History for Main/BalloonBelly - TV Tropes (2024)

[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'', one of the many varieties of [[OurVampiresAreDifferent indigenous bloodsucker]] is the Shtriga, a Central European witch who feeds on blood to power her magic and preserve her youth. She is characterized by her gluttonous appetite, which sees her consuming so much blood that she ends up having to vomit some of the excess, and even after that her stomach is left so swollen and taut that she [[MistakenForPregnant can easily disguise herself as being a pregnant woman]]. Her stomach is so important to her that killing her requires staking her through the stomach.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': One archetype for the Witch class, the Gingerbread Witch, has [[SwallowedWhole the ability to swallow any target in their size category or smaller]]. If the swallowed target is the same size or one category smaller, the Witch's stomach distends greatly, causing the rules for carrying heavy loads to apply to them. Curiously, the target is not harmed inside the witch's belly and can theoretically remain there indefinitely.

[[folder:Theme Parks]]
* In ''Ride/DespicableMeMinionMayhem'' at Ride/UniversalStudios, footage of Gru's failed tests of the Minion Gun at one point show one volunteer being turned into a bloated-looking Minion.

[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* ''VisualNovel/LongLiveTheQueen'': In the death where you eat poisoned chocolates, Elodie will GoOutWithASmile as she sits there with a bloated gut and [[GreenAroundTheGills a green face]].

[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': In "[[Recap/HTFTakeAHike Take a Hike]]", Nutty sucks out all the honey from a beehive and instantly becomes obese. This results in him being unable to outrun a bear and getting killed by it.
* Kphoria animations always play this trope whenever a character [[SwallowedWhole eats another one]].
* ''WebAnimation/LucasTheSpider'' ends up with a balloon ''butt'' after he and Findley the Fly (then known as "Bzzt") polish off a plate of chocolate-covered strawberries in the "I'm Starving" episode of the web series. Then again, being a spider, his stomach ''is'' in his butt.
* ''WebAnimation/Plan3'': Hosuh grows quite a gut while eating the tangerines provided by the Fate lord’s minions.
* ''The Green Azumarill'':
** In an early short titled “The Bonk! Bamboozle (feat. Reptilian!)”, Evil ends up with this after consuming many Bonk! cans.
** In the 2018 Christmas Special titled “Green Azumarill How To's: How to Set Up the Perfect Christmas Setting”, in the dramatization of an unfinished Christmas setting, the last things that were ruined were the presents, in which Green reveals he ate them, which resulted in Green getting this.
** In the St. Patrick’s Day 2021 special titled “Green Azumarill gets a Shamrock Shake”, Green orders a Shamrock Shake from [=McDonalds=], and when he likes it, he keeps asking for more, eventually resulting in this happening to Green.

[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': In "[[Recap/HTFTakeAHike Take a Hike]]", Nutty sucks out all the honey from a beehive and instantly becomes obese. This results in him being unable to outrun a bear and getting killed by it.
* Kphoria animations always play this trope whenever a character [[SwallowedWhole eats another one]].
* ''WebAnimation/LucasTheSpider'' ends up with a balloon ''butt'' after he and Findley the Fly (then known as "Bzzt") polish off a plate of chocolate-covered strawberries in the "I'm Starving" episode of the web series. Then again, being a spider, his stomach ''is'' in his butt.
* ''WebAnimation/Plan3'': Hosuh grows quite a gut while eating the tangerines provided by the Fate lord’s minions.
* ''The Green Azumarill'':
** In an early short titled “The Bonk! Bamboozle (feat. Reptilian!)”, Evil ends up with this after consuming many Bonk! cans.
** In the 2018 Christmas Special titled “Green Azumarill How To's: How to Set Up the Perfect Christmas Setting”, in the dramatization of an unfinished Christmas setting, the last things that were ruined were the presents, in which Green reveals he ate them, which resulted in Green getting this.
** In the St. Patrick’s Day 2021 special titled “Green Azumarill gets a Shamrock Shake”, Green orders a Shamrock Shake from [=McDonalds=], and when he likes it, he keeps asking for more, eventually resulting in this happening to Green.

[[folder:Real Life]]
* Some animals that swallow their prey whole can develop this after a big meal. Snakes, for example can swallow prey larger than their own head, resulting in a large bulge in their midsection that can take weeks to digest. Many species of deep-sea predatory fish are known for having the ability to swallow prey that's larger than they are, which as one can imagine causes their stomachs to become seriously distended.