Basic Trope: A character takes the shape of something they've swallowed.
- Straight: Bob swallows a canoe, and Bob's belly takes the shape of a canoe.
- Exaggerated: Bob swallows a skyscraper, and takes the shape of a skyscraper.
- Downplayed: Bob swallows a banana. His throat takes the shape of a banana.
- Justified: Bob has snakelike anatomy which allows his body to stretch and morph around anything he eats.
- Inverted:
- Anything Bob eats takes the shape of Bob.
- Another organism eats Bob and takes his shape, uniquely among the things it's eaten.
- Subverted: Bob swallows something much larger than himself, planning to take its shape, but nothing happens.
- Double Subverted: It just took some time. A few hours on, Bob takes the shape of the thing he ate.
- Parodied: Bob swallows a bolt of lightning. His body takes the lightning bolt's apparent shape.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob's body takes the shapes of some but not all things he eats. Also, when he does this relative to swallowing varies depending on the circumstances and item.
- Averted: Bob doesn't eat anything larger than his face.
- Enforced: "It's just funny to see someone's body take the shape of whatever they ate."
- Lampshaded: "Hey, Bob, have you ever thought about chewing your food?"
- Invoked: Bob participates in a Mad Scientist's experiment to fuse human and python DNA.
- Exploited: This is how Alice finds out that Bob has been eating her possessions.
- Defied: Bob is hungry enough to eat large objects that are around him, but he waits until he can eat real food.
- Discussed: Bob: "So, the other day, I peeled a grapefruit and stuffed it down my throat in an attempt to commit suicide. Somehow, I swallowed it, but I went around with a grapefruit-sized lump in my stomach for a few days afterwards."
- Conversed: "That can't be good for Bob."
- Implied: Bob was last seen eating and now he has a very bizarre shape in his stomach.
- Deconstructed: Eating things this way, not to mention eating such large things, is bad for Bob.
- Reconstructed: He doesn't eat things that are too large and he always lets his body keep its normal shape for at least as long as it needs to heal.
- Played for Laughs: This is Bob's main party trick.
- Played for Drama: People tease Bob for this.
- Played for Horror: Bob eats people, and parts of other people can be seen in his stomach at any given time when somebody else passes by him.
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