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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Worm/Metroid Prime/Dark Samus from ''[[Metroid Prime]]'' (and other [[Green Rocks|Phazon]] [[Psycho Serum|enhanced]] [[The Virus|creatures]]) needs Phazon to live.
* The black mages and many other monsters in ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' are spawned from concentrated Mist, which is a decidedly evil fog composed of {{spoiler|souls of the dead that have been blocked from going to the afterlife}}.
* Rock/Ice/Lava Monsters in ''[[Lego Rock Raiders]]'' eat energy crystals, and will destroy your buildings to get at them. If destroyed the crystals they have eaten can be recovered. Slimy slugs are similar, except they suck the energy out of them instead.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has mana wyrms and arcane elementals that feed on [[Mana]], often appearring in locations with large amounts of loose mana.
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* Do the Zerg in ''[[Starcraft]]'' count? The way they use minerals and vespene gas as resources almost makes it look like they eat the stuff...
** It does - they ''metabolize'' it.
* The main character, splicers and little sisters in [[
** Although this is borderline, since they need it to make themselves powerful enough to survive rather than to live.
*** Only at first: long term use (enough to drive you mad, possibly [[Body Horror|semi-randomly mutate you]] and get you to the point you're referred to as a "splicer") gets you psychologically dependent on it; keep going, and you need fresh intake of Adam and the occasional plasmid just to keep your body from completely breaking down into a puddle of goo. Fortunately, THAT pleasant experience doesn't show up anywhere in the games.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Inverted in ''[[Futurama]]'': Nibblonians ''excrete'' Dark Matter, which is used as starship fuel.
* The energon in all incarnations of ''[[Transformers]]''.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* What would you need with a ''complex organic molecule'', ''acidic hydroxide'' and an ''oxidiser''? Why, you must eat ''sugar'', drink ''water'' and breathe ''oxygen'' to live.
* 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.
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