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* In ''[[https://www.guernicamag.com/the-quiet-boy/ The Quiet Boy]]'' by Nick Acosta, ten year old Lucas Weaver keeps his parents and younger brother imprisoned in their house [[spoiler: since they became [[MainWendigo wendigos]].]]
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* In ''Film/TheFly1986'', Veronica is desperate to help her lover Seth as soon as she notices bizarre, ugly changes in his appearance and personality after he first uses his invention to teleport himself, but as he's DrunkWithPower at the time he tosses her out of his loft/laboratory. Four weeks he finally responds to her attempts to contact him by phone and asks to see her...and upon obliging she learns he's undergoing a SlowTransformation into a repulsive monster, and he worries he's PatientZero for some disease (though this proves not to be the case). Nonetheless her love is so strong that she emotionally supports him in his solitude, and eventually ''he'' asks her to leave him before he hurts her due to the SplitPersonalityTakeover he's undergoing. In the end, [[spoiler: he goes mad and tries to genetically fuse himself with her and their unborn child; when Laser-Guided Karma comes calling, she resorts to Staking the Loved One at his request]].
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The very act of caring for the monster shows that a person is caring and empathetic or, at the very least, extremely loyal. This trope can run the gamut of being PlayedForLaughs and PlayedForDrama. The more difficult it is to care for the monster, the more dramatic and serious the situation is, and creates a stronger internal conflict for the monster's caretaker, who may simultaneously be both a good, compassionate person and a dangerous criminal. Alternatively, the caretaker may be out of their mind and unwilling to accept that something has changed about their beloved, particularly when it comes to monsters that to bystanders seem clearly mindless - this may cross over with LastDanceWithMaryJane. However, being dark and dramatic is not a requirement for the trope.
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* In ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' The Governor was unable to put down his zombified daughter, and treats her as if she was still alive. When she's killed by Michonne, he has a VillainousBreakdown and becomes much more unstable.
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** Hershel was convinced walkers were simply infected with a terrible disease that could yet be cured, so he kept all of them they found in the barn and fed them chickens. This causes a great deal of conflict when the main group finds out.
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* The ''Film/LetMeIn'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7164774/1/Eternally-Bonded Eternally Bonded]]'' essentially sets up Owen's grandfather in this role after Abby turns Owen to save his life, but thanks to Owen's efforts having determined that Abby can survive on animal blood, all Owen's grandfather has to do is give them a safe place to rest during the daylight, making it clear that he sees them both as his grandchildren even though Abby is at least twice his age.
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* The ''Film/LetMeIn'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7164774/1/Eternally-Bonded Eternally Bonded]]'' essentially sets up Owen's grandfather in this role after Abby turns Owen to save his life, but thanks to Owen's efforts having determined that Abby can survive on animal blood, all Owen's grandfather has to do is give them a safe place to rest during the daylight, making it clear that he sees them both as his grandchildren even though Abby is at least twice his age.
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* In ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'', Julia helps provide Frank - her brother-in-law, with whom she had an affair - with fresh victims after he becomes undead, so he can use their blood to restore his body.
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Butters' parents believed their son dead and underwent a ritual to bring him back. When Butters returned home, they thought him an abomination, and tried to feed him a solicitor they killed.
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Butters' parents believed their son dead and underwent a ritual to bring him back. When PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''--for plot-related reasons, the other boys make Butters returned [[FakingTheDead fake his death]]. His father tries to resurrect him a la ''Literature/PetSematary,'' and when the real Butters returns home, they thought chain him an abomination, in the basement and tried to feed deliver injured people for him a solicitor they killed.to eat. Butters takes this in stride, possibly because [[AbusiveParents this is the closest that they've ever come to decent parenting]].
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* One side story in the ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' comic focused on the main character of said story being attacked by a vampire and turned. He returns home and considers feeding on his mother. But upon seeing that he's now undead and getting over the shock, she remains supportive, helping him to survive his new condition.
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This can occur with any pair of loved ones, whether they're relatives, romantic partners or even just very close friends. Caring for the monster may be as simple as hiding them in a basement and buying twenty cans of chopped liver a week for them to eat. It could also be as difficult as having to be at constant risk of being eaten by the monster, while being forced to commit murder to feed them.
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This can occur with any pair of loved ones, whether they're relatives, romantic partners or even just very close friends. Caring for the monster may be as simple as hiding them in a basement and buying twenty cans of chopped liver a week for them to eat. It could also be as difficult as having to be at constant risk of being eaten by the monster, while being forced to [[VoluntaryVampireVictim use yourself]] or commit murder to feed them.
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* In ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' Delilah Briarwood's motive for everything she did, was for Sylas Briarwood,a man who she was forced to turn into a vampire fallowing his death by disease. Delilah is every bit as evil and ruthless as her husband, and is a powerful necromancer to boot so the fact that he feeds on human blood doesn't bother her in the least.
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It can be hard when a loved one turns into a mindless, monstrous freak who only eats human flesh. Killing them is a very difficult act, and many would refuse to harm their loved one, even if that loved one is technically gone already. For those who would rather die than let their loved one die, the solution is simple: they continue caring for the monster, even if it's hard, dangerous, or forces them to commit criminal acts just to get the monster food.
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It can be hard when a loved one turns into a mindless, monstrous freak who only eats human flesh. Killing them is a very difficult act, and many would refuse to harm their loved one, even if that loved one is [[DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment technically gone already. already.]] For those who would rather die than let their loved one die, the solution is simple: they continue caring for the monster, even if it's hard, dangerous, or forces them to commit criminal acts just to get the monster food.
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The very act of caring for the monster shows that a person is caring and empathetic or, at the very least, extremely loyal. This trope can run the gamut of being PlayedForLaughs and PlayedForDrama. The more difficult it is to care for the monster, the more dramatic and serious the situation is, and creates a stronger internal conflict for the monster's caretaker, who may simultaneously be both a good, compassionate person and a dangerous criminal. However, being dark and dramatic is not a requirement for the trope.
It also doesn't matter what type of monster the loved one becomes. From werewolves to zombies, from vampires to trolls, any monster may apply. What ''does'' matter, however, is that the monster was either once human or has enough human-like qualities to be considered more than just a monstrous pet. '''Examples of monsters lacking the human aspect are not this trope.''' When the monsters are more like pets, they're a PetMonstrosity.
It also doesn't matter what type of monster the loved one becomes. From werewolves to zombies, from vampires to trolls, any monster may apply. What ''does'' matter, however, is that the monster was either once human or has enough human-like qualities to be considered more than just a monstrous pet. '''Examples of monsters lacking the human aspect are not this trope.''' When the monsters are more like pets, they're a PetMonstrosity.
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The very act of caring for the monster shows that a person is caring and empathetic or, at the very least, extremely loyal. This trope can run the gamut of being PlayedForLaughs and PlayedForDrama. The more difficult it is to care for the monster, the more dramatic and serious the situation is, and creates a stronger internal conflict for the monster's caretaker, who may simultaneously be both a good, compassionate person and a dangerous criminal. Alternatively, the caretaker may be out of their mind and unwilling to accept that something has changed about their beloved, particularly when it comes to monsters that to bystanders seem clearly mindless - this may cross over with LastDanceWithMaryJane. However, being dark and dramatic is not a requirement for the trope.
It also doesn't matter what type of monster the loved one becomes. From werewolves to zombies, from vampires to trolls, any monster may apply. What ''does'' matter, however, is that the monster was either once human or has enough human-like qualities to be considered more than just a monstrous pet. '''Examples of monsters lacking the human aspect are not this trope.''' When the monsters are more like pets, they're aPetMonstrosity.
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* Pamela's father in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' has been cursed into a Gibdo. Pamela herself - a small child - keeps him locked in a cupboard in their basement so no-one finds out about it. Thankfully, you're capable of using the Song of Healing to cure him and turn his curse into a mask, but you first must lure Pamela out of the house and sneak in without her noticing.
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* In ''Film/TheBridesOfDracula'', the Baroness Meinster's son was bitten and turned by Dracula. However she couldn't bare to kill him. Instead locking him in a room in their manor and luring in girls for him to feed on (Though considering he turns people then outright kill them, it's never explained what happened to the girls). This even extends to their maid, Greta, who continues to aid him long after Marianne unwittingly frees him, he turns his mother and he goes about starting his own collection of vampire brides.
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* In ''{{VisualNovel/Tsukihime}}'', one of [[spoiler:Akiha]]'s endings sees her degenerate into a mindless monster. Shiki keeps her in an empty room and feeds her his blood every day in the feeble hope that she will one day return to normal.
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* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfVladimirTod''. Vlad is a fully rational and kind-hearted, if [[SociallyAwkwardHero awkward]] [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire teenage vampire]] who lives a relatively normal life with the help of hoodies and plenty of sunscreen. His [[ParentalSubstitute "Aunt" Nelly]] supplies him with the blood he needs to survive by swiping bags of blood from the hospital she works at and cooking him extremely rare steaks so he can suck the blood out.
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* [[ALoadOfBull The Minotaur of Crete]] from Myth/ClassicalMythology was the Queen's daughter (by a bull, thanks to a curse from the Gods; some versions have the bull in question as the one Heracles had to capture as one of his labours). [[DependingOnTheWriter In some versions anyway]]. The King kept his step-son in The Labyrinth and had sacrifices brought in (seven young men and seven young women a year) to feed him, until Theseus came along to slay it.
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* In the BlackComedy ''Film/MyBoyfriendsBack'', after Johnny returns from the grave, his parents are ready and willing to supply him with human flesh to eat so he won't rot and fall apart.
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It can be hard when a loved one turns into a mindless, monstrous freak who only eats human flesh. Killing them is a very difficult act, and many would refuse to harm their loved one, even if that loved one is technically gone already. For those who would rather die than let their loved one die, the solution is simple: they continue caring for the monster, even if it's hard, dangerous, or forces them to commit criminal acts just to get the monster food.
This can occur with any pair of loved ones, whether they're relatives, romantic partners or even just very close friends. Caring for the monster may be as simple as hiding them in a basement and buying twenty cans of chopped liver a week for them to eat. It could also be as difficult as having to be at constant risk of being eaten by the monster, while being forced to commit murder to feed them.
The very act of caring for the monster shows that a person is caring and empathetic or, at the very least, extremely loyal. This trope can run the gamut of being PlayedForLaughs and PlayedForDrama. The more difficult it is to care for the monster, the more dramatic and serious the situation is, and creates a stronger internal conflict for the monster's caretaker, who may simultaneously be both a good, compassionate person and a dangerous criminal. However, being dark and dramatic is not a requirement for the trope.
It also doesn't matter what type of monster the loved one becomes. From werewolves to zombies, from vampires to trolls, any monster may apply. What ''does'' matter, however, is that the monster was either once human or has enough human-like qualities to be considered more than just a monstrous pet. '''Examples of monsters lacking the human aspect are not this trope.''' When the monsters are more like pets, they're a PetMonstrosity.
The darker, more manipulative version is TheRenfield. Compare ILoveYouVampireSon, MonstersAnonymous, ZombieAdvocate, and MadwomanInTheAttic. Overlaps with FedToTheBeast, which is typically the fate of poor, innocent bystanders who die for the sake of the monster's life. Contrast IHateYouVampireDad; compare and contrast StakingTheLovedOne. Finally, see also EvenEvilCanBeLoved.
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* During the events of ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', the second Captain Boomerang killed people for his undead Black Lantern father to eat.
* The villain in ''ComicBook/HackSlash Meets ComicBook/ZombiesVsCheerleaders'' is the school's football coach, who has been abducting students and chopping them up for his zombie son.
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* A priest in ''Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse'' tied up his zombie sister and fed her people, not knowing what else to do.
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* ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror'' is about a son whose real father is hinted at to be Yog-Sothoth and whose family keeps it in a secluded farmhouse over the years, during which it invariably grows and grows so the building has to be enlarged more and more, and cows from surrounding fields go missing, supposedly providing him with substenance. The son is not human at all but an invisible horrendous being too terrible to describe (as usual for Lovecraftian horrors, it has multiple extremities and tentacles).
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* ''Series/FridayThe13thTheSeries'' episode "Night Prey". After a man finds out that his wife is a vampire, he captures her and imprisons her in his home. When she asks to be fed, he pays a prostitute to come to his home and his wife drinks her blood.
* The third season of ''Series/TheStrainTVSeries'' reveals that Gus has been keeping his Strigoi mother in their apartment and feeding her his own blood. [[spoiler: He's forced to kill her when she's about to feed on the Silver Angel.]]
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* [[ALoadOfBull The Minotaur of Crete]] from Myth/ClassicalMythology was the Queen's daughter (by a bull, thanks to a curse from the Gods; some versions have the bull in question as the one Heracles had to capture as one of his labours). [[DependingOnTheWriter In some versions anyway]]. The King kept his step-son in The Labyrinth and had sacrifices brought in (seven young men and seven young women a year) to feed him, until Theseus came along to slay it.
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* ''Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters''. When a woman turns into a vampire, her husband [[DisposableVagrant steals blood from homeless people]] to feed her.
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* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'': Litchi's old friend, Roy Carmine, got into a FreakLabAccident due to him pursuing forbidden knowledge, and became an EldritchAbomination called "Arakune". He's an insane BlobMonster whose HorrorHunger forces him to prey on animals and occasionally humans. Despite that, she still tries to FindTheCure for him, including corrupting herself with the same kind that he succumbed with in order to understand his condition. This gets her in trouble in the second game, where said corruption catches up to her, and she still can't find any way to curb it; as she's persuaded by [[BadSamaritan Hazama]] to accept his deal for a cure in his organization, NOL, she reluctantly agrees, if only because she's exhausted all of her other options. Some good guys (notably Rachel and Kokonoe) called out to her about supporting Arakune, saying that his condition is basically irreversible and that she shouldn't worry about him any more; by the fourth game, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Roy didn't really ''want'' to be saved, either, and convinces Litchi to go back to the people who needs her as a doctor]].
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' "Zombie Island of Dr. Zed" DLC campaign, the player/s can encounter the zombie of their old pal TK Baha. TK, being an old blind man with one leg ''before'' he got killed, can't 'hunt' for his own food, so the player characters bring him brains. However, as the zombie outbreak claimed every living soul in Jakobs Cove, the brains come from other zombies; he doesn't seem to mind.
* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' DLC "Shivering Isles", the conspiracy theorist Muurine lives with her uncle Leo. Uncle Leo is a zombie locked on the second floor of her house, and it appears that she still loves him and feeds him (judging by the fact that the zombie is non-hostile, he's well fed). Muurine also appears to be unaware what exactly is wrong with Uncle Leo, saying he's only "not feeling well".
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Trolls are raised by wild beasts called lususes. Several of these are horrible monsters, most notably Vriska's "Spidermom", an enormous, troll-eating spider and parental figure. Vriska is forced to regularly kill or lure to their deaths other troll kids in order to feed her lusus. Vriska even keeps her chained up next to her castle.
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* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "One Flu Over the Loud House", where the Louds are ''not'' turning into monsters, they're just getting the flu, but the healthy kids are treating it like a zombie apocalypse. Leni, however, thinks they should help them.
* One ''The Simpsons WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' episode reveals that Bart has a monstrous, murderous EvilTwin who the family keeps chained in the attic and feeds fish heads. But then he escapes...
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Butters' parents believed their son dead and underwent a ritual to bring him back. When Butters returned home, they thought him an abomination, and tried to feed him a solicitor they killed.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'' episode "[[Recap/TrollhuntersS3E11Jimhunters Jimhunters]]", Jim goes through the different StagesOfMonsterGrief after [[spoiler:he decides to [[PointOfNoReturn permanently turn himself into a troll with Merlin's potion]] in order to kill Gunmar]], eventually running off when the reality of the situation finally sinks in. His mother tells his friends and they all look for him, eventually finding him hiding away at his High School. They chase him onto the roof before confronting him, all of them assuring him that despite how much he has changed, they will all be there for him.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'', Lady Tottington, who Wallace has been dating, promises to protect him when he turns into a [[OurWereBeastsAreDifferent were-rabbit]].
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This can occur with any pair of loved ones, whether they're relatives, romantic partners or even just very close friends. Caring for the monster may be as simple as hiding them in a basement and buying twenty cans of chopped liver a week for them to eat. It could also be as difficult as having to be at constant risk of being eaten by the monster, while being forced to commit murder to feed them.
The very act of caring for the monster shows that a person is caring and empathetic or, at the very least, extremely loyal. This trope can run the gamut of being PlayedForLaughs and PlayedForDrama. The more difficult it is to care for the monster, the more dramatic and serious the situation is, and creates a stronger internal conflict for the monster's caretaker, who may simultaneously be both a good, compassionate person and a dangerous criminal. However, being dark and dramatic is not a requirement for the trope.
It also doesn't matter what type of monster the loved one becomes. From werewolves to zombies, from vampires to trolls, any monster may apply. What ''does'' matter, however, is that the monster was either once human or has enough human-like qualities to be considered more than just a monstrous pet. '''Examples of monsters lacking the human aspect are not this trope.''' When the monsters are more like pets, they're a PetMonstrosity.
The darker, more manipulative version is TheRenfield. Compare ILoveYouVampireSon, MonstersAnonymous, ZombieAdvocate, and MadwomanInTheAttic. Overlaps with FedToTheBeast, which is typically the fate of poor, innocent bystanders who die for the sake of the monster's life. Contrast IHateYouVampireDad; compare and contrast StakingTheLovedOne. Finally, see also EvenEvilCanBeLoved.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* During the events of ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', the second Captain Boomerang killed people for his undead Black Lantern father to eat.
* The villain in ''ComicBook/HackSlash Meets ComicBook/ZombiesVsCheerleaders'' is the school's football coach, who has been abducting students and chopping them up for his zombie son.
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[[folder:Film]]
* A priest in ''Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse'' tied up his zombie sister and fed her people, not knowing what else to do.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror'' is about a son whose real father is hinted at to be Yog-Sothoth and whose family keeps it in a secluded farmhouse over the years, during which it invariably grows and grows so the building has to be enlarged more and more, and cows from surrounding fields go missing, supposedly providing him with substenance. The son is not human at all but an invisible horrendous being too terrible to describe (as usual for Lovecraftian horrors, it has multiple extremities and tentacles).
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/FridayThe13thTheSeries'' episode "Night Prey". After a man finds out that his wife is a vampire, he captures her and imprisons her in his home. When she asks to be fed, he pays a prostitute to come to his home and his wife drinks her blood.
* The third season of ''Series/TheStrainTVSeries'' reveals that Gus has been keeping his Strigoi mother in their apartment and feeding her his own blood. [[spoiler: He's forced to kill her when she's about to feed on the Silver Angel.]]
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[[folder:Religion and Mythology]]
* [[ALoadOfBull The Minotaur of Crete]] from Myth/ClassicalMythology was the Queen's daughter (by a bull, thanks to a curse from the Gods; some versions have the bull in question as the one Heracles had to capture as one of his labours). [[DependingOnTheWriter In some versions anyway]]. The King kept his step-son in The Labyrinth and had sacrifices brought in (seven young men and seven young women a year) to feed him, until Theseus came along to slay it.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters''. When a woman turns into a vampire, her husband [[DisposableVagrant steals blood from homeless people]] to feed her.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'': Litchi's old friend, Roy Carmine, got into a FreakLabAccident due to him pursuing forbidden knowledge, and became an EldritchAbomination called "Arakune". He's an insane BlobMonster whose HorrorHunger forces him to prey on animals and occasionally humans. Despite that, she still tries to FindTheCure for him, including corrupting herself with the same kind that he succumbed with in order to understand his condition. This gets her in trouble in the second game, where said corruption catches up to her, and she still can't find any way to curb it; as she's persuaded by [[BadSamaritan Hazama]] to accept his deal for a cure in his organization, NOL, she reluctantly agrees, if only because she's exhausted all of her other options. Some good guys (notably Rachel and Kokonoe) called out to her about supporting Arakune, saying that his condition is basically irreversible and that she shouldn't worry about him any more; by the fourth game, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Roy didn't really ''want'' to be saved, either, and convinces Litchi to go back to the people who needs her as a doctor]].
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' "Zombie Island of Dr. Zed" DLC campaign, the player/s can encounter the zombie of their old pal TK Baha. TK, being an old blind man with one leg ''before'' he got killed, can't 'hunt' for his own food, so the player characters bring him brains. However, as the zombie outbreak claimed every living soul in Jakobs Cove, the brains come from other zombies; he doesn't seem to mind.
* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' DLC "Shivering Isles", the conspiracy theorist Muurine lives with her uncle Leo. Uncle Leo is a zombie locked on the second floor of her house, and it appears that she still loves him and feeds him (judging by the fact that the zombie is non-hostile, he's well fed). Muurine also appears to be unaware what exactly is wrong with Uncle Leo, saying he's only "not feeling well".
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Trolls are raised by wild beasts called lususes. Several of these are horrible monsters, most notably Vriska's "Spidermom", an enormous, troll-eating spider and parental figure. Vriska is forced to regularly kill or lure to their deaths other troll kids in order to feed her lusus. Vriska even keeps her chained up next to her castle.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "One Flu Over the Loud House", where the Louds are ''not'' turning into monsters, they're just getting the flu, but the healthy kids are treating it like a zombie apocalypse. Leni, however, thinks they should help them.
* One ''The Simpsons WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' episode reveals that Bart has a monstrous, murderous EvilTwin who the family keeps chained in the attic and feeds fish heads. But then he escapes...
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Butters' parents believed their son dead and underwent a ritual to bring him back. When Butters returned home, they thought him an abomination, and tried to feed him a solicitor they killed.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'' episode "[[Recap/TrollhuntersS3E11Jimhunters Jimhunters]]", Jim goes through the different StagesOfMonsterGrief after [[spoiler:he decides to [[PointOfNoReturn permanently turn himself into a troll with Merlin's potion]] in order to kill Gunmar]], eventually running off when the reality of the situation finally sinks in. His mother tells his friends and they all look for him, eventually finding him hiding away at his High School. They chase him onto the roof before confronting him, all of them assuring him that despite how much he has changed, they will all be there for him.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'', Lady Tottington, who Wallace has been dating, promises to protect him when he turns into a [[OurWereBeastsAreDifferent were-rabbit]].
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