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The example argues against itself. If Wall-E is simply reusing body parts as if they were organ transplants, then it's just not an example of this trope.
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** In ''WesternAnimation/WallE'', the title character is shown cannibalizing other shut-down robots for parts. Any UnfortunateImplications of this are never addressed. Justified in that WALL•E, being a robot, isn't actually ingesting and digesting them, only grafting pieces of other robots onto himself. So it's more like organ transplants.
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** ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'':
*** Nemo is introduced to a pelican who makes an apology to Nemo on the off chance that he had ever tried to eat him in the past. Apparently, predators only eat prey animals they're not on a first-name basis with.
*** Carnivorism among sharks is treated as similar to alcoholism, and the sharks in the movie belong to a "Sharks Anonymous" group. The question of what they're supposed to eat instead is completely ignored (although they don't seem to care about dolphins).
*** The trope is also subverted later on. At one point a character points out that whales only eat krill, which most people don't think of as being a "creature" and thus whales are often not thought of as carnivores (as opposed to, say, killer whales). Immediately after, a swarm of krill passes through the scene, screaming and swimming for their lives as a whale tries to eat them.
*** Bloat, a pufferfish, sharing a tank with Jacques, a Pacific cleaner shrimp (even though pufferfish mainly eat crustaceans in real life) ''seems'' like a classic case of this, but it really isn't. Real cleaner shrimp feed on parasites that infest the scales and gills of fish -- even large predatory ones such as sharks. Their bright red and white colors let their prospective clients identify them, so even fish that normally eat shrimp do not attack them. Many owners of saltwater aquariums keep cleaner shrimp for that very purpose.
*** Nemo is introduced to a pelican who makes an apology to Nemo on the off chance that he had ever tried to eat him in the past. Apparently, predators only eat prey animals they're not on a first-name basis with.
*** Carnivorism among sharks is treated as similar to alcoholism, and the sharks in the movie belong to a "Sharks Anonymous" group. The question of what they're supposed to eat instead is completely ignored (although they don't seem to care about dolphins).
*** The trope is also subverted later on. At one point a character points out that whales only eat krill, which most people don't think of as being a "creature" and thus whales are often not thought of as carnivores (as opposed to, say, killer whales). Immediately after, a swarm of krill passes through the scene, screaming and swimming for their lives as a whale tries to eat them.
*** Bloat, a pufferfish, sharing a tank with Jacques, a Pacific cleaner shrimp (even though pufferfish mainly eat crustaceans in real life) ''seems'' like a classic case of this, but it really isn't. Real cleaner shrimp feed on parasites that infest the scales and gills of fish -- even large predatory ones such as sharks. Their bright red and white colors let their prospective clients identify them, so even fish that normally eat shrimp do not attack them. Many owners of saltwater aquariums keep cleaner shrimp for that very purpose.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'':
** Nemo is introduced to a pelican who makes an apology to Nemo on the off chance that he had ever tried to eat him in the past. Apparently, predators only eat prey animals they're not on a first-name basis with.
** Carnivorism among sharks is treated as similar to alcoholism, and the sharks in the movie belong to a "Sharks Anonymous" group. The question of what they're supposed to eat instead is completely ignored (although they don't seem to care about dolphins).
** The trope is also subverted later on. At one point a character points out that whales only eat krill, which most people don't think of as being a "creature" and thus whales are often not thought of as carnivores (as opposed to, say, killer whales). Immediately after, a swarm of krill passes through the scene, screaming and swimming for their lives as a whale tries to eat them.
** Bloat, a pufferfish, sharing a tank with Jacques, a Pacific cleaner shrimp (even though pufferfish mainly eat crustaceans in real life) ''seems'' like a classic case of this, but it really isn't. Real cleaner shrimp feed on parasites that infest the scales and gills of fish -- even large predatory ones such as sharks. Their bright red and white colors let their prospective clients identify them, so even fish that normally eat shrimp do not attack them. Many owners of saltwater aquariums keep cleaner shrimp for that very purpose.
** Nemo is introduced to a pelican who makes an apology to Nemo on the off chance that he had ever tried to eat him in the past. Apparently, predators only eat prey animals they're not on a first-name basis with.
** Carnivorism among sharks is treated as similar to alcoholism, and the sharks in the movie belong to a "Sharks Anonymous" group. The question of what they're supposed to eat instead is completely ignored (although they don't seem to care about dolphins).
** The trope is also subverted later on. At one point a character points out that whales only eat krill, which most people don't think of as being a "creature" and thus whales are often not thought of as carnivores (as opposed to, say, killer whales). Immediately after, a swarm of krill passes through the scene, screaming and swimming for their lives as a whale tries to eat them.
** Bloat, a pufferfish, sharing a tank with Jacques, a Pacific cleaner shrimp (even though pufferfish mainly eat crustaceans in real life) ''seems'' like a classic case of this, but it really isn't. Real cleaner shrimp feed on parasites that infest the scales and gills of fish -- even large predatory ones such as sharks. Their bright red and white colors let their prospective clients identify them, so even fish that normally eat shrimp do not attack them. Many owners of saltwater aquariums keep cleaner shrimp for that very purpose.
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** An episode segment features the hyenas trying to catch and eat a circus monkey.
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*** Another episode features them and the host of a nature show, who keeps giving steaks to an armadillo. They try to convince him to give them some steaks and he just [[KickTheDog kicks them off the set]]. He's also rather abusive toward his assistant. Eventually, they (both the hyenas and the assistant) get tire of being kicked around, and are seen at the end about to cook (and presumably eat) the nature show host, while the assistant happily films it.
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*** Another episode features them and the host of a nature show, who keeps giving steaks to an armadillo. They try to convince him to give them some steaks and he just [[KickTheDog kicks them off the set]]. He's also rather abusive toward his assistant. Eventually, they (both the hyenas and the assistant) get tire tired of being kicked around, and are seen at the end about to cook (and presumably eat) the nature show host, while the assistant happily films it.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'', one reason Triton hates humans is that they eat fish. That leaves the question of what the merfolk eat. According to later supplementary material they are vegan and eat foods like kelp, but that isn't shown in-series. The fish themselves, on the other hand...
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', one reason Triton hates humans is that they eat fish. That leaves the question of what the merfolk eat. According to later supplementary material they are vegan and eat foods like kelp, but that isn't shown in-series. The fish themselves, on the other hand...
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* In ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', one reason Triton hates humans is that they eat fish. That leaves the question of what the merfolk eat. According to later supplementary material they are vegan and eat foods like kelp, but that isn't shown in-series. The fish themselves, on the other hand...
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* In ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'', one reason Triton hates humans is that they eat fish. That leaves the question of what the merfolk eat. According to later supplementary material they are vegan and eat foods like kelp, but that isn't shown in-series. The fish themselves, on the other hand...
