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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...

* A non-comedic example. In ''[[Hellsing]]'', Alucard, one of fictiondoms [[God Mode Sue|most insanely overpowered characters]], has a habit of eating his defeated enemies' souls to enslave them and assimilate their power. {{spoiler|He's almost [[Killed Off for Real]] when he chows down on walking physics anomaly Schrodinger, whose power is so bizarre it causes Alucard to undergo a quantum existence failure. He does recover, but it takes ''30 years''.}}

** 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.

** 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]].

*** The nickname also refers to the fact that she just generally terrifies dragons... and pretty much everyone else.

** When England and America capture Italy, they send him back to Germany (in a box [[Gratuitous English|labeled "fuck"]], no less) because he's a pain to take care of.

* 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.

** 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]].

* [[One Piece]] has a few examples. After Momoo's tailfin is intially kicked by the Strawhats, he will run away after preparing to attack them once he recognizes their faces.

** 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 immediatly.

* 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!"

* The Oni in [[Ranma One Half]] 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.

{{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.<br />

'''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. }}

** Not to mention the time [[Daredevil]]'s Typhoid Mary got a crush on Deadpool. She made him look sane by comparison.

* In ''Supreme: The Return'', Korgo the Space-Tyrant beats up then-President of the United States Bill Clinton to take his place as "ruler of the free world." Among the spoils he claimed was Clinton's wife, Hillary. By the time Supreme could come and beat him up, Korgo breathlessly thanked him for taking him away from her.

* ''[[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|Dracula vs. Superman]]'' is resolved when Dracula hypnotizes Superman, and bites into him to gain the Kryptonian power in his blood. One problem; Superman is ''solar powered''.

** An issue of ''[[Runaways]]'' substitutes Dracula with "random vampire teenager" and Supes with Karolina, with the same results.

* The ''[[Ultimate Marvel|Ultimate Galactus]]'' arc has Professor Xavier trying to make contact with Gah Lak Tus's [[Hive Mind]], only to get [[Mind Rape|hurt pretty badly]], as is standard in interactions with the [[Planet Eater]]. However, he realizes that the reason Gah Lak Tus acts in such a way is because it's ''disgusted'' by organic life, so he sets up a psionic amplifier...

{{quote| "Hello, Gah Lak Tus. I've brought six billion of my friends."}}

* A [[Blackest Night|Black Lantern]] who tried to eat the heart of [[The Phantom Stranger]] died instantly without leaving a scratch on the Stranger.

* Similarly, a ''[[Black Panther]]'' arc had Black Panther make a deal with Mephisto for the sole thing that could save the day. Mephisto came to claim his soul... which was also the seat of the power of the Black Panther, and tied to every other noble soul that's channeled said power. And they were ''pissed''.

* In a What If story, Mephisto tried to claim the soul of the [[Silver Surfer]]. It backfired when the [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]] of the Surfer's soul manifested as a brilliant light that burned Mephisto. Since the Surfer already agreed to spend eternity in hell, Mephisto would burn ''forever''. In this case, Surfer isn't too powerful or too evil for Mephisto -- he's too ''good''. Ironically, that's exactly why Mephisto wanted Surfer in hell in the first place since he didn't like seeing someone that good in the universe.

* In one story, [[Lobo]] died. The story ends with Lobo back among the livings and Heaven and Hell making him immortal for everything he did. OK, his rampage that devastated Heaven was justified, after they reincarnated him as a squirrell and he died squished by his own corpse dying his original death (it wasn't on purpose), but everything he did before that wasn't.

 

 

== Film - Live-Action ==

* Seen in the live-action ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'': {{spoiler|Bullwinkle is too dense for mind control to have any effect.}}

** Also in the original cartoons. {{spoiler|"No brain, no effect."}}

* In ''[[Star Wars]] V: The Empire Strikes Back'', R2-D2 gets swallowed by a swamp monster on Dagobah. A few seconds later, he gets spat out. Luke comments, "You're lucky you don't taste very good." (the [[Re Cut]] inexplicably changed it to "You're lucky you got out of there.")

** And yet, somehow, the giant evil-eating blob that engulfs the city at the end is so repulsed by her innocence that it spits out Barbarella ''and'' a villainess who just happens to be next to her.

*** No wonder. 90% of Barbarella's characterization is that she is innocently sensual, with no malice. Ok, some malice.

* In ''Me and the Big Guy'' a parody of ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'', a lonely citizen tries small talking and playing board games with [[Big Brother]] and even puts on sock-puppet theater for the "Big guy" on the screen. An annoyed and disgusted Big Brother calls him out, telling him that Big Brother is supposed to be a feared and omniscient oppressor, not a personal friend, but as the citizen continuities this behavior, Big Brother turns the double-way screen off in frustration to avoid communicating with him. Of course, it is subtly suggested that this was the citizen's intention from the start.

 

 

** And later on, as the griffin is released on a Mayday festival equivalent, a random maiden sees the griffin as it catches her scent and makes a hurried attempt to force herself on the man whose advances she had just rejected a minute earlier in an effort to make herself inedible - all while the griffin is trying to break the house down.

* The [[Shel Silverstein]] poem "Always Sprinkle Pepper in Your Hair" refers to a tactic for keeping yourself literally too spicy for a hag to make into soup: "She'll pick you up and sniff you, and then she'll sneeze 'Achooo,' and say, 'My tot, you're much too hot, I fear you'll never do'."

** Possibly an inversion; the character in question is too ''pure'', rather than too evil.

* Humanity as a whole has a unique resistance to [[Mind Reading]] in ''The Damned'' by Allan Dean Foster, [[Brown Note|causing mental trauma in any alien that tries it]]. [[Humanity Is Insane|Species-wide insanity]] [[Disability Immunity|has advantages]].

* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', Shelob (an [[Eldritch Abomination]] in the form of a [[Giant Spider]]) finds Gollum absolutely inedible, despite the fact that she'll eat almost anything else, up to and including orc. Consequently, Gollum is able to convince Shelob to spare him - so long as he brings her more edible beings to feast on, {{spoiler|like hobbits...}}

* A story with a somewhat darkly comedic bent in ''[[Hellraiser|The Hellbound Hearts]]'' had a trio of youths, who were being held captive by an ''extremely'' sadistic [[Outlaw Couple]], summon the Cenobites using a puzzle box the couple had in their possession. The Cenobites at are first eager to take them as their new guinea pigs in exploring the realms of sensation and experience, but after one of them comes into contact with one of the three, decides against it, having sensed they've already been through pretty much every form of torture and indignity imaginable at the hands of their captors, who the Cenobites decide to take as a consolation prize.

 

== Live Action TV ==

** 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 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 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.

** Another episode sees {{spoiler|a small boy}} possessed by a rather evil demon. {{spoiler|The boy is an even more evil psychopath, who commits all of "the demon's" crimes himself; the only thing the demon does is try to make the boy commit suicide to end ''its own'' suffering.}}

** When she fights Angelus Faith dopes up then lets him feed on her. The drugs she took are so strong than he promptly stops and passes out.

* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Lodger" has an alien spacecraft trying to repair itself using people who want to leave. When a man who is comfortable sitting on his sofa all day connects himself to the main controls the whole ship overloads.

** In the new series episode "The Next Doctor", the Cybermen attempt to convert Mrs. Harttigan. Problem is, she's too strong-willed, and dominates them instead.

** "The God Complex" has an alien minotaur [[Emotion Eater|feeding on]] {{spoiler|the faith}} of those trapped in its prison by revealing [[Your Worst Nightmare|their worst fears]]. When Rory shows up, all it does is show him the exit because {{spoiler|he is neither religious nor superstitious and, unlike Amy, does not have an abiding faith that The Doctor will always save the day}}. Also, because after the events of "The Pandorica Opens"... there isn't really anything left for him to be afraid of.

* 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.}}

** 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.

{{quote| '''Patsy Stone''': The last mosquito that bit me had to check into the Betty Ford clinic.}}

 

 

== Magazines ==

 

 

* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', one year [[Star Trek|The Borg]] crash lands in the Kingdom. They exhume a nearby grave and reanimate the dead, then try to assimilate them. The problem was that the body was of Father Crimbo, who (because it was Crimbo time) was powerful enough to assimilate them, creating the Crimborg.

* ''[[Within a Deep Forest]]'' has a large catlike monster who will gobble up any ball that gets near it. {{spoiler|Except the Pathetic Ball; it can bounce right past the beast without incident. The implied reason is that the monster wants to absorb your ball's powers, and only the Pathetic Ball has no powers worth absorbing.}}

* Actually happens in ''[[Dark Corners of the Earth]]'' at one point. {{spoiler|In order to kill a "Cthulhu spawn-like monster" inside a cell you must feed it a blue flower that is apparently deadly to Cthulhu's creatures.}}

 

 

== Webcomics ==

* In ''[[Fans]]'', [http://www.faans.com/index.php?p=760 Brainio's attempt to devour the minds of the Skiffies].

* In [http://www.dorktower.com/2006/05/05/comics-archive-781/ this] ''[[Dork Tower]]'' strip, [[The Loonie|Igor]] attacked a mind flayer with purple nurples and wedgies. Since this effectively proved his character didn't ''have'' a brain to flay, he won.

* In ''[[Sam and Fuzzy]]'', Fridge attempts to {{spoiler|[[Demonic Possession|demonically possess]] [[Dumb Muscle|Ox]]. It works poorly because Ox is so dumb that it limits Fridge's own mental capabilities. For a frame of reference, Fridge's mental capabilities were higher when it was possessing ''fridge mold in Sam's refrigerator''.}}

{{quote| '''Hag 2''': Why didn't you [[Just Eat Him]]?<br />

'''Hag 1''': You kidding? He made me feel sick while he was outside! }}

 

 

* In the ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' Halloween cartoon "Jibblies 2", Homestar is immune to the Rocoulm's [[Brown Note|jibblies-inducing phrase]] "Come on in here!" presumably because he's [[The Ditz]]. The cartoon's Easter egg reveals that [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Homsar is also immune; in fact, he gives the Rocoulm a case of the jibblies.

** In keeping with the trope, Homestar agrees to be trapped in the painting forever in exchange for everyone else to be released from the jibblies. He then proceeds to drive Rocoulm insane, but due to the terms of the agreement, ''he is completely unable to release Homestar''.

** He also stated that he wouldn't review ''any'' webcomic, primarily because they're free entertainment mostly done as a hobby, and it's unfair to treat them the same way as comics done by professionals.

** He also refuses to review ''[[One More Day]]''. He doesn't want to devote any air time to it or even acknowledge its existence -- he just hates it that much.

*** And in his defense, if you were to add together all of the screentime in separate episodes he's dedicated to explaining why he hates ''[[One More Day]]'', you'd have a whole episode, easily.

 

 

* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Raging Bender," a brainslug begins feeding on Fry's brain. It dies of starvation (acknowledged by the writers as being the "Oldest. Joke. Ever."). Later, in "The Day The Earth Stood Stupid," it is revealed that Fry is [[The Chosen One]] to defeat the Brains; he's immune to their stupefaction ray, because he's the only creature in the universe who doesn't have the brain-waves used to think. The Nibblonians comment on his "superior, yet inferior brain".

** The next time Fry meets them, the Nibblonians acknowledge that it's all because he's [[My Own Grampa|His Own Grampa]].

** 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.

** 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.

** In "Big Trouble in Billy's Basement", Billy is pulled through a dimensional portal by [[Captain Ersatz|Yog-Sawhaw]], but thrown back, and Billy explains in dejected tones "They didn't want me" (prompting everyone to say "Well I guess that makes you a total loser").

** A short in "Treehouse of Horror II" had Mr. Burns putting Homer's brain inside a slave robot. Unfortunately, the robot still had Homer's laziness, gluttony, etc.

** Another "Treehouse of Horror" special had a zombie horde clamoring for "Braaaains" inspect Homer's head, then abandon him in disgust...He's actually [[Too Dumb to Live|offended by that turn of events]]

*** Then [[Double Subverted]] later in the same episode, when Groundskeeper Willie tries to de-program Homer and winds up being brainwashed himself.

** Speaking of the Flying Dutchman, in "Born Again Krabs" Mr. Krabs trades Spongebob's soul for 62 cents. Just as he starts to [[My God, What Have I Done?|feel bad about it,]] the Flying Dutchman comes back to return Spongebob after being annoyed by his incessant chatter about his hobbies.

** In a third Flying Dutchman example, namely "Scaredy Pants", Spongebob is shaved down by Patrick to make him rounder for a sheet he uses as a Flying Dutchman costume to try to scare everyone in the Krusty Krab for Halloween. He fails miserably, but as the entire restaurant is laughing at him the ''real'' Dutchman arrives, angered by Spongebob's insulting costume and about to steal everyone's souls. He takes a moment before doing so to explain the concept of being scary to Spongebob, then removes the sheet... and flies away screaming when he sees the sponge had been shaved down to facial features, a brain, and a "spinal cord".

* Before the series was [[Too Good to Last|pulled prematurely off the air]], an unfinished episode of ''[[Invader Zim]]'' would have had Zim being judged on trial by the Control Brains (the central decision makers of Irken society). After finding him unquestionably guilty, they try to upload Zim's Memory Drive in his Irken Pack (where his real personality is located) before deleting his memory, but his memories drive them completely insane. Before the end of the episode, the now-insane brains declare Zim the most incredible Irken ever and granted ten minutes to control a giant ship called the MASSIVE.

** The Halloween episode featured Zim and Dib becoming trapped in a twisted alternate universe populated by monster versions of the regular characters. When they escape and the monster version of [[Sadist Teacher]] Bitters follows them, she's scared off when she witnesses the destruction caused by [[Cloudcuckoolander]] robot Gir attacking childen out for tricks-or-treats and eating all their food.

*** Nay! He did, in fact, learn his lesson. Tankor is a moron, An Idiot, a rube and a fool. It is obvious that this was yon Megatron's solution to the bot's questionable loyalty! It took an external intervention to restore Tankor's intellect.

*** {{spoiler|He even added a [[Restraining Bolt]] when he placed Rhinox's spark inside Tankor. At the moment of truth, it left Rhinox/Tankor paralyzed and Megatron with complete control of the superweapon Rhinox practically handed to him on a silver platter.}}

* In the ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' episode "Snakes N Barrels II", Dethklok consider Los Angeles to be so brutal and messed up that they would kill themselves if they lived there.

* This is the entire point of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''. [[Satan|Lucius]] wants to break Jimmy, but not only is he [[Too Kinky to Torture]], but he often drive Lucius crazy.

* In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Trapper Keeper", the Trapper Keeper becomes sick and is destroyed when it assimilates Rosie O' Donnell

* In ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'', Timmy's imaginary friend Gary is eaten by an imaginary monster version of Vicky. She spits him out and says "I hate [[Running Gag|cool!]]"

* In the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon "The Hole Idea", an inventor has created a portable hole, which he eventually uses to get rid of his overbearing wife, which drops her all the way to Hell. Then the devil pops up to return her, protesting "Isn't it bad enough down here without ''her''?"

** Double points for Pinkie reacting to it by [[Fire-Breathing Diner|breathing fire]]. So the rainbow was literally too spicy for Pinkie Pie.