History BigEater / ComicBooks

-->'''Linda:''' I thought you didn't need to eat like that any more?\\

** The Orange Light of Avarice induces an insatiable hunger in its wielder Agent Orange. Larfleeze is first shown gorging himself on rotting food. When Hal Jordan wrests the Orange Lantern Battery away from him, a voice from within the battery [[spoiler:which, according to {{Word of God}}, belongs to the Embodiment of Avarice]] tries to convert him into the new Agent Orange, saying that he deserves ''more''.

** Larfleeze later demands a planet-sized feast along with his own Guardian in exchange for joining the fight against the ''ComicBook/BlackestNight.''

* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': Matter-Eater Lad. His ("[[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway lame]]") superpower is being THE ExtremeOmnivore.

* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': Jughead. There was actually one story where two fat kids asked him how he managed to eat so much and stay so skinny. He attributed it to lots of running. From [[SingleTargetSexuality Big Ethel]].
** One comic attributed Jughead's skinniness to a unique metabolism. In it, he undergoes some sort of an accident (a whack on the head), which reverses it so that he always gains calories from ''everything'' he eats, causing him to gain a ton of weight. It's reversed somehow after he is fed cafeteria food and Dilton theorizes that the effects of his metabolism just can't be reproduced.
** Another comic has Dilton conduct a study on Jughead, funded by Hiram Lodge, by constantly feeding him to see if there's a way to artificially reproduce Jughead's metabolism. Jughead ends up gaining an enormous amount of weight and, upon reaching critical mass, loses it all in a single explosive belch. Dilton concludes, like in the previous comic, that Jughead's metabolism can't be replicated and Hiram Lodge is stuck with an enormous grocery bill.
** Another comic suggested that all the calories went to his brain and were the cause of his perfect memory (in that story). When he follows a normal diet he's unable to remember his own name.
** In yet ''another'' comic, when he starts eating healthily to set a good example for his baby sister, he starts passing out a lot and it turns out he's hypoglycemic (or at least comic-book!hypoglycemic).
** In yet another story, Jughead tells Betty and Veronica he stays thin with peanut butter. They eat a ton of it and gain weight like nothing. When they confront him, he says that he just really likes peanut butter and his exercise regiment must keep him thin. The girls pummel him.
** One short story shows that Jughead is a highly popular babysitter around the neighborhood because he's good with kids and charges very little. Parents note, however, that he ends up being fairly expensive because he cleans out the kitchen while they're out so they have to completely restock.
** In a one-page story from the comic, Jug's excess caloric intake winds up in his muscles! He's strong enough to knock over two people accidentally by shrugging his arms in a "I don't know" gesture.
*** Another story had him ''rip out'' one of Pop's old stools ''single-handedly''! This scares Archie and Reggie, who see this first-hand. And cause them to try to replicate it with their own excess caloric intakes.
** In the [[ComicBook/ArchieComics2015 reboot series]] Jughead was shown to have been FormerlyFat. He was a spoiled rich kid but lost weight when his parents lost all their money, and thus he couldn't eat the stuff he could before.

* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': Jughead. There was actually one story where two fat kids asked him how he managed to eat so much and stay so skinny. He attributed it to lots of running. From [[SingleTargetSexuality Big Ethel]].
** One comic attributed Jughead's skinniness to a unique metabolism. In it, he undergoes some sort of an accident (a whack on the head), which reverses it so that he always gains calories from ''everything'' he eats, causing him to gain a ton of weight. It's reversed somehow after he is fed cafeteria food and Dilton theorizes that the effects of his metabolism just can't be reproduced.
** Another comic has Dilton conduct a study on Jughead, funded by Hiram Lodge, by constantly feeding him to see if there's a way to artificially reproduce Jughead's metabolism. Jughead ends up gaining an enormous amount of weight and, upon reaching critical mass, loses it all in a single explosive belch. Dilton concludes, like in the previous comic, that Jughead's metabolism can't be replicated and Hiram Lodge is stuck with an enormous grocery bill.

*** Another story had him ''rip out'' one of Pop's old stools ''single-handedly''! This scares Archie and Reggie, who see this first-hand. And cause them to try to replicate it with their own excess caloric intakes.

** Minnie the Minx's nemesis Fatty Fudge, who had a brief solo series in TheEighties where he would travel around the world eating different countries' national dishes.

* ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Blob is usually seen eating, even during action scenes. When the Brotherhood made a BigDamnHeroes scene at Weapon X, he was eating a sandwich, and when they attacked the base of ComicBook/TheUltimates, he raided the fridge. Course since his mutant power relies on his mass this is justified.

* The ''{{ComicBook/Marsupilami}}'', all of them. They're relatively small animal, arround 3 feet 5 inches, but they can eat enormous amount of fruits, nuts, sometime insects, and dozens of piranha in a matter of seconds. even the baby marsu, small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, can eat several time their weight just a few week after being born.

* Jughead from ''ComicBook/ArchieComics''. There was actually one story where two fat kids asked him how he managed to eat so much and stay so skinny. He attributed it to lots of running. From [[SingleTargetSexuality Big Ethel]].

* Cassandra Cain, the second ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, is generally one, with an issue of her solo series showing her stopping at a diner to eat a half-dozen cheeseburgers. In her case, it seems to be a mix of an impoverished upbringing and an absurd daily regimen.
* ''ComicBook/{{Catstronauts}}'' has Waffles.
* ''ComicBook/ChuckDixonsAvalon'' has King Ace, whose SuperStrength demands an exceptionally high caloric intake. He orders at least eleven hamburgers at one sitting.
* ''ComicBook/TheDandy'' had Desperate Dan, a larger-than-life cowboy who was a constant challenge for Aunt Aggie to feed. His usual fare was a cow pie -- a beef pot pie with a filling consisting of a whole longhorn cow, with the horns sticking out of the crust.
* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} himself can put away lots of food in some issues, there's almost a page of him mentioning food, stuffing his face, or surrounded by half-eaten food. When he's feeling "down" he tends to binge on junk; when he's feeling "up" he has a quirky obsession with chimichangas.

* After Barry Allen was killed and Wally West took over as ComicBook/TheFlash, there was an attempt for a while to make him a more realistic speedster by limiting his speed to around 700 mph and forcing him to intake massive amounts of food to maintain his energy.[[note]] In fact it’s now pretty common for any comic book speedster to be big eaters because their super speed heightens their metabolism so they need to fuel their bodies with large quantities of food just to even properly function.[[/note]] Later, after merging with the Speed Force, he no longer needed to eat, though that didn't stop him from stuffing his face in the blink of an eye. At least up until [[spoiler: the death of Bart Allen]], most of DC's speedsters were depicted as ravenously hungry.

* Franchise/GreenLantern:

* ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} tends to eat loads and loads due to his inhuman metabolism.
* Roxy from ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW'' can't go an issue without eating something at least once or referencing food.
* Matter Eater Lad, a member of the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''. His ("[[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway lame]]") superpower is being THE ExtremeOmnivore.
* Averell Dalton from the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' comic books and animated series. So is the dog Rantanplan, sometimes. On occasion, they're both bordering on ExtremeOmnivore.

* The second issue of ''[[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor -- The Mighty Avenger]]'' demonstrates why Thor should never be granted free access to your fridge. Asgardians in general are typically portrayed as big eaters compared to humans.
* Lupo and Skin from ''Minimonsters''.
* Maggy from the Brazilian ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' comics. Her favorite food is watermelons... which she swallows whole. In one story, {{Dracula}} (or other generic vampire) bites Maggy without knowing who she is and, in a rampant hunger, she starts to bite and transform every single person she meets in a vampire, creating some sort of [[ZombieApocalypse Vampire Apocalypse]]. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone After learning]] that the world order may be in serious trouble, Dracula must [[TimeTravel go back in time]] to prevent this.

* ''ComicBook/SinCity'''s second book, "A Dame to Kill For", has Agamemnon, the guy Dwight consults for developing his pictures. Dwight describes him as "cheerful as usual and eating as usual."
* Greedy Smurf in ''Franchise/TheSmurfs'' is a big eater in whatever media format he appears in.
* In Chris Claremont's series ''ComicBook/SovereignSeven'', Cruiser's telekinetic powers are fueled by his metabolism, and he must eat large quantities of high-calorie food to keep them up.
* PlayedForDrama in ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' with Mary Jane's teenage cousin Kristy, who appeared shortly after Peter and MJ's marriage. She was constantly eating, despite being thin as a rail As it turned out, she was bulimic. (Of course, most of the fans figured that out quickly, but [[AbusiveParents the reasons why]] ran deeper.)
* Whizzer in ''Comicbook/SquadronSupreme'', being a Flash {{Expy}}.
* ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} became a big eater in the comics after the [[Series/Supergirl2015 live-action show]] added this personality trait to the character. In [[ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth a 2017 issue]] she wants to eat again just after having lunch with [[Franchise/{{Superman}} her cousin]].
* Powermasters in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'' are portrayed as eating 10 to 20 times as much as normal people in order to provide energy for their {{giant robot}} partners.
* Sabretooth in ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}''. DependingOnTheArtist, he can be very bulky muscular, or more lean in build. But he's been shown to be this. When he was the X-Men's prisoner, it's revealed he can eat 22 meals in 24 hours. While at a diner, he has eaten three large steaks, and tells the cook he's ready for his fourth.

* Yorick from German comic ''Magazine/{{YPS}}''.
* Pol Pitron from ''ComicBook/YokoTsuno'', who once even gets sick from eating too much. Also the TeamChef.

* It's hard to tell if Grossout from ''ComicBook/ScareTactics'' is fat as he is essentially a walking tumor. But he definitely was fat before he was BlessedWithSuck.

* Obelix from the ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' comic books, the current trope picture. He eats whole wild boars by the numbers per meal. But don't [[BerserkButton call him "fat"]] out loud if he's nearby. If he's not thinking of [[BloodKnight fighting Roman legionnaries]] or his menhirs, it's food that preoccupies his thoughts. The mere notion of anyone not eating anything to eat for a significant amount of time (such as with [[Recap/AsterixAndTheMagicCarpet a visiting Indian ascetic who last ate before starting his journey to Gaul three weeks ago]]) makes him faint with horror.

* ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Blob is usually seen eating, even during action scenes. When the Brotherhood made a BigDamnHeroes scene at Weapon X, he was eating a sandwich, and when they attacked the base of ComicBook/TheUltimates, he raided the fridge.

* After Barry Allen was killed and Wally West took over as ComicBook/TheFlash, there was an attempt for a while to make him a more realistic speedster by limiting his speed to around 700 mph and forcing him to intake massive amounts of food to maintain his energy. Later, after merging with the Speed Force, he no longer needed to eat, though that didn't stop him from stuffing his face in the blink of an eye. At least up until [[spoiler: the death of Bart Allen]], most of DC's speedsters were depicted as ravenously hungry.

* ''{{ComicBook/Sabretooth}}'' in Creator/{{Marvel}}. DependingOnTheArtist, he can be very bulky muscular, or more lean in build. But he's been shown to be this. When he was the X-Men's prisoner, it's revealed he can eat 22 meals in 24 hours. While at a diner, he has eaten three large steaks, and tells the cook he's ready for his fourth.

* Powermasters in the Creator/{{Marvel}} ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel Transformers Generation 1]]'' comic are portrayed as eating 10 to 20 times as much as normal people in order to provide energy for their {{giant robot}} partners.

* Fatty of Class IIB, Bash Street School, from ''ComicBook/TheBeano''.
* Minnie the Minx's (also from ''The Beano'') nemesis Fatty Fudge, who had a brief solo series in TheEighties where he would travel around the world eating different countries' national dishes.
* Big Fat Joe from ''The Beano'' originally had his own strip back in the first issue and in the 1950s became one of Lord Snooty's pals.
* The Three Bears from ''The Beano'' are a group of three fat bears (a mummy bear, daddy bear and a child bear) who are always trying to steal grub (usually from Hank's store).
* Little Plum's "Chiefy" from ''The Beano'' could put it away too. In one story, Plum was trying to arrange some entertainment for the tribe and considered engaging "Fat Fred", a champion pie-eater who could eat forty pies for lunch. He thought better of the idea when he realized that the tribe could already see Chiefy eat forty pies ''as a snack''.