History Main / KillItThroughItsStomach

* One episode of ''[[Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa the Kirby anime]]'' has Dedede order a demon beast named Power Stomach, which turns out to be [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a giant stomach]]. During the fight, it ends up swallowing Kirby, Dedede, and Escargon. Thankfully, Dedede’s limo happens to have a supply of {{Cartoon Bomb}}s that allows Kirby to gain his bomb ability and [[FeedItABomb defeat Power Stomach]] before they end up being digested.

* In ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'', [[spoiler:the Overgrown Snake swallows Akira and his vehicle whole in an attempt to digest them. While Akira panics from losing his connection to Alpha and having stomach acid dripped all over him, his CorneredRattlesnake instincts are kicked into overdrive without her help, allowing him to aim straight down the snake's vulnerable gullet and rip it apart from the inside with minigun rounds.]]
* In ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'', Filo is eaten whole by a zombified dragon, but survives and manages to eat her way out. It helps that Naofumi manages to weaken the dragon from outside using the Rage Shield as well.

* Near the start of the ''Manga/SazanEyes'' 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.

* This is how Manga/{{Ushio and Tora}} 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.]]
* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' Three Kings Arc, Shishiwakamaru done this to a GiantMook.

* How Stephen manages to defeat the [[MagicEater magic eating]] EldritchAbomination named the Peregrine Child in ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfDoctorStrange''. He astral projects to allow himself to be eaten by the Child, then destabilizes the massive amount of magic it had already consumed to detonate it from the inside.

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-->'''Tony:''' J.A.R.V.I.S. you ever heard the [[Literature/BookOfJonah tale of Jonah?]]
-->'''J.A.R.V.I.S.:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I wouldn’t consider him]] [[ThisIsGonnaSuck a role model]].

* In the ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'' 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.

* While it's unclear whether [[Series/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.
* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'':

* ''Series/{{The Witcher|2019}}'' in the opening of episode 4 a merchant is in a tavern telling the woeful tale of how a monster swallowed an entire village, and the poor witcher he hired to slay it. Cue Geralt coming in covered in monster guts and demanding his payment.

* In ''VideoGame/LegendofLegrand'' (a 360 rpg) the newly introduced rogue PC defeats a certain boost by dramatically, rashly, and with seeming comical exasperation, leaps into the monster's jaws and "takes it out" from the inside. Particularly noteworthy as an rpg element because of the monster's high armor rating and the use of the battle mechanic of waiting for the beast to expose it's weak point in primal frustration.

* This is how Manga/{{Ushio and Tora}} 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.]]

* This ''doesn't'' occur in ''Fanfic/TheRigelBlackChronicles'', but that's how [[spoiler: the Animators]] reinterpret Harry's confrontation with the basilisk, when they recreate ([[ArtisticLicense their idea of]]) the scene by animating everyone's dinner into giant food golems.

* ''VideoGame/StarfoxAdventures'': The first boss, Galdon, swallows the first [[MacGuffin Spellstone]] at the start of the boss fight and later Fox himself, so Fox has to attack the Spellstone that is in his gut until he upchucks both of them.

This often ends up being the [[HoistByHisOwnPetard undoing]] of 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''.

* In ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'', Moka is eaten by a plant monster. Inner Moka then literally kicks her way out of the monster's stomach.
* Near the start of the ''Manga/SazanEyes'' 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.
* Manga/{{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 ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' Three Kings Arc, Shishiwakamaru done this to a GiantMook.

* In the first ''Anime/QueensBlade Grimoire'' OVA, Zara and her grandmother get swallowed by TheBigBadWolf. Just as it's about to attack Alicia, Zara suddenly rams her fist right through the wolf's stomach and crawls out. Unfortunately, her grandmother was already dead.

* One episode of [[Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa the Kirby anime]] has Dedede order a demon beast named Power Stomach, which turns out to be [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a giant stomach]]. During the fight, it ends up swallowing Kirby, Dedede, and Escargon. Thankfully, Dedede’s limo happens to have a supply of {{Cartoon Bomb}}s that allows Kirby to gain his bomb ability and [[FeedItABomb defeat Power Stomach]] before they end up being digested.
* At one point in the manga (but not anime, it got cut) of ''Manga/BusoRenkin'', Tokiko faced an opponent who could make his enemies shrink six inches every time he hit them. After round one of the fight, she went from 5'2" to 1'2". In round two, she deliberately got hit twice and then jumped down his throat while only two inches tall, at which point she proved her CatchPhrase (I'll splatter your guts!) wasn't hyperbole as she carved her way back out, breaking the effect and restoring her original size.
* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Sosuke usually eats LifeEnergy through a [[FightingSpirit spectral mouth he manifests separate from his body]], but it can't handle the spiritual energy exorcist ninjutsu are made of. Matsuri ends up shoving a [[BlowYouAway powerful wind spell]] down the mouth, bypassing Sosuke's newly developed SuperToughness to grievously wound him from the inside.
-->'''Matsuri:''' Glad I carried out what I intended. [[NotHyperbole I said so in the beginning, right?]] That I'd open up a windhole in your stomach.
* In ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'', Filo is eaten whole by a zombified dragon, but survives and manages to eat her way out. It helps that Naofumi manages to weaken the dragon from outside using the Rage Shield as well.
* In one chapter of ''Manga/CellsAtWork'', Neutrophil U-1146 gets swallowed whole by a ''Vibrio parahaemolyticus'' bacteria, but manages to slay it from the inside.

* Multiple Man of the ComicBook/XMen would do this by sticking his hand in an enemy's mouth and creating a bunch of duplicates of himself, effectively bursting the person from the inside out.
* {{Invoked|Trope}} 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.

* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}:
** 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.
** This is how Wolverine kills [[spoiler:The Hulk]] in ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'' as well.

* Averted in ''ComicBook/{{Fray}}''. After being swallowed by a giant demon monster, Fray has to get caught in its throat as ending up in the stomach would be a dead sentence. She ends up hacking her way [[RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain through the brain]] and [[GoForTheEye out of its eyeball]].

* WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}} defeats the hydra this way in the Creator/{{Disney}} adaptation of the legend. Unfortunately, [[HydraProblem it comes back to life with three more heads]] ...

* Just before the climax of the first Live-Action ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'' film, while the Guyver is undergoing its regeneration, its Control Metal is accidentally swallowed by an unfortunate Zoanoid, who has his gut sliced open by the revived Guyver.
* Overlapping with FeedItABomb, Iron Man in ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' kills a Chitauri Leviathan by letting it eat him and destroying it from the inside.
-->'''Tony:''' J.A.R.V.I.S. you ever heard the [[Literature/BookOfJonah tale of Jonah?]]
-->'''J.A.R.V.I.S.:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I wouldn’t consider him]] [[ThisIsGonnaSuck a role model]].
* Subverted in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2''. Drax willingly lets himself get eaten by a monster whose hide is too tough to damage with their weapons in order to cut it apart from the inside. As Gamora and Quill both realize, that plan makes no sense since the hide will be equally tough to cut from either direction. We see Drax inside the monster's stomach fruitlessly hacking away and still doing no damage, and when the monster is defeated (from the outside), he is convinced his plan worked.

* ''Literature/MordantsNeed''. How SpaceMarine Darsint kills a gigantic SandWorm.

* While it's unclear whether [[Series/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.

* ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'': After Boba Fett was eaten by the Sarlacc in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', he used his flamethrower to burn his way out of the beast. It would survive, however, as he and Fennec Shand find out when they go back to search for Boba's armor years later. Fennec finishes it off once and for all with a seismic charge.

* The Riftworm in ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar 2'' meets its end after swallowing the protagonists, who return the favor by making their way through its body and cutting out its hearts.
* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3'' has a late-game BossBattle against a Necromorph Nexus, the same type of monstrous creature that served as [[VideoGame/DeadSpace the first game]]'s FinalBoss. The final stage of the battle takes place inside of it after it vacuumed the hero(es) into its digestive tract.[[note]]This leads to a bit of FridgeLogic because, being an undead PerpetualMotionMonster made from recycled corpses, the Nexus has no need for a digestive system in the first place.[[/note]] It ends with the Nexus spitting out its mostly unharmed victims after it had its hearts exploded from the inside.
* In ''VideoGame/TheVisitor'', the alien's first victim is a frog who thinks it looks tasty and slurps the little guy up with its tongue. The frog explodes a second later, and the alien is noticeably larger. The visitor later flies into a sleeping guy's open mouth. He doesn't fare any better than the frog.
* ''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 keep fighting from the inside, crippling her and destroying her once-flawless defense.
* ''VideoGame/StarfoxAdventures'': The first boss, Galdon, swallows the first [[MacGuffin Spellstone]] at the start of the boss fight and later Fox himself, so Fox has to attack the Spellstone that is in his gut until he upchucks both of them.
* The key to beating the Metroid Queen in ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'' is to allow it to swallow you in Morph Ball mode, then set off a Power Bomb. Unfortunately, Power Bombs have been deactivated since the JustifiedTutorial, and [[GuideDangIt the game fails to tell you that you can use them again]].
* In the backstory for ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', [[WarriorPrince Prince Sidon]] is stated to have defeated a giant Octorok that had swallowed him and many other [[FishPeople Zora]] warriors this way.

* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3'' has a late-game BossBattle against a Necromorph Nexus, the same type of monstrous creature that served as [[VideoGame/DeadSpace the first game]]'s FinalBoss. The final stage of the battle takes place inside of it after it vacuumed the hero(es) into its digestive tract[[note]]which falls into a bit of FridgeLogic because, being an undead PerpetualMotionMonster made from recycled corpses, the Nexus has no need for a digestive system in the first place[[/note]]. It ends with the Nexus spitting out its mostly unharmed victims after it had its hearts exploded from the inside.

* ''VideoGame/StarfoxAdventures'': The first boss, Galdon, swallows the first [[MacGuffin Spellstone]] and Fox himself at the start of the boss fight, so Fox has to attack the Spellstone that is in his gut until he upchucks both of them.

-->'''Tony:''' J.A.R.V.I.S. you ever heard the [[Literature/BookOfJonah tale of Jonah?]]\\
'''J.A.R.V.I.S.:''' [[DeadPanSnarker I wouldn’t consider him]] [[ThisIsGonnaSuck a role model]].

''(A glow appears in Edgar's stomach as K's {{BFG}} warms up)''\\
'''J:''' ''(smirking)'' Too late.\\
''(BOOM!)''

-->'''Tony''': J.A.R.V.I.S. you ever heard the [[Literature/BookOfJonah tale of Jonah?]]
-->'''J.A.R.V.I.S.''': [[DeadPanSnarker I wouldn’t consider him]] [[ThisIsGonnaSuck a role model]].

* ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'': After Boba Fett was eaten by the Sarlacc in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', he used his flamethrower to burn his way out of the beast, presumably killing it in the process.

* ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'': After Boba Fett was eaten by the Sarlaac in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', he used his flamethrower to burn his way out of the beast, presumably killing it in the process.

* In ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'', Moka is eaten by a plant monster. Inner Moka then literally kicks her way out of the monster's stomach.

* In one segment of the ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' eighth season premiere "Garbage Sushi", Godzilla and Jason Voorhees jump at each other in the air as Jason flies up to Godzilla's mouth, getting SwallowedWhole. After Godzilla regurgitates the hockey mask, Jason gets out by cutting a tear through his abdomen with his machete.

* Played with in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2''. Drax willingly lets himself get eaten by a monster whose hide is too tough to damage with their weapons in order to cut it apart from the inside. As Gamora and Quill both realize, that plan makes no sense since the hide will be equally tough to cut from either direction. We see Drax inside the monster's stomach fruitlessly hacking away and still doing no damage, and when the monster is defeated (from the outside), he is convinced his plan worked.

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

* At one point in the manga (but not anime, it got cut) of ''Manga/BusouRenkin'', Tokiko faced an opponent who could make his enemies shrink six inches every time he hit them. After round one of the fight, she went from 5'2" to 1'2". In round two, she deliberately got hit twice and then jumped down his throat while only two inches tall, at which point she proved her CatchPhrase (I'll splatter your guts!) wasn't hyperbole as she carved her way back out, breaking the effect and restoring her original size.

* Disney/{{Hercules}} defeats the hydra this way in the Creator/{{Disney}} adaptation of the legend. Unfortunately, [[HydraProblem it comes back to life with three more heads]] ...