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* ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'' [[Villains Out Shopping]] fanfic ''[[a million miles of fun]]'' has the [[Statuesque Stunner|incredibly tall]] but lithe [[Cold Sniper]] [[Dark Action Girl]] [[Playing With Fire|P'Li]] ordering off the family value menu and actually being that hungry. Guess [[Having a Blast|combustionbenders]] must have [[Stealth Pun|blast-furnace]] metabolisms.

{{quote|"[[Funny Background Event|The truckers on the other side of the restaurant are eating fruit tarts and staring open mouthed]] as she packs away a party platter single handed."}}

** This is actually a fairly common [[fanon]] interpretation of P'Li—primarily on the grounds that [http://asexualgurulaghima.tumblr.com/post/113236433243 someone of her height] would [[Justified Trope|require a lot of calories to begin with]], but partly on the grounds that certain [http://asexualgurulaghima.tumblr.com/post/115458892778 symbolism] concerning the [[Third Eye|ājñā chakra]] suggests that combustionbenders probably ''would'' have high metabolisms. Additionally, it's an example of the trope used as a humorous quirk that she can be given while still kept entirely [[The Stoic|in character]].

** This is actually a fairly common [[fanon]] interpretation of P'Li—primarily on the grounds that [http://asexualgurulaghima.tumblr.com/post/113236433243 someone of her height]{{Dead link}} would [[Justified Trope|require a lot of calories to begin with]], but partly on the grounds that certain [http://asexualgurulaghima.tumblr.com/post/115458892778 symbolism]{{Dead link}} concerning the [[Third Eye|ājñā chakra]] suggests that combustionbenders probably ''would'' have high metabolisms. Additionally, it's an example of the trope used as a humorous quirk that she can be given while still kept entirely [[The Stoic|in character]].

* In ''[[Better Off Not Knowing]]'', mention is made of tall, gawky viewpoint character Hakini's "increasingly ravenous appetite." Considering that [[Huge Schoolgirl|she's a growing girl of twelve who's already edging up on the six-foot mark]], that's [[Justified Trope|entirely to be expected]].

* In [[The Teraverse]], this is a common side effect of GC-161, the serum that has granted about half of the heroes and villains their superpowers; it came from ''[[The Secret World of Alex Mack]]'' and was ''originally'' designed as a weight-loss drug, but turns out to be permanent (mutagenic) and the superpowers are an unintended side effect. While ''using'' their superpowers causes the condition to flare up, even their baseline needs are significantly increased. One of the heroes once ''tried'' to survive (indefinitely) on a normal diet; within months, she wound up hospitalized for malnutrition (''four times'' in a seven-month period, before her condition was diagnosed as something other than an eating disorder), and she now regularly eats double or triple portions and wears a Medic-Alert bracelet.