History Main / ForgetsToEat

** Inverted when it comes to Luffy. He's able to both eat in his sleep and instantly calculate how many meals he's missed as a result of sleeping for more than a day.

** Selphie in ''VideoGame/RuneFactoryFrontier''. She's [[{{Bookworm}} an avid book-lover]] who often ForgetsToEat, and one way to reliably increase her [[RelationshipValues Affection Points]] is to give her foods she can eat on the go with a single hand, like sandwiches and rice balls.

* A good amount of ADHD/ADD medications are stimulants, often based an amphetamines (particularly, Adderall, for example). These suppress a person's appetite, so much so that they used to be used as diet pills. When you plain don't get hungry, and have a tendency to lose track of time, this tends to happen. This example is actually an [[InvokedTrope invocation]] of this trope, as the neurotransmitter that mediates alertness and concentration ''also'' suppresses appetite; by invoking hyperfocus, one ForgetsToEat. And since hyperfocus ''also'' happens when someone with ADHD finds something particularly interesting, this can happen without medication being involved as well.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/AsteroidInLove''. During the twentieth chapter (adapted in the sixth episode), the Astronomy Group is so absorbed {{stargazing|scene}} at Mira's room after wrapping up SchoolFestival preparations that they do not realize they are hungry, until [[SweetBaker Moe]] brings her desserts in and fans at the three other girls to induce a GrowlingGut.

* 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 said warrior refused to abandon her post despite the fact that she was starving to death.

* This happened to Gil Grissom of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' once. He spent so much time at a crime scene that one of his co-workers had to rummage something from the fridge at the scene just to get him to eat.
* It happened to Mac Taylor of ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' also. Jo had Flack take Mac to a diner after this exchange:
-->'''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 sheepishly)'' It was a granola bar.

%%* Franchise/{{Batman}}, much to Alfred's despair.

-->"Do not disturb my circles!"

* A MadScientist and Asperger's autistic 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. (There are currently no medications for autism with that side effect, but just roll with it. Sounds closer to the side effects of medication to treat bipolar disorder.)

* A MadScientist and Asperger's autistic in the Creator/RobertLudlum novel ''The Sigma Protocol'', 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. (There are currently no medications for autism with that side effect, but just roll with it. Sounds closer to the side effects of medication to treat bipolar disorder.)

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': Subverted in [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2021/03/02 one strip]], where Garfield starts to say that he sometimes forgets to eat before gulping down a burger and ending his statement with "said Garfield never".
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%% * Franchise/{{Batman}}, much to Alfred's despair.
* Despite Susan Richards' best efforts, Reed Richards of the ComicBook/FantasticFour isn't much better.

* After being brought back to life in ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', 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.

* At the conclusion of the ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' story "Nightmare First Class" (Gold Key issue #27), Shaggy doesn't so much forget to eat as he passes up an invite for dinner. During the story's mystery, he eats too much at dinner and has a subsequent nightmare which exposes the gang's client -- an heir being haunted by a ghost -- as a fraud. The gang tracks down the real heir who invites the gang to dinner, for which Shaggy takes a pass.

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* Formerly averted by ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}, it has [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2021/03/02 now]] been ''defied'':
-->Garfield: Sometimes I forget to eat
-->''(Garfield tosses a hamburger into his mouth)''
-->Garfield: Said Garfield never

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* Pretty much any game where you die (or at least get close to it) of starvation with food easily accessible nearby or even in your inventory. Especially if it's forgettable until your almost dead or your in the middle of some action.

* Yahtzee from ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' apparently suffers from this trope. From his ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty 4'' review:

!!Examples

* A 1955 [[https://youtu.be/wibHcZ4FNbU Marlboro commercial]] features a man working on an antique car, who says that he can get so wrapped up in it that he forgets where he is, what time it is, and “sometimes I even forget to eat.”(He doesn’t forget to smoke, though.)
* [[https://imgur.com/Evtrj This advert for the]] UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor depicts two skeletal hands holding the titular object with the tagline "Don't Forget to Eat".

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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Given he's had to be reminded to speak out loud, blink his eyes, and ''breathe'', this certainly has happened to Gedatz.

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* Despite Susan Richards' best efforts, Reed Richards of the ComicBook/FantasticFour isn't much better.

* At the conclusion of the ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' story "Nightmare First Class" (Gold Key issue #27), Shaggy doesn't so much forget to eat as he passes up an invite for dinner. During the story's mystery, he eats too much at dinner and has a subsequent nightmare which exposes the gang's client--an heir being haunted by a ghost--as a fraud. The gang tracks down the real heir who invites the gang to dinner, for which Shaggy takes a pass.

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* 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.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'': It's made painfully clear that Hiro's so depressed after his brother Tadashi's death that he hasn't left his room in days and hasn't been eating either. When Aunt Cass brings him breakfast, his dinner from the night before is still sitting where she left it.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'': Following his mother's death, Littlefoot spends much of his time moping; when a baby pterosaur offers him a berry, he doesn't even react. The narrator even {{lampshades}} this:
--> '''Narrator:''' ''At first, all that Littlefoot could think about was his mother. He hardly noticed his own hunger, and he almost completely forgot about the Great Valley, and that he must somehow reach it.''

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

[[caption-width-right:263:[-"Oh yeah...that thing I need to do to not die."-] ]]

** One of the major drawbacks of treating eating disorders, such as anorexia, is this trope, as, after a while of starvation, the person's appetite is affected, making them less inclined to eat.

* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'': It's made painfully clear that Hiro's so depressed after his brother Tadashi's death that he hasn't left his room in days and hasn't been eating either. When Aunt Cass brings him breakfast, his dinner from the night before is still sitting where she left it.

'''Shelley''': You go, I have dined–late eating don't do for me.\\

'''Shelley''': That--why, that must be my dinner...I thought I had eaten it.\\

** Marie Curie 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). 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 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.

* In ''Series/Numb3rs'' story ''Fanfic/{{Encryptions}}'' Alan and Don worry about Charlie not eating when he is working on a consulting project for NASA.