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Author: GM_3826

Mar 2nd 2015 at 5:01:57 AM

-NeedsABetterDescription. In fact, let me just say that there are a few examples of a similar trope where there's not necessarily any reveal that it's a stomach, it's just a stomach they're going in. One could say that was WombLevel, but womb level isn't necessarily inside their stomach, and this trope HAS been invoked: (Literature/MazeRunner uses imagery here when they're getting out of the Maze, and a quick look at the page for WombLevel would tell you that occasionally people go inside stomachs on purpose, even outside of games.) Basically, while I hate to say it (and so do you), the generic "inside the stomach of a monster" is a massive case of HowDidWeMissThisOne?

-The title we have I think actually makes less sense than the last one. If we just broadened the trope into "characters inside the stomach of a beast" instead of making it needlessly specific, then the trope would be much better off in general. Belly of the Whale would be a subtrope of this one. Which would make it a subtrope of a subtrope. The way this trope and it's errata is set up right now is... complicated.

Edit: In other words, it's a case of a MissingSupertrope.

Edit2: I've decided to create the MissingSupertrope. This trope can be a subtrope of that.