History Main / DeathByGluttony

* In ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', Marvin the Mouse explodes into LudicrousGibs after Conker feeds him too much cheese. Somehow he still turns up alive at the end of the game.
** A similar fate befalls Count Batula. After having a vampirized Conker drop townsfolk into a giant meat grinder for him to drink the LudicrousGibs, he drinks far too much and becomes so overweight he falls from the ceiling he was hanging from right into the same meat grinder.

* The serial killer in the Australian gorn flick ''Film/{{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, we dare say. It turns out that he's reliving the day he murdered his mother, who was also obese.

Sometimes in fiction, [[PopGoesTheHuman 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]].

* Darlene Fleischermacher, one of the seven psychopaths in ''VideoGame/DeadRising3'', epitomizes the sin of Gluttony. She is an optional enemy, challenged only because she is defending an all-you-can-eat restaurant to the death. However, this proves to be Darlene's undoing when her motorized scooter tips backwards, pinning her beneath the handlebars. Her irritable belly, already engorged to impossible size, rebels from being shook up, and the scooter prevents her from freeing herself. She ends up choking to death on her own vomit.

* 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.

BigEater is a common trope in fiction, but in real life even this behavior is not without its dark side. Forcing oneself to eat way too much in one sitting can cause one's stomach to rupture, which has very unpleasant consequences. In real life chances of survival are 50-50, but in a fictional work it's usually portrayed as being lethal.

* [[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.

* In a ''ComicBook/DylanDog'' story, he and other six people representing the Seven Sins are invited in a creepy mansion. The Gluttonous victim literally explodes after eating a mint candy after a gigantic meal. Justified, as Dylan put a bomb in that candy.

* In Krakow, the old capital of Poland, there is a legend about a dragon who was killed that way - a cunning hero (there are several version of who it was) tricked the dragon into eating a sheep stuffed with sulfur and the heartburn caused the monster to drink from the river until it burst.

** A bulimic model die this way in one episode.
** Another episode had a imprisoned terrorist who starved himself so he would be thin enough to slip through the bars. He then pigged out at a celebratory feast and died of refeeding syndrome (see RealLife below).

* In "The Reichenbach Fall", the season two finale of ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', children are forced to eat mercury laced candies or starve.

* One of the ways to die in ''VideoGame/FatalLabyrinth'' is to eat too much. There's a food counter on the screen, and you really need to stop picking up food if it's high enough, because if it goes over 99, it's GameOver. If it only goes over 80, you only get much slower, and can save yourself by walking until the counter goes below 80 again, but you never know how much food is on the ground until you actually pick it up. If your counter is relatively high already, and decide to pick up some more food just in case, you might get unlucky enough to skip the "overweight" part and kick the bucket right then and there.

* ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'': Throughout Compton's Cookoff, Raz is instructed with gathering ingredients to make increasingly-complex dishes to feed to the Gluttonous Goats, the bosses of the level. Their boss fight requires the player to gather ingredients and then receive a cooked dish from Compton in return, and Raz feeds it to the goats. The goats have eaten so much that by this point, they can't handle eating any more, and two out of three of them [[PopGoesTheHuman explode]] from overeating.
* ''Robin of Sherlock'' has Portly Friar Gorbachetnik. As a semi-random event in that location, he munch down a 31st vension burger and explodes. The character doesn't seem otherwise relevant, but follows one typical method of closing off options in text adventures of the time.

* The way Wart, the final boss of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' is killed by stuffing him with vegetables [[BossArenaIdiocy supplied by the machine in the center of the room]]. The gluttony part is not voluntary since Mario and his friends are force feeding Wart and it's also stated that Wart hates vegetables.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' episode "Food of the Clods" featured [[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.

** One episode has a pair of vampires suck on Homer's blood, but they suck up more than they can handle and die not just from having too much blood, but sucking up all the fat and bad cholesterol that Homer had.

* A variation is also seen in one of the oldest WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker shorts, after he ingests a rather strong drink. Somehow it also propels him upwards like a rocket...

* Swedish king Adolf Fredrick died of digestion problems after having consumed a huge meal, consisting of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring and champagne, topping it off with ''14 servings'' of semlor (a Swedish pastry) for dessert.

* During the Siege of Leningrad in UsefulNotes/WW2, this was a real problem. Many undernourished people (especially children) died ''after'' being rescued, because they were allowed to eat too soon after evacuation; the technical term is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refeeding_syndrome refeeding syndrome]].

* An already old crocodile was constantly fed live animals by a group of villagers in Bangladesh, 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 croc grew extremely fat and eventually died from its obesity related health issues]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{TheBrakShow}}'': Brak accidentally kills Thundercleese's goldfish, Mr. Tickles, by feeding him ''three entire hams'' after misinterpreting his oddly specific directions.

* In the obscure Nickelodeon interstitial, ''Weird Answer Kommand'', Bonnie almost suffers this after successful eating every single potato chip the world has to offer.

* In Krakow, the old capital of Poland, there is a legend about a dragon who was killed that way - a cunning hero (there are several version of who it was) tricked the dragon into eating a sheep stuffed with sulfur and the heartburn caused the monster to drink from the river until it burst.
** The Cracovian legend was presumably taken from the Biblical story of [[http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/apo/bel001.htm Bel and the Dragon]], a part of the book of Daniel still in Catholic Bibles, though not in most Protestant ones.
** Also the legend of Saint Margaret of Antioch has her being eaten by a dragon or a serpent, then bursting out alive from its stomach thanks to her prayers and her cross pendant.
** A similar legend is the Lizard of La Malena from Jaén, Spain. In one version, a giant lizard that lives in a pond and eats every person or animal that comes close to it, is tricked by a cunning man into eating a sack of gunpowder, and [[MadeOfExplodium explodes]]. In another, it is tricked into eating a sheepskin full of tinder and burns to death. It is believed that the legend was inspired by a caiman skin that someone donated to a local church shortly after the conquest of the Americas.

* Ironically averted in the Music/{{Vocaloid}} song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqVca_2WkkI "Evil Food Eater Conchita"]], representing Gluttony of the SevenDeadlySins in the Franchise/EvilliousChronicles. 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]]''.

* The U.S. advertisement for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'' shows a man in a restaurant eating nonstop until his BalloonBelly starts to pop the buttons on his shirt. He continues to eat until he explodes, spraying the nearby patrons with the food he just ate.

* Also Yakon from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' dies when eating too much of Goku's Super Saiyan energy. In a bit of a twist on the trope, Yakon didn't so much eat himself to death as Goku took advantage of how Yakon was consuming his energy by drastically increasing how much energy he was outputting, overloading Yakon all at once.

* The Deepdwellers have trouble stopping eating if there's food in front of them, and will continue to eat until they die "like goldfish". Dimo manages to prevent a diplomatic disaster upon learning this by making up a [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200302 "ceremonial run around the sub and dance party", to get them to stop eating for a bit and burn some calories.]]

Compare BalloonBelly. May turn into a case of DeathByIrony, particularly since the entire point of eating is to keep oneself ''alive''. For an extremely [[FatBastard unsympathetic]] [[VillainousGlutton gluttonous]] character this may be used as a KarmicDeath as a way to have their biggest vice bite them in the ass, so to speak. GoingToGiveItMoreEnergy is similar, where the eater devours too much energy.

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* The serial killer in the Australian gorn flick ''Film/{{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.

* 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.

* In ''Literature/{{Monday begins on Saturday}}'' by the Creator/StrugatskyBrothers there is "A model of a Human unsatisfied by gluttony", which eats whatever it can reach (including two ''tons'' of fish) until literally exploding into pieces.

* In the early Creator/WarnerBros cartoon ''WesternAnimation/PigsIsPigs'', a young pig explodes from voluntary overeating, but it's AllJustADream. When he wakes up, [[AesopAmnesia he goes right back to massive eating.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': This happens to Homer Simpson a few times during the Treehouse of Horror episodes.
** One Treehouse of Horror episode has a pair of vampires suck on Homer's blood, but they suck up more than they can handle and die not just from having too much blood, but sucking up all the fat and bad cholesterol that Homer had.

-->'''Demon:''' I don't get it. James Coco went mad after fifteen minutes!

* Exagerated in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bratz}}'' were Burdine Maxwell instantly grows so fat that she explodes....by eating a single burger.

* The way Wart, the final boss of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' is killed by stuffing him with vegetables [[BossArenaIdiocy supplied by the machine in the center of the room]].

* In the finale of the Spanish soap ''Series/{{Saramandai}}'', Dona Redonda (literally, "Round Woman"), a character who is constantly seen eating, finally swells up and explodes, leaving behind a rainbow-colored crater.

* In the UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}} game ''Mangia'', one way to lose the game is to eat so much your stomach explodes. This is quite easy to do, what with your mother relentlessly serving more food to you.
* One of the enemies in ''VideoGame/{{Insaniquarium}}'' is [[ImmuneToBullets immune to shooting]]. The only way to kill him is to feed him food pellets until he explodes.
* One of the ways to die in ''VideoGame/FatalLabyrinth'' is to eat too much. There's a food counter on the screen, and you really need to stop picking up food if it's high enough, because if it goes over 99, it's GameOver. If it only goes over 80, you only get much slower, and can save yourself by walking until the counter goes below 80 again, but you never know how much food is on the ground until you actually pick it up. If your counter is relatively high already, and decide to pick up some more food just in case, you might get unlucky enough to skip the "overweight" part and kick the bucket right then and there.
* Never overeat in ''VideoGame/TheDungeonOfDoom''. Really, don't.
-->"Too much!!! Your stomach explodes!!"
* The way Wart, the final boss of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' is killed by stuffing him with vegetables [[BossArenaIdiocy supplied by the machine in the center of the room]].
* A now-fixed bug in ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' would occasionally cause a Sim participating in an eating contest to spontaneously drop dead. [[PlotHole Of starvation]].
* In ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', Marvin the Mouse explodes into LudicrousGibs after Conker feeds him too much cheese. Somehow he still turns up alive at the end of the game.
** A similar fate befalls Count Batula. After having a vampirized Conker drop townsfolk into a giant meat grinder for him to drink the LudicrousGibs, he drinks far too much and becomes so overweight he falls from the ceiling he was hanging from right into the same meat grinder.
* In ''VideoGame/BladeStrangers'', [[spoiler:this is [[BigBad Lina's]] ultimate fate in her story. Having just devoured a bunch of clones sent by the motes to stall her, she then proceeds to defeat [[VideoGame/CodeOfPrincess Solange]] and eat her... only to implode on herself and literally crash the entire world.]]

* Exxagerated in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bratz}}'' were Burdine Maxwell instantly grows so fat that she explodes....by eating a single burger.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': This happens to Homer Simpson a few times during the Treehouse of Horror episodes.
** One Treehouse of Horror episode has a pair of vampires suck on Homer's blood, but they suck up more than they can handle and die not just from having too much blood, but sucking up all the fat and bad cholesterol that Homer had.
** Another one, however, has Homer in Hell, forced to eat all the donuts in the world as a sort of [[IronicHell ironic punishment]]. [[UnIshment Not only does he eat them all]], but he still wants more afterwards!
-->'''Demon:''' I don't get it. James Coco went mad after fifteen minutes!

* A variation is also seen in one of the oldest WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker shorts, after he ingests a rather strong drink. Somehow it also propels him upwards like a rocket...

* In the early Creator/WarnerBros cartoon ''WesternAnimation/PigsIsPigs'', a young pig explodes from voluntary overeating, but it's AllJustADream. When he wakes up, [[AesopAmnesia he goes right back to massive eating.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' episode "Food of the Clods" featured [[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.
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', Wakko still looks fine (if bulbous) after his 501st meatball, but TheGrimReaper stamps "Kaput" on his forehead and walks away with him.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': In "Ghost Princess" Clarence commits suicide via spray-cheese overdose and explodes.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'' episode "Goodbye Gravedale", Max Schneider's students get rid of their substitute teacher Mr. Gross by tricking him into overeating until he explodes.