History Main / KillItThroughItsStomach

** Lieutenant Commander [[SdrawkcabName Der Trihs]] was once eaten by a giant shark. He [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-10-31 perforated its stomach with his sidearm]] and then tore his way out.

This often ends up being the [[HoistByHisOwnPetard undoing]] many a villain and monster that tried to kill their enemies [[EatingTheEnemy by eating them]]. 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 [[SwallowedWhole swallows people whole]]. Let that be a lesson to all you monsters out there: ''always chew your food properly''.

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 [[SwallowedWhole swallows people whole]]. Let that be a lesson to all you monsters out there: ''always chew your food properly''.

* K in ''Film/MenInBlack'' does this when he talks the giant alien cockroach--who had earlier eaten both his and J's guns -- into swallowing him whole. 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 alien assassin from ''Film/MenInBlackII'' 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.

* In the ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'' movie, the titular hero 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.

See also AttackTheMouth, ChestBurster, JustEatHim, and FeedItABomb.

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'':

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

-->--'''Red Mage''', ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''

* A toad was once poisoned to death after swallowing a poisonous salamander, who then proceeds to climb out of its mouth.

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

* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'': Xi Wangmu has the ''terrible'' habit of [[EatenAlive eating people whole]]. This bites her back in the ass when the Ring of Gaea members she ate ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome keep fighting from the inside]]'', crippling her and destroying her once-flawless defense.

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

* Played with in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2''. Drax jumps into the mouth of a tough-hided monster and attempts to cut through with his blades from the inside. As Gamora and Quill both realize, that plan makes no sense; the hide will be equally tough to cut from either direction. (Going for a presumably-weaker vital organ might have worked better.)

* Played with in ''GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2''. Drax jumps into the mouth of a tough-hided monster and attempts to cut through with his blades from the inside. As Gamora and Quill both realize, that plan makes no sense; the hide will be equally tough to cut from either direction. (Going for a presumably-weaker vital organ might have worked better.)

** Wolverine kills the mutant killing monster Predator-X this way. In this case, the monster may have chewed him a bit, but his HealingFactor could easily fix that.

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* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', [=PCs=] that get eaten by huge monsters sometimes have to cut their way out. Sometimes it's actually a good idea, as its stomach does less damage than its outside. Savvy players will elect to attack the giant beast's heart or other internal organs while inside, and presumably after cutting through its stomach. Your GM will have to decide how well it works.

** One ''TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}'' module has a gammaroid (colossal turtle) who met a primary Witchlight Marauder. Which is the first stage of an artificial HordeOfAlienLocusts--it's designed to spawn monsters that end up ''stripping a whole planet of everything organic''. Gammaroids in average are five times bigger than this, so the turtle had a nice snack. Then secondaries hatched. All that remained is an enormous shell with bones inside.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Indigestion much?]]

* This is how Ushio and Tora [[Manga/UshioAndTora from the titular series]] kill the gigantic [[SeaMonster Ayakashi]] from the inside, bisecting the whole monster length-wise thanks to the sudden power up of the Beast Spear. [[spoiler: This is also how Hyo finally kills [[TheDragon Guren]] for good, tricking him into devouring his MagicalEye (which was filled to the brim with energy) and his arm, filled with PaperTalisman which he used to blow up the former.]]

* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'', where the plan to defeat Fing Fang Foom involves Aaron Stack jumping into the monster's mouth specifically so he can cut it apart from the inside.

* Lampshaded and subverted in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' after Drax leaps into the many-toothed mouth of a StarfishAlien.
-->'''Gamora:''' He said the skin is too thick to be pierced from the outside, so--\\
'''Star-Lord:''' [[WhatAnIdiot Wait, that doesn't make any sense!]]\\
'''Gamora:''' I tried telling him that!\\
'''Star-Lord:''' [[RealityEnsues It's the same level of thickness from the inside as from the outside.]]\\
'''Gamora:''' I ''realize'' that.