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* In ''Literature/MaidenCrown'', Princess Sophie's aunt Gertrud spiraled into depression after losing nine children in infancy before she was even thirty, which she dealt with by staying bedridden and eating sweets every day to the point of growing fat and feeble.
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* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' Kyoko goes off on a binge after she loses an argument with Sayaka. In a variant of this, it's also implied that [[spoiler:her BigEater tendencies are a coping mechanism for her DarkAndTroubledPast; namely, her family starving after her priest father got excommunicated, and later his killing the rest of her family and himself after finding out about Kyoko's contract]].
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* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' Kyoko goes off on a binge after she loses an argument with Sayaka. In a variant of this, it's also implied that [[spoiler:her BigEater tendencies are a coping mechanism for her DarkAndTroubledPast; namely, her family starving after her priest father got excommunicated, and later his killing the rest of her family and himself after finding out about Kyoko's contract]]. Later, she scarfs down a huge amount of food when trying to figure out [[spoiler:if she can recover Sayaka's Soul Gem after she becomes a witch]].
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-->'''Cass:''' (''angrily eating a donut'') Stress eating, because of you! ''[...]'' Mmm, this is ''really'' good...
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse,'' Peter B. Parker (an older, jaded version of Spider-Man from an alternate universe) lapsed into this after Aunt May died and he and his wife MJ divorced. After moving out, he lounges around his bachelor apartment gorging himself on pizza until he develops a noticeable gut [[RunningGag that almost everyone in the movie points out]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'', this is a RunningGag with Fairy Godmother.
-->My ''diet'' is ruined! I hope you're happy.
* In addition to ComfortFood, ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'''s Po eats when he's upset.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse,'' Peter B. Parker (an older, jaded version of Spider-Man from an alternate universe) lapsed into this after Aunt May died and he and his wife MJ divorced. After moving out, he lounges around his bachelor apartment gorging himself on pizza until he develops a noticeable gut [[RunningGag that almost everyone in the movie points out]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'', this is a RunningGag with Fairy Godmother.
-->My ''diet'' is ruined! I hope you're happy.
* In addition to ComfortFood, ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'''s Po eats when he's upset.
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-->'''Cass:''' (''angrily ''[angrily eating a donut'') donut]'' Stress eating, because of you! ''[...]'' Mmm, this is ''really'' good...
* In''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse,'' ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'', Peter B. Parker (an older, jaded version of Spider-Man from an alternate universe) lapsed into this after Aunt May died and he and his wife MJ divorced. After moving out, he lounges around his bachelor apartment gorging himself on pizza until he develops a noticeable gut [[RunningGag that almost everyone in the movie points out]].
* In''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'', ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', this is a RunningGag with Fairy Godmother.
-->My -->''"My ''diet'' is ruined! I hope you're happy.
happy."''
* In addition to ComfortFood,''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'''s ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'''s Po eats when he's upset.
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* ''Film/{{Eat|2014}}'' features a twisted version of this, as Novella [=McClure=] develops the habit of eating chunks of her own flesh in response to stress.
* In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', BigEater Volstagg defends his enormous meal with this trope after Fandral accuses him of disinterest in Asgard's dire straits.
* ''Film/{{Eat|2014}}'' features a twisted version of this, as Novella [=McClure=] develops the habit of eating chunks of her own flesh in response to stress.
* In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', BigEater Volstagg defends his enormous meal with this trope after Fandral accuses him of disinterest in Asgard's dire straits.
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** In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', BigEater Volstagg defends his enormous meal with this trope after Fandral accuses him of disinterest in Asgard's dire straits.
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* ''Film/TheWhale'': [[Creator/BrendanFraser Charlie]] is a recluse who spends most of his time binge-eating pizza and other unhealthy foods as a coping mechanism for both losing his gay partner, Alan, to suicide and being estranged from his wife and daughter for several years. Even when he is told he only has one week to live, he still refuses to quit these habits. He gets ''worse'' when he finally gets noticed by the pizza delivery man, going ''[[BingeMontage wild]]'' on eating a vast amount of junk food to the point of [[VomitIndiscretionShot violently throwing up]].
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* ''Film/TheWhale'': [[Creator/BrendanFraser Charlie]] Charlie is a recluse who spends most of his time binge-eating pizza and other unhealthy foods as a coping mechanism for both losing his gay partner, Alan, to suicide and being estranged from his wife and daughter for several years. Even when he is told he only has one week to live, he still refuses to quit these habits. He gets ''worse'' when he finally gets noticed by the pizza delivery man, going ''[[BingeMontage wild]]'' on eating a vast amount of junk food to the point of [[VomitIndiscretionShot violently throwing up]].
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* ''Film/TheWhale'': [[Creator/BrendenFraser Charlie]] is a recluse who spends most of his time binge-eating pizza and other unhealthy foods as a coping mechanism for both losing his gay partner, Alan, to suicide and being estranged from his wife and daughter for several years. Even when he is told he only has one week to live, he still refuses to quit these habits. He gets ''worse'' when he finally gets noticed by the pizza delivery man, going ''[[BingeMontage wild]]'' on eating a vast amount of junk food to the point of [[VomitIndiscretionShot violently throwing up]].
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* ''Film/TheWhale'': [[Creator/BrendenFraser [[Creator/BrendanFraser Charlie]] is a recluse who spends most of his time binge-eating pizza and other unhealthy foods as a coping mechanism for both losing his gay partner, Alan, to suicide and being estranged from his wife and daughter for several years. Even when he is told he only has one week to live, he still refuses to quit these habits. He gets ''worse'' when he finally gets noticed by the pizza delivery man, going ''[[BingeMontage wild]]'' on eating a vast amount of junk food to the point of [[VomitIndiscretionShot violently throwing up]].
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* ''Film/TheWhale'': Charlie [[Creator/BrendenFraser Charlie]] is a recluse who spends most of his time binge-eating pizza and other unhealthy foods as a coping mechanism for both losing his gay partner, Alan, to suicide and being estranged from his wife and daughter for several years. Even when he is told he only has one week to live, he still refuses to quit these habits. He gets ''worse'' when he finally gets noticed by the pizza delivery man, going ''[[BingeMontage wild]]'' on eating a vast amount of junk food to the point of [[VomitIndiscretionShot violently throwing up]].
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* ''Film/TheWhale'': Charlie is a recluse who spends most of his time binge-eating pizza and other unhealthy foods as a coping mechanism for both losing his gay partner, Alan, to suicide and being estranged from his wife and daughter for several years. Even when he is told he only has one week to live, he still refuses to quit these habits. He gets ''worse'' when he finally gets noticed by the pizza delivery man, going ''[[BingeMontage wild]]'' on eating a vast amount of junk food to the point of [[VomitIndiscretionShot violently throwing up]].
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* Implied in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas''. If CJ is fat, he'll receive an alternate phone call from Sweet (after "Drive-Thru"), or Big Smoke (should they fail "Running Dog"), where both will note on how CJ has let himself go, with implication that he had resorted to eating lots and lots of food in order to cope with the loss of Beverly (the Johnson brothers' and Kendl's mother).
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* In ''Series/{{Monk}}'', this was how Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck got to his current state: after his mother's death, he dealt with his grief by engaging in binge-eating (his physician remarks that "he'd call restaurants and have them send ''everything on their menus''"), causing him to become so fat he can't even get out of bed.
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* In ''Series/{{Monk}}'', this was how [[FatBastard Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck Biederbeck]] got to his current state: after his mother's death, he dealt with his grief by engaging in binge-eating (his physician remarks that "he'd call restaurants and have them send ''everything on their menus''"), causing him to become so fat he can't even get out of bed.
