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* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'': Drax the Destroyer has the "brilliant" idea of killing the extradimensional monster through its stomach when its skin proves too tough to puncture. Gamora points out to Drax (or at least tries to) that the skin would be just as thick as it would be on the inside (which Star-Lord [[LampshadeHanging helpfully points out to Gamora]]). When Gamora [[spoiler:guts it by using a tiny wound to get in]], Drax pops out of the belly covered in AlienBlood and other fluids and full of the idea that he was the only one who killed it.

* To defeat an early boss in ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'' you have to let him eat you then, uh, beat the hell out of his heart with a stick.
* God knows that it wasn't on purpose, but [[VideoGame/GearsOfWar Delta Squad]] makes the most out of what they get.

* Film/{{Hellboy}} is swallowed up by the Ogdru Jahad monster and blows it from within with a handful of grenades.

--->'''Red Mage:''' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments It has exposed its weak underbelly to me in the form of its digestive tract!]]
* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', in a BadFuture conquered by superintelligent dinosaurs, Dan and Mitzi [=McNinja=] battle the Horrorsaurus. It swallows Mitzi whole, and then Dan dives in after her. While being digested in its stomach, Mitzi asks Dan why he followed her, revealing that she's decked out with explosives and got swallowed in order to kill it from within. Dan whips out his own vest of explosives, and replies, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome "You didn't]] [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments pack enough."]]

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' introduced several instances (including Future!Janeway in the finale) involving people letting themselves be assimilated as they had anti-Borg viruses in them.

->''"You're nothing but a smear on the Sports page to me, you slimy, gut-sucking, intestinal parasite! [[TropeNamer Eat me!]] Eat '''me'''!"''

->''"You're nothing but a smear on the Sports page to me, you slimy, gut-sucking, intestinal parasite! [[TropeNamer Eat me]]! Eat '''me'''!"''

This is a strategy by which a character intentionally allows his [[EatingTheEnemy enemy to consume him]] so that he can attack it from the inside.

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* [[Manga/{{Claymore}} Clare]], mortally wounded by [[spoiler: [[BigBad Priscilla]] and [[EldritchAbomination the Destroyer]]]], allows the latter to [[spoiler: absorb her before taking over it and using it to defeat her nemesis.]]

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* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' introduced several instances (including Future!Janeway in the finale) involving people letting themselves be assimilated as they had anti-Borg viruses in them.
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Smith and Jones", the Doctor lets an alien absorb his genetic code (by drinking his blood through a straw!) so that it will show up as non-human on the Judoon scanners (it was drinking human blood to fool them).
* Inverted somewhat in ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'': The Scoobies are fighting against a demon that can possess corpses. So, Angel lets the demon enter ''his'' body and ''[[EnemyWithin Angelus]]'' destroys the intruder in a matter of seconds.

--> ''That was you hitting me?''
--> ''The last bit, yeah. Hainsley's been dead since he hit the table. Oh, come on. Had to get a few licks in, didn't I?''

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** In ''Anime/DragonBall'', Piccolo had sealed Kami-sama in a bottle and then swallowed it. Therefore, Goku couldn't attack him at full power. When Piccolo shows his ability to [[SizeShifter become a giant]], Goku [[TrickingTheShapeshifter provokes him to grow to his maximum size]], and then shoots himself down Piccolo's throat. Piccolo vomits him as quickly as he could, but not before Goku hits his insides and recovers the bottle.
** In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Super Buu turned Vegetto into candy in DBZ and made the mistake of trying to eat him. Super Buu was also fond of pulling a forced Eat Me on his opponents, turning himself into goo and flying down their throats [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath until they explode.]] This backfired on him when he tried to go down Vegetto's throat; Vegetto was able to contain him and beat the crap out of him from the outside by punching himself.

* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', Joseph Joestar lets Santana partially absorb him so he can activate his ripple inside Santana's body, bypassing Santana's impervious skin.

* A certain maggot demon in ''Franchise/DevilMayCry 2'' is a bore to kill since it spends so much time burrowing under the ground. Get eaten, however, and Dante will burst out and destroy the creature, even if you do take damage in the process.

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', V uses a variant of this to [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0638.html kill a dragon]]: piss it off sufficiently to get eaten alive, then shapeshift into something very large.

** Not the only time WoW has invoked the Eat Me. The final quest in a Mist of Pandaria zone has the player use a large rhino-like animal to launch them a great distance into the mouth of a mountain sized bug (repeatedly) where you literally punch it to death from the inside.

* ''MagicTheGathering'' has the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=116748 Plague Sliver]]. The slivers all manifest each other's abilities; Plague Slivers are simply slivers suffering from some horrific disease that the rest of the slivers will start to manifest. In game this is crippling for sliver decks, as an opponent playing this card will basically cause your own creatures to deal damage to you.

* In ''Literature/TheStrain'', [[BadAssGrandpa Abraham Setrakian]] allows [[BigBad The Master]] to infect him, knowing that vampires cannot vomit to expel poisons, and thus swallows blood thinner to poison The Master. The bastard [[BodySurf cheats]], though.

--->'''Red Mage:''' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny It has exposed its weak underbelly to me in the form of its digestive tract!]]
* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', in a BadFuture conquered by superintelligent dinosaurs, Dan and Mitzi [=McNinja=] battle the Horrorsaurus. It swallows Mitzi whole, and then Dan dives in after her. While being digested in its stomach, Mitzi asks Dan why he followed her, revealing that she's decked out with explosives and got swallowed in order to kill it from within. Dan whips out his own vest of explosives, and replies, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome "You didn't]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming pack enough."]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"WHAT IS HE DOING?!?]]]]

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* God knows that it wasn't on purpose, but [[GearsOfWar Delta Squad]] makes the most out of what they get.

* The Queen Metroid from ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}} 2''. The most common way to beat her is to be eaten by her, plant bombs in her gut... and get spit up so you can repeat the process multiple times.
** Getting eaten in morph ball form and bombing your way out is necessary to get past certain creatures in the MetroidPrime series, such as the Stone Toad and Amorbis.

* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', this can actually be a good strategy for fighting very large monsters, as they're generally not armored nearly so well on the inside as the outside! But since the stomach of a creature that regularly swallows its food whole is not exactly a hospitable place, you'd better have a lot of HP. Usually swallowed people may use only short weapons, though.

** Vegetto lets Super Buu absorb him so he can rescue the other people who were absorbed; this turns into an entire FantasticVoyagePlot.