View source for Balloon Belly/Literature

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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}|Balloon Bellies]] in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:

* In [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''Mirror Dance'', Miles Vorkosigan's clone brother Mark binges on combat rations for two weeks, bringing his weight up too in a half-conscious effort to separate himself from his progenitor. Which looked alarming enough given they both are under five feet tall. And then [[It Got Worse]].
* Children classic ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'' does this. Pooh eats so much he gets stuck in Rabbit's burrow.
* In Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's ''[[The Little Prince]]'' (and its movie version) the aviator draws a boa constrictor with an elephant inside. Since the back of the snake is the one he draws as distended, it gets mistaken for the drawing of a hat the first time he shows it to other people.
* Noncomedic example: According to the ''Zombie Survival Guide'', since zombies don't digest human flesh, they can end up with distended stomachs fairly quickly.
* In the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Unseen Academicals]]'', Mr. Nutt {{spoiler|comes [[Back from the Dead]], feeling hungry,}} and eats nine pies. [[Memetic Mutation|(That's as many as three threes!]] [[And That's Terrible]]!) He's a pretty small chap, and, anyway, ''nine pies'', and as such, is described as looking like a snake that swallowed a goat.
* [[Shel Silverstein|If I eat one more piece of pie, I'll die! If I can't have one more piece of pie, I'll die! So since it's all decided I must die, I might as well have one more piece of pie. MMMM--OOOOH--MY! Chomp--Gulp--'Bye.]]
* [[Author Appeal|Frequently happens in a realistic manner]] to characters in [[Jacqueline Wilson]] books. Probably most notably in 'Girls Under Pressure' in which the protagonist dabbles with bulimia.
* In [[The Dresden Files]], Harry pays his "spies" (fairies) in pizza. After they've violently consumed the pizza, they look like this for a few minutes, but they return to their normal shape in a few minutes.

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