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* In episode 10 of ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', Keroro's mouth becomes infested with microscopic, cavity-causing aliens, and a good chunk of the rest of the cast (including a robot duplicate of the sergeant mentally controlled by Keroro) shrinks down and enters his mouth to fight them off.
* In ''[[Dragon Ball|DragonBall Z]]'', during the fight versus Buu, Goku and Vegeta ([[Fusion Dance|fused together]] as "Vegetto") get absorbed by Buu, and end up travelling through the villain's body so they can rescue their allies.
* Due to some extremely trippy [[Applied Phlebotinum]], the final battle of the IL arc of ''[[GetBackers]]'' takes place inside the opponent's body. Thus, hitting Makubex (who was in there with them...) caused the whole landscape to warp and shake.
* In the third part of ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'', when Steely Dan implants his Stand, The Lovers, into Joseph's head, Polnareff and Kakyoin shrink their own Stands to the same size and enter his brain to battle it.
* ''[[Galaxy Angel (anime)|Galaxy Angel]]'' has an episode where the team needs to enter Volcott's body because of some strange thing that make him change his body into several crazy stuff. Mint got haywire and it turns even crazier, which in the end result in Volcott turning into a baby.
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* Besides the film novelization that he wrote (which is in itself notable for being a movie tie-in that's still in print ''over forty years after the movie was in theaters''), [[Isaac Asimov]] wrote a [[Spiritual Sequel]] novel in the 1980s called ''Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain''.
* [[Show Within a Show]] version: in ''Dream Park'', one of the park's many popular attractions is the Mr. Digestion roller coaster.
* The story "The Space Cow" inverts this; a normal-sized veterinarian enters a gigantic alien organism to attempt to diagnose its apparent illness. {{spoiler|The animal is perfectly healthy, it's just lethargic because [[Bizarre Alien Biology|its young are ready to leave its stomach]] and begin independent living.}}
* In ''[[A Wind in the Door]]'', Meg Murry and several other characters shrink to microscopic size to enter Charles Wallace's mitochondria and save him from the [[You Fail Biology Forever|rebellious farandolae]] destroying him from the inside.
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* The text adventure game version of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'' included a sequence where Arthur would find himself exploring his own brain.
* In one of the missions in ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'', the EBA enter a track star's body in order to encourage his immune system (anthropomorphized as a nurse) in its battle against a rather nasty virus.
** In the [[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan|original Japanese game]], the Ouendan squad helps antibodies fight off what appears to be food poisoning in a musician.
* In Irem's shooter ''X Multiply'', the spaceship X-002 gets miniaturised and injected into a space colonist's body to defeat an alien virus. You even get to see the X-002 coming out of the tip of a syringe at the very beginning of the game.
* Done twice in ''[[Okami]]''. First, a shrunken Amaterasu has to enter the Emperor's body, through his mouth, to stop whatever it is that is making him exhale a noxious gas. A much longer trip involves a full-sized Ammy leaping down the gullet of the Water Dragon and exploring its innards, {{spoiler|causing such wounds in the process that the Dragon dies from internal bleeding}}.
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* ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'', "Unremarkable Voyage": After Meatwad swallows an experimental computer chip, Frylock shrinks himself to go in and get it. Thanks to a few screw ups, both he and a miniturized Carl eventually wind up inside Master Shake. They then have to beat their way out of Shake's eye, killing him in the process. [[Negative Continuity|No worries though.]]
* On ''[[Captain Planet and the Planeteers]]'', the shrunken Planeteers battle microbes from polluted water inside Kwame after he accidentally drinks them.
* In an episode of ''[[
* ''[[Danger Mouse]]'' has an episode where DM and Penfold use Baron Greenback's shrink ray to follow the villain inside Colonel K. to defeat the toad's terrible plot.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'': Stewie shrinks himself and enters Peter's body to prevent his parents from reproducing. Apparently all sperm are their potential human counterparts flying around in fighter jets. Stewie also meets a comrade in sperm form who shares the same sadistic tendencies as Stewie. He actually gets born in a later episode after Peter donates sperm.
* ''[[Futurama]]'', "Parasites Lost", although with a twist: Zoidberg and co. are sending miniature robot replicas of themselves inside Fry. Gives Leela (well, a miniature thereof) the opportunity to slice and dice them up without any long-term ramifications. Farnsworth's scientific explanation as to why they don't shrink themselves: "That would require extremely tiny atoms, and have you priced those lately?"
** The "tiny robots" method also allows for an unusual take on the trope - later in the same episode, Fry creates his own tiny robot, thus effectively allowing him to go inside ''his own body'' (though this was earlier done on ''Doctor Who'', with clones instead of robots -- see above example).
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** In one episode of the ''[[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]]'' cartoon, BJ got a bad case of [[Easy Amnesia]] after being hit by a falling satellite, and a psychiatrist shrinks himself, Lydia, and a duplicate of Beetlejuice so they can enter the original BJ's body, work their way to the brain, and fix the problem.
* In the "Mundane Voyage" episode of Ralph Bakshi's ''[[Mighty Mouse the New Adventures]]'', Mighty Mouse is miniaturized and sent into the President's body.
* ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' once took a tour through the human body in one of the books that spawned the TV series, and then ''five'' times in the TV series: Arnold was the "victim" in the book and the show's adaptation of it, with him accidentally ingesting the shrunken bus while eating a snack, while Ralphie and Ms. Frizzle had their turns as well, to investigate the body's immunity system, and muscular systems respectively. Then they wound up going inside Arnold ''again'' to figure out what had made his skin turn orange. Finally, Arnold cousin Janet gets her turn when the class goes inside her nose to study smell.
** There was also a computer game where you- you guessed it- go inside Arnold. Poor kid. (Incidentally, [[Insanity Prelude|this troper]] blames said game for her phobia of [[Womb Level|Womb Levels]].)
* ''[[South Park]]'' did a twisted parody of this trope, in which a gerbil named Lemminwinks had to find his way out of Mr. Slave's ass. And then it happened again with ''Paris Hilton''.
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** Dib then swallowed a nanobot and had Gaz remote control it, eventually leading to {{spoiler|Dib's robot and Zims robot fighting near Dib's brain.}}
* Used in an episode of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' where Beast Boy turns into a bacterium to fight a computer virus that has taken over Cyborg.
* An episode of the '90s ''[[Iron Man (animation)|Iron Man]]'' cartoon does this; Hawkeye's spine is injured in a fight, and Tony has a technological fix but no way to safely insert it. So naturally he goes for hand-delivery. This is further complicated when a similarly-shrunken Ultimo tags along.
{{quote|"You're giving him a heart attack!"
(Tony is trapped in a ventricle) "Yeah, and it's me it's attacking!" }}
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* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'': On the episode "Journey To The Center of Candace", When Isabella's dog Pinky eats her sash, the boys try to go inside and retrieve it, but [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|are accidentally eaten by Candace]].
* The ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' episode "Journey to the Center of the Bat!", starring Aquaman, the Atom, and the cutest lymphocyte EVER.
* A episode of ''[[Muppet Babies]]'' had Kermit, Piggy, Gonzo and Skeeter use their imaginations to shrink down to germ-size and give Scooter's bumbling immune system a hand when he catches a cold.
* In the season finale of ''[[The Secret Saturdays]]'', the final battle between {{spoiler|Zak and Argost takes place inside the body of the super cryptid <s> Kur</s> fake Kur.}}
* In the finale of ''[[Transformers Return of Convoy]]'', the Battlestars are swallowed by Star Giant and have to fight their way out from within.
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