, and they get out. He gets better. Then he died at his brother's gluttonous urge.

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* Happened to a man in ''{{Series/CSI}}'' who had a medical condition known as 'Prader Willi Syndrome' that prevented the signals his stomach sent to say it was full from reaching his brain, making him feel starving all the time even with a full stomach and caused him to literally eat himself to death.

* ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' investigated an UrbanLegend about this happening when one eats Pop Rocks and Cola, by feeding them into a pig's stomach mounted onto a model human skeleton. Normal quantities had no appreciable effect. Larger quantities produced a lot of gas (which would result in bloating and discomfort), but since the gas has... [[{{Gasshole}} avenues of escape]], no explosions. The only way to have this happen from Pop Rocks and Cola? If the stomach is clamped up at both the esophageal and duodenal end...which normally doesn't happen in RealLife. So, at least this variation is busted.

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-->Sambo had an uncle, an uncle very rich\\

Ten lemonades and ten ginger beers, and then he went off pop.
* This is inverted in Vitalic's "Stamina." [[WeightLossHorror Customers of a new weight loss drug are found dead while exercising]]; the lead detective of the case tries some himself, and soon finds himself hallucinating junk food: the same fate which killed the victims (One woman died reaching out for jelly beans while on a stationary bike; another man saw Twinkies and plunged to his death). The detective resists temptation, then gets into a fistfight with a malevolent burger man.

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* Humorously attempted by Jon Arbuckle with his pet ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} when he gives him so much food to eat that he would burst. Of course, this being Garfield, the cat survives unaffected and he even asks Jon if he's going to eat whatever food he's eating at the moment.

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* In ''Theatre/TheRiseAndFallOfTheCityOfMahagonny'', Jack dies eating all he can eat and then some more. The chorus then praises him for having died fearlessly and with a smile on his face.
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* In "What's Tomato With You" in [[http://junkhyenasdiner.com/comic/whats-tomato-with-you-20-21-of-24/ The Junk Hyenas Diner]], [[spoiler: a Dino-boar]]'s stomach explodes off-screen after Guff throws a cup of banned instant noodles into its mouth.

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* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' features [[ShowWithinAShow a fictional]] [[UnabashedBMovieFan horror film]] about two alien Viking women who can't stop eating radioactive lava, because they're competing for the right to be [[MarriageToAGod the bride of the radioactive volcano]]. Eventually, the Viking women eat so much lava that they explode. When Norbert and Daggett eat too much food while watching it, they just get huge stomachaches.

** In British lore, the Lambton Worm was killed by a knight covering his armor in spikes before he was swallowed by it.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' features [[ShowWithinAShow a fictional]] [[TheresNoBInMovie horror film]] about two alien Viking women who can't stop eating radioactive lava, because they're competing for the right to be [[MarriageToAGod the bride of the radioactive volcano]]. Eventually, the Viking women eat so much lava that they explode. When Norbert and Daggett eat too much food while watching it, they just get huge stomachaches.

* Ironically averted in the Music/{{Vocaloid}} song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqVca_2WkkI "Evil Food Eater Conchita"]]. The titular [[ExtremeOmnivore Conchita]] constantly indulges in rather... [[BizarreTasteInFood unique]] [[MasochistsMeal banquets]] (which include such delicacies as [[ImAHumanitarian her chef, her servant, her maid, and all of the people in her mansion]]), and yet throughout the PV, she's never seen to have gained any weight or experienced other adverse side effects of overeating. What ''does'' kill her as a result of her gluttony is, after she's eaten everything and everyone in her mansion, her compulsion to ''eat'' ''[[{{Squick}} herself]]''.

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* Happens in one episode of ''Slimer And WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'', when two talking animal dogs eat a bunch of Slimer's dehydrated food pills. It turned out they were very spicy and then ran to drink from a river, making them inflate very quickly until they exploded. Naturally, in the very next take, they were perfectly fine.

* One of the enemies in ''VideoGame/{{Insaniquarium}}'' is [[ImmuneToBullets immune to shooting]]. The only way to kill him is to feed him until he explodes.

** Another one, however, has Homer in Hell, forced to eat all the donuts in the world as a sort of [[IronicHell ironic punishment]]. Not only does he eat them all, but he still wants more afterwards!

* Implied in the 1951 Creator/ChuckJones WesternAnimation/{{Looney Tune|s}} ''Chow Hound'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmtEI9NWuz0 "THIS time, we didn't forget the gravy!"]]

* In "What's Tomato With You" in [[http://junkhyenasdiner.com/ The Junk Hyenas Diner]], [[spoiler: a Dino-boar]]'s stomach explodes off-screen after Guff throws a cup of banned instant noodles into its mouth.

* In''Film/{{Tamara}}'', Tamara psychically forces the bulimic Kisha to gorge herself to death. Chloe and Jesse manage to drag her away from the buffet before she can do so, but not before she has [[{{Fingore}} gnawed several of her fingers down to the bone]] in the process.

* In the 1973 film ''La Grande Bouffe'' (The Great Feed) four friends eat themselves to death on purpose.

* Exxagerated in ''WesternAnimation/Bratz'' were Burdine Maxwell is forced to eat a single burger, and the carbs cause her to instantly grow so fat that she explodes....into a shower of pink sparkles.

* ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' investigated an UrbanLegend about this happening when one eats Pop Rocks and Cola, by feeding them into a pig's stomach mounted onto a model human skeleton. Normal quantities had no appreciable effect. Larger quantities produced a lot of gas (which would result in bloating and discomfort), but since the gas has... avenues of escape, no explosions. The only way to have this happen from Pop Rocks and Cola? If the stomach is clamped up at both the esophageal and duodenal end...which normally doesn't happen in RealLife. So, at least this variation is busted.

* This is inverted in Vitalic's "Stamina." Customers of a new weight loss drug are found dead while exercising; the lead detective of the case tries some himself, and soon finds himself hallucinating junk food: the same fate which killed the victims (One woman died reaching out for jelly beans while on a stationary bike; another man saw Twinkies and plunged to his death). The detective resists temptation, then gets into a fistfight with a malevolent burger man.

* In the novel ''TheNatural'', Roy has an insatiable appetite that finally comes back to bite him; after devouring 6 cheeseburgers for a midnight snack, his stomach finally gives out (it's unclear what exactly happened, but it doesn't seem like it actually ruptured). He was rushed to the hospital and ended up surviving, but it severely hurt the team's chances of winning the final game.

* The ''[[Creator/ECComics Tales From the Crypt]]'' story "Telescope" has a starving man on a desert island who tries to eat a rat when it's busy eating a gull that swooped down for a fish. Shortly thereafter he's eaten by a shark. The final panel, when some fishermen catch the shark, explains the title as the head of each creature is hanging out of the mouth of the one that ate it!

* An alligator was constantly fed live animals by a group of villagers because they believed it would bring them good luck. [[https://uk.news.yahoo.com/obese-100-year-old-crocodile-dies-from-overeating-after-worshippers-keep-throwing-it-chickens-and-goats-for-good-luck-115714124.html#yUw92JA The poor gator grew extremely fat and eventually died from its obesity related health issues]].

* Large dogs that scarf down huge meals, then roll over quickly during play, can cause their overloaded stomachs to twist too far, fatally obstructing blood flow to their digestive tracts. This is known as bloat.