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== Anime and Manga ==
* In a plot point exclusive to the manga, Zeff from ''[[One Piece]]'' cut off and ate his own leg while stranded on a deserted island with Sanji, who he had secretly given all the stockpiled food to.
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* In ''[[Toriko]]'' gourmet cell users will suffer from "[[Gratuitous English|the autophage]]" (which they are at constant risk of due to their [[Hyperactive Metabolism]]) which gives them a power boost but kills them rather quickly.
* In ''[[Madoka Magica]]'', {{spoiler|Kyubey, who has multiple bodies, eats his own corpse after Homura shoots him.}}
== Comic Books ==
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* Stem Cell of ''[[Livewires]]'' (an android) is forced to chew off most of her own artificial skin to digest and recycle into giant, flaming, self-replicating robots as a [[Batman Gambit|gambit]] to complete her team's botched mission.
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* In ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'', the vacuum monster eats everything in its universe; as a last resort it eats itself, mouth last.
* Nikos's last dying act in ''[[The Anthropophagus Beast]]'' is to start gnawing on his own spilled intestines.
* ''[[Wrong Turn 4 Bloody Beginnings]]'' reveals One Eye and Three Finger acquired their trademark deformities this way.
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* A character in ''Cannibal'' coerces another into cutting off his penis. They cook and eat it, though judging by the looks on their faces as they do so, it isn't quite as tasty as they thought it would be.
* In ''[[The Silence of the Lambs|Hannibal]]'', Hannibal manipulates a drugged Mason Verger into cutting off and eating his own nose, and also feeds Paul Krendler his own brain.
== Literature ==
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* In Jeff Long's ''Deeper'', a [[Complete Monster]] gets his comeuppance when he's paralyzed from the neck down and left to starve to death in a desolate cavern. He regains partial mobility in his hands, but it happens so very slowly that he realizes he'll die before he can crawl his way to food; he therefore finger-climbs his hand up to his face, and begins eating [[Fingore|his own fingers]]. {{spoiler|And then gets attacked and killed before he can move anything else, meaning he chewed himself up for nothing.}}
* In the ''[[Silmarillion]]'', [[Giant Spider]] and [[Eldritch Abomination]] Ungoliath devours herself while wandering in the wastelands of the Middle Earth.
== Live-Action TV ==
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{{quote|'''Anya:''' "... then, this one time, a girl wished that her ex would cannibalize ''himself.'' Even I had a hard time watching that one, let me tell you--"}}
* A [[Saturday Night Live]] skit with Chevy Chase as [[I Am a Humanitarian|Jeffery Dahmer]] had him trying to convince his lawyers to let him act like he's insane during the trial so they can try for the insanity plea. They try to convince him that no shenanigans are necessary. He seems confused that someone might think he's insane without acting insane... as he begins to calmly eat his own fingers.
== Music ==
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* Happens in a children's song by Swedish poet Lennart Hellsing. A [[Reality Warper]] sorcerer from India is goaded by the Emperor of China to turn himself into a glass of lemonade (presumably because his magic is dangerous or at least annoying, it isn't clear). However, it was a very very warm day and the sorcerer got thirsty...
== Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends ==
* The [[Ouroboros]] is a snake that eats its tail; it represents eternity and perfection and shows up as symbolism in a lot of works.
* [[Classical Mythology]] also has a story of a mortal king punished by the gods with [[Horror Hunger|an insatable hunger]] that drove him to poverty, and forced him to wander the lands with just his daughter to help him scam money out of people for food until she finally left him. He then [[Rage Against the Heavens|raised his shaking fist to the sky curse the gods]], prompting him to notice how plump, meaty, and juicy his hand looked. The curse then placed on him by the gods then evidently made it possible for him to consume his entire body, including his own mouth which of course had to be eaten last.
== Video Games ==
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* ''[[Dead Island]]'' features the Butcher enemy, rabidly aggressive zombies that have their forearms ending in chewed bone. It's implied that they chewed off their own hands as the virus set in.
▲== Web Originals ==
* The [[SCP Foundation]] has [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-524 SCP-524], an [[Extreme Omnivore]] rabbit who is ''so'' extreme that his diet includes himself. When the only remaining parts of his body are parts that he can't reach with his mouth, [[Alien Geometries|his mouth flips inside out]], swallowing himself whole in one final gulp. Half an hour later he'll re-appear, whole and unharmed.
* Happens in an episode of ''[[Salad Fingers]]''. [[Mind Screw|Or not]]. Its not very clear just what is going on only that Salad Fingers likes his doppelganger's [[Brain Food|brains]].
* The [[Christmas Episode]] of ''[[Retarded Animal Babies]]'' had Puppy recieve a [[Gag Penis]] for Christmas as a present from Satan Claus, and as a result he sucks on it until he explodes.
== Western Animation ==
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* People who bite their cuticles. Especially those who bite so much they start to bleed.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d45fbqta4D8 Snakes can eat themselves.]
* As stated above, in the latest stages of starvation the body will practice this, breaking down itself in order to keep it running. The
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