History EmotionEater / ComicBooks

* The Tuffbones in ''ComicBook/AdventureTimeMarcelineGoneAdrift'' are benevolent doglike aliens who feed harmlessly off artistic creativity and use it to power their civilisation.
* Psyklops from the ''ComicBook/AtariForce'' comic book psychically feeds off the pain of his victims, and uses his power to trap his victims into reliving painful past memories.

* Powerhaus from ''[=Dv8=]'' absorbed emotions to fuel his growth and super-strength. He ''can'' use his own emotions, but he's so mellow that it's not very reliable.
* Mister Dark from ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' draws power from fear.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'', demons in Hell distill the torments of the damned into a powder which they use like snuff.
* Like the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve Windigoes]], the Gremlins from ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'' Issue #2 feed off negative feelings, and use weather to continually instill these negative emotions in a perpetuating cycle.

* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
** The villain Bliss, from ''ComicBook/{{Starman}}'', is a demon who finds the despair of "special" people ([[TheFreakshow carnival freaks]]) exquisite. However, when Jack confronts him, his meal is tainted with hope, weakening him to the point Jack and Mikaal can outright destroy him by combining energy blasts.
** ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, like all ComicBook/NewGods, is (DependingOnTheWriter) powered by and sustained by the emotions relating to what he represents, in his case despotism and the fear that accompanies it.
** ComicBook/{{Raven}} of ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' fame is somewhere in between; she ''does'' feed on negative emotions, like sadness, but has a hard time not absorbing ''any'' heightened emotion, such as excitement or joy. All she does is leave people feeling neutral though, so it's okay.
** Psycho Pirate a villain of the ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica''. In ''ComicBook/{{Crisis on Infinite Earths}}'', he was basically TheStarscream to the Anti-Monitor. He uses his golden Medusa Mask to control and feed off the emotions of the people who see it. Addicted to his powers, they eventually backfire when he pisses off Black Adam [[spoiler: and gets the mask rammed through his head.]]
** The Black Lanterns in ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'' feed on the emotions of sentient beings to power up their battery. They come back in the body of people with emotional connections to those that still live (heroes, villains, emotional spectrum welders, lovers, friends...) and incite emotions in many ways, usually but not always by giving them {{Breaking Speech}}es while fighting. They feed on Rage, Greed, Fear, Willpower, Hope, Compassion and Love, which means its just as dangerous to feel hopeful as it is to feel afraid. Their vision is full of black and shades of grey, and the only things with color are sentient beings full of emotions, which makes it possible to run from them if one contains his own emotions. When their targets are full of emotion, they rip out their hearts and feed on them, powering up their black power battery.
** Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}:
*** The Japanese assassins Gakidou and Sakki, The Hate Furnace in [[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Supergirl Vol. 5]] not only have {{Intangibility}}, but can feed on negative emotions like lust and anger to boost their strengths to astronomical levels. Supergirl defeated them by simultaneously beating them up and [[UnstoppableRage overloading them]].
*** In the same story, Powerboy revealed he can channel others' emotions to fuel his abilities, but the excess emotions caused him to [[DomesticAbuse go psycho on]] Supergirl.
---> '''Powerboy''': (to a restrained Supergirl) I ''feel''. Feel everyone else's hate, love, pain, fear... and it becomes ''this''..."(forms ball of black energy) Of course, you saw what happens when it goes the other way. But I hope you understand... I did it for you.
*** In ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', [[spoiler:Supergirl's communicator]] turns out to be an emotion-collecting machine which absorbs emotions and feelings with the purpose of [[spoiler:amplifying Mr. Mxyzptlk's power]].
** In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' story ''ComicBook/AMindSwitchInTime'', Euphor has the power to feed on negative emotions. Unfortunately, absorbing too much negativity and unhappiness drives him gradually mad.
** A one-off alien villain in the ''Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}}'' comic books both fed off emotions and could channel the excess to others. Fear of death was a narcotic to his species, and he destroyed entire planets for the high, but he kept a little in reserve as an EmotionBomb. (Scarecrow's failures notwithstanding, it really ''is'' possible to scare Franchise/{{Batman}} into surrendering. Franchise/WonderWoman, not so much.)
** The Emotion Entities from ''Franchise/GreenLantern''. As long as there is at least one being in the universe that can feel the emotions they embody, they will always exist. Although they do not feed on the emotions they embody. They are in fact the avatars of the combined power of each emotion (rage, greed, fear, will, hope, compassion, love) felt by every being in the universe.
*** The Entity of Rage, the Butcher, does play this straight. It chooses hosts full of grief and rage (it is first seen merging with a man who was being taunted by his daughter's killer while the killer was being strapped in the electric chair) and empowers them to vent their fury on their targets while feeding on their anger. The Butcher then leaves after its hosts' rage is spent to find new hosts.
** In ''Comicbook/BlackLightning: Year One'', the 100 are an ancient order of landowners who resorted to any means necessary to render themselves immortal. This left them with two side-effects: that they need to [[FisherKing tie themselves to a plot of land to draw strength from it]], and that they need to feed on emotions, preferably negative ones. This usually results in them becoming slumlords of one stripe or another.
** ''[[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Wonder Woman Vol. 1]]'': Pluto and his subjects feed on the living by separating them out into specters of their colored emotional spectrum and then draining said specters.
** ''[[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Wonder Woman Vol. 2]]'': The Erinyes drain their victims of their blood and use it to trigger emotionally charged memories and feed on their victim's blood and despair.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanWarbringer'': Phobos and Deimos feed on fear and find it sweet, but rather than drain a target of their fear they generate more. Eris on the other hand feeds the same way on the kind of distrust and petty grudges that lead to arguments and fights.
** ''ComicBook/GreenLanterns'': Singularity Jain is an unusual example of this. She's a motophagus, meaning that she feeds on misery. While [[ExtremeOmnivore she's capable of eating nearly anything]], including raw energy, due to the fact that she's essentially a walking black hole, she states that it "tastes of ashes" and prefers to feed on the suffering of sentient beings. What sets her apart from most examples of this trope is that she feeds on this emotion by literally swallowing said beings whole, trapping them in the most traumatic moment of their lives in the singularity within her.
* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse''
** Mangog, from ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'', depends on the emotions of others to exist. Without those it fades from existence. However, it can't just feed off anyone and needs a specific source.
** ''ComicBook/XMen'' supporting character Caliban feeds off fear as part of his mutant power. He's basically a good guy, [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor except for the times when he isn't]].
** Scatterbrain, AKA Fascination, of the Technet (and later/earlier, of the time-traveling Special Executive). Her reliance on emotional nutrition, good, bad or anything-except-indifferent, sometimes has her following around characters because they're annoyed-- which makes her follow them more closely-- which makes them more annoyed etc. etc. Which... doesn't always work that well for her, like the time she did it to [[FlyingBrick Captain Britain]], who got so irritable that he started waving his arms around as he walked. One 'KLUDD!' later, and Scatterbrain was sprawled crosseyed against the far wall.
** When she first appeared in the mutant books, mutant rock star Lila Cheney was pursued several times by an alien crime lord named Spyder who wanted to own her. (He ran several black market and slave trading operations, and had actually captured Lila for another group of aliens then arrange for her to escape on purpose simply to get out of the contact, because he wanted Lila for himself.) One of many uses Spyder had for humanoid beings was to distill their emotions and turn it into a tobacco-like substance that he smoked to experience the emotion himself, as he could not experience any emotion himself except greed. Spyder was addicted to this stuff, claiming that even experiencing negative emotions like sadness and anger gave him pleasure.
** The demon D'Spayre feeds on the fear, anguish and despair of his victims.
** ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
*** The symbiote apparently feeds off negative emotions. One of the side-effects of being its host is that said emotions are amplified.
*** A miniseries had "cousins" of the symbiotes that fed on pleasure instead. The character in possession of one implicitly kept hers fed through the pleasure of self-righteousness.
*** Minor and obscure Spider-Man villain Mindworm, named for another esoteric psychic vampire mentioned under Literature, was born a mutant with a large head that parasitically fed off the emotions of people around him. He accidentally drained his mother to death and his father was DrivenToSuicide right after. When encountering Spider-Man he was at first interested the hero's strong emotion he foiled his feeding on the neighborhood. Then he just wanted to silence that mind forever.
** ''ComicBook/CloakAndDagger''. The ''Marvel Super Heroes'' supplement ''The Uncanny X-Men'' boxed set (1990) Roster Book says that Cloak's powers are based on his control of a gateway to an extradimensional space. That space contains a monster that increases and feeds off of the fear of any being that enters the space.

** The 100 are an ancient order of landowners who resorted to any means necessary to render themselves immortal. This left them with two side-effects: that they need to [[FisherKing tie themselves to a plot of land to draw strength from it]], and that they need to feed on emotions, preferably negative ones. This usually results in them becoming slumlords of one stripe or another.

%%** ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}

*** Minor and obscure Spider-Man villain Mindworm, named for another esoteric psychic vampire mentioned below, was born a mutant with a large head that parasitically fed off the emotions of people around him. He accidentally drained his mother to death and his father was DrivenToSuicide right after. When encountering Spider-Man he was at first interested the hero's strong emotion he foiled his feeding on the neighborhood. Then he just wanted to silence that mind forever.

*** In the same story, Powerboy revealed he can channel others' emotions to fuel his abilities, but the excess emotions caused him to [[DomesticAbuser go psycho on]] Supergirl.

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