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* Lampshaded in ''Literature/TheCaseFilesOfJewelerRichard'' with Richard and incessant love of sweets. He claims to stay in shape by boxing and that his blood sugar isn't a concern, but Seigi doesn't seem fully convinced, and Seigi wonders if half the people staring at them in restaurants aren't just distracted by his beauty, but wonder how he looks like ''that'' while eating like ''that''.

* Justified with Catarina in ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom''. She eats a lot of sweets, but she usually overeats due to her lack of self-control and [[VomitDiscretionShot makes herself sick]]. Also, her two main hobbies are rather physically demanding (farming and climbing trees), so any calories she does manage to digest get burned off pretty quickly.

* In LightNovel/ChivalryOfAFailedKnight, Stella complains that the food she eats [[DCupDistress goes straight to her chest]].

* Lampshaded in ''LightNovel/TheCaseFilesOfJewelerRichard'' with Richard and incessant love of sweets. He claims to stay in shape by boxing and that his blood sugar isn't a concern, but Seigi doesn't seem fully convinced, and Seigi wonders if half the people staring at them in restaurants aren't just distracted by his beauty, but wonder how he looks like ''that'' while eating like ''that''.

* People with high metabolism tend to have this benefit, though with the catch that their body burns energy with food faster than regular people, thus people with high metabolism tend to (and in some cases need to) eat much more often.
* Athletes. They have to get their energy from somewhere, after all. While the figures may vary depending on specific needs, Olympic-class athletes may consume upwards of 4,000 or even 8,000 calories a day.

A common {{justifi|edTrope}}cation would be that such characters are always active (like running every day, fighting bad guys that always cause trouble or carrying heavy objects everywhere they go), [[CastFromCalories they use magic]], they were born with have a high level of metabolism, or the food they eat is healthy. This trope can be {{Zig Zagged|Trope}} if the character gets fat in a short time, but gets skinny and/or fit again afterwards.

* [[HilariousInFlashback Ironically]], this was true of [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] when he was a teenager. While he appears to have been the same BigEater all his life, his youthful "metabomolism" formerly protected him from the visible effects.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'': Dante is mostly shown eating ice cream and pizza all the time. Yet he still looks like he hasn't gained any weight! To be fair, he does live a ''very'' [[HunterOfMonsters active lifestyle]].

* Molly and Golly, the fussy monsters in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' are both established to have superhumanly fast metabolisms (they also have modest SuperSpeed), so they can eat vast quantities of food and never gain an ounce.

* Maggy from ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' is the poster child for this trope, as she eats large amounts of food at one time, yet she is always drawn as very thin. This gets [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] in the teen spinoff manga, where while she still loves to eat food, she is now extremely worried about her health.

* Subverted with Will, formerly Roy, Harper in Season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''. After mostly retiring from superheroics to focus on raising his daughter Lian, Will's managed to put on some weight. He at one point acknowledges he somehow gained a "dad bod," despite [[spoiler:that he's a genetically modified clone.]]

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** Minerva Orland is a very slender woman capable of besting her guildmates in eating contests--this includes dragonslayers, famed for near-bottomless appetites and magic revolving around eating. This BigEater might be a Big Cheater though since she has spatial magic she is capable of employing as a pocket dimension.

* In the first Heart Event between Elli and Jeff in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon64'', Elli feels envious because Popuri can eat sweets without gaining weight. Jeff says that he [[ChubbyChaser prefers women with more meat on their bones]], which makes Elli happier.
* Lemres in ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo''. Considering the fact that he has a massive SweetTooth, it's honestly quite surprising that he hasn't gained any weight or come down with diabetes from all the candy that he eats.

* ''WesternAnimation/FIsForFamily'': This ''used'' to apply for Bob Pogo, back during his younger days in the air force. A flashback showed him with Frank, who expressed amazement at how much Bob could eat without gaining weight, while he had to work like hell to keep his weight down. Bob claimed it was because of his high metabolism. In the series itself, which is set about 20 years later, it's clear that Bob never adjusted to his metabolism slowing down as he aged, as he's now a FatBastard MeanBoss who needs a scooter to get around. Part of his character development is him trying to eat healthier and slim back down again. Let's just say it's a work in progress.
* Subverted with Will, formerly Roy, Harper in season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''. After mostly retiring from superheroics to focus on raising his daughter Lian, Will's managed to put on some weight. He at one point acknowledges he somehow gained a "dad bod," despite [[spoiler:that he's a genetically modified clone.]]

* Averted on ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', where Mac's unhealthy lifestyle causes him to become overweight in season 7. Rob [=MacElhenney=] decided it would be funny if his character suddenly gained fifty pounds to subvert this trope.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'': Dante is mostly shown eating ice cream and pizza all the time. Yet he still looks like he hasn't gained any weight!

* Inverted on ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', where Mac's unhealthy lifestyle causes him to become overweight in season 7. Rob [=MacElhenney=] decided it would be funny if his character suddenly gained fifty pounds to subvert this trope

* ''Anime/KOn'' has the SweetTooth vocalist Yui. When the rest of the band asks why she never gets fat with all of those sweets, she explains that she has a high metabolism.

* Subverted in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' with Anko Mitarashi. She enjoys sweets, particularly dango, and an omake page said that the number of calories she ate in a day would make anyone else fat. In the epilogue, which takes place over a decade after the ending of the series, she's gotten plump from continuing to eat sweets without going on so many missions.

** Zig-zagged on account of Luffy's eating habits. Luffy eats so much food like there's no tomorrow pretty much all the time. He does get fat, but only in a short amount of time. Whenever does he get fat, he always gets back to skinny in no time. Probably justified since he's a RubberMan.

A common {{justifi|edTrope}}cation would be that such characters are always active (like running every day, fighting bad guys that always cause trouble or carrying heavy objects everywhere they go), [[CastFromCalories they use magic]], they were born with have a high level of metabolism, or the food they eat is healthy. This trope can be {{Zig Zagged|Trope}} if the character is fat in a short time, but gets skinny and/or fit again afterwards.