Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Difference between revisions

 

Note that, broadly speaking, this trope does not just concern itself with eating. A monster could also just plain be [[Not Worth Killing|unwilling to dignify an unworthy subject with the honor of being killed]]. One particularly creepy variant is that the [[Eldritch Abomination]] or similar evil devours, grabs, attacks, or just confronts the character... and is immediately terrified and runs, sometimes screaming, back to whence they came. This is usually played for laughs, but sometimes it implies that this character, or perhaps [[Humans Are Bastards|humanity]] [[Humans Are Cthulhu|as a whole]], is in fact worse than any Cthulhu-esque abominations or reality-warping [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|homicidal lunatics]] could ever be. This can also include an [[Emotion Eater]] being overloaded by the emotions of its victim, such as a monster who eats rage being overloaded by the hero's [[Unstoppable Rage]].

 

If the "victim" is more dangerous/powerful than the monster, that's a case of [[Mugging the Monster]]. [[Pity the Kidnapper]] is the broader, typically more mundane trapping of this trope. Might overlap with [[Disability Immunity]]. See also [[Eaten Alive]].