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Overlaps quite nicely with the [[Evil Poacher]], and is often the meal of the [[Card-Carrying Villain]]. For the clothing equivalent, see [[Fur and Loathing]].

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* The futuristic setting of ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' allows for many (usually vat-grown) delicacies such as caribou eyes or "Leg of Bastard" (that is, human). Some [[I'm a Humanitarian|humantarians]] prefer to save money by catching door-to-door political canvassers or other easy prey.

 

* ''[[The Protector]]'' has the bad guys running a restaurant with meals like this. When they served the main character's elephant as a main course, that went a bit too far. {{spoiler|[[Jerkass|Sending him the bill didn't help...]]}}

* In the film ''[[The Freshman]]'' with Matthew Broderick and Marlon Brando, the evil, jaded rich people regularly dined on endangered animals as a thrill. Or at least, they thought what they were eating were endangered animals.

* The [[David Lynch]] film adaptation of [[Dune]] had an inexplicable throwaway scene of Rabban crushing a live mouse in a small device and then drinking the resulting mess with a straw.

 

* The Patrician in the very first ''[[Discworld]]'' book, ''[[Discworld/The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'', dined on candied jellyfish. Strangely enough, [[Word of God]] says that this is actually Lord Vetinari, perhaps written by a younger and less experienced author (in later books, he eats only bread and water).

** The unnamed crazy gluttonous Patrician in ''[[Discworld/The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'' almost exactly matches later descriptions of Mad Lord Snapcase, Vetinari's predecessor, and [[Fanon|in fandom's consensus]] ''is'' Snapcase. He might've indeed been the ''original'' Pratchett's image of Vetinari, but it's evident that the character was ''heavily'' retooled for the Watch subseries. Apparently, the original fat and crazy Patrician lost the Vetinari's name and became Mad Lord Snapcase, while Vetinari became the [[Magnificent Bastard]] we all know and love.

* In the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] novel ''St. Anthony's Fire'', the [[Big Bad]] offers the Doctor [[Eats Babies|candied baby cheeks]]. After [[For the Evulz|torturing a kitten]] in an earlier scene.

 

* ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' has a character with an animal smuggling ring, whose members ate several of the animals. The first animal shown prepared definitely didn't get a [[Gory Discretion Shot]].

* ''[[Angel]]'' has an episode where the villains are a club who like to dine on werewolves. Note that every werewolf is a human with a curse, and the curse dissipates (returning the werewolf to human form) when the werewolf dies.

* In the ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' episode "Out of Time", the crew's evil future selves use their time machine to travel through history, eating delicacies like dolphin sweetmeats and baby seal hearts with hosts such as Louis XVI and Adolph Hitler.

 

 

 

* ''The Arduin Grimoire IV (The Lost Grimoire)'': Dirty Dorg's restaurant (a haven for evil creatures) has a menu featuring the meat of various monsters, including those of good-aligned creatures such as unicorn and hobbit.

 

* The colonel from the [[Banana Republic|nameless South American country]] in ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]'' is seen to dine on tapir snout.

* In ''[[Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time]]'', when baby Bowser is choking on stolen cookies, he is offered milk from his caretaker Kamek, who insists it's from an evil cow.

 

 

* In ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nQ6c7WIudE Ramenz mocumentary on Japanese sushi]'', they suggest asking the chef for "off-menu" recommendations. Then they pan across various meats on the sushi bar, some obscured with pixelation, while cutting away to photos of various protected species of animals.

 

* ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' had this in the episode where the cast found the Rabbit Talisman.

* On ''[[Futurama]]'', just to show how messed up the future is, some animals not considered food today, are eaten regularly, like parrots. Not dolphins though, since they're apparently sapient. Unless they blow all their money on lottery tickets, then it's OK.

* One episode of the ''[[Ace Ventura]]'' cartoon has a [[Villainous Glutton]] who is kidnapping endangered species as part of a planned seven-course meal.

* The film ''[[The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!]]'' has this as a recreational hobby {{spoiler|''for all the world's leaders''. Queen Victoria somewhat uses this}} in an [[Eviler Than Thou]] speech aimed at the Pirate Captain.

 

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[[Category:Evil Tropes]]

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