History Main / ForgetsToEat

* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', Melisandre often forgets to eat because she doesn't need to. But that freaks people out, so she tries to remember.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'': While he doesn't exactly forget to eat, way too many people feel the need to remind Big Boss of eating through the course of the game.

* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'': This was a problem with early concentration enhancements for Homo Superiors.

* Early in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' it's noted that Shulk has a tendency to get so immersed in his research that he neglects to eat, which has led Fiora to make a habit of preparing extra food to bring to him (and even then he's said to generally eat without paying much attention to what it even tastes like).

* Early in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' it's noted that Shulk has a tendency to get so immersed in his research that he neglects to eat, which has led Fiora to make a habit of preparing extra food to bring to him (and even then he's said to generally eat without paying much attention to what it even tastes like).

* Colin from ''Literature/AnAbundanceOfKatherines'' doesn't think much of eating.

* Bertram of ''Literature/{{Dinoverse}}'' alternately claims this, that he's not hungry, and that eating would take too much time when first put in the body of an ankylosaurus. It's really because he knows he'll have [[{{Gasshole}} horrific gas]].

* Ana from ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' is known for this, and it infuriates Christian whenever he finds out that she hasn't been eating proper meals lately.
* Literature/HarryPotter tends to do this during meal time at Hogwarts as a result of anxiety and chaotic thoughts.
* The eponymous protagonist of the ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'' is prone to this. More than once he carries out a protracted action with enemy ships (or some other problem requiring physical and mental exertion) and only realizes at sunset that he only had breakfast. Bush, his NumberTwo, tries to prevent this when possible.

* Yasira from ''Literature/TheOutside'' sometimes gets so wrapped up in physics problems that other people have to remind her to eat.

* According to Jamie, Adam of the ''Series/MythBusters'' will often forget to eat, which makes him cranky from low blood sugar. So when they had a spat during the Ping-Pong Ball Ship Recovery myth and Jamie told him to "go have a cookie" that wasn't a joke, he actually wanted him to go eat something.
* In the ''Series/{{Scorpion}}'' episode "Plutonium Is Forever", it's heavily implied that this is normal for the members of Team Scorpion when they get so focused on something that nothing else (food, sleep...) matters. They call it "going down the rabbit hole".

* Shapers in ''VideoGame/{{Geneforge}}'' have been known to focus on their research so much they forget to eat, sleep, and bathe.

* Weird Ed, in ''VideoGame/ManiacMansion'', at one point mentions that he hasn't seen Dr. Fred eat ''in 5 years''. WordOfGod says it was to invoke this trope, but since Ed immediately mentions that Fred has been dragging bodies into the basement, many players (and Nintendo of America, in their infamous censorship process) thought that Ed was accusing Fred of cannibalism. The NES version was thus changed to Ed saying Fred hadn't ''slept'' in 5 years, instead.

* As a sign of just how desperate the Luminoth were during their war with the Ing prior to the events of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'', you come across the emaciated corpse of a deceased Luminoth warrior; scans reveal that she refused to abandon her post despite the fact that she was starving to death.
* Not only does Yusuke from ''VideoGame/Persona5'' forget to eat due to hyperfocusing on his art projects, he mentions this fact in Mementos because he hears his stomach rumbling, ''suddenly remembers that he's incredibly hungry'' and that it's probably because he didn't eat the previous evening ([[FridgeHorror considering that you take everyone to Mementos after school...]]). This trope is just one of many reasons why Yusuke appears to have issues with eating consistently, with the other major one being his [[StarvingArtist limited budget]].
* ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'''s Professor Elm. His wife mentions that he is so busy with Pokémon research all the time that he forgets to eat.

* Dr. Asmodeus of ''Website/{{Subeta}}'' attributes his svelteness to this. Not so much in the manga adaptation, the pace of which allows time for Sora to get some food. Granted it's not all that much, but it's at least something.
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'', there's a skit indicating that Guy is victim to this--he knows how to cook because he misses mealtimes when he's working on [[{{Magitek}} fontech]], so he has to make his own food.

* Fujiwara no Mokou of ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' frequently neglects to eat. She's [[CompleteImmortality incapable of dying]] so theoretically she could go forever without food, but eventually the hunger becomes enough of a pain that she eats something.


* According to his troops, Mitsunari Ishida from ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' forgets to eat or sleep, since his life [[RevengeBeforeReason is so consumed by his desire to kill Ieyasu]]. Which might explain his LeanAndMean physique.



* It’s implied that Professor Layton can go through this when caught up in his work or left to himself. When he leaves his office in ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheLastSpecter'', Rosa comments after him, “I hope he remembers to eat something...”

* Faye from the unofficial [[GameMod expansion mod]] ''VideoGame/RidgesideVillage'', it's revealed that she gets distracted very easily whenever she gets an inspiration for a new fashion design, sometimes even forgetting to eat. A note from her family implies she has this tendency to forget eating.
* In ''VideoGame/DisneyMagicKingdoms'', during the ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' Event, Mei neglects to eat, drink or take breaks during the whole day long campaign.

* Rin Tezuka, from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', often forgets to eat if not reminded by either Hisao or Emi. When Emi suggests that she'll just vanish if she does not eat more often, Rin thinks this is an acceptable turn of events.
* [[DitzyGenius Amane]] in ''VisualNovel/IfMyHeartHadWings'' gets so wrapped up in her work that she frequently forgets to eat for days at a time. To give an example, she has claimed to have gone 70 hours without eating.

* Takashi in ''VisualNovel/ScandalInTheSpotlight'' is the composer of all of Revance's music, and when he's composing, nothing else matters, especially not stopping for food. He tends to crash hard when he's finished, and the other guys know to make sure time is set aside for him to rest and recover.

* Roast Beef of ''Webcomic/{{Achewood}}'' does this sometimes. In one strip he mentions that he "didn't remember to eat for like nine days" after he had a fight with his girlfriend and she was no longer around to remind him.
* The page picture and its caption come from [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=title-589 the 2001-12-20 strip]] of ''[[Webcomic/RealLifeComics Real Life]]'' [[JustOneMoreLevel immediately after Mae got a copy of a new game]] (''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'').
* In ''Webcomic/MonsieurCharlatan'', [[http://monsieur-charlatan.com/archive/page-5/ Isidore, accused of not feeding the cat, says it eats better than he does, because of neighbors]].

* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/CardboardCrack'', the characters often forget to eat or [[http://cardboard-crack.com/post/64925327872/i-play-too-much-magic lose track of time]] due to playing too much ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''.

* [[MadScientist Sparks]] in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' can run into this problem when they go into super-obsessive focus in regards to their current MadScience project.

-->'''Sam''': My mate Ed has been working on a new project for the last week or so. He hasn't done the classic "never comes out for food or sleep" routine, because, unlike all those other scientists in the movies, he isn't an ''idiot''.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' episode "Tributeklok", the guys forget to eat [[TooDumbToLive because they don't have the Klokateers around to ring bells for them]].
* Jack Skellington from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' seem to be this (Sally brings him a food basket, so this is probably an usual occurrence). What is quite unusual is the fact that he ''needs'' to eat, since he's DemBones.
* [[AbsentMindedProfessor Professor Isaac Sumdac]] in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' tends to lose track of time whenever he holes himself up in his lab.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "The Ticket Master", Twilight is continually hungry because her friends' persistent attempts to win her favor (and the Gala ticket) gets in the way of finding something to eat. She deliberately turns down Applejack's sumptuous buffet simply because it would be seen as favoring her over the others.
* In "A Dino-Mite Lunch" from ''WesternAnimation/EsmeAndRoy'', Tillie is so absorbed in her dino racing car game that she completely ignores Esme and Roy's attempts to get her to eat her lunch, despite her stomach growling in hunger. They finally get her to eat by making it part of the game, creating a pretend diner.

* ''Manga/MyRoommateIsACat'': This a apparently a recurring problem for Subaru in the last few days before deadlines. In the first episode, he ends up collapsing due to not having eaten for too long, then waking up in such a stupor that he eats the kibble in his cat's bowl.

* ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'': After being brought back to life, Boston Brand, the former Deadman, has to be reminded by his ''power ring'' to ''eat a cheeseburger'' in ''ComicBook/BrightestDay''. Being dead for so long made Brand forget that he actually needs to eat again.
* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersTillAllAreOne'': After Onslaught says that he cannot trust anyone but Blast Off, Brawl asks about if he can trust him. Onslaught replies by saying "I don't trust you to feed yourself in the morning, Brawl."

* Sunny Breeze of ''FanFic/RacerAndTheGeek'' seldom eats, but never fails to take [[QuickNip swigs of spirits]]. It's a subtle hint, given even in [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/81159/1/racer-and-the-geek/predawn the first chapter]], that not all is well with him.

* In scifigrl47's ''Fanfic/{{TheToasterverse}}'', Tony has to constantly be reminded that he needs to eat. Lampshaded by himself in Some Things Shouldn't Be A Chore.
* In ''Fanfic/LiveAHeroMHA'', Izuku's past trauma has sapped most of his appetite and he can barely get anything down without throwing it up later. Because of this, he tends to spend meal time sharpening his knives instead of actually eating. It takes Aizawa ordering him to eat in preparation for the U.A. Entrance Exam for him to manage to get a single bowl of katsudon down and keep it down.

* Implied in [[https://www.deviantart.com/koch43/art/AWAIT-448573879 this]] ''[[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Long Posts of Trepan]]'' comic -- eight days pass before Trepan eats any of the energon Overlord leaves for him, and even then he doesn't finish it all before Overlord returns.
* In ''Fanfic/HellsKitchenFullOfGrace'', when Jessica hears from Matt how in-tune with his body he is, she mentions how she would forget to eat no matter how much her stomach would growl.

* Literature/HarryPotter tends to do this during meal time at Hogwarts as a result of anxiety and chaotic thoughts.
* Jame in ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath'' never remembers to eat, and is [[NothingButSkinAndBones skinny as a rail with ribs showing]]. Justified in that the mutant vegetables she had to eat growing up would put anyone off food.
* Literature/SherlockHolmes occasionally gets so wrapped up in a case that he doesn't bother to stop for food. That's when he isn't straight-up starving himself on purpose because he believes it will enhance his powers of concentration. Watson complains that he sometimes deprives himself to the point of literally passing out from hunger.
* Astrophysicist Jacob Buckman in ''Literature/TheMoteInGodsEye''. He meets Horace Bury in a ship's corridor. Horace wonders privately what an autopsy at that moment on Buckman would show as cause of death... exhaustion or malnutrition?

* A MadScientist in the Creator/RobertLudlum novel ''Literature/TheSigmaProtocol'', who has only two modes: on his meds, he remembers to eat and sleep. Off his meds, he concocts insanely brilliant schemes and invents wacky contraptions.

* Colin from ''Literature/AnAbundanceOfKatherines'' doesn't think much of eating.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/AMidsummerTempest'', Rupert stops eating when his magical ring loses its powers through his fault. Will brings him a meal and plops it in front of him and tells him, at great length, that he should eat.
* Ana from ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' is known for this, and it infuriates Christian whenever he finds out that she hasn't been eating proper meals lately.
* Bertram of ''Literature/{{Dinoverse}}'' alternately claims this, that he's not hungry, and that eating would take too much time when first put in the body of an ankylosaurus. It's really because he knows he'll have [[{{Gasshole}} horrific gas]].
* The eponymous protagonist of the ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'' is prone to this. More than once he carries out a protracted action with enemy ships (or some other problem requiring physical and mental exertion) and only realizes at sunset that he only had breakfast. Bush, his NumberTwo, tries to prevent this when possible.
* ''Literature/TheSlowRegardOfSilentThings'': Every once and a while, Auri will suddenly feel lightheaded and wonder what's wrong with her. Then she'll realize that she hasn't eaten anything in more than a day.
* ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'': One of the worrying symptoms Helsing notes of Mina after she's bitten by Dracula, due to the fact her appetite has suddenly disappered during the journey to Castle Dracula. A sign that she's becoming closer to turning into a vampire.
* In ''[[Literature/RealmOfTheElderlings Assassin's Apprentice]]'' Fitz claims that [[ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld there are two kinds of thin people]], with this trope being the better sort. The ''other'' kind of thin person is supposedly the kind who [[LeanAndMean hates the world so much that they resent having to ingest any part of it.]]

* Literature/TruemanBradley often misses meals and sometimes doesn't eat until he's reminded.
* Children's book ''Literature/AKindleOfKittens'' by Rumer Godden is about a stray cat trying to find homes for her kittens among the townsfolk. One notable resident is a young poet who is so caught up in his writing that he frequently forgets to go grocery shopping and doesn't always remember meals unless his friendly neighbours bring him something. The cat is hesitant about entrusting one of her kittens to someone so absent-minded but decides to take a chance on him. He is delighted with his kitten and later that day is seen going out to buy milk and fish.
* In ''Literature/TheStoryOfValentineAndHisBrother'', Dick copes with the sudden changes in his life brought on by [[spoiler:the reappearance of all his long-lost family members]] by getting so involved with his work at the docks that he forgets dinner.
* In ''Literature/MARiiMO'', Tammy thinks she's shaking with excitement from her first interaction with Mariimo, until she realizes she forgot to eat that day.
* Yasira from ''Literature/TheOutside'' sometimes gets so wrapped up in physics problems that other people have to remind her to eat.
* In ''Literature/TornadoBrain'', Frankie's mom sometimes has to remind her to eat so she doesn't get hangry. Frankie understands why, but is still annoyed by it.
* [[Literature/TheShadowOfKyoshi Avatar Kyoshi]] often does this, much to the annoyance of Rangi. It's part of her wider trait of ignoring her own needs.

* ''Series/CriminalMinds'':
** Averted with Reid, the most likely candidate for "absent-minded professor", who never seems to ''stop'' eating, especially when he's thinking. If there's [[GeniusSweetTooth junk food]] to be had anywhere in an unfamiliar police station, abandoned house, or crime scene, he will find it. [[GeekPhysiques Although where he puts it all is anybody's guess]].
** Discussed by Reid about his schizophrenic mom.
--->'''Reid:''' My mother is a paranoid schizophrenic who'd forget to eat if she wasn't properly medicated and supervised.

-->'''Louis''': The state I was in, I was what... I was manic. [...] And the hubris on display caused me to neglect my thirst. And in neglect, my thirst grew harder, my temples throbbed, and finally, I could not stand it any longer. And I was through struggling. Rats, cats, dogs would no longer suffice.

-->'''O'Neill''': "Didn't I ''order'' you to get a life?"

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'': While he doesn't exactly forget to eat, way too many people feel the need to remind Big Boss of eating through the course of the game.
* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate 2'' [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this in one of its loading screen tips: "While your character does not have to eat, remember that ''you'' do. We don't want to lose any dedicated players."

* ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'''s Professor Elm. His wife mentions that he is so busy with Pokémon research all the time that he forgets to eat.

* Weird Ed, in ''VideoGame/ManiacMansion'', at one point mentions that he hasn't seen Dr. Fred eat ''in 5 years''. WordOfGod says it was to invoke this trope, but since Ed immediately mentions that Fred has been dragging bodies into the basement, many players (and Nintendo of America, in their infamous censorship process) thought that Ed was accusing Fred of cannibalism. The NES version was thus changed to Ed saying Fred hadn't ''slept'' in 5 years, instead.
** Which amusingly is made canon in ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'', where it is revealed that Doctor Fred has gone without sleep for years by means of imbibing massive quantities of coffee. One puzzle requires you to get him to fall asleep.
* ''Franchise/DragonAge:''
** By the third act of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Merrill has become so focused on fixing her MagicMirror that she barely leaves her house except to buy food. She does ''that'' so infrequently that Varric has parcels delivered to her doorstep.
** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', this is a quirk of Adan, the healer/alchemist in Haven. He gets so wrapped up in his work (and worries about getting crumbs in his potions) that he doesn't eat, prompting NiceGirl barmaid Flissa to send her workers to check on him and bring him food. (This is only mentioned in ambient conversation between Adan and those workers, so players might miss it.)

* ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'': Having [[HumanityEnsues become mortal]], Tyrael has a tendency to forget the need for food, since he's never had to deal with it before. In one case he decides to eat all the food he'll need for the day, and gets an upset stomach from eating ''too much''.
* As a sign of just how desperate the Luminoth were during their war with the Ing prior to the events of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'', you come across the emaciated corpse of a deceased Luminoth warrior; scans reveal that she refused to abandon her post despite the fact that she was starving to death.
* Not only does Yusuke from ''VideoGame/Persona5'' forget to eat due to hyperfocusing on his art projects, he mentions this fact in Mementos because he hears his stomach rumbling, ''suddenly remembers that he's incredibly hungry'' and that it's probably because he didn't eat the previous evening ([[FridgeHorror considering that you take everyone to Mementos after school...]]). This trope is just one of many reasons why Yusuke appears to have issues with eating consistently, with the other major one being his [[StarvingArtist limited budget]].

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel IV'' implies that Jona Sacred, kid genius hacker of Crossbell is this, or rather would be if not for the intervention of Sully Atraid. When he objects to her bringing him the equivalent of a V8 instead of a pizza, she points out that he can get his own food if he doesn't like it.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the third episode, Louis de Pointe du Lac is so preoccupied by the chaos caused by City Ordinance 4118 (which are laws that shut down colored businesses in Storyville) that he doesn't consume any blood, animal or otherwise. Being a VegetarianVampire means that Louis is already on a very restricted diet, so now he's starving himself. He later caves into his ravenous hunger by mauling Alderman Fenwick.

->''"Skinny people irritate me! Especially when they say things like "you know, sometimes I forget to eat!" Now, I've forgotten my address, my mother's maiden name, and my keys, but I have ''never'' forgotten to eat. You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat."''
-->-- '''Marsha Warfield''', in one of her early stand-up routines

* In ''Fanfic/LiveAHero'', Izuku's past trauma has sapped most of his appetite and he can barely get anything down without throwing it up later. Because of this, he tends to spend meal time sharpening his knives instead of actually eating. It takes Aizawa ordering him to eat in preparation for the U.A. Entrance Exam for him to manage to get a single bowl of katsudon down and keep it down.

* ''LightNovel/TheGoodWitchOfTheWest'': Roux forgets to do this to the point of collapsing so Firiel brings him food.

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'': In ''Disappearance'' human Yuki forgets to eat, and [[spoiler:her neighbor, Asakura Ryouko, has to feed her]].

* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Try'': Lina and the group decide to immediately set sail for adventure... only to remember later, after they're stranded at sea, that they forgot to bring food. Cue them pretending to be dead so they can catch [[DogFoodDiet seagulls]].

->[[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife You've been on this site]] for ''how'' long? [[ThisLoserIsYou Hey, you]], go eat some food!
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--->'''Mac: '''I know what you're going to say. It's not the way it looks. I'm fine.
--->'''Jo:''' It's exactly the way it looks. That's the same suit you had on yesterday, if not the day before. You haven't even been home in two days.
--->'''Mac:''' This isn't the first time one case has rolled over into another. I'll be fine.
--->'''Jo:''' When's the last time you had something to eat? I don't want to hear about that trail mix from the vending machine last night.
--->'''Mac:''' ''(a tad defensively)'' It was a granola bar.

--->'''Reid''': My mother is a paranoid schizophrenic who'd forget to eat if she wasn't properly medicated and supervised.

* Played for Laughs in one ''Manhua/OldMasterQ'' comic strip. Master Q tries showing off his culinary skills to his friends, Chin and Big Potato, and after he's done both his friends compliments his cooking, with Chin saying he'll treat Master Q to the movies. Master Q's response? "Wait a minute, but ''I'' haven't eaten yet!"

-->'''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': ''[holds swords crossed at {{Ninja}} {{Mook}}'s throat]'' I just realized I haven't eaten anything in like...two days. I ''just'' realized it!\\
'''Ninja Mook''': ''[nervously]'' Ha ha ha, yeah? That's pretty funny?...\\
'''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': ''[violently beheads mook]'' NO IT'S NOT. ''I'M HUNGRY!!''\\
'''AltText''': [And cranky too.]

--->'''Servant''': Have you had lunch?\\
'''Newton''': I don't know, have I?
*** Another anecdote tells of one of his friends coming over for dinner to find Newton seated at the table deep in thought. Newton's servants, being used to this, proceeded to serve the dinner and Newton didn't snap out of it until the brandy and cigars, whereupon he declared he was sure he hadn't eaten yet, but since the evidence was right in front of him...
** UsefulNotes/MarieCurie was a real-life StarvingStudent, literally living in a garret in the Latin Quarter while attending the Sorbonne. She had twenty-hour days and a food budget in the single digits, and would often Forget To Eat the little she had. She passed out at least once at school (between classes, not during a lecture as in the movie -- one of her biographers says it was actually in the library). Her sister and brother-in-law, both doctors, had her live in their home so she'd have a steady source of real food and someone to remind her to eat it. However, their place was too far away from school, besides both of them being party animals in their off hours, and she subsequently moved back to her garret, beginning the cycle all over again. A few years later she married Pierre Curie, a classic AbsentmindedProfessor with similar issues.

-->'''Trelawny''': Cheer up, my lad, and come to dinner.\\
'''Shelley''': You go, I have dined – late eating don't do for me.\\
'''Trelawny''': ''[picks up plate of food]'' What is this?\\
'''Shelley''': That -- why, that must be my dinner...I thought I had eaten it.\\
'''Trelawny''': ''[drags Shelley into dining room]''

[[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife You've been on this site]] for ''how'' long? [[ThisLoserIsYou Hey you]], go eat some food!

* It’s implied that Professor Layton can go through this when caught up in his work or left to himself. When he leaves his office in The Last Specter, Rosa comments after him, “I hope he remembers to eat something...”

* In ''Series/StargateSG1'', a recurring theme with Samantha Carter was her obsession with work and lack of social life outside of the job. While she was never shown to forget to eat, she was on numerous occasions shown to otherwise forget to ''stop working''.
** In "The Other Side", O'Neill arrives in the SGC control room to find Carter there. He says that ''he'' is there two hours early, and asks how long she's been here. She says she never actually left the previous day.
-->'''O'Neill''': "Didn't I ''order'' you to get a life?"
** In "Arthur's Mantle", Sam has worked all night and Cam comes in to take her to breakfast. He practically has to drag her away as she insists on running one more test. That experiment then puts them out of phase, so they can't eat anyway.
* A [[PlayingWIthATrope variation]] with Rodney [=McKay=] on ''Series/StargateAtlantis''. Rodney is actually a BigEater and would never forget a meal or voluntarily choose to skip one (A RunningGag throughout the series was the way he would eat at inopportune moments or bring up a fear of starvation at the slightest delay of a meal), but at several points in the show the situation is so dire that he literally does not have the time to stop working long enough to eat or sleep; death (For him and others) would result if he did. He grows continuously more abrasive as the time wears on, with other characters asking him how long it has been.
* Spock from ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'', occasionally. While never shown, in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime}} Amok Time]]", [=McCoy=] uses the fact that Spock hasn't eaten for three days in an attempt to convince Kirk that something is wrong, and Kirk dismisses it as simply being Spock in one of his contemplative phases.
** Another example is "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS3E3TheParadiseSyndrome}} The Paradise Syndrome]]", where Spock hardly eats for weeks while studying the obelisk.

* As per his [[Literature/SherlockHolmes literary counterpart]], the [[Series/{{Sherlock}} BBC version of Sherlock]] often goes without eating while on cases. On one occasion, he refuses a meal because "digestion slows [him] down". It's a sign of [[TheWatson John]]'s positive influence that, during the second series, Sherlock can be seen eating proper meals and snacking between the action.
* Another Sherlock, from ''Series/{{Elementary}}'', not only forgets to eat, but also sleep, shower, and generally take care of himself, and is a recovering drug addict. After spending most of an episode with little to no sleep he starts to protest to [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder Joan]] that he's feeling great and can keep going, only to fall dead asleep as soon as her back is turned.
* One of the side effects of the muse shell in ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', as demonstrated when Alex uses it on Mason.

* Jame in ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath'' never remembers to eat, and is [[NothingButSkinAndBones skinny as a rail with ribs showing]]. Justified in that the [[AlienLunch mutant vegetables]] she had to eat growing up would put anyone off food.