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== Fairy Tales ==

* ''[[Little Red Riding Hood]]'', in most versions anyways, there are a couple older editions where the wolf carves up grandma and lil' red.

 

== Film ==

 

== Literature ==

* In ''[[Judy Blume|Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing]]'', Peter's pet turtle Dribble is swallowed alive by his little brother Fudge. It doesn't survive of course, but Peter's first question upon learning that the turtle is out of Fudge's system is if it's alive or dead, as he'd [[Reality Is Unrealistic|hoped this trope might apply]].

* In a variant from ''The Bones Of Haven'', a giant spider encountered in the sewers lands on Hawk when it's killed. While it didn't actually swallow him, he punches a hole in its descending abdomen with his ax, ends up inside its (mostly hollow) belly, then spends the next couple of minutes hacking his way out.

* In the original ''[[Pinocchio]]'', the protagonist is swallowed by a sea monster called the Terrible Dogfish (''not'' a whale, like in the Disney adaptation) and finds his father Geppetto living in its belly, where he has survived for two years. After learning that the Dogfish suffers from asthma (and thus sleeps with its mouth open) the two manage to escape with the help of a friendly tuna.

 

* In the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' episode "Bliss", the Voyager crew is led inside a giant bioplasmic creature who deceives them into thinking they are flying into a wormhole that will lead them straight to the Alpha Quadrant. Only Seven of Nine, Naomi Wildman, and the Doctor are unaffected, as Seven and Naomi share no interest in returning home and the Doctor was taken offline by the rest of the crew. They encounter an alien pilot of another ship who was trying to destroy the creature and work together with him in order to escape.

* On ''[[Charmed]]'', the Big Bad Wolf does this to Piper and Grams in a fairy-tales-come-to-life episode. Piper blasts it into a cloud of fur-tufts from inside, and the two are released unharmed.

 

== Music ==

* The duck in [[Peter and The Wolf]]

 

* Jonah and the <s>whale</s> [[Insistent Terminology|giant fish]] from [[The Bible]].

* Miniatures of St. George and the Dragon often show George freeing a maiden (unharmed) from the dead dragon's belly.

* Several monsters in ''[[Resident Evil]]'' can do this, the most notorious being the Yawn in the first game and the Gamma Hunters in the third.

 

* In ''[[George the Dragon]]'', the [[Loch Ness Monster]] (aka Gladys) has a stomach which is full of all manner of undigested sea critters who have created a civilization in her stomach and who in fact are [https://web.archive.org/web/20110309013750/http://www.drunkduck.com/George_the_Dragon/index.php?p=473981 going to war.]

* Whether the predators in ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'' swallow their prey whole or kill and carve them first seems to depend mostly on [[Rule of Funny]].

 

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