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{{quote|''"They didn't want me."''
|'''Billy''' after being rejected by [[H.P. Lovecraft|Yog]] [[Captain Ersatz|Sawhaw]], ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
Well, it looks like this is the end. The [[Eldritch Abomination]] rears up on its ugly, misshapen limbs, and devours the [[Idiot Hero|lovable hero]] face first. The audience does a collective cringe since, as everyone knows, watching someone getting [[Nightmare Fuel|eaten alive]] is [[Family-Unfriendly Death|not a particularly pretty sight]]. Audiences prepare for the sickening crunch as the monster...
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In the ''[[Irresponsible Captain Tylor]]'' episode "The Day the Soyokaze Vanished", it is revealed that there are rumors that the Soyokaze was demoted and sent to this exact same sector of space once ten years before. During that time, a number of the crew committed suicide by flushing themselves into space, due to a combination of shame and boredom, and the captain (a former friend of Admiral Fuji, who arranged for the Soyokaze to be demoted so that he could be promoted) committed suicide. This is proven true and the ghost of the captain returns to the Soyokaze, trying first to kill Lieutenant Yamamoto (mistaking him for the captain), then Tylor. Just as he is about to kill them, Yamamoto and Tylor start arguing, revealing just how irresponsible and lacksadasical Tylor is about his commission, disgusting the ghost so much that he breaks off his murderous efforts and ends the haunting, angrily declaring them to be too pathetic to bother with.
* A non-comedic example. In ''[[Hellsing]]'', Alucard, one of
** In a fight between Seras and Zorin, Victoria bites off Zorin's fingers, and spits them out saying she would never drink blood of something like her.
* Another non-comedic example in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. After he is critically injured, {{spoiler|Kimblee is devoured by Pride. Not long after, however, Kimblee emerges from the thousands of tormented souls trapped within Pride to distract and weaken him at a key moment. Pride doesn't understand how Kimblee could have managed to retain his sanity in the maelstrom, but he overlooks the fact that [[Insanity Immunity|Kimblee is already insane]] [[Crazy Awesome|and loving it]]}}.
** You'll also notice that {{spoiler|[[Fridge Brilliance|the other souls are staying as far away from him as possible]]}}.
* Another non-comedic example in ''[[Slayers]]''. The Holy Tree Flagoon was planted to absorb the evil miasma generated by demons, and in season 1 / novel 3 is able to consume the Demon Beast Zanaffar whole. In season 2 / novel 8, the tree tries to absorb the miasma of Hellmaster Fibrizo... and dies instantly.
** A comedic instance occurs in the very first episode. A dragon steps ''over'' Lina rather than step on her, shortly after Lina has learned of a rather... unflattering nickname for herself relating to ''exactly this sort of situation''. A similar joke is used in one of the OVAs, where Lina and her employer confront an army of dragons, who ''immediately'' put on [[Oh Crap]] faces and [[Attack! Attack! Retreat! Retreat!|advance to the rear at full speed]].{{context|reason=How is this an example of this trope? Lina doesn't eat the dragons (literally or metaphorically), after all.}}
*** The nickname also refers to the fact that she just generally terrifies dragons... and pretty much everyone else.
* A similar example appears in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', when England tries to curse America with an evil chair. [[Yandere|Russia]] sits on it instead and 'Russia is more evil than the chair, so the chair exploded'.
** When England and America capture Italy, they send him back to Germany (in a box [[Gratuitous English|
* In ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]'', after being tossed out the window in a tiger costume Miu returns as [[Dracula]], and proceeds to pretend to suck Matsuri's blood. ("Nothing like the taste of a sweet virgin's young blood," she remarks.) She turns to Nobue, but stops. ("No, wait. Old lady blood? Bleh...") Nobue protests that her blood's delicious, as she's only 16.
* Non-comedic example in ''[[A Certain Magical Index]]'': Himegami Aisa possesses the ability 'Deep Blood' which makes her blood seem attractive to vampires and kills them when they drink it. A vampire attracted by this ability converted her family and friends into vampires resulting in their deaths.{{context|reason=How is this an example of this trope? This appears to be an example of the exact opposite of this trope. Please explain how it fits the trope as written.}}
* In chapter 527 of ''[[Naruto]]'', The Raikage talks about two criminals known as the Kingin Brothers, who tried to seize the power of the Kyuubi, and got eaten for their troubles. For the next ''two weeks'', they caused him so much indigestion that the Ninetails couldn't stand it anymore and spit them out.
** And they survived by ''eating the Kyuubi's flesh.''
* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' has two examples of this. The first is when a villain who [[Cannibalism Superpower|eats people]] to [[Mega Manning|absorb their powers]] eats someone with [[From a Single Cell|incredible regenerative capabilities]], and is slowly taken over by him. The second is in backstory, though revealed rather late in the manga—a woman many centuries ago treated diseases by eating flesh from diseased corpses, building up antibodies, and then feeding bits of her own flesh to sick people. When a demon tried to eat her, she taunted him with the knowledge that he'd [[Regret Eating Me|almost certainly die of it]], and he wound up [[Interspecies Romance|seducing her instead]].
* ''[[Spunky Knight]]'
* ''[[One Piece]]'' has a few examples.
*
** Also, in "Little Buggy's Big Adventure" in the chapter openings in the manga and a few fillers in the anime, Buggy is eaten by a giant bird and spat into the distance
** Perona has intangible ghosts that make people feel negative if they go through that person. Usopp, who feels negative all the time, not only is unaffected, but the ghosts that went through him felt negative.
* During the final match of the Devil Chojin arc in ''[[Kinnikuman]],'' Buffaloman manages to stal Kinnikuman's life force, killing him...and then burst into flame because the Burning Inner Strength was more than he could handle. He had to return the power to Kinnikuman's body and resurrect him to save his own life.▼
* ''[[Kinnikuman]]'':
** In one earlier anime episode, Kinnikuman is fighting a sea monster for publicity, only to find said monster FAR larger than he is and gets swallowed whole. As a funeral is held in his honor, the sea monster stomach makes some unpleasant noises...and Kinnikuman crawls out from under it. It's not hard to figure out how Kin escaped.▼
▲** During the final match of the Devil Chojin arc
* In [[Hanako and The Terror of Allegory]], Kanae is being haunted by a demon which intends to take her soul as payment for granting her wish of being an idol singer. To stall for time, Kanae keeps making more extravagant wishes, forcing the demon to try and make her into an international superstar despite her lack of talent. When Daisuke finally bursts in to rescue her, the exhausted demon screams at him, "Save me, please! She's the devil!"▼
▲** In one earlier anime episode, Kinnikuman is fighting a sea monster for publicity, only to find said monster
* The Oni in [[Ranma ½]] that spend the entire episode trying to get saintly Kasumi to be evil shifts his possesion to Happosai so he can gather evil faster. A little too fast, since Happosai turns out to be too evil for even the Oni to stomach.▼
▲* In ''[[Hanako and The Terror of Allegory]]'', Kanae is being haunted by a demon which intends to take her soul as payment for granting her wish of being an idol singer. To stall for time, Kanae keeps making more extravagant wishes, forcing the demon to try and make her into an international superstar despite her lack of talent. When Daisuke finally bursts in to rescue her, the exhausted demon screams at him, "Save me, please! She's the devil!"
* As it turns out in ''[[Baccano!|Alice in Jails]]'', Isaac's brazen idiocy manages to ''protect'' him from [[Axe Crazy|Ladd]]'s homicidal impulses.▼
▲* The Oni in [[Ranma ½]] that spend the entire episode trying to get saintly Kasumi to be evil shifts his
▲* As it turns out in ''[[Baccano!|Alice in Jails]]'', Isaac's brazen idiocy manages to ''protect'' him from [[Axe Crazy|Ladd]]'s homicidal impulses.{{context|reason=How is this an example of this trope? The trope isn't 'don't attack', it's 'attack and suffer the consequences'.}}
{{quote|'''Firo:''' Hey, come to think of it, isn't Isaac the kinda guy you said you hate? The kind who think they'll never die.
'''Ladd:''' Nah. I've been keeping my eye on him for a few weeks now, and... Well, let's be honest here. There's something wrong with the guy's head. Getting mad at him'd be like getting mad at a puppy. He honestly doesn't have enough brains to know any better. }}
== Comic Books ==
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* In at least two episodes of ''[[Torchwood]]'', the rampaging [[Monster of the Week]] encounters Owen {{spoiler|after he was [[Our Zombies Are Different|killed and resurrectied]]}}, and, after a moment of disgusted inspection, rejects him as a possible victim. The first time, in "Something Borrowed", {{spoiler|the monster doesn't eat dead meat}}, and the second time, "From Out of The Rain", {{spoiler|the villain steals your last breath - and Owen had his last breath some weeks beforehand}}.
** This trope actually forms a major part of the Series 1 finale. The [[Big Bad]] of the season, Abaddon feeds directly off life energy. So how do they kill it? The immortal Captain Jack allows Abaddon to feed off him, but Jack's life energy doesn't run out and Abbadon can't handle it.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''
* Buffy from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' suffers this once while she's working at the [[Burger Fool|Double Meat Palace]]. Standard vampire fight happens, except the vampire gets the upper hand ({{spoiler|Buffy was quite depressed this season and verged on suicidal at more than one point. She almost let a singing demon kill her once.}})...but when the vamp almost bites her, he finds he 'can't stand the smell' and tries to leave.▼
** In Spike's very first appearance (and his [[Establishing Character Moment]]) he relates how he was at Woodstock and fed on a drugged up hippie - not something he remembers fondly.
▲** Buffy
** In another episode, Angelus bites a jock, but spits out his blood in disgust. The jock was taking steroids {{spoiler|and was mutating into a fish-monster.}}
* An early episode of ''[[Power Rangers]]''
** An early episode
** A very literal example was with the Invenusable Flytrap. He ''literally swallowed'' Jason, Kimberly, Zach, and Billy, but they escaped later by blasting their way out. This was actually a sort of [[Achilles' Heel]] for this [[Man-Eating Plant]]; as his name implied he was armored and very hard to hurt, but his insides weren't so well-protected.
* The cannibal featured in the ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episode "Lucky" originally ate prostitutes, but eventually switched to a different demographic of women since most of the prostitutes in the area used drugs, which makes them "taste funny".
* In an episode of ''[[Angel]]'', a demonic tree drains people's body-fluids with its vines, but it becomes poisoned when it tries this on Angel, who is a vampire.
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* An episode of ''[[Charmed]]'' had an [[Emotion Eater]] defeated when Leo's [[Unstoppable Rage]] caused him to explode.
* In ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'', {{spoiler|the near omnipotent Utopia Dopant draws power from [[Emotion Eater|the hope and resolve of people]]. He meets his end when he faces Double during Philip's [[Last Dance]]. Philip's [[Heroic Resolve]] to save his sister with his final act overloads Utopia, allowing Double to defeat him.}}
* ''[[Star Trek]]'':
** In the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "Obsession", the gaseous monster attacks Spock, only to find his copper-based Vulcan blood inedible, and flees. McCoy wryly jokes that Spock "must have left a bad taste in its mouth" which Spock says is figuratively true.
** Presumably an in-joke reference to how audiences found the Kazon to be at best entirely uninteresting and at worst a reason to not bother watching, leading to them getting dropped from the show after barely a couple of seasons.▼
** ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''
** Also the aliens known only by the Borg designation Species 8472, whose biology makes the Borg's nanoprobes useless, and actually makes them desperate enough that Janeway is able to cut a deal with them to team up against the threat.▼
▲*** One episode introduced the Kazon, whom the Borg found so utterly unremarkable that assimilating them would add nothing to the Collective. Presumably an in-joke reference to how audiences found the Kazon to be at best entirely uninteresting and at worst a reason to not bother watching, leading to them getting dropped from the show after barely a couple of seasons.
▲*** Also the aliens known only by the Borg designation Species 8472, whose biology makes the Borg's nanoprobes useless, and actually makes them desperate enough that Janeway is able to cut a deal with them to team up against the threat.
* ''[[Absolutely Fabulous]]'':
{{quote|'''Patsy Stone''': The last mosquito that bit me had to check into the Betty Ford clinic.}}
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* In ''[[Chasing the Sunset]]'' Leaf [http://www.fantasycomic.com/index.php?p=c381 argued for] traveling with Feiht.
{{quote|'''Leaf''': Besides, while she's with us, monsters will avoid us - they have dignity. And dignity and [[The Fair Folk|pixies]] don't mix.}}
{{quote|Curiously, the book explaining the taxes applicable to importing galaxy-sized dragons remained unchanged. Accountants have so far failed to agree whether this was because the concept was silly enough in its own right, or the tax law was so chaotic already that there was nothing the Ur-pixie could add.}}
* ''[[Vexxarr]]'' [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=020415 reassures] Minionbot about its fate.
* ''[[The Non-Adventures of Wonderella]]''; the heroine manages to scare Moloch himself away by [http://nonadventures.com/2011/03/18/how-now-loud-trou/ explaining why she's wearing vinyl pants.]
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** One episode features something [[Tastes Like Diabetes|so horrible]], even the Warner siblings can't deal with it: [[Captain Ersatz|"Baloney"]] the Dinosaur.
** The episode involving Satan also featured them accidentally ending up in <s>Hell</s> [[Gosh Darn It to Heck|Hades]] and fleeing in terror from their assigned punishment: listening to "whiny protest songs from the sixties" for all eternity.
* This is one of the central tropes of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
** In "Little Rock of Horror!", a brain-eating meteor-creature first attempts to eat Billy's brain but finds nothing. When it later devours Mandy's brain, it screams in pain, dies, and then reforms—but with Mandy in control. She comments "I guess my brain was a little too... spicy [for him]."
** Another episode has a Chupacabra latching onto Billy's face, which Grim claims to be an attempt to suck out his brain. Mandy laments that the poor creature would starve.
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{{Quote| '''Helen''': I see your point.}}
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode, "Dead Dog Walking", Chris gives vaping a try, creating a circle ring. Cue [[The Ring|Sadako Yamamura]] entering from the smoked ring, causing Chris and Stewie to run for lives. Then, cue Sadako Yamamura running for hers from [[Catch Phrase|who else but Quagmire]].
* The ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'' episode "Killjoys" has vampire clowns, who feed on laughter; thus, when one of them catches Kylie in an early scene, it doesn't want to eat her - she's a glum type who doesn't laugh much. Which might mean... Kylie was Too ''Bland'' for Yog-Sothoth?
* In ''[[DC Super Hero Girls]]'', Ember is a dragon who [[Picky People Eater|only eats princesses]], finding any other humans as appetizing as junk food. Thus when she captures and ties up Zee (not a princess but cosplaying as one) and tries to eat her, Ember reaction is, ''"Disgusting! Revolting! Barf-tastic!"'' Oddly, [[Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?|Zee seems far more upset about ''that'' than Ember trying to eat her.]]
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