Milking the Monster: Difference between revisions

 

== Live Action Television ==

** A twisted version appears in one episode: the "monster" is actually harmless, something along the lines of a tremendous alien bovine with an incredible [[Healing Factor]]. The people who capture it [[Squick|harvest it as an endless source of meat]]. True, the meat is apparently safe for human consumption, but in contrast to the show's tendency for [[Aliens Are Bastards]], this monster is actually a non violent, peaceful slug like being that is being cut apart for meat ''while it's still alive'', and the true villain is the asshole in charge, who ignores the Torchwood-3 team, his own conscience ridden [[Mooks]], not to mention his own conscience, blithely ignoring the agony he's causing a perfectly innocent alien by telling everyone [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|"it's only meat."]]

** In the episode "Reset", a medical firm that is in some way an [[Evil Counterpart]] to Torchwood-3 harvests alien material to make medical advances for the benefit of humanity. Unfortunately, the leader is a [[Mad Scientist]] who coldly tortures and exploits aliens like the villain of "Meat", and he callously eliminates humans he has used as guinea pigs for his alien derived treatments if it might expose what he has done.

 

== Western Animation ==

** The town in ''[[Scooby Doo]] and the Witch's Ghost'' does the same. Then we learn there really is a ghost.

 

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