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'''Mindflayer:''' ''(sniff sniff)'' No, I'm cool, thanks.

* ''Series/DoctorWho''. Inverted in "It Takes You Away". Ribbons of the Seven Stomachs takes a liking to the Doctor and his companions as his potential next meal. With the Doctor he says, "Oh, you ask the clever questions. I bet your brain tastes so delicious."
* ''Series/DoomPatrol'': In the Season 3 episode "Undead Patrol", the zombified Doom Patrol members sniff [[spoiler:Darren Jones]] and say that he doesn't smell like he actually has a brain.

** Inverted with the demon in "The Puppet Show"; Buffy and the Scoobies are realizing that Giles is the target of a brain-eating demon, and become especially worried after remembering that he's very smart.

* Seen in the Creator/PeterCushing[=/=]Creator/ChristopherLee movie ''Film/HorrorExpress''. The brainsucking alien finds the crazy monk not worth killing, and eventually the crazy monk starts worshiping the alien (which the alien finds somewhat annoying).

'''Mindflayer:''' [sniff sniff] No, I'm cool, thanks.

--> '''Raz''': Hey, Bobby! Someone's stealing kids' brains!
--> '''Bobby''': Well in that case, you've got nothing to worry about! Ah-ha-ha-ha!
--> '''Raz''': ...[[ActuallyPrettyFunny Good one]].
--> '''Bobby''': [[DontExplainTheJoke BECAUSE YOU GOT NO BRAINS!]]
--> '''Raz''': ''[Sighs]''

--> "What's that [[CompanionCube Brain Maggot]]? You're starving?... Yeah, I'm hungry too."

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', the third "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror" special had a zombie horde clamoring for "Braaaains" crash the Simpsons home. [[BumblingDad Homer]] invokes HeroicSacrifice, telling the zombies to leave his family alone and eat him only. However, they inspect Homer's head, say "No braaaaains" and abandon him in disgust. One zombie taps Homer on the head and [[HollowSoundingHead a very hollow sound is heard]] before it moves along. Homer is left offended.

* Variation in ''VideoGame/Psychonauts'', where Raz unsuccessfully tries to warn [[TheBully Bobby Zilch]] about someone stealing the campers' brains.

--> '''Bobby''' [[DontExplainTheJoke BECAUSE YOU GOT NO BRAINS!]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', the third "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror" special had a zombie horde clamoring for "Braaaains" crash the Simpsons home. [[BumblingDad Homer]] invokes HeroicSacrifice, telling the zombies to leave his family alone and eat him only. However, they inspect Homer's head, say "No braaaaains" and abandon him in disgust. One zombie taps Homer on the head and [[HollowSoundingHead a very hollow sound is heard]] before it moves along.

--->'''George:''' I'm partial to brains myself. But you just emptied your gun into a dead man so I doubt this'll be much of a meal. (Bites into Kid Twist's skull)

* In the chilean comic ''Zombies en la Moneda'', a television channel is invaded by zombies, we see a model - a real life celebrity - fleeing from a group of zombies who shout "Brainnnsss". the model trips and falls, and the zombies surround her ... only to walk away later, quite disappointed.

* ''Series/DoomPatrol'': In the Season 3 episode "Undead Patrol", the zombified Doom Patrol members sniff [[spoiler: Darren Jones]] and say that he doesn't smell like he actually has a brain.

* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'', we see a [[PuppeteerParasite Brain Slug]] starve to death after it gets on Fry's head. [[spoiler: Though this isn't just because Fry is [[TheDitz a bit dim]]; according to "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid", Fry has abnormal brain waves that make him resistant to mind control.]]

* One Halloween issue of ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' had a zombie become ''sick'' after eating Alfred P. Neuman's brain.

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* ''VideoGame/IdleChampionsOfTheForgottenRealms'' has a campaign variant called "Starve Them Out", where a giant Intellect Devourer (an intellect-eating monster) shows up as a miniboss. It takes a massive amount of individual hits to go down, but its [[MaximumHPReduction maximum health is reduced]] by 10 for every point of Intelligence less than 12 among your active champions. For example, Minsc with 8 Intelligence will reduce its max health by 40 if he is in the party.

** The second variant shows up when the Mind Flayer doesn't want to eat Elan's brain. Later, [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0031.html we get to see it picture each of the Order]] [[MeatOVision as a meal]] and it ticks them off one by one. [[StaticCharacter Durkon]] = porridge (filling but bland), [[ActionGirl Haley]] = a sundae (too sweet), [[TokenEvilTeammate Belkar]] = a taco (it'd get heartburn), [[TheFool Elan]] = Diet Coke (next!), [[InsufferableGenius Vaarsuvius]] = a hamburger (getting somewhere) and [[GeniusBruiser Roy]] = a turkey (perfect!). [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe Vaarsuvius is visibly upset by this.]] (Roy has high stats in intelligence, wisdom and charisma, which makes him a more balanced and attractive meal than Vaarsuvius, who has higher intelligence but not a lot of the other two.)

* During Creator/JossWhedon's run on ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' set in the early 20th century (TimeTravel shenanigans), the Runaways meet up with a gang of metahumans called the Street Arabs. One of them, Dead George Pelham, is a friendly neighborhood zombie. Later in the arc, several of the Arabs are killed by Kid Twist, a vicious member of [[spoiler:the Yorkes' gang]] with the power to fire bullets that never miss their target. In the middle of the final battle of the story arc, Dead George makes a point of tracking down Kid Twist to avenge the Arabs. As Kid Twist futilely fires bullets at the angry zombie, Dead George says this:

--> '''Other Alien''': He starved to death with a full stomach.

* ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'': In the ''HalloweenEpisode'', Keswick reanimated some corpses to have zombies for the holiday. He said the zombies would be harmless as long as there were candies for them to eat. Otherwise, they'd eat brains. When Keswick commented Dudley would be safe, Dudley proved the point by claiming he didn't understand it.

-->'''Peter Perfect''': Now, that's just insulting.

* On ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', the girls defeat a brain-sucking "Robbin' Leech" by tricking him into attacking [[AuthorityInNameOnly the Mayor]]. He tries to suck out information from the Mayor's noggin, but finds none.

* A variation in the ''{{WesternAnimation/Dilbert}}'' cartoon where a brain sucking alien devours a marketing guy's brains ([[TakeThat not that he cares or notices]]) and dies from something akin to food poisoning.

-->'''Person:''' Try the physics lab next door.
-->'''Zombie Feynman:''' I said BRAINS. All they've got are string theorists.

-->'''Black Mage''': (to [[TheDitz Fighter]]) This thing desires brains. Speaking to [[TooDumbToLive you]] is a waste of its valuable time. A man dying of thirst can't drink sand, ya get me?
-->'''Fighter:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint We're in a desert?]]
-->'''Black Mage:''' Go play.

* Trope namer is from the ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' episode "Last Action Zero", where a humanoid brain-eating rock monster comments about Brad's brain after his IdiotBall that caused him and Jenny to get captured. And this is the first variant.

* During the Christmas 2020 ZombieApocalypse on ''Roleplay/NoPixel'', all the zombies completely ignore Mike Block and go after other characters.[[note]]Likely due to a glitch in the game causing the NPC zombies to ignore him.[[/note]] Mike himself doesn't understand why.