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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Dirty Pair (Light Novel)|Dirty Pair]]: [[The Movie|Project EDEN]]'' had this as a major plot point; the Sadinga monsters fed on Vizorium ore (warp drive fuel), and the fossils they were revived from were being mined for said ore until the [[Evilutionary Biologist]] came along.
* Homunculi in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Mangamanga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' are addicted to the Red Stone and munch on the stuff for extra 'lives'. Red Stones are created by sacrificing human lives and are needed to create the phlebotinous Philosopher Stone, which basically enhances the magical powers of alchemy. In the original manga, the Red Stones simply don't exist. The Homunculi rely directly on Philosopher's Stones (yes, ''plural'') to provide their limited immortality.
 
 
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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Larry Niven]]'s ''[[The Magic Goes Away (Literaturenovel)|The Magic Goes Away]]'' stories had dragons, mermaids, were-creatures, gods and such that metabolized [[Mana]]. This was a kind of [[Green Aesop|environmental metaphor]]; when human wizards started using up the mana faster than it could regenerate, all the fantastic creatures went *poof*.
** The [[Doomsday Device|ultimate weapon]] of the setting was a magic disk. Powered by a simple propulsion spell with no speed limiters (and a [[Required Secondary Powers|secondary spell]] to keep it from tearing itself apart), it simply spun around uselessly and thus wasted ''all'' the Mana in the area. Wizards were left powerless, werewolves lost their "were-", and ageless beings suddenly began feeling their age. This is the origin of the ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]'' card "[[Sdrawkcab Name|Nevinyrral's]] Disk", which does pretty much the same thing.
* Something similar happened in ''[[Xanth (Literature)|Xanth]]'' when the Demon of the same name temporarily absented himself from the realm.
** In addition, when Demoness Metria traveled to Mundania, she had to be accompanied by a guy whose talent was to project an 'aisle' of magic around him whenever he was in Mundania, because a minor demon's Mundane form is a dust devil. How the minor demons survived the Time of No Magic (when Demon Xanth left) is a [[Fridge Logic]] question.
*** Because they hadn't been introduced to the series yet? Alternately, possibly Hell isn't part of Xanth.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=1280 atog] from ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]'' eats magical artifacts, and its various relatives eat other magic-related things: the [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=4862 auratog] eats enchantments, the [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=3635 chronatog] eats time (you can give it a big stat boost by skipping your next turn), and the [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=31834 atogatog] eats [[I'm a Humanitarian|other atogs]].
** ''Magic'' also had a reference to "The Magic Goes Away" in the form of [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?id=3803 Nevinyrral's Disk]--they were more willing to pull [[Sdrawkcab Name]] tricks in the earlier days of the game.
* Most creatures in [[GURPS]] that use magic naturally have a dependency on background [[Mana]] and will rapidly die if totally deprived of it.
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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 [[Bio ShockBioshock]].
** 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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== [[Web Original]] ==
* The Elders in ''[[Lonely Girl 15Lonelygirl15]]'' need to receive trait positive blood transfusions on a semi-regular basis to survive.
 
 
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* The energon in all incarnations of ''[[Transformers]]''.
** Although, to be fair, in most they can synthesize it from any available source of energy, so it isn't exactly ''rare'' phlebtonium, except for all those poor stupid fleshlings who don't know how.
* In the [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]] series, the resident [[Phlebotinum Muncher]] is a one-eyed creature called the thirdak, which eats magic. It tried to eat Genie and managed to eat half of Carpet.
 
 
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