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Basically a creature which needs whatever [[Phlebotinum]] is being used in the story to survive. Often developing an insatiable [[Horror Hunger]] for the stuff. This can vary from a creature that eats [[Green Rocks]] to a monster called into being by [[Aesoptinum]]. The inversion of this trope is [[Phlebotinum Dependence]] - the character [[Shaped Like Itself|despises their dependency on Phlebotinum]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* Ungoliant in ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' pretty much subsists on shiny elf artifacts.
* ''[[Discworld]]''. Dragons eat magic, and salamanders absorb the magical [[Fictional Color|octarine frequency of light]].
== Music ==
* ''Spell Eater'' by Huntress. Though it's not clear whether this became necessity or addiction.
{{quote|Reveal your scroll
Come feed my starving mouth and soul}}
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20080103050535/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=1280 atog] from ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' eats magical artifacts, and its various relatives eat other magic-related things: the [
** ''Magic'' also had a reference to "The Magic Goes Away" in the form of [https://web.archive.org/web/20090418173709/http://ww2.wizards.com/
* Most creatures in [[GURPS]] that use magic naturally have a dependency on background [[Mana]] and will rapidly die if totally deprived of it.
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has had a number of creatures that feed on magic, such as the Disenchanter.
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* Long term alcohol addicts might find that withdrawing cold turkey can kill them through shock. A theoretical possibility of death also exists with benzodiazepines and barbiturates, because withdrawal from them can cause seizures, but alcohol withdrawal is the only withdrawal syndrome to have actually killed anyone.
* A common [[Conspiracy Theorist|accusation]] is that drug companies will never cure cancer/AIDS/etc. because cures would eliminate demand for expensive treatments. A [[Up to Eleven|related accusation]] is that drug companies are in fact ''spreading'' those same diseases to make [[Take Over the World|the entire world dependent on treatments.]] They technically come about because of unrealistic expectations. For example; Cancer is in fact not ''a'' disease, but ''many'', and a cure for one type would not likely have an effect on any other type. Quite a lot of research is also done by non-profit organisations who can only really "make" money in the form of further funding (although this isn't their goal anyway) by coming up with results and would have very little reason to keep it to themselves. Similarly, even a "for profit" company would have to sell a cure or risk their copetitors discovering it and doing so anyway.
** This didn't stop Goldman Sachs from seriously noting in 2018 [https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html that curing patients isn't a sustainable business model for pharmaceutical companies.]
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