History Main / CannibalTribe

* In ''[[ComicBook/WarlordOfMars Warlord of Mars: Dejah Thoris]]'', the eponymous princess discovers a ruined city inhabited by a tribe of savage White Martians that eats exclusively flesh. They aren't picky about what they eat, be it wild beasts they hunt, unfortunate travelers who get lost and even their own dead. In contrast to other examples that are rife with UnfortunateImplications, these savages are blonde haired, blue-eyed and pale skinned, as they are related to the Holy Therns (who are also cannibals themselves, but far more civilized and eat only Red Martian flesh).

* The cannibal kingdom of Darfar shows up in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/ConanTheAdventurer'', though given that it was a '90s kids' cartoon, understandably no cannibalism is actually seen. Also, the Darfari were changed to [[AmbiguouslyBrown somewhat pale brown]] borderline-FrazettaMen, to avoid the obvious UnfortunateImplications of black cannibals.

* The Candy People from ''Literature/TheCannibalsOfCandyland''.
* The Tcho-Tcho of the ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'' are a Southeast Asian cannibal tribe composed entirely of {{depraved dwarf}}s.
* ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'''s Hyborian world has Darfar, one of the [[DarkestAfrica Black Kingdoms]] south of Stygia. They're not very popular with their neighbors (most of whom are actually quite civilized [[FairForItsDay by the standards of when they were originally written up]]).

* Elements of this turn up in the South Seas Treasure Game from the 1981 novel ''Literature/DreamPark''.
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* One canto late in ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'' centers around a tribe of cannibals who kidnap a beautiful princess in hopes of a tasty meal. They're only kept from eating her because their foul priest wants to sacrifice her life to their gods.

* In ''Literature/{{Longarm}} and the Man-Eaters'', Longarm travels to the Texas coast to investigate rumors of a cannibal Indian tribe.
* In ''Literature/MobyDick'', Queequeg comes from one of these on the fictional South Pacific island of Rokovoko. At one point he tells a story about a victory feast after a battle, in which fifty of his tribe's enemies were eaten -- and he got indigestion afterwards! However, Queequeg is presented as a NobleSavage, and he's best friend to the novel's protagonist, Ishmael, who takes a very live-and-let-live approach to Queequeg's cultural practices. Creator/HermanMelville had a great admiration for Polynesian culture.
* The natives of Tsalal in ''Literature/TheNarrativeOfArthurGordonPymOfNantucket''.
* There's a Cannibal Tribe in ''Literature/{{Nation}}'', but aside from being terrifying raiders who take human prisoners for slaves (and dinner), they're really quite reasonable... and not nearly as terrifying as First Mate Cox.
* In ''Literature/{{Odtaa}}'', the Pituba Indians are reputed to be cannibals, but we never see evidence of it, and Rosa says their reputation is overstated: "They don't eat all the babies they're credited with. They may munch a finger here and there."
* In ''Literature/ThePeshawarLancers'', [[GrimUpNorth Europe and North America]] are full of savage cannibals. The civilised nations of the Southern Hemisphere, most notably the [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire Angerez Raj]] and ''France outre-mer'' are in the process of (re-)colonising them and civilising the natives.

* Friday's tribe in ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe''. Despite his friendship with Friday, Crusoe remains convinced that Friday's people [[CapturedByCannibals will eat him if he ever ventures over there]], despite Friday's insistence otherwise. They later rescue a Spaniard and Friday's father from being eaten by another group of cannibals.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' the Wildling Ice-river clans are known for being this (''not'' the Thenns, unlike in the show) as they live north of The Wall which is nothing but ice and snow. They are more savage and primitive than the rest of the Free Folk, who view them with fear and disdain.
** The people of Skagos are said to be this, they once raided the nearby isle of Skane and ate all the men in a fortnight. Rickon Stark went there in hiding with Shaggydog and Osha, and Davos Seaworth dreads having to go there to find him, as the island and its inhabitants are infamous among sailors.
* The Martians in ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'' engage in this after a “water brother” discorporates.

* One canto late in ''Literature/TheFaeireQueene'' centers around a tribe of cannibals who kidnap a beautiful princess in hopes of a tasty meal. They're only kept from eating her because their foul priest wants to sacrifice her life to their gods.

* ''Film/TheBadBatch'': the first people Arlen meets in the wasteland are a group of cannibals who cut off and eat the limbs of their victims to keep them alive longer.

* In ''Literature/MobyDick'', Queequeg comes from one of these on the fictional South Pacific island of Rokovoko. At one point he tells a story about a victory feast after a battle, in which fifty of his tribe's enemies were eaten - and he got indigestion afterwards! However, Queequeg is presented as a NobleSavage, and he's best friend to the novel's protagonist, Ishmael, who takes a very live-and-let-live approach to Queequeg's cultural practices. Creator/HermanMelville had a great admiration for Polynesian culture.

** Averted, though, in ''Series/TheLostWorld2001'', where the plateau natives are a pretty okay bunch. When they [[spoiler: do eventually turn against the British explorers, they have a pretty decent reason for it.]] There's also a brief scene early on, before we've even reached the Plateau, when Prof. Challenger casually points out an Amazonian tribe as cannibals, but they seem content to leave our heroes alone.

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* The Yaneemengo in ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' apparently practice this, as Nathan's grandmother writes about her shock at finding out she ate her husband. She's not ''too'' torn up about it as by then she had gotten together with Nathan's biological grandfather, the chief of the Yaneemango tribe. [[spoiler: At the end of the episode, while Dethklok is high on yopo, the Yaneemango tribe they find eat General Crozier's men.]]

* The whaleship ''Essex'' - whose 1820 voyage directly inspired [[Creator/HermanMelville Herman Melville]]’s ''[[Literature/MobyDick Moby Dick]]'' - was wrecked in an area of the Pacific known as the Offshore grounds (a popular whaling destination). Stranded in lifeboats, Captain George Pollard and First Mate Owen Chase disagreed about their next move: Pollard wanted to sail to the Marquesas, but Chase believed that those islands were inhabited by cannibals and argued instead for a doubly long voyage towards South America. Ironically, because the boats were adrift for so long, the crews ended up [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty resorting to cannibalism themselves just to stay alive]].

* The Wendol in ''Literature/TheThirteenthWarrior''.

* ''WebOriginal/HamstersParadise'': The AlwaysChaoticEvil Harmsters have a species wide tendency to engage in MonstrousCannibalism but one tribe of them takes it even further. The [[FrazettaMan Frazettas]] are the primitive descendants of one Harmster empire who [[EvilutionaryBiologist attempted to make themselves stronger]] by [[BestialityIsDepraved breeding]] with their Brutes ([[FormerlySapientSpecies descendants of rival Harmsters selectively bred into obedient animals]]) and now the Frazettas feed mostly on feral Brutes and other Harmsters.