There is the one scene in a work, be it film, book, TV, video games, etc., where a character is in a scenario that puts them in an ideal position to belch, like drinking alcohol or soda or eating food, but they just don’t belch for some reason. It’s that one moment where you think, “Oh, this is it. They’re going to burp. I can’t wait.”, only to realize that it’s not going to happen and the story threw away something great.
For example, in Shrek the Third, a film that’s terrible for many other reasons besides the one that I’m going to list, Princess Fiona is having a baby shower and is mentioned to have some effects from her pregnancy, like cravings. She’s even seen chomping down on a large slice of cake. Given that pregnancy is known to make women gassy and that Fiona is an ogre with an already strong appetite and belching prowess, then having her burp to show off more of how her pregnancy is affecting her should have been easy. Unfortunately, even that simple notion was ignored, and I am merely left to ponder what could have been.
I also really wish that there was a scene in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs where soda monsoons from the sky, and the weatherwoman Sam Sparks reports on it while sampling the rain, and later gets interrupted by her own burps, blushing as she embarrasses herself on live television.
So, does anyone else have any other movies, cartoons, games, etc would you like to see remade with burping?
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I remember in the movie Tomorrowland there was a scene where the main character (Casey I think?) chugged two cokes to refill her blood sugar or something. Its been years since I’ve seen this movie and it was pretty uninteresting so I’m kinda fuzzy on the details but I distinctly remember being annoyed that she didn’t burp after doing that. Even if they just wanted to insert a moment of easy comedy its such a missed opportunity.
(I don’t care what the age of the character is, the actress was 26 at the time.)
Any movie featuring Wonder Woman, but particularly the latest live-action one. I just love the idea of Wonder Woman or any of the Amazons casually letting out huge belches, whether from a beer or from eating. They don’t seem like the type to get hung up over that sort of thing or excusing themselves.
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Slightly related, in the justice league cartoon that came out in the early 2000s there was a scene where hawkgirl lets out a belch after chugging a drink in a alien bar with green lantern, that was honestly one of my earliest memories of burping making me feel strange.
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Ooh, yes, love that scene! I’d love to see Hawkgirl in a live action film. Particularly because I always pictured her as a fit, buff Jessica Biel circa Blade Trinity-type (another weakness/“fetish” of mine). 
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I’ve been informed I was wrong about my earlier post. Whoops, it’s been a while, sorry!
The movie “Lucy in the Sky” starring Natalie Portman. Natalie portrayed Lucy Cole in the film, and was very tomboyish with how she dressed, acted, etc. Imho it’s the sexiest Portman has ever been in a film. There are many scenes of her drinking in the film, but not one belch, sadly.
https://youtu.be/2E9aknVGp6g
(2:45-2:52)
https://youtu.be/X3n5Pk8fkLg
(0:33-0:44)
To quote Robert De Niro’s character from “Cop Land”, “You blew it!”