History Main / StomachOfHolding

* In ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}'', Rincewind meets a thief who stole some jewels taken by the leader of the Thieves' Guild. The interesting part? The leader had swallowed the jewels at the time. So, the leader knew full well who stole them, since only that thief was THAT good.

Some people and creatures can use their stomach to keep stuff within, sometimes [[BagOfHolding more than what would realistically be able fit in there]], up to and including single items larger than their entire body. Usually they can also bring the items back up on command, and can somehow choose the exact item they want to bring up despite carrying around fifty things. Either that, or they ''can't'' choose, and are subject to an OverlyLongGag where they have to keep coughing up increasingly strange items until finally getting the right one by luck. [[RuleOfFunny Whatever is funnier for the current situation]].

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-->'''Dr. Amusa''': Couldn't you have just...kept ''swallowing'' it?
-->'''Greenberg''': [queasily]...no.
* In ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', the [[KillerRabbit adorable kitty]] Goose is actually a [[TheDogIsAnAlien Flerken]], an alien species not too far removed from an EldritchAbomination when they open their mouth. She's also sturdy enough to cat-handle [[spoiler:the Tesseract]] without any ill effects, so when the need arises to carry it safely, she just eats it. [[spoiler:And then coughs it back up like a particularly shiny hairball]].

* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': The [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Fat_Chocobo Fat Chocobo]] first does this in ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII III]]'' and does it again in ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV IV]]''.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Second Edition Dark Nagas can swallow objects to spit out later, using a bag-like internal organ to carry things. The organ has thick, rubbery walls that protect the naga against pointed and sharp objects, protect the cargo against digestive juices and prevent magic items in the cargo from being detected.
** There is also an inversion — an item that looks like a bag of holding but actually leads to the maw of an extra-dimensional creature.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Dondochakka Birstanne holds the team pet [[SandWorm Bawabawa]] in his stomach, as well as his own, [[CarryABigStick Kanabp-shaped Zanpakuto]].

* In the Hungarian folktale "The Little Rooster and the Turkish Sultan", the rooster has a magic stomach like this, which he uses to great effect: he can swallow and regurgitate everything from a well's entire water supply to '''''a swarm of hornets'''''. And since this is a children's tale, he does the latter without killing the insects; instead, he uses them as a ''GroinAttack BreathWeapon'' against the Sultan - [[CrowningMomentOfFunny no, we're not making this up]]!

** That's a clever idea and all, but that doesn't exactly explain... ''how'' this was accomplished. I mean, the item shows it's got a whole box. And which end did this come back out of? I don't particularly like the idea of Snake throwing up individual soggy cigarettes at the dock. Nor do I like the idea of him forcibly hurling an entire box.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Who Mourns for Morn?", it is revealed that [[spoiler:Morn took part in a bank robbery]] several years ago. He extracted the liquid latinum from the [[WorthlessYellowRocks gold casings]] and stored it in one of his redundant stomachs. Quark assumes this is why his hair fell out.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Dondochakka Birstanne

* Tsuyu of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has this as part of her frog powers, though unlike most examples she ''is'' limited by how much could realistically fit inside, and bringing the items back up is both an unpleasant experience for her, and an unpleasant sight to anyone watching.

* The "Spike" enemies from the ''SuperMarioBros'' series regurgitate spiked balls into their hands and then toss them at you.

* A thief in ''[[SherlockHolmes The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle]]'' feeds a stolen gemstone to a goose so he can smuggle it home, intending to carve up the bird for dinner and retrieve the gem from its crop.
* In the ''Discworld'' novel "Sourcery", Rincewind meets a thief who stole some jewels taken by the leader of the Thieves' Guild. The interesting part? The leader had swallowed the jewels at the time. So, the leader knew full well who stole them, since only that thief was THAT good.
* In the novel ''[[KnownSpace Destroyer Of Worlds]]'', when a Pak is taken prisoner, it hides one of its devices from a search by swallowing the device. When it retrieves the device later, the device's surface is pitted and slightly damaged from the stomach acids. However, the device functions. Nonetheless, the Pak believes it will not survive another trip through its stomach.

Some people and creatures can use their stomach to keep stuff within, sometimes [[BagOfHolding more than would comfortably fit in there]]. (Of course, it helps if they can gag it all back up when necessary.) It can be small, or it can be bumped up to being larger than the character themselves. Handy and unlikely to be found by frisking, if quite disgusting.

The acidic action of digestive juices rarely come into play.

* ''[[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Tsuyu]]'' has this as part of her frog powers.

See also SwallowTheKey. Compare TreasureChestCavity. For objects stored in the other end of the digestive tract, see AssShove.

Some people and creatures can use their stomach to keep stuff within, sometimes [[BagOfHolding more than would comfortably fit in there]]. (Of course, it helps if they can gag it all back up when necessary.) Handy and unlikely to be found by frisking, if quite disgusting.

* Rico from ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar''. As well as 'small' things like lit dynamite, bombs, bowling pins, and a running chainsaw, it is also revealed that he has an elevator and a spiral staircase for getting to the bottom. His stomach can safely hold Mort too. He once choked up a ground-to-air missile and launching platform.

* In ''[[Anime/YuYuHakusho]]'', when Yukina gives him a very valuable OrphansPlotTrinket, Hiei asks her how she kept the jewel dealer who imprisoned her in her debut from stealing it. She answers that she hid it in stomach, quickly reassuring him that she's cleaned it since then. Hiei concludes that someone is hiding his matching trinket the same way when he wonders why he can't find it with his Jagan eye, and it turns out Mukuro is.

* Apparently this is something youkai in ''Manga/YuYuHakusho''-[[TheVerse verse]] can do to hide things, even from scrying attempts, but it's never elaborated on.

* In ''VideoGame/ {{Heroes of the Storm}}'', one of the heroes, Stitches, can eat an enemy and regurgitate him after a few seconds, allowing his group to focus the target down. He actually does this through the huge maw he has in his belly.

* VideoGame/{{Kirby}} has this in ''Squeak Squad'', allowing him to store various powers or recovery items, among others.
** Other Kirby games have a lesser version of this trope; after sucking up an enemy, he can carry them around before spitting them out or swallowing them.

* Benedict the [[BirdPeople hawk man]] from ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'' has a stomach of holding. Best shown in his "Regurgirocket" taunt wherein he regurgitates a rocket. He pretty much stores his rockets in his gut only to puke them back out later when he needs a reload, kinda like the manner of how real life birds would store food in their guts only to puke it all out later to feed their young. Supporting this is the fact that there's nothing in his attire to suggest anywhere else he could possibly carry his rocket reserves.