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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 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.

 

== 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.

* 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.

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* 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.

* 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.

* 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]].

** [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]]

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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