History Main / InflatingBodyGag

** In [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE190Licensed "licensed"]], Strong Bad buys some ferret ointment from Bubs that makes The Cheat "swell up like a balloon" and once again float away.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Amethyst eats a magic cloud and immediately puffs up like a balloon and starts floating away -- Garnet has to hold her on a string until she deflates.

** In the final (and [[MemeticMutation most memetic]]) episode, Luigi grabs a P-Balloon.

* In ''VideoGame/DeepDuckTrouble'', Scrooge [=McDuck=] takes a pendant from an ancient temple that curses him to inflate like a balloon and float in disgrace. The only way the curse can be removed is if WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck returns the pendant to its rightful place. [[spoiler:At the end of the game, after Donald returns the pendant, a mysterious crown appears. He takes it, and since every treasure in the temple is cursed, [[HereWeGoAgain he ends up going through the same curse Scrooge went through]].]]

** In ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros U'', there is a purple Baby Yoshi, whose ability is to swell up and float.

* In ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck: VideoGame/DeepDuckTrouble'', Scrooge [=McDuck=] takes a pendant from an ancient temple that curses him to inflate like a balloon and float in disgrace. The only way the curse can be removed is if Donald returns the pendant to its rightful place by retracing his uncle's steps on a mysterious island. [[spoiler:At the end of the game, after Donald returns the pendant, a mysterious crown appears. He takes it, and since every treasure in the temple is cursed, [[HereWeGoAgain he ends up going through the same curse Scrooge went through]].]]
* Cheng Sinzan from ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' already has a nearly spherical torso, but he can plus inflate himself with air during at least one of his attacks.

* In ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'', "Mr. Stenchy", Stitch inflates himself like a balloon when he sucks air from one of the X-Buggy's tires, causing him to float until he belches.

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* ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina:'' Thunder inflates himself by massively inhaling. He eventually goes too far and explodes.

-->'''Homestar:''' Woah, Marzipan, check out that ugly bird.\\

** In the 1934 ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies'' short "Peculiar Penguins", the male protagonist penguin catches a fish as a gift for his love interest--which turns out to be a pufferfish. When she swallows the fish whole, it puffs up inside her stomach, causing her to inflate as well.

-->'''Ed:''' (As Eddy) Kids will pay big money to ride a blimp! You're a genius, Double-D!

** In the early short ''Hold Anything'', a goat bites into a radiator, causing the hot air to inflate it and send it flying like a balloon. Bosko then uses it as an improvised set of bagpipes.
** In ''[[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner Fastest with the Mostest]]'', Wile E. Coyote tries to blow into a balloon for his latest plan, only for the air to shoot back and inflate him. He desperately grabs the nearest object--a bomb--to stop himself from drifting away, but just winds up carrying the bomb as he floats up. Then he deflates and finds himself high in the air, still holding a bomb. Whoops.
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheDaffyDoc'', WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck gets his head stuck in an iron lung. When he takes it out, his head starts inflating and deflating repeatedly. His attempts to stop it only move the inflation to another part of his body. The cartoon ends with both him and WesternAnimation/PorkyPig getting caught in the iron lung, causing their bodies to inflate all over.

** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen Feeling Pinkie Keen]]", Pinkie Pie's "Pinkie sense" makes her twitch all over--in anticipation of a "doozy" happening soon--and this includes her spontaneously inflating very briefly.

* ''SpongebobSquarepants'':

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Amethyst eats a magic cloud and immediately puffs up like a balloon and starts floating away--Garnet has to hold her on a string until she deflates.

-->'''Luigi:''' Good thing I found a [[LargeHam Magic Balloon!]]

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* PlayedForDrama in ''EasternEuropeanAnimation/TriDrovoseka'', where a character called Bubble inhales air in order to to lift its drowning fellows out of the water. Watch it [[https://youtu.be/-U8OFR4NVnw?t=540 here]].

* Classic Creator/{{Disney}} Shorts:
** In the 1934 ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies'' short "Peculiar Penguins", the male protagonist penguin catches a fish as a gift for his love interest--which turns out to be a pufferfish. When she swallows the fish whole, it puffs up inside her stomach, causing her to inflate as well.
** In the 1936 WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse cartoon ''Disney/MovingDay'', Donald gets thrown beak first into an open gas line, filling his body with gas until he deflates and flies around the room.

* 'Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'':

!Examples

* ''Disney/TheThreeCaballeros'': After Donald is shrunken down by Joe Carioca, Joe shows him how to inflate back to normal by blowing on his index finger. Donald blows on his thumb instead, causing him to inflate in all manner of crazy shapes.

* ''VideoGame/{{Breakers}} Revenge'' has Maherl's hilarious [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msa7tI7ngWQ BALLOON-O!]] attack, in which he inflates and attempts to slam his opponent into the ground.
* Cheng Sinzan from ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' already has a nearly spherical torso, but he can plus inflate himself with air during at least one of his attacks.
* In ''VideoGame/RaymanOrigins'' and ''VideoGame/RaymanLegends'', both the player characters and enemies swell up like balloons and pop when they are hit enough times.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'' you get the boss Fraaz, whose attack involves inflating himself with fire or icy air, and he shows off his ability within seconds of you meeting him for the first time.
* ''VideoGame/{{Shiftlings}}'' makes a game mechanic out of this: you play as a pair of bumbling space custodians, one of whom has swollen to enormous size after drinking a bottle of "the galaxy's fizziest soda". The pair must traverse various stages while connected to a hose, through which the player can transfer gas to change which one of them is bloated up and which is normal-sized.
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat:''
** In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatII'', Kitana's "Kiss of death" causes its victims to painfully inflate and explode.
** A similar fatality in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' has Rain conjure a large ball of water over his victim's head and force it down their throats, causing their body to bloat up until they burst. (Oddly, there is very little gore in the actual explosion.)
* In ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck: VideoGame/DeepDuckTrouble'', Scrooge [=McDuck=] takes a pendant from an ancient temple that curses him to inflate like a balloon and float in disgrace. The only way the curse can be removed is if Donald returns the pendant to its rightful place by retracing his uncle's steps on a mysterious island. [[spoiler:At the end of the game, after Donald returns the pendant, a mysterious crown appears. He takes it, and since every treasure in the temple is cursed, [[HereWeGoAgain he ends up going through the same curse Scrooge went through]].]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'', Ickis' special scaring ability (referred to as looming) has him inflate his body and grow gigantic, but he can't hold the form for very long. 

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy:'' 

** In "Feeling Pinkie Keen", Pinkie Pie's "Pinkie sense" makes her twitch all over--in anticipation of a "doozy" happening soon--and this includes her spontaneously inflating very briefly.
** In "Spike at Your Service", while desperately looking for [[UnwantedAssistance some way to help]], Spike offers to help Applejack with breathing. He shoves a fireplace bellows in her mouth and pumps hard enough to inflate AJ.
** Takes a more grotesque turn in "Too Many Pinkie Pies": Twilight casts a spell to send the clones back to the Mirror Pool, and this makes the clones inflate and pop first.
** In "Discordant Harmony", Discord calms himself down by breathing into a paper back. The bag stays still, while Discord inflates and deflates as he breathes.
* During the opening sequence of ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg'', Lu tries to blow up an Action Guy balloon, but the air shoots back into her, causing her to inflate.

* ''SpongebobSquarepants'': In one episode, Patrick mistakenly blows Squidward's wax statue in an attempt of CPR, thinking that it's a dying Squidward. then he blows too hard, causing himself to puff into a balloon and then zips around the room like a deflated balloon. 

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short "Jerry's Cousin", said cousin, Muscles Mouse, inflates his fist to punch Tom across the room.

* In ''Film/SpaceJam'', after Stan gets flattened by the Monstars, some nurses help him by inflating him like a balloon using an air pump, then he deflates and turns back to normal.

* Both ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' and ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' prominently feature Violet Beauregarde's blueberry inflation scene from the original book.

* In ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', Violet Beauregarde ignores Willa Wonka's warnings and chews on some prototype gum that's supposed to taste like a three-course meal. The gum tastes fine, but the dessert--blueberry pie--transforms Violet into a giant blueberry: she turns blue all over, then fills up with juice until she's almost spherical.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooShow'' episode "The Beast is Awake in Bottomless Lake", Shaggy and Scooby inflate themselves with an air hose to scare the MonsterOfTheWeek. This also enables them to float until they open their mouths and let the air out.
* ''SpongebobSquarepants'': In one episode, Patrick mistakenly blows Squidward's wax statue in an attempt of CPR, thinking that it's a dying Squidward. then he blows too hard, causing himself to puff into a balloon and then zips around the room like a deflated balloon.
* During the opening sequence of ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg'', Lu tries to blow up an Action Guy balloon, but the air shoots back into her, causing her to inflate.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' has an alien family come to Earth as refugees from their homeworld, Balloonia. Their spacecraft is about the size of a child's toy, and at first, the friendly aliens emerge the size of toy soldiers. However, they have a valve on their thorax that lets them inflate to human size. They can also deflate to save on volume and resource consumption.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short "Jerry's Cousin", said cousin, Muscles Mouse, inflates his fist to punch Tom across the room.
* Classic Disney Shorts:

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Amethyst eats a magic cloud and immediately puffs up like a balloon and starts floating away--Garnet has to hold her on a string until she deflates.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'', Ickis' special scaring ability (referred to as looming) has him inflate his body and grow gigantic, but he can't hold the form for very long.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingSpiez'' episode "Operation The 50 Ft. Hacker", Davey Hacker steals a gadget that makes its target grow. When the kids are fighting the giant Davey, Megan uses it on herself, making herself as tall as Davey. After successfully defeating him, however, the gadget winds up malfunctioning, causing her to inflate like a giant balloon. Marc manages to revert her back to normal size shortly after.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' began with Wakko drinking a huge root beer float, expanding, and floating back onto his seat afterwards... then he got hiccups.
** He also inflated with air in the first episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy:''
** In the episode where the Eds are pretending to be one another, Ed (pretending to be Eddy) makes Eddy (pretending to be Edd) drink enough juice to fill a swimming pool causing him to become massively bloated.
-->'''Ed:''' (As Eddy) Kids will pay big money to ride a blimp! You're a genius, Double-D!
** Likewise, in an episode in which Ed and Edd are trying to make Eddy taller (due to the latter's hatred of being short), Ed convinces Eddy to eat an inflatable raft. As Edd points out: "Well, he's certainly... um... wider..."

** In ''Fastest with the Mostest'', Wile E. Coyote tries to blow into a balloon for his latest plan, only for the air to shoot back and inflate him.

** In "Feeling Pinkie Keen", Pinkie Pie's "Pinkie sense" makes her twitch all over, in anticipation of a "doozy" happening soon, and this includes her spontaneously inflating very briefly.

** Takes a more grotesque turn in "Too Many Pinkie Pies": Twilight's spell to send the clones back to the Mirror Pool, causes them to inflate and pop first.

** A downplayed example at the end: after [[spoiler:Judge Doom]] gets SquashedFlat, he uses an air tank to inflate himself back to normal size.

* The first scene of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', taking place in the ShowWithinAShow "Somethin's Cookin'", has Roger accidentally ending inflated by an [[AcmeProducts ACME]] vacuum.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': RubberMan Luffy uses this as one of his attacks through Gum Gum balloon, sucking in so much air that he turns, quite literally, into a balloon. Worth mentioning is his second fight with Crocodile where he ingests an entire barrel of water and turns into "Water Luffy". He later developed a much more potent version by distributing the air in his BalloonBelly to his Haki-infused muscles, [[HulkingOut bulking him up considerably]] and becoming ''very'' bouncy. Sounds ridiculous, but this is ''bona fide'' PersonOfMassDestruction grade.

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* From the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes: expanding into a human superball was Bouncing Boy's actual ''superpower''.

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* PlayedForDrama in ''EasternEuropeanAnimation/TriDrovoseka'', where a character called Bubble inhales air in order to to lift its drowning fellows out of the water. Watch it [[https://youtu.be/-U8OFR4NVnw?t=540 here]].

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* The first scene of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', taking place in the ShowWithinAShow "Somethin's Cookin'", has Roger accidentally ending inflated by an [[AcmeProducts ACME]] vacuum.
* ''Disney/TheThreeCaballeros'': After Donald is shrunken down by Joe Carioca, Joe shows him how to inflate back to normal by blowing on his index finger. Donald blows on his thumb instead, causing him to inflate in all manner of crazy shapes.

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* In ''Film/SpaceJam'', after Stan gets flattened by the Monstars, some nurses help him by inflating him like a balloon using an air pump, then he deflates and turns back to normal.

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* Near the beginning of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', Harry accidentally casts a spell that makes Aunt Marge inflate and fly into the sky.

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* ''VideoGame/DigDug:'' You defeat enemies by jamming a pump into them and inflating until they pop.
* ''Videogame/{{Kirby}}:'' By inhaling enough air, Kirby puffs up and becomes a balloon, which enables him to fly.

Compare BalloonBelly (only the belly inflates) and TemporaryBulkChange or AttackOfThe50FootWhatever (grow in size but not inflate). Related to BeTheBall. As a form of ToonPhysics, this trope tends to run on RuleOfFunny and WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief.

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A form of AmusingInjuries where inhaling helium or other gas causes a character's entire body to inflate like a balloon. This usually causes their [[MagicPants clothes and hair to inflate as well]]. Because AllBalloonsHaveHelium, inflated characters are liable to float in the air or blow away in the wind, even if they were inflated with normal air. It often ends with the character deflating just like an untied party balloon, flying through the air and sputtering as the gas rushes out of them. Alternately, the character may inflate beyond their limits, resulting in PopGoesTheHuman.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' has an alien family come to Earth as refugees from their homeworld, Balloonia. Their spacecraft is about the size of a child's toy, and at first, the friendly aliens emerge the size of toy soldiers. However, they have a valve on their thorax that lets them inflate to human size. They can also deflate to save on volume and resource consumption.

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