King of the Monsters 2 [Arcade, Neo Geo, SNES, Switch] – Quicksand Monster / Geon, Woo, Atomic

Media: video game: “King of the Monsters 2”
Developer: SNK
Platform: Arcade, Neo Geo, SNES, Switch

Description: 

Battle 4 takes place in the Desert, where there are giant whirlsands. If the played character walks into, or is sucked into the centre of these, a gigantic reptilian mouth emerges and eats them, causing a life lost instantly. Playable characters include Super Geon (a muscular reptile monster), Cyber Woo (a cyborg ape) and Atomic Guy (a giant resembling a costumed superhero).

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars [SNES] – Yoshi / Various

Media: video game: “Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars”
Developer: Square
Platform: SNES

Description: 

Using a Yoshi Cookie – obtained from Yo’ster Isle – on an enemy in battle will summon Yoshi to attempt to swallow that enemy. If successful, the enemy will disappear in a cloud of smoke, and a bulge is seen going down Yoshi’s throat before Yoshi lays an egg, transforming the swallowed enemy into an item. Some enemies are impossible for Yoshi to swallow, in which case, the enemy does not disappear in a cloud of smoke, instead Yoshi awards the party with a different item, such as candy.

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island Advertisement [Japanese version] – Yoshi / Shy Guy

Media: advertisement for: “Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island” [Japanese version]

Description: 

A few seconds into the advertisement, a fully animated hand-drawn Yoshi walks up to a freshly-drawn Shy Guy, grabs it with his tongue and swallows it with a modest bulge, turning it into an egg. He later tries to reach a parakoopa with his tongue but fails.

Yoshi’s Crafted World [Switch] – Yoshi / Various

Media: video game: “Yoshi’s Crafted World”
Developer: Good-Feel
Platform: Switch

Description: 

Much like most other games that feature Yoshi, he is able to swallow enemies by grabbing them with his long tongue and turn them into eggs. Certain enemies cannot be swallowed, and only held in the mouth and spat out, such a Koopas. Interestingly, in Two Player mode, each player Yoshi is able to hold one another in their mouth and spit them out as a form of short-range ammunition, but not swallow.

Super Smash Bros. Melee [GC] – Yoshi / Various

Media: video game: “Super Smash Bros. Melee”
Developer: HAL Laboratory
Platform: GC

Description: 

Yoshi is capable to devouring other plays in two slightly different ways; to grab his enemy with his tongue, and swallow them to turn them into an egg, or his grapple attack, that grabs his enemy with his tongue and holds them in his mouth, to follow-up by spitting them out. In this version, Yoshi is able to chew on his enemy by pressing ‘A’ while they are in his mouth.

Super Smash Bros. [N64] – Yoshi / Various

Media: video game: “Super Smash Bros.”
Developer: HAL Laboratory
Platform: N64

Description: 

Yoshi is capable to devouring other plays in two slightly different ways; using his regular ‘B’ attack to grab his enemy with his tongue, and swallow them to turn them into an egg, or his ‘Z+A’ (or ‘R’) grapple attack, that grabs his enemy with his tongue and holds them in his mouth, to follow-up by spitting them out.

Other players in the game include Mario, Luigi, Donkey Kong, Link, Samus, Captain Falcon, Kirby, Fox, Pikachu, Jigglypuff and Ness.

Spyro Reignited Trilogy [PS4, XBONE] – Lava Lizard / Bonebuilder

Media: video game: “Spyro Reignited Trilogy”
Developer: Toys for Bob
Platform: PS4, XBONE

Description: 

In the second game of the trilogy, Spyro the Dragon: Ripto’s Rage!, there is a challenge in Skelos Badlands, in which Spyro must protect the Bonebuilders from the dinosaur-like Lava Lizards. If he fails, a Lava Lizard will toss a Bonebuilder up in the air before catching him in its mouth, chewing and swallowing. It then spits out the bone the Bonebuilder was wearing in his hair.

Jak 3 [PS2, PS3] – Leaper Lizard / Daxter

Media: video game: “Jak 3”
Developer: Naughty Dog
Platform: PS2, PS3

Description: 

At the beginning of the game, when encountering Seem for the first time, Daxter will approach his Leaper Lizard who tries to eat Daxter – partially engulfing him in its jaws before spitting him out covered in saliva.

Jak 3 [PS2, PS3] – Leaper Lizard / Kangarats

Media: video game: “Jak 3”
Developer: Naughty Dog
Platform: PS2, PS3

Description: 

At the beginning of the game, Jak is tasked with riding a Leaper Lizard to catch Kangarats for it to eat. Upon catching one, it can be seen swallowing it whole.

Merrie Melodies ‘The Night of the Living Duck’ – Smogzilla / Daffy

Media: TV series: “Merrie Melodies”
Episode: “The Night of the Living Duck”

Description:

In this animated short, Daffy Duck is reading horror comics, and in his fervor to find the next continuation he is conked out by a Smogzilla clock. In his dreams he imagines himself a lounge-singer to a room of classical monsters. After singing his monster-related number, he realises one of the monsters in the audience is none other than Smogzilla himself, and makes a few quips about him. Smogzilla, clearly vexed, retaliates by encasing Daffy’s torso in his mouth, feet kicking furiously before Daffy wakes from his dream inside a waste-basket.