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A corollary to this is the near-universal practice of having vampirism heal the vampire, to the point where health-draining effects are often called "vampirism". In actual vampire myth, bloodsucking had no such effect; vampires only fed on blood as humans eat food. This could have tenuous justification, as their metabolisms aren't being judged by the human standard. A vampire sucking blood to heal himself could make sense, if only because we can't really deny it.
This is [[Truth in Television]], if a little exaggerated. Food's (original) point was to refill the body, and to give it fuel. People are told when they are sick to eat as much as they can (without throwing up), because a full stomach gives the body a more ready supply of nutrients. It is also a means for games allow healing without giving an idea of [[Unfortunate
[[Power-Up Food]] is the trope when food provides benefits in addition to (or instead of) restoring health.
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* An ad for the relatively healthy fast-food chain Subway shows a platformer character doing this with more traditional fast food, and consequently getting too fat to fit through gaps.▼
* Parodied in the anime film ''[[The Castle of Cagliostro|The Castleof Cagliostro]]''. Lupin III is severely wounded and seemingly comatose, when he suddenly awakens and demands large amounts of food to restore his strength. In the middle of gorging himself on a veritable feast, he suddenly turns green, stops eating, and whispers that he'll sleep now. Played straight in that he does indeed soon have his strength back.▼
* Allen Walker from ''[[D.Gray-man]]''. After a long, hard battle, he starts [[Big Eater|binge eating]]. One can assume that he has an extremely Hyperactive Metabolism when, even after eating a gigantic pile of food the size of a room, he is seen remaining rail thin.▼
** Explained as he's a parasite-type innocence user, technically, he's eating for two, Krory's also been alluded to having this appetite when he's not [[Our Vampires Are Different|snacking on Akuma blood.]]▼
* While perhaps not demonstrating healing capabilities, in the ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' series, Goku is repeatedly shown to have a bottomless stomach that allows him to consume a positively ridiculous amount of food. In addition, this food completely replenishes his health while not slowing him down in the slightest. In fact, that energy gained by Goku from eating more than his weight in food tends to make the difference between winning and losing a fight.▼
** And then you have the senzu.▼
* [[Big Eater|Luffy]] from ''[[One Piece]]'' seems to operate on this system, adhering to all four points: not only is he seemingly capable of eating nearly anything he finds with no apparent ill effects, he has a preference for meat of any kind, which seems to recover more health and energy. At one point he eats a couple of chicken legs after being wounded, and it is pointed out that he's doing this in order to recover from some of the damage in a pinch. Also, he can eat to the point of becoming a giant ball (being made of rubber may help that part) and digest everything in seconds, returning to his slim appearence.▼
** Also, Brooke can heal rather quickly by drinking milk. Granted, he is a skeleton, and only needs calcium to heal, but he still heals way too fast.<ref>Interestingly, the fridge logic of him drinking anything at all is somewhat averted, as his powers not only include coming back from the dead (once), but also the ability to eat, drink, see, think, and, yes, poop without any organs.</ref>▼
** There's also a technique for this trope. Is called Life Return, was used by Kumadori after eating all the food in the fridge in which he was locked. After using the technique he became slim, and then adquired his normal appeareance.▼
* While not exactly food to the rest of us, [[Fairy Tail|Natsu Dragneel]] heals completely and gains a burst in strength after eating fire.▼
** The same goes for Gajeel and Wendy is they eat iron or air respectively (breathing does not count).▼
* Pretty much the main method of increasing one's strength or recovering from wounds in ''[[Toriko]]'' is to eat something... or someone. Given that the entire series is based on eating the most delicious food in the world, it's not that out of place.▼
* John gains one of these in ''[[With Strings Attached]]'' as part of a number of physical changes inflicted upon him. He pretty much has to eat constantly, and wears a food pouch all the time that he tries to keep full of jerky, dried fruit, and other convenient munchies. When he's hungry, as he says, he "fades pretty fast."▼
* "Princess" Awqasisa from ''[[The Teraverse]]'' is basically a mummy afforded animation by a bizarre fungus, who when injured "heals" by consuming large quantities of carbohydrates and water for the fungus to use as raw materials for repairing her.▼
** Although they do not get immediate healing benefits from food, most of the biochemically-based supers in the Teraverse (like Terawatt) demonstrate many of the other features of this trope.▼
* Engineereds in ''[[Duumvirate]]'' eat quite a bit more than a normal human, particularly if they're regenerating severe wounds.▼
* Various monster novels have brought this up on an actual biological basis: the energy from the food fuels the monster's (often a werewolf) enhanced metabolism. The down side is that if they don't eat lots of food often, they begin to starve quickly.▼
* Justified in the ''[[Percy Jackson]]'' series with ambrosia and nectar, the food and drink of the gods that is used for healing severely injured demigods. If a demigod consumes too much (or a mortal has any amount whatsoever), the power is too great and will incinerate them from the inside-out.▼
* In ''[[Inheritance Cycle|Eragon]]'', casting magic consumes body energy/stamina, so a mage who just cast an energy-intensive spell will probably be pretty hungry. On the other hand, unless the energy is replenished from either another being or a gem that was previously filled with energy, it requires rest to regain.▼
* The [[Piers Anthony]] ''[[Xanth]]'' novel ''Crewel Lie'' features Jordan the Barbarian, whose magic talent is a [[Healing Factor]] that requires large amounts of food to work. {{spoiler|To the extent that when the scattered bits of his skeletonized corpse are brought together at the end of the book, he has to have bread crammed into him to regenerate.}}▼
* In the live action adaptation of ''[[The Flash]]'', Barry Allen's super speed caused him to consume ''enormous'' quantities of food (sometimes he even had to ''eat'' at super speed).▼
* Played straight in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Unicorn and the Wasp". The Doctor is poisoned, and his [[Bizarre Alien Biology|Time Lord physiology]] enables him to neutralize the poison with a combination of various salts and proteins. Of course it just looks like he's gobbling everything he can find in the kitchen.▼
* On the forum game ''Apocalypse Metropolis,'' all players only have four slots of health, which meant getting shot was equal to getting punched. To heal these wounds, eating food restored a slot, even if it was a sandwich or soda. Actual healing items would often do more than one slot at least. On a similar note, splitting up food (like drinking half of a soda so someone else can have a half) decreased the chances of healing.▼
* ''[[GURPS]]'' contains bioengineered ultra-tech pills that rapidly heal injuries and even radiation damage by giving you Hyperactive Metabolism for a short time.▼
* The Western-themed card game ''Bang!'' has a "Beer" card that heals a player after they've been shot.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
=== [[Action Adventure]] ===
* ''[[Aquaria (video game)|Aquaria]]'' not only makes food your primary method of healing, but has food which can give you stronger attacks, let you move faster, or even make you invincible. Medicine, meanwhile, only restores HP or cures status. Of course, they are all created by magic...
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* ''[[Muramasa: The Demon Blade]]'' plays this entirely straight, although there are in-combat foods and out-of-combat foods, which double as [[Power-Up Food]].
=== [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s ===
* Averted in the MMORPG ''[[EverQuest]]'', your character required food and drink, or your character did not regenerate Health (food) and Mana (water). Certain foods, however, provided statistic boosts if it you in the top slot of your inventory, although not if you actually eat it. Played straight in ''[[EverQuest II]]'', where not eating or drinking has no consequences, and eating or drinking does increase your out-of-combat regeneration AND your statistics - not eating or drinking ultimately means taking a much, much longer time to recover after a fight.
* Averted in the MMORPG ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'': while food does increase your turn limit for the day, you can only eat so much food before you're too full to consume any more. Alcohol is even worse—when you reach your alcohol limit, you become drunk and can't use any more turns that day (unless you really enjoy staggering around drunkenly). And meat is inedible because it's the [[Global Currency]].
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* Averted in the Nintendo DS RPG ''[[Contact (video game)|Contact]]''. Eating food heals wounds somehow, but there's also a meter that tells how full your character's stomach is—eat too much too quickly and you won't have room for anything else for a while. This even roughly corresponds to the type of food you've eaten; a whole roast chicken will take a lot longer to digest than a cup of coffee. Moreover, certain foods will give status bonuses while they're still being digested: meats will give strength and stamina bonuses, fish will give intelligence bonuses, and soda gives you a speed bonus.
* ''[[Divine Divinity]]'' has foods to eat, some which can heal, others might temporarily increase your stats or other things. You can eat only limited amount of them in a certain period of time, though, since the character will complain that s/he's full if you eat too much.
* Food is the sole variety of healing item in ''[[EarthBound]]''. The more expensive foods heal better, and you can buy condiments that increase their
** And while we're on the topic, Ness and friends are perfectly fine with eating food they find in garbage cans.
** The trope is also partially subverted with Poo, who heals drastically less HP when eating "western" foods, compared to Ness, Paula and Jeff, which is explained as him not being used to the taste. Poo doesn't get a bonus when eating "eastern" foods, though. He's also the only character that can make any real use from bottles of water (which restore PP. Ness and Paula only recover 6 from the bottles, and Jeff has no PP to restore.)
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** If you abuse the Fortify Intelligence Alchemy trick in ''[[Morrowind]]'', then make a potion that recovers health, it is possible to make a potion that recovers more health that you have as a maximum for a ridiculously long period of time. Until it wears off, you'll be able to survive anything that doesn't instantly kill you in one hit and still have full health.
* In ''[[Fable]] 2''. Food items heal and higher quality foods drop experience, and were generally cheaper than potions, but also affected the hero's look and status. Meats were cheaper and had better benefits but caused the hero to get fat and corrupt, whereas assorted fruits, veggies, and tofu were generally more expensive but kept the hero thin and pure.
** In the original ''Fable'', a player would think nothing of [
* In ''[[Fallout 2]]'' you get to be fully healed when you consume an omelet in Rose's Bed and Breakfast. Of course, it's not an ordinary omelet - it's made of {{spoiler|Deathclaw eggs}}.
** Also available, if only peripherally related, was the chance to poison yourself by attempting to break the record for most "Brahmin fries" consumed. The scene is rather funny, but [[Fridge Logic|one would expect a survivor in a post-nuclear wasteland to not be picky about his protein sources]].
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** This also goes beyond food to explore point 4 a bit - Witcher's potions (which use [[Gargle Blaster|fuckoff-strength alcohol]] as a base and go from there) are noted to be lethal to normal people, and even the player can overdose if they drink too many at once.
* ''[[The World Ends With You]]'' featured an interesting aversion. Food can be consumed to increase the stats of Neku and his partners. When eaten, food gives an immediate boost to the "sync rate", a variable stat that helps in in-battle combos. Food is then digested in "bytes", which are digested at a rate of one per round of combat. Upon fully digesting the food, it gives a permanent stat bonus (or another sync bonus.) The catch? Until buying a special item available only after beating the game, the game keeps track of the bytes you've digested. You can only digest 24 bytes in one real-time day, and after that point the character is too full to eat anything that required more than 6 bytes (most high-end HP/BRV and all ATK/DEF/[[Randomly Drops|Drop Rate]] chow).
* ''[[Undertale]]'', having being inspired by the ''[[MOTHER]]'' series, also uses food as its healing items. In fact the best healing item in the game is the piece of butterscotch-cinnamon pie you are given by Toriel near the beginning of the game. It also has interesting situations, like instant ramen taking forever to be ingested because it has to be cooked first and healing an infimal amount of HP if you eat it in normal battles, but healing a lot more due to eating it dry if ingested in important plot battles.
=== [[Shoot'Em Up]] ===
* ''[[Blitter Boy]]'' eats food items regenerate health, including the Fruit Drops from his special weapon.
=== [[Simulation Game]] ===
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** Rare rotten eggs do appear in both [[RE 4]] and RE5, if you eat them don't expect it to help matters.
* In ''[[Rule of Rose]]'' the healing items manifest in the form of various sweets and pies.
* All food heals in Kefir's ''Last Day on Earth: Survival''. Actual medical supplies are more effective but food is easier to obtain, so many players keep a pocket filled with stew for emergencies.
=== [[Third-Person Shooter]] ===
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* [[Mafia II]] plays this trope straight with [[Player Character|Vito]], but [[Vitriolic Best Buds|Joe]] lampshades it YMMV slightly.
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▲* An ad for the relatively healthy fast-food chain Subway shows a platformer character doing this with more traditional fast food, and consequently getting too fat to fit through gaps.
▲=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
▲* Parodied in the anime film ''[[The Castle of Cagliostro|The Castleof Cagliostro]]''. Lupin III is severely wounded and seemingly comatose, when he suddenly awakens and demands large amounts of food to restore his strength. In the middle of gorging himself on a veritable feast, he suddenly turns green, stops eating, and whispers that he'll sleep now. Played straight in that he does indeed soon have his strength back.
▲* Allen Walker from ''[[D.Gray-man]]''. After a long, hard battle, he starts [[Big Eater|binge eating]]. One can assume that he has an extremely Hyperactive Metabolism when, even after eating a gigantic pile of food the size of a room, he is seen remaining rail thin.
▲** Explained as he's a parasite-type innocence user, technically, he's eating for two, Krory's also been alluded to having this appetite when he's not [[Our Vampires Are Different|snacking on Akuma blood.]]
▲* While perhaps not demonstrating healing capabilities, in the ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' series, Goku is repeatedly shown to have a bottomless stomach that allows him to consume a positively ridiculous amount of food. In addition, this food completely replenishes his health while not slowing him down in the slightest. In fact, that energy gained by Goku from eating more than his weight in food tends to make the difference between winning and losing a fight.
▲** And then you have the senzu.
▲* [[Big Eater|Luffy]] from ''[[One Piece]]'' seems to operate on this system, adhering to all four points: not only is he seemingly capable of eating nearly anything he finds with no apparent ill effects, he has a preference for meat of any kind, which seems to recover more health and energy. At one point he eats a couple of chicken legs after being wounded, and it is pointed out that he's doing this in order to recover from some of the damage in a pinch. Also, he can eat to the point of becoming a giant ball (being made of rubber may help that part) and digest everything in seconds, returning to his slim appearence.
▲** Also, Brooke can heal rather quickly by drinking milk. Granted, he is a skeleton, and only needs calcium to heal, but he still heals way too fast.<ref>Interestingly, the fridge logic of him drinking anything at all is somewhat averted, as his powers not only include coming back from the dead (once), but also the ability to eat, drink, see, think, and, yes, poop without any organs.</ref>
▲** There's also a technique for this trope. Is called Life Return, was used by Kumadori after eating all the food in the fridge in which he was locked. After using the technique he became slim, and then adquired his normal appeareance.
▲* While not exactly food to the rest of us, [[Fairy Tail|Natsu Dragneel]] heals completely and gains a burst in strength after eating fire.
▲** The same goes for Gajeel and Wendy is they eat iron or air respectively (breathing does not count).
▲* Pretty much the main method of increasing one's strength or recovering from wounds in ''[[Toriko]]'' is to eat something... or someone. Given that the entire series is based on eating the most delicious food in the world, it's not that out of place.
▲=== Fan Works ===
▲* John gains one of these in ''[[With Strings Attached]]'' as part of a number of physical changes inflicted upon him. He pretty much has to eat constantly, and wears a food pouch all the time that he tries to keep full of jerky, dried fruit, and other convenient munchies. When he's hungry, as he says, he "fades pretty fast."
▲* "Princess" Awqasisa from ''[[The Teraverse]]'' is basically a mummy afforded animation by a bizarre fungus, who when injured "heals" by consuming large quantities of carbohydrates and water for the fungus to use as raw materials for repairing her.
▲** Although they do not get immediate healing benefits from food, most of the biochemically-based supers in the Teraverse (like Terawatt) demonstrate many of the other features of this trope.
▲=== [[Literature]] ===
▲* Engineereds in ''[[Duumvirate]]'' eat quite a bit more than a normal human, particularly if they're regenerating severe wounds.
▲* Various monster novels have brought this up on an actual biological basis: the energy from the food fuels the monster's (often a werewolf) enhanced metabolism. The down side is that if they don't eat lots of food often, they begin to starve quickly.
▲* Justified in the ''[[Percy Jackson]]'' series with ambrosia and nectar, the food and drink of the gods that is used for healing severely injured demigods. If a demigod consumes too much (or a mortal has any amount whatsoever), the power is too great and will incinerate them from the inside-out.
▲* In ''[[Inheritance Cycle|Eragon]]'', casting magic consumes body energy/stamina, so a mage who just cast an energy-intensive spell will probably be pretty hungry. On the other hand, unless the energy is replenished from either another being or a gem that was previously filled with energy, it requires rest to regain.
▲* The [[Piers Anthony]] ''[[Xanth]]'' novel ''Crewel Lie'' features Jordan the Barbarian, whose magic talent is a [[Healing Factor]] that requires large amounts of food to work. {{spoiler|To the extent that when the scattered bits of his skeletonized corpse are brought together at the end of the book, he has to have bread crammed into him to regenerate.}}
▲=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
▲* In the live action adaptation of ''[[The Flash]]'', Barry Allen's super speed caused him to consume ''enormous'' quantities of food (sometimes he even had to ''eat'' at super speed).
▲* Played straight in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Unicorn and the Wasp". The Doctor is poisoned, and his [[Bizarre Alien Biology|Time Lord physiology]] enables him to neutralize the poison with a combination of various salts and proteins. Of course it just looks like he's gobbling everything he can find in the kitchen.
▲* On the forum game ''Apocalypse Metropolis,'' all players only have four slots of health, which meant getting shot was equal to getting punched. To heal these wounds, eating food restored a slot, even if it was a sandwich or soda. Actual healing items would often do more than one slot at least. On a similar note, splitting up food (like drinking half of a soda so someone else can have a half) decreased the chances of healing.
▲=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
▲* ''[[GURPS]]'' contains bioengineered ultra-tech pills that rapidly heal injuries and even radiation damage by giving you Hyperactive Metabolism for a short time.
▲* The Western-themed card game ''Bang!'' has a "Beer" card that heals a player after they've been shot.
▲=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* Played straight in ''[[Alien Dice]]''; however, the 'food' was not exactly organic material, and has odd and often medical properties.
* Used in the [[RPG Mechanics Verse]] of ''[[A Beginner's Guide to the End of the Universe]]''. Eating food gives Nutrition points, which can be spent to heal [[Hit Points]] or Toxicity (twice as expensive).
* The goofy, game-centric humorists of ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' explore this trope in an episode of their ''Immersion'' miniseries [http://ah.redvsblue.com/archive/?id=1846&v=more here.]{{Dead link}} [[Hilarity Ensues]] as we watch Gus and Geoff suffer for [[Comedic Sociopathy|the amusement of the viewers]] (and the 'scientists' responsible for the idea).
* In ''[[Cracked.com]]'':
** Discussed in [http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-bullshit-video-game-healing-methods/ 7 Video Game Healing Methods Least Likely to Actually Work]
** One of [http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_586_31-life-lessons-you-can-only-learn-from-video-games/ 31 Life Lessons You Can Only Learn From Video Games] is that "eating food you find in the trash is good for you."
* Kid Flash in ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' has to keep up his strength by eating constantly to offset the fast-burn from his super speed. Once he's eaten he's ''immediately'' ready to go, rather than having to take time to digest it.
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