History Main / TooSpicyforYogSothoth

* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'': In the third ending, obtained by [[spoiler:consuming three One Third Umbilical Cords, refusing Gehrman's offer and killing him, the player is greeted by the [[EldritchAbomination Moon Presence]], which descends into the Hunter's Dream to absorb the player in a soul-sucking embrace and turn them into Gehrman's replacement as the host of the dream. The player, from consuming a complete Great One umbilical cord, has gained enough Insight to realize what is happening, and resists the Moon Presence. This knocks it back, angers it, and triggers the TrueFinalBoss]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'': In the third ending, obtained by [[spoiler:consuming three One Third Umbilical Cords, refusing Gehrman's offer and killing him, the player is greeted by the [[EldritchAbomination Moon Presence]], which descends into the Hunter's Dream to absorb the player in a soul-sucking embrace and turn them into the new host of the dream. The player, using the umbilical cords, has gained enough insight to realize what is happening, and resists the Moon Presence. This knocks it back, angers it, and triggers the TrueFinalBoss]].

* In the 2000 horror film ''Film/{{Crocodile|2000}}'' the ComicRelief gets swallowed whole by the titular 20-feet reptile, and immediately vomited back up relatively unharmed - his perfume is ''that'' awful.
* ''Film/{{Evolution}}'':

-->Take it back... It's not stopping! ''Take it back!''

Yes, that's right. It looks like the monster doesn't ''want'' to eat the lovable hero. It seems that something about them, be it their whiny, unlikable personality, their lack of any skills for the villain to [[PowerCopying absorb]], or even their really bad taste in deodorant or shampoo is enough that a monster simply does not want to eat them. Now, strictly speaking, is this being picky? Well, yeah -- but it's not like ''you'd'' put just anything in your mouth, so why should a human-eating monster be any different? Just because they're a monster [[EvenEvilHasStandards doesn't mean they're a savage]]!

* ''Spunky Knight's'' main character, [[BoobsofSteel Phaia]] is a comedic/sexy example as everything from [[HeroKiller wanted men,]] to hordes of mooks to Demon Lords, Eldritch Abominations and a professional Magic Knight/Mad Scientist/Slave Trader try to [[BreakTheCutie turn her into a sex slave]] [[TooKinkyToTorture only for it to horrifically backfire on them]] and [[OutWithABang lead to their defeat.]] To date, the '''only''' man capable of truly satisfying her is fellow BadassNormal, [[BadassTeacher Torre.]]

** Phoenix hosts tend to inspire this reaction in everything up to and including cosmic horrors, to the point where [[spoiler:Harry]] reckons he can solve the problem of soul-eating god-killing abomination by locking it in his head with a very territorial Phoenix fragment. Considering that this same fragment did something similar to an EldritchAbomination, [[spoiler:a fragment of the Elder God Chthon]] at the end of the first book, this is entirely justified.

* A serious variation appears in ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''. A couple of [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]]'s henchmen capture Characters/{{Batman|TheCharacter}} and try to extract his memories in order to implant them in a clone army. Trouble is these memories are so traumatic ([[BellisariosMaxim just roll with it]]) that they short-circuit said clones. Later, when Superman asks Darkseid why he chose to possess Dan Turpin instead of Batman when he'd both of them captive, Darkseid answers that Batman would've resisted him far too long while Turpin resisted Darkseid long enough to eventually submit to his will.
* Judge Death once tried to possess [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] in a ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' / ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' crossover. (The Dark Judges can't cross over to our realm in a tangible state. Once they take over a human host, they revert to their usual shape.) Joker's "hopeless" insanity prevented Death from taking control of him, and he immediately fled back into the ether, complaining that the Joker was of no use to him. The Joker was unsurprised. "I ''thought'' you might have a little difficulty there!"

--> The little guy did something to your heads. [[TheDitz I]] gave him the explodo because [[TooDumbToFool I am clever]].
* In one ''ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}'' story, the Psycho-Man, a mind-raping emotion-controlling mad scientist, attempts to use [[PsychopathicManchild dim-witted "hero" Drax the Destroyer]] as his pawn. Unfortunately, fear makes Drax cower in the corner, doubt makes him stand around baffled, and hate makes him attack whatever's in his path (such as Psycho-Man). Cue Psycho-Man musing that he's got to add some new emotions to his device.

** In the last issue of ''Deadpool Team-Up'', [[Characters/MarvelComicsGalactus Galactus]] makes Wade his newest Herald after Wade sees an ad for the position in the classifieds. Though Wade does a good job as a Herald, [[MotorMouth his incessant chatter]] drives the mighty planet devouring entity nuts. Galactus is saved when the Characters/SilverSurfer arrives and beats the Power Cosmic out of Wade.

** In the third issue of her ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl1972 first solo book]]'', a giant, mutant carnivorous plant tries to swallow Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}} whole but it quickly spits her out because it can't bite through her indestructible skin.

** ''Dracula vs. Superman'' is resolved when {{Dracula}} hypnotizes Characters/{{Superman|TheCharacter}}, and bites into him to gain the Kryptonian power in his blood. One problem: Superman is ''solar powered''.

** ''ComicBook/TheJungleLine'': Swamp Thing finds Superman infected with a Kryptonian species of fungus known as Bloodmorel. Wanting to help Superman, Swamp Thing tries to communicate with the Bloodmorel, but the memories and sensations are too strong, and he is forced to pull back because the vision of a high-gravity red world is overwhelming his mind.

** An arc has the King of the Vampires tormenting John Constantine while he's at his lowest point (homeless and alcoholic after a bad breakup) by killing the one guy he'd been friends with since his time on the street and [[BreakThemByTalking tormenting him about the general worthlessness of humans]]. John finally relents and lets the King drink his blood... forgetting that he got a blood transfusion from the demon Nergal. The King's ''jaw dissolves'', and John uses the second wind to piss on him and drag him screaming into the sunlight.

-->"Hello, Gah Lak Tus. I've brought six billion of my friends."
* There are multiple theories on precisely what's going on inside Characters/{{Carnage|CletusKasady}}'s head, but we know that his personality hasn't changed in the slightest since his encounter with an alien symbiote, and we know that typically these symbiotes either coexist with the original personality (as in Venom's case) or take over completely. One interpretation is that Carnage was so AxCrazy that he completely overwhelmed the alien's mind.

* In ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' storyline "Hell to Pay," SatanicArchetype Neron [[DealWithTheDevil bargains for Wally's love for Linda]] in exchange for stopping the rampage of Wally's soulless RoguesGallery through Keystone--and thanks to ExactWords the city seems about to be flattened anyway. However, Neron finds that their love is so strong he's actually started to feel un-Satanly compassion, and consequently shows up demanding that they take it back. They refuse to do so until he agrees to hit the ResetButton on the entire business, even bringing back the people that the Rogues killed. Neron was previously defeated trying to claim [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel's]] soul, given freely in a moment of HeroicSacrifice. Claiming an untainted soul in such circumstances turned out to be Neron's KryptoniteFactor.
* Similarly, a ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'' arc had Black Panther make a deal with [[Characters/MarvelComicsDemons Mephisto]] for the sole thing that could save the day. Mephisto came to claim his soul... which was also the seat of the power of the Black Panther, and tied to every other noble soul that's channeled said power. And they were ''pissed''.
* In a "What If" story, Mephisto tried to claim the soul of the ComicBook/SilverSurfer. It backfired when the IncorruptiblePurePureness of the Surfer's soul manifested as a brilliant light that burned Mephisto. Since the Surfer already agreed to spend eternity in hell, Mephisto would burn ''forever''. In this case, Surfer isn't too powerful or too evil for Mephisto -- he's too ''good''. Ironically, that's exactly why Mephisto wanted Surfer in hell in the first place since he didn't like seeing someone that good in the universe.
** Mephisto cited this problem in ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' as to why he wouldn't take Peter's soul as compensation for saving Aunt May. Good people that sacrifice themselves for a noble purpose prevents the soul from suffering because they know what they did was worth it.
* Mephisto also encountered difficulties when he attempted to consume Characters/{{Cloak and Dagger|MarvelComics}} as he had done to a neo-Nazi [=mook=]. More specifically, it was Cloak who proved indigestible when his cape blistered the inside of Mephisto's stomach. The duo were promptly spit out as Mephisto complained that Cloak tasted of "another demon's prior claim."
* In her original series, Characters/{{Harley Quinn|TheCharacter}} was exiled from Hell due to her focus on joy and love. Later on, in ''Harley Quinn's Little Black Book'', Harley made a DealWithTheDevil which meant she had to stay in Hell for 30 days, but got sent back to Earth before the first day was up because she was too annoying.
* In one story, [[Characters/DCComicsLobo Lobo]] died. The story ends with Lobo back among the living and Heaven and Hell making him immortal for everything he did. OK, his rampage that devastated Heaven was justified, after they reincarnated him as a squirrel and he died squished by his own corpse dying his original death (it wasn't on purpose), but everything he did before that wasn't.

* In ''ComicBook/RomSpaceKnight,'' Rom tries to get Galactus to eat the Dire Wraiths' planet Wraithworld (don't feel bad; they're some of the most [[AlwaysChaoticEvil hideously evil]] beings in the universe), but it turns out that Wraithworld itself is so suffused with evil magical energy that Galactus ''can't stomach it.''
* In fact, it's all too common to have Galactus suffer TheWorfEffect and be overwhelmed trying to consume something and finding out it's too much for him. Sometimes it's a planet that's naturally like this, other times it's in a fight with an entity that's too powerful for him to just eat.
* In ''ComicBook/GreenLanterns'', Singularity Jain devours the entire Justice League, but leaves John Constantine and Sara Cruz. Constantine explains that Sara is too well adjusted to be appetizing to [[EmotionEater Jain]], but that while that's certainly not true of him, his soul has a host of other problems that makes him unappealing.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Annihilators}}'', The Queen of the Dire Wraiths tries to eat the Silver Surfer's brain and absorb his memories, only to find out that the mind of a Herald of Galactus is far, ''far'' beyond what she can handle. The resulting psychic backlash knocks her out, banishes her army of shadow creatures, and gives the Surfer insight into her own memories and motivations.

* When fighting the second story mode boss in ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'', who rides a ThreateningShark, the player is expected to [[FeedItABomb throw a Splat Bomb into the shark's mouth]] to stun him and attack his mount. However, throwing [[GratuitousAnimalSidekick Little Buddy]] instead, the player's Smallfry companion, has the same effect.

* When fighting the second story mode boss in ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'', who rides a ThreateningShark, the player is expected to [[FeedItABomb throw a Splat Bomb into the shark's mouth]] to stun him and attack his mount. However, throwing [[GratuitousAnimalSidekick Little Buddy]] instead has the same effect.

* When fighting the second story mode boss in ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'', who rides a ThreateningShark, the player is expected to [[FeedItABomb throw a Splat Bomb into the shark's mouth]] to stun him and attack his mount. However, throwing [[AnimalSidekick Little Buddy]] instead has the same effect.

* A downplayed example in ''Series/PeepShow''; whatever's happening at the New Year's Eve party that freaks out everyone who walks into it. We don't see anything and only hear a very ominous bass-heavy dance beat, but even notably crack-addled hedonist maniac Super Hans is utterly freaked out by whatever depravities are going on within.

* Twice in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', enemies suffer from trying to consume Nemu Kurotsuchi. First is Szayelaporro, whose use of Nemu to grow a new body for himself exposes him to drugs that Mayuri kept inside her- most notably, one that causes AndIMustScream. Second is [[spoiler:Pernida, who consumes her remains to gain her powers, but fails to consume her brain. Nemu's brain serves as a control for her incredibly aggressive HealingFactor, so without it, her regeneration takes over Pernida's entire body and turns it into a mass of cancer.]]

* ''Fanfic/ThePokemonSquad'': In "A Little Bit of Monika", RM is shown to be so ludicrously clingy that even [[VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub Monika]], a well-known {{Yandere}}, can't stand it and does everything in her power to make sure their relationship ''never'' happens.

* In the ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' 2016 revival, Jess is looped into the storyline when his mother and stepfather get locked into a six million year contract with a vegetable cult. He arrives in Stars Hollow ready to help Luke extract them, but it ends up a moot point when the vegetable cult kicks ''Liz and TJ'' out for being ''too weird.''

* Darkness, the knight from ''Literature/KonoSuba'', is a masochist so mind-shatteringly depraved that even demon generals are terrified at the prospect of being in her embarrassing presence. When she [[TakingTheBullet body-blocks Verdia the dullahan's "die in seven days" curse meant for Megumin]], she immediately (and very excitedly) assumes that she's going to have to become Verdia's sex slave in order to free herself from the curse, and in the middle of her excited, manic, masochistic raving, the camera zooms in on Verdia's eyes, which are ''quivering in pants-shitting terror''.

* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, Sanguine is the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of [[FunPersonified Debauchery]] and [[TheHedonist Hedonism]]. In the backstory, he was said to be a regular in the court of Reman Cyrodiil, the [[FounderOfTheKingdom founder of the Second Cyrodiilic Empire]]. While Reman managed to be an effective ruler whose dynasty would expand to conquer most of Tamriel, he was very much a [[TheCaligula Caligula]], prone to AxCrazy violence and extreme decadence. It eventually reached a point where Sanguine [[EvenEvilHasStandards became uncomfortable around Reman]] and left him. Reman was so debauched and hedonistic that he ran off the very ''[[AnthropomorphicPersonification embodiment]]'' of debauchery and hedonism.

* ''Series/{{Room 101}}'': Ian Hislop got Paul Merton to put Piers Morgan into Room 101, but [[TakeThat the Room spat him out because he was too toxic.]]
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' introduced the Kazon, whom the Borg found so utterly unremarkable that assimilating them would add nothing to the Collective. [[TakeThatScrappy "They would detract from our perfection."]]
** Presumably an in-joke reference to how audiences found the Kazon to be at best entirely uninteresting and at worst a reason to not bother watching, leading to them getting dropped from the show after barely a couple of seasons.
** One episode deals with a race of telepaths who have made negative emotions illegal, leading to a black market of negative emotions, sold like a FantasticDrug. One dealer tries to force a mind-meld with Tuvok, only to discover that [[TranquilFury under their stoicism is rage and fury]], enough to make the dealer ''overdose''.
** Also the aliens known only by the Borg designation Species 8472, whose biology makes the Borg's nanoprobes useless, and actually makes them desperate enough that Janeway is able to cut a deal with them to team up against the threat.
** In the finale, a Borg sphere "consumes" ''Voyager'' by tractoring it inside, but ''Voyager's'' enhanced weapons let them blow the sphere apart from the inside once it's arrived at its destination.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Obsession", the gaseous monster finds Spock's copper-based Vulcan blood inedible, and flees. [=McCoy=] wryly jokes that Spock "must have left a bad taste in its mouth" which Spock says is figuratively true.
* ''Series/{{The Strain|TVSeries}}'': Eichhorst finally corners and drinks the blood of Abraham Setrakian [[spoiler:but is poisoned because Setrakian overdosed on blood thinners. This weakens Eichhorst and allows Setrakian to finally destroy him]].

** In at least two episodes the rampaging MonsterOfTheWeek encounters Owen [[spoiler:after he was [[OurZombiesAreDifferent killed and resurrected]]]], and, after a moment of disgusted inspection, rejects him as a possible victim. The first time, in "Something Borrowed", [[spoiler:the monster doesn't eat dead meat]], and the second time, "From Out of the Rain", [[spoiler:the villain steals your last breath - and Owen had his last breath some weeks beforehand]].
** This trope actually forms a major part of the Series 1 finale. The BigBad of the season, Abaddon, feeds directly off life energy. So how do they kill it? The immortal Captain Jack allows Abaddon to feed off him, but Jack's life energy doesn't run out and Abbadon can't handle it. As it's put in a different episode, a man drinks water, but can drown.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex "The God Complex"]] has an alien minotaur [[EmotionEater feeding on]] [[spoiler:the faith]] of those trapped in its prison by revealing [[YourWorstNightmare their worst fears]]. When Rory shows up, all it does is show him the exit because [[spoiler:he is neither religious nor superstitious and, unlike Amy, does not have an abiding faith that The Doctor will always save the day]]. Also, because after the events of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens The Pandorica Opens]]"... there isn't really anything left for him to be afraid of.

** Later, another demon general, Vanir, attempts to possess one of the party, threatening physical pain if they resist his MindControl. Unfortunately, he picks Darkness as a target, and nearly has an aneurism when she keeps resisting out of pleasure.

* Darkness, the knight from ''LightNovel/{{Konosuba}}'', is a masochist so mind-shatteringly depraved that even demon generals are terrified at the prospect of being in her embarrassing presence. When she [[TakingTheBullet body-blocks Verdia the dullahan's "die in seven days" curse meant for Megumin]], she immediately (and very excitedly) assumes that she's going to have to become Verdia's sex slave in order to free herself from the curse, and in the middle of her excited, manic, masochistic raving, the camera zooms in on Verdia's eyes, which are ''quivering in pants-shitting terror''.

* Another non-comedic example in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}''. The Holy Tree Flagoon was planted to absorb the evil miasma generated by demons, and in season 1 / novel 3 is able to consume the Demon Beast Zanaffar whole. In season 2 / novel 8, the tree tries to absorb the miasma of Hellmaster Fibrizo... and dies instantly.

* Non-comedic examples in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':

* As it turns out in ''[[LightNovel/{{Baccano}} Alice in Jails]]'', Isaac's brazen idiocy manages to ''protect'' him from [[AxCrazy Ladd's]] homicidal impulses.

* In episode 8 of the ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' anime, Catarina's love of sweets is so bottomless and self-control so non-existent, the magical TomeOfEldritchLore that had temporarily trapped the main cast within, "A Tale By the Name of Desire", suffers a BrownNote from trying to provide her with an infinite amount of them and eventually spits her and the rest of the cast out.

* ''Music/{{KONGOS}}'': In "Come With Me Now", the narrator tries to sell his soul, but the devil refuses to touch it.