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Sometimes this is a [[Human Sacrifice]] to a demon, dragon, [[Eldritch Abomination]], or some other monster or beast. These scenarios usually have some poor unfortunate [[Chained to A Rock]] awaiting their doom. Maybe the local religion demands this to be done to [[Appease the Volcano God]]. Maybe the monster wants tribute in the form of people to eat, such as with many dragons. Maybe this is even meant as a punishment, in the case of Daniel in the lion's den from [[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]] or Andromeda from [[Classical Mythology]].
 
Other times, the beast is a [[Right -Hand Attack Dog]] -- a pet or other creature that the villain keeps around for some reason, which he uses to dispose of victims, and more than one villain's underling has met their end in this way, usually after they've [[You Have Failed Me|failed him]] or [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|outlived their usefulness]]. If a villain tries to do this to the hero, expect the hero to kill the beast or escape in some other fashion. It's also not uncommon for villains fond of feeding people to beasts to [[Karmic Death|meet their end]] by [[Just Desserts|being eaten by the beast]] [[Hoist By His Own Petard|in turn]], if the hero didn't kill the beast beforehand.
 
Fantasy villains have all kinds of monsters to choose from, ranging from dragons to giant snakes to giant vermin to demons or something even weirder. Contemporary and pulp villains will often have their victims eaten by tigers or sharks or some other large man-eating carnivore. Sci-fi villains will often have some really freaky alien monster to feed people to.
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See also [[Just Desserts]] and [[Eat Me]].
{{examples|Examples}}
 
== Anime and Manga ==
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** ''[[You Only Live Twice (Film)|You Only Live Twice]]''. Blofeld drops a henchman [[You Have Failed Me|who failed him]] into a [[Shark Pool|Piranha Pool]].
** ''[[Live and Let Die (Film)|Live and Let Die]]''. Kananga tries to feed [[James Bond]] and Solitaire to his pet shark. His [[The Dragon|dragon]] earlier tried feeding him to ''crocodiles''.
*** ''[[Austin Powers]]: International Man of Mystery''. In an [[Shout Out]] to ''[[Live and Let Die (Film)|Live and Let Die]]'', Dr. Evil tries to feed Austin and Vanessa to ill-tempered mutant sea bass using an [[Unnecessarily Slow Dipping Mechanism]] (he really wanted Sharks with [[Frickin' Laser Beams]] on their heads).
*** Indeed, this trope is so often used to [[James Bond]] parodies it's one of the things thought to happen in Bond movies a lot more often than it actually does.
** ''[[Licence to Kill (Film)|Licence to Kill]]''. Sanchez badly maims Felix Leiter by having him thrown into a [[Shark Pool]] in revenge for his role in his capture as the rest of his men murder Della, Felix's new wife. Bond starts his [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] by feeding Killifer, the bribed DEA agent who helped to spring Sanchez, to the shark in turn.
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* In [[Robert E Howard]]'s "[[The Scarlet Citadel (Literature)|The Scarlet Citadel]]," Tsotha imprisons [[Conan the Barbarian]] in the dungeons below the title citadel, with the intent of having him be eaten by Satha, another big-ass snake. The snake ends up killing a slave of Tsotha's who was planning to kill Conan in revenge for his brother's death during Conan's pirate days, when he was called Amra.
* Has happened to [[Alex Rider (Literature)|Alex Rider]] at least once in his career.
* In the ''[[James Bond (Literature)|James Bond]]'' novel ''[[Live and Let Die (Literature)|Live and Let Die]]'', Felix Leiter is caught snooping around the villains' warehouse and partially fed to a shark (the basis for his maiming in ''[[Licence to Kill (Film)|Licence to Kill]]'', including the [[Bond One -Liner|"He disagreed with something that ate him"]] note). Later, Bond and Solitaire are to be dragged through a reef until their blood attracts sharks to eat them (this was used in ''[[For Your Eyes Only (Film)|For Your Eyes Only]]'').
* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books, Voldemort generally feeds his victims to his snake, Nagini, although they're usually (if not always) dead first.
** Well of course they're usually dead. He doesn't want them hurting his snake by struggling, after all.
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== Theater ==
* ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'' does this with a [[Man -Eating Plant]].
 
== Religion and Mythology ==
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