Death by Gluttony: Difference between revisions

 

Sometimes involves a [[Wafer-Thin Mint]]. Compare [[Balloon Belly]]. May turn into a case of [[Death by Irony]], particularly since the entire point of eating is to keep oneself ''alive''.

 

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* [[Meaningful Name|Gluttony]] from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' almost dies when {{spoiler|he eats Ed, Ling and Envy, and they get out}}. He gets better. Then {{spoiler|he died at his brother's gluttonous urge.}}

* Also Yakon from ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' dies when eating too much of Goku's Super Saiyan energy.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In a ''[[Dylan Dog]]'' story, he and other six people representing the Seven Sins are invited in a creepy mansion. The Gluttonous victim literally explode after eating a mint candy after a gigantic meal. {{spoiler|Justified, as Dylan put a bomb in that candy.}}

 

* The Gluttony victim in ''[[Se7en]]'' is forced to eat spaghetti until he passes out, at which point the killer kicks his stomach and it bursts.

* In ''[[Spaceballs]]'', Lone Star and Barf learn from a news broadcast that crime lord Pizza the Hutt (to whom they owe 1 million space-bucks) recently became trapped in his limousine and ate himself to death. Since he's an anthropomorphic pizza alien, [[Don't Explain the Joke|make of it what you will.]]

 

== Literature ==

* In ''[[Monday Begins on Saturday]]'' one of the [[Sufficiently Analyzed Magic|scientists]] made "A model of a Human unsatisfied by gluttony", which eats whatever it can reach (including two TONS of fish) until literally exploding.

 

* ''[[1000 Ways to Die]]'' has a bulimic model die this way in one episode.

** Another episode had a imprisoned terrorist who starved himself so he would be thin enough to slip through the bars. He then pigged out at a celebratory feast and died of refeeding syndrome (see [[Real Life]] below).

* Played for horror in season 5 of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''. {{spoiler|The Horseman Famine compels a town full of people to eat and drink themselves to death in truly horrific ways. A young couple eat ''each other'' to death while having sex. One man binges on Twinkies until he can’t swallow anymore, at which point he starts ''shoving them down his throat'' with a ''toilet brush''. Another man wants fries so badly he shoves his hands and then his face into a fryer where the fries are still cooking. Even Castiel, an angel who doesn’t feel hunger, is compelled by Famine’s presence to devour ''raw meat off the floor''.}}

** {{spoiler|Eventually Famine itself is defeated the same way: When he fails to tempt Sam with the blood of several demons, Famine eats the demons himself. Sam then exorcises the demons, ripping them right out of Famine's guts.}}

 

== [[Music]] ==

One day he said to Sambo "I'll give you two and six"

Sambo feeling thirsty, went in to a shop

 

== Opera ==

* This is how Jacob dies in ''[[The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny]]'', along with kitsch music that was very common in the dinners of the time and place the opera was written (1920's Berlin).

 

== Video Games ==

* Melvin Underbelly from ''[[Overlord]]''. Not so much at first, but in the expansion, you find in trapped in an [[Ironic Hell]] where he's given food until he explodes and can't control himself to stop, only to be revived over and over again. Using Melvin as a walking time bomb is crucial to the puzzles in said abyss.

* In the [[Atari 2600]] game ''Mangia'', one way to lose the game is to eat so much your stomach explodes. This is quite easy to do, what with your mother relentlessly serving more food to you.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[Vexxarr]]'' personally discovered that [[Silicon-Based Life|silicon predators]] (who prey on absurdly invincible silicon crabs) have digestion system so aggressive that the best defense is to simply [[Feed It a Bomb|feed]] one a single scone - which makes them ''explode''. Later he [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=061114 learned] that the ancient enemy of his species [[Giant Enemy Crab|Lattrox]] (who eagerly eat almost anything alive including each other - and even seemingly inedible hardware) can't resist the cake, despite such energetic food being lethal to them (though it takes one a lot of cake and many hours to die). They also try to eat a rock crab - which is more immediately lethal, seeing how they aren't nearly hard enough to prevent this prey from [[Kill It Through Its Stomach|simply digging itself out]].

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* [[Newgrounds]] managed to commit themselves to a DDoS when they tried to host the ''[[Homestuck]]'' animation ''[S] Cascade.'' They meant to drum up a bit of service, possibly culminating in some ad revenue. [[Gone Horribly Right|It didn't work out too well.]]

 

== Western Animation ==

* In an early Warner Bros. cartoon, a young pig explodes from voluntary overeating, but it's [[All Just a Dream]]. When he wakes up, [[Aesop Amnesia|he goes right back to massive eating.]]

* On ''[[Animaniacs]]'', Wakko still looks fine (if bulbous) after his 501st meatball, but [[The Grim Reaper]] stamps "Kaput" on his forehead and walks away with him.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

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