History Main / KillItThroughItsStomach

* The key to beating the Metroid Queen in ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'' is to allow it to swallow you in Morph Ball mode, then set off a Power Bomb. Unfortunately, Power Bombs have been deactivated since the JustifiedTutorial, and [[GuideDangIt the game fails to tell you that you can use them again]].

* A somewhat different but very litteral use of this trope in ''Animation/ScissorSeven'' in one of the most [[BloodierAndGorier brutal and bloody attacks shown by the series thus far,]] done by [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Seven]] of all people. [[spoiler: Black Bird]] has a [[ChestBlaster hole on his belly letting him shoot projectiles,]] Seven uses his [[spoiler: [[BifucratedWeapon Thousand Demon Daggers]]]] and [[OrificeInvasion sends every shard of it inside the hole...]] before [[BodyHorror shredding the enemy as the shards bursts through his skin from the inside out.]] This technique even has a name: the [[CallingYourAttacks Thousand Blade Rend.]]

* The entire plot of the old ZX Spectrum game ''Gutz'' where the protagonist following a failed FirstContact, is now trying to stop a ravenous [[ThatsNoMoon alien the size of the Moon]] from devouring Earth, by shutting down its organs from the inside.

* In ''VideoGame/LegendOfLegrand'' (a 360 rpg) the newly introduced rogue PC defeats a certain boost by dramatically, rashly, and with seeming comical exasperation, leaps into the monster's jaws and "takes it out" from the inside. Particularly noteworthy as an rpg element because of the monster's high armor rating and the use of the battle mechanic of waiting for the beast to expose it's weak point in primal frustration.
* ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndTheSevenSirens'': How the Guardian Genie of Arena Town's island managed to defeat a LifeDrinker. She allowed herself to be drank and attacked her from the inside. While not a kill, it disabled part of the life-drinking abilities, such that only [[spoiler:Genie Life Force]] could sustain the villain after that.
* ''VideoGame/StrangerOfParadiseFinalFantasyOrigin'': Jack defeats the Greater Malboro by crystalizing it from the inside out, after it swallows him.
* ''VideoGame/SunsetOverdrive'': How the DL-Sea Monster is defeated, the player is SwallowedWhole then they "Melee Monster Internally", as the button prompt says.

* Happens a few times in ''Delve'', with varying degrees of success--
** Played straight when Bree offers herself to a giant snake, then cuts her way out of its stomach with an enchanted dagger.
** Subverted a chapter later, when a Jakaali warrior hopes to try the same trick on a naga. [[https://thisis.delvecomic.com/NewWP/comic/indigestion/ He tells the naga to eat him, which she happily does.]] Only after the warrior tries cutting his way out does the naga tell him that she's had her digestive system permanently skoneskinned.

* The ''[[WebVideo/YoungJusticeAbridged DC Abridged Universe]]'' adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueThroneOfAtlantis'' includes an original animation where Black Manta cuts his way out of the great white shark that Aquaman sent to eat him.

* In one segment of the ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' eighth season premiere "Garbage Sushi", Godzilla and Jason Voorhees jump at each other in the air as Jason flies up to Godzilla's mouth, getting SwallowedWhole. After Godzilla [[SpitOutAShoe regurgitates the hockey mask]], Jason gets out by cutting a tear through his abdomen with his machete.

* Happens a few times in Delve, with varying degrees of success--

* ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndTheSevenSirens'': How the Guardian Genie of Arena Town's island managed to defeat a LifeDrinker. She allowed herself to be drank and attacked her from the inside.

* ''VideoGame/StrangerOfParadiseFinalFantasyOrigin:'' Jack defeats the Greater Malboro by crystalizing it from the inside out, after it swallows him.

* In ''VideoGame/SlayThePrincess'', this is one of the ways the Beast route can end, with the Princess swallowing the protagonist whole but him acting quickly enough to stab her heart from the inside.

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* At one point in the manga (but not anime, it got cut) of ''Manga/BusoRenkin'', Tokiko faced an opponent who could make his enemies shrink six inches every time he hit them. After round one of the fight, she went from 5'2" to 1'2". In round two, she deliberately got hit twice and then jumped down his throat while only two inches tall, at which point she proved her CatchPhrase (I'll splatter your guts!) wasn't hyperbole as she carved her way back out, breaking the effect and restoring her original size.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' has a few incidents of this happening--

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', V gets eaten by a dragon, and uses a Shapechange spell to burst his/her way out... appropriately enough, by transforming into a dragon.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Chirault}}'', Kiran gets swallowed by a demon, then hacks his way out with his BladeOnAStick.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': After Alkyone's first apparent death, where they NeverFoundTheBody, a {{megalodon}} that made the mistake of eating her washes ashore with a large hole cut through its side from the inside.