A character (who may or may not be fat) eats enough for an entire football team, usually devastating the whole table — and perhaps entire restaurants — with their insatiable hunger. Often combined with a speed-eating technique that makes food seem to vanish spontaneously from the plate. A common sight gag with this kind of character in cartoons or anime is having piles upon piles of plates and bowls stack up as the character chows down. May indulge in Cut a Slice, Take the Rest.
On occasion it can be used as a way to fulfill the needs of many Required Secondary Powers and thus make a character's abilities more believable. For instance, characters with a Healing Factor, Super Speed, or the ability to change shape and size, who would normally have to flout the laws of physicsat every turn, can simply explain the extra mass and energy come from over the top eating binges. Magic users in general can have this trope explained because they can cast from their calories *
one could even say that they cast from heat points
. This would explain why mages are often rather thin characters, even though obese wizards aren't unheard of.
In comics and manga it's become more common to make a Comically Serious character or Bad AssAction Girl a Big Eater as a way to add a humorous quirk that doesn't actually take away from the character's seriousness.
Occasionally the Extreme Omnivore. In Shonen anime, this often overlaps with Idiot Hero. Sometimes Truth in Television, as fate can be an unfeeling mistress. Many people with normal appetites struggle to reach their desired weights their entire lives, while others can eat copious amounts of food and still be as thin as a rail. Teenagers in general are known for being able to eat amounts of food that will make them fat if they continue to eat like that in their 20s and beyond. However, this trope can have unpleasant consequences in Real Life, for that see Death By Gluttony.
Another common justification for a female big eater is that all the nutrition goes to her well-endowed bosom. Consequently, female characters with large bosoms are often big eaters.
Typical dialogue in a restaurant:
Hei from Darker than Black sometimes eats between 10-20 bowls of ramen in one sitting. This is justified because he gets into super powered contractor fights fairly often. He's also a pretty good cook. Misaki Kirihara isn't quite as bad, but does eat a lot as well, which she justifies by claiming she gets lots of exercise as a cop. It should be noted that the only time their Big Eater tendencies were not lampshaded was when they had dinner together.
Charles Grey in the Kuroshitsuji manga managed to eat Earl Phantomhive out of house & home, with 34 dishes piled high.
Sket Dance's Chiaki Takahasi, Captain of the Kaimei High Softball Team, will eat absolutely anything and everything, as long as it's edible, IN RECORD TIME. Okay, almost everything. She has a weakness to eggs, which she absolutely despises.
In Lupin III, Lupin, Jigen and Zenigata are sometimes shown to be this way. In Zenigata's case, it's probably justified, since chasing after Lupin must burn more calories than the Insanity Workout.
Miyako in Hidamari Sketch is one, but since she is also in perpetual poverty, she is practically sponging off her three neighbours.
Jounouchi Katsuya from Yu-Gi-Oh! "Keep your hands and feet away from his mouth!"
Pokémon: Ash and his friends have been known to fall into this category every now and then, usually when sitting down to an extravagant meal put on by some gracious host.
Ash definitely falls under this. Most episodes he complains that he's hungry, one of the running gags is his stomach always growling (Misty would often go, "Not again!" at this. Later on when this happens, both Brock and May remark that "some things never change"). and when he gets food, he really stuffs himself. This has been lampshaded on a number of occasions. The beginning of one of the Johto episodes has him suffering from a belly-ache due to eating too much, and after about 200-something episodes, gets his first Balloon Belly scene in Sinnoh.
Despite how much she teases Ash for it, May might actually be worse. And Arceus help you if you try to take her share. On another occasion, she was even bribed with her favorite food (noodles) to help settle a family squabble that Ash and company would otherwise steer clear of.
Team Rocket, when they're lucky enough to have enough to pig out on. Once resulted in a fat episode where they had to work it off.
Diamond from Pokémon Special falls into this category all the time, rarely being seen without something in his mouth. Rather ironic considering his game counterpart Lucas' most prominent physical characteristic is being so skinny as to be downright emaciated-looking.
And of course, the obvious culprits — Snorlax, Munchlax, Swalot, etc.
Kagura from Gintama is constantly snacking on sukonbu. She also eats so much that Gintoki once used her to get out of paying a bill at a place running an "Eat XX amount in XX minutes and it's free!" promo. Gintoki himself is a sugar freak who only cuts back because his doctor told him he was on the verge of diabetes.
Midori from Telepathy Shoujo Ran, who can hold her own in the fiercest of eating contests.
It's only once made a plot point, but any time Simon or Kamina of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann sit down to eat, they generate a tremendous pile of dishes. Kamina even declares that "A man's stomach knows no limit!" in Episode 6. It shows, too.
Saki in Shikabane Hime munches sweets at a rate that would put L to shame.
Train from Black Cat manages to use up millions of dollars from hard earned bounties by eating too much. How he manages to remain stick thin remains a mystery...
In certain fan communities, there's actually a joke about how, even if Creedwanted Train, he probably wouldn't be able to support him, considering how Train goes through food money like water.
The eponymous Toriko embodies this trope and then some. A meal that could satisfy 500 people only filled him up 1/10. ONE TENTH, for a 500 man feast. Though this is kind of typical, as he has ridiculous amounts of strength and endurance, and he originally was a hybridized animal.
Zebra actually managed to eat 26 species into extinction.
As of Chapter 275, the yet unnamed cat-spirit that haunts Nagi's new apartment wolfs down Hinagiku's cooking while inhabiting Izumi's body. It's yet unknown what effect exactly this will have, but we now have the opportunity for another big eater.
Eyeshield 21: Otawara eats a ton but is almost pure muscle. With Popeye arms. Ikari, Otawara's teammate, is a Big Eater himself, but while a tough, muscular guy, is built pretty slim.
Kabuto Kouji of Mazinger fame is occasionally shown to be one. Hell, in the Mazinkaizer movie, he eats about ten times as much as the rest of the table combined (yes, those dishes are all his◊) before insisting that he's still hungry.
Edward Elric tends to do this, all while also eating his brother's share due to a certain handicap in that area. Ed's eating habits may be a Justified Trope because the extra food he eats seems to be partially sustaining Al's body on the other side of the Gate. And considering the conditions in which we see said body at some point, it's still barely enough to keep it alive.
Then they found a guy passed out on the ground, which turned out to be Ling. Ling promptly began inhaling downright ridiculous amounts of food, all while refusing to pay for his own tab. (Edward was not pleased.) It's implied that his bodyguardLan Fan eats almost as much as he does, as they're shown stuffing their faces in unison occasionally.
An unusually dark example is in Drifting Classroom. Nakata is an insatiable eater. The problems: first, they're in a post apocolyptic wasteland with no way to get more food, so his eating is causing others to starve. Second, when he eats he summons an invincible gigantic insect monster that tries to kill everyone.
Saya Otonashi from Blood+. Considering she's a vampire and normal food can't really satisfy her hunger in the same way that human blood does, it's a Justified Trope.
Chizuko from Mahoromatic is the smallest of the schoolgirls, yet she has a near-bottomless stomach.
Horo from Spice and Wolf doesn't wolf down an unrealistic amount of food like some of the other examples as fitting the more serious tone of the series, but she will eat herself sick if she's got enough apples and in the novels she loves cookies. She's had serious hangovers more than once, too.
Fuu of Samurai Champloo. She outdid every other contestant in a eating contest including fellow good eater Mugen, except for one, and only lost because of an unfortunate mistake she committed. A rare example of this trope, her appearance changes according to what she's had to eat recently. Usually she's slim and flat-chested, but after going all out on free food she gets Gonk levels of lard on her, only to lose it in a matter of hours, and start complaining again how hungry she is. Her metabolism is a frightening thing to behold.
Although it's presented as a sight gag, in one episode a group of thugs were searching for her because she had been spending counterfeit money her group stumbled upon in the woods, but by the time they crossed paths with her, she had bought enough food that she no longer resembled her original description.
Uehara in Good Morning Call. The first meal we see him eat is four pizzas, all in one go.
Legato Bluesummers from Trigun is a relatively rare villain example. Word Of God says that this was intended to be a humorous character trait, but also serves to make him creepy as hell depending on the context of the meal.
Aisha Clan-Clan and apparently all Ctarl-Ctarls from Outlaw Star. In the first episode showing her tangle with the heroes, she's seen vigorously stuffing her face at a restaurant, including chugging multiple bowls of stew- each of which were large enough to feed a table of four. Her appetite happens to fuel her super-strength and ability to turn into a feral tiger-creature, and she can be weakened by not eating. Her food tabs are a pretty sizable addition to the crew's financial woes.
Lina Inverse, Gourry Gabriev, Amelia and, in the anime, Pokota in Slayers. Justified in-universe as, basically, the more you do, the more you need to eat to sustain yourself. As a result, spellcasters need to take in lots of energy to counteract the drain of the spells they cast, and Lina is extremely careless about slinging spells around. Gourry's hyper-swordsman skills (not to mention his own considerable stature) take up a lot of energy for similar reasons. The only exemptions are Xellos, who is an Emotion Eater, and Zelgadis, who usually eats less due to his nature as a Chimera — being one-third demon and one-third rock golem means he needs less physical sustenance. The one time he does eat like the others is to enjoy a victory feast for killing Copy Rezo and Zanaffar at the end of the first season.
Usagi (and sometimes Chibi-Usa) in Sailor Moon. Only one episode early in the first season ever concerned itself with her possible weight gain and even that was pretty much dealt with as a Compressed Vice. Sailor Moon Abridged plays this aspect up as a Running Gag, where Usagi is constantly called fat even though her character design is far from it. Her younger brother Shingo was sometimes said to be this too which makes sense since as an adolescent he's got some growth spurts to fuel (one of which appears to begin at the start of the second season).
Considering Usagi is an adolescent too (she starts the series at 14 and finishes as 16), she is also going through some growth spurts, even if it's not as obvious as in Shingo's case (Not to mention, well, she isSailor Moon and uses her powers in very much a regular basis). Or it could be somewhat of a family trait.
Ranma Saotome is a borderline case; he does eat large meals, and is willing to swindle or steal food if particularly hungry, but the fights he gets into presumably burn a lot of calories and his meals aren't exceptional by ordinary standards. When he's been really pushing himself, however, he eats a lot more to recover (one anime episode has him consume five heaped bowls of rice after spending 72 straight hours doing nothing but train), and he can put away an impressive amount of food if pressed (an anime episode has him consume four full-course meals as part of a contest).
The OAV Akane and Her Sisters introduces Kurumi "Tendô", who put all Big Eaters in the series to shame. Despite being a small girl, she can wolf down record amount of food faster than any martial artist. She's also an Extreme Omnivore, able to eat Lethal Chef Akane's cooking — and ask for more.
Sakura Sakurambo in Urusei Yatsura regularly puts away GIGANTIC servings of food, and despite that never loses her swimsuit model figure. This is first displayed in an eating challenge in Hawaii, where, despite having taken special diet pills, she effortlessly completes an eating challenge, to the point of forcing the restaurant to shut down permanently due to eating all of the food and sending them bankrupt from buying new ingredients. In the anime version, this culminates in her not only asking for dessert (after having polished off a final course consisting of, in order, a whole roast turkey, a whole roast pig and a whole roast cow), but then asking for the teens who didn't attend to bring her some Chinese food when they fetch dinner. In the manga, she goes to take a nap in the pool after the contest is over and causes the inflatable mattress to sink, despite not having gotten the Balloon Belly that Ataru and her uncle received.
Some of the Saiyans (Goku, Vegeta) and part-Saiyans (Gohan, Goten, present Trunks, Pan) in Dragon Ball Z. The weirdest part is that the other characters always look on in shock no matter how many times they see it done. Though their reactions could be due to the eaters' less-than-proper table manners, since they all seem to snarf down the food as fast and as sloppily as possible (which even then, you'd think they'd eventually get used to seeing it).
Though it's mostly played for laughs, the Saiyans might arguably be a case of Justified Trope when you consider just how many calories their bodies must burn with all that muscle, much less the fighting.
Miaka Yuuki in Fushigi Yuugi takes this to quite the extremes. When the antagonists use food to lure her into traps twice...
Tamama in Keroro Gunsou has, on countless occasions, been shown eating an amount of sweet and snack foods that's bigger than he is.
Monkey D. Luffy. Potentially justified in that A) the fighting he does would require a lot of energy, and B) that his elasticized stomach is capable of storing far, FAR more food than a normal human's. At one point, he wakes up after passing out and instantly knows exactly how many meals he missed, (5 per day, apparently) and later gets around this issue by somehow managing to eat while sleeping.
It's probably also fueling one of the Required Secondary Powers, seeing as he seems to be able to stretch several times the distance of a football-field and is often extremely hungry after any battle, where he always stretches as part of his battle-style. This way of eating also applies to drinking; he can drink so much he should have water-poisoning.
Jewelry Bonney would count as well. Hell, the trope's name is her Red Baron.
As would Kumadori of CP 9. Due to his intense training, he has the ability to control his body to a much further extent than ordinary humans can. The most prominent ability of his is Prehensile Hair, but the trope-related one is that after being locked in a fridge, he ate everything in it before busting his way out. By the time he escaped, he had digested all of the food, causing his figure to change considerably, then he took a few seconds to just burn off all that fat effortlessly.
The most extreme example from One Piece would be Wapol, who has eaten a Devil Fruit that allows him to eat anything! Every time he's seen, the only thing near is other people or he's eating something, including things like houses or cannons. Also, he eats other people if he wants to. When the Straw Hats first meet him, he starts munching on their ship. When he got his own cover-story, he was eating entire villages. He can even eat himself, which makes him skinnier.
Big Mam of the Yonko. She eats 10 TONNES of candy every month from Fishman Island alone. She'll even eat her own subordinates if she gets hungry enough and unlike Wapol, these guys stay eaten.
Yukito Tsukishiro and Keroberos, from Card Captor Sakura. Yukito's excuse is that his body tries to compensate for not having a source of magical power, and later Sakura not being able to provide enough magical power to keep him in existence due to her extreme youth, while Keroberos just likes to eat. Sakura's mother Nadeshiko was one too, being able to finish a large cake in one sitting despite being a frail girl.
Caren from Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch has been shown to be a Big Eater in the anime. She was a jerk about it, too; when Lucia and company were trying to convert her to their cause, she simply used the opportunity to leave them with her bill.
Nozomi, Rin, Urara, and Karen from Yes! Precure 5. (For those of you playing along at home, this is half the main cast, and four of the titular five.) Karen is something of an unusual example, as unlike most Big Eaters she eats calmly at a normal pace. Urara is normally the undisputed queen, but Rin and Karen can both out-eat her when they feel it necessary (i.e. when they're trying to out-eat each other). Also, Komachi was a big eater when she was younger.
Taichi and all the digimon in Digimon Adventure. Justified in case of the digimons, since they need to have a minimal stash of energy to transform into their evolved forms; once Agumon attempted to digievolve on an empty stomach... and couldn't. While Taichi is a growing pre-teen and pretty athletic, it still doesn't justify the amounts of food he ate.
Uzumaki Naruto from Naruto. Like Luffy, Naruto never seems to gain any weight from his overeating.
Hyuga Hinata, played for laughs in a ramen eating contest omake.
Tsunade, after she wakes up from a coma that came from her overexerting her energy to the limits to protect Konoha Considering the circumstances, it's rather understandable.
Mikoto Minagi from Mai-HiME, and both Mikotos (the cat and the human) in Mai-Otome.
Kikuchiyo from Samurai 7; however, he is both the largest of the seven and, well, a cyborg.
Demons in the series Konjiki No Gash Bell eat their food whole, their head transforming into some strange eating machine as a result. Main character Gash is no exception, often eating poor hapless yellowtail tuna alive immediately after catching one.
The title character of Flint The Time Detective. His appetite wasn't just for gags, however, it was also his Achilles Heel; Flint would become weak if he had to fight on an empty stomach.
Another Sakura: the one from Amaenaide yo!!. She eats enough food to feed the whole temple, and yet never loses her Bishoujo Genre image.
Yako from Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro eats insatiably, despite being a small, teenaged girl — paralleling Neuro's appetite for mysteries. Her ability often helps solve crimes: her stomach is so powerful that she can eat any poison with no ill effects, and she can even taste how much "love" went into preparing the food.
Momoka in Touka Gettan. She first meets a couple of characters by eating their lunches.
Allen Walker in D. Gray-Man. Just look at how much food he orders when he first enters the Black Order...
L from Death Notenever stops eating sweets. Apparently if you use your brains enough you don't have to worry about getting fat. At 179 cm and 50 kg, it must be true, right?
Count D of Pet Shop of Horrors, scarily enough, can sugar-binge L under the table.
Takeshi Momoshiro and Ryoma Echizen from The Prince of Tennis. Their friends and teammates shudder at the mere thought of having them tag along for burgers.
Ryô Saeba from City Hunter uses to eat huge "lunches" accompanied by two litres of eggnog.
Kurumi and Manami, Kyôsuke's sisters, in Kimagure Orange Road. Hatta and Komatsu truly didn't know what they were getting into when they asked the girls out for pizza. In addition to it, Kurumi is a Lethal Chef.
Note that it's another case justified by their Esper powers; the more they use them, the more they get hungry and need food to recover the energy. And since Kurumi tends to be a little gung-ho in regards to them...
Chiaki from Magikano. She talks and thinks about food near-constantly, and she fantasizes about living in a Gingerbread House full of sweets... however, she exercises near-constantly, too, and says that she likes to exercise even more than she likes to eat.
The protagonist from Ryofuko-chan manages to consume an impressive amount of food for her size. The fact that she's still growing might help, but still...
Shizuka Doumeki from xxxHOLiC is not only a Big Eater, but he's an extraordinarily picky one at that. Apart from demanding stupidly difficult-to-make dishes from Watanuki, he also adamantly refuses to eat anything made by someone he doesn't know or approve of. (His grandfather Haruka mentioned that it was nearly impossible to take him out to any restaurants because of this.)
Yuko from S.S. Astro. She brings multi-level bento to school everyday, and eats after every class.
Three female examples from Ikki Tousen: Hakufu, Ryuubi and Chouhi. Both Chouhi and Ryuubi do look a bit pudgier, but in Chouhi's case it's more likely to be muscle than fat since she's a Cute Bruiser.
Baki the Grappler once ate enough Chinese food to give him a Balloon Belly, and then 8 litres of sugar fruit mixed with water to regenerate his lost muscle tissue.
The eponymous Yaiba, together with Gerozaemon and Musashi, especially Musashi, during the firsts arc. Musashi in his first appearence was able to steal and devour a whole roasted boar in about two panels or so.
One of the few cases when this is NOT Played for Laughs is Kyouko Sakura from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, who eats a lot because of her Freudian Excuse: her family fell into poverty after her Christian Minister father was excommunicated, so they had almost nothing to eat for a long while. After said father lost his mind and then went the Pater Familicide route, Kyouko likely spend some time destitute as well.
It's likely she still is - she is unable to honestly tell Sayaka where she gets her food from. Being a very powerful Magical Girl with no qualms about being a total asshole it's likely she steals the food.
Melan of Brigadoon: Marin and Melan sure can pack away the rice, eating gallons of it at a time. Makes a bit of sense: he's a cyborg who refuels with human food.
Kyosuke from Hentai Kamen is shown to have a comically tremendous appetite after wearing a particularly powerful pair of panties.
Junta from Ame Nochi Hare. His voracious appetite in virtually any situation is somewhat of a running gag.
Index and Aisa Himegami of To Aru Majutsu no Index, although the latter is only a big eater when it comes to burgers. Index, however, will probably swallow an entire kitchen before being satisfied. Fortunately for her (and misfortunately for the guy), Touma knows how to cook.
Jojos Bizarre Adventure plays this trope a bit more seriously than usual. In Part 2, we are introduced to the Pillar Men, an ancient vampiric race of superbeings that devoured other lifeforms. Eventually, their appetites grew too massive, and they would have consumed all life on Earth had they not come up with a way to create more satisfying meals. Namely, by carving magical stone masks and using them on humans in order to turn them into vampires.
Bleach has Yoruichi, who is shown in episode 114 putting away truly massive amounts of food.
Orihime, to a certain extent. Her friends lampshade it by saying that everything she eats goes to her Gag Boobs.
Nana from Elfen Lied thinks with her stomach and goes into a trance whenever food is mentioned.
Miharu in Girls Bravo never stops eating, or questioning whether newly discovered objects (for instance, butterflies) are edible.
Honey from Ouran High School Host Club can eat three entire cakes even after a full meal. It's also revealed that, once a week, he eats five cakes as a midnight snack, and later in the episode he decides to do so three times a week instead.
Tadashi from Special A is nearly always seen stuffing his face. Good thing his girlfriend's a Supreme Chef.
Akira from Watashi Ni XX Shinasai at first was never seen unless he had a snack in hand.
Bleed Kaga from Future GPX Cyber Formula eats anything (except foods that are too sweet) to a degree.
Wako Agemaki from Star Driver gets hungry easily and is never once seen to turn down food or a chance at a meal.
Itto and Mayu from Tokko eat constantly, even right at the beginning of a battle.
Averell Dalton from the Lucky Luke comic books and animated series. So is the dog Rantanplan, sometimes. On occasion, they're both bordering on Extreme Omnivore.
Averell Dalton:(eating Chinese food) The long salt sticks and the thin pancakes taste good! Jack Dalton: Idiot! Those are the chopsticks and the tissues!
After Barry Allen was killed and Wally West took over as The Flash, 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 the death of Bart Allen, most of DC's speedsters were depicted as ravenously hungry.
Illustrated in this sequence, in which Wally was eating a burger "the size of [his] head".
Linda: I thought you didn't need to eat like that any more? Wally: I don't need to. I want to.
Speaking of which, Bart's a heavy eater as well; the only piece of food he's seen to explicitly reject is raw fish.
Speedsters powered by the Speed Force don't need to eat huge amounts of food (if they choose to do such, the Speed Force Hand Waves away the negative effects); these two just choose to do so because they really like eating.
Deconstructed in DC Comics's 52. Sobek (the stuttering crocodile) is a Big Eater animal Mascot... until he catches Kid Hero Osiris in a moment of weakness, at which point he graphically kills and eats him, and reveals himself to be the Horseman of Famine, created to have a vast hunger which can only be quenched by eating great heroes.
Jughead from Archie Comics (pictured above). 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 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 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 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.
Maggy from the Brazilian Monica's Gang 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 Vampire Apocalypse. After learning that the world order may be in serious trouble, Dracula must go back in time to prevent this.
In the comic DP7, Blur is another example of a super-speedster who has to constantly eat to fuel his metabolism. Before he got his superpowers he was overweight, bordering on obese, and worked as a manager at a fast food joint.
Yorick from German comic YPS.
Pol Pitron from Yoko Tsuno, who once even gets sick from eating too much. Also the Team Chef.
The Orange Light of Avarice in the Green Lantern comics 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 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.
"You could really go for a hamburger right now. Two hamburgers! It should all be yours Mr. Jordan!"
Larfleeze later demands a planet-sized feast along with his own Guardian in exchange for joining the fight against the Blackest Night.
Sin City's second book, "A Dame To Kill For", has Agamemnon, the guy Dwight goes to for developing his pictures. Dwight describes him as "cheerful as usual and eating as usual."
Hellboy tends to eat loads and loads due to his inhuman metabolism.
Powermasters in the MarvelTransformers Generation 1 comic are portrayed as eating 10-20 times as much as normal people in order to provide energy for their giant robot partners.
In the comic strip Blondie, Dagwood constantly eats comically large sandwiches. He's so well known for it that his name has entered the dictionary meaning "a thick sandwich filled with a variety of meats, cheeses, dressings, and condiments." It's also a popular name for sandwich shops in the midwest. In Belgium, Dagobert (the French name for Dagwood) is the name of (thick) sandwiches made from a half French bread filled with lots of ham, cheese, salad, tomatoes, carrots, mayonnaise and sometimes onions.
Peter and Roger from FoxTrot; while Peter does this year-round (even eating groceries before his mother has gotten them to the parking lot of the store), he and his father really shine on Thanksgiving. Partly subverted because Roger is already a little chubby. Also partly subverted during those times Peter is deliberately trying to gain weight (and failing miserably).
John in With Strings Attached. Eats at least three times what a normal person eats. He can ingest and draw nutrients from just about any organic substance. As a side effect, he's immune to poison and drugs, including alcohol.
In the animated film Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle, Tarzoon encounters the Everything-Devouring Multitudinous Munchers who eat everything in sight. They devour three people, a tree, several hippopotamus, an alligator, an ostrich, a giraffe, and several water buffalo all in a manner of seconds.
In The Return of Hanuman, Maruti is a Big Eater. As a baby, he drank milk from two buffaloes. It only made him look like an elementary school student when he's only three months old. He's not done there yet. He ate all the food supplies from the village where he lives in one night. He also ate bread his friend's mother was making until all of the ingredients were finished.
Rusty from the Ocean's Eleven series is almost always shown eating something in every scene. According to Brad Pitt, it was decided that Rusty would just eat all the time. He first mentioned this when he was eating after having worked all day without a break for lunch and was hungry, because he thought it would be a good character trait for Rusty Ryan as well. This leads to a gag at the end of the film where Rusty gets heartburn and throws the food away.
In Plautus's plays, table-companions (a peculiar Roman institution, also called "parasites") are played as comically large eaters, making this Older Than Feudalism. Ergasilus in Captivi, given the run of Hegio's kitchen, causes an uproar not unlike those common in The Slayers.
Mr. Croup likes words, while Mr. Vandemar is always hungry.
Miles Teg from Heretics of Dune undergoes a transformation that unlocks his Super Speed powers, and as a consequence, has to consume many, many normal human portions to satisfy his hunger. Justified as his metabolism is accelerated to compensate for the increased energy demands. This is commented upon with amazement by the people who observe him eat.
The Hungry Tiger in the Oz books is quite possibly the largest and most powerful tiger in the whole of Nonestica, and has an appetite to match. He is only full once — after devouring a good portion of a royal banquet.
Everyone likes to eat in Redwall, but hares have it as a defining trait. To great comedic effect in most of the books. There's also a sequence in Salamandastron where two runaway Mooks try to keep up with the Abbeydwellers' eating, but since they're not used to eating so much, they make themselves horribly ill and have to be given a "fizzick" which makes them bring it back up.
Causes something of a problem in another book; a horde of squirrels has agreed to help a hare find his platoon, but, in order, he:
Comes dangerously close to overeating on a piece of the squirrels' waybread, one bite of which is dense and calorie-filled enough to last a squirrel all day
Promises three entire loaves of the stuff to an owl they're bartering for info with, when they could have haggled him down to one had the hare not been so desperate.
Bitches, moans, and in general makes a whiny nuisance of himself over how hungry he is when the squirrels decide that since it was his bright idea to give three loaves to the owl, he can be one of the three poor schmucks who goes hungry until they can make more.
And finally, gorges himself on unripe apples, forcing the squirrels to give him a dose of their own brand of "fizzik" before they can move on.
The hobbits from The Lord of the Rings are seen as able to put away large quantities of food. In a normal day, they eat at least seven meals (Breakfast, Second Breakfast, Elevenses, Luncheon, Afternoon Tea, Dinner, Supper, plus whatever snacks they can sneak between). As a reference to this, in the Films, elvish Lembas bread, a small bite of which is supposed to feed a normal man, is consumed in the amount of several loaves each by the sidekicks Merry and Pippin, with only mild indigestion to show for it.
In the book, though, it is Gimli who inadvertently eats a day's worth of lembas, having mistaken it for the much less appealing cram (human-made waybread with excellent keeping qualities and the flavour and texture of cheap cardboard) and reacting with delight on finding that it's tastier than the best honey-cakes he knows of.
From the Wild Cards series of novels, we have Croyd "The Sleeper" Crenson, who can sleep for as little as a night or as much as several weeks/months. Upon waking, he is always a Big Eater, to the point that there's a jingle about it, and people recognize him by his eating habits.
Tales of MU has the burrow gnomes with eating habits inspired by the above-mentioned Hobbits, as well as Mariel the sylph who eats as much as four people in order to keep her hyper metabolism up.
Benny from The Boxcar Children book series, despite being only six years old.
All the bird-kids in the Maximum Ride series have this, because of super-high metabolism to give them energy to fly. Amusingly, in the first young adult novel, they show up at a restaurant and start to order dinner, and the staff think it's some sort of prank.
Most of the Brotherhood boys in J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Of particular note are Rhage (who is regularly described or insinuated to be the biggest eater, even amongst the brothers) and Zsadist, as of book 3, Lover Awakened. The latter is an especially fortunate development since the extreme and very detrimental opposite was the case beforehand. In layman's terms, Z more than half starved himself for over a century, hating and outright not trusting any and all food he couldn't see whole or make himself, since he "didn't know if it was tampered with" otherwise. But thanks to his bonding with the aristocrat vampire Bella, he's since done a 180 and even adopted eating alongside Rhage.
Claudia Kishi from The Babysitters Club 1990s-era juvenile book series is a model-thin junk food addict. Many an eating disorder can be traced to this character. In the book where Stacy is introduced, Kristy suspects she has an eating disorder. Turns out she's just diabetic.
Fitz Kreiner from the Doctor WhoEighth Doctor Adventures. He also has Extreme Omnivore tendencies, and questionable table manners. And, as per usual for this trope, he's incredibly skinny, although when he's not busy running for his life and can have three square meals a day, he doesn't take long to get a bit out of shape. Fridge Brilliance: it's probably due to the fact that by the time he's 33, he's spent about two-thirds of his life either under rationing or traveling with the Doctor. Being on a see-food diet (you know, if he sees food, he eats it) is ordinarily a useful survival mechanism which he probably picked up when he was still a small child.
The Librarian in the "Hard-Boiled Wonderland" segment of Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is one of these, to the point where most of her salary is used to pay for food. It is explained as an effect of her gastric dilation.
Honor Harrington's portions often get comments (and envious stares from her less metabolically blessed colleagues), but then she is a genetically engineered heavyworlder with a Super Strength and requisite metabolism. Though, given how much exercise she subjects herself to, she probably wouldn't be fat even without her genetic tweaks.
Her big eating was even deconstructed in In Enemy Hands, when she was captured and she lost a significant amount of weight because she was only fed standard rations. Her warden was particularly frustrated by this since he was trying to break Harrington psychologically but needed her physically fit for propaganda footage.
The Dresden Files: Harry Dresden says that he "eats like a horse", but is still tall and skinny.
Because he actually alternates between eating like a horse, and getting so wrapped up in what he's doing that he forgets to eat. So it comes to about even, overall.
A rather horrifying version includes the entire Taxxon species from Animorphs, who have a maddening hunger that makes them eat anything they can — including any injured member of their species or, on at least one occasion, oneself. This hunger is so powerful that when Taxxons are caught up in it (which is a lot) even the Yeerk inside can no longer control it. To its terror. There's a reason that only lower-ranking Yeerks are assigned to Taxxons.
Klößchen (Grunter in the English version) of TKKG is one. His German name means "Dumpling".
Harry Potter: Ron Weasley, of course. It's a Running Gag to have him cheerfully stuffing 'self out at the feast at the beginning of every year at Hogwarts, sometimes grossing Hermione and Harry out. In the last book, it gets even worse. To be fair, the Horcrux-locket he wears is turning him into a Jerkass, as it plays on his deep insecurity, leaving him in a bad mood to take out on Harry. And he gets better about it when he smashes said locket when it tries to mindrape him.
In The Shattered World, a thief who'd taken professional pride in his slender physique is cursed to be a Big Eater by a sorcerer he'd attempted to cheat. He downs a huge ale and a platterfull of meat before being thrown out of the bar puking, already feeling his perpetual hunger's return.
The classic example of this in literature would be Falstaff in Henry IV, who was always drinking, eating, or sleeping. He also was the namesake for the term falstaffian which is now used to describe these people.
Fermín from The Shadow Of The Wind blames his thin build to his incredible metabolism, which he displays throughout the book.
Mulch, in the Artemis Fowl series. Let's not get into what he eats, please.
Lieutenant Hélčne Froissy, in Fred Vargas's thriller novels. She is seen eating a lot, and hides food wherever she can, including in the police station; the other policemen know this and use her food reserves as emergency supplies.
Graystripe from the Warrior Cats series is called this by other characters, though we don't actually see him eating large amounts.
Corwin from the Chronicles of Amber, to the extent where his brother Random once snaps him out of an Achilles in His Tent sulk by showing up with a very large tray of food.
A more modest though still unrealistic form of this ability is displayed by the waifish title characters of Gilmore Girls.
Joey Tribbiani from Friends. In one episode he volunteers to eat a whole Thanksgiving turkey, which doesn't mean he'll stop eating until then. (He calls it "warming up.") Another episode involving Phoebe's birthday dinner at a nice restaurant. Over the course of the episode, everyone, including Phoebe, leaves for other activities... except Joey. He's bummed at first, but lights up when all of the already ordered entrees arrive.
Joey: Dinner for six for one? (to waiters) You guys are about to see something real special... (he even eats the birthday cake afterwards) Joey: This is the best birthday ever!
Dean Winchester of Supernatural eats constantly and spends most of his life sitting in a car, but still manages to look as toned as Jensen Ackles. All the "Dean eats constantly" jokes have been getting slightly jarring recently because Jensen Ackles looks like he's lost even more weight while Jared Padalecki (the one who's never seen to be eating) looks like he could bench-press him easily.
Fred of Angel is shown to eat a lot, despite being played by the waifishly thin Amy Acker. Lampshaded when, after a breakfast with Gunn, he says "Where do you put it all in that little tiny body?"
Another Korean Drama, 49 Days, has the thin Ji Hyun's stomach constantly growling whenever anybody mentions food. She also never turns down an offer of dinner.
Upon being invited for dinner at the Summers home, Faith is ravenously shoveling food down her throat and even sneaking food off of Buffy's plate. Mind you, Slayers in general are big eaters, Faith was just the first one to demonstrate it onscreen. Apparently, Slaying makes them "Hungry and Horny". Of course, given Faith's living situation, it's quite possible she hadn't eaten for a while.
Buffy is apparently more sneaky about it.
Giles: All I know is, the fate of the entire world may well depend on... (sees donut box) did you eat all the jellies? Buffy: ... Did you want a jelly? Giles: I always have jelly; I'm always the one who says "Let's have some jellies in the mix"! Willow: We're sorry.... Buffy had three!
Heroes: Sylar is often seen eating or drinking and once devoured an entire pie by himself. There's even a video montage. This trope is also played with as his constant desire for power and abilities are often described as "a hunger".
The Coneheads from Saturday Night Live and their love of "consum[ing] mass quantities." In The Movie, the daughter eats a footlong Subway sandwich in about two seconds.
Samantha Marquez on Las Vegas is Front Of House's secret weapon during a hot dog eating contest against Back of House, despite Vanessa Marcil looking like she's never even touched a hot dog. Sam brags that her nickname used to be "Hummingbird", since she could eat twice her body weight.
Tuppy Glossop: I am not devoted to food! I have a healthy appetite.
Teal'c of Stargate SG-1 is shown to fill a tray entirely during his lunch.
An episode of Stargate SG-1 has the team's metabolism boosted by alien devices. The sneak off base and go for steak. Jack orders three steaks, and calls the waitress back with the "That's just for me" line while Carter and Daniel order the same. Then Carter adds And a Diet Coke. (When she gets the look, she explains that she likes the taste.)
From Stargate Atlantis, Dr. McKay is a big eater. He's not terribly discriminating, either — the only thing he doesn't like about airline food is they won't give him seconds. Except, of course, for any food including citrus, which he's allergic to.
Adric of Doctor Who — particularly when he hasn't had any breakfast. And later the Master in "The End of Time".
Chuck Noblet in Strangers with Candy is constantly eating at his desk, which turns out to be foreshadowing for "Feather in the Storm" when we find out he's bulimic.
There is an ongoing gag about how much Liz Lemon loves to eat, especially junk food (perhaps because her life is so hectic she never has time for proper meals.) Liz also gets pretty violent when someone steals her food.
Jack also shows some stress-eating tendencies of his own, such as in the first season episode "The Baby Show," where Liz remarks to Josh that "Jack Donaghy is gonna kill me and then he’s gonna kill you and then he’s gonna fold us up in a pizza and eat us.”"
D.I. Peter Carlisle in the BBC miniseries Blackpool is almost always eating, unless he's unhappy.
Iolaus from Hercules The Legendary Journeys has a hearty appetite. Slaying monsters probably burns more calories for mortals than Demi-Gods.
Jayne Cobb seems to spend more time eating or looking for food than another crew member of Firefly, moreso in the feature film.
"He's always eating! That's why they're so poor."
He has, on at least one occasion, called dibs on food abandoned by other crew members.
"Hey, free soup!"
At least part of it is because the average food for space farers is protein paste. As soon as any fresh food becomes available, even Inara becomes a Big Eater. Also, Jayne is massively muscular and is called upon not only to fight, but to move heavy objects and the like, and is constantly training, so he's losing/using a lot of energy.
Steve from Full House. One episode even shows him grabbing food from the Tanner residence before his dinner date because he wants to "warm up".
In the pilot of CBS's The Flash, Barry Allen, much like his nephew in the comics, was explained to burn calories at a tremendous rate and was thereafter shown constantly inhaling food.
Brent and Lacey from Corner Gas. Brent even eats an entire bowl of perogies in under five seconds, and says it isn't his best time. He only took so long because Lacey fed him a big plate of chili cheese dogs before their eat-off in an attempt to fill him up.
Julius Nicholson from The Thick of It: "A man cannot live on Jaffa Cakes alone — I've tried".
Carly Corinthos Jax of General Hospital. Despite never being portrayed by an actress above a size four, Carly's love of junk — especially pizza and chips — is legend. In 2009, junk food nearly becomes its own character when Carly's perilous pregnancy forces her to go on an all health-food diet. References are made on a near daily basis about how her husband and sons are keeping her from her beloved crap, and when Carly finally goes into premature labor, it's while on a clandestine trip to score an order of fries from her favorite bar.
Alex Russo of Wizards of Waverly Place. Her parents run a sub shop, and she often takes customer's orders for herself, or finishes off their leftovers. She sometimes takes the dispensers from the tables in the shop and empties them directly into her mouth. She keeps an assortment of inappropriate food in her locker at school, including pizza, popcorn, milkshakes, whipped cream and maraschino cherries.
The West Wing: Ainsley Hayes — the trope namer for Blonde Republican Sex Kitten — likes to finish her statements with, "Are you going to finish that?" and a common Running Gag is her hunting for something to eat. That said, she doesn't eat as much as most people on this page.
Trick: Ueda Jiro, physics professor, ate an entire year's worth of rice in one day, then later in the episode (chronologically) ate an entire pot of rice that had been meant for over a dozen people.
On The Beverly Hillbillies, Jethro Bodine would eat any unguarded food (or what appeared to be food) in the kitchen. His typical breakfast was a large mixing bowl filled with Kellogg's corn flakes and milk.
Mike Stivic from All in the Family, much to the chagrin of Archie, whose fridge Mike is always raiding.
In an early episode of Glee, Will takes a distressed Finn to an all-you-can-eat restaurant where they can talk. One shot shows their plates side-by-side: Will's contains a moderate, healthy amount of meat and salad/vegetables, while Finn's, which is the same size, is piled high and overflowing with everything you can think of. It continues to be implied in later episodes that Finn is a Big Eater: Brittany points out that "You have sloppy joes for lunch every day and think you can get away with it," and being ravenous between meals is the reason he ends up dedicating a week of his life to a Grilled Cheesus. Which he eventually eats. When it is at least a week old and has travelled back and forth between home and school, unrefrigerated, who knows how many times...
We later also find out that Coach Beiste eats a whole rotisserie chicken at every meal - until she's burdened with the musical, student council elections, football etc, discovers that Breadstix delivers, and starts carbo-loading on enormous bowls of pasta. A damn' good trencherwoman, Shannon Beiste.
Pat Sajak and Vanna White really go out of their way to sample local cuisine whenever Wheel of Fortune tapes on location. This was even referenced on a Clip Show (the 4,000th nighttime episode), which showed footage of Pat and Vanna indulging while "Eat It" played.
Eureeka's Castle has Emma which is funny, since not only is she a small mouse, but she is smaller then the main characters.
The puppet for Jacques Chirac in Les Guignols de l'info is portrayed as a Big Eater, always willing to devour large quantity of food. This is an exaggeration of the real-life Jacques Chirac, who has nonetheless the reputation of a healthy appetite.
At least in the first two editions, shamans with Raven are describes as either obese or rail-thin, and either way being almost unable to turn down an offer of food.
Orks and Trolls in general require much more food than Humans or Elves. There is also a biological augmentation known as the "suprathyroid" gland, which improves physical attributes significantly at the cost of vastly increased caloric intake. This is touched upon more in some of the novels.
The Increased Consumption Disadvantage basically means a character will eat much more than their size and weight would imply.
Similarly, the "Gluttony" drawback, which can be taken with the "Skinny" drawback. Leading to a character who needs to make a will save not to literally eat any food they see, but (unless you buy off the Skinny drawback) never even hits average weight.
Space Marines inside Warhammer 40,000, though they are more ridiculously muscled than thin. Their Super SoldierBio-Augmentation releases hormones in their body for the muscle growth, but such growth still needs to be fueled by their daily feasts (by our standards) and wildlife hunted. They also are able to be Extreme Omnivores, known to eat healthy meals of concrete and metal (and have super-tough bones that only work because their diets are laced with ceramic-based chemicals).
The biggest eater of all the Space Marines was the primarch of the Space Wolves Leman Russ. How? He was the only primarch to beat the Emperor in something, twice, namely an eating contest, and a drinking contest.
The Tyranids, also from Warhammer 40000, are the pinnacle of big eaters. A race of intergalactic insects who descend on the Milky Way with the intent of devouring all life and natural resources in order to fuel their hyper accelerated evolution process. And if you thought that was enough to qualify for this trope, it is hinted that the Tyranids have already successfully carried out this plan in the past, effectively strip mining several galaxies prior to their arrival here.
Some of the books for Werewolf: The Forsaken state that the Uratha have greater appetites than most (partially because they're part-wolf, partially because of the metabolism required for their Healing Factor). As a result, four meals a day is normal for most of them.
The Gristlegrinder Ogre from Changeling The Lost, whose most viable weapon is their teeth. They can be of different sizes but are known for being... well, hungry.
Theater
Algernon Moncrieff from Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest. In his Establishing Character Moment, he's seen eating the cucumber sandwiches his butler left for his aunt. In fact, it's Lampshaded by the protagonist Jack Worthing on more than one occasion — including his very first line!
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Robyn, from Advance Wars Eternal War. Most of Pink Cosmos is this, since their food contains very little fat. drinking an industrial-sized bottle of ketchup in one sitting is normal for them.
In Fantasia - Momento of Grand Finale, Nero is a carnivore who eats a lot (mostly inedible). It is even played for laughs most of the time and he claims it to be his magical ability as a half-elf to have an iron stomach.
Pretty much any game that features the Power-Up Food and Hyperactive Metabolism tropes. Finding whole turkeys or cakes inside those oil drums you just kicked? They'll be gone in a second, and you'll always be ready for more.
Interestingly done in Metal Slug. Eat too much food and your soldier becomes fat (Uh Oh BIG), which slows them down, but increases the power of their weapons. This trope was the reason as to why Nadia joined the team in Metal Slug 4: so she could lose the weight and go into the modeling business. Also featured in the "Good" ending of Metal Slug 4 as well.
Hilda's combat abilities in Shadow Hearts 3 actually justify her eating habits — she casts from calories. And if her calories get high enough, she ends up both "curvy" (read: ridiculously round) and barely recognizable.
In Dragon Age, a conversation with Alistair reveals that most Grey Wardens eat like it's going out of style. Of course, since you never see your character eat... (Informed Flaw works just as well, there.)
In another BioWare game, Mass Effect, the Codex reveals that people with biotic abilities (basically telekinesis) are big eaters since it takes so much energy to use their powers. In order to stay healthy, they need to eat almost three times as much as a normal person in their position, and they usually take special high energy drinks or bars right after every battle in which they use their power.
Sonia Strumm and Bud Bison, as noted by Geo Stelar, Luna Platz and Zack Temple.
Speaking of Luna, fail to grab her handkerchief in the third game (you have to choose between it, Sonia's fan-gift bag, and Bud's shirt) and watch her gorge on "comfort food". Sonia has the same reaction if you don't pick her hand-bag, and both will pig-out if you save Bud's shirt.
Also Netto/Lan from Mega Man Battle Network. On one occasion in the anime, he gorges on curry until he balloons up cartoonishly, though a couple scenes later he turns back to 1his usual skinny self.
Aside from constantly referencing food in the eighth game, if you take the translations literally, she actually eats a boss during the course of the game, merely complaining of a small bone afterward. Kindasorta justified in that she's a ghost. But only partially. It should be noted that the boss she "ate" made a full recovery in time for the ninth game.
As of Ten Desires, we now have Yoshika Miyako, whose ability is to "eat anything and everything".
Cecilia from Wild AR Ms and Lilka from Wild AR Ms 2 are both Big Eaters in the magic user category, although it's only used for a single gag in each game.
Reid from Tales Of Eternia, who states outright several times that he is 'not interested in anything that doesn't fill his stomach', and who is constantly hungry and in search of things to eat. Furthermore, the sole reason he has become proficient in using a sword is so that he can hunt for food in the forests. In the crossover game Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology, there occurs a memorable (and hilarious) scene involving Reid practically molesting Senel (from Tales Of Legendia) over a basket of bread that Senel happens to be carrying.
Many of the customers in Tales Of Vesperia's waitress Mini-Game are Big Eaters — they will often order dozens of dishes each.
Naked Snake of Metal Gear Solid 3 would probably qualify for this, as would EVA when you have to escort her. Polishing off two sets of rations (engineered to keep you going for at least a day) in a minute and walking away no less hungry than before? Yeah. Not to mention how the only thing he's interested in during ParaMedic's nature lessons, is whether he can eat the item in question. Add to that the Boss's comment at the beginning of the game about him having lost weight. Suggests his love of food is a little more that just necessary stamina recovery. In Portable Ops, he complains about Sigint's idea to make eating unnecessary for soldiers, because eating is the highlight of his day.
Kirby, especially in the Anime Kirby of the Stars, can devour large quantities of food without any consequences — except in one episode with special snack food that makes him (and King Dedede) extremely fat.
King Dedede himself isn't too much of a slouch on eating either, though he often qualifies as a Villainous Glutton.
Parodied by Dueling Analogshere, where Galactus and Unicron (yes, ''those'' guys) come together for an intervention to get Kirby to admit he has an eating disorder.
The Cavalier Lowen, Marcus' right hand in Fire Emblem 7. A Justified Trope because he's actually the cook of the party (mentioned in his supports), not to mention he was raised by his father and grandfather, both former cooks for the Pherae royalty.
The Action Girl Vanessa in Fire Emblem 8, too. Her older sister Syrene mentions it in one of their supports.
Syrene: You know I can tell when you're lying. Plus, you not eating is a dead giveaway. I mean, when's the last time you said no to a cookie? It's not a criticism. One of your most charming qualities is how you can outeat anyone. It's because of someone special, isn't it?
There's also the thundermage Ilyana from Fire Emblem 9 and 10. To start, every support conversation she has involves her being hungry. She joins your party in the 10th game at first to avenge her stomach for being fed scraps that could never satisfy her. However, at her first introduction in the 9th game, the hero assumes she's just ill. Also, other characters accuse her of using her really cute looks to get free food.
Taking this trope to the extreme, Ilyana even complains that she's dying with an empty stomach when she is killed in battle (in a game where non-plot critical characters such as herself die for real). One popular fan theory is that she has a tapeworm. Her character specific ending in Radiant Dawn states that "somewhere, she is hungry."
Queen Memory in Twinkle Star Sprites, who is perpetually hungry and (in her ending scene) asks the wish-granting Twinkle Star for an enormous amount of food (plus sherbert for desert). It's suggested her daughter Ran might be the same way.
Li Xiangfei. Two of her endings show her getting her teammates and friends in trouble for her appetite and several of her winning quotes involve her mentioning food. Her family has a restaurant in South Town, yeah, but oh booooy...
The psychic Sie Kensou is such a big eater that he actually uses eating niku-man dumplings as a special fighting technique that lets him recover health during battles... as long as he doesn't choke on them, that is.
The main character of Persona 3. On one of the dates with Elizabeth, in which the two of them go to all of the strip mall's restaurants, she asks him afterwards if he was alright, as he had "eaten little after our seventh meal". In the Moon social link, the Gourmet King comments on how the main character can eat so much and still stay thin. The main character is also portrayed this way in the manga◊.
In Persona 4, Cute Bruiser Chie has a voracious appetite, which is taken Up to Eleven in the anime, where she asks for ten beefsteaks plus a beef bowl.
Taokaka. She actually carries a Hammer Space plate around in case food becomes available, and offering/buying her food instantly gains you a place on her "good person" list.
Noel and her two friends may also count. In the second episode of "Teach Me, Miss Litchi!", the three of them are stated to have taken a restaurant up on their challenge to eat two thousand pounds of food. It doesn't specify whether they each had to eat that much or if it could be divided between the three of them, but that's still a lot. Of course, it also doesn't say whether or not they succeeded.
At least "squirrel-girl" Makoto must have eaten a whole lot, as she decided to burn off those calories by climbing a tree and swinging off a branch, only the branch broke and she hurt her ankle in the process (hence the trio's presence at Litchi's clinic in the first place).
Alex Mercer from Prototype is one hungry Humanitarian, devouring people and other Infected monsters with equal abandon. Instead of becoming visibly fatter, his shapeshifting powers allow him to compress his mass down to normal human size, which is handy given that he's implied to weigh at least a ton.
Your average Monster Hunter character can gobble down a comically oversized hunk of meat in about five seconds, and a full meal in roughly the same time. Then there are the armor abilities Speed Eating (Consume meat/healing items faster) and Double Hunger (Lose stamina quickly).
Zaalbar from Knights Of The Old Republic. Mission snarks that he needs "eight squares a day." In his first in-game appearance, he is annoyed with having to back up Mission against a pair of Rodians because "Mission, they just brought my food!" And, when enslaved for maybe a day, became so hungry he bit a hunk out of one of his captor's arms. He is also the party member that approaches you when someone other than him is getting into the emergency rations. Justified somewhat in that Zaalbar appears to be the Wookiee equivalent of a BIG teenaged boy.
Yoh from Starry Sky has a very low tolerance of hunger, and is often vocal about it.
Pokemon Diamond And Pearl: Maylene. She mentions being hungry after you defeat her in Diamond & Pearl, but just how much she can eat wasn't discovered until we saw her in HeartGold & SoulSilver, where she is scarfing down her ninth plate of food at the Celadon Diner eating contest.
Also in HG/SS, School Kid Billy says that Jasmine is a big eater when he tells you that she hangs out at the Olivine Cafe on Wednesdays.
Sabin from Final Fantasy VI. He isn't even afraid to stop and eat a several course meal of ghost food on the Phantom Train, knowing full well that he is being prematurely taken to the other side.
After Gulcasa's demon blood is unsealed in Blaze Union, he goes from having a normal appetite for a teenage boy to going after just about everything edible. In hindsight, the use of this trope is actually rather depressing, as Gulcasa desperately needs the energy due to the general instability of his body and his flagrant abuse of his Dangerous Forbidden Technique. When having Gulcasa use edible items in-game, though, it just comes off as silly and cute—especially given what kinds of food make him go "Oh god, why did I just eat that?" and the way he stillwon't touch dairy with a ten-foot pole.
Jin from Yo-Jin-Bo isn't shown to eat a lot on screen, but he's the only one to ever complain of being hungry, and when he does, the other guys groan as if that's all he ever talks about.
Prishe from Final Fantasy XI frequently uses food items to boost her stats during battle, and will ask her teammates for food items if she's one of your opponents in the "Heroine's Combat" event. In addition, she has a whole list of secret food-related quotes in the Dissidia: Final Fantasy prequel. Apparently, being a Cute Bruiser burns up calories like whoa.
Later, at a roadside pancake place the girls stop at on their road trip Grace became one of only four people to eat the Pancake Mt. Doom Meal. This consisted of a dozen flapjacks, a variety of fruit fillings, sides of bacon, sausage, hashbrowns, three kinds of syrup, and your choice of eggs. The best part is that "Andy Debtman, Eater of Food" from Man Engulfs Food arrives to take on the challenge, and stands in front of the Wall of Fame filming his introduction while Grace's photo is added.
If you see carefully, the Beat Panel has Andy still staring in the same direction after she ate the Mt. Doom Meal, had her photo taken and put on the wall. Implying that either he's that stunned, she consumed her mountain before other girls finished their sane portions, or she continued to eat.
Lardee from My Milk Toof who is a milk tooth ate an entire chicken.
In Gnoph, hosts to Gnoph symbiotes have to eat large amounts of food. If they use too many Gnoph powers without eating enough, the Gnoph will start to consume body tissues for energy. Abbey, who grew up homeless and was therefore never able to get enough food, is anorexic to the point of Body Horror.
Molly and Galatea, the pink furry peanut butter monsters in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! both have very high metabolisms (they grew from infancy to maturity in a month's time, and are fleet-footed enough to outrun a bear at full gallop) and will eat enormous quantities of any kind of food. Molly has reservations about eating peanut butter, though, saying it makes her feel "kinda cannibalistic".
General Protection Fault: Fooker is well-known for having a truly rapacious appetite at times. Normally, he seems to have standard desires for food, but when it comes to some kinds of junk food, especially pizza, he can put enough away to put the Flash to shame. He's twice now nearly driven a pizza place (run by the same guy) out of business due to eating all of their merchandise and earned multiple lifelong banning for it.
Craving Control's lead character was a coed named Lalia, who was implied to acually have a binge eating disorder, but you wouldn't know it from her slim, extremely busty figure. This was eventually subverted as in one of the last strips, eighteen years of overeating finally caught up to her and she woke up with thicker hips and a noticable pair of love handles. Guess she finally ran out of room for fat in her breasts.
Sluggy Freelance: Other characters often make reference to Gwynn "scarfing down" some sort of food or another (which she always angrily denies), but despite having eaten more recently than most of the rest of the cast, she's the first to get hungry when they're all trapped in the ass of hell. Well, first human, anyway.
Robin DeSanto of It's Walky! eats tremendous amounts of candy, as a justification of her Super Speed. Both her Super Speed and Big Eater habits have been played down (But not removed!) since she moved to Shortpacked!.
Walky had occasional Big Eater moments as well, usually involving his favorite snack food DoritosNachitos. Of course at one point it's revealed that this is pretty much all Walky ate back then.
Joyce also eats more than she should be able to and maintain her figure. When Walky eats similarly, he starts to gain weight.
Seekers: Giselda will scarf anything that is set in front of her. Especially when it doesn't belong to her.
Dee from PHD, who even sneaks out in the middle of an exam to get food.
Iki from Off-White likes to wolf his food down. It's a wonder his pack mates tolerate this behavior, considering he's useless when it comes time to hunt.
Web Original
Brittany from Dimension Heroes has been stated to fit into this trope, though it has yet to be seen.
Tennyo, at Whateley Academy in the Whateley Universe. It turns out her mom is a superhero with Energizer powers, and can almost out-eat Tennyo. The one time Tennyo's felt full is after consuming a horde of demons. It's possible her Big Eater habits are an effort to try and make up in quantity for some nutrient that Earth food lacks.
The players of JLA Watchtower one time got into a debate of "Which team would win an eating contest? Wally West and Jesse Quick or Gar Logan and Aurora Andersen?" Aurora is about 5'2" and small-built, but is also an animal-shifter like Gar is. Her metabolism resembles a shrew's, especially if she's been working her shapeshifting a lot. Good thing she's also the Team Chef for the Titans.
The guys from Epic Meal Time, who routinely prepare massive dishes with five-figure calorie counts and then eat them on camera. What probably helps their frames is that Harley is rather tall and Muscles Glasses (a personal trainer in real life) is often hitting the gym.
In Survival of the Fittest, Reika Ishida is shown to be one of these in pre-game, judging by the fact that when she orders something from A&W she gets a large hamburger meal alongside some chicken all for herself, and then snags some of the KFC bucket her sister and a friend are sharing. Note that this is a 4'9 tall and 95 pound teenage girl. Jay Holland also shows tendencies of this when he orders six McDoubles that have fries inside them, small cups normally used for condiments to be filled with Oreo McFlurry, four more burgers stacked together, a bunch of milkshakes, a large Pepsi, and coffee at a McDonalds. Though, he does use the justification that he just survived a terrorist attack, so he has the right to get fat.
Western Animation
Both Shaggy and Scooby in Scooby-Doo. This is strange considering that Shaggy is the thinnest member of Mystery Inc., but considering all the running he does...
This is lampshaded in Scooby-Doo and the Witches Ghost, when both he and Scooby eat a ton of food and put on a lot of weight... but they later drop the weight after running away from the Hex Girls whom they think are witches.
In Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico, it is stated that he does have a high metabolism.
Odd Della Robia in Code Lyoko frequently cleans the lunch trays of his closest friends, in spite of maintaining a svelte frame.
The nurse believes he might have a high metabolism that could explain it.
Futurama's Nibbler, who converts the calories into super-dense spaceship fuel. And the rest of the Niblonians, for that matter. The Feast of a Thousand Hams, anyone?
Like his comics counterpart, The Flash from Justice League eats big to fuel his incredible metabolism, as does Kid Flash of Teen Titans.
We've seen Cyborg and Terra eat monstrous amounts of food in Teen Titans, though in Terra's case it was implied she hadn't had a decent meal for quite some time.
Jimmy and Jerry Gourd of Veggie Tales. In their introductory episode, they eat an entire asteroid. (It was made of popcorn, but still, that's a lot of popcorn.)
Bink from the Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers episode "Adventures in Squirrelsitting". She is a toddler, yet she sucks an apple that's larger than herself empty within mere seconds, including the core, and she's still hungry.
Possibly Buster from the Arthur TV series. More implied than shown ("Only two helpings of dessert? Are you sure you're feeling OK?").
A play in "The Ember Island Players" that covers the events of the main characters' journey makes Sokka out to be a Big Eater. Though despite the fact that the play exaggerated everyone's traits, Sokka does seem to like food more than the other main characters, as seen when he couldn't go a moment without thinking about food in the episode "The Southern Air Temple".
The little rodent Rufus in once eat two months of his allowance, in just one meal.
Ron Stoppable is a pretty big eater as well, played to extreme lengths during a special episode about fatness.
Kim herself once ate an entire plate of Nacos in one second, in an effort to bond with Ron and his new friend Felix when she started feeling left out.
Kim: Sorry if I've been acting totally random lately. Ron: You mean about the jealous thing with Felix? Kim: Was it that obvious? Ron: Kim, you ate all his nacos.
Wakko Warner of Animaniacs is also known for stuffing his face full of... well, anything. While his siblings Yakko and Dot normally go after the sweet stuff, Wakko likes to gobble up nearly everything in sight. Even a refrigerator.
Philly Phil of Class of 3000 eats far more than his skinny frame would suggest, such as downing half a pizza (his friends don't flinch, so he must do this quite often), and has even bordered on Extreme Omnivore.
Kam:(after Phil has eaten his 101st donut... with a candle on it!) Don't you chew? Phil: Depends.
GIR in Invader Zim... which is made all the odder by the fact that he's a Robot Buddy. The only time he ever gets fat from it is one episode where he started mugging kids for their Halloween candy and ended up fattening up to about the size of a SUV.
Chester, Mark, and Grippulon in The Fairly OddParents. Chester especially when he became Matter Muncher Lad
Basically the one joke of Billy Boy. Tex Avery still manages to get a lot of mileage out of it.
Che the dog from The Goode Family will devour any smaller animal that comes near him because he refuses to eat the vegetarian dog food that his owners feed him, a great example of this is in the episode "Goodes Gone Wild" in which a swarm of squirrels infest the school and Gerald brings Che along because he doesn't want him to fight with Gutterball the marsupial he devours one that gets within reach of him and upon learning that the school is covered with them he licks his lips with delight and breaks his chain, at the end of the episode the swarm is gone and Che is lying against a tree with a huge swollen belly.
An episode of Jacob Two-Two featured a team of police officers attempting to track down what they thought were "grocery store bandits". After discovering the eponymous protagonist and fellow grade-school friend outside a grocery store at night, the skinnier officer comments that "It's the little ones you have to look out for" right before downing half a box of donuts.
Nibbles/Tuffy has this as his main trait in his early appearances. Often he swallows items whole, briefly taking their shape. His first apparition lampshades it immediately: "PS: He is ALWAYS hungry."
Both Tom and Jerry themselves are big eaters, though arguably still not as big as Nibbles.
Sometimes used with Ferb from Phineas and Ferb. It's not so much that he eats a lot, but if he doesn't eat, he can get a little crazy.
Pinkie Pie can put away the sweets when she wants to. (An entire cake in less than three seconds!)
In "Swarm of the Century", she eats a cake larger than her head in one bite.
Also seen in Snails, a young unicorn boy whose head is bigger than his body.
Also Spike.
Soarin' of the Wonderbolts, eats like a horse.
Spitfire: Always hungry after a show, eh, Soarin'?
The title character Chew Chew from the FamousStudio cartoon Chew Chew Baby, a pygmy cannibal who over the course of the cartoon devours six people, two of them in a single bite. The cartoon is cited as a source of Nightmare Fuel for some people.
Mac from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends almost always averts this trope, until he's given sugar. Once he has the slightest bit of sugar, he'll be eating anything he finds that's sweet. Where it goes, on the other hand, is never found out, though he does burn a lot of energy running around like a maniac on his sugar high (and he's a bit more Puni Plush than the other human characters).
In the PBS kids show Dragon Tales, it's quite obvious that Ord has a stomach bigger than himself as he is often seen eating a large number of food from time to time. (Yikes...!)
In ThunderCats (2011) Wilykat and Wilykit, a CatfolkBrother-Sister Team of Artful Dodgers, are very prone to eating massive portions, going so far as to exploit the knowledge that a Fishman cook plans to eat them as an opportunity to tuck in to their heart's content while he "stuffs" them.
Ed from Ed, Edd n Eddy will eat pretty much anything, up to and including his mattress. It's even worse when he starts sleep walking...
Rigby from Regular Show once ate so much junk food that his body quit on him.
Takeru Kobayashi, known to most of the world as "that skinny bastard that always wins the Nathan's Hot-Dog eating competition". Likewise Sonya Thomas, ranked 5th in the world of competitive eating, and is only 105 lbs.
Their skinniness is not so unusual. Competitive eating requires not just quantity but speed, which means that they train in eating so much in so little time that the stomach really can't even digest it properly because the body gets so preoccupied with shoving everything through so the pipes don't get clogged.
In recent years, Kobayashi was bested by Joey Chestnut.
Barbara Amiel, also known as Lady Black (wife of Conrad Black), once wrote that she had to eat five full meals a day, including double helpings of mashed potatoes, to keep at a normal weight. She's 5 foot nothing and weighs about 100 lb.
Another female exemple: Natsuko Sone
James Buchanan Brady, also known as "Diamond" Jim Brady, was a philanthropist and businessman during the late 1800s and early 1900s with a huge appetite. The owner of his favorite restaurant remarked that he was "the best 25 customers I ever had." Dinner might consist of two or three dozen oysters, six crabs, and a few servings of green turtle soup, followed by a main course of two whole ducks, six or seven lobsters, a sirloin steak, two servings of terrapin and a host of vegetables. Breakfast, lunch, and dessert were no less extravagant. In fact, when doctors examined his body after his death, his stomach was six times larger than that of an average person. While not exactly thin, he was not fat, either.
That has been disputed, though. The man was a glutton, but it was unlikely he could actually eat that much without bursting.
Diamond Jim's long-time companion Lillian Russell was a prodigious feeder herself. Tall, beautiful, busty, and talented, Lillian had it all — and ate it all. She easily kept up with Diamond Jim without losing her figure or exercising. It was only after his death, when she stopped eating so much, that she gained weight.
Otto von Bismarck. He would eat up to eleven eggs at one meal, among other things. Apparently, being a Magnificent Bastard builds up the appetite.
And, even considering this, he was not◊ quite◊ fat◊. Looks like all the calories went to his btain to "sustain" all of his thinking.
Michael Phelps is known to consume 12,000 calories a day, in comparison to the 2,000 calories of an average man. Of course, he burns it all swimming. He even said himself that he mainly just eats, sleeps, and swims.
The first person to successfully finish a 6lb "96er" burger, advertised as the world's biggest, was a 100 lb 19-years-old woman.
Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg, father of Earl Mountbatten and the professional head of the Royal Navy at the beginning of the First World War, was described by a contemporary as a big man (he was something like 6'4") with a big appetite. "At breakfast he began on porridge, then fish, then eggs and bacon or a meat dish, then a large plate of cold ham, then hot muffins or crumpets; and then a lot of toast and butter and jam, and finished on fruit. His meal would have fed an officer's mess."
Shrews are tiny little insectivorous mammals that are ranked among the most voracious eaters in the world, having to consume three times their own body weight in insects every day because their metabolism is so fast they would starve to death otherwise.
Hummingbirds, too, have a metabolic rate that places them permanently within a few hours of death by starvation. They have to consume more than their own weight in nectar (basically sugar-water) every day, and only manage to live through the night by going into a hibernation-like torpor.
Anyone with the condition of hyperthyroidism, where the body's metabolism is permanently locked in overdrive mode and the patient would have to eat massive amounts of food just to maintain their body weight.
A running gag on ESPN's The BS Report has Joe House, NBA maven, college buddy of Bill Simmons, and Big Eater.
Macrophages (the name literally means 'big eater' in Greek) fit this, as they digest dead cells, bacteria and parasites within our bodies; several can even fuse together to consume larger pathogens.
Sooyoung of the Korean pop group, Girls Generation fits this trope.
Notice how she is possibly the skinniest in the group, yet her nickname is Shikshin (Food goddess).
There's an old saying about this trope: all women have two stomachs, one for dinner and one for dessert. Supposedly that's why no matter how full they get from dinner they always have room left ][Sweet Tooth for dessert.]]
Same thing tends to go for children.
When the Canadian Handicapped Badass Terry Fox ate on his fund raising cancer research fundraising challenge, he typically ate a colossal meal every time he ate. Considering he literally ran an equivalent marathon distance each day with only one leg, you can bet he worked it off all the time!
The later Roman emperor Maximinus Thrax was said to eat twenty pounds of meat per day (but no veggies!) and drink a whole amphora of wine. He also was very tall and pretty strong, although not as much as some stories claimed (allegedly, he was 2.60 meters tall and could knock out the teeth of a horse with his fist).
Anyone going through a growth spurt.
Anyone who has just finished a growth spurt.
Anyone who is about to go through a growth spurt.
As a general rule, teenager eat more than adults.
People with uncontrolled Diabetes.
Type 1. If you lose weight, type 2 goes into remission. It should be noted, though, that low blood sugar is caused by injecting too much insulin.
Peter Dowdeswell, who holds 339 Guinness world records for eating and drinking, including eating thirteen raw eggs in one second.
Apparently, Doug Walker. He practically lives off fast food, but he still manages to keep a nice complexion and a skinny figure.
Tom Felton of Harry Potter fame. According to some, his Hogwarts robe's pockets had to be sewn shut to keep Tom from taking food on set.
Boxer Manny Pacquiao, who states in a 2011 HP commercial that he eats 7,000 calories a day when training.
This can apply to either skinny or fat, but a lot of people can turn into this when they're ill. Since your body is expending energy to combat whatever ails you, some people have noticed that eating only makes them hungrier. This could be the same reason sick people need so much sleep.
Bob from Gungrave is constantly seen eating, usually a drumstick of chicken, and while he is shown as skinny when first introduced in the past, he steadily grows more rotund over the series as his habits catch up with him. After the series returns to the present, it's revealed that he ate so much as to suffer a cholesterol problem that would have killed him or left him a mindless vegetable on life-support if he hadn't become a Superior.
Akimichi Chouji from Naruto, due to his clan's fighting style (and possibly genetics, his dad Chouza is similarly built). Also, being called fat triggers his Berserk Button:
Buccha from Air Gear is a rare Double Subversion. He eats a lot, and appears to be tremendously fat. However, he's only got about 6% body fat; his appearance is due to blood pooling in his stomach from overeating. When he exerts himself, the blood goes to his muscles, and his ridiculously sculpted body is revealed.
Also, more than one victim is pretty pudgy and a big eater. Like the "Baumkuchen" case, in which a fat man is killed via being tricked into eating a piece of his favorite pastry... which had poison.
Gluttony from Fullmetal Alchemist. True to his name, he's willing to eat anything or anyone... yeah, he's an Extreme Omnivore too. Having an entire dimension between Truth and the real world for a stomach helps.
Kurita from Eyeshield 21. The man ate 100 cream puffs on one occassion, and I wouldn't doubt it if he was the one who ate the bulk of the 100 servings of beef in a challenge with another team. In an Omake, Kurita ate 4 bowls of rice that are stacked to tower way above the bowl itself with enough food there to feed a large family. That's his breakfast.
Chang aka Cyborg 006 from Cyborg 009. Note that he's a restaurateur with his own business on top of that, and that he also worked in the food industry before being turned into a Cyborg.
In The Prince of Tennis there's Kei Tanishi from the Higa team. Big, mean, with the physique of a Sumo wrestler, and able to put away HUGE amounts of food. Seeing him eat yakiniku made Fuji lose his appetite, and that's saying much.
Kamiya from Speed Grapher, to absolutely grotesque levels.
Chihiro's parents in Spirited Away definitely count as this. They see a buffet, sit down and start stuffing their faces. When Chihiro returns a few minutes later they've eaten everything on the table and are about four times as big. And they've transformed into pigs. To be fair, it was magical food.
Yajirobe, the overweight samurai from Dragon Ball. He managed to eat Piccolo's giant, dragonesque minion Cymbal whole, and still wanted more.
Comics — Books
Obelix from the Astérix comic books. Whole wild boars at times. But don't call him "fat" out loud if he's nearby.
In Asterix and Cleopatra, he is asked to cut a huge cake into three portions... he cuts out two portions and the rest of the cake serves as the third portion, which he eats. He then proceeds to pick out the almonds left over on the serving tray as well, which gets him yelled at by Asterix for not showing enough decorum in front of a queen.
Harvey Comics has Little Lotta, whose defining traits were her huge size, near-super strength, and her huge appetite. One of her comic book series was named "Foodland".
Fatty of Class IIB, Bash Street School, from The Beano.
Minnie the Minx's nemesis Fatty Fudge, who had a brief solo series in The Eighties where he would travel around the world eating different countries' national dishes.
Allfather D'Aronique from Preacher is rather disturbing. Not only is he practically spherical and too heavy to fly in a helicopter, he's bulimic, and has a golden finger-on-a-stick that his servants use during his meals.
It's hard to tell if Grossout from Scare Tactics is fat as he is essentially a walking tumor. But he definitely was fat before he was Blessed with Suck.
In Judge Dredd, there's an entire subculture called the Fatties whose collective hobby is eating and entering eating contests. Many of them are so fat that they need support wheels attached to their bellies just to move. In early comics, they were tolerated; they have since been declared illegal, but they still exist.
J. Wellington Wimpy from the Popeye newspaper comic strips was almost never without at least one hamburger. Given a chance, he'd have a stack of them.
Domoli from the Douwe Dabbert comics. Being able to conjure cakes and pies from thin air doesn't really help matters...
In A Very Potter Musical, Ron Weasley always has a snack, including but not limited to: a carton of Chinese food, a bag of Funions, Twizzlers handed to him by a member of the band, and a Hershey bar the size of his torso.
Ron: Accio double-stuffed!
Wheatley becomes this after GLaDOS implants his brain into a human body in the Portal 2 fic Test of Humanity. He ends up eating everything in Chell's fridge after tasting food for the first time, and, later on, GLaDOS tricks him into eating 30 cakes. By the end of the fic, he's grown noticeably fatter.
The sequel has Chell's roomates being unable to make anything for dinner because Wheatley already ate nearly everything. And, Wheatley then admits he made a large order for Chinese takeout...most of it being for him to eat.
Films — Animation
Kung Fu Panda: Po eats all the time, but especially when he is upset. That is what makes the climactic dumpling fight so significant; when he finally wins the dumpling and throws it back to his master, it's a welcome sign that he has grown beyond needing that kind of emotional crutch. Furthermore, his girth actually turned out to be vital in his fight with the villain Tai Lung. His fat protects his pressure points.
In Yellow Submarine, a denizen of the Sea of Monsters vaccuums up other monsters... it then vaccuums up the submarine...then vaccuums up the background art...then, spotting its own twitching tail, vaccuums itself into nonexistence, leaving the sub slowly spinning in a featureless white void.
Madagascar's Gloria, apparently her favorite breakfast is six loaves of wheat toast, buttered on both sides, with no crust
In Beauty and the Beast, Gaston sings about how, when he was a lad, he ate four dozen eggs every morning to help him get large, and now that he's grown, he eats five dozen eggs, so he's roughly the size of a barge. Though he's more muscular than fat. He also took a bite out of a leather belt.
Chunk from The Goonies. In practically every scene he's either eating food, holding food, talking about food, or looking for food. With a Baby Ruth candybar he discovers a shared love of food with Sloth.
A scene in The Nutty Professor 2 shows the Klumps walking like Determinators towards an all-you-can-eat buffet. The family ends up eating everything but the salad. Also, first film has two dinner scenes with the Klumps displaying the amount of food on the table.
The title character of Fat Girl displays signs of Compulsive Eating. Her sister constantly puts Anaďs down for her weight and her constant eating, but also encourages Anaďs to eat when trying to cheer her up.
Fatso was a 1980 comedy film with Dom DeLuise as an obese man with an eating problem who has to choose between conforming to other people's expectations and dieting or being himself but remaining unhealthy.
Rosemary in Shallow Hal always eats big. She sucks down nearly an entire chocolate milkshake while Hal's head is turned for a few seconds, and later, slices off a "sliver of cake" to eat... which is a thrid the size of the whole cake.
Jen: "Um ... do you want a plate?"
Rosemary: [shaking her head with her mouth full] "Un-uh."
Hal: [unaware of Rosemary's true girth] "I know what you're thinkin', where does she put it?"
Literature
The Orange Duke in Gianni Rodari's The Adventures of Cipollino.
Most senior wizards spend their days eating huge meals. Most (but not all) of them are overweight as a result. Exceptions include the Bursar (who mostly lives on his nerves) and Rincewind. Their Hogswatch dinner has something like twenty courses, and is considered something like an Olympic sport.
It actually seem that a Wizard's competency and power is directly proportional to how much he eats and how big he is. As seem with the Dean on Reaper Man (who is easily the fattest wizard of the book, but has the power to cast three ludicrously powerful spells at the same time with a delay, to explode/implode a parasitic supermarket) and Rincewind in general.
Although actually an object, one of the defining traits of the Luggage is that it seemingly eats everything and anything that stands in its way. Just don't ask where all that ends up at, as the characters themselves, who occasionally go to the Dungeon Dimensions (a very bad place), are terrified of wondering.
Whether the Luggage fits depends on your definition of eat, since it doesn't do it as a regular life-sustaining action, and when it does do it, what, if anything it gains from it is questionable.
Keldas of Nac Mac Feegle clans in general, such as Fiona, as seen in the Tiffany Aching books. When she's sharing a meal with Tiffany, she takes only slightly less than what Tiffany has — and while Tiffany is a fifteen-year-old human girl, Fiona is six inches tall. Justified as she is pregnant pretty much all of the time.
Mary Gentle's recurring character Baltazar Casaubon seems to always have a snack at hand. And yes, he's fat... but, to paraphrase Gentle herself, it's more accurate to say that he's a huge guy who happens to be fat.
Lula from the Stephanie Plum books is a very fat bounty hunter's sidekick, and is seen eating about half the time she's in the scene. Stephanie herself is one in regards to cake, but is only of average weight. Other big eaters in the series are Stephanie's sister Valerie (during pregnancy) and Bob, the Big Friendly Dog Stephanie and on-again-off-again boyfriend Morelli share.
Caramon Majere during the Dragonlance Legends series, although he eventually gets back into shape.
Oblomov himself and also Tarantyev's buddy Ivan Mukhoyarov (brother of Agafya), who likes to spend his money on delicacies instead of more visible luxuries (if only because people could get suspicious - as he says, they can't see what he has in his stomach).
Bruce Bogtrotter in Matilda swipes a slice of cake from The Trunchbull's stash. By way of punishment, she makes him eat an entire cake. (He manages, although he's completely zonked in a food coma at the end.)
Live-Action TV
Lost's Hurley is a compulsive eater and extremely overweight. Since the DHARMA products were discovered in season 2, he has been seen hoarding food and gorging himself at times. This was needed to Scotch Tape the common question of why Hurley was not losing any weight despite being stranded on an island (though some fans still ask it), but also added to the character's Back Story.
Friends: Monica Gellar was shown to be like this as a child, most likely related to her numerous compulsive tendencies. Her parents were even once shown asking her to eat excess Thanksgiving leftovers when they ran out of space in the fridge and the show presented this as a typical request.
One episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation dealt with a man whose brain did not process "full" signals from his stomach, and therefore constantly felt hungry. If he was not physically restrained, he would eat every morsel of food in the house and continue foraging for more. (He died of a ruptured stomach in the wake of an eating contest.)
Sylvia Fine on The Nanny crosses the line between this and eating machine, especially in the episode where she subs as a nanny while Fran is on jury duty.
Of course, Gurps has the Gluttony disadvantage which can be taken with the Overweight, or Heavily Overweight, disadvantage. And even if the character manages to buy off the Gluttony disadvantage, he won't lose any weight.
The Ogres of Warhammer have this as their hat, so much so they have twice daily feasts. And they worship a god of gluttony. There is even a point in one of the books where two Ogres eat a five-ton Rhinox in one sitting; by the time they are done they both have more than their entire body mass in raw meat crammed into their stomachs.
Ogres from Changeling The Lost don't have to be fat, but it's hard to be thin when you are literally designed to eat anything on the planet.
Sesus "The Slug" Nagezzer from Exalted, whose road to obesity was similar to Henry VIII (see below) — a war wound left him unable to exercise and work off the massive amounts of food he continued to eat every day.
Video Games
The original two for video games, Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man.
In particular, Munchlax (it's actually known as the Big Eater Pokémon) and its evolution, one of the greatest examples of this trope EVER, Snorlax. Seriously. Big, always hungry, and capable of devouring whole forests of fruit in less than a day.
Another Pokémon family, Gulpin and Swalot, are basically living stomachs with expandable mouths that swallow their food whole.
Misaki Kawana from ONE. This is referenced in the doujin fighter game Eternal Fighter Zero with her "High-Speed Lunch" super.
Drang the ogre in Puzzle Quest has five missions where he asks you to procure rare, dangerous monsters for him to eat. One of them, a Wyvern, is requested so that it can kill a Troll he ate that's regenerating in his gut. The fourth one is an ogre, which disgusts your character. When you finish the last mission, Drang joins your party and takes bites out of any Animal-type enemy you face, causing them opening damage.
Kurumi Kasugaoka, from the sadly cancelled Nintendo DS dating sim Hachikoi. Her character page on the website even allows you to feed her!
King Hippo. His intro in the Wii game shows him in a field full of ham and tropical fruit; over three cutaways, he eats everything there.
Bear Hugger of the same series drinks entire gallon jugs of maple syrup at pretty much every meal. He's also fat enough that you can't hurt him by hitting his stomach.
Hanako from Persona 4, also a Gonk that believes she's gorgeous. When she's on a diet, she eats an entire bucket of curry.
The Heavy from Team Fortress 2. He sure does love those sandwviches. He can even earn an achievement for eating 100 Sandviches, which he does with great gusto, one after another. Well, he certainly needs all those carbs to lug around his 150-kilogram minigun, and his belly roll makes for great recoil cushioning.
Mario himself probably also qualifies. This is made more evident in the cartoons, though. And then we find out that Luigi can put on food even more than he does...
The ghost of Mr. Luggs in Luigis Mansion is this. His Flavor Text says he ate himself to death, though that did not stop him. Plus, you can only capture him by first vacuuming his food away, making him attack you out of rage.
An unusual Cool Big Sis example is Deis in Breath of Fire IV. Admittedly, she had the perfectly valid excuse of being imprisoned in a suit of armour named Ershin (that grew to have a mind of its own) for centuries; the first thing she does when she ends up being hosted in the body of a summoner (after complaining about the summoner's figure) is pigging out until she passed out.
Given that the bosses in Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles are dark reflections of the hero's friends, the fat kid Joey's counterpart Big Joe takes this trope to its extreme: an immobile, enormously fat creature with two mouths who rules over an island mostly made out of food which exists for no other reason than to feed its ruler. The good Joey is imprisoned in Big Joe's stomach.
Coach is implied to be a big eater in Left 4 Dead 2, but it's never shown since the zombie outbreak kind of ruined his chances of resting so he can eat something big. He likes eating a pizza sub style, possibly having a sweet tooth since he says it's a damn shame the rainstorm in Hard Rain washed all the sugar away, and heavily likes the Burger Tank's BBQ bacon cheese burger with fries, orange soda with no ice, and an apple pie. When the survivors see a wedding in the park during The Parish, Coach may sometimes ask if the others have seen a wedding cake around.
This is a gameplay mechanic for the player in Crush, Crumble, and Chomp! Failure to eat regularly makes the monster hungry; if the monster becomes ravenous, the player loses control and the computer takes over.
Alistair from Dragon Age: Origins notes that Wardens tend to become this, especially in the period shortly after their Joining.
Implied with Youtia in Eien No Aselia, who forces Yuuto to make her lunch. He makes enough for at least four people figuring he can serve the rest to everyone else later, but she eats it all before being satisfied. Considering her personality, though, she might not have eaten in days.
Manpuku in Okamiden. He saves Chibi (who he nicknames Pork Chop) from being cooked in a huge pot of soup... by drinking the soup. It's also deconstructed, his compulsive eating means his mother can't afford to feed his dog, so he gave him to a relative. There's rarely any food in his house because he eats it all, and his mother skips meals often.
Barlow of Vanguard Bandits, the ATAC pilot with what he calls a "glandular disorder". He's always eating some candy, and when he gets hungry he starts going after the weirdest things. Ranging from earth-worms to platypi.
SonicUnleashed gives us the first time Dr. Eggman has eaten anything on screen. He downs a 12" sub sandwich in two bites, and does it all in under 10 seconds.
Big Smoke in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas not only orders enough food for all four people in the car when the player takes CJ's friends to the drive through on a mission, but he actually manages to eat everyone's meals in the few minutes it takes to finish the car chase immediately after.
Hyper Hippo. Like most speedsters, she has to eat a lot to fuel her powers; unlike most speedsters, she does store the extra energy as body fat (of course, she is an anthropomorphic hippopotamus).
There's also the gluttonous canine sorceress Red Stephie from the side comic Crushed: The Doomed Kitty Adventures.
Youko from Muertitos and Tsugumi from Gorgeous Princess Creamy Beamy. Of course, both comics are drawn by the same author, who has an admitted preference for fat chicks.
Ronove in The Gamers Alliance eats a lot and always seem to stay hungry no matter how much he has eaten. His favourite foods are strawberry cakes and sand gnome legs.
Menelaos from Greek Ninja. After having caused a row by insulting Japanese food in front of Daichi, later on he is gulping down ramen and enjoying it. When Dawson questions him on it, he replies: "I like it, just I need a lot to get full", as his main grievance was that the portions were too small.
Western Animation
Chowder is possibly the biggest eater ever conceived, to the point where its his defining character trait. On several occasions, he's doubled as a Bag of Holding, able to eat large objects — up to and including an entire fair booth — and spit 'em out later.
Homer Simpson. Tis no man, 'tis a remorseless eating machine! As a result, Springfield's "All You Can Eat" restaurants fear Homer greatly. But many food vendors singlehandedly make their entire living, and pay their childrens' college fees off of just Homer alone, making him a valuable commodity to others. According to Homer himself, "it's glandular."
Ralph: I heard your dad went to a restaurant and ate everything in the restaurant and they had to close the restaurant. Lisa: Hey, my dad may have gained a little weight, but he's not some kind of food-crazed maniac. (Homer drives by in a stolen ice-cream truck, vigorously stuffing his face)
In Treehouse of Horror IV, Homer sold his soul for a donut and, while in hell, was forced to eat all donuts in the world as Ironic Punishment. It backfired.
Police Chief Clancy Wiggum's round body says it all. Although mostly known for his sweet tooth, he's open to a wide range of food including some pretty exotic stuff.
Comic Book Guy actually trumps both of the above in terms of sheer size, though this is due to being perhaps the most lethargic man in all of Springfield. And in Springfield... THAT'S an acomplishment.
The German foreign exchange student Uter is pretty much solely defined by his absolute lust for all things chocolate.
Not usually known for his eating habits, there has been some times where Bart has overindulged to great extent.
The one and only Ord from Dragon Tales, as he has an appetite bigger than his eyes and a stomach bigger than himself* Broadway from Gargoyles.
Coop from Megas XLR. His enormous appetite matched only by his enormous size. It was claimed in one episode that Coop doesn't get full, he just gets "less hungry".
Monterey Jack from can (and loves to) eat incredible amounts of cheese.
Zipper falls into this category, too. There is at least one scene in which he tosses an entire apple core almost twice his size down the hatch.
Fizz from Get Ed orders herself three burgers, a basket of fries, a basket of onion rings, and a basket of pickles... and slaps Loogie's hand away when he attempts to take a pickle. Apparently, she intends to eat all of this by herself (her teammates don't even blink, so she must do it pretty regularly). However, she's got a little bit of pudge around her midsection, especially in comparison to her trim teammates.
The Replacements: Dick Daring is so bad he ate forty pounds of Ice Cream so he could beat his record by one pound.
Heffer Wolfe from Rocko's Modern Life. He once devoured the entire contents of Rocko's fridge when he wasn't home because he thought it would get cold.
Soda Jerk: Our freezer is broken. We need someone to eat 50 gallons of ice cream. (Marty immediately runs in) Soda Jerk: It's Jay Sherman's kid! We're saved!
Gina Lash of Angela Anaconda is a big fan of food, to the extent she once started a protest about a flavor of her favorite gelatin ("Jiggly Fruits") having its recipe changed, and as a result of her constant eating is quite pudgy, particularly compared to the stick-thin Gordy Reinhart or, indeed, any of the other kids she hangs out with.
Hank's fat son Bobby Hill in King of the Hill. He once ate a 72 ounce steak in 37 minutes.
Though in an episode, Bill enters a hotdog eating contest because he's a fast eater, and then near the middle, Dale, the skinniest of the group, is sick of all the praise Bill gets for it and while mocking him manages to beat Bill in an eating practice round.
Another episode when Bobby attends a military camp he ate hoards of leftover meals as a punishment by Cotton Hill when he took control.
Owen from Total Drama, so much so that in ...Action he ate an entire feast in minutes without realizing it was prop food.
Captain Huggyface in WordGirl definitely qualifies, as he is used to nullify all the attacks of the Butcher and Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy. He also is shown eating large amounts of ice cream during scenes, and whenever they come across some type of food, Huggy always has to look into it.
Stimpy of The Ren & Stimpy Show will often devour large meals and sometimes objects bigger than himself in seconds. In one episode he ate himself when he split into two separate beings.
Donald Duck's cousin Gus from the cartoon Donald's Cousin Gus, who comes to visit Donald and through the episode devours all of Donald's food without leaving him a single crumb. Many Youtube commentators have expressed their desire to strangle the gluttonous goose, which might explain why he has never appeared in any other short after this one.
Kids Next Door: Numbah Two. Comes in really handy since one of the villains is a crazy lady, obsessed with feeding children healthy (read: disgusting) food and in command of legions of sentient meals.
Kurst the Worst counts too (which starts a friendship between her and the previously mentioned Mikey in one of the final episodes).
In "A Great State Fair", it's hinted that T.J. (who is not severely obese but he's rather on the pudgy side) can be this trope at times.
Helga Phugly from The Oblongs is severely overweight and has been known to eat dog food. Her parents are equally obese and possibly cannibals.
Real Life
William Bryan. More evident in his fictional counterpart in Inherit the Wind, Matthew Brady. (Brady even dies from eating too much.)
Prader-Willi syndrome (see the CSI example above) is a real condition. Those affected will even eat pet food if nothing else is available.
There is an entire genus of frog that, given the opportunity, will continue to cram itself with food until its stomach ruptures. They are commonly known as Pacman Frogs.
Blue Whales or Whales in general. Something of a subversion as blue whales actually eat relatively small amounts when you consider that they are among the largest animals to have ever lived. They're also surprisingly faster than most ships and to top it off, endothermic, meaning they have to expend energy to keep themselves warm, unlike fish.
Every bodybuilder competing in the heavier weight classes. In order to be ripped at 260 lbs, you need to work your way to 300 and then start dieting down. That doesn't happen without being a Big Eater.
King Henry VIII is (in)famous for his huge appetite. In his youth he was actually very fit and known for his athletic prowess, but a leg injury while jousting caused him to lose much of his mobility, which in turn led to prodigious weight gain. His custom made suits of armor, still on display at the Tower of London, get progressively bigger over time.
Roman emperor Vitellius was infamous for his gluttony; there are stories that he'd even eat the best pieces of the food he was supposed to sacrifice for the Roman gods.
Some species of deep sea fish are able to eat fish bigger than they are. Whole. They have expandable stomachs that allow them to accomplish this impressive feat.
Orson Welles. His average dinner consisted of two steaks cooked rare and a pint of scotch, and at one time he ate 18 hot dogs in one sitting at a Los Angeles hot dog stand. This undoubtedly led to his later obesity and was a common source of jokes at his expense, including from himself:
"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."
Elvis Presley, particularly towards the end of his career. There's a reason why 70s-era Elvis is called "Fat Elvis".
