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Well, it looks like this is the end. The [[Eldritch Abomination]] rears up on its ugly, misshapen limbs, and devours the [[Idiot Hero|lovable hero]] face first. The audience does a collective cringe since, as everyone knows, watching someone getting [[Nightmare Fuel|eaten alive]] is [[Family-Unfriendly Death|not a particularly pretty sight]]. Audiences prepare for the sickening crunch as the monster...

See also [[Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal]].

 

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* In the ''[[Irresponsible Captain Tylor]]'' episode "The Day the Soyokaze Vanished", it is revealed that there are rumors that the Soyokaze was demoted and sent to this exact same sector of space once ten years before. During that time, a number of the crew committed suicide by flushing themselves into space, due to a combination of shame and boredom, and the captain (a former friend of Admiral Fuji, who arranged for the Soyokaze to be demoted so that he could be promoted) committed suicide. This is proven true and the ghost of the captain returns to the Soyokaze, trying first to kill Lieutenant Yamamoto (mistaking him for the captain), then Tylor. Just as he is about to kill them, Yamamoto and Tylor start arguing, revealing just how irresponsible and lacksadasical Tylor is about his commission, disgusting the ghost so much that he breaks off his murderous efforts and ends the haunting, angrily declaring them to be too pathetic to bother with.

** In a fight between Seras and Zorin, Victoria bites off Zorin's fingers, and spits them out saying she would never drink blood of something like her.

* Another non-comedic example in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. After he is critically injured, {{spoiler|Kimblee is devoured by Pride. Not long after, however, Kimblee emerges from the thousands of tormented souls trapped within Pride to distract and weaken him at a key moment. Pride doesn't understand how Kimblee could have managed to retain his sanity in the maelstrom, but he overlooks the fact that [[Insanity Immunity|Kimblee is already insane]] [[Crazy Awesome|and loving it]]}}.

** You'll also notice that {{spoiler|[[Fridge Brilliance|the other souls are staying as far away from him as possible]]}}.

* Another non-comedic example in ''[[Slayers]]''. The Holy Tree Flagoon was planted to absorb the evil miasma generated by demons, and in season 1 / novel 3 is able to consume the Demon Beast Zanaffar whole. In season 2 / novel 8, the tree tries to absorb the miasma of Hellmaster Fibrizo... and dies instantly.

*** The nickname also refers to the fact that she just generally terrifies dragons... and pretty much everyone else.

* A similar example appears in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', when England tries to curse America with an evil chair. [[Yandere|Russia]] sits on it instead and 'Russia is more evil than the chair, so the chair exploded'.

* In ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]'', after being tossed out the window in a tiger costume Miu returns as [[Dracula]], and proceeds to pretend to suck Matsuri's blood. ("Nothing like the taste of a sweet virgin's young blood," she remarks.) She turns to Nobue, but stops. ("No, wait. Old lady blood? Bleh...") Nobue protests that her blood's delicious, as she's only 16.

* In chapter 527 of ''[[Naruto]]'', The Raikage talks about two criminals known as the Kingin Brothers, who tried to seize the power of the Kyuubi, and got eaten for their troubles. For the next ''two weeks'', they caused him so much indigestion that the Ninetails couldn't stand it anymore and spit them out.

** And they survived by ''eating the Kyuubi's flesh.''

* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' has two examples of this. The first is when a villain who [[Cannibalism Superpower|eats people]] to [[Mega Manning|absorb their powers]] eats someone with [[From a Single Cell|incredible regenerative capabilities]], and is slowly taken over by him. The second is in backstory, though revealed rather late in the manga—a woman many centuries ago treated diseases by eating flesh from diseased corpses, building up antibodies, and then feeding bits of her own flesh to sick people. When a demon tried to eat her, she taunted him with the knowledge that he'd [[Regret Eating Me|almost certainly die of it]], and he wound up [[Interspecies Romance|seducing her instead]].

{{quote|'''Firo:''' Hey, come to think of it, isn't Isaac the kinda guy you said you hate? The kind who think they'll never die.

'''Ladd:''' Nah. I've been keeping my eye on him for a few weeks now, and... Well, let's be honest here. There's something wrong with the guy's head. Getting mad at him'd be like getting mad at a puppy. He honestly doesn't have enough brains to know any better. }}

 

== Comic Books ==

 

== Film - Animated ==

 

 

* Seen in the live-action ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'': {{spoiler|Bullwinkle is too dense for mind control to have any effect.}}

** Also in the original cartoons. {{spoiler|"No brain, no effect."}}

* The villain in ''[[Barbarella]]'' attempts to kill her by [[Out with a Bang|pleasuring her to death in his Excessive Machine]]. She, however, can take so much pleasure that the machine overloads instead.

** And yet, somehow, the giant evil-eating blob that engulfs the city at the end is so repulsed by her innocence that it spits out Barbarella ''and'' a villainess who just happens to be next to her.

* One ''[[Goosebumps]]'' book, ''How To Kill A Monster'', ends with the heroes captured by the monster, even after their attempts at killing it by making it fall through the stairs and poisoning it. {{spoiler|Said monster is allergic to humans, and keels over dead after merely licking one. Unfortunately, the monster's friends are pissed off after this.}} Cue the chills, as the book ends with the heroes alone, far away from town, {{spoiler|and in a marsh filled with these hungry, soon to awaken creatures. Hopefully the other monsters are allergic to humans too.}}

* Jack C Haldeman's ''Home Team Advantage'', published in ''Asimov's Science Fiction'' magazine, has alien Arcturians winning a baseball game, with the prizing being that they get to eat the entire human race. By the vote of fans, Julius Hawkline, the Howard-Cosell-expy is chosen to be the first devoured. After the Arcturian coach bites off and chews The Hawk's nose for long minutes, it's decided that humans are inedible and some other form of compensation will need to be worked out. The Hawk is one tough old bird.

 

== Live Action TV ==

* In at least two episodes of ''[[Torchwood]]'', the rampaging [[Monster of the Week]] encounters Owen {{spoiler|after he was [[Our Zombies Are Different|killed and resurrectied]]}}, and, after a moment of disgusted inspection, rejects him as a possible victim. The first time, in "Something Borrowed", {{spoiler|the monster doesn't eat dead meat}}, and the second time, "From Out of The Rain", {{spoiler|the villain steals your last breath - and Owen had his last breath some weeks beforehand}}.

** This trope actually forms a major part of the Series 1 finale. The [[Big Bad]] of the season, Abaddon feeds directly off life energy. So how do they kill it? The immortal Captain Jack allows Abaddon to feed off him, but Jack's life energy doesn't run out and Abbadon can't handle it.

** In another episode, Angelus bites a jock, but spits out his blood in disgust. The jock was taking steroids {{spoiler|and was mutating into a fish-monster.}}

* The cannibal featured in the ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episode "Lucky" originally ate prostitutes, but eventually switched to a different demographic of women since most of the prostitutes in the area used drugs, which makes them "taste funny".

* In an episode of ''[[Angel]]'', a demonic tree drains people's body-fluids with its vines, but it becomes poisoned when it tries this on Angel, who is a vampire.

* An episode of ''[[Charmed]]'' had an [[Emotion Eater]] defeated when Leo's [[Unstoppable Rage]] caused him to explode.

* In ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'', {{spoiler|the near omnipotent Utopia Dopant draws power from [[Emotion Eater|the hope and resolve of people]]. He meets his end when he faces Double during Philip's [[Last Dance]]. Philip's [[Heroic Resolve]] to save his sister with his final act overloads Utopia, allowing Double to defeat him.}}

* ''[[Absolutely Fabulous]]'':

{{quote|'''Patsy Stone''': The last mosquito that bit me had to check into the Betty Ford clinic.}}

== Tabletop Games ==

* In one old module for ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'', players have to stop a plot to link the mind of an [[Eldritch Abomination]] to the psyches of all humanity, by which the villains intend to reduce the human race to its gibbering worshippers. If they fail to stop it, there's a campaign-preserving [[Author's Saving Throw|GM Saving Throw]] option of having the villains' scheme run its course successfully... only to have the ''abomination'' be driven insane, by whatever standard of "sanity" might apply to Lovecraftian horrors, because the sheer number of human beings on Earth is so great that their cumulative psyches can overpower its own singular mind.

 

 

* In ''[[Nethack]]'', being swallowed whole while wearing a ring of slow digestion causes the devouring monster to vomit the hero out.

** Unsurprisingly, eating one of the [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse|Riders of the Apocalypse]] has an even worse result.

** [[Big Eater]] [[Catgirl|Tao]] (who attempts/considers eating various other characters in story mode) also chooses not to eat Arakune on the grounds of how disgusting [[The Nicknamer|Black Squiggly]] looks.

* Charlie Ho-Tep in ''[[Sam and Max]]'', the ventriloquist's dummy that unlocks Max's psychic ventriloquism power, used to belong to Junior, the youngest of the Elder Gods. Junior hated him; played with him for about ten minutes, and then chucked him aside, declaring him to be creepy as shit and wanting nothing more to do with him. That's right; he was too creepy for the brain-melting abomination against reality.

* Parodied in an [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0030.html early strip] of ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' with a <s>Mind-flayer</s> <s>Illithid</s> <s>Psionic Danger</s> Squid-thingy. On the next page, it compares Elan's [[Brain Food|brain]] to a Diet Coke, but Belkar is a better example of this trope because the Squid-thingy compares him to a taco and thinks, "Too angry... I'd get heartburn."

* This is how Torg of ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' avoids getting devoured by Aylee at first contact...and the second. - "Thank god for dandruff shampoo!".

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' off-continuity arc "[[Jumanji|Goonmanji]]". The evil cursed [[Reality Warper]] game is thoroughly frustrated: the main cast is far too perverted and accustomed to the [[Mad Science]] to treat whatever it does to them as something more than [[Fetish Fuel]] at best and petty annoyance at worst.

* In [http://www.dorktower.com/2006/05/05/comics-archive-781/ this] ''[[Dork Tower]]'' strip, [[The Loonie|Igor]] attacked a mind flayer with purple nurples and wedgies. Since this effectively proved his character didn't ''have'' a brain to flay, he won.

* In ''[[Chasing the Sunset]]'' Leaf [http://www.fantasycomic.com/index.php?p=c381 argued for] traveling with Feiht.

{{quote|'''Leaf''': Besides, while she's with us, monsters will avoid us - they have dignity. And dignity and [[The Fair Folk|pixies]] don't mix.}}

{{quote|Curiously, the book explaining the taxes applicable to importing galaxy-sized dragons remained unchanged. Accountants have so far failed to agree whether this was because the concept was silly enough in its own right, or the tax law was so chaotic already that there was nothing the Ur-pixie could add.}}

* ''[[Vexxarr]]'' [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=020415 reassures] Minionbot about its fate.

 

== Web Original ==

** One episode features something [[Tastes Like Diabetes|so horrible]], even the Warner siblings can't deal with it: [[Captain Ersatz|"Baloney"]] the Dinosaur.

** The episode involving Satan also featured them accidentally ending up in <s>Hell</s> [[Gosh Darn It to Heck|Hades]] and fleeing in terror from their assigned punishment: listening to "whiny protest songs from the sixties" for all eternity.

** In "Little Rock of Horror!", a brain-eating meteor-creature first attempts to eat Billy's brain but finds nothing. When it later devours Mandy's brain, it screams in pain, dies, and then reforms—but with Mandy in control. She comments "I guess my brain was a little too... spicy [for him]."

** Another episode has a Chupacabra latching onto Billy's face, which Grim claims to be an attempt to suck out his brain. Mandy laments that the poor creature would starve.

** Another "Treehouse of Horror" special had a zombie horde clamoring for "Braaaains" inspect Homer's head, then abandon him in disgust...He's actually [[Too Dumb to Live|offended by that turn of events.]]

** In the first "Treehouse of Horror", the haunted house the Simpsons moves into wanted each member of the family to die. When Marge had enough, she offers the spirit a choose: deal with them or leave them alone. {{Spoiler| The house [[Take a Third Option|destroy itself]] after telling the family to leave for a moment as he decided, even Lisa makes a comment about it.}}

** Subverted in the episode "The Joy of Sect". A cult brings all of Springfield to their compound to be brainwashed into worshipping their almighty Leader. Everybody is controlled except Homer, whose attention span isn't long enough to listen to the brainwashing. The cult leaders despair over his "powerful mind." Then one of them simply sings "Leader!" to the tune of the old ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' theme song, and he is instantly brainwashed.

*** Then [[Double Subverted]] later in the same episode, when Groundskeeper Willie tries to de-program Homer and winds up being brainwashed himself.

* Literal example from ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'': Following a succession of increasingly dirty encounters and not willing to wash Buttercup once became so filthy and stinky that a huge monster who tried to swallow her spat her out and refused to fight her until she cleans herself. That was the only thing that actually persuaded her to wash.

** In another episode, the girls capture a brain-sucking monster...when it is desperately searching the Mayor's empty head for sustenance.

** The Halloween episode featured Zim and Dib becoming trapped in a twisted alternate universe populated by monster versions of the regular characters. When they escape and the monster version of [[Sadist Teacher]] Bitters follows them, she's scared off when she witnesses the destruction caused by [[Cloudcuckoolander]] robot Gir attacking childen out for tricks-or-treats and eating all their food.

* In ''[[Beast Wars]]'', the Predacons infect Rhinox with a virus that turns him into a Predacon. Rhinox immediately embraces Predacon philosophy and starts plotting against Megatron (perfectly acceptable practice). However, unlike most of Megatron's underlings, Rhinox is smart. He would have defeated Megatron, if the Maximals hadn't interfered. Optimus Primal, to his credit, anticipated this outcome, knowing Rhinox.

* Pinkie Pie from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' spends most of her time doing utterly impossible and sometimes fourth wall breaking antics. But even she can't handle eating a rainbow.

** Double points for Pinkie reacting to it by [[Fire-Breathing Diner|breathing fire]]. So the rainbow was literally too spicy for Pinkie Pie.

* ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' episode, '''Kidnapped''', the duo “kidnaps” Steward in order to secure money for a concert only to discover how much goes into the concept, not to mention how annoying he becomes.

* Though a mother trying to instill discipline in their daughters in ''[[Daria|The Big House]]'', Helen is forced to come to this conclusion when Daria uses the time under house-arrest to resort to mind games. Jake admits he had little clue about the house's rules himself. {{Spoiler| This happens after Quinn snitches on Daria for sneaking out. Just as Helen was about to let Daria have, she's reminded of the likely outcomes.}}

{{Quote| '''Helen''': I see your point.}}

 

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