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At this point, one of two things happens. Either the monster is slashed open from the inside or the outside, and the hero escapes unharmed (and usually quite clean), or else he does something to cause the monster indigestion, [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth|and get vomited back out]]. For bonus humor, they may not even be aware they were inside the monster's gut until they provoke this dyspesia.
This may be a case of [[Eat the Bomb|Explosive Indigestion]]. When the hero himself simply proves to be inedible, it's [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth]]. When the hero puts up a fight after being swallowed, it's [[Kill It Through Its Stomach]].
This is an extremely old trope and features very often in children's books, though it also shows up in other settings.
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It's not limited to the [[Furry Fandom]]; may be invoked as [[Fetish Fuel]] (whether as permanent digesting or harmless temporary swallowing/passing) or [[Nightmare Fuel]]. [[Your Mileage May Vary]] as to the [[Squick]]iness factor.
Compare [[Just Eat Him]]
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* In chapter 5 of [[Tokimeki Tonight]], Ranze mistakenly shapeshifted herself into a bread during a race and end up swallowed by her rival Yoko. She manage to morph back and escape in the following chapter through Yoko's mouth when she was unconscious.
* What Mana does to Tobita to power herself up in ''[[Super Dreadnought Girl 4946]]''.
* [[Humanoid Abomination|Guu]] has a habit of swallowing ''many'' things, including the other title character of ''[[Haré+Guu]]''. When she does, Haré discovers an ''entire world'' inside her, populated by the people, places and things she's already swallowed.
== Comic Books ==
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* In an issue of [[Booster Gold]], a transformed-to-rodent Blue Beetle is swallowed by an antagonist called Estrogina. After failing to free him, Booster despairs, until {{spoiler|the spell changing Blue Beetle into a chipmunk wears off...}}
* Most of the monsters in ''[[Felarya]]'' swallow their prey whole, but they do have stomach acid, and it's rare they get out alive.
* The origin of
* The very first issue of ''[[Ythaq]]'' involved emergency landing of a habitable spaceship module (bar where protagonists got stuck) into the sea. Local fauna happened to support giant sea serpents, one of whom gulped it down whole. The module's emergency systems included manoeuvring plasma thruster, so… «One ulcer coming right up!»
== 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.
* [[The Wolf and The Seven Young Kids]]: The wolf
== Film ==
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** And Jabba the Hutt, in various other media if not the movies themselves.
* Burt Gummer gets swallowed by a Graboid in the third ''[[Tremors]]'' movie; he's in an oil barrel at the time, which offers a degree of protection, but he's still looking a little grotty when he's cut free from the corpse.
* ''[[Pinocchio]]''. The protagonist and Geppetto are swallowed by Monstro, a giant whale. They escape by starting a fire, the smoke causing Monstro to sneeze and cough them up.
* During ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]: Revenge of the Fallen'', [[Humongous Mecha|Devastator]] uses his giant vortex thing to eat [[Uncle Tomfoolery|Mudflap]]. Shortly afterward, Mudflap punches Devastator's [[Eye Scream|eye]] out from inside his head and starts to hit him with it.
* Happened to Agent K in ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' and a mugger in ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]] 2''.
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** And then, upon reaching Sydney, are immediately swallowed by a pelican.
* The dragon from ''[[The Pagemaster]]''.
* This is heavily implied to be Dallas's fate in ''[[Alien]]''. Not only does the Alien resemble a snake, Parker never actually found the body. It's anyone's guess as to what happened to the flamethrower, but it is possible that the alien decided to get rid of it, since the flamethrower could hurt the creature.
== Literature ==
* The old troll in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[
* 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.
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* Happens to several main characters in [[Robert Silverberg]]'s ''Lord Valentine's Castle''. Luckily for them, [[Stock Ness Monster|water-lord]] anatomy is [[Bizarre Alien Biology|weird]].
* How one travels by [[Cool Airship|blimp]] in the ''[[Gaea Trilogy]]''. Luckily, blimps' digestive acid has approximately the pH of strong tea; they can only digest food that's been pre-digested and crapped out again by their symbiotes.
* 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.
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* 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 ==
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* The duck in [[Peter and The Wolf]]
== Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends ==
* 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.
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* At least one Native American tale has [[Trickster Archetype|Coyote]] undergoing this as a deliberate strategy, being prepared he cut his way out, killing the monster and freeing all of its other victims.
== Recorded and Stand Up Comedy ==
* According to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNPX5Jvah88 "Green Garden Hose"] by [[w:Terry Fell|Brother George Underbrush]], during the month of August green garden hoses will shed the metal ring on their noses and have been known to attack humans. He recounts an incident where a woman was swallowed whole by her hose, but explains that green garden hoses take four days to start digesting their prey, and if you frighten it with another hose painted to resemble a snake, it will vomit out the victim to make itself light and agile enough to fight the presumed snake.
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'',
** Some large monsters have the Swallow Whole ability;
** 5th Edition handles this a little differently; if a swallowed victim manages to inflict a certain amount of damage to the monsters insides in a single turn (in the case of a purple worm, 30 hp worth) the attack causes the beast to cough the victim up. Still unrealistic, but not so much as before.
** Why would anyone ''want'' to be Swallowed Whole by a monster? The third-party splatbook ''The Guide to Hell'' mentions the Worm of Minauros, a unique creature that lurks in the swamps of the third layer of Hell that resembles an extra-large purple worm. If anyone tries to fight it, that's pretty much what it is, although it also hates devils with a passion, killing any it comes across. However, if a mortal with an alignment other than Lawful Evil approaches it with no weapons in an act of surrender, it opens it jaws allowing the creature to approach. Anyone brave enough to let
** Banderhobbs are a unique example of this, as they swallow victims in order to take them alive. Monsters introduced in 4th Edition, they are servants of some unknown entity from the Shadowfell, and it's not known exactly what happens to their kidnapped victims. Victims who have been rescued after being swallowed recount a frightening experience where they end up in a cavernous area much larger than the banderhobb, with a giant face that has a very large mouth taking up an entire wall of the room. Most believe the "mouth" on the "face" is a sort of second throat that leads to the beast's true stomach.
== Video Games ==
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* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'', Link gets swallowed whole by Jabu-Jabu, leading to the [[Womb Level]].
* Most of one chapter in ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]'' takes place inside [[Womb Level|the belly of a giant manatee]]. Some of the residents are actually quite content there.
* Bowser does this to the [[Super Mario (franchise)|Super Mario Bros.]] in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story|Bowser's Inside Story]]'', and they spend a large portion of the game in various parts of his body. Later, he gets the ability to do this in battle, devouring enemies and leaving them for the bros to fight.
* In the ''[[RuneScape]]'' quest "Deadliest Catch", the fisherman Jones gets swallowed whole by the Thalassus, a giant sea monster. The [[Player Character]] feeds the Thalassus some nasty-tasting karambwan fish and it spits him right back out again.
* In the CRPG ''Dragon Lore,'' the player at one point has to get himself swallowed by a large fish to retrieve a key it ate (Or you can just [[Cutting the Knot|kill it and gut it]]. Rather ridiculous since the fish is ''not'' a giant, but "merely" eight feet long or so, and is also a pike, one of the few types of fish that do ''not'' swallow their prey alive, but rip them apart first.
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* ''[[Wizardry]]'' 8 has swallowing as an attack/status effect. The swallowed party members can be saved by killing the creature that did it (so it's probably a bad idea to cause panic or blindness that will make the monster run away). The critter with swallowing attacks likely to be met first is called simply "Swallower".
* Swallowing ''one'' person whole is one thing, but in ''[[Gears of War]] 2'', the Riftworm is so colossal, it swallows the protagonists' entire helicopter! This leads to a [[Womb Level]] fight where the heroes' try to fight the beast from within, eventually cutting themselves out (covered with blood and gore) when it is finally slain.
* ''[[Bayonetta|Bayonetta 2]]'':
** A Resentment is an [[Elite Mook]] that will try to do this to Bayonetta after turning her into a child; in this case, it is an OTK.
** Bayonetta's summoned demon Baal does this to a foe when used as a Torture Attack (which, ironically, is used on Resentments) or a Climax Attack.
** Finally, this also happens to Bayonetta before the battle with Insidious, which leads to a [[Womb Level]].
* 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.
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* 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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== Web Original ==
* The ''[[Resident Evil]]'' inspired short [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEbtUPvq_c4 seen here] combines the Trope with [[Ask a Stupid Question]]. Ironically, while this is obviously a parody, it ends better than the encounter in the actual game does.
* ''[[SCP Foundation]]'':
** [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-050-pt SCP-050-PT] ("the Sackman") is a monster who ''usually'' consumes prey this way, much like a snake does. "Usually", because if an intended prey gets on its nerves, it will first beat that prey to a bloody pulp with the sack it carries.
** The Witch Queen of Bogal Mountain is an entity mentioned in the story of SCP-2922 (“Notes From Down Under”). She is queen of the Striders (giant humanoids about 2,000 meters tall). Far more cruel and malicious than her subjects, her usual way of dealing with mortals who are brought to Bogal Mountain is to gleefully devour them, swallowing them and savoring how they scream and struggle as they go down her digestive tract. As terrifying as this is, the key to surviving is cooperate not resist; the two months spent in her belly will be a horrifying ordeal, but it will be over after two months, and victims will pass through her system, recover, and are then free to go. Those who ''do'' resist (or dare to insult or attack her) meet a much crueler fate, the specifics of which are marked [[You Do NOT Want to Know|DATA EXPUNGED]]
** A weird example, [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3282 SCP-3282]. This is basically a giant centipede that is usually asleep, being awake one day out of every thirty. On that one day, it hunts for a human prey, consuming said prey this way, and then going back to sleep; the next time it wakes up, it disgorges the still-living prey, and then goes to hunt for another. Any prey that goes through this only vaguely remembers what happened, and after a week or so of insomnia, starts having odd dreams of a temple in a beautiful underground city. The Foundation is currently engaged in research directed at finding this city (assuming it exists) and training volunteers for this task; seeing as this would mean [[Refuge in Audacity| finding someone willing to be SCP-3282's prey]] (other than a D-Class), that might be difficult...
== Western Animation ==
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* Happens to Chris twice on ''[[Monster Buster Club]]''.
* [[Hanna-Barbera]]'s ''Moby Dick'' episode "The Sea Monster". Tug is swallowed by the title monster and finds that its interior is hollow.
* In ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', Beast Boy turns into a whale and swallows the rest of the team inside himself when the T-Sub is destroyed to keep them from drowning. "Please don't tell me we're where I think we are," muses Raven. (As Starfire notes, Beast Boy [[You Need a Breath Mint| has terrible bad breath]].) At the end of the episode, when Brother Blood's base is flooding and they realize they have to leave the same way, she seriously weighs that option against drowning, but takes it at the last second.
* In ''[[The Snorks]]'', the Snorks are swallowed up by a giant Snork Eater that plays hypnotic music that lures its prey toward it. They manage to escape by blowing a giant bubble inside it while Tooter duels musically with the Snork Eater.
* And before that, ''[[The Smurfs (animation)|The Smurfs]]'' had the title characters on a sailing ship swallowed up by a whale in "Smurfs At Sea". They escape by tearing apart their boat and turning part of it into an escape raft while the rest was converted into a hydraulic lift to keep the whale's mouth open long enough for them to escape through it.
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** In the second season (which focuses on the Snake Men) King Hsss has been known to do this (via shadowy indiscretion shot) to victims just as large as he is somehow. (King Hsss is man-sized.) Unlike most examples of this Trope, such victims ''do not'' survive.
* [[Tuff Puppy]]
* [[CatDog]]
* Played for laughs in a scene in ''[[Disenchantment]]'', where [[Hard-Drinking Party Girl]] Bean is in some sort of drinking contest where she has to swallow a live fairy in a glass of beer. The fairy makes no objection, telling her, [[Double Entendre|"Go ahead hon, I go down easy."]] Two scenes later, Bean burps and the fairy flies out unharmed. Far from the oddest thing that happens in this cartoon, by the way.
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