Mooks Ate My Equipment: Difference between revisions

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Contrast [[Feed It a Bomb]].

* The floating skull in the bridge in ''[[The Goonies (~~Video~~ ~~Game~~)|The Goonies]] II'', which eat your boomerang.

* The floating skull in the bridge in ''[[The Goonies (video game)|The Goonies]] II'', which eat your boomerang.

* Like-Likes in ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' games. They started off eating your shield (and in the first game, only your upgraded Magical Shield), but in later games they can eat other equipment or even rupees. Depending on the game you can save your equipment if you kill/escape them quickly enough.

* In ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', there were several types of monsters that loved eating your equipment. Rust monsters were universally loathed by warrior types for their penchant for instantly destroying and eating anything metal that they struck or were struck by, such as their prized magical swords and armor. Oozes were notorious for eating away anything they touched that wasn't immune to acid.

** Some crafty players have tried cutting off a rust monster's antennae so they could [[Invoked Trope|inflict this trope upon their foes]].

* ''[[Munchkin (~~Tabletop Game~~)|Munchkin]]'' has a creature that counts as a curse rather than as a monster. It keeps eating your equipment until it randomly eats itself.

* ''[[Munchkin (game)|Munchkin]]'' has a creature that counts as a curse rather than as a monster. It keeps eating your equipment until it randomly eats itself.

** An item in ''Munchkin Cthulhu'' is a set of Bagpipes. Rather than try to eat it, there's a chance the monsters will attempt to ''[[Cargo Ship|mate with it]]''. And yes, if they do, you lose the item.

* The Devourer in ''[[Alternate Reality (~~Video~~ ~~Game~~)|Alternate Reality]]''. Even has an in-game song about it. This creature appeared when you had too many inventory items and ate them.

* The Devourer in ''[[Alternate Reality (video game)|Alternate Reality]]''. Even has an in-game song about it. This creature appeared when you had too many inventory items and ate them.

* ''[[Nethack]]'' has acidic monsters whose slime/blood erodes your weapons, rust monsters and rust traps to rust iron, gelatinous cubes that eat organic materials and disenchanters who eat your items' magic. Some can be negated by enchanting your gear to make it rust/fire/rot-proof, but disenchanters are [[Goddamn Bats]] for a reason.

* ''[[Dungeon Crawl]]'' has [[Blob Monster|jellies]] that eat items left on the dungeon floor or even ''doors''. Feeding items to jellies is even necessary if you want to gain favor with Jiyva, the [[Odd Job Gods|god of slime]].

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* ''[[Dark Souls]]'' has acid. The Gaping Dragon boss and the pyromancy Acid Surge reduce the condition of your gear dramatically, and broken gear is gone no matter how much Titanite you used to upgrade it.

* ''[[Kid Icarus]]'' features the greedy Pluton, which will swipe your arrows of strength if they touch you.

** The Pluton returns in ''[[Kid Icarus Uprising]]'', where it'll steal weapons and powers you've collected in the level. Thankfully, now you can kill them to claim your items back, but beware- if you don't do it quickly, they will disappear with your re-appropriated loot.

** The Pluton returns in ''[[Kid Icarus: Uprising]]'', where it'll steal weapons and powers you've collected in the level. Thankfully, now you can kill them to claim your items back, but beware- if you don't do it quickly, they will disappear with your re-appropriated loot.