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* 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 platterful of meat before being thrown out of the bar puking, already feeling his perpetual hunger's return.

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* ''Literature/ShamanOfTheUndead'': [[InSeriesNickname Kruchy]] eats a ''lot''. Ida complains a few times that her fridge is completely empty after his visits. This might be because [[ItMakesSenseInContext due to Ida's mental connection to a dead painter, she's now excellent cook]] and Brittle prefers her cooking to buying takeaways.
* In ''The Shattered World'', ''Literature/TheShatteredWorld'', 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 platterful of meat before being thrown out of the bar puking, already feeling his perpetual hunger's return.



* Zedd from ''Literature/TheSwordOfTruth''. Constantly hungry, and ''very'' skinny.
* ''Literature/SzamankaOdUmarlakow'': [[InSeriesNickname Kruchy]] eats a ''lot''. Ida complains a few times that her fridge is completely empty after his visits. This might be because [[ItMakesSenseInContext due to Ida's mental connection to a dead painter, she's now excellent cook]] and Brittle prefers her cooking to buying takeaways.

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* Zedd from ''Literature/TheSwordOfTruth''. Constantly ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' is constantly hungry, and ''very'' skinny.
* ''Literature/SzamankaOdUmarlakow'': [[InSeriesNickname Kruchy]] eats a ''lot''. Ida complains a few times that her fridge is completely empty after his visits. This might be because [[ItMakesSenseInContext due to Ida's mental connection to a dead painter, she's now excellent cook]] and Brittle prefers her cooking to buying takeaways.
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* In ''Literature/{{Curveball}}'', whenever [[SuperSpeed Red Shift]] goes all out, his powers also accelerate his metabolism for the next few days, with a corresponding increase in appetite. In addition, if he's going to be traveling a long distance at high speed, he has to wear a special IV harness that pumps glucose and nutrients directly into his bloodstream (and he's still hungry afterwards).
* Brittany from ''Literature/DimensionHeroes'' has been stated to fit into this trope, though it has yet to be seen.
* Anyone with paranormal powers from ''Literature/ShadowUnit''. Merely ''having'' paranormal powers doubles a person's calorie requirements, and actually using those powers burns even more calories.
* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':
** Tennyo, at [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]]. 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 [[spoiler:a horde of demons]]. It's possible her BigEater habits are an effort to try and make up in quantity for some nutrient that Earth food lacks.
** Exemplars and, as mentioned, Energizer type metas are also prone to huge appetites.
* Menelaos from ''Literature/GreekNinja''. 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.
* The entirety of the human race in ''Literature/TheJenkinsverse''. Humanity's dense bones and efficient muscles and organs mean that a human's dietary requirements are something like quadruple that of most other sapient, spacefaring species of comparable size. Humans abroad in the galaxy are forced to subsist on offensively bland and uninteresting emergency ration spheres in order to meet their basic nutritional needs, and usually at a rate which taxes the supplies of all but the largest ships and space stations.
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* ''Literature/ThePlantThatAteDirtySocks'': The sock-eaters get bigger and hungrier in almost every book, but they're still ''plants'', so they don't really ''get'' fat (though Stanley's vines are noted as having gotten a little thicker in book 1, which Michael suspects is because of the sugary goodies he's burying in the pot for added treats). By book 5, Stanley's up to six socks a night (a trait his EvilTwin shares) and Fluffy, who's slightly smaller, eats five a night.
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** 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 [[ButtMonkey Rincewind]]. Their Hogswatch dinner has something like twenty courses, and is considered something like an Olympic sport.\\\

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** 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 [[ButtMonkey Rincewind]].Rincewind]] (who'd ''love'' to be one if he could afford to stop running). Their Hogswatch dinner has something like twenty courses, and is considered something like an Olympic sport.\\\
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* ''Literature/BooksOfTheRaksura:'' As large shapeshifting predators, Raksura need more food than their [[{{Humanshifting}} humanoid forms]] would suggest, [[PrefersRawMeat preferably in the form of raw meat]]. The CoolOldGuy Stone is even more so, since he's grown so much StrongerWithAge that his shifted form has tripled in size -- all with no change to his humanoid form.
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* Justified in ''Literature/TheHammer2022''. Tiny's Mana Body technique, the source of his inhuman strength, [[CastFromCalories requires him to eat ten times as much as an ordinary person]] to maintain as a side effect of not requiring special herbs or medicines to improve. The more he eats, the stronger he becomes. His appetite is so obscene that he's shown stacking piles of ten or twenty bowls of food, with some wondering if he has dwarven blood for eating so much.
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* ''Literature/MenInBlackTheGrazerConspiracy'':
** The Grazers themselves. An alien race resembling a cross between grasshoppers and cattle, they're big, fat and disgusting, and devour any plantlife that gets in their way, especially having an addiction to Earth chlorophyll (which is why they aren't welcome on Earth). The only way to stop them from eating is to flip them on their backsides, or to just kill them.
** The Zulla, another sapient race; the leader of their fleet eats fifty meals in a single "cycle", and increased weight grants higher status among their kind.
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* [[ActionSurvivor Fitz Kreiner]] from the ''Series/DoctorWho'' Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures. He also has ExtremeOmnivore 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. FridgeBrilliance: it's probably because by the time he's 33, he's spent about 2/3 of his life either [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII under rationing]] or traveling with the Doctor. Being on a see-food diet (you know, [[IncrediblyLamePun 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.

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* [[ActionSurvivor Fitz Kreiner]] from the ''Series/DoctorWho'' Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures. He also has ExtremeOmnivore 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. FridgeBrilliance: it's probably because by the time he's 33, he's spent about 2/3 of his life either [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII under rationing]] or traveling with the Doctor. Being on a see-food diet (you know, [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} 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.
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* ''TheLiterature/ChroniclesOfNarnia'': Narnian centaurs are an entire race of Big Eaters, as revealed in ''Literature/TheSilverChair''. They have two stomachs, one of a horse and one of a man, so they have to fill both of these stomachs, and eat heartily for both. Their breakfast might include porridge, pavenders (a fish native to Narnia), kidneys, bacon, an omelette, cold ham, toast, marmalade, coffee and beer. They then would graze for an hour before eating hot mash, some oats and a bag of sugar.

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* ''TheLiterature/ChroniclesOfNarnia'': ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': Narnian centaurs are an entire race of Big Eaters, as revealed in ''Literature/TheSilverChair''. They have two stomachs, one of a horse and one of a man, so they have to fill both of these stomachs, and eat heartily for both. Their breakfast might include porridge, pavenders (a fish native to Narnia), kidneys, bacon, an omelette, cold ham, toast, marmalade, coffee and beer. They then would graze for an hour before eating hot mash, some oats and a bag of sugar.
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* [[Literature/ChroniclesOfNarnia Narnian]] centaurs are an entire race of Big Eaters, as revealed in ''Literature/TheSilverChair''. They have two stomachs, one of a horse and one of a man, so they have to fill both of these stomachs, and eat heartily for both. Their breakfast might include porridge, pavenders (a fish native to Narnia), kidneys, bacon, an omelette, cold ham, toast, marmalade, coffee and beer. They then would graze for an hour before eating hot mash, some oats and a bag of sugar.

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* [[Literature/ChroniclesOfNarnia Narnian]] ''TheLiterature/ChroniclesOfNarnia'': Narnian centaurs are an entire race of Big Eaters, as revealed in ''Literature/TheSilverChair''. They have two stomachs, one of a horse and one of a man, so they have to fill both of these stomachs, and eat heartily for both. Their breakfast might include porridge, pavenders (a fish native to Narnia), kidneys, bacon, an omelette, cold ham, toast, marmalade, coffee and beer. They then would graze for an hour before eating hot mash, some oats and a bag of sugar.
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* Index and Aisa Himegami of ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', although the latter is only a big eater when it comes to burgers. Index, however, will probably swallow a kitchen before being satisfied. Fortunately for her (and [[CatchPhrase misfortunately]] for the guy), Touma knows how to cook.


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* Rurune from ''Literature/TheFruitOfEvolution'' is an enormous glutton with a bottomless pit for a stomach, both as a donkey and after [[PowerUpFood the titular fruit]] [[HumanityEnsues turns her into a human girl]]. She ''happily'' eats ten evolution fruits in a single sitting, despite the fruits being legendary for their vile taste, and once makes a BlasphemousBoast that she would kick a god to death for the sake of delicious food. Her hunger is so great that [[AscendedToCarnivorism she eagerly consumes meat]], even ''drooling'' at the thought of gorging herself on horse meat sashimi. The downside to her HyperactiveMetabolism is that, similarly to Goku in his ''Manga/DragonBall'' days,her strength rapidly fades if she gets hungry.


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* What [[CatGirl Koneko Toujou]] from ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' lacks in portion size, she makes up for in consistency. Whenever she's seen during downtime, she's constantly snacking on something, yet somehow keeps her figure as a tiny underclassman. Possibly justified by her position as a [[ChessMotifs Rook]], those insane feats of strength she casually performs must burn calories pretty efficiently. Plus her less active (albeit older) sister is... [[MsFanservice significantly curvier]].


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* ''Literature/IBecameTheDemonLordSoICreatedADungeon'': Lefy is perfectly capable of eating a week's worth of food for two people in a single sitting.


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* Chocolat of ''Literature/MyMentalChoicesAre'' can put away enormous amounts of food...but only when she has amnesia.
* In ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' Katarina absolutely loves sweets and tea and will consume them until she literally gets sick and risks either throwing up or wetting herself. She can eat enough of them for several people and is only barely held in check by her mother and brother. She'll even eat off the ground if she thinks it looks tasty. It's eventually noted that this constant wolfing down of everything sweet in her vicinity ''is'' starting to cause some weight gain, though she doesn't care at all.
* Reina Izumi from ''Literature/MyriadColorsPhantomWorld'' eats like a black hole. She also has the special ability of sealing Phantoms by eating them.


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* In ''Literature/RebuildWorld'', Akira finds that he's developed a voracious appetite following his hospital stay, finishing an entire full-course meal in one sitting without any discomfort. He only notices this while eating on Carol's tab, which Alpha explains as his body trying to make up for years of malnutrition after the hospital treatments cleaned out the impurities and toxins lodged in his body from eating slum food.


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* Lina Inverse, Gourry Gabriev, Amelia and, in the anime adaptation, Pokota in ''Literature/{{Slayers}}''. Justified in-universe as 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 (and his own considerable stature) take up a lot of energy for similar reasons. The only exemptions are Xellos, who is an EmotionEater, and Zelgadis, who usually eats ''less'' due to his nature as a Chimera -- being one-third demon and one-third [[{{Golem}} 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 of the anime.
* Kumoko from ''Literature/SoImASpiderSoWhat'' eats pretty much anything she can kill (given that starvation is a very real risk for her), and can consume many times her own mass in one go. She's a bit mystified as to how that works until she discovers that the excess is stored away magically.


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* Marie from ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'', especially [[TrademarkFavoriteFood favoring steak]]. This is caused by multiple things. First, she suffered ParentalNeglect from ImpoverishedPatrician parents who were TheGamblingAddict, causing her to be malnourished for most of her childhood, so she instinctively eats when she can. She additionally seems to do it as PostStressOvereating.


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* ''Literature/ReincarnatedAsThePiggyDukeThisTimeImGonnaTellHerHowIFeel'': The original Piggy Duke Slowe ate a LOT of food. The current Piggy Duke Slowe, however, averts this, as he decided to slim himself down.
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* ''Literature/Greyfriars'': Billy Bunter is a typical example. When on a camping trip with six other boys, he looks at the supplies they've purchased for tea (dinner) and says, with no consciousness of being ironic, "Let's see, there's seven sausages here. What are you fellows having?"

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* ''Literature/Greyfriars'': ''Literature/{{Greyfriars}}'': Billy Bunter is a typical example. When on a camping trip with six other boys, he looks at the supplies they've purchased for tea (dinner) and says, with no consciousness of being ironic, "Let's see, there's seven sausages here. What are you fellows having?"
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* Being an obese sedentary gourmet who weighs a seventh-of-a-ton, Literature/NeroWolfe is this trope... but not quite to the degree you might expect. He eats large portions and he eats them well, but he's not a stereotypical glutton, and eats good food with refinement and class.

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* Being an obese sedentary gourmet who weighs a seventh-of-a-ton, Literature/NeroWolfe is this trope... but not quite to the degree you might expect. He eats large portions and he eats them well, but he's not a stereotypical glutton, and eats good food with refinement and class. class; a point is repeatedly made that he refuses to rush a meal under any circumstances. He'll pick at and even refuse bad food.
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* Kimball Kinnison, [[{{Literature/Lensmen}} Gray Lensman]], who normally consumes 5000 or more calories a day. Although the issue only comes up when he's hospitalized and can't eat his usual diet.

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* ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'': Kimball Kinnison, [[{{Literature/Lensmen}} Gray Lensman]], Lensman, who normally consumes 5000 or more calories a day. Although the issue only comes up when he's hospitalized and can't eat his usual diet.
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* In Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Tale of Crispos'' the healer-priest sent to deal with the cholera outbreak explains that although monks are supposed to be frugal eaters, healers are an exception.

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* In Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Tale ''[[Literature/{{Videssos}} Tale of Crispos'' Krispos]]'' the healer-priest sent to deal with the cholera outbreak explains that although monks are supposed to be frugal eaters, healers are an exception.
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* ''Literature/BlueMoose'': The titular moose consumed seventeen bowls of chowder when he arrives at Mr. Brenton's restaurant.

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* Holo from ''Literature/SpiceAndWolf'' doesn't [[{{Pun}} 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 [[TrademarkFavoriteFood apples]]. She's had serious hangovers more than once, too. This is all because she doesn't know her limits to eating while in human form. Like many people often do sooner or later, she finds herself pushing to the limit of how far she can go just because she doesn't know when to stop. This behavior is justified InUniverse as a case of MyInstinctsAreShowing (as Holo explains, a wolf's instinct is to gorge herself on food when she has it, because she doesn't know when she'll get to eat again), and Lawrence theorizes it might also be a case of ShapeshifterBaggage -- that is, Holo eats so much because her true form is a roughly elephant-sized wolf and she needs to support that body, not a mere petite human one.
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* ''Literature/BeastTamer'': Kanade and Tania both eat heaping portions of food to keep their strength up. In fact, when Rein and Kanade meet, the only reason she's in danger in the first place is because she's weak from hunger. Once she's fed, she's unstoppable. Tania, meanwhile, can match Kanade bite-for-bite, much to Rein's surprise when they share a meal for the first time.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''/''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' tie-in novel ''Literature/TheDawnOfYangchen'' [[AscendedFanon confirmed]] the popular fan speculation of [[HavingABlast combustionbenders]] as such, with [[spoiler:all three Unanimity members each]] requiring at least double the caloric intake of their cronies. [[spoiler:All of them match]] the "tall and athletic" depiction of the specialty established in the shows.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''/''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' tie-in novel ''Literature/TheDawnOfYangchen'' [[AscendedFanon confirmed]] the popular fan speculation of [[HavingABlast combustionbenders]] as such, with [[spoiler:all three Unanimity members each]] apparently requiring at least double the caloric intake of their cronies. [[spoiler:All of them match]] the "tall and athletic" depiction of the specialty established in the shows.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''/''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' tie-in novel ''Literature/TheDawnOfYangchen'' [[AscendedFanon confirmed]] the popular fan speculation of [[HavingABlast combustionbenders]] as such, with [[spoiler:each of the three]] requiring at least double the caloric intake of their cronies. [[spoiler:All three match]] the "tall and athletic" depiction of the specialty established in the shows.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''/''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' tie-in novel ''Literature/TheDawnOfYangchen'' [[AscendedFanon confirmed]] the popular fan speculation of [[HavingABlast combustionbenders]] as such, with [[spoiler:each of the three]] [[spoiler:all three Unanimity members each]] requiring at least double the caloric intake of their cronies. [[spoiler:All three of them match]] the "tall and athletic" depiction of the specialty established in the shows.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''/''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' tie-in novel ''Literature/TheDawnOfYangchen'' [[AscendedFanon confirmed]] the popular fan speculation of [[HavingABlast combustionbenders]] as such, with [[spoiler:each of the three]] requiring at least double the caloric intake of their cronies. [[spoiler:All three follow]] the established "tall and athletic" depiction of the specialty.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''/''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' tie-in novel ''Literature/TheDawnOfYangchen'' [[AscendedFanon confirmed]] the popular fan speculation of [[HavingABlast combustionbenders]] as such, with [[spoiler:each of the three]] requiring at least double the caloric intake of their cronies. [[spoiler:All three follow]] match]] the established "tall and athletic" depiction of the specialty.specialty established in the shows.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''/''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' tie-in novel ''Literature/TheDawnOfYangchen'' [[AscendedFanon confirmed]] the popular fan speculation of [[HavingABlast combustionbenders]] as such, with [[spoiler:each of the three]] requiring at least double the caloric intake of their cronies.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''/''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' tie-in novel ''Literature/TheDawnOfYangchen'' [[AscendedFanon confirmed]] the popular fan speculation of [[HavingABlast combustionbenders]] as such, with [[spoiler:each of the three]] requiring at least double the caloric intake of their cronies. [[spoiler:All three follow]] the established "tall and athletic" depiction of the specialty.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''/''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' tie-in novel ''Literature/TheDawnOfYangchen'' confirmed the popular fan speculation of [[HavingABlast combustionbenders]] as such, with [[spoiler:each of the three]] requiring at least double the caloric intake of their cronies.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''/''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' tie-in novel ''Literature/TheDawnOfYangchen'' confirmed [[AscendedFanon confirmed]] the popular fan speculation of [[HavingABlast combustionbenders]] as such, with [[spoiler:each of the three]] requiring at least double the caloric intake of their cronies.

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