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* In ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' TrappedInTVLand episode, Pinocchio wants to be a real boy by eating human flesh, speciefically Billy's.
* In ''InvaderZim'', Dib tells Zim that he knows he's an alien because humans don't have a squeedlyspooch, and Zim doesn't have any, normal human organs. Zim's solutions is to stalk his classmates, steal their organs, and stuff them inside himself.
* In ''InvaderZim'', Dib tells Zim that he knows he's an alien because humans don't have a squeedlyspooch, and Zim doesn't have any, normal human organs. Zim's solutions is to stalk his classmates, steal their organs, and stuff them inside himself.
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* In ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' TrappedInTVLand episode, Pinocchio wants to be a real boy by eating human flesh, speciefically specifically Billy's.
* In ''InvaderZim'', Dib tells Zim that he knows he's an alien because humans don't have a squeedlyspooch, and Zim doesn't haveany, any normal human organs. Zim's solutions is to stalk his classmates, steal their organs, and stuff them inside himself.
* In ''InvaderZim'', Dib tells Zim that he knows he's an alien because humans don't have a squeedlyspooch, and Zim doesn't have
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** Something less creepy: "If the saying 'You are what you eat' is really true, then Lord Voldemort is a unicorn."
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* TheThing is based on this trope.
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** Yet another novel reveals that the shapeshifters are the result of an ancient experiment to create immortality. The resulting creatures went out of control and began consuming all the surrounding fauna, eventually leaving the half-dozen shapeshifters the only non-plant organisms on the planet. The same experiment on another world had slightly better results.
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** Yet another novel reveals that the shapeshifters are the result of an ancient experiment to create immortality. [[GoneHorriblyRight It worked.]] The resulting creatures went out of control and began consuming all the surrounding fauna, eventually leaving the half-dozen shapeshifters the only non-plant organisms on the planet. The same experiment on another world had slightly better results.
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* In the ''DoctorWho'' [[VirginNewAdventures New Adventures]] novel ''Human Nature'' (which was later adapted for the TV series, but without this aspect), one of the members of the Family is a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shape-shifter]] who can imitate any animal he's eaten part of, including humans. If he does it while they're alive, he can also gain their memories.
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* In the ''DoctorWho'' ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[VirginNewAdventures New Adventures]] novel ''Human Nature'' (which was later adapted for the TV series, but without this aspect), one of the members of the Family is a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shape-shifter]] who can imitate any animal he's eaten part of, including humans. If he does it while they're alive, he can also gain their memories.
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** In the ''DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E1SmithAndJones Smith and Jones]]" there's a plasmavore who already looks human, but has to drink human blood in order to scan as human.
** In the ''DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E1SmithAndJones Smith and Jones]]" there's a plasmavore who already looks human, but has to drink human blood in order to scan as human.
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* Skin-Changers from {{GURPS}} Monster Hunters are {{Embodied Spirits}} who can shapeshift into any animal (including humans) by wearing their skin. Unlike the {{Men in Black}} example, Skin-Changers are clever enough to preserve the skins, and save them in jars when they're not being worn.
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* In ''HarryPotter'', polyjuice potion requires as an ingredient a few hairs from the person being impersonated. This is a particularly nightmarish example because the person has to still be alive when the hair is taken, meaning anyone attempting long term infiltration / impersonation has to keep the original alive and captive, which is what happens to [[spoiler: Mad Eye Moody when Bartey Crouch Jr. impersonates him]].
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* In ''HarryPotter'', polyjuice potion requires as an ingredient a few hairs from the person being impersonated. This is a particularly nightmarish example because the person has to still be alive when the hair is taken, meaning anyone attempting long term infiltration / impersonation has to keep the original alive and captive, which is what happens to [[spoiler: Mad Eye Moody when Bartey Barty Crouch Jr. impersonates him]].
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* Youma in ''{{Claymore}}'' can take the appearance of those they eat, and this also gives them the ability to draw from their victims' memories to fool their families (and eventually eat them too).
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* Lunar Exalted from {{Exalted}} can take the form of any creature whose heart's blood they've tasted.
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* In [[{{Mistborn}} Mistborn]], the kandra are creatures who can take on the appearance of a person after consuming their bones. They do this for humans as a service for a [[{{AppliedPhlebotinum}} very specific kind of payment]]. They are literally contractually obligated not to kill humans, though. Their employers provide the corpse.
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** The heroes assumed he grew stronger with each absorption and so freed their comrades from Buu to revert him to a less powerful state. As it turned out, absorbing other people actually ''weakened'' his power; once his victims were free, Buu reverted to his original state, [[ItGotWorse which was even more powerful and psychotic than the others]].
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** The heroes assumed he grew stronger with each absorption and so freed their comrades from Buu to revert him to a less powerful state. As it turned out, absorbing other people actually ''weakened'' his power; once his victims were free, [[ItGotWorse Buu reverted to his original state, [[ItGotWorse state]], [[NiceJobBreakingItHero which was even more powerful and psychotic than the others]].
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* Buu of ''DragonballZ'' possessed an absorption attack, which allowed him to take on aspects on an enemy's powers, intelligence, and appearance.
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* Buu of ''DragonballZ'' possessed an absorption attack, which allowed him to take on aspects on an enemy's powers, intelligence, and appearance.
** The heroes assumed he grew stronger with each absorption and so freed their comrades from Buu to revert him to a less powerful state. As it turned out, absorbing other people actually ''weakened'' his power; once his victims were free, Buu reverted to his original state, [[ItGotWorse which was even more powerful and psychotic than the others]].
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* German Band ''Knorkator'' has the song "Ick wer zun Schwein" (I turn into a pig). It's about a man who ate a really large steak all by himself, [[YouFailBiologyForever which cause his DNA to be rewritten and turn him into a pig]].
* German Band ''Knorkator'' has the song "Ick wer zun Schwein" (I turn into a pig). It's about a man who ate a really large steak all by himself, [[YouFailBiologyForever which cause his DNA to be rewritten and turn him into a pig]].
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* In ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'', the Kroot and Tyranids evolve primarily by eating other beings and absorbing their genetic traits. In fact, the reason Kroot are able to build spaceships is because they ate a bunch of Orks and absorbed the Mekboyz' genetic memory. Kroot also have a taboo against eating Tyranids to avoid creating some sort of horrendous feedback loop.
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* In the ''FearItself'' episode "The Eater", the eponymous SerialKiller Claude Mellor consumes parts of his victims in order to assume their forms. It works.
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* In ''{{Prototype}}'', Alex Mercer's disguise ability works like this, as whenever he consumes someone he takes on their appearance and voice, as well as their memories.
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* In ''DemonEater'', this is the main way of growing in the demon world. Demons must eat demons, or be eaten themselves.
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* The Wraith of ''StargateAtlantis'' look humanoid, but are actually technically insects. Thousands of years of feeding on human energy/life force introduced trace amounts of human DNA into their gene pool, which caused the many-legged, foot-long insects to evolve into the sentient, two legged, two armed, human-sized, human shaped Wraith of the present.
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* A nightmarish version occurs in one of the novels in Andrey Livadny's ''TheHistoryOfTheGalaxy'' books, where a human ship arrives on a habitable world that does not appear to have any animal life. Then the humans get picked off one by one by strange [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] creatures. In the end, all humans have been consumed, but the shapeshifters also absorb their memories along with their [=DNA=] and begin to think of themselves as human, not understanding why they are suddenly amorphous blobs able to form into anything they wish. Another novel has a scout ship re-discovering the planet only to realize the shapeshifters are intelligent. The captain of the scout ship doesn't care and wants to exterminate them in order to claim the planet and retire on the fortune (habitable worlds are extremely valuable). The protagonist manages to get rid of the captain and leave, wiping the location of the world from the navigation computer, so the creatures can live in peace.
** Yet another novel reveals that the shapeshifters are the result of an ancient experiment to create immortality. The resulting creatures went out of control and began consuming all the surrounding fauna, eventually leaving the half-dozen shapeshifters the only non-plant organisms on the planet. The same experiment on another world had slightly better results.
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**At one point the nurse tells Zim he's extra human for having multiple organs, while Dib almost gets hauled off by the MIB for missing some.
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* In the ''DoctorWho'' [[VirginNewAdventures New Adventures]] novel ''Human Nature'' (which was later adapted for the TV series, but without this aspect), one of the members of the Family is a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shape-shifter]] who can imitate any animal he's eaten part of, including humans. If he does it while they're alive, he can also gain their memories.
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The Slitheen are straight Replicant Snatching. The skin is the thing; eating their prey doesn\'t make any actual difference to the impersonation.
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* Wesker in the film ''ResidentEvil 4'' needed to feed on uninfected humans to keep from going the way of the boss monsters in the last three films.
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* Wesker in the film ''ResidentEvil 4'' ''[[ResidentEvilAfterlife Residen Evil: Afterlife]]'' needed to feed on uninfected humans to keep from going the way of the boss monsters in the last three films.
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