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* The Main Character from ''VideoGame/TribalHunter'', Munch, suffers this when he either over inflates/feeds himself, or gets hit with a piercing attack when nearing max fullness. Diminished as Munch is [[LivingToys a spirit inhabiting a doll]], so all that's left is a busted doll as the spirit flies off to a new doll.

** ''VideoGame/WarioLand2'' has a boss (The Bubble King) like this.

* ''VideoGame/Noita'': Eating or drinking fills your stomach. At 100% fullness, you slow down. At 175% fullness, you take damage with further consumption. You explode and die at 200%.

[[caption-width-right:300: Kitana thinks her opponent is a real [[{{Pun}} blast]] to be around!]]

[[caption-width-right:300: Kitana thinks her opponent is a real [[{{Pun}} swell]] guy!]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}'', at least in most of it's earlier installments, usually has the titular player character explodes like a balloon popping as a recurring death animation.

* Occurs in the short story ''The Strange Tale of the Pylorus'' by horror writer Creator/JunjiIto. In the story, [[spoiler:a man named Piitan's stomach becomes a gateway to the afterlife (The Japanese word for Pylorus translates into "Spirit Door"), causing him to vomit up stones that are the souls of the deceased. He eventually ends up with more "Soul Stones" in his stomach than he can barf up, which causes him to swell up and then explode.]] It's definitely ''not'' played for laughs.

* Marlena in ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'' dies this way after getting bitten by one of the "fleas" that came off the Clover monster. Her death plays out in shilouette, as she's pulled behind a screen just before she pops, but even the obscured view is pretty horrifying.

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* The inept 2003 horror film spoof ''Scream Bloody Murder'' has a girl killed by being tied to a chair and inflated to bursting with an airhose put down her throat. Her stupid friend, when finding her, can only goggle in horror instead of, you know, trying to remove the hose.

* Stephen Leacock's ''The New Food:'' Technology has allowed an entire family's Christmas Dinner to be concentrated down into one small pill, just waiting for water to be added to reconstitute it. Then baby eats the pill.

* In Jon Agee's collection of [[FunWithPalindromes palindromes]] ''Go Hang a Salami! I'm a Lasagna Hog!'', a sister asks her brother "Did Mom pop?" as they're standing by shreds of their mother's body. The brother, holding a pin, then says "Mom did."

* One of WebOriginal/BadTwoSentenceHorror's most famous stories has Joel watching the Super Bowl, unaware he's about to explode into chunks of delicious meat in 3 minutes and 52 seconds.

Can sometimes be NauseaFuel, though in lighter works, the lack of blood and gore may counter this somewhat. Sometimes the body just pops and disappears, though sometimes, the exploding body will shoot the contents it was filled with everywhere, with the actual body parts not showing up. Sometimes the character's explosion is caused by an outside force such as a sharp object. In many cases, the character usually [[FromASingleCell regenerates immediately after exploding]], thus making it a type of AmusingInjury.

* While not as dramatic as this trope in fiction, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartment_syndrome Compartment syndrome,]] in which pressure within one or more of the body's anatomical compartments rises to critical levels, risking blood circulation, is this trope in spades. As pressure rises, muscles may literally ''rupture'', especially in the legs and arms where strong tendons and fascia limit the extent to which the muscles may swell. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasciotomy Fasciotomy]] is a means of releasing this pressure, and simply involves [[TheyWouldCutYouUp cutting the affected compartment open to relieve the pressure, saving the limb in the process.]]

Can sometimes be NauseaFuel, though in lighter works, the lack of blood and gore may counter this somewhat. Sometimes the body just pops and disappears, though sometimes, the exploding body will shoot the contents it was filled with everywhere, with the actual body parts not showing up. Sometimes the character's explosion is caused by an outside force such as a sharp object. In many cases, the character may [[FromASingleCell reform relatively unscathed after exploding]], thus making it a type of AmusingInjury.

Can sometimes be NauseaFuel, though in lighter works, the lack of blood and gore may counter this somewhat. Sometimes the body just pops and disappears, though sometimes, the exploding body will shoot the contents it was filled with everywhere, with the actual body parts not showing up. Sometimes the character's explosion is caused by an outside force such as a sharp object. In many cases, the character may reform relatively unscathed after this, thus making it a type of AmusingInjury.

* ''VideoGame/Bomberman'', at least in most of it's earlier installments, usually has the titular player character explodes like a balloon popping as a recurring death animation.

Can sometimes be NauseaFuel, though in lighter works, the lack of blood and gore may counter this somewhat. Sometimes the body just pops and disappears, though sometimes, the exploding body will shoot the contents it was filled with everywhere, with the actual body parts not showing up. Sometimes the character's explosion is caused by an outside force such as a sharp object. In many cases, the character may immediately reform relatively unscathed after this, thus making it a type of AmusingInjury.

Can sometimes be NauseaFuel, though in lighter works, the lack of blood and gore may counter this somewhat. Sometimes the body just pops and disappears, though sometimes, the exploding body will shoot the contents it was filled with everywhere, with the actual body parts not showing up. Sometimes the character's explosion is caused by an outside force such as a sharp object. In many cases, the character may reform relatively unscathed after this, thus making it a type of AmusingInjury.

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This is when InflatingBodyGag or BalloonBelly is taken to its logical conclusion. Fill an organism or some random body part with enough food, water, air, etc. and it will eventually burst. Of course, when this is applied to DeathByGluttony, it's usually PlayedForLaughs. There is little actual TruthInTelevision to this, as, while the skin can indeed rupture, it wouldn't do so drastically in most cases. Even barring that, the internal organs you are filling (stomach, lungs, nasal area) would rupture long before the skin itself. Yet in fiction, the rupture is simply measured by the body exploding.

Can sometimes be NauseaFuel, though in lighter works, the lack of blood and gore may counter this somewhat. Sometimes the body just pops and disappears, though sometimes, the exploding body will shoot the contents it was filled with everywhere, with the actual body parts not showing up. Sometimes the explosion is caused by an outside force, usually a sharp object like a nail or a pesky BalloonBurstingBird. In many cases, the character may reappear relatively unscathed after this, thus making it a type of AmusingInjury.

Can sometimes be NauseaFuel, though in lighter works, the lack of blood and gore may counter this somewhat. Sometimes the body just pops and disappears, though sometimes, the exploding body will shoot the contents it was filled with everywhere, with the actual body parts not showing up. Sometimes the explosion is caused by an outside force, usually a sharp object like a nail or a pesky BalloonBurstingBird. In many cases, the character may reappear relatively unscathed after this, thus making it a form of AmusingInjuries.