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The opposite of [[No Biochemical Barriers]].

 

* In ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' Piccolo and Namekians in general only consume water because they're photosynthetic. That's right, Piccolo is a [[Plant Aliens|plant]].

** So no proper digestive system, but he takes water by mouth instead of roots...likely he could make do with sugar water so as not to starve if he couldn't get any sun to fix sugars from, but who knows?

*** Um, [[Captain Obvious|the air?]]

*** Fixing nitrogen from the air is ridiculously hard so it is not as obvious as you seem to think.

* In ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'', the [[Ancient Astronauts|Oni]] can eat most human foods and even produce equivalents of their native dishes by [[Fire-Breathing Diner|inhuman amounts of spice]], but some earth cuisine is beyond their capacity to handle. Umeboshi, which are basically pickled sour plums, get them totally plastered (humans, meanwhile, traditionally use them as a hangover and overindulgence remedy), though sake can cure them from being drunk, and they find the scent of garlic so strong and nauseatingly overpowering it has the same effect on them as tear gas.

* In ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', neither Kero nor Yue, being magical guardians, actually ''need'' to eat at all. Kero mooches food off of Sakura during the course of ''the entire anime and manga series'' solely for his own amusement.

* Inverted in ''[[Ergo Proxy]]'' where a mysterious man living all alone in a castle drinks ''nothing but wine'', to absolute excess beyond belief, which makes him just as creepy as someone who doesn't eat or drink.

 

* Several comic book characters repeat this line or one like it, including:

** Wonder Man

** Shaman, when he possessed the Talisman's power.

 

* Universal's ''[[Dracula]]'' of course, as the [[Trope Namer]]. [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|The exact line]] is "I never drink-- wine."

** Ironically, [[Bela Lugosi]] was known to be quite fond of wine.

* ''[[Love at First Bite]]'' includes this line, which adds "...and I do not smoke shit."

* Played with in the ''[[Underworld (film)|Underworld]]'' movies - after Michael is turned he tries to satisfy his craving for blood by eating a rare steak. He has no problem getting it down, but it doesn't quench his hunger ''at all.''

* In Henry Sellick's ''[[Coraline (animation)|Coraline]]'', the Other Mother cooks fantastically delicious meals, but we never see a speck of it on ''her'' plate. We find out later that she eats...other things...

 

* In ''[[Anathem]]'' by [[Neal Stephenson]], there's a character who doesn't eat ordinary food; this is eventually revealed to be a sign that he's from {{spoiler|a universe where the laws of physics are different}}.

** {{spoiler|Yes, Ours.}}

* Mackenzie in ''[[Tales of MU]]'' points out repeatedly that she doesn't ''need'' to eat food, and at first is so out of the habit that it makes her ill. Several of the other characters don't need to eat food, though some do anyway (though a few, such as Puddy, stick to only their favorites).

** Also in ''Thud'', where Angua, a werewolf, needles Sally, a vampire, with a variation on this line while they're both drunk.

{{quote|'''Sally''': Oh, ha ha. I'm perfectly fine with, ''sarcastic pause'', "[[Vampire Vords|vine]]", thank you. What I ''shouldn't'' have drunk is [[Gargle Blaster|sticky drinks with funny names made up by someone with no sense of humour]].}}

*** Later we are treated to Vetinari offering his vampiric lady friend some ...wine. The ellipsis is his.

* [[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]]'s ''Saint-Germain'' series of historical fantasy is otherwise excellent, with the painful exception of the vampire protagonist's stubborn insistence on repeating the title of this trope at least once in ''every book of the series''.

* In ''[[The Prophecy of the Stones]]'' Elphorys munches his "sticky purple mass" while {{spoiler|Elyador}} eats his rather mundane bread and turkey.

* In ''[[Bloodsucking Fiends]]'', Jody takes a tentative sip of water as she tries to come to terms with being a vampire. She has to spit it back up immediately, as she literally can't swallow it.

** [[Running Gag|...food.]]

* [[Anita Blake]] actually lampshaded this. When a waiter asks Jean-Claude what he's having, he responds with this line. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* Silas from ''[[The Graveyard Book]]'' does not eat... bananas.

* The vampires from ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]''.

 

* The Minbari of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' literally ''cannot'' drink wine. Even a small amount of alcohol [[Can't Hold His Liquor|sends them into a homicidal rage.]] Other than that, food from most worlds is edible by most species.

** The only evidence for this, though, is a single line said by Lennier in response to a drink offered by Londo, who is not entirely trustworthy when it comes to drinks. In fact, in other scenes, during Sheridan and Delenn's dinner dates, you see them both drinking wine.

*** Minbari having an adverse reaction to alcohol is also mentioned by Marcus when he first meets Delenn and Lennier in a Down Below bar as a means of proving who he was.

*** Slightly [[Handwaved]] in that {{spoiler|Delenn is half human through [[Applied Phlebotinum]] at this point.}}

** Humans who eat mixed alien and human food can get sick. It only came up once, though. Given the different biologies (some species breathe methane), I don't think that's too unusual.

** The Centauri cannot digest human fast food: At one point Vir casually mentions that hamburgers taste much better going down than [[Squick|going up]].

'''Todd the Wraith''': ''"I thought it would make our discussions a bit more... comfortable. I hope they prove as delicious as the farmers who grew them."'' }}

** Terrifyingly subverted in one episode, in which the team starts {{spoiler|finding corpses with teeth marks on them. The wraiths of the ship had been given a retrovirus to make them more human. The common wraiths, only ever having eaten by draining life force with their palms, removed their almost permanently worn face covering masks and started experimenting with using their teeth.}}

* ''[[Torchwood]]'' has {{spoiler|Owen}} come back from the dead, but with absolutely no vital function; as a result, he can't digest food or drink. His attempt at drinking lager results in him standing on his head to force it out the hard way.

* When Peter Tork auditioned for ''[[The Monkees]]'', the producers offered him a cigarette; Tork's reply was, "I don't smoke...those." [[The Stoner|Guess what he did smoke.]]

* ''[[Lois and Clark]]'': Superman once tells Lois that he doesn't need to eat, but he likes to. Which is fairly evident since his pantry is stocked with almost nothing but junk food.

** Aha! Another photosynthetic! [[Plant Aliens|He's not green, though.]]

 

 

* An inversion in ''[[A Vampyre Story]]'': Mona, our heroine, is a vampire. This is established fact. But Mona is in hardcore denial that this is the case, and claims that she's under a curse. A curse that gives all the symptoms of being a vampire, without being a vampire. To maintain her delusion, she claims that what she drinks is wine (it helps that her captor gets the stuff himself, so she never actually sees where it comes from). By the time the game begins, this is already a very old argument between Mona and her buddy Froderick the bat, who sarcastically refers to it as a salty-tasting merlot with a slight iron aftertaste.

** She actually delivers variations on the line when presented with other beverages.

* In ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'', vampires do not eat food or drink booze like normal dwarves. This can be extremely helpful in identifying them.

 

* [[Lesbian Vampire|Rose]] from ''[[Clan of the Cats]]'' comments in her first appearance, "I never drink...beer."

 

** Louie and his sisters competed in the Pie Hard pie-eating contest (the Twins lost early; Louie made it to the top six), and explained the situation with Gaian vampires and food: they ''can'' eat human-style fare, but it's just not as tasty to them. This [[Fridge Brilliance|also justifies]] an unused storyline that had Louie shilling a soy-based blood substitute.

 

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