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* Robin in the ''Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}'' is a [[SuperSpeed speedster]] whose abilities are powered by eating gargantuan amounts of sugar. This is played for laughs in ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'', where she will occasionally eat something truly outrageous in its caloric content and then wake up weeks or months later as if from a blackout, and find she's accomplished some lofty achievement in the interim.
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* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' is a story ''literally'' about food and eating. It makes a frequent point that those endowed with Gourmet Cells gain superhhuman powers but pay for this with ''extreme'' appetites. They need to keep eating vast amounts of food everyday to stay alive.
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* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', [[spoiler:Frans Rayner]] comes back from the dead as a HollywoodCyborg with a single laser eye. But this laser eye is powered by his organic body -- and it uses so much energy that a single shot leaves him too tired to stand.
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* Dreams of Alice, the {{Reality Warp|er}}ing children in ''Manga/AliceAndZoroku'', burn calories to use their powers. In the first episode, the man in charge of the research facility Sana's escaping from notes they kept her calorie intake low precisely so they could limit her ability use her powers to get away. Sana ultimately makes her getaway when a third party enters the fray and gives her juice to drink and giving her just enough to teleport out of there. Soon after meeting Zoroku, he treats her to food and the other customers in the restaurant wonder if she's in some kind of eating competition.
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* Luffy's Gear Second in ''Manga/OnePiece'' speeds up his metabolism to a ridiculous degree, granting him SuperSpeed. As a result, it burns calories ''very'' quickly and switches over to CastFromLifespan if he doesn't have the necessary energy.
** Luffy's [[spoiler: Gear Fourth Tankman]] works in the same way, only even more powerful and more voracious in its energy consumption. He was only able to safely use it when up against an enemy whose power is creating unlimited amounts of food, with Luffy running around eating that food for 18 hours straight. When he ''did'' use it though, he utterly [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] the guy in a few seconds.
** Luffy's [[spoiler: Gear Fourth Tankman]] works in the same way, only even more powerful and more voracious in its energy consumption. He was only able to safely use it when up against an enemy whose power is creating unlimited amounts of food, with Luffy running around eating that food for 18 hours straight. When he ''did'' use it though, he utterly [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] the guy in a few seconds.
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** Luffy's[[spoiler: Gear Fourth Tankman]] form, Tankman, works in the same way, only even more powerful and more voracious in its energy consumption. He was only able to safely use it when up against an enemy whose power is creating unlimited amounts of food, with Luffy running around eating that food for 18 hours straight. When he ''did'' use it though, he utterly [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] the guy in a few seconds.
* Dreams of Alice, the {{Reality Warp|er}}ing children in ''Manga/AliceAndZoroku'', burn calories to use their powers. In the first episode, the man in charge of the research facility Sana's escaping from notes they kept her calorie intake low precisely so they could limit her ability use her powers to get away. Sana ultimately makes her getaway when a third party enters the fray and gives her juice to drink. Soon after meeting Zoroku, he treats her to food and the other customers in the restaurant wonder if she's in some kind of eating competition.
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* Literally the case in ''Anime/{{Slayers}}''. WordOfGod is that the bodies of those with high magical capacity fuel that capacity directly from the calories in the food they eat, which is why even waifish and petite girls like Amelia and Lina (both powerful spell-casters) eat thousands of calories at each meal and remain thin.
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* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': While not a game mechanic, codex entries state that biotics (telekinetics) need higher calorie requirements than those without as using them is as strenuous as several kilometers' jog. There's even a scene in the third game where Jack is telling her students to fill up on ration bars and energy drinks during a break in the battle.
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** Luffy's Gear Fourth Tankman works in the same way, only even more powerful and more voracious in its energy consumption. He was only able to safely use it when up against an enemy whose power is creating unlimited amounts of food, with Luffy running around eating that food for 18 hours straight. When he ''did'' use it though, he utterly [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] the guy in a few seconds.
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* Roleplay/{{Glowfic}}: Eclipsed need to eat a lot to do magic and they get hungry when they use a lot of magic and the scale of things one can do with it is influenced by metabolic efficiency.
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* This is referred to as the "Joel Duscher Bird Theory" in ''Podcast/PlumbingTheDeathStar''; Joel Duscher answers "Why Isn't [[ComicBook/XMen Nightcrawler]] Fat?" by positing that using mutant powers like Nightcrawler's teleportation would expend energy like flight does for birds. Problem is, other mutants like Cyclops and "the one with the bees" can't turn their powers off, so under this theory those characters should be constantly exhausted and starved.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', TheFlash is frequently seen eating high-calorie food whenever he's not actively performing deeds of superheroics. He is, on at least one occasion, seen devouring an armful of hot dogs, which he comments is for keeping up his caloric intake which, as a speedster, is understandably high.
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* In ''VideoGame/NetHack'' using spells makes you hungry. Having a high {{Intelligence}} stat reduces how hungry it makes you, and having a high enough intelligence can even negate the effect.
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* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', [[spoiler:Frans Rayner]] comes back from the dead as a HollywoodCyborg with a single laser eye. But this laser eye is powered by his organic body--and it uses so much energy that a single shot leaves him too tired to stand.
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* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', [[spoiler:Frans Rayner]] comes back from the dead as a HollywoodCyborg with a single laser eye. But this laser eye is powered by his organic body--and body -- and it uses so much energy that a single shot leaves him too tired to stand.
* In an addendum to the roleplays of ''WebComic/WhiteDarkLife'', Author!Luigifan shows off his biology knowledge by explicitly stating that many supernatural abilities in the setting, including those of the Belnades sisters, are powered by ATP. He further states that this is replenished over the short term by resting and over the long term by eating.
* In an addendum to the roleplays of ''WebComic/WhiteDarkLife'', Author!Luigifan shows off his biology knowledge by explicitly stating that many supernatural abilities in the setting, including those of the Belnades sisters, are powered by ATP. He further states that this is replenished over the short term by resting and over the long term by eating.
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* Tachyon of ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'', like the Flash, is a speedster and is almost constantly eating -- there's a few pieces of official art that have her scarfing down burgers, and in the single promotional comic, she takes a slight detour through the villain's evil lair to hit its cafeteria.
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* ''{{Deadpool}}'' once explained that he has to eat a lot to allow his HealingFactor to work.
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* ''{{Deadpool}}'' ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} once explained that he has to eat a lot to allow his HealingFactor to work.
** Wolverine, * ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, [[PowersAsPrograms whose healing factor is what Wade's is derived from]], is occasionally depicted as needing to do the same with high protein meals. He gives advice to X-23 to follow suit.
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* In ''VideoGame/NetHack'' using spells makes you hungry. Having a high {{Intelligence}} stat reduces how hungry it makes you, and having a high enough intelligence can even negate the effect.
* ''VideoGame/DungeonCrawl'' also makes you hungry when you cast spell. The amount of hunger goes up with the spell's level and goes down with a certain trainable skill.
* In ''VideoGame/NetHack'' using spells makes you hungry. Having a high {{Intelligence}} stat reduces how hungry it makes you, and having a high enough intelligence can even negate the effect.
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* The heroine of the [[InteractiveComic MSPA Fan Adventure]] ''Alanna'' is struck by hunger when she unconsciously manifests powerful ice magic, or survives underwater longer than she naturally should. Turns out [[spoiler:she's partially [[DemonicPossession possessed]] by the DestroyerDeity, who gains power from devouring stuff, and used lots of such power saving her. Before facing the BigBad, the god insists she only do so]] well-rested and well-fed.
* The heroine of the [[InteractiveComic MSPA Fan Adventure]] ''Alanna'' is struck by hunger when she unconsciously manifests powerful ice magic, or survives underwater longer than she naturally should. Turns out [[spoiler:she's partially [[DemonicPossession possessed]] by the DestroyerDeity, who gains power from devouring stuff, and used lots of such power saving her. Before facing the BigBad, the god insists she only do so]] well-rested and well-fed.
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* In the third book of John Maddox Roberts's ''Stormlands'' series, [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Fyana]] plows through a fairly respectable spread as if she hasn't eaten in days after performing a major healing ritual.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Fantasy'': The ogre's spellcasters use Gt Magic, which, well, works on what the ogre has eaten.
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** Wolverine, [[PowersAsPrograms whose healing factor is what Wade's is derived from]], is occasionally depicted as needing to do the same with high protein meals. He gives advice to X-23 to follow suit.
* Similar to Frans Rayner below, the cybernetic transhuman Zeke Stane, an Iron Man villain, has repulsors built into his hands that require a diet of a high calorie paste for him to use.
* When using her shapeshifting to heal the new Ms Marvel, Kamala Khan, becomes extraordinarily hungry and needs to eat to recharge her powers.
* Similar to Frans Rayner below, the cybernetic transhuman Zeke Stane, an Iron Man villain, has repulsors built into his hands that require a diet of a high calorie paste for him to use.
* When using her shapeshifting to heal the new Ms Marvel, Kamala Khan, becomes extraordinarily hungry and needs to eat to recharge her powers.
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* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', [[spoiler:Frans Rayner]] comes back from the dead as a HollywoodCyborg with a single laser eye. But this laser eye is powered by his organic body--and it uses so much energy that a single shot leaves him too tired to stand.
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* In {{TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade}}, Vampires can spend Blood Points on vampiric abilities; they must then recharge their Blood Pool by snacking on some mortal.
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* Although normal magic in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' draws from the inexhaustible True Source, Healing uses the energy within the patient's body to heal them. This usually feels like a cold shock, with the severity and duration proportionate to the amount of healing. As such, Healing someone who is on the brink of death may cause them to die from the shock as their body repairs itself. In the third book, Mat is Healed of a powerful curse and the lingering effects of the work cause him to become a BigEater, having to eat many huge meals each day without gaining any weight, in order to eventually recover. An improved technique is eventually developed that doesn't have this drawback.
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer Fantasy'': The ogre's spellcasters use Gt Magic, which, well, works on what the ogre has eaten.
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Typically, FunctionalMagic is assumed to rely on some universal, pervasive force, like a BackgroundMagicField as its source of {{mana}}. Alternately, it might be drawn from the collective LifeEnergy of the local environment. In a pinch, it could come from some quasi-benevolent gods. But if these aren't available, it might just be possible for a supernatural being to utilize the stored caloric energy of one's own body as a fantastic power source. This isn't nearly as bountiful as the other options, so it's often used as a desperation tactic.
From a physics standpoint, this actually makes a surprising amount of sense. There's enough chemical energy in a living person to make a reasonably powerful bomb, if it were possible to combust it all at once. If we assume magic has some means of efficiently converting calories into the proper form, the results could be very noticeable- and the subject would find their last few meals negated, if not suddenly suffering malnutrition. Of course, the effectiveness of this process tends to be heavily exaggerated; similarly, the amount one can eat at one time in order to recompense this usage tends also to be exaggerated; many magical entities are {{Big Eater}}s who can easily wolf down massive amounts of food, which is apparently changed instantly to a metaphysical form that doesn't take up physical space.
It can be hard to separate this trope from its close relative, CastFromHP, and indeed they can easily overlap, as the difference between physical bodily energy and the metaphysical concept of LifeEnergy can be hard to clarify. To distinguish them, consider the following question: when feeling the side-effects of supernatural overexertion, which would be a better remedy, a night's sleep or a solid meal?
This trope can also easily overlap with HyperactiveMetabolism, which entails a boost to natural abilities, usually in the form of healing, from eating. Despite the name, has nothing to do with WizardNeedsFoodBadly, a video game trope involving the need for food as an arbitrary restriction.
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* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' the souls of the deceased don't ordinarily have to eat, but those who have a significant reservoir of spirit energy do. Their intake doesn't necessarily correlate to their spiritual output, however.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'' is probably the codifier for manga and has definitely influenced other works, especially in Japan. All fighters need calories for KiManipulation, and are {{Big Eater}}s as a result. Goku in particular burns through meals at a fantastic rate and in early stories, would often be weakened by hunger to the point of uselessness. As he grew, his stamina increased and this became less of a problem.
* In the ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'', the magical energy mages use to cast their spells is generated by their bodies, so they have to replenish their calories at every opportunity. This is particularly true of frontline combat mages, like Subaru Nakajima, who is the series' resident BigEater (due to also having to continuously expend her mana to [[spoiler:power up all the cyber-enhancements built into her cyborg body]]).
* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', Choji has a SuperMode that uses calories and is triggered by FoodPills. It's considered a DangerousForbiddenTechnique because it consumes so many nutrients that the user dies; however, Choji is so enormously fat that he has barely enough energy to survive, and becomes comically skinny in an instant.
* In ''Anime/NegimaSecondSeason'', the Pactio system is reworked to draw on the partner's calorie count instead of the mage's magic reserves like in the manga. Thus, while Negi was testing Nodoka's Cosplay card, her stomach growled after changing back and he bought her a hamburger to make up for it. This plot-point becomes an issue whenever the students are trapped in a separate dimension without any access to food.
* Luffy's Gear Second in ''Manga/OnePiece'' speeds up his metabolism to a ridiculous degree, granting him SuperSpeed. As a result, it burns calories ''very'' quickly and switches over to CastFromLifespan if he doesn't have the necessary energy.
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* In ''ComicBook/TotallyAwesomeHulk'', Amadeus Cho needs to consume lots of calories to maintain the mass and energy needed to HulkOut.
* ''{{Deadpool}}'' once explained that he has to eat a lot to allow his HealingFactor to work.
* ''ComicBook/DungeonTheEarlyYears'': Horus and Alcibiade once escaped a trap by casting an anticipative necromancy spell on themselves, starving to death, returning as zombies, and devouring an entire herd of cows to return to living state.
* Kid Flash in ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' keeps a small supply of food in a hidden compartment in his right glove, due to his accelerated metabolism.
[[AC: Film - Live Action]]
* ''Film/{{Constantine}}''. After Constantine uses his psychic powers to visit Hell for some info, he tells Rachel that he needs food, thus leading to an exposition scene in a diner.
[[AC: Literature]]
* There's a similar effect in the ''[[Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar Mage Winds]]'' trilogy. At least once when Darkwind is training Elspeth, he has to remind her to eat because use of mage energy 1) uses up the mage's personal energy reserves (a.k.a. previous meal) and 2) suppresses appetite.
* This is the case for wizards in the ''Literature/LiadenUniverse'' novels. For minor everyday workings it doesn't have any obvious effect, but a working of any significant size will leave a wizard ravenously hungry, and there are at least two examples of a wizard visibly losing weight after a major working. (One is in ''Conflict of Honors'', and is followed by Priscilla looking in the mirror and reflecting that she looks like she's the survivor of a famine.)
* ''Literature/TheRunelords'' applies this to people who receive endowments of metabolism. They gain increased speed and reflexes, at the cost of having to eat more. It's implied to also increase their rate of aging, but this can be counteracted by endowments of stamina, which improve healing acumen.
* In ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'''s second book, ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'', Lift is a Surgebinder--a person with magical abilities which are powered by [[{{Mana}} Stormlight]]. However, unlike most Surgebinders who must get Stormlight from an external source, Lift can generate her own from the food she eats. While this ability is pretty convenient, it also means that she can not use her magic unless she has the calories to do so. Consequently, she is always hungry.
* Although normal magic in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' draws from the inexhaustible True Source, Healing uses the energy within the patient's body to heal them. This usually feels like a cold shock, with the severity and duration proportionate to the amount of healing. As such, Healing someone who is on the brink of death may cause them to die from the shock as their body repairs itself. In the third book, Mat is Healed of a powerful curse and the lingering effects of the work cause him to become a BigEater, having to eat many huge meals each day without gaining any weight, in order to eventually recover. An improved technique is eventually developed that doesn't have this drawback.
[[AC: Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer Fantasy'': The ogre's spellcasters use Gt Magic, which, well, works on what the ogre has eaten.
* In {{TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade}}, Vampires can spend Blood Points on vampiric abilities; they must then recharge their Blood Pool by snacking on some mortal.
[[AC: Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/TheFourth'', magic is explicitly said to be powered by calories, Skarva claims that "mana potions" are just milkshakes.
* Robin in the ''Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}'' is a [[SuperSpeed speedster]] whose abilities are powered by eating gargantuan amounts of sugar. This is played for laughs in ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'', where she will occasionally eat something truly outrageous in its caloric content and then wake up weeks or months later as if from a blackout, and find she's accomplished some lofty achievement in the interim.
[[AC: Western Animation]]
*In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', the Flash is frequently seen eating high-calorie food whenever he's not actively performing deeds of superheroics. He is, on at least one occasion, seen devouring an armful of hot dogs, which he comments is for keeping up his caloric intake which, as a speedster, is understandably high.
From a physics standpoint, this actually makes a surprising amount of sense. There's enough chemical energy in a living person to make a reasonably powerful bomb, if it were possible to combust it all at once. If we assume magic has some means of efficiently converting calories into the proper form, the results could be very noticeable- and the subject would find their last few meals negated, if not suddenly suffering malnutrition. Of course, the effectiveness of this process tends to be heavily exaggerated; similarly, the amount one can eat at one time in order to recompense this usage tends also to be exaggerated; many magical entities are {{Big Eater}}s who can easily wolf down massive amounts of food, which is apparently changed instantly to a metaphysical form that doesn't take up physical space.
It can be hard to separate this trope from its close relative, CastFromHP, and indeed they can easily overlap, as the difference between physical bodily energy and the metaphysical concept of LifeEnergy can be hard to clarify. To distinguish them, consider the following question: when feeling the side-effects of supernatural overexertion, which would be a better remedy, a night's sleep or a solid meal?
This trope can also easily overlap with HyperactiveMetabolism, which entails a boost to natural abilities, usually in the form of healing, from eating. Despite the name, has nothing to do with WizardNeedsFoodBadly, a video game trope involving the need for food as an arbitrary restriction.
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[[AC: Anime and Manga]]
* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' the souls of the deceased don't ordinarily have to eat, but those who have a significant reservoir of spirit energy do. Their intake doesn't necessarily correlate to their spiritual output, however.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'' is probably the codifier for manga and has definitely influenced other works, especially in Japan. All fighters need calories for KiManipulation, and are {{Big Eater}}s as a result. Goku in particular burns through meals at a fantastic rate and in early stories, would often be weakened by hunger to the point of uselessness. As he grew, his stamina increased and this became less of a problem.
* In the ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'', the magical energy mages use to cast their spells is generated by their bodies, so they have to replenish their calories at every opportunity. This is particularly true of frontline combat mages, like Subaru Nakajima, who is the series' resident BigEater (due to also having to continuously expend her mana to [[spoiler:power up all the cyber-enhancements built into her cyborg body]]).
* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', Choji has a SuperMode that uses calories and is triggered by FoodPills. It's considered a DangerousForbiddenTechnique because it consumes so many nutrients that the user dies; however, Choji is so enormously fat that he has barely enough energy to survive, and becomes comically skinny in an instant.
* In ''Anime/NegimaSecondSeason'', the Pactio system is reworked to draw on the partner's calorie count instead of the mage's magic reserves like in the manga. Thus, while Negi was testing Nodoka's Cosplay card, her stomach growled after changing back and he bought her a hamburger to make up for it. This plot-point becomes an issue whenever the students are trapped in a separate dimension without any access to food.
* Luffy's Gear Second in ''Manga/OnePiece'' speeds up his metabolism to a ridiculous degree, granting him SuperSpeed. As a result, it burns calories ''very'' quickly and switches over to CastFromLifespan if he doesn't have the necessary energy.
[[AC: Comic Books]]
* In ''ComicBook/TotallyAwesomeHulk'', Amadeus Cho needs to consume lots of calories to maintain the mass and energy needed to HulkOut.
* ''{{Deadpool}}'' once explained that he has to eat a lot to allow his HealingFactor to work.
* ''ComicBook/DungeonTheEarlyYears'': Horus and Alcibiade once escaped a trap by casting an anticipative necromancy spell on themselves, starving to death, returning as zombies, and devouring an entire herd of cows to return to living state.
* Kid Flash in ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' keeps a small supply of food in a hidden compartment in his right glove, due to his accelerated metabolism.
[[AC: Film - Live Action]]
* ''Film/{{Constantine}}''. After Constantine uses his psychic powers to visit Hell for some info, he tells Rachel that he needs food, thus leading to an exposition scene in a diner.
[[AC: Literature]]
* There's a similar effect in the ''[[Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar Mage Winds]]'' trilogy. At least once when Darkwind is training Elspeth, he has to remind her to eat because use of mage energy 1) uses up the mage's personal energy reserves (a.k.a. previous meal) and 2) suppresses appetite.
* This is the case for wizards in the ''Literature/LiadenUniverse'' novels. For minor everyday workings it doesn't have any obvious effect, but a working of any significant size will leave a wizard ravenously hungry, and there are at least two examples of a wizard visibly losing weight after a major working. (One is in ''Conflict of Honors'', and is followed by Priscilla looking in the mirror and reflecting that she looks like she's the survivor of a famine.)
* ''Literature/TheRunelords'' applies this to people who receive endowments of metabolism. They gain increased speed and reflexes, at the cost of having to eat more. It's implied to also increase their rate of aging, but this can be counteracted by endowments of stamina, which improve healing acumen.
* In ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'''s second book, ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'', Lift is a Surgebinder--a person with magical abilities which are powered by [[{{Mana}} Stormlight]]. However, unlike most Surgebinders who must get Stormlight from an external source, Lift can generate her own from the food she eats. While this ability is pretty convenient, it also means that she can not use her magic unless she has the calories to do so. Consequently, she is always hungry.
* Although normal magic in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' draws from the inexhaustible True Source, Healing uses the energy within the patient's body to heal them. This usually feels like a cold shock, with the severity and duration proportionate to the amount of healing. As such, Healing someone who is on the brink of death may cause them to die from the shock as their body repairs itself. In the third book, Mat is Healed of a powerful curse and the lingering effects of the work cause him to become a BigEater, having to eat many huge meals each day without gaining any weight, in order to eventually recover. An improved technique is eventually developed that doesn't have this drawback.
[[AC: Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer Fantasy'': The ogre's spellcasters use Gt Magic, which, well, works on what the ogre has eaten.
* In {{TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade}}, Vampires can spend Blood Points on vampiric abilities; they must then recharge their Blood Pool by snacking on some mortal.
[[AC: Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/TheFourth'', magic is explicitly said to be powered by calories, Skarva claims that "mana potions" are just milkshakes.
* Robin in the ''Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}'' is a [[SuperSpeed speedster]] whose abilities are powered by eating gargantuan amounts of sugar. This is played for laughs in ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'', where she will occasionally eat something truly outrageous in its caloric content and then wake up weeks or months later as if from a blackout, and find she's accomplished some lofty achievement in the interim.
[[AC: Western Animation]]
*In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', the Flash is frequently seen eating high-calorie food whenever he's not actively performing deeds of superheroics. He is, on at least one occasion, seen devouring an armful of hot dogs, which he comments is for keeping up his caloric intake which, as a speedster, is understandably high.
