History BigEater / Literature

* ''Literature/{{Huggly}}'': At the beginning of Huggly's Pizza, Huggly pats his belly, indicating he's hungry for pizza. At the end, he and his friends eat pizza.

* The title character of the children's picture book ''Literature/TheVeryHungryCaterpillar'' stuffs himself by eating through various foods [[note]]1 apple, 2 pears, 3 plums, 4 strawberries, 5 oranges, 1 piece of chocolate cake, 1 ice cream cone, 1 pickle, 1 slice of Swiss cheese, 1 piece of salami, 1 piece of cherry pie, 1 sausage, 1 cupcake, and 1 slice of watermelon[[/note]] for six days, giving himself a stomach ache. After eating a green leaf, he feels better, then pupates and emerges as a butterfly.

* ''Literature/Huggly'': At the beginning of Huggly's Pizza, Huggly pats his belly, indicating he's hungry for pizza. At the end, he and his friends eat pizza.

* As mentioned with Clay above, Ochre from ''Literature/WingsOfFire'' is also a [=MudWing=] dragon and a big eater, wanting to always have a bite to eat. But unlike Clay, who is kind and loyal to his friends, Ochre is [[FatBastard greedy and unfriendly]]. Even sweet and kind Sunny can't stand him.

* ''Literature/Huggly:TheMonsterUnderTheBed'': At the beginning of Huggly's Pizza, Huggly pats his belly, indicating he's hungry for pizza. At the end, he and his friends eat pizza.

** A rather horrifying version includes the entire Taxxon species, who have a [[HorrorHunger maddening hunger]] that makes them eat anything they can -- including any injured member of their species or, on at least one occasion, ''[[{{Autocannibalism}} 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. This hunger is why the Taxxons willingly became Controllers -- the Yeerks promised them relief from their HorrorHunger in exchange for their service. It didn't end up working, but the fact that the Taxxons gave up their own free will to escape their hunger says a lot about how overpowering it is.

* Josh Pinto in the ''Literature/AToZMysteries'' books.

* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': All dragons are this, of course, being able to ingest ridiculous amounts of food. Feeding them can be a major logistical issue as a result, although in a pinch even civilized ones will eat just about anything and forage if necessary (as Bazil does more than once). Civilized ones [[EveryoneHasStandards draw the line]] at human meat however.

* Washy from ''Literature/BewareOfChicken'' is a carp who loves eat food. And its a good thing too, as [[MakesSenseInContext his whole job is licking dishes clean.]]

* Templeton the rat in ''Literature/CharlottesWeb'' might be a VillainousGlutton if he actually did anything truly malicious (he's stated to have "no morals") but bribing him with food is pretty much the only way to get him to help with anything. He's persuaded to go to the county fair after being told of all the discarded food that would be on the ground after hours, and eats so much then that he comes back the next morning bloated to almost twice his size. Later in the book, after Wilbur promises to let him eat first from his slops after helping save Charlotte's egg sac, he grows to nearly the size of a woodchuck from eating so much.

* [[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.

* In ''Literature/ChroniclesOfNarnia'', centaurs are an entire race of Big Eaters. They had two stomachs, one of a horse and one of a man, so they had to fill both of these stomachs, and ate heartily for both. Their breakfast might include porridge, pavendors, 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.

* Justified for centaurs in ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia''. In ''Literature/TheSilverChair'', it's explained how they always wake up early so they can devote several hours to breakfast.
-->"A centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys and bacon and omelette and cold ham and toast and marmalade and coffee and beer. And after that he tends to the horse part of himself by grazing for an hour or so and finishing up with a hot mash, some oats, and a bag of sugar. That's why it's such a serious thing to ask a centaur to stay for the weeekend. A very serious thing indeed."

* ''Literature/TheIronTeeth'' web serial’s protagonist Blacknail likes to eat a lot, especially near evolution. Even as a skinny hobgoblin he continues to eat almost constantly.

* ''Literature/TianGuanCiFu'': He Xuan is almost always eating, even when disguised as [[spoiler: Ming Yi]]. Despite being a Ghost King and not needing food to survive. His endless appetite starts out as a RunningGag... until it's revealed he starved when he was alive.

* [[ChangelingTale Jack]] in ''Literature/TheDarkestPartOfTheForest'' is constantly hungry and constantly eating as part of his fey nature. He'll eat entire loaves of bread and gallons of milk, swallow whole eggs at the grocery store, and if he's too embarrassed to ask for 5th helpings of dinner, he'll eat [[ExtremeOmnivore cotton balls soaked in water]].

* Tofu from ''Literature/SuperMinion'' is absolutely obsessed with food between his desire to stockpile energy and human.exe giving him the ability to appreciate good food. Despite looking like a small human, he can eat immense quantities of food at once and is dense enough that he actually weighs several hundred pounds normally.
* In Creator/{{Plautus}}'s plays, table-companions (a peculiar Roman institution, also called "parasites") are played as comically large eaters, making this OlderThanFeudalism. Ergasilus in ''Captivi'', given the run of Hegio's kitchen, causes an uproar not unlike those common in ''The Slayers''.
* ''Literature/TheRedemptionOfAlthalus'', by Creator/DavidEddings: Eliar. Although it's because he's a teenager and he grows out of it somewhat later on.
* Mr. Vandemar, in ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}''.
-->Mr. Croup likes words, while Mr. Vandemar is always hungry.
* In ''Literature/LoyalEnemies'', wizard Veres uses a long-term healing spell to heal himself after being beaten into a pulp at the start of the novel. The spell accelerates his metabolism and burns energy constantly, making him chronically hungry to the point that "Veres ate all our food" becomes a RunningGag in-story.
* ''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.
* ''Literature/HereticsOfDune'': [[spoiler:Miles Teg]] undergoes a transformation that unlocks his SuperSpeed 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.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_Tiger The Hungry Tiger]] in the ''Literature/LandOfOz'' 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 ''Literature/{{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 {{Mook}}s 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.
** Bescarum the hare in ''Triss'' is also this. It gets him in trouble on more than one occasion, once when he eats all of the food of a tribe of hedgehogs that had given him and his friends shelter for a while. Had his badger friend not bailed him out the hedgehogs would have had him work to pay back the food he ate. He later does it ''again'' in Redwall, eating a massive trifle that was supposed to be the prize for the winner of a race the Dibbuns were having. He's not bailed out this time, and is punished by being forced to scrub the Abbey from top to bottom while eating nothing but a single meal of lettuce and water. In a stunning case of NeverMyFault he ''runs away'' rather than face the music, and sets up the final conflict of the book.

* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'':
** The hobbits from ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' 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); Literature/TheHobbit states it's ''eleven'' meals a day. Their tendency to this is such that that when Aragon, Gimli, and Legolas are trying to work out what happened to Merry and Pippin and find evidence someone ate lembas bread, smoothly ignoring the battle being fought around them, Legolas [[DeadpanSnarker dryly]] notes that alone is evidence a hobbit was here. 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.
** It's stated in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' that many of the dwarves have the same preference for meals as hobbits (many and often). Bombur was fat all his life, and by the time of ''The Fellowship Of The Ring'', he's so obese that he needs six young dwarves simply to move him. Gandalf was a Big Eater too, on occasion. In one scene in the book (where Bilbo and the dwarves are guests in Beorn's hall) he eats four whole loaves, each covered with butter, honey, and clotted cream, in one sitting. (Justifed, seeing as he had been out all day scouting the area on foot.)
** 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.
* In ''Literature/ChroniclesOfNarnia'', centaurs are an entire race of Big Eaters. They had two stomachs, one of a horse and one of a man, so they had to fill both of these stomachs, and ate heartily for both. Their breakfast might include porridge, pavendors, 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.
* From the ''Literature/WildCards'' 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 (Sleeper waking, meals taking/Sleeper speeding, people bleeding), and people recognize him by his eating habits.
** Croyd is the most obvious example, but it's mentioned once that the Great and Powerful Turtle has to eat fairly constantly, as using his telekinesis drains his physical energy, and it is implied that the other aces also have a faster metabolism to fuel their abilities. The most prominent example is the Midnight Angel, who is mentioned in her appearances as being constantly hungry due to her highly enhanced metabolism, and is capable of downing meals that shock the waitresses (or is at least constantly eating).
* ''Literature/TalesOfMU'' 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 ''Literature/TheBoxcarChildren'' book series, despite being only six years old.
* All the bird-kids in the ''Literature/MaximumRide'' 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. The Flock will often go without ''any'' food, sometimes for '''''days at a time''''', so it's completely understandable that once presented with ample amounts, they would stuff themselves just shy of getting sick because they couldn't be sure when their next meal would be; or of [[{{Squick}} what quality it might be]] (i.e. Dumpster diving being a regular one-stop shop for the hungry mutant bird kid on the run).
* Most of the Brotherhood boys in J.R. Ward's ''Literature/BlackDaggerBrotherhood'' series. Like Rhage (who is regularly described or insinuated to be the biggest eater, even amongst the brothers) and [[spoiler: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. [[spoiler: 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 adopted eating alongside Rhage.]]
* Templeton the rat in ''Literature/CharlottesWeb'' might be a VillainousGlutton if he actually did anything truly malicious (he's stated to have "no morals") but bribing him with food is pretty much the only way to get him to help with anything. He's persuaded to go to the county fair after being told of all the discarded food that would be on the ground after hours, and eats so much then that he comes back the next morning bloated to almost twice his size. Later in the book, after Wilbur promises to let him eat first from his slops after helping save Charlotte's egg sac, he grows to nearly the size of a woodchuck from eating so much.
* Claudia Kishi from ''Literature/TheBabysittersClub'' 1980s-era juvenile book series is a model-thin junk food addict.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': 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 ''ForgetsToEat''. So it comes to about even, overall. Also, he exercises regularly when not in a rush to save the world, and all that magic probably burns extra calories.
** When Harry and his apprentice visit the White Council headquarters, Harry's mentor Ebenezer makes sure that the apprentice gets access to the buffet normally reserved for full Wizards. Harry explains that Ebenezer believes that all apprentices are constantly hungry, but states that he is [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial most definitely and certainly not to blame for that misconception]], [[BlatantLies no sirree.]]
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'':
** A rather horrifying version includes the entire Taxxon species, who have a [[HorrorHunger maddening hunger]] that makes them eat anything they can -- including any injured member of their species or, on at least one occasion, ''[[{{Autocannibalism}} 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. This hunger is why the Taxxons willingly became Controllers -- the Yeerks promised them relief from their HorrorHunger in exchange for their service. It didn't end up working, but the fact that the Taxxons gave up their own free will to escape their hunger says a lot about how overpowering it is.
** Ax, in human morph. His natural species has no taste buds due to having no mouth, so while in human form, [[SenseFreak the variety of different flavors of food tends to overwhelm him]].
* Klößchen (Grunter in the English version) of ''Literature/{{TKKG}}'' is one. His German name means "Dumpling".
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Ron Weasley. It's a RunningGag to have him cheerfully stuffing himself at the feast at the beginning of every year at Hogwarts, sometimes grossing Hermione and Harry out. In ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'', it gets even worse. Because, you know, they're out in the wild, without any food, and anyone who fits this trope is going to seriously chow down when the opportunity arises. In the "years later"-epilogue, he has grown a fair bit around the waist, though in his teenage years it probably all went to his height.
* Zedd from ''Literature/TheSwordOfTruth''. Constantly hungry, and ''very'' skinny.
* 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.
* The classic example of this in literature would be Falstaff in ''Theatre/HenryIV'', 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 ''Literature/TheShadowOfTheWind'' blames his thin build on his incredible metabolism, which he displays throughout the book.
* Mulch, in the ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' series. Let's not get into ''what'' he eats, please.
* Lieutenant Hélène 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.
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'':
** Graystripe is called this by other characters, though we don't actually see him eating large amounts. Tigerstar possibly pushed him into it, forcing him to eat extra mice he would feed to Yellowfang in Firestar's place in ''Into The Wild''.
** His son Bumblestripe is the same here.
* Corwin from ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'', to the extent where his brother Random once snaps him out of an AchillesInHisTent sulk by showing up with a very large tray of food.
* Luke in ''Literature/EightDaysOfLuke'', [[spoiler:which makes sense considering that he's really Loki, who once almost won an eating contest with the anthropomorphic personification of fire. Also, by the time the book opens he's been imprisoned for quite a while.]]
* Josh Pinto in the ''Literature/AToZMysteries'' books.
* Joel Duffle in Damon Runyan's short story "A Piece of Pie", a competitive eater who consumes a huge amount of food during the story, but "does not look as if he can eat his way out of a tea shoppe".

* The title character of the children's picture book ''Literature/TheVeryHungryCaterpillar'' stuffs himself by eating through various foods [[note]]1 apple, 2 pears, 3 plums, 4 strawberries, 5 oranges, 1 piece of chocolate cake, 1 ice cream cone, 1 pickle, 1 slice of Swiss cheese, 1 piece of salami, 1 piece of cherry pie, 1 sausage, 1 cupcake, and 1 slice of watermelon[[/note]] for six days, giving himself a stomach ache. After eating a green leaf, he feels better, then pupates and emerges as a butterfly.
* In the first ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'' book, twelve-year-old Zak Arranda tackles a free meal with such enthusiasm that only the Wookiee keeps up with him. ...though it probably helps that everyone else at the table was talking, and necessarily eating more slowly.
* In ''Literature/SonicTheHedgehogInRobotniksLaboratory'' Sonic and Tails are constantly eating heaps of junk food, Sonic explains he needs to constantly eat because of his HyperactiveMetabolism. Other characters don't get that excuse; like Mickey the Monkey eating mounts of peanuts.
* Day from ''Literature/BestServedCold'' eats constantly. Her mentor scolds her for munching buns while they are waiting for assassination targets.
* Sigfried Smith from ''Literature/RachelGriffin'' consistently takes huge portions of food, as he's used to being starved by adults and wants to stock up while he can.
* Mat becomes one briefly in the third book of ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' as the result of extremely taxing magical healing to remove a HatePlague. He ''has'' to eat the equivalent of fifteen big meals a day or he'll starve to death. When his appetite returns to normal later in the book, he continues to waste huge amounts of food to annoy his host, but regrets that when he reaches a city that is rife with famine.
* The main character from ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'', though it's justified by the extreme levels of physical conditioning they are put through. The main character at one point mentions eating a breakfast consisting of six eggs, fried potatoes, ham, hotcakes and toast, and immediately thereafter hitting the town to find a proper meal.
* In the ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' series, all of the goblins ''love'' food and are very greedy about it.
* Infected in ''Literature/TheTroop'' eat vast amounts of food to feed [[spoiler: the mutant tapeworms they're infested with]]. However, the [[spoiler: worm colony]] guzzles it all away, and their body's nutrients besides. They eventually starve to death while [[ExtremeOmnivore eating everything they can get their hands on.]]
* Suggested several times with Ravenswood in ''Literature/{{Relativity}}''. In "Bajo el Muérdago", for example, several scenes show him to be eating long after the other guests have finished.

* Lila Merriweather of the ''Literature/BlackBlade'' series spent years living on the streets, then ended up with a job that included unlimited free board. She makes the most of it.
* Clay from ''Literature/WingsOfFire'' is always hungry and thinking of food. He'll often have dreams of eating lots of prey like hippos, sheep, bears, and mangoes. It's no surprise that he is in charge of the Prey Center (a room where they practice hunting animals) at the Jade Mountain Academy.
* ''Literature/TheIronTeeth'' web serial’s protagonist Blacknail likes to eat a lot, especially near evolution. Even as a skinny hobgoblin he continues to eat almost constantly.

* In ''Literature/VoidCity'', the vampire Greta has a very slim figure. However, in life, she was a compulsive eater, and her transformation into a vampire did not change this. When not hunting humans, she is constantly "snacking" on any small animal which comes within her reach.
* Every werewolf in ''Literature/{{Newshound}}'', due to the massive caloric requirements of shapeshifting.

* In ''The Ghost in Gold'', a TwiceToldTale of Literature/{{Cinderella}}, Chiara spent years being her stepmother's half-starved slave, so good food is one of her biggest weaknesses. She inhales three courses at the masked ball without realizing it, and even when employed at the palace and getting regular meals, food is never too far from her thoughts.

* ''Literature/MonsterOfTheMonthClub'': The monsters tend to be this -- at one point in book 1, Rilla informs Icicle that the food he'd eaten the night before was supposed to last a week.
* Jarvis from ''Literature/TheMouseWatch'' might not look like one of these, but he talks about food and being hungry a ''lot''.
* ''Literature/AnimalInn'': Teddy Taylor, who claims it's because he's a growing boy and needs the nourishment. Also Cleveland the cat, who demands four meals a day plus snacks.

* Faddey Bulgarin in ''Literature/TheDeathOfTheVazirMukhtar'', and presumably, in real life as well.
* In Creator/MaryGentle's ''Literature/WhiteCrow'' stories, 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 [[StoutStrength a huge guy who happens to be fat]].
* Lula from the Literature/StephaniePlum 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 BigFriendlyDog Stephanie and on-again-off-again boyfriend Morelli share.
* ''Literature/KarlssonOnTheRoof''.

* Literature/{{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).

** Seems to be a rather common trait in Creator/RoaldDahl's stories. Most are less sympathetic than Bruce- there's the famous Augustus Gloop, who eats tons of chocolate bars and Bruno Jenkins of ''Literature/TheWitches'', who is easily lured by the titular antagonists with the promise of chocolate and later becomes a very gluttonous mouse.
* ''Literature/WinnieThePooh''. At the beginning of the first book he cleans out Rabbit's pantry. In the second book he eats Tigger's lunch ''and'' Roo's. And he's incapable of carrying a pot of honey from A to B without devouring its contents along the way!

* Nathaniel "Ned" Robbins in ''Literature/JellyBelly'' starts out as this. His friends at summer diet camp are straight examples, especially Richard. And Richard's parents.

* In Creator/MercedesLackey's [[Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar Valdemar]] universe, Heralds, Healers, and Mages who over-use their powers have to be force-fed sometimes.
* Baloun from ''Literature/TheGoodSoldierSvejk'' loves to eat, and almost always feels hungry. Since he serves in the Austro-Hungarian army in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, this trait gets him into a lot of trouble (such as when he eats his officer's meals before being able to deliver them to him).
* Wyman Manderly in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''.
* Justified for centaurs in ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia''. In ''Literature/TheSilverChair'', it's explained how they always wake up early so they can devote several hours to breakfast.
-->"A centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys and bacon and omlette and cold ham and toast and marmalade and coffee and beer. And after that he tends to the horse part of himself by grazing for an hour or so and finishing up with a hot mash, some oats, and a bag of sugar. That's why it's such a serious thing to ask a centaur to stay for the weeekend. A very serious thing indeed."
* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/TheStarBeast'', the alien Hroshii can [[ExtremeOmnivore eat almost anything, steel, concrete, you name it]]. [[VoluntaryShapeshifting They grow when fed, shrink when starved]]. The reason why the gigantic Lummox appears so much larger than the other Hroshii is simply because she was overfed on Earth (or bored rather whenever John Thomas isn't around). When reunited with her people they force her to go on diet.
* Mahaut d'Artois in ''Literature/TheAccursedKings'' isn't exctly fat, but she is described as a big, large, strong woman with a ferocious appetite, to balance her nephew [[LargeHam Robert d'Artois]]. In both the TV versions, she was played by relatively frail actresses, probably in order to make them opposites rather than reflexions of each other.

* In ''Literature/BubbleWorld'', Ricky is always snacking on something or drinking something. It gets played for serious drama later. [[spoiler:In the real world he's morbidly obese and in danger of dying, but refuses to exercise or eat less because he enjoys eating that much]].

* ''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?"

* Being an obese sedantary 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.
* In David Foster Wallace's ''The Broom of the System'', the character Norman Bombardini attempts to stave off his loneliness and rejection from the heroine by consuming so much food that everything Other becomes him. His endeavor was so successful he started generating his own gravitational pull...
* ''Literature/TheColdMoons'':
** Eldon, the lackadaisical and lazy leader, from ''Literature/TheColdMoons'' would prefer to sleep and eat over anything else. Even when on a dangerous exodus to outrun humans and their budger cullings, he slows down his group of 300+ badgers because he wants to eat worms along the way. However, Eldon's hunger isn't always an annoyance. His knowledge of where and how to find food can be useful when the group is in desperate need.
** The final chapter reveals that [[spoiler:Eldon's adopted son Rowley]] grew up to be a jovial and hungry badger. He's also the [[BigFun largest]] of the badgers.
* In ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror,'' Cueseg constantly wolfs down whatever food he can get his hands on, despite [[ForeignQueasine his dislike for it]], much to Lyrah's constant annoyance.
* ''Literature/TheReluctantKing'': The King of Iraz, who's also incredibly obese as a result. Unfortunately, this leads to all sort of troubles, amongst them the fact that he's no longer fit enough to pleasure the great priestess as expected.
* ''Literature/MonsterOfTheYear'': Lulu Toomaloo, who's been this way since she was a baby. "I'm hungry" is practically her catchphrase.

* ''Literature/MonsterOfTheMonthClub'': The monsters tend to be this - at one point in book 1, Rilla informs Icicle that the food he'd eaten the night before was supposed to last a week.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': 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. Also, he exercises regularly when not in a rush to save the world, and all that magic probably burns extra calories.

** Ax, in human morph. His natural species has no taste buds due to having no mouth, so while in human form, the variety of different flavors of food tends to overwhelm him.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Ron Weasley. It's a RunningGag 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 ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'', it gets even worse. Because, you know, they're out in the wild, without any food, and anyone who fits this trope is going to seriously chow down when the opportunity arises. In the "years later"-epilogue, he has grown a fair bit around the waist.

** Graystripe series is called this by other characters, though we don't actually see him eating large amounts. Tigerstar possibly pushed him into it, forcing him to eat extra mice he would feed to Yellowfang in Firestar's place in ''Into The Wild''.

* The title character of the children's picture book ''The Very Hungry Caterpillar'' stuffs himself by eating through various foods [[note]]1 apple, 2 pears, 3 plums, 4 strawberries, 5 oranges, 1 piece of chocolate cake, 1 ice cream cone, 1 pickle, 1 slice of Swiss cheese, 1 piece of salami, 1 piece of cherry pie, 1 sausage, 1 cupcake, and 1 slice of watermelon[[/note]] for six days, giving himself a stomach ache. After eating a green leaf, he feels better, then pupates and emerges as a butterfly.

* Benny from ''Literature/BoxcarChildren'' book series, despite being only six years old.

* * [[ChangelingTale Jack]] in ''Literature/TheDarkestPartOfTheForest'' is constantly hungry and constantly eating as part of his fey nature. He'll eat entire loaves of bread and gallons of milk, swallow whole eggs at the grocery store, and if he's too embarrassed to ask for 5th helpings of dinner, he'll eat [[ExtremeOmnivore cotton balls soaked in water]].

* [[ChangelingTale Jack]] in ''Literature/TheDarkestPartOfTheForest'' is constantly hungry and constantly eating as part of his fey nature. He'll eat entire loaves of bread and gallons of milk, swallow whole eggs at the grocery store, and if he's too embarrassed to ask for 5th helpings of dinner, he'll eat [[ExtremeOmnivore cotton balls soaked in water]].