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* A rather horrifying version includes the entire Taxxon species from ''[[Animorphs]]'', who have a maddening hunger that makes them eat anything they can -- including any injured member of their species or, on at least one occasion, ''oneself''. This hunger is so powerful that when Taxxons are caught up in it (which is a ''lot'') even the Yeerk inside can no longer control it. To its terror. There's a reason that only lower-ranking Yeerks are assigned to Taxxons.
* Klößchen (Grunter in the English version) of ''[[TKKG]]'' is one. His German name means "Dumpling".
* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'': Ron Weasley, of course. It's a [[Running Gag]] to have him cheerfully stuffing 'self out at the feast at the beginning of every year at Hogwarts, sometimes grossing Hermione and Harry out. In ''[[Harry Potter
* Zedd from ''[[The Sword of Truth]]''. Constantly hungry, and ''very'' skinny.
* In ''The Shattered World'', a thief who'd taken professional pride in his slender physique is cursed to be a [[Big Eater]] by a sorcerer he'd attempted to cheat. He downs a huge ale and a platterfull of meat before being thrown out of the bar puking, already feeling his perpetual hunger's return.
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