Characters, who may or may not be fat, but either way regularly eat enough for an entire football team, often devastating the whole table — and sometimes entire restaurants — in their insatiable hunger. They often use a speed-eating technique that makes food seem to vanish spontaneously from the plate. Primarily a comedy trope, a common sight gag with these kinds of characters in cartoons or anime is having piles upon piles of plates and bowls stack up as the character chows down. Cut a Slice, Take the Rest is a common joke involving this type of character, as is I'll Take Two Beers Too.
Extreme Omnivores and people with eating related powers tend to be Big Eaters by default. Large characters, such as the Big Fun and Boisterous Bruiser, tend to be this trope. In fact, the Fat Comic Relief is almost always a Big Eater. However, Big Eaters who remain thin despite their habits are considered the best examples.
Don't interrupt a Big Eater's meal, or worse, try to steal their food, as this is a very good way to piss the character off...
Although it's often Played for Laughs, serious examples and deconstructions are known to exist. For example, a Big Eater may be suffering from bulimia or overindulging as a symptom of deeper emotional problems.
Characterization-wise, it can also be used to fulfill the needs of many Required Secondary Powers, adding depth to a trait commonly dismissed as a comedic quirk and make a character's abilities more believable. Characters with a Healing Factor, Super-Speed, or the ability to change shape and size don't have to flout the laws of physics, they can simply explain that the extra mass and energy come from their over the top eating binges. Magic users in general can use this trope and say that they cast from their calories, which would explain why mages are often rather thin characters (though obese wizards aren't unheard of).
In action series, this is often a trait belonging to the Kid Hero, Boisterous Bruiser or other types of high-energy characters. Because many wild animals exhibit this in real life it's also a popular trait for Wild Child and Raised by Wolves characters.
In comics and manga it's common to make a Comically Serious character or badass a Big Eater as a way to add a humorous quirk that doesn't take away from the character's seriousness. A common justification for a female big eater is that all the fat goes straight to her breasts. Consequently, female characters with big boobs are often big eaters. Occasionally, they have Bizarre Taste in Food or are Obsessed with Food when not eating.
Truth in Television, though without proper exercise it can lead to obesity. People with higher metabolisms are better able to avoid weight problems caused by overeating and teenagers are known for being able to eat amounts of food that will make them fat if they continue to eat like that in their 20s and beyond. Vegetarians and vegans can come off as this because vegetable matter doesn't contain a lot of calories, so they often have to eat larger portions of food in order to get enough calories. Most wild animals need to be this because they usually have no idea when or where their next meal will be, especially in harsh environments like deserts or polar regions.
See Extreme Omnivore for when someone doesn't limit themselves to things usually considered food. If two Big Eaters are pitted against each other, it's an Eating Contest. For a villain that has this as their biggest vice (especially an obese villain), see Villainous Glutton. Players can invoke this trope in any video game where the characters have a Hyperactive Metabolism and eat food to heal their injuries. If a Big Eater is eating so much to get heavier, it's a case of Intentional Weight Gain. If a predatory animal is this, and the writer is feeling like it, you get yourself Black Comedy Predation. Compare Really Fond of Sleeping, which has a similar attitude toward sleeping and also are themselves likely to be a Big Eater. Characters like this may have a Delicious Daydream, sing an Ode to Food, or engage in Buffet Buffoonery. Animals that are commonly characterized as this include the Gluttonous Pig and Snack-Stealing Seagulls. Come the holidays they'll likely overlap Halloween Enthusiast. The Logical Extreme of this is Black-Hole Belly.
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Other examples:
- The Peanut Butter Weasel in Cap'n Crunch's Peanut Butter Crunch commercials loves its taste so much he eats all of the Peanut Butter Crunch Bird's cereal.
- Transport for Greater Manchester ran a 2018 campaign on the topic of antisocial behaviour on their Metrolink trams entitled Metrolink Monsters which revolved around ten monsters with different positive or negative personalities. Crumby Chris is depicted as always eating snacks on the trams and always leaves crumbs on seats, hence his name.
- BoBoiBoy: Gopal has a large appetite and will gladly eat anything, especially sweets. He has the power to transform objects into other objects by rearranging their molecules, but it was initially thought he could only turn things into food since he's such a big eater.
- Happy Friends:
- Big M. and Little M. rarely get to eat anything, so whenever they do find food, they'll usually scarf it down pretty quickly.
- Yuewu will immediately eat any food she finds, and in one episode she's shown having eaten multiple bowls of noodles at a restaurant.
- Motu Patlu (2012): Motu seems to love eating food in general, but in particular he's crazy for samosas (as in the comics the show is based on) and will do just about anything to eat them. Samosas will give him super strength in some episodes.
- Noonbory and the Super 7:
- Totobory loves food (particularly honey) the most of the Super Sensors. After all, he is the Super Sensor of taste.
- Wangury's evil schemes usually involve obtaining some sort of food.
- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Paddi regularly eats lots of food, particularly cake and candy. He likes candy so much that he builds a house out of it in the Joys of Seasons episode "Candy House Fantasy".
- Power Top Plate: When at her house, Tae-yang eats so much that Yu-ha is embarrassed on his behalf. Her mother, on the other hand, finds it endearing.
- Tenshou Academy has a couple of these.
- Satsuma, resident smart guy who eats constantly to make up for all the calories he burns while thinking.
- Mike, who asks for seconds mere minutes after he'd been ladled out an o-mori (ginormous) portion of curry rice.
- Magic: The Gathering:
- The Atog creature type are a race of these. The original
ate artifacts, but subsequent Atogs ate things such as enchantments,
dead creatures,
other Atogs,
and time.
- Similarly, anything with the devour ability, which can eat any number of other creatures when it's summoned to grow bigger.
- The Atog creature type are a race of these. The original
- In the Pokémon Trading Card Game, Jasmine is revealed to be one in Fujimoto Gold's illustration for Jasmine's Gaze
, where she's ordered an amount of food at a restaurant whose volume is larger than herself and is looking over her shoulder eating a gigantic sandwich. As she is incredibly skinny, she also Never Gets Fat.
- Tachyon in Sentinels of the Multiverse uses calories to fuel her super-speed. In the baseball-themed card game Bottom of the Ninth, which has a jokey expansion using Sentinels characters, she gets paid in food, "a decision the League regrets".
- The Emperor in Yu-Gi-Oh! is a real glutton, given the art of Tyrant's Tummyache.
- Jim Gaffigan makes a lot of jokes about himself being this. Many of his routines are food-related, such as the "Hot Pockets!"
- New Zealand comedian Billy T. James had this as part of one his jokes. He and his friends roll up to a fast food joint and are asked to take their order. He asks for "Five burgers, six fries, eight Cokes..." before turning to the back and asking "You guys want anything?".
- The late John Pinette also did a lot of jokes about food and his weight.
- Sergeants Orville Snorkel and Louise Lugg from Beetle Bailey. He's usually specifically excluded from local "all you can eat" offers, and together they need a table for four at a restaurant, as well as being fond of other variations of I'll Take Two Beers Too. One time Beetle comments that Sergeant Snorkel must be adhering to his diet because everyone else received an extra helping of food recently.
- Billy Bunter, a British character who first appeared in prose (in the Greyfriars stories) in 1908 and made the transition to comics in 1940.
- Blondie (1930): Dagwood constantly eats comically large sandwiches. He's so well known for it that his name has entered the dictionary meaning "a thick sandwich filled with a variety of meats, cheeses, dressings, and condiments", and he's the Trope Namer for that type of sandwich. It's also a popular name for sandwich shops in the midwest. In Belgium, Dagobert (the French name for Dagwood) is the name of (thick) sandwiches made from a half French bread filled with lots of ham, cheese, salad, tomatoes, carrots, mayonnaise and sometimes onions.
- Curtis: Curtis not only has a bottomless stomach, but one made of cast iron, capable of eating quantities and combinations of food that sicken his parents just thinking about it.
- Fat Bastard hitman Oodles from Dick Tracy.
- Subject of a couple of gags in The Far Side, such as the owner of an "All You Can Eat" buffet watching a towering block of a man coming in through the front door; it's not just that he's huge, but he has a mouth about a foot wide.
- Peter and Roger from FoxTrot; while Peter does this year-round (even eating groceries before his mother has gotten them to the parking lot of the store), he and his father really shine on Thanksgiving. This is often exaggerated as he's shown to be very heavy despite the similar body shape.
- Daughter Paige has her moments of this when candy or other sweets are involved. This is shown when the ice cream man comes running at the sound of her bell.
- Garfield — To the point that a few times, his legs couldn't even reach the ground. It's pointed out he only stops eating when there's nothing left in the house.
- Luann: He's more muscular than "fat", but Ox has a platinum credit card given to him by his parents to buy his lunches, which tend to be large. He once ordered every item on the menu of Wienie World using it.
- Popeye: J. Wellington Wimpy especially likes hamburgers, though any meal is fair game. His body shape is a round ball with a head and two stumpy legs.
- Sherman's Lagoon: Sherman, the titular dim-witted great white shark. Ask Fillmore the turtle:
Fillmore: You would enjoy pain if it were edible!
- Suburban Fairy Tale: Both Little Pig 3 and Big Bad Wolf. The former likes to gorge on junk food while the latter likes to make meals out of the various characters in the story.
- Zits: As a teenaged boy, Jeremy eats a lot and this is often a source of jokes. Add in his friends Pierce and Hector, and the three of them need a pizza that requires a forklift to transport, and drive all you can eat buffets to close early or make it 21 and over.
- In the West African folk tale "Ansige Karamba, the Glutton", Ansige eats an extraordinary amount of food at each sitting. One day he eats a young goat by himself and then tries to steal the chief's sheep. On other days, he eats enough roasted corn and millet dumplings for twenty men and still wants more. Nothing ever satisfies him for long.
- In "The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship", the Eater can finish a whole basket-load of bread in one mouthful.
- In "Little Otik", the titular monster eats several foodstuffs, seven persons, some horses, pigs, sheep, a wheelbarrow, a cart full of hay, and he is still hungry.
- "The Six Servants": One of the servants is able to eat large amounts of food. He drinks an entire river for the others to find a ring on the bottom, and helps the prince to eat 300 oxen and drink 300 barrels of wine with him in his Engagement Challenge.
- Zui Wu Dao: Wu Di is put through training by Xiao Hei that lets him be this, so he can in the maximum amount of energy from the food he eats. This includes demonic beast meat, which would kill a normal person if eaten raw like Wu Di does.
- Jerry Reed's "Amos Moses": The titular character is one — it's said of his parents that "Well, they raised up a son that could eat up his weight in groceries".
- In the Jonathan Coulton song "Big Dick Farts a Polka," the titular professional Gasshole:
Now, Big Dick started dinner with some cabbage and some greens,
Some broccoli, a pair of turkey legs,
Some jalapeño poppers and a tub of kidney beans,
Several liters of cream soda and a dozen deviled eggs. - In the Kinsey Sicks song "Don't Rein in My Buffet" Rachel almost leaves the show she's performing to go chow down at the buffet in the casino next door.
- In the "Weird Al" Yankovic song "Fat", a parody of Michael Jackson's "Bad", a verse of of the song explains how much of a big eater he is with lines such as "If I have one more, Pie a la mode, I'm gonna need My own zipcode" and "When you're only having seconds, I'm havin' twenty-thirds".
- "What did Mrs. Goldfarb have for breakfast?" in Allan Sherman's Grow Mrs. Goldfarb? (To the tune of "Glow Mr. Glowworm")
You had for breakfast two pounds bacon,
Three dozen eggs, one coffee cake and
Then you had something really awful,
Four kippered herrings on a waffle,
Nine English muffins, one baked apple,
Boston cream pie, Philadelphia scrapple,
Seventeen bowls of Crispy Crunch,
Then you said "What's for lunch?" - "Johnny Mceldoo"
is a tale of a man who finds himself one of these one day when he and his friends have some money to spend. They visit at least four establishments and Johnny just keeps calling for more food.
- "Just Eat It"
by Whale Island (鯨魚島樂隊).
- "Me So Hungry,"
a parody of 2 Live Crew's "Me So Horny."
- "Three Hundred Pounds Of Hongry," a song from the perspective of a Chubby Chaser (who seems to be something of an encourager) rhapsodizing over a Big Attractive Person Of Indeterminate Gender (who seems to be something of a feedee).
- Tony Tammaro:
- "L'animale" is a song about a man emptying an entire kitchen in a single night because he's really hungry.
- Exploited In "Un peperone dentro l'anima" the protagonist likes his home food and the tavern owner where he eats is more than willing to let him eat as much as he can, even when the former starts to struggle to eat anymore. He eats so much that he explodes.
- In Mamamoo's "Um Oh Ah Yeah" MV, Wheein plays a chubby guy who is eating or drinking something in every shot he is in.
- The Dagda, Big Fun father god of Celtic Mythology, was renowned for his appetite especially for anything involving porridge. At one point, some enemy Fomorians dare him on pain of death to eat a massive pit of food, and he happily complies, leaving with a Balloon Belly.
- Changelings are often described as having ravenous appetites, to the point of potentially eating their human families out of house and home.
- Classical Mythology:
- Heracles, known more commonly as Hercules, was often portrayed as having a huge appetite, especially in ancient Greek comedies, which fit well with his Boisterous Bruiser personality.
- Adephagia is a lesser goddess and personification of gluttony and spirit of satiety.
- In Igbo Mythology, Ameke Okoye drank up rivers and lakes to quench his thirst. All the people of his hometown labored hard to feed him.
- In Norse Mythology Loki is shown to be one when he and Thor visit the castle of the jötunn Utgard-Loki. He competes in an eating competition against the embodiment of fire, and only barely loses.
- Fool's Gold: Sands has both of its protagonists, Rooster and Kore, albeit in different manifestations: Rooster is a tiny guy who just eats about anything with no regard for quality, while Kore at least looks big enough to eat a lot and has only recently come to the surface from the Abyss, so he's started to really appreciate good food.
- Hero Club has Sir Oren from O Holy Knights, and Jade Pickett from The City of Mirrors and Chains of Atlantis. Sir Oren eats whole hams regularly, and was caught by a plate of meat under a box and a stick trap when we first meet him. According to his fellow knights, this isn't the first time either. Jade wolfs down all the food available to her, even when it's large portions provided by the wealthy Theobald Darringcroft. When she has a fairly small but expensive meal with him in Chains of Atlantis, she eats her food, Theo's, and another guest's portion!
- Less is Morgue: Riley is a voracious ghoul who consumes people, huge quantities of food, and in one instance, a whole goat. They even end up with a Balloon Belly after comfort-eating four whole meals in Episode 9.
- Sequinox: Tellie eats anything but food. Tellie is an Earth spirit and believes it's cleaning up trash, but it doesn't distinguish between actual trash and objects that still work and are in use. More mundanely are Chell and Sid, notably when they arrive at the Fall Festival and declare their intent to eat their weight in fried dough. Chel's player Jake even compares Chel to Rusty from Oceans Eleven 2001.
- Trials & Trebuchets: Integrity loves to eat; she always helps herself large quantities of food from the dining hall, and is frequently seen snacking between meals.
- The Wild Samoans were known for coming to the ring devouring raw fish.
- Royal Hawaiian would devour two pineapples at a time on her way to the ring in GLOW.
- Sky Deviler was always hungry in Kaiju Big Battel.
- At Smackdown in Iraq, John Cena rapped about his opponent Big Show and how unlikely he was to lose to him because "This ain't no pie eating contest!". Kurt Angle would later make the same joke, proclaiming he would accept Big Show's challenge to any athletic competition, but warning him that pie eating contests did not count as athletic. Eddie Guerrero once gave Big Show diarrhea after conning him into eating a tainted burrito.
- Alicia Fox has the reputation of eating everything but her own cooking.
- Dolph Ziggler confirmed this, saying that a mere one hour workout will make him hungry (granted, his is probably a little more intense than average Joe) and that he is always looking for something to eat.
- At Sudbury for Pro Wrestling Eve, Alpha Female went to market in between workouts(which consisted of pressing Nikki Storm) to obtain meat, which she ate raw after rinsing in a sink.
- DTU and AAA wrestler Niño Hamburguesa, who routinely breaks out sandwiches before his matches are even finished.
- The motif of Ryback, right down to his theme opening with "FEED! ME! MORE!"
- The Adventures of Slim Goodbody: The Gobbler was an obese mafia-esque villain whose sole purpose in life in his introductory episode seemed to be to eat as much as possible, to the point where he had his henchman hypnotize an entire city's children into losing their appetites so that he could eat all their food!
- Between the Lions: The entire lion family when it comes to eating meat.
- Walter and Clay Pigeon may also be an example of this. In one episode, they managed to clean the entire roof by eating up all the popcorn.
- The Dark Crystal and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance: Villainous Glutton skekAyuk the Gourmand, the most voracious of the Skeksis. He likes sweet liquors and hot spices, and he boasts to have a different menu for every feast. He's in charge of the Crystal Castle's kitchens and feasts, and cares little for etiquette, possessing few table manners and shamelessly urinating in public.
- Eureeka's Castle has Emma which is funny, since not only is she a small mouse, but she is smaller than the main characters.
- The puppet for Jacques Chirac in Les Guignols de l'Info is portrayed as a Big Eater, always willing to devour large quantities of food. This is an exaggeration of the real-life Jacques Chirac, who has nonetheless the reputation of a healthy appetite.
- The Funday Pawpet Show's Hugh Manatee is always looking for mass quantities of chalupas. From the 420 show... "The Heart Attack Grill"
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- The Letter People: If it's not enough that Mister M's sound is "Munching Mouth", his song cements his status this way as he lists foods starting with M that he loves to eat. If that's still not enough, his introductory episode had him at a market, eating foods beginning with M, making a mess.
- The Muppet Show:
- Animal is both a Big Eater and an Extreme Omnivore.
- Rizzo the Rat, despite being one of the smaller characters, is frequently eating. Truth in Television as rats typically need a lot of food.
- Downplayed compared to other examples, but Miss Piggy can occasionally be seen eating like... well... a pig. When she goes on a diet in one episode, she laments how she's gone without eating for 20 minutes.
- Sesame Street: Cookie Monster. "ME WANT COOKIE!!!"
- Thunderbirds: The eldest Tracy son Scott has next to no self-control when it comes to his beloved apple pie.
- "The Stoned Pelican": Mike August, a frequent guest on The Adam Carolla Show, is notorious for never turning down free food, ever, even if he just ate and it's the same thing he just ate (famously once eating a free steak at a live show and then eating another one when Adam took the gang out later).
- The Navy Lark: The Padre certainly knows how to knock back his nosh in the Wardroom, such as during breakfast in "Operation Showcase" when he orders four rashers of bacon, two poached eggs, half a dozen sausages, three tomatoes grilled, a spoonful of kidneys, two spoonfuls of mushrooms, four slices of fried bread lightly done, eight pieces of toast, a pound of butter, both sorts of marmalade, a pot of coffee, and half a pint of cream on the side:
Pertwee: Slimmin' again, Padre?
- Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues has Emmanuel, a Formerly Fat super-speedster who burned off all his weight but kept his healthy appetite — in fact, it's necessary for him to eat lots so that he can regain all the calories he loses speeding around. His introduction has him scoffing down a classroom's worth of cookies after Mirielle drops them.
- Ronove in The Gamer's Alliance eats a lot and always seem to stay hungry no matter how much he has eaten. His favourite foods are strawberry cakes and sand gnome legs.
- In Survival of the Fittest, Reika Ishida is shown to be one of these in pre-game, judging by the fact that when she orders something from A&W she gets a large hamburger meal alongside some chicken all for herself, and then snags some of the KFC bucket her sister and a friend are sharing. Note that this is a 4'9 tall and 95 pound teenage girl. Jay Holland also shows tendencies of this when he orders six McDoubles that have fries inside them, small cups normally used for condiments to be filled with Oreo McFlurry, four more burgers stacked together, a bunch of milkshakes, a large Pepsi, and coffee at a McDonalds. Though, he does use the justification that he just survived a terrorist attack, so he has the right to get fat.
Examples by creator:
- In Plautus' plays, table-companions (a peculiar Roman institution, also called "parasites") are played as comically large eaters, making this Older Than Feudalism. Ergasilus in Captivi, given the run of Hegio's kitchen, causes an uproar not unlike those common in The Slayers.
Examples by work title:
- Falstaff from Henry IV. In addition to being a drunkard, he runs up quite the food bill at Mistress Quickly's. He also was the namesake for the term falstaffian, which is now used to describe these people.
- Algernon Moncrieff from The Importance of Being Earnest. In his Establishing Character Moment, he's seen eating the cucumber sandwiches his butler left for his aunt. In fact, it's Lampshaded by the protagonist Jack Worthing on more than one occasion — including his very first line!
- Into the Woods: Little Red Riding Hood is described as being rather plump, and when she's at the Baker's she nearly cleans him out of his bread and sweets. She says it's for her grandmother, but she ends up eating all of the sweets along the way as well as half of a loaf of bread. When she gets eaten by the wolf later on, who just ate Granny as well, the narrator laughs and comments that it was a full day of eating for both.
- La Nona: Played for Drama. La Nona's ginormous food consumption severely strains her family's finances while she herself cares little for the situation. Every few hours, she re-enters the kitchen to demand snacks or meals and is appeased with increasingly smaller portions (what little her family can offer her). Later, she gets married to the owner of a bodega and manages to eat all of the establishment's candies in a month and a half. Her finishing monologue has her alone, as all of her relatives have either died or left, reminiscing about the fantastic meals she enjoyed in her youth.
- The titular protagonist from Ubu Roi attends a banquet his wife cooked up for their various co-conspirators including such delicacies as "tarty-farts", "turkey bum", and "balogna soup". Upon realizing that his wife is going to give away all that lovely food, Ubu chases the others out with a toilet brush so he can finish it himself.
- Flick-to-Stick Bungees: Kitor, a character from the Bionic Bungees set, is described in his bio as having a habit of gobbling up metal without considering whether the other Bungees will need it.
- Tamagotchi: Kuchipatchi, a character from the original toys, has always been characterized by his massive appetite. On some newer devices, you can guarantee your Tamagotchi evolves into him by nurturing food-related skills (or simply by ordering lots of meals), and he needs to be fed more often than other Tamagotchi.
- The Transformers: G1 Sparkabot Guzzle is described in his bio as having originally been known to his friends for his extremely energy-efficient alt-mode, but after the war broke out he upgraded himself to transform into a powerful tank. This caused his fuel consumption rate to skyrocket by a factor of 100, so he has to consume massive amounts of Energon to stay operational.
- Ace Attorney: Maya Fey, who within the span of a few minutes claims to have a separate stomach for steak and a separate stomach for sweets.
Phoenix: (Just how many stomachs does this girl have?!)
- Akane Owari from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. It's usually Played for Laughs, but it becomes less funny when her backstory comes up, revealing that she and her Massive Numbered Siblings grew up in severe poverty and that her tendency to devour any and all food she can get her hands on whether she's hungry or not was developed out of necessity, as she never knew when her next meal was coming, or if she'd even get one at all. Also, we have Byakuya Togami/Ultimate Imposter who has a huge appetite. It is justified with the fact he deliberately gained weight.
- Taiga Fujimura and Saber from Fate/stay night. Saber has the excuse that food replenishes her mana. Taiga doesn't.
- Then again, the guy they hang around with is a Supreme Chef. Who would blame them for wanting some more munchies?
- Of course, with the exception of the anime, the amount Saber eats is not that great. Her reputation actually comes from proof of the inverse: implying she's not getting dinner incurs her wrath and one of the most memorable comedic scenes in the game.
- Saber's supposed obsession with food is hugely exaggerated in some spinoffs, notably Carnival Phantasm.
- Emma Cee from Halloween Otome is known for this to her companions. In fact, her frequent visits to the kitchen grant her a chance conversation with her host.
- Emi Ibarazaki from Katawa Shoujo. At one lunchtime at the rooftop, she brings a lunchbox who is twice as larger as Hisao's and Rin's. Justified as she's the local Passionate Sports Girl, thus does a lot of exercise and burns more calories than most people so she kept her girlish figure.
- Magical Warrior Diamond Heart:
- The protagonist, Valerie, is an aspiring baker who's constantly talking about cake and sweets and cares way more about missing lunch than her grades.
- Amber even moreso than Val, is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to food, downing two enourmous sundaes aptly named "The Tower of Babel" in episode 9. And unlike Val, she's hardly picky about what she puts in her mouth, sometimes burying her food in order to let it "ripen".
- Momoyo Kawakami from Majikoi! Love Me Seriously! is notable for this at times. It gets brought up in the anime several times, and she can clearly put away a lot
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- Marco & the Galaxy Dragon:
- The titular heroines both have big appetites and are easily distracted by the thought of food. In Arco’s case, this is because she’s born from a black hole: she’s always hungry, and can clear out all the food on their ship by herself. Other characters quickly figure out that they can bribe Arco (and Marco, to a lesser extent) into doing whatever they want by offering free food.
- Gargouille is no slouch in this department either. The local news dubs her "Hydration Girl" after she drinks a public fountain dry.
Gargouille: As someone born on the planet of sand, I really longed for a planet with tasty water. It’s been my dream to one day drink a bottle filled up completely with water. (looking proud of herself) And now that dream has been fulfilled.
- Minotaur Hotel: As if Luke wasn't already a huge American stereotype, he can gobble down whole hamburgers and fries in one bite. How he manages to not get fat is anyone's guess.
- Monster Con has April First the Monster Clown idol. Though she's slim and an event explicitly mentions she's got "noodle arms", she has a massive appetite, constantly suggesting going out to eat, fantasizing about food, and writing it in her songs. As the series runs on Black Comedy and horror, she is also quite fond of devouring the flesh and blood of her fellow monsters.
- In Our Life: Beginnings & Always, main love interest Cove is a bit of a picky eater as a kid, but he gets over it in subsequent steps, putting away large portions of food, greatly appreciating any treats given to him as gifts, and having a particular weakness for sweets. He ends up fairly muscular and towering over most other characters as an adult, so it seems the calories helped him grow vertically rather than horizontally.
- In Season of The Sakura, Meimi and Seia are observed as being this by Shuji when he has dinner with him.
- Shall We Date?: Ninja Shadow has Ukyo, the local Fair Cop, who is known for having a huge appetite and a massive Sweet Tooth. i.e., in Kagura's path he takes some of Kagura's sweet dumplings during a talk and without asking, much to the ire of Haru aka the Supreme Chef who made said dumplings for Kagura himself.
- In Sickness, Misa devours a bunch of meat while on a picnic with Suoh (leaving him to his dismay with mostly vegetables) and ends up making herself sick.
- Licia in Strawberry Vinegar, especially around rice. However, she learns the limits of her body when she gets sick one morning as the consequence of overindulging for three days straight on human food.
- In Virtue's Last Reward, during the route where Phi goes to the Pantry in Round 2, she apparently spent the whole time eating everything in sight while her teammates did all the work solving the puzzles. She lists off seven different dishes that she ate, and later adds an eighth one that she forgot about. Her excuse for her gluttony is that she's a "growing girl"... except she's 20. As Sigma points out, people tend to stop growing before then. However, it's likely that the "growing" she's trying to do isn't related to her height.
- 13 Cards: As shown in In Clones Order Pizza, Waru eats his own slice of the pizza, locks Kuromaku out on the balcony to steal his slice, and despite having had more than anyone else, he tries to snag a third slice.
- Chocolatey from Brawl of the Objects. She loves candy so much, that she could just burst.
- Nikki from Camp Camp certainly qualifies. In the opening number of the show, she's shown to have the largest amount of food on her tray, and is shoveling it in with a fork in each hand. And in the episode "Nikki's Last Day on Earth," she clears an ENTIRE TABLE full of food as a "last meal."
- Dayum:
- Larry, the “Foodie” from “Types of People at Funerals Portrayed by Minecraft”, orders pizza at a funeral.
- Subverted with Bobby from “Types of People at Restaurants Portrayed by Minecraft”, who orders a great deal of food and claims he can eat it all, but then gets full before he can finish.
- Bob from “Types of Kids at Sleepovers Portrayed by Minecraft” scarfs down a whole lot of food from the kitchen.
- The “Dumb” from “Types of TikTokers Portrayed by Minecraft” is seen eating a whole lot of food, which is implied to be why she’s so fat.
- DSBT InsaniT:
- Anyone Sushi eats is always Swallowed Whole.
- White Killer Eels aren't as voracious as Sushi, but they still have a nasty appetite.
- Fuwa Fuwa Foof: Kiri Kiri is never seen eating onscreen, but at the beginning of the webcomic's episode "Fair Play", she mentions that she's recently eaten six whole plates of sushi. This becomes a Brick Joke later in the episode when Kiri Kiri gets dizzy after taking a ride with Foof on the amusement park's rollercoaster (all while dreaming about sushi and cookies for a moment), making her vomit the digested sushi out of her mouth.
- Gaston loves to eat throughout The Gaston Trilogy, mentioning food at least twice in every single section, with the third being entirely about him trying to obtain Taco Bell.
- Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures: Pompompurin will almost always be seen eating, from tacos to mashed potatoes that Badtz-Maru swapped with his ice cream, to cake, there's precious little he won't eat.
- Helluva Boss:
- Averted, or at least Downplayed with Beelzebub; while almost all other portrayals of embodiments of the Seven Deadly Sins in fiction default to portraying Gluttony as a fat and bloated creature obsessed with eating, Bee represents gluttony as hedonism, which is why she appears as a slim and sexy party girl. While she does create lots of food and encourage people to eat and drink as much as they want, it's all about indulging themselves in what they enjoy rather than just eating for eating's sake.
- Main character Blitzo is shown in one episode stuffing a large amount of food in his face on his day off. He's implied to also have Bizarre Taste in Food, as one scene shows him eating a large wedge of Swiss cheese covered in ketchup.
- Asmodeus is shown eating a whole large bowl of candy in the episode "Oops;" justified, as he's about fifteen feet tall so would most likely need a lot of food.
- Mammon is often shown chowing down on food when watching his yearly clown pageant; also counts as Villainous Glutton.
- The King of Town from Homestar Runner.
Strong Bad: I'm looking for disgusting eating records. Why don't you just have lunch? I'm sure you'll set several without even trying.
- Inanimate Insanity: In Invitational, we meet The Floor, who, when his team makes a mile-and-a-half high pie during a challenge to make a mile high pie, eats enough of it to make it a half-mile high pie. That's right, he casually eats a mile of pie. During an earlier event, MePhone4, who is no slouch in appetiie himself, has this to say:
MePhone4: Geez, and I thought I was the fat slob.
- Whenever Wake from Japanoschlampen comes across food, she devours it, no matter how much it is, forgetting all traces of table manners in the course. Good thing her Okaasan loves to cook.
- Deandra from The Most Popular Girls in School, exhibit A to your right. She eats $57.28 worth of food in her lunch. Her menu there is an Overly Long Gag in itself.
Deandra: Can I have a hotdog?... Lemme get some tater tots. Oh, and, also, a slice of pepperoni pizza, and, also a basket of jalapeno poppers, and some chicken nuggets, a ketchup boat, three potato pancakes, a creamsicle, two quesadillas, a bread loaf, side of ranch, some pixie sticks, taco salad, an order of ribs, aaaAnd a Diet Coke- no. Strawberry shake. No! Diet Coke. NO! Both.Lunch Lady Belinda: That is gonna be one huge shit.
- Nikiciy
- Valkia, the Hungry Vampire, a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire who has replaced drinking blood with eating insane amounts of food. In his second video, he goes to ramen restaurant and eats so much ramen that the restaurant actually runs out of ingredients.
- The video Big eater
has Oliver the snow leopard overeating and becoming obese.
- This paid advertisement
for Zenless Zone Zero has Ben and Koleda entering an eating contest, with Ben easily winning.
- Subverted in Is it okay to eat that much?
, where a pizza delivery driver becomes scared of a fat customer who keeps ordering insane amounts of pizza and thinks that he is going to grow into a monster and refuses to deliver to him anymore. The twist reveals that the fat customer isn't eating all that pizza himself, he is a father with ten children.
- Organ Story: Lloyd is mostly seen either eating or smoking. In only a single day, he eats enough high-fat and high-cholesterol food to get himself cartoonishly fat.
- PONY.MOV:
- If Applejack eating two barrelfulls of apples in "APPLE.MOV" isn't an example, we don't know what is. Also, biting off Appelox's head makes her the biggest eater in existence.
- Appelox is known to eat planets.
- Revenge Films: In this story
, a man always orders a lot of food at restaurants and can finish it in one sitting without taking any leftovers, which spikes up his credit card bill due to the humongous meals he eats.
- Rune Adventure: At the beginning of "Anna Ate Too Much", Moono and Leon serve Anna Lucy three overflowing plates of food. And she eats them all. Although of course, given her condition as a gasshole, a few hours later she starts farting excessively.
- RWBY has Ruby, a teenage speedster with a a major Sweet Tooth and a killer metabolism, demonstrated in the first episode when she eats an entire plate of cookies offered to her in only a few seconds. She repeats the feat five volumes later with a plate of sandwiches prepared by Jaune's sister Saphron and her wife Terra, scarfing down sandwich after sandwich. There's also Nora, who inhales entire pancakes and drinks maple syrup straight from the bottle.
- All of the main characters early in Season 3 order bowls of noodles roughly the size of their entire torsos. Blake's also has several huge fish stacked on top of the noodles. Each of them finishes their entire bowl, and have contented expressions like that was just enough food to fill them up. Except for Jaune. He looks (and sounds) like he’s about to throw up. Later in Season 5 they cook a giant pot of ramen (specifically meant for a party of several adults) and eat the whole thing themselves. The combination of rigorous Huntsmen training and teenage growth spurts is probably to blame for it.
- Sgt Ducky: According to Ducky, Connie has a large appetite and a particularly strong sweet tooth.
Ducky: She's obsessed with food. I swear, she fantasizes more about food than men. Like, my fantasy is a mixed-race threesome, hers is being left alone for three hours in a fully-stocked bakery. Don't let her good looks fool you — inside her beats a heart of pure diabetes.
- Rock Hard Gladiators has Munch, who is said to have been "gifted with a bottomless stomach" and whose main schtick is having a voracious appetite. Most of the fights involving him result in him Eating the Enemy too.
- Marmalade of Cole and Marmalade loves to eat, and sometimes tries to swipe human food.
- The guys from Epic Meal Time, who routinely prepare massive dishes with five- (sometimes six-) figure calorie counts and then eat them on camera. What probably helps their frames is that Harley is rather tall and Muscles Glasses (a personal trainer in real life) often hits the gym.
- Lulu from Kittisaurus is notorious for his large appetite and us usually the first in line when Claire brings out treats. Lala also counts, as she's never far behind him when food is concerned. Dodo has surpassed Lulu in terms of food, to the point that Claire had to train him to take treats nicely due to him biting her hands to get the food — deliberately and accidentally.
- Boris from Life of Boris always cooks in servings that would feed multiple at once, or one hungry Boris.* His food also tends to be loaded with sugar and carbohydrates or deep-fried in sunflower seed oil.
- Minecraft Misadventures SMP: In order to purchase a rat mount from the Meriport Sewers, one must first earn the sewer rats' trust by feeding them. It usually takes stacks upon stacks of food to gain enough reputation points to make the purchase. And killing any of the rats during a dungeon run would decrease one's reputation with the faction, meaning players would have to feed them even more food to do so.
- Natural Six: Kel is pretty much perpetually hungry, and is always on the lookout for something to eat.
- Like Doug Walker, The Nostalgia Critic seems to live off booze, cereal and junk food but never gets spots or looks fat.
- Not exactly thin, but beefy/muscular Pretty Dudes character Jay is constantly eating.
- Ian and Anthony of Smosh both qualify, although Ian seems to be the bigger eater.
- While Mario isn't exactly fat, in The Sonic Amigos he eats all of his and Luigi's spaghetti offscreen. Maybe.
- Steve1989MREInfo: Some of the rations Steve features include multiple meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner, all of them high calorie and designed to keep soldiers on their feet and he lets nothing that's edible go to waste.
- Strippin jokingly refers to himself as a food disposal unit, and the premise of one of his challenge videos
is to face off against Smiffy from Hat Films in a burger eating contest, with the forfeit being that the loser is slapped with a half-eaten burger. Smiffy wins. It is worth nothing that Strippin gets away with this since he is very well-built and does lots of exercise to counteract this. Since moving to LA in early 2014, this has started to catch up with him
.
- Turpster, by reputation. Smiffy of Hat Films says that Turps has bought an entire family bucket meal from KFC and eaten all of it, himself. He and Turps have a gentleman's agreement that they will, at some point, do an eating challenge.
- Simon Lane constantly jokes about this in Yogscast real life videos, with a joke in "Kicky Kicky Flow
" about his consumption of Jaffa Cakes.
- The players of JLA Watchtower
one time got into a debate of "Which team would win an eating contest? Wally West and Jesse Quick or Gar Logan and Aurora Andersen?" Aurora is about 5'2" and small-built, but is also an animal-shifter like Gar is. Her metabolism resembles a shrew's, especially if she's been working her shapeshifting a lot. Good thing she's also the Team Chef for the Titans.
- This Lolcats
page.
- The Onion: Traditional 10,000-Calorie Sumo-Style Dinner Leaves American Tourist Writhing In Hunger
.
- Nearbaseline humans in Orion's Arm are this trope as a result of their various modifications
(which are what differentiate them from baseline humans). Their appetite is 25-50% more than baselines of similar body mass. Since they live in a Post-Scarcity Economy, this isn't a problem except in unusual circumstances.
- The SCP Foundation has, among its specimens, SCP-913
a.k.a. "Mr. Hungry", an apparently ordinary African-American man who requires "the recommended daily caloric intake for a normal human every 2 hours", otherwise he falls into a trance in which he will eat any solid matter he can in order to sate his appetite.

