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* ''Film/StarTrekGenerations''. Data has recently had an emotion chip installed and is busy experiencing new things. When he tries one of Guinan's new drinks he hates it (as it tastes revolting) but eagerly asks for more.

--->'''Data:''' "I ''hate'' this! It is ''revolting!''"
--->'''Guinan:''' "More?"
--->'''Data:''' "Please."

-->--'''Caliban''', '''''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'''''

* The Cenobites of the ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'' series are what results when this trope is taken to a truly extreme level. Though according to the comics, the Cenobites ''themselves'' [[SenseLossSadness can't truly feel anything anymore]].

* Inverted with a TearJerker in ''SupermanII--'' Superman has [[BroughtDownToNormal depowered himself]] for Lois. He then gets in a fistfight with a bully to defend her honor -- and discovers what pain is like. He seems as much ''surprised'' as anything: "Blood! My blood..."

* ''StarTrekGenerations''. Data has recently had an emotion chip installed and is busy experiencing new things. When he tries one of Guinan's new drinks he hates it (as it tastes revolting) but eagerly asks for more.

* Milo from the Harry Potter/Dungeons & Dragons crossover ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8096183/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Natural-20 Harry Potter and the Natural 20]]'' becomes this once he tries out Hogwarts food and realizes what he's been missing out on (having eaten practical but tasteless Everlasting Rations his whole life).

* In DianeDuane's ''YoungWizards'' series, it turns out that most aliens go nuts over the taste of [[EverythingsBetterWithChocolate chocolate]]. A single bar of highest-quality Earth chocolate can be [[SeriousBusiness used as a bribe of staggering size]] under the right circumstances.

* The aliens from ''Series/FirstWave'', downloaded as they were into vat-grown human bodies as the initial part of their invasion, quickly figured out that sex in human form was somewhat more satisfying than in their original bodies, where sex was painful and thus only for procreation.

** Note that it isn't universal; your sense of taste and smell are rendered almost null compared to sight/sound/touch, as is common with many other stimulants or psychadelics such as LSD. The urban legend persists of a boyfriend dumping his girlfriend after having incredibly intense sex with her on ecstasy, it never being the same afterward.
** Marijuana, however, is famous for heightened your sense of taste, i.e. The Munchies.

** And then there are [[OminousOwl the strix]], who are believed to be the source of the Beast that nags at the back of Kindred minds. They have the ability of possess humans as well as vampires in torpor. Once upon a time, their purpose was to make sure that Kindred (especially the humane ones) suffered, but after Rome (and with it, the vampiric government of the Camarilla) fell, their purpose slowly drifted, to the point that all they care about nowadays is experiencing everything a body can provide. And sometimes it's really hard to tell which driving ethos is scarier...

* "Urgo" from ''{{Stargate SG-1}}''. The first thing he did was overstimulate SG-1's taste buds. It caused Teal'c to drink an entire pot of scalding hot coffee, and the whole team to gorge themselves on desserts from the cafeteria.

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** And then there are [[OwlBeDamned the strix]], who are believed to be the source of the Beast that nags at the back of Kindred minds. They have the ability of possess humans as well as vampires in torpor. Once upon a time, their purpose was to make sure that Kindred (especially the humane ones) suffered, but after Rome (and with it, the vampiric government of the Camarilla) fell, their purpose slowly drifted, to the point that all they care about nowadays is experiencing everything a body can provide. And sometimes it's really hard to tell which driving ethos is scarier...

* According to [[UrbanLegend legend,]] TheMenInBlack were once reported trying to drink a jar of jelly.

* According to [[UrbanLegend legend,]] the MenInBlack were once reported trying to drink a jar of jelly.

* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' the insectoid Princess Voluptua frequently disguises herself as a human, and always seems to enjoy the local cuisine.

** Inverted in ''Film/TheManOfSteel,'' where when [[HumanAliens essentially human]] Kryptonians gain superhuman senses like X-Ray vision, it's so terrifyingly overwhelming as to debilitate them until they get used to it.

* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' the insectoid Princess Voluptua frequently disguises herself as a human, and always seems to like the local cuisine.

* [[{{Sandman}} Death]] comments that of all the ways mortals absorb energy, she finds eating the best, topping even photosynthesis. Several others of the Endless also seem to delight in such human pastimes, as do other non-human cast members (and there is a reference to the Martian Manhunter noted above).

* In ''Manga/WildWind'', once Olgrius [[BroughtDownToNormal loses his immortality]] sex becomes a lot...sexier. And more taxing.

*** Actually, in ''Martian Manhunter, Vol. 2, #24'', it became canon that for Martians, Oreos (or in this case [[UsefulNotes/Copyright Chocos]] are addictive. FridgeLogic sets in when one considers ''why'' exactly it's processed cookies, rather than say, chocolate.

* In the first ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' movie, the cursed pirates of the Black Pearl go on and on about what sensory experiences they've most missed during the curse, and therefore what they plan to glut on once they have their nerve endings back. Captain Barbossa says the first thing he plans to do is... eat a lot of apples. In the scene this seems like an UnusualEuphemism for raping his female captive, but it later turns out he was dead serious and continues to eat apples at every opportunity throughout the series.

* KimBasinger, again, in ''MyStepMotherIsAnAlien'': alien takes human form, has this reaction to food and sex. Also, gets drunk on caffine.

* In an unfortunate twist, an arc in ''TheAuthority'' has, as the villain, a Prohibition-era mobster who was fused with an EnergyBeing seeking to psychically uplift humanity ''while getting a blowjob''. The EnergyBeing was "blown away" by the physical pleasure, resulting in a fusion who had all the powers of the original EnergyBeing, but the power-hungry, hedonistic personality of the mobster, and who proceeded to create a multiverse-spanning corporation that sold off the natural resources of entire universes. Not a good thing.
* ComicBook/{{Batman}} ([[BatmanGambit of course]]) used this to his advantage one time. With the BadFuture world about to be destroyed by Darkseid, and being observed and recorded for posterity by Metron, a literal god, Bats convinced him he needed to make himself mortal to completely record the human experience before it was wiped from existence. [[spoiler:When Metron did as suggested, Batman coldcocked him and stole his Mobius Chair to send Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}, TheFlash and GreenLantern to the past to save the day.]] Sucker.