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Bob is devoured by a monster. Monster looks pleased at its victory and goes to eat Alice. Alice is terrified until the monster stops, gives her an odd look, and screams as Bob cuts his way out of its stomach.

If Bob had yelled "EatMe!" moments before, then he was almost certainly planning to do this, and obviously, it doesn't work unless said monster swallows people whole. Let that be a lesson to all you monsters out there: ''always chew your food properly''.

See also ChestBurster, JustEatHim, and FeedItABomb. Not to be confused with ThroughHisStomach.
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!!Examples

* In ''RosarioToVampire'', Moka is eaten by a plant monster. Inner Moka then literally kicks her way out of the monsters stomach.
* Near the start of the ''ThreeByThreeEyes'' is a variation. Yakumo doesn't really have any powers yet, but manages to kill a monster (temporarily anyway) by shoving a summoning staff into its mouth and summoning Takuhi inside it to burst its stomach from within.

* In the ''{{Film/Hellboy}}'' movie, HB kills the monster at the end by letting the monster grab him, and yanking the pins out of an entire belt of grenades just before the monster swallowed.

* Tobias and Rachel are swallowed whole by a Kronosaur in [[Literature/{{Animorphs}} Megamorphs]] #2. Rachel proceeds to use her grizzly bear morph to rip her way out.

* Piper and Grams from ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' were once eaten by the Big Bad Wolf. Piper uses her [[BlowStuffUp power]] to blow the fairy tale beast to smithereens while she was still inside of it.
** Earlier in the series Piper's plan to defeat a demon was to let it eat her and her sisters and then Prue would use her [[MindOverMatter powers]] to blow it up. Fortunately, they didn't have to do it this way.
* While it's unclear whether [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] was actually ingested by the monster, in one episode she defeats this [[MonsterIsAMommy mother]] of body snatching beasts by slicing it with a pickaxe, presumably from the inside out.

* This is doable by your PC in ''{{Nethack}}'' and is in fact the safest way to kill some of the bosses.
* Kratos does this to Cronos in ''VideoGame/GodOfWar 3'' in probably the mother of all ColossusClimb battles.
* During one boss fight in ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'', Yoshi and Baby Mario are shrunk and eaten by a frog. You then "defeat" the frog from within its stomach by throwing eggs at a uvula-like appendage.
* Halfway through the first boss fight in ''VideoGame/TheNewZealandStory'', the ice whale you're fighting swallows you. You have to shoot it while avoiding the drops of acid in order to destroy it from within.
* In ''VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade'', Momohime convinces the Big Oni to swallow her whole, which lets her start fighting it from inside its stomach. That doesn't necessarily discourage it from swallowing her again.
* In ''TalesOfLegendia'', the largest monsters in the game are too big for Senel to throw, so instead of throwing them, he'll invoke the trope by jumping into their mouths and pummeling them from the inside while they're dazed from being knocked down.

* Red Mage does this to a dragon in ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' using frost magic. Interestingly the dragon was only acting in self defence and was perfectly happy to help the remaining Light Warriors when they didn't attack. Indeed RM killed him half way through making them some fireproof armour.

* In ''{{Chirault}}'', Kiran gets swallowed by a demon, then hacks his way out with his BladeOnAStick.
* In ''OrderOfTheStick'', V gets eaten by a dragon, and uses a Shapechange spell to burst his way out.

* Villainous example: The alien assassin from ''Film/MenInBlack II'' is tricked into flying down Jeff the giant worm-creature's gullet, but grows large enough to burst out of him for a final battle with J.
** Speaking of ''Film/MenInBlack'', K does this in the first movie when he tricks the BigBad - a giant alien cockroach who had earlier eaten both his and J's guns - into swallowing him. His explanation to J prior to doing this was "I'm goin' to get my gun back." He does, and proceeds to blast said giant alien cockroach in two from the inside out.

* The dragon scene from ''ThePagemaster''. After Richard is eaten by a dragon, he makes a beanstalk appear by opening a book entitled ''JackandtheBeanstalk'' that was also inside the dragon's stomach, and uses it to escape.

* Kratos does this to Cronos in ''GodOfWar 3'' in probably the mother of all ColossusClimb battles.

* Piper and Grams from ''{{Charmed}}'' were once eaten by the Big Bad Wolf. Piper uses her [[BlowStuffUp power]] to blow the fairy tale beast to smithereens while she was still inside of it.

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* In PlanetHulk the angry green giant himself jumps into the flaming mechanical jaws of a robot worm only to pop out minutes later though its chest tearing out, what could be assumed to be, its intestines with it.

* While it's unclear whether [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] was actually ingested by the monster, in one episode she defeats this [[MonsterIsAMommy mother]] of body snatching beasts by slicing it with a sword, presumably from the inside out.

* In ''Frankenstein: Agent of S.H.A.D.E.'' Frankenstein is swallowed by a mountain sized monster. A page later he he bursts out of it's body with his sword in one hand an it's heart in the other. The "why didn't it chew him" factor is justified here as the creature is so gargantuan Frankenstein's not much more than a crumb to it.

* ''AdventureTime'': Finn must slash his way out of the gullet of a… something, after Marceline tells him, "Use my axe bass."

* In DungeonsAndDragons, PCs that get eaten by the tarrasque sometimes have to cut their way out. Sometimes it's actually a good idea, as its stomach does less damage than its outside.

* Halfway through the first boss fight in ''TheNewZealandStory'', the ice whale you're fighting swallows you. You have to shoot it while avoiding the drops of acid in order to destroy it from within.

* In the series DemonKnights, {{Etrigan}} climbs inside a dragon's mouth [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome to cast a spell can make it explode from the inside.]]

* Tobias and Rachel are swallowed whole by a Kronosaur in [[{{Animorphs}} Megamorphs]] #2. Rachel proceeds to use her grizzly bear morph to rip her way out.

* In OrderOfTheStick, V gets eaten by a dragon, and uses a Shapechange spell to burst his way out.

In DungeonsAndDragons, PCs that get eaten by the tarrasque sometimes have to cut their way out. Sometimes it's actually a good idea, as its stomach does less damage than its outside.

!Examples
* Piper and Grams from {{Charmed}} were once eaten by the Big Bad Wolf. Piper uses her [[BlowStuffUp power]] to blow the fairy tale beast to smithereens while she was still inside of it.
** Earlier in the series Piper's plan to defeat a demon was to let it eat her and her sisters and then Prue would use her [[MindOverMatter powers]] to blow it up. Fortunately, they didn't have to do it this way.
* While it's unclear whether [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] was actually ingested by the monster, in one episode she defeats this [[MonsterIsAMommy mother]] of body snatching beasts by slicing it with a sword, presumably from the inside out.
* Disney/{{Hercules}} defeats the hydra this way in the {{Disney}} adaptation of the legend. Unfortunately, it comes back to life with three more heads...
* This is doable by your PC in {{Nethack}} and is in fact the safest way to kill some of the bosses.
* Tobias and Rachel are swallowed whole by a Kronosaur in [[{{Animorphs}} Megamorphs]] #2. Rachel proceeds to use her grizzly bear morph to rip her way out.
* Kratos does this to Cronos in GodOfWar 3 in probably the mother of all ColossusClimb battles.
* Red Mage does this to a dragon in ''EightBitTheatre'' using frost magic. Interestingly the dragon was only acting in self defence and was perfectly happy to help the remaining Light Warriors when they didn't attack. Indeed RM killed him half way through making them some fireproof armour.
** Later, he defeated Kraken this way, bisecting him from the inside with his sword.

* Near the start of the ''{{3x3 Eyes}}'' is a variation. Yakumo doesn't really have any powers yet, but manages to kill a monster (temporarily anyway) by shoving a summoning staff into its mouth and summoning Takuhi inside it to burst its stomach from within.
* In the ''{{Film/Hellboy}}'' movie, HB kills the monster at the end by letting the monster grab him, and yanking the pins out of an entire belt of grenades just before the monster swallowed.
* In ''{{Chirault}}'', Kiran gets swallowed by a demon, then hacks his way out with his BladeOnAStick.

* During one boss fight in ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'', Yoshi and Baby Mario are shrunk and eaten by a frog. You then "defeat" the frog from within its stomach by throwing eggs at a uvula-like appendage.
* Halfway through the first boss fight in ''TheNewZealandStory'', the ice whale you're fighting swallows you. You have to shoot it while avoiding the drops of acid in order to destroy it from within.

* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in Nextwave, where the plan to defeat Fing Fang Foom involves Aaron Stack jumping into the monsters mouth specifically so he can cut it apart from the inside.
* A toad was once poisoned to death after swallowing a poisonous salamander, who then proceeds to climb out of its mouth.

* Villainous example: The alien assassin from ''MenInBlack II'' is tricked into flying down Jeff the giant worm-creature's gullet, but grows large enough to burst out of him for a final battle with J.
** Speaking of ""MenInBlack"", K does this in the first movie when he tricks the BigBad - a giant alien cockroach who had earlier eaten both his and J's guns - into swallowing him. His explanation to J prior to doing this was "I'm goin' to get my gun back." He does, and proceeds to blast said giant alien cockroach in two from the inside out.
* {{Naruto}} was once swallowed by a gigantic snake summoned by the BigBad. He escaped by making so many clones of himself that it burst.
* In YuYuHakusho Three Kings Arc, Shishiwakamaru done this to a GiantMook.
* In the ''Golden Legend'', this is how [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_Antioch Saint Margaret of Antioch]] survived her first martyrdom phase. She was to be eaten alive by a huge snake (for some, {{Satan}} in the form of a dragon), but her cross pendant irritated the dragon/snake's innards and it bursted open, with an unharmed Margaret popping out of it.

See also ChestBurster, JustEatHim, and DodongoDislikesSmoke. Not to be confused with ThroughHisStomach.

* Real Life example: Parasitic wasp larvae. They literally eat host insects from the inside out.
** Actually more a case of FaceFullOfAlienWingWong, as the larvae aren't actually ''eaten'' by their unfortunate hosts.