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* ''Animation/BreadBarbershop'': In "Potato Chip and Sausage", Wilk, thinking about how Sausage must be with Chip, refuses to eat the soup Master Bread makes him and is shown to have not eaten in a while. Meanwhile, Sausage is too sad about Wilk to eat the dog food Chip gives him.

** In ''Fanfic/WhatYouWishFor'', this is subverted when Lori thinks Lincoln is too sulky to go down for dinner but really he isn't there, and then played straight when Luan loses her appetite due to being sad about being grounded.

* ''Literature/IWishYouAlltheBest'': In the hours before Ben comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're too anxious about it to eat more than a few bites of dinner.

* In the 2007 film version of ''Film/{{Hairspray}}'' Link appears at the Turnblad's house worried about Tracy, who's missing after fleeing from being arrested at the protest march, but also because he feels guilty about not going with her and the other black dancers marching.

* The first segment in a collection of ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'' stories ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/3173649 Wishes And Dreams]]'' has Starbuck having lost his appetite due to having to hide his desires for Apollo as well as having nightmares of his death back in the 'War of the Gods' two-parter, but (slowly) gets better three segments later when Apollo returns his feelings.

** ''Fanfic/AngerManagement'': Lynn loses her appetite after Lincoln beats her up.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ThePandaChronicles'' chapter "Hard to Stomach", Tae-young won't eat his dinner because he's upset about Jesse being sick. Aaron T. [[CheerThemUpWithLaughter tells him jokes]] to get him to eat.

-->'''Remy:''' You're right, Dad. Who am I kidding? We are what we are, and we're rats. Well, they'll leave soon, and now you know how to get in. Steal all you want. ''(starts walking away)''
-->'''Django:''' You're not comin'?
-->'''Remy:''' I've lost my appetite.

* In ''Film/TheGiant2016'', Rikard invites his MissingMom to his thirtieth birthday party, but [[DaddyDidntShow she doesn't show up]]. Rikard is too disappointed to eat any of the cake, even though it was made to look like his favorite hat.

* Happens to [[VillainousGlutton Gluttony]] in the 2003 anime adaptation of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'', after the death of his [[PlatonicLifePartners Platonic Life Partner]], Lust. Given that Gluttony ''lives'' to eat, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness it's a clear sign that his grief is getting to him]]. His creator fixes that by erasing his mind.

* The first chapter of ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'' has Chloe unable to indulge in any of the curries Mr. Mime made due to (1) she has just gotten her ass kicked by Ash (due to her classmates pressuring her to fight the Alola League Champion, (2) she lost her appetite to eat her lunch because (1) and (3) she can't eat curry as it's a reminder of the happy days she had with Goh and how he abandoned her.

-->-- '''Princess''', ''WesternAnimation/LittlePrincess'', "I Didn't Do It"

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}},'' after Fry gets kicked out of the Planet Express building after living there for a month and becoming homeless, Fry and Bender eat at the "Food O Mat" where Bender comments that he's barely touched his amoeba; Fry pokes a giant amoeba on a plate with his fork and glumly says, "It looked good, but I just don't feel like eating."

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}},'' after Fry gets kicked out of the Planet Express building after living there for two months and becoming homeless, Fry and Bender eat at the "Food O Mat" where Bender comments that he's barely touched his amoeba; Fry pokes a giant amoeba on a plate with his fork and glumly says, "It looked good, but I just don't feel like eating."

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}, after Fry gets kicked out of the Planet Express building after living there for two months and becoming homeless, Fry and Bender eat at the "Food O Mat" where Bender comments that he's barely touched his amoeba; Fry pokes a giant amoeba on a plate with his fork and glumly says, "It looked good, but I just don't feel like eating."

* The first three fics in a collection of ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'' stories ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/3173649 Wishes And Dreams]]'' has Starbuck losing his appetite due to having nightmares of Apollo's death back in the 'War of the Gods' two-parter.

* ''Anime/PrettyCure'': In episode 23 of ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'', Mana falls in a funk after she got separated from a [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed Regina]] and stripped of her TransformationTrinket by [[SixthRanger Cure Ace]], to the point of refusing food and locking herself in her room.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'', the Once-ler tries to cheer up Pipsqueak with a marshmallow after he's sad about being forced to leave home. Pipsqueak rejects it.