Big Eater/Comic Books: Difference between revisions

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** Speedsters powered by the Speed Force don't need to eat huge amounts of food (if they choose to do such, the Speed Force [[Hand Wave|Hand Waves]] away the negative effects); these two just choose to do so because they ''really like eating''.

* Deconstructed in DC Comics' ''[[Fifty Two]]''. Sobek (the stuttering crocodile) is a [[Big Eater]] animal [[Mascot]]... {{spoiler|until he catches [[Kid Hero]] Osiris in a moment of weakness, at which point he graphically [[Killed Off for Real|kills]] and [[Moral Event Horizon|eats him]], and reveals himself to be the [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse|Horseman of Famine]], created to have a vast hunger which can only be quenched by eating great heroes.}}

* Jughead from ''[[Archie Comics]]''. There was actually one story where two fat kids asked him how he managed to eat so much and stay so skinny. He attributed it to lots of running. From [[Single Target Sexuality|Big Ethel]].

* Jughead from ''[[Archie Comics]]''. There was actually one story where two fat kids asked him how he managed to eat so much and stay so skinny. He attributed it to lots of running. From [[Single-Target Sexuality|Big Ethel]].

** One comic attributed Jughead's skinniness to a unique metabolism. In it, he undergoes some sort of an accident (a whack on the head), which reverses it so that he always gains calories from ''everything'' he eats, causing him to gain a ton of weight. It's reversed somehow after he is fed cafeteria food and Dilton theorizes that the effects of his metabolism just can't be reproduced.

** Another comic suggested that all the calories went to his brain and were the cause of his perfect memory (in that story). When he follows a normal diet he's unable to remember his own name.

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* Yorick from German comic ''YPS''.

* Pol Pitron from ''[[Yoko Tsuno]]'', who once even gets sick from eating too much. Also the [[Team Chef]].

* Matter Eater Lad, a member of ''[[The Legion of Super Heroes]]''. His ("[[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway|lame]]") superpower is being THE [[Extreme Omnivore]].

* Matter Eater Lad, a member of ''[[The Legion of Super Heroes]]''. His ("[[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|lame]]") superpower is being THE [[Extreme Omnivore]].

* The Orange Light of Avarice in the ''[[Green Lantern (Comic Book)|Green Lantern]]'' comics induces an insatiable hunger in its wielder Agent Orange. [[Crazy Awesome|Larfleeze]] is first shown gorging himself on rotting food. When Hal Jordan wrests the Orange Lantern Battery away from him, a voice from within the battery {{spoiler|which according to [[Word of God]] belongs to the Embodiment of Avarice}} tries to convert him into the new Agent Orange, saying that he deserves ''more''.

{{quote| "You could really go for a hamburger right now. ''Two'' hamburgers! ''It should all be yours, Mr. Jordan!''"}}

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* Obelix from the ''[[Asterix]]'' comic books. He eats whole wild boars at times. But don't [[Berserk Button|call him "fat"]] out loud if he's nearby.

** In ''Asterix and Cleopatra'', he is asked to cut a huge cake into three portions... he cuts out two portions [[Cut a Slice Take The Rest|and the rest of the cake serves as the third portion, which he eats.]] He then proceeds to pick out the almonds left over on the serving tray as well, which gets him scolded by Asterix for not showing enough decorum in front of a queen.

** In ''Asterix and Cleopatra'', he is asked to cut a huge cake into three portions... he cuts out two portions [[Cut a Slice, Take The Rest|and the rest of the cake serves as the third portion, which he eats.]] He then proceeds to pick out the almonds left over on the serving tray as well, which gets him scolded by Asterix for not showing enough decorum in front of a queen.

** The best Obelix example is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hsP7tSGNGc from a movie].

* [[Harvey Comics]] has ''[[Little Lotta]]'', whose defining traits were her huge size, her near-super strength and her huge appetite. One of her comic book series was named "Foodland".