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* In a variation Scanlan suggests to Vax that they try a KillItThroughItsStomach plan on Umbrasyl the Black Dragon in "'WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfVoxMachina'" Vax points out the dragon's [[BreathWeapon acid breath]] would prevent entry this way... only for Scanlan to admit he wasn't planning on going through the ''front''. One anal entry later and they find themselves inside the bowels.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAntBully'' Zoc saves Lucas after he gets eaten by a frog by getting the frog to eat him while he's carrying an alka root (gives one serious gas).
* In ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest,'' Krysta flies into Hexus's mouth, carrying a single seed. With everyone's help, that seed sprouts into a tree in a matter of seconds, and Hexus is sealed away once again.

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* ''Fanfic/NoStarsInSight'': While fighting a [[SeaSerpents Nïdhwal]] underwater, Ikharos charges into its jaws armed with only his glaive and kills it by attacking its insides.

* ''Fanfic/NoStarsInSight'': While fighting a [[SeaSerpents Nïdhwal]] underwater, Ikharos charges into its jaws wielding only a glaive and kills it by attacking its insides.

* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. When the cube-ship of the Psiborg Collective tries a MegaMawManeuver, ''Voyager'' doesn't wait to be subdued but instead flies straight in and opens up with its rapid-fire autocannon on the inside, which isn't protected by the meteor-proof double-armored exterior hull.

** In ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', Majuub has his own attack reflected against him by the BigBad, Baby, [[BalefulPolymorph turning him into chocolate.]] Baby promptly swallows him whole. Later, when Baby has TheHero Goku on the ropes, Majuub reveals that he ''planned'' for that to happen, so he could attack Baby from within his own body.

* The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk let the Galaxy Master eat him, for the same reason.

* ''Literature/{{Deathlands}}' has a variation in "Ice and Fire". Ryan Cawdor is attacked by a mutant cockroach that latches onto his face. He's worried that if he just tears it off he'll lose a chuck of his face with it, so he opens his mouth to tempt it into feasting on his soft tongue, then when the cockroach tries to crawl inside, bites its head off and spits it out. The reactions of his TrueCompanions range from admiration to nausea.

* ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'': Ultraman Jack [[IncrediblyLamePun returns to this trope]] later when battling RealityWarper kaiju Priz-ma; by allowing himself to be assimilated into Priz-Ma, Jack finds a quick opening that allows him to blast Priz-Ma apart from the inside.

* ''Mega Snake'': This is the ''only'' way the Mega Snake can be killed; by standing completely still and calm, allowing it to swallow you whole so you can cut its heart out.

* In ''Observation On The Spot'' by Creator/StanislawLem it is mentioned as a method of fighting some huge monsters.

* In ''Manga/MythicalDetectiveLokiRagnarok'', as part of a CookingDuel episode, the villains try to feed Loki a shapeshifted monster (one of the four stags that eat the branches of Yggdrasil), as Loki will be unable to block an attack from within. Loki spots it right away, though, and doesn't bite.
* In ''Manga/KingOfThorn'', Marco and Kasumi have to jump down the mother monster's throat to reach the BigBad, Zeus.

* ''Anime/DeadLeaves'' has this happen at the end of the film, with the [[spoiler:giant space caterpillar eating Pandy's rapidly aging baby, and the baby blows it up from the inside and sacrifices itself. It... actually makes even less sense in context.]]

* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** In ''Manga/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 Vegito into candy 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 ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', Majuub has his own attack reflected against him by the BigBad, Baby, [[BalefulPolymorph turning him into chocolate.]] Baby promptly swallows him whole. Later, when Baby has TheHero Goku on the ropes, Majuub reveals that he ''planned'' for that to happen, so he could attack Baby from within his own body.
* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'', Joseph Joestar lets Santana partially absorb him so he can activate his ripple inside Santana's body, bypassing Santana's impervious skin.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'' Machine Man lets Fin Fang Foom eat him, the better to defeat Foom from the inside.

* In ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'', DeathSeeker Joe kills the T-Rex that murdered his friends by jumping down its throat while holding live grenades.
* ComicBook/SpiderMan once defeated a one-shot villain named Skinhead this way, a white supremacist gang leader who could turn himself into a BlobMonster after a chemical accident. Once Spidey realized that what his body was consisted of his skeleton surrounding a mass of protoplasm, he let himself be absorbed, and then punched him in the jawbone from the inside, knocking him out and shocking him back to human shape.
* Nightwing does this to defeat the final monster in ''ComicBook/NightOfTheMonsterMen''. Once inside, he injects it with a serum that dissolves it.
* Melaka ''ComicBook/{{Fray}}'' gets swallowed by a giant demon creature. Rather than hack her way out of the stomach as per usual for this trope ([[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome which would be a death sentence]]), she gets caught in its throat and [[RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain hacks her way to the brain]], then exits [[GoForTheEye via the eye]].

* ''Film/MenInBlack'', the TropeNamer: Agent K goads the Bug into eating him so that he can retrieve his gun at the climax of the film.

* ''Film/TheAvengers2012'': During the final battle scene Iron Man asks Jarvis if he has ever heard of the story of Jonah and flies into the mouth of the Leviathan and blasts his way out.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'': Drax the Destroyer has the [[SarcasmMode 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 [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome 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.
* Subverted in ''Film/KongSkullIsland''. One character carrying a bandolier of grenades decides to make a HeroicSacrifice [[TakingYouWithMe this way]], only to get smashed aside by the creature's tail instead.

* In ''[[Literature/ForgottenRealms Tangled Webs]]'' [[TheBerserker a berserker]] with a {{BFS}} was devoured by a giant squid -- not as a deliberate provocation, he just didn't care in his battle frenzy. It was a very unlucky squid.
* In ''Literature/TheStrain'', 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]] his way out.

* [[spoiler: [[MeaningfulName Jonas]] ]] tries this on the giant shark in ''[[Literature/{{MEG}} Meg: A Novel Of Deep Terror]]''. [[spoiler: It works.]]

* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': In his last battle as the Green Ranger, Tommy tricks Turbanshell into swallowing him so that he can weaken Turbanshell from the inside with a heat blaster. He collapses from heatstroke briefly before getting back up to finish the job. It's an awesome scene - Turbanshell is walking along, saying "Hm, what should I destroy next..." and then suddenly cries out in pain as "Go Green Ranger Go" starts playing.

** The Purple Worm - a gargantuan purple earthwormlike creature - is the archetypical D&D monster for this trope, in that it's one of the few creatures - if not the only creature - who has both a "swallow whole" attack that doesn't incapacitate the victim and detailed rules for what happens to anyone inside the creature and how they can affect it in every edition of the game.

* To defeat Galdon in ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'' you have to let him eat you then, uh, beat the hell out of his heart with a stick.

* The second half of the [[EldritchAbomination C'thun]] boss fight in VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft involves being swallowed by one of the boss's tentacle mouths, attacking its weakpoint inside the stomach, then getting out before taking too much damage from digestive juices.
** 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.
* One of the quicktime sequences in ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'' involves [[spoiler:having Cerberus' middle head devour Dante in order to destroy the creature]].

* A certain maggot demon in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry2'' 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.
** Eat Me can be invoked by the player against Nightmare in DMC 1. It's dangerous inside that thing, but you can get a health item by destroying the enemies inside.
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia'', some of 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.
* In the final fight of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', [[spoiler: Batman leaps into Clayface's mouth to retrieve the cure for the sickness he and the Joker have been suffering from. He gets it, and slices his way out of Clayface with Talia's scimitar.]]

* To defeat the FinalBoss in ''VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw'', Juliet has to trick him into swallowing her and Nick, then [[AttackItsWeakPoint destroy his heart.]]

* In ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'', there is a test that require people to [[ImpossibleTask evade a White Steel Eel in very dense Shinsu]] to get to a ball. So Bam lets himself get eaten by the hungry beast and stabs it's tongue, so that it won't attack him anymore.

* In one episode of ''WebAnimation/UnforgottenRealms'', the group ends up having to fight an ogre. The ogre is too strong for them to hurt with anything besides poison, and it's doing more damage than they can handle. So Sir Schmoopy casts an enlarging spell on Petey the rat and tells him to swallow the rest of them in order to wait for the poison to finish the ogre.

* OutsideXtra covered seven examples from video-games in their video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDTS8npcQ3Y 7 Bosses You Killed From the Inside Out,]] [[LampshadeHanging Ew]]"

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAntBully'' Zoc saves Lucas after he gets eaten by a frog by getting the frog to eat him while he's carrying an alka root (gives one serious gas).
* ''Series/WaltDisneyPresents'' episode "Mars and Beyond". One segment about the plant men in Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs' Literature/{{Barsoom}} stories has a bird drop an egg on the plant man's head. The plant man swallows it, then a baby bird with a saw-beak cuts its way out.

* Schrodinger from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' is a villain example. [[spoiler:Eating his soul (temporarily) destroys Alucard due to Schrodinger's nature as a paradoxical being who is "everywhere and nowhere" turning him into a living LogicBomb]].

* ''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.]]

* In the eleventh ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}}'' light novel (not yet translated to English, unfortunately), Aria lets the Bell-Doolgofa chimera kill her so that it will absorb her pacifism, causing it to stop fighting.
* In the Creator/BarbaraHambly novel ''Literature/ThoseWhoHuntTheNight'' (a.ka. ''Immortal Blood''), a character injects himself with a lethal dose of silver nitrate before allowing his blood to be drained by a vampire; silver being lethal to vampires in this setting.

* In ''Dark Of The Moon'', the second book of ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfTheKencyrath'' by PC Hodgell, Torisen does this to a [[{{Shapeshifter}} Darkling Changer]] during a blood-binding ritual. It was completely accidental on both sides: Tori didn't know that the person he thought he was performing the ritual with wasn't exactly who he looked like (if he had been the ritual would have ''merely'' created an almost-unbreakable emotional bond between the two), and the Changer didn't know that Tori was a Shanir blood-binder and that ingesting any of his blood would be fatal.
* In ''Literature/TheSagaOfTheNobleDead'', the Fay-born canine Chap's Spirit is so strong that any vampire which he allows to drink his blood will immediately perish. He twice uses this method to destroy vampires in ''Child of a Dead God'' and ''The Dog in the Dark''.

* ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'': Ultraman Jack [[IncrediblyLamePun returns to this trope]] later when battling RealityWarper kaiju Priz-ma; by allowing himself to be assimilated into Priz-Ma, Jack finds a quick opening that allows him to blast Priz-Ma apart from the inside.

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy The Grim Adventures of]] [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor the KND]]'', Mandy intentionally allows herself to be assimilated by the Delightful Reaper knowing she can take it over from the inside.

* Melaka ''ComicBook/{{Fray}}'' gets swallowed by a giant demon creature. Rather than hack her way out of the stomach as per usual for this trope ([[RealityEnsues which would be a death sentence]]), she gets caught in its throat and [[RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain hacks her way to the brain]], then exits [[GoForTheEye via the eye]].

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'': Drax the Destroyer has the [[SarcasmMode 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 [[RealityEnsues 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.

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

** Getting eaten in morph ball form and bombing your way out is necessary to get past certain creatures in the ''VideoGame/{{Metroid Prime|Trilogy}} series, such as the Stone Toad and Amorbis.

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* In ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie'', Magnamon and Rapidmon let Cherubimon swallow them so they can attack the virus within it. Though this only happens in the Dub. In the original, Cherubimon tricked them into thinking they beat him, but instead materialized behind them and munched them. However a nose variation was used by War Greymon to finish off Metal Seadramon,even cooler though is that he deflected another attack to this.

-->''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?''

* In ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'', there is a test that require people to [[ImpossibleTask evade a White Steel Eel in very dense Shinsoo]] to get to a ball. So Bam lets himself get eaten by the hungry beast and stabs it's tongue, so that it won't attack him anymore.

* In ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'', there is a test that require people to [[ImpossibleTask evade a White Steel Eel in very dense Shinsoo]] to get to a ball. So Baam lets himself get eaten by the hungry beast and stabs it's tongue, so that it won't attack him anymore.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/CarpeJugulum'', Granny Weatherwax is bitten by a vampire who is trying to turn her into another vampire. He is surprised to discover himself craving tea. As Granny puts it "I haven't been vampired. You've been Weatherwaxed".

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