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Whenever a character eats too much food, no matter how much or how unhealthy, this person just won't gain a huge gut or end up in a mobile chair. Maybe they will but only for a few seconds of screen time as a gag or perhaps for a VerySpecialEpisode. Then they will go back to fighting bad guys or performing neat moves like backflips.

** Minerva Orland is a very slender woman capable of besting her guildmates in eating contests--this includes dragonslayers, famed for near-bottomless appetites and magic revolving around eating. This BigEater might be a Big Cheater though, since she has spatial magic she is capable of employing as a pocket dimension.

* [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragons]] in ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' can eat ridiculous amounts of food without putting on a single pound, though this likely ties into ShapeshifterBaggage given the sheer size of their true forms. Two of Elma's coworkers express jealousy over her ability to chow down at an all you can eat buffet without gaining weight since both of them were on diets.

* Justified in ''Manga/{{Toriko}}''. Every important named character has Gourmet Cells implanted in them, which grant superhuman abilities at the cost of burning incredible amounts of calories and requiring delicious food to continue functioning. As a result, few Gourmet Cell users are fat and many are [[HeroicBuild brawny]] due to the Gourmet Cells reactions to food.

** Played straight with the Melissa Shields of Earth-2018.65, who happily indulges on donuts for breakfast, knowing that her active lifestyle as a Hero and her metabolism will more than make up for it.

* ''Series/KamenRiderWizard'': [[FriendOnTheForce Rinko]] wonders how [[TheHero Haruto]] can eat a whole bag of donuts in one sitting if given a chance. He, a [[NothingButSkinAndBones bean sprout]] of a person who might actually weight less than her despite his height, explains it's because his magic is CastFromCalories.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCK-Cmus_mouse PEPCK-Cmus mice]] are mice with a genetic modification (that increases the amount of the enzyme PEPCK-C in their muscles, hence the name) that makes them hyperactive, eat twice as much as normal mice and weigh ''less'' than normal mice.

* In ''VideoGame/TouhouProject'', one of the powers granted by the Yin-Yang Orb is the ability to eat sweets without getting fat.

** Minerva Orland is a very slender woman capable of besting her guildmates in eating contests--this includes dragonslayers, famed for near-bottomless appetites and magic revolving around eating. This BigEater might be a Big Cheater though since she has spatial magic she is capable of employing as a pocket dimension.
** Cana Alberona is this combined with TheAlcoholic. She constantly drinks enormous amounts of alcohol, usually beer, far more than almost any other character (with the possible exception of the wizard Baccus who's power involves drinking), but never loses her hourglass physique despite the calory intake.

** ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Nora [[BigEater eats copious amounts of food routinely]], to the point other characters realize they need to get to a prepared meal quick if they want there to be any left. Despite this, Nora remains as slender as the other girls.
** This is parodied in the spin-off comedy series ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi''. Nora is shown eating entire meals in one bite and getting fat immediately afterwards, usually only to return to her usual shape not long afterwards after letting out a burp. One short had Yang needing to work out to stay in shape, only for her to become [[RedEyesTakeWarning angered]] when she sees Nora [[HardWorkHardlyWorks regain her usual shape so easily]].

* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' has Shaggy and Scooby eat huge amounts of food in one sitting, but they remain pretty trim. [[JustifiedTrope Jusitifed]] since they're always running away from danger and the speeds that Shaggy can go through can rival ''Olympian athletes.'' The original cartoon even noted Shaggy was in track and a gymnast. Little wonder he goes through so much food with Scooby if they're burning it through regular amounts of panic-induced exercise.

* Jughead from the ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' series eats staggering amounts of food that should make him fat, but he is always portrayed as very thin.

A common {{justifi|edTrope}}cation would be that such characters are always active (like running every day, fighting bad guys that always cause trouble, or carrying heavy objects everywhere they go), [[CastFromCalories they use magic]], they were born with have a high level of metabolism, or the food they eat is healthy. This trope can be {{Zig Zagged|Trope}} if the character is fat in a short time, but gets skinny and/or fit again afterwards.

Whenever a character eats too much food, no matter how much or how unhealthy, this person just won't gain a huge gut or end up in a mobile chair. Maybe they will but only for a few seconds of screen time as a gag or perhaps for a VerySpecialEpisode. Then they will go back to fighting bad guys or performing neat moves like back flips.

A common {{justifi|edTrope}}cation would be that such characters are always active (like running every day, fighting bad guys that always cause trouble, or carrying heavy objects everywhere they go), [[CastFromCalories they use magic]], they were born with have a high level of metabolism, or the food they eat is healthy. This trope can be {{Zig Zagged|Trope}} if the character is fat in short time, but gets skinny and/or fit again afterwards.

This often happens to a BigEater. Compare HyperactiveMetabolism, where a video game character regains HP/stamina through eating, usually with no weight related consequences simply because the concept of weight itself was never programmed.

** Minerva Orland is a very slender woman capable of besting her guildmates in eating contests--this includes dragonslayers, famed for near-bottomless appetites and magic revolving around eating. This BigEater might be a Big Cheater though, since she has spatial magic she is capable of employing as a pocket dimension.

* ''Anime/KOn'' has the SweetTooth vocalist Yui. When the rest of the band asks on why she never gets fat with all of those sweets, she explains that she has a high metabolism.
* Belkan style mages in ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' burn calories quickly due to the physically intensive nature of their magic. Subaru from ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' in particular eats more than five full-grown men, but maintains an athletic figure. This is an early hint that her body consumes a ''lot'' of energy, especially during physical exercise, [[spoiler:because she is actually a cyborg and has to power all those electronic circuits with her metabolism]].

* Justified with Catarina in ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom''. She eats a lot of sweets, but she usually overeats due to her lack of self control and [[VomitDiscretionShot makes herself sick]]. Also, her two main hobbies are rather physically demanding (farming and climbing trees), so any calories she does manage to digest get burned off pretty quickly.

** Zig-zagged on account of Luffy's eating habits. Luffy eats so much food like there's no tomorrow pretty much all the time. He does get fat, but only in a short amount of time. Whenever does he gets fat, he always get back to skinny in no time. Probably justified since he's a RubberMan.
** Zoro is seen drinking booze many times in the manga, anime, and the movies and yet he never develops a beer gut. Every middle-aged drunkard would kill for a body like his! Though to be fair what time he doesn't spend sleeping he is usually training.

* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': Lorelai (in her early 30s) and her teenage daughter, Rory, are famous in their small QuirkyTown Stars Hollow for eating large quantities of food, often rich food like fries, pizza, doughnuts, muffins etc. and drinking absurd amounts of coffee. They never cook at home and have aversions to fruit and vegetables. They never exercise and hate doing sports (Rory is shown being thrown off balance when she has to choose a sport at her preppy high school; Lorelai says she wanted to join a gym after having a baby to get fit, but she never went there because she was not fit enough to show up there; and they spend one episode, partly set in the gym, drinking juice or lurking around). Yet they are both slim and they never put on weight.

* Subverted in ''VideoGame/MetalSlug 2'' and onward: Eating enough dropped food items will make the player character(s) fat. This slows them down a bit, but also strengthens their firepower.

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This often happens to a BigEater. Compare HyperactiveMetabolism, where a video game character regains HP/stamina through eating, usually with no weight related consequences.

Whenever a character eats too much food, no matter how much or how unhealthy, this person just won't gain a huge gut or end up in a mobile chair. Maybe they will but only for a few seconds of screen time as a gag or perhaps a VerySpecialEpisode. Then they will go back to fighting bad guys or performing neat moves like back flips.

Whenever a character eats too much food, no matter how much or how unhealthy, this person just won't gain a huge gut or end up in a mobile chair. Maybe they will but only in a few seconds of screen time as a gag or perhaps a VerySpecialEpisode. Then they will go back to fighting bad guys or performing neat moves like back flips.

* Franchise/ShinMegamiTenseiPersona:

* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', Ann Takamaki has an enormous SweetTooth and gorges on high-end deserts after stealing Kamoshida's heart. Despite this, she never has any trouble maintaining her supermodel figure, making her the envy of her modeling rivals. This is partially justified by all of the exercise that comes with fighting Shadows and navigating Palaces and Mementos.

** Zoro is seen drinking booze many times in the manga, anime, and the movies and yet he never develops a beer gut. Every middle-aged drunkard would kill for a body like his!

* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' has Shaggy and Scooby eat huge amounts of food in one sitting, but they remain pretty trim. [[JustifiedTrope Jusitifed when one recalls]] they are very often running away from danger and the speeds that Shaggy can go through can rival ''Olympian athletes.'' The original cartoon even noted Shaggy was in track and a gymnast. Little wonder he goes through so much food with Scooby if they're burning it through regular amounts of panic-induced exercise.

* In ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', it is revealed that all the fat Stocking gets from her desserts and candy go straight to her breasts and nothing else.

* In the first Heart Event between Elli and Jeff im ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon64'', Elli feels envious because Popuri can eat sweets without gaining weight. Jeff says that he [[ChubbyChaser prefers women with more meat on their bones]], which makes Elli happier.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Nora [[BigEater eats copious amounts of food routinely]], to the point other characters realize they need to get to a prepared meal quick if they want there to be any left. Despite this, Nora remains as slender as the other girls.

** Luffy and the Flash can eat high amounts of food and still remain as fit as always because of their insanely high metabolism.

** This is parodied in the spin-off comedy series ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi''. Nora is shown eating entire meals in one bite and getting fat immediately afterwards, usually only to return to her usual shape not long afterwards after letting out a burp. One short had Yang needing to work out to stay in shape, only for her to become [[RedEyesTakeWarning angered]] when she sees Nora regain her usual shape so easily.

* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' has Shaggy and Scooby eat huge amounts of food in one sitting, but they remain pretty trim. [[JustifiedTrope Jusitifed when one recalls]] they are very often running away from danger and the speeds that Shaggy can go through can rival ''Olympian athletes.'' The original cartoon even noted Shaggy was in track and a gymnist. Little wonder he goes through so much food with Scooby if they're burning it through regular amounts of panic-induced exercise.

->'''Lelouch''': "How is it you manage not to get fat, if all you ever eat is pizza? I never see you do anything more strenuous than walk across campus, and you only do that to annoy me between classes."
->'''C.C.''': "Pizza is brain food. If you ate more pizza, you'd know that, as well as how I stay in shape."

-->--''Fanfic/OfMonstersAndMen''

* Common in video games featuring food, when you're in control of what the player character does, you have access to food, and the concept of getting fat was simply never programmed.

* Franchise/ScoobyDoo has Shaggy and Scooby eat huge amounts of food in one sitting, but they remain pretty trim. [[JustifiedTrope Jusitifed when one recalls]] they are very often running away from danger and the speeds that Shaggy can go through can rival ''Olympian atheletes.'' The original cartoon even noted Shaggy was in track and a gymnist. Little wonder he goes through so much food with Scooby if they're burning it through regular amounts of panic-induced exercise.