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* In one of the ''VideoGame/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' games (for Xbox) the titular character faces down a giant snake monster [[BuffySpeak thingie]] in Angel's mansion. Play wrong and Buffy gets chomped on... then thrown aside. Granted, she is durable... but other vampires try to go for the throat. It's very confusing.

* While usually averted in the ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' series in the sense that you just completely defeat an enemy you eat, it's played straight for an actually ''scarier'' effect when fighting Dedede in ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3'' and ''VideoGame/Kirby64''. He mutates as an EldritchAbomination and eats Kirby with a huge eyed mouth from his stomach and spits him from the mouth. Note that here being eaten causes the damage, while normally it's caused because of being spit against a wall at full strength.

* The predator catches the prey in its mouth, and then [[SwallowedWhole swallows it whole]]. This may make sense for snakes and sea life, but even toothy carnivores seem to do this. Unfortunately for the predator, this approach tends to result in either a FantasticVoyagePlot or WombLevel on the part of the victim, and often results in [[KillItThroughItsStomach the creature's death]] or discomfort due to damage to vital organs and the like. This version is often used as a family friendly death (a villain who gets swallowed by a dragon, for example) hinging on the younger members of the audience not realizing that being swallowed alive and doused with highly corrosive hydrochloric acid, enzymes and other digestive chemicals would be one of the most horrible deaths imaginable. It also doesn't make sense if the eater is intelligent and savoring the meal at hand, to the point of verbally describing it; swallowing a piece of food whole, especially meat, means you don't really get to taste it.

This trope is especially common in video games with a lifebar, as being devoured in one bite doesn't lend itself well to an enjoyable boss fight. Those that do kill the player instantly tend to appear in the survival horror genre, or serve as stage obstacles in platformers.

* In ''ComicStrip/Pogo'' on at least two occasions, small critters (bats, mice) took up lodging in Albert Alligator's digestive tract while he was sleeping, and soon afterward emerged unharmed.

* In ''Pogo'' on at least two occasions, small critters (bats, mice) took up lodging in Albert Alligator's digestive tract while he was sleeping, and soon afterward emerged unharmed.

*** In UsefulNotes/{{Alaska}}, the standard safety tips are: "Black, fight back; Brown, lie down."

* The final boss in ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}}: Door to Phantomile'' inhales you and everyone else after you complete the first phase. Phases 2 and 3 take place inside its body.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', the dragon eats Lord Farquad, but an AfterTheCredits sequence shows he's "[[Music/TheBeeGees ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' aliiive....]]" Mostly this is just a joke, as he never gets out and presumably died eventually (his ghost appears as the antagonist in a ''Shrek''-based theme park 3D film).

** The [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Rockgagong]] in ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'' devours the party and [[WombLevel serves as a short dungeon]] (They end up escaping with a pouch of pepper they acquired by accident). It also tries to snap up anyone to who's standing too close to its face while you're fighting it as a BonusBoss later, which removes any victims for the rest of the battle. For some awkward reason, this attack is ''blockable'', which makes it a lot less threatening it sounds [[ArtificialStupidity (Unless the AI is the one standing close to it...)]].

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* Jonah and the Whale (or "Great Big Fish") from Literature/TheBible. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since the fish had been sent by God, so presumably the whole thing was miraculous.