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4	When a creature apparently has the ability to instantly digest anything it eats, allowing it to eat things several times its size with no change to its own shape, or swallow living creatures (again, often larger than itself) with no resistance from within. Such a creature can swallow a sword wielding knight or a live velociraptor, but there's no problem since they seem to instantly dissolve the second they enter the stomach.
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6	EatTheBomb may depend on this. If one is able to regurgitate any of the items they ingested, they may possess a StomachOfHolding. Compare HyperactiveMetabolism and NobodyPoops. Almost any character with this trope is a BigEater. Contrast BalloonBelly and DinnerDeformation (where a consumed object visibly deformed the eater, usually for comedy) and TooSpicyForYogSothoth (where a character attempts to eat another but ultimately rejects the latter).
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13	* Gluttony in ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'' can eat things in vast excess of his size because his mouth leads to a whole PocketDimension.
14	* Vanilla Ice (also known as Cool Ice) from the [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Third Part]] of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' has a [[FightingSpirit Stand]] called "Cream" that ''weaponizes'' this trope. Cream appears as a demonic humanoid figure and whilst presumably capable of fighting in the manner of the other humanoid Stands, its special ability is that its jaws lead to a mysterious void dimension -- not even Vanilla Ice knows what lies beyond them. This allows Cream to effectively erase anything it eats by transporting them into this dimension. [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway Sounds like a lame power, right?]] ''[[HeartIsAnAwesomePower Wrong.]]'' Cream's primary way of attacking is to ''eat itself'', which turns it into basically an invisible floating sphere that '''annihilates any matter it touches'''. To make things worse, Cream can swallow Vanilla Ice whole ''without'' disintegrating him, so Vanilla Ice can avoid the "kill the Stand User to stop the Stand" weakness by hiding inside the invisible sphere of annihilation. The only drawback is that Vanilla Ice can't see without peeking out through Cream's mouth every so often, but that's a minor weakness in his ability to destroy everything around him. [[spoiler:This power lets him instantly ''kill'' Avdol, one of the titular Stardust Crusaders, and permanently cripple a second, Polnareff.]]
15	* America from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' really should not be able to eat a stack of hamburgers half his height in less than ten seconds, but...
16	* ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' has the heavyset Junpei (J.P.) attempt to win an eating contest in episode seventeen. He's leaning back in his chair with a noticeable bulge in his stomach while Izumi (Zoe) has over forty clean plates in front of her and is demanding more. Takuya lampshades it in both languages.
17	* ''Anime/MyDaemon'': Kento's Deamon, Anna, has the power to absorb objects and store them inside her for future use. She can even absorb items much bigger than herself, and what she absorbs remains unchanged until she releases it again (a plate of food she absorbed was still warm as if freshly prepared when she released it 3 days later). There are limits however; she can only store dead and inanimate objects, but has trouble with living things.
18	* In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearl'', Ash's Gible takes this to ridiculous extremes on multiple occasions, most notably managing to completely devour some of Team Rocket's gigantic mechas without putting on any visible weight, despite being a diminutive two foot tall land shark. Thankfully, it doesn't have any interest in eating anything other than inanimate objects.
19	* PlayedForDrama in ''Manga/{{Toriko}}''. [[spoiler:NEO, the final villain of the story, can eat '''''anything'''''. It can even eat its opponent's attacks, absorbing their power, then simply eat the opponent as well.]]
20	* Guu in ''Anime/HareGuu'' has an alternate universe inside her. Characters and objects, including Haré, can be swallowed and later re-emerge undamaged except perhaps for some unsettling memories of the experience. Some minor characters exist only in that inside-Guu universe.
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24	* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' gives us [[SignificantAnagram atogs]], which can eat [[SerialEscalation machinery, forests, corpses, enchantments, cards in hand, or even time]]. There's also Atogatog, which eats other atogs. Anything you feed an atog boosts its stats.
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27	[[folder:Comic Books]]
28	* Quite literally with ComicBook/GreenLanterns villain Singularity Jain. At one point she swallows the entire Justice League, thought John Constantine and Sara Cruz are able to save them.
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32	* An issue of the ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' comics had Garfield gulp down Jon in one bite. Justified as it was AllJustADream. Though he does regularly eat piles of food that are larger than his entire body.
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36	* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2'': Minions who have been treated with the PX-41 mutagen have this power. One is shown to eat a police car and even a nuclear bomb with no ill effects.
37	* ''WesternAnimation/TrollsBandTogether'': At one point Poppy's long-lost sister Viva drinks a milkshake twice her size and it doesn't show.
38	* ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'': In the Sea of Monsters, the [[VacuumMouth Vacuum Monster]] eats several other animals its own size or larger without changing size or shape, before finally eating ''itself''.
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42	* Audrey II of ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors''. Much like Kirby, there's really no place for the bodies to ''go''. TruthInTelevision: Audrey is a carnivorous plant. While it has the "mouth" characteristic of a Venus Flytrap, it must also share traits with a "pitcher plant," which traps and dissolves unsuspecting bugs in its juices. Chewing human flesh breaks it up and makes it easier to dissolve.
43	* Conversed in the song ''Peth Hai Ya Black Hole'' (Stomach or Black Hole?) from ''Animation/TheReturnOfHanuman'', describing Maruti being a BigEater.
44	* Referenced in ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'', when a professor perplexedly marvels at how many people the creature from "The Crate" has managed to consume in a matter of hours, yet still fit into said crate.
45	* Serleena from ''Film/MenInBlackII'' zigzags this. On the one hand, when she [[SwallowedWhole inhales a whole human]] at the start of the film, she does get a BalloonBelly, but a relatively small one that makes her look more like she's pregnant than that she just ate a whole person with a good foot of height on her. On the other hand, she is implied to be constantly snacking on fast food throughout the film, but never gains an inch. Then subverted when Jeff the worm swallows her and she promptly [[KillItThroughItsStomach consumes him from the inside]], growing so large that her bursting out of him is less ChestBurster and more "snake explosively shedding its skin". Justified in that she's an alien {{planimal}}, so BizarreAlienBiology is ''definitely'' in effect.
46	* In the film version of ''Film/MyFavoriteMartian'', at the climax, [[spoiler:Lizzie]] displays absolutely no signs of any abdominal distension after [[SwallowedWhole gulping down a fairly large human man with fairly little chewing]] whilst [[OneWingedAngel using the Veenox 7 Nerplex to assume the form of a monstrous lizard-squid alien]]. Even when she reverts to her fairly petite human form, there's nothing left of her victim outside of the BurpOfFinality she emitted before spitting our the Nerplex.
47	* Goose the Cat from ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'' is actually a flerken, an incredibly rare and dangerous alien that can swallow pretty much anything it wants. Goose herself eats an entire squad of Kree soldiers [[spoiler: and the Tesseract]] without any difficulty, and without losing her guise as an adorable kitty.
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51	* Holo from ''Literature/SpiceAndWolf'' is a petite girl capable of eating impossibly large meals (including an entire roasted pig) without her belly ever getting even slightly distended. The secret is that her true form is a wolf the size of a house, so whatever she eats while in human form is essentially being sent to a pocket dimension however big said wolf's stomach is.
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55	* ''Amber und Gefährten'' on their album ''Bardensang'': in the Zwergenlied (dwarf song) the main character is a dwarf able to drink anything in inordinate amounts without getting drunk, preferring wine, wine, mead and beer. He drinks so much that magicians check him out where the alcohol goes: through a hole within the dwarf into another dimension.
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58	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
59	* Trolls from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', thanks to having stomachs full of HollywoodAcid that can dissolve just about anything, will digest pretty much everything they swallow with great rapidity.
60	* While most monsters from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' do have rules for swallowed creatures fighting their way out, some cause pretty much instant death, from either acid or intense heat. There is also the hellworm, a normal earthworm turned into a demonic SandWorm by a literal gate to hell conjured inside its maw, which tries to deaden the constant pain by stuffing itself with anything too slow to get out of its way.
61	* In ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming'', anything eaten by a redcap is destroyed almost instantly. The only exception are Treasures, which hang out indefinitely until the redcap is killed and cut open.
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66	* Franchise/{{Kirby}}, of course. Especially since he's about a foot tall. [[VideoGame/KirbySqueakSquad One game]] actually has usage of his interior as {{Hammerspace}} as a gameplay mechanic, and it looks like an entire ''[[PocketDimension universe]]'' in there. The [[SuperMode Hypernova]] ability in ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'' takes this trope to its LogicalExtreme. The Miracle Fruit turns Kirby's stomach into a black hole, powering up Kirby's inhale and allowing him to devour practically anything that gets in his way, regardless of how big it is.
67	* The main characters of ''VideoGame/TheMunchables'', Chomper and Munchy, are small, limbless gluttons that have appetites that could rival Kirby's. Their sizes and appearances change depending on how much they eat.
68	* [[ManEatingPlant Chomper]] from the ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' series can devour an unlimited buffet of zombies, so long as he has the time to chew and swallow them. He has his limits, however, as it's never possible to eat [[GiantMook Gargantuars]].
69	* In ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros Brawl]]'', aside from Kirby himself, King Dedede and ''Wario'' of all characters (Despite never having this quality in any of his games) also possess this, being able to eat almost any item using their neutral special attack. They'll become deformed if they eat something huge like a crate or party ball, but will return to normal a few seconds later.
70	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
71	** Yoshi can swallow most anything, especially in [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld his original appearance]] where he can gulp down car-sized Mega Moles. Later games have him process the corpses into eggs, but he can still do it instantly.
72	** On the villainous side, there are two: ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPGLegendOfTheSevenStars'' gives us Belome, who eats a character, spits him (or [[TheSmurfettePrinciple her]]) out, and creates a clone. Before that, or even Yoshi, though, there was [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3 Boss Bass]], who could swallow even big Mario whole.
73	* ''VideoGame/PacMan'': While the titular character is mostly known for eating small pellets (and ocasionally ghosts when he gets powered up) he's also capable of eating fruits, bells or a key in a single bite.
74	* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
75	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'': Bow-Wow, a tiny [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Chain Chomp]] who can eat giant carnivorous flowers (and any other enemy in the game) in one bite.
76	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'': Dmitri is a friendly, mountable Dodongo who possesses the same ability.
77	* Any game where you restore hit points by eating food. If you have to restore a lot of points with cheap, weak food items, you may have to chow down a lot.
78	** Subverted in ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'' though, as you can't make your party have more than one meal straight before entering a single battle at least, even if they didn't get their HP and SP fully restored.
79	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' has Atomos, a recurring summon/boss with what appears to be a ''literal'' blackhole for belly. Its signature attack is called "Wormhole" and its ability to remove a character from the battle in earlier installments is a mild example. The horrific one comes into play in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' where Atomos is used to [[spoiler:attack Lindblum, eventually wiping out a whole city district and ''[[NightmareFuel sucking half the population into the void]]'']].
80	* The Ultra Beast Guzzlord from ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' may be this, as its Pokedex description reads that when it eats it apparently does not produce droppings.
81	* The main mechanic of ''VideoGame/EatMe'': you're a child with a stomach magically turned into an all-consuming force of hunger and locked in a castle where everyone and everything is made out of food. The solution to the majority of the puzzles involves eating something. [[spoiler: You can even eat a second force of hunger, which is key to getting the GoldenEnding]].
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85	* One strip of ''Inside The Gamer's Studio'' featured Naru from ''Manga/LoveHina'' demanding snacks before her interview, whereupon the host, Whit, places a large chocolate cake down, and Naru devours the entire thing in one bite, with no visible difference in the next panel.
86	-->'''Whit:''' Wow, Naru! That was like 20,000 calories!\
87	'''Naru:''' Don't worry. I'm on a special diet.\
88	'''Whit:''' Ah yes, the "Anime Diet".\
89	'''Naru:''' Yup! Eat as much as you want, and always look the same!
90	* Aylee from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''. People she eats just seem to vanish the minute she swallows them.
91	* Molly and Golly from ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' can eat vast amounts of food without ill effect. Once, after practically emptying a walk-in refrigerator full of food, their bellies ''were'' a little distended for one panel; then they were instantly back to normal.
92	* ''Webcomic/TheCyantianChronicles'': Quinn claims to have a [[{{Hammerspace}} subspace stomach]] after putting away a table's worth of [[http://cyantian.net/comic/chapter-10-14/ food]].
93	* Damien from ''Webcomic/WhiteDarkLife'' being a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent gluttony demon]] is designed to just keep eating. Unlike most examples on this page though, he does have a theoretical limit. That limit being ''roughly an entire planet''.
94	* Implied in the ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' official comic "A Day in the Afterlife;" Alastor attacks a butcher several times larger than him who threatens a female sheep demon and most likely devoured him. Despite eating the butcher, his stomach remains the same size.
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98	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'': In "Deathmatch Duck", Dodgers tricks the alien captain (Taz) into swallowing him whole. Cut to a viewer [[LampshadeHanging complaining about how it doesn't make sense]], because Dodgers is taller than Taz and yet is shown comfortably standing up in his belly.
99	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Nibbler, who isn't much larger than a cat, [[spoiler:as well as his species, the Nibblonians]]. He compresses everything he eats into hyperdense Dark Matter, which is what he defecates. That doesn't explain how he was able to '''eat himself''' to escape the universe, though.
100	* ''WesternAnimation/GertieTheDinosaur'': Gertie swallows a tree as large as herself and tops it off by drinking down an entire lake, but her size doesn't increase.
101	* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': In "Chocolate Turtles" Gerald's little sister Timberly eats forty boxes of the titular chocolates in one sitting, but it makes no difference to her waistline.
102	* The first episode of ''{{WesternAnimation/Jellystone}}'' dealt with Cindy giving Yogi a nuclear powered stomach that is an endless void inside, [[MundaneUtility so he wouldn't have to pick which meal not to eat at lunch]]. Unfortunately, Yogi's total lack of self control leads him to ravenously devour everything and every''one'' in town.
103	* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'': Experiment 606, AKA "Holio", was designed for this to the point where he ''literally'' [[PowerOfTheVoid becomes a black hole]].
104	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Most characters can do this, but ''especially'' [[BigEater Pinkie Pie]]. On at least one occasion she's eaten a cake larger than she was with no real change to her physique.
105	* ''WesternAnimation/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures'': Like his original videogame depiction, Pac-Man is this.
106	** Also in the episode "No Pets Allowed....Especially Monsters!", a small monster Pac-Man decides to keep as a pet is able to eat as much, if not more than him.
107	* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': Shaggy and Scooby manage to do this in some incarnations of the franchise, often with a massive DagwoodSandwich.
108	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'': Rico uses his black hole of a stomach for [[PersonOfHolding storage]]. His stomach isn't a black hole, it's just ''much'' BiggerOnTheInside. How big? Mort had to ride an elevator down to the lower levels of Rico's stomach!
109	* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': Dizzy Devil once ate a stealth bomber with little trouble.
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