Big Eater/Playing With
Basic Trope: A character that eats enough to feed a whole football team.
- Straight: For one meal, Bob eats plates of food that is put in front of him.
- Exaggerated: Bob eats the amount of food the average person gets in a month.... and that's just his first meal.
- Justified:
- Bob needs to eat a lot of food to fulfill his Required Secondary Powers.
- Alternatively, Bob is obese.
- Bob is lonely, and eats a lot to fill the void in his life.
- Bob is an athlete who needs all the calories he can eat.
- Bob has a case of the munchies.
- Bob is a magic-user or has Psychic Powers, which require him to take in extra calories.
- Bob is an adolescent in the middle of a growth spurt.
- Inverted: Bob is an anorexic.
- Subverted: Bob is shown eating pounds and pounds of food. When asked why he ate so much, it was because he was starving for many days.
- Double Subverted: ... Until Bob is shown eating that amount afterwards.
- Parodied: A bad guy tries to use ironic torture, feeding Bob a literal mountain of food. The scene changes and returns five minutes later to show Bob, happily wiping crumbs off, next to the space where the mountain used to be.
- Deconstructed:
- Bob's eating causes a localized food shortage, and therefore famine. His eating also has serious health repercussions later down the road.
- Bob becomes obese due to his heavy eating, and has all the health problems that come with it.
- One of Bob's friend's meals is poisoned. Bob doesn't stop at his own meal, and eats his friend's poisoned meal, inadvertently saving him.
- Bob's overeating turns out to be a (nearly) Fatal Flaw.
- After consuming an inhumanly large amount of food, Bob vomits or his stomach bursts open.
- Bob is a world-famous eating contest champion, and practices every day by consuming large amounts of food to expand his stomach, and drinking loads of water and exercising a lot to burn all the extra calories away.
- Reconstructed:
- Bob does his best to resist eating too much.
- Alternatively, Bob finds a food known for being extremely filling, and eats mostly this.
- Bob has an incredibly fast metabolism, and can eat quite a bit without gaining weight.
- Zig Zagged: Bob eats heavily one meal, then eats very little the next. Then he eats all the food in a restaurant. Then he doesn't eat at all.
- Averted: Bob eats the amount of an average man his age.
- Enforced: The show has a Product Placement deal with a fast food chain.
- Lampshaded: "Wow Bob, haven't you noticed that you're eating a bit too much?"
- Invoked: "Hmm, if we disguise the vegetables as pizza and junk food, Bob will actually eat something healthy!"
- Exploited: Bob's enemy poisons the supply of Bob's Trademark Favorite Food, confident in the knowledge that he will be the one to eat it.
- Defied:
- Bob is given the choice to either eat a plate of food, or a whole table of food. He choses the plate.
- "Of course I won't eat that much food! What do I look like?!"
- Discussed: "Have you noticed that Bob eats more than a normal person would per day?"
- Conversed: ???
- Played For Drama: Bob is bulimic.
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