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[[caption-width-right:250:Franchise/{{Kirby}} ''can'' eat anything...but is a [[ToServeMan human]] necessary?]]

* Played for drama in Anime/{{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.]]

* In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, 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 then inanimate objects.

* Holo from ''LightNovel/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.

* 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.\

* ''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 [[TheChick Izumi (Zoe)]] has over forty clean plates in front of her and is demanding more. Takuya lampshades it in both languages.

* 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.]]

* Similar to Gluttony, Vanilla Ice from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' uses his Stand to eat anything and everything in its path. The devoured matter is said to enter a dimension that not even he knows where it is.

* 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.

* The first episode of ''{{WesternAnimation/Jellystone}}'' dealt with Cindy giving Yogi a [[ILoveNuclearPower 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.

* 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 a [[PocketDimension frikken]] ''[[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.

* 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 [[UpToEleven a second force of hunger]], which is key to getting the GoldenEnding]].

* 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 loosing her guise as an adorable kitty.

* 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 things whole that are larger than his head.

* An issue of the ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' comics had Garfield gulp down Jon in one bite. Justified as it was AllJustADream.

%%* ''VideoGame/PacMan'':

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 a BlackHoleBelly 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).

* ''Franchise/ChainChomp'':

* Nibbler from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', who is even smaller than Kirby, [[spoiler:as well as his species, the Nibblonians]]. Presumably, Nibbler 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.
* Rico the [[PsychoForHire psychotic]] penguin from the ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' series. He uses his black hole of a stomach for [[PersonOfHolding storage]]. Rico's 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!
* Shaggy and his canine buddy Franchise/ScoobyDoo manage to do this in some incarnations of the franchise, often with a massive DagwoodSandwich.
* Experiment 606, AKA "Holio", from ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' was designed for this to the point where he ''literally'' [[PowerOfTheVoid becomes a black hole]].
* Dizzy Devil from ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' once ate a stealth bomber with little trouble.
* Like his original videogame depiction, Pac-Man is this in ''WesternAnimation/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures''.
* Most of the ponies in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' are capable of 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.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' episode "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.

* [[ManEatingPlant Chomper]] from the ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' series can devour an all-you-can-eat 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]].

* [[ManEatingPlant Chomper]] from the ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' series can devour an unlimited amount of zombies whole, 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]].

* 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 a [[PocketDimension frikken]] ''[[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.

** On the villainous side, there are two: ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' 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.
* VideoGame/PacMan, naturally.
* Bow-Wow from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'', a tiny [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Chain Chomp]] who can eat giant carnivorous flowers (and any other enemy in the game) in one bite.
** Dmitri from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'' is a friendly, mountable Dodongo who possesses the same ability.

* America from ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'' really should not be able to eat a stack of hamburgers half his height in less than ten seconds, but...

* ''VideoGame/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]]'']].