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5	->''"It has exposed its weak, fleshy underbelly to me in the form of its digestive tract!"''
6	-->-- '''Red Mage''', ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''
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8	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.
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10	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''.
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12	A SubTrope of OrificeInvasion (just that the monster doesn't realize the invasion until it's too late).
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14	See also AttackTheMouth, ChestBurster, JustEatHim, and FeedItABomb. It's often also a DisneyDeath.
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16	Not to be confused with ThroughHisStomach.
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19	!!Examples:
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23	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
24	* 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.
25	* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', the first time Eren [[spoiler:discovers his ability to transform into a Titan, he's inside the stomach of one. The Titan actually falls over and Eren bursts out from its back]].
26	* ''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.
27	-->'''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.
28	* 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.
29	* 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.
30	* ''Manga/{{Dandadan}}'': Technological variation. Psychic protagonist Momo Ayase is facing down an alien invader whose [[PowerArmor exo suit]] can collapse space and matter into a storage space on its back. [[MindOverMatter Telekinesis]] and [[KamehameHadoken beams]] have fallen short, so Momo allows herself to get scooped up by one of the alien's space-eating moves and blasts it from inside the storage space.
31	* Anime/{{Kinnikuman}} did this to defeat the Bottomless Alien in one of his few genuine victories before the GenreShift.
32	* One episode of ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' 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.
33	* 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.
34	* 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.
35	* In ''Literature/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]].
36	* In ''Literature/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.
37	* In ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'', Moka is eaten by a plant monster. Inner Moka then literally kicks her way out of the monster's stomach.
38	* In ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'', Hawk the Pig gets swallowed by a dragon, then chews his way out.
39	* ''Manga/UshioAndTora'': This is how Ushio and Tora kill the gigantic [[SeaMonster Ayakashi]] from the inside, bisecting the whole monster lengthwise 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.]]
40	* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': In the Three Kings Arc, Shishiwakamaru does this to a GiantMook.
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43	[[folder:Comic Books]]
44	* This is 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.
45	* In the series ''ComicBook/DemonKnights'', ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} climbs inside a dragon's mouth to cast a spell and make it explode from the inside.
46	* In ''ComicBook/FrankensteinAgentOfSHADE'' Frankenstein is swallowed by a mountain-sized monster. A page later he bursts out of its body with his sword in one hand and its 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.
47	* 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]].
48	* ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy:'' Phyla-Vell gets fed to the Dragon of the Moon by Maelstrom. A few pages later, she slices her way out, holding her girlfriend Moondragon, and sporting a much darker look than she had going in (turns out she made a deal with Oblivion so she could live).
49	* {{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.
50	* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'':
51	** 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.
52	** This is how Wolverine kills [[spoiler:The Hulk]] in ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'' as well.
53	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': After Alkyone's first apparent death, where they NeverFoundTheBody, a megalodon that made the mistake of eating her washes ashore with a large hole cut through its side from the inside.
54	* 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.
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57	[[folder:Eastern Animation]]
58	* A somewhat different but very literal use of this trope in ''Animation/ScissorSeven'' in one of the most [[BloodierAndGorier brutal and bloody attacks shown by the series thus far,]] done by [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Seven]] of all people. [[spoiler: Black Bird]] has a [[ChestBlaster hole on his belly letting him shoot projectiles,]] Seven uses his [[spoiler: [[BifucratedWeapon Thousand Demon Daggers]]]] and [[OrificeInvasion sends every shard of it inside the hole...]] before [[BodyHorror shredding the enemy as the shards bursts through his skin from the inside out.]] This technique even has a name: the [[CallingYourAttacks Thousand Blade Rend.]]
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61	[[folder:Fan Works]]
62	* 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.
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66	* ''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]] ...
67	* The dragon scene from ''WesternAnimation/ThePagemaster''. After Richard is eaten by a dragon, he makes a beanstalk appear by opening a book entitled ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' that was also inside the dragon's stomach, and uses it to escape.
68	* In the ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' animated film, the angry green giant himself jumps into the flaming mechanical jaws of a robot worm only to pop out minutes later through its chest, tearing out what could be assumed to be its intestines with it.
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71	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
72	* Overlapping with FeedItABomb, Iron Man in ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' kills a Chitauri Leviathan by letting it eat him and destroying it from the inside.
73	-->'''Tony:''' J.A.R.V.I.S., you ever heard the [[Literature/BookOfJonah tale of Jonah]]?\
74	'''J.A.R.V.I.S.:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I wouldn't consider him a role model]].
75	* 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.
76	* 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.
77	* In ''Film/Hellboy2004'', the titular hero kills the monster at the end by letting it grab him and yanking the pins out of an entire belt of grenades just before the monster swallows.
78	* K in ''Film/MenInBlack'' does this when he talks Edgar the Bug--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 Edgar in two from the inside out.
79	-->'''J:''' You better ease up out of my face before something bad happen to you.\
80	''[a glow appears in Edgar's stomach as K's {{BFG}} warms up]''\
81	'''J:''' ''[smirking]'' Too late.\
82	''[BOOM!]''
83	* Serleena 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.
84	* In ''Film/{{Underwater}}'', the main character is attacked by a ten-foot tall sea monster that attempts to swallow her headfirst by unhinging its jaw like a snake. She blasts it from the inside with a flare gun and then ''forces her way out through the hole in its back.''
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87	[[folder:Literature]]
88	* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'':
89	** In "The Stranger" the group are morphed as cockroaches and get eaten by a Taxxon, after a brief conversation with [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien The Ellimist]] they start demorphing inside the Taxxon's guts, causing it to burst open.
90	** In "The Android", Marco is swallowed by a crow while in spider morph. He starts demorphing and causes the crow to explode.
91	** Megamorphs #2
92	*** Tobias and Rachel are swallowed whole by a Kronosaur while in dolphin morph. Rachel proceeds to use her grizzly bear morph to rip her way out.
93	*** Jake is swallowed by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. When acquiring its DNA didn't give him enough time to escape, he morphs into a tiger while in its throat. The T-Rex doesn't die immediately, but is rendered nearly catatonic with pain, and the damage to its esophagus guaranteed that it wouldn't be able to eat or even breathe for much longer.
94	* In the ''Literature/BookOfSwords'' novel ''Woundhealer's Story'', Zoltan is swallowed whole by an enormous dragon. Fortunately, he happens to be carrying the magic sword Dragonslicer, and is able to cut his way out.
95	* ''Literature/FenghshenYanyi'': during Yang Jian's introduction, he slays the Flowery Marten by letting the beast eat his torso whole (he's able to survive thanks to his magic powers), then as soon as the beast is far from its master he chokes her heart from within and then burst out of her body by turning into a giant. He uses a similar trick with the hog demon Zhu Zizhen, letting himself being swallowed whole, only to threaten to squeeze his heart from within and forcing him to surrender and be executed.
96	* ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'': Sun Wukong can use his transformation powers to trick enemies into eating him whole and then wrecking havoc on their insides until they finally give up.
97	* ''Literature/MordantsNeed''. How SpaceMarine Darsint kills a gigantic SandWorm.
98	* In ''Literature/StarlightAndShadows'', the berserker Fyodor is swallowed whole by a giant squid. He proceeds to cut his way out of it, killing it in the process.
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102	* ''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.
103	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': While it's unclear whether Buffy is actually ingested by the monster, in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E12BadEggs Bad Eggs]]", she defeats the [[MonsterIsAMommy mother]] of some body snatching-beasts by slicing it with a pickaxe, presumably from the inside out.
104	* ''Series/Charmed1998'':
105	** Piper and Grams were once eaten by the Big Bad Wolf. Piper uses her [[StuffBlowingUp power]] to blow the fairy tale beast to smithereens while she was still inside of it.
106	** Earlier in the series, Piper's plan to defeat a demon was to let it eat both her and her sisters. Prue would then use her [[MindOverMatter powers]] to blow it up. Fortunately, they didn't have to do it this way.
107	* ''Series/TheWitcher2019'': 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.
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111	* 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 burst open, with an unharmed Margaret popping out of it.
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115	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
116	** [=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.
117	** This was completely and hilariously averted in 3.0 and 3.5, where any number of things (Tyrannosaurs, giant sharks, purple worms) could swallow you whole, requiring you to cut your way out... but slicing a giant hole in the critter didn't deal any actual damage to it, and "Once the creature exits, [[HandWave muscular action closes the hole]]; another swallowed opponent must cut its own way out."
118	** 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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122	* Seymour unsuccessfully attempts to kill ManEatingPlant Audrey [=II=] this way in ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'' but just ends up getting eaten.
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125	[[folder:Video Games]]
126	* In ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'', Dante finishes off Cerberus' last head by letting it grab him, then blasts it with his Cross before it has a chance to swallow.
127	* ''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.
128	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': When fighting Cerberus, one of the bosses in the World of Darkness raid, one stage of the battle requires some of the players to get deliberately swallowed by Cerberus so they can subdue him from within.
129	* 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.
130	* Kratos does this to Cronos in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'' in probably the mother of all ColossusClimb battles.
131	* The entire plot of the old ZX Spectrum game ''Gutz'' where the protagonist following a failed FirstContact, is now trying to stop a ravenous [[ThatsNoMoon alien the size of the Moon]] from devouring Earth, by shutting down its organs from the inside.
132	* 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.
133	* 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.
134	* One of the possible methods of defeating the Metroid Queen in ''VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus'' is to roll into a Morph Ball, roll into its mouth, let it swallow you, and drop some bombs. You take a ''ton'' of damage, but it also does a ton of damage to the queen. This returns in ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'', albeit this time with 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]].
135	* In ''VideoGame/NetHack'' this is in fact [[EatMe the safest way to kill some of the bosses]].
136	* 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.
137	* ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndTheSevenSirens'': How the Guardian Genie of Arena Town's island managed to defeat a LifeDrinker. She allowed herself to be drank and attacked her from the inside. While not a kill, it disabled part of the life-drinking abilities, such that only [[spoiler:Genie Life Force]] could sustain the villain after that.
138	* ''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.
139	* ''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 the creature's gut until he upchucks both of them.
140	* ''VideoGame/StrangerOfParadiseFinalFantasyOrigin'': Jack defeats the Greater Malboro by crystalizing it from the inside out, after it swallows him.
141	* ''VideoGame/SunsetOverdrive'': How the DL-Sea Monster is defeated, the player is SwallowedWhole then they "Melee Monster Internally", as the button prompt says.
142	* In ''VideoGame/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.
143	* 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.
144	* During one boss fight in ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'', Yoshi and Baby Mario are shrunk and eaten by a frog, in an inversion of the MakeMyMonsterGrow tactics that Kamek had been using up to that point. You then "defeat" the frog from within its stomach by throwing eggs at a uvula-like appendage.
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148	* In ''VisualNovel/SlayThePrincess'', this is one of the ways the Beast route can end, with the Princess swallowing the protagonist whole but him acting quickly enough to stab her heart from the inside.
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151	[[folder:Webcomics]]
152	* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'':
153	** Red Mage does this to a dragon using frost magic. Interestingly, the dragon was only acting in self-defense and was perfectly happy to help the remaining Light Warriors when they didn't attack. Indeed RM killed him halfway through, making them some fireproof armour.
154	** Later, he defeated Kraken this way, bisecting him from the inside with his sword.
155	* In ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' Charby uses his hooks to dig his disgusted way out of the monster from the trash pit and a bonus comic reveals he had to drink some of the things revolting blood while inside it to regain his strength.
156	* In ''Webcomic/{{Chirault}}'', Kiran gets swallowed by a demon, then hacks his way out with his spear.
157	* Happens a few times in ''Delve'', with varying degrees of success--
158	** Played straight when Bree offers herself to a giant snake, then cuts her way out of its stomach with an enchanted dagger.
159	** Subverted a chapter later, when a Jakaali warrior hopes to try the same trick on a naga. [[https://thisis.delvecomic.com/NewWP/comic/indigestion/ He tells the naga to eat him, which she happily does.]] Only after the warrior tries cutting his way out does the naga tell him that she's had her digestive system permanently skoneskinned.
160	* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', V gets eaten by a dragon (though they do cast several protective spells first), and uses a Shapechange spell to burst his/her way out... appropriately enough, by transforming into a dragon.
161	* ''Webcomic/{{Nefarious}}'': The Butcher does this to Queen Wahapple's body double.
162	* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' has a few incidents of this happening.
163	** An amphibious monster once [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-06-08 chomped Tagon]] in the middle of his talk about security. The critter had just enough time to worry about the leg in PoweredArmor it can't bite through before Tagon used his sidearm to make a new exit out of its mouth.
164	** 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. Previously a grunt who wasn't armored was not so lucky.
165	* ''Webcomic/SleipnirEquineInvaderFromJupiter'': In the penultimate chapter "Shadow of Fenrir", [[spoiler:Fenrir swallows Sleipnir whole and starts draining the alien horse's power reserves... which overloads its body, resulting in its muscles rupturing through its skin before it explodes.]]
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169	* The ''[[WebVideo/YoungJusticeAbridged DC Abridged Universe]]'' adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueThroneOfAtlantis'' includes an original animation where Black Manta cuts his way out of the great white shark that Aquaman sent to eat him.
170	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYgSt2zabh4 "The Pier"]] illustrates why it's always a good idea to chew your food.
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173	[[folder:Western Animation]]
174	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': Finn must slash his way out of the gullet of a... something, after Marceline tells him, "Use my axe bass."
175	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': In "Hop Luck", the main characters are SwallowedWhole by [[ManEatingPlant their world's version of a tomato plant]] and realize that they can eat their way out.
176	* The titular character from ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' employs a non-lethal version of this trope, PlayedForLaughs naturally. Daffy, unable to beat the enemy (played by Taz), decides the best answer is cooking himself, then serving himself up to his foe explicitly saying [[EatMe "Eat me!"]] After this, he proceeds to stand up fully inside Taz's stomach. Complete with obligatory LampshadeHanging, but not in the usual manner.
177	* This happens in ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex''. Rex is SwallowedWhole by an E.V.O. but gets out by cutting a hole in her torso with his [[{{BFS}} BF]][[ChainsawGood S]].
178	* 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 [[SpitOutAShoe regurgitates the hockey mask]], Jason gets out by cutting a tear through his abdomen with his machete.
179	* Heavily implied in the ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' episode "Washington Applesauce". The titular duo end up getting SwallowedWhole by a giant worm, but they prepare to dine while inside the worm's stomach. The next scene has the duo, [[BalloonBelly now fat and gigantic]], declaring to the townsfolk that they have gotten rid of the worm.
180	* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': In 'The Bounty', Peepers realizes the bounty hunter that swallowed him, Wander, and Sylvia will get all the credit for capturing them and take Peepers' place among Lord Hater's army. So he uses the lightning-bolt on the top of his helmet to ''slice through the bounty hunter all the way around its body'' and throttle it, which ironically allows Wander and Sylvia to escape capture.
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183	[[folder:Real Life]]
184	* Many species of poisonous newts can do this: the predator tries to eat them whole, then succumbs to the poison they secrete on their skin and dies. The newt then proceeds to climb out of the dead predator's mouth.
185	* A poisonous cane toad was once swallowed whole by an over-eager dog who thought it was a pastry. Both survived, though.
186	* A centipede managed to eat its way out of a small snake, though [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu it died in the process]]. The original scientific paper on the subject (titled "[[Literature/AnimalFarm Two Fangs Good, One Hundred Legs Better]]"), can be found [[http://ecol-mne.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Arsovski-et-al.pdf here]] (warning: potentially disturbing images).
187	* There is a famous picture depicting the aftermath of a large python dead after it tried to swallow an alligator and the gator exploded out of the snake's stomach.
188	* Some species of pufferfish are covered with spikes [[TheSpiny which bristle in all directions]] when the fish [[SizeShifter puffs up]], making it nigh impossible to take a bite of. Larger predators, however, can swallow it whole... after which it will try to gnaw its way out with its sharp beak, usually successfully. Notably, critters who manage to digest the pufferfish before it gives them a TorsoWithAView don't fare well either, as pufferfish are among the most poisonous creatures in the world.
189	* Deep-sea amphipods are extremely common, but would-be predators had better beware: the little crustaceans have been known to eat their way right through the mouth and throat of anything that tries to swallow them whole. Predators that specialize on amphipods, like deep-sea snailfish, have secondary jaws consisting of hard, crushing plates that smash the little buggers into paste after they've been sucked into the snailfish's mouth.
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