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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)|Call of Cthulhu]]''. The Consume Likeness spell allows a sorcerer to take the form of a dead person by eating their body.
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)|Call of Cthulhu]]''. The Consume Likeness spell allows a sorcerer to take the form of a dead person by eating their body.
* In ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', the Kroot and Tyranids evolve primarily by eating other beings and absorbing their genetic traits. In fact, the reason Kroot are able to build spaceships is because they ate a bunch of Orks and absorbed the Mekboyz' genetic memory. Kroot also have a taboo against eating Tyranids to avoid creating some sort of horrendous feedback loop.
* In ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', the Kroot and Tyranids evolve primarily by eating other beings and absorbing their genetic traits. In fact, the reason Kroot are able to build spaceships is because they ate a bunch of Orks and absorbed the Mekboyz' genetic memory. Kroot also have a taboo against eating Tyranids to avoid creating some sort of horrendous feedback loop. [[In-Universe]], to avoid accidentally absorbing the part that plugs those bugs into Hivemind.
* Lunar Exalted from ''[[Exalted]]'' can take the form of any creature whose heart's blood they've tasted.
* Lunar Exalted from ''[[Exalted]]'' can take the form of any creature whose heart's blood they've tasted.
* Skin-Changers from ''[[GURPS]] Monster Hunters'' are [[Embodied Spirits]] who can shapeshift into any animal (including humans) by wearing their skin. Unlike the [[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]] example, Skin-Changers are clever enough to preserve the skins, and save them in jars when they're not being worn.
* Skin-Changers from ''[[GURPS]] Monster Hunters'' are [[Embodied Spirits]] who can shapeshift into any animal (including humans) by wearing their skin. Unlike the [[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]] example, Skin-Changers are clever enough to preserve the skins, and save them in jars when they're not being worn.
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* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', zombies have to [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/weekly/071219 eat the brains] of the living or they'll lose their own intelligence.
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', zombies have to [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/weekly/071219 eat the brains] of the living or they'll lose their own intelligence.
* In ''[[Demon Eater]]'', this is the main way of growing in the demon world. Demons must eat demons, or be eaten themselves.
* In ''[[Demon Eater]]'', this is the main way of growing in the demon world. Demons must eat demons, or be eaten themselves.
* ''Plastic Dudesmen'' [https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2014/01/plastic-dudesmen-149-hive-fleet-intoxicus.html speculates] what happened to the hive mind that devoured the Squats. Since [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|their toughness is inseparable from innate addiction to beer]]… somewhere, there's a swarm of very beardy bugs that won't be sober enough to drive a Hive Ship any time soon.


== [[Western Animation]] ==
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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