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Note that in some cases, [[Don't Celebrate Just Yet| this doesn't mean the heroes' job is done.]] Whatever monster eats the villain might still be hungry, possibly meaning the ''true'' [[Final Battle]] is at hand.

 

 

Compare [[The Dog Bites Back]], [[Devour the Dragon]].

 

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* ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' has chief minion Demidevimon get devoured by his master Venom Myotismon after he decides coming back from the dead has made him hungry.

* The Immortals of ''[[Baccano!]]'' can consume eachother and gain eachothers experience by laying their hand on the other immortals forehead. This is how Firo defeats Szilard.

* In ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:]]'', {{spoiler|Cornelius Alba gets eaten alive by one of Touko's creations.}}

 

 

** Also stated to be what the ogres intend for Rumpelstiltskin in ''Shrek Forever After'' just before the [[Reset Button]] is hit, though it never actually happens.

* ''[[Resident Evil]]''. The {{spoiler|male security operative}} who released the T-virus inside the facility is killed and partially eaten by the Licker monster.

* Subverted in ''[[Beetlejuice]]''. The title character is swallowed by a [[Sand Worm]] near the end of the movie, but turns up later in the afterlife office none the worse for wear.

* ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''. Boba Fett (who captured Han Solo in ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'') is swallowed by the Sarlacc, where (according to Jabba the Hutt) he will find a new definition of pain and suffering as he's slowly digested over 1,000 years. But he's Boba Fett so he's [[First Law of Resurrection|too cool to die]].

* ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]''. Spousal abuser Edgar is skinned and eaten by the Bug.

** This appears to be the case at the end, when Serleena is eaten by Jeff, only for her to kill him from inside and morph his body.

* In ''[[The City of Ember]],'' Mayor Cole gets eaten by a [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|giant star-nosed mole]].

* In''[[Romancing the Stone]]'' Zolo's hand is bitten off by a crocodile, and then he drops into a pit of them.

* Scar survives his [[Disney Villain Death]] in ''[[The Lion King]]'', only to find himself cornered by the hyenas he just threw under the bus.

 

* Short story "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100722030052/http://nickelkid.net/docs/greats/refute_beelzy.html Thus I Refute Beelzy]". A mentally abusive father is eaten by the [[Louis Cypher|title character]], his son's not-so-imaginary friend.

* Famously done in ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]'' books. If they are a Bad, it is a good bet that [[Hannibal Lecter]] will eat them.

** This happens to Mrs. Gorf again in a later book. She materializes in a plate of potato salad, and John and Joe quickly eat her before she can turn them into apples.

* In the story of Daniel from [[The Bible]], after having to consign Daniel to a lion's den because of a law that some princes had tricked him into passing because they were jealous of him, King Darius, overjoyed that (as he himself had predicted) the Lord protected Daniel for the night by sending one of his angels to shut the lions' mouths so they could not hurt him, has Daniel taken out of the lions' den. The princes responsible for the law (and their families, in a bit of [[Disproportionate Retribution]]) are thrown in instead, where they promptly get eaten by the lions.

 

** Possibly the coach's fate in "Go Fish":

{{quote|'''Xander:''' Boy, the swim team sure loves their coach!}}

::: Even more [[Squick]] if you recall that the coach intended to have Buffy to be ''raped'' by the fish-men - they had already eaten at that point.

* The tennis-playing giant alien blancmange in ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' gets eaten by Mr. and Mrs. Brainsample. On the planet they're from, they're used to blancmanges being that size.

 

* The opera ''Hansel and Gretel'' adds a new element to the familiar tale by the Brothers Grimm: the witch owns a magical oven which bakes children into gingerbread. Of course, the witch gets pushed into it, and a very large piece of gingerbread is brought out at the finale.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

** In the Suramar storyline, one quest requires you to free menagerie animals held with Slave Collars, including another devilsaur named Su'esh. Again, her trainer orders her to attack you, but she does not, and devours him. But that's only the start. You then have [[Crowning Moment of Awesome| to ''ride Su'esh'' and go all kaiju on Suramar]], crushing and devouring the Legion soldiers.

** In the Highmountain instance, a Shaman tries to summon Naraxas, a giant worm-like abomination, to sic on your party. It complies, but eats him first.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', this is the ultimate fate of {{spoiler|Tsukiko. By her own wights, no less.}}

 

* Bartholomew in ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'' is only a Little Bad, but he ''is'' eaten by Professor Ratigan's cat Felicia.

** Episode "Treasure of the Temple". The archeological thief Perkins and his men are eaten by crocodiles.

* Happens to [[Big Bad]] Phobos near the end of season 2 of ''[[WITCH (animation)|WITCH]]'' when he's betrayed by [[The Dragon|Cedric]]. However after Cedric's defeat we see that [[Unexplained Recovery|he did manage to survive]].

* ''[[The Thief and the Cobbler]]'': Zigzag is eaten by crocodiles and his own pet vulture.

 

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