History TooSpicyForYogSothoth / WesternAnimation

** Exaggerated (in a fashion) in the very first "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E3TreehouseOfHorror Treehouse Of Horror]]": when Homer buys a haunted house that tries to scare them off or kill each other and they catch wise, their general obnoxiousness (Homer's stupidity, Lisa's attempt to break down the house's psyche into IJustWantToBeLoved, Bart's NightmareFetishist like of the house and Marge's apparent immunity to the horror and trying to put her foot down, telling the house that it's their property now and they will have to learn to live with each other) makes it decide to self-destruct, ''Film/Poltergeist1982''-style, rather than having to withstand living with the Simpsons any longer.

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E5TreehouseOfHorrorIII Treehouse of Horror III]]" has 2/3 of this trope in play. In the first story, Homer buys a demonic Krusty doll for Bart's birthday, and when it tries to kill him, Homer eventually tries to get rid of it by dumping it in a bottomless pit. Said pit rejects a box containing nude photos of Whoopi Goldberg. Later, a zombie horde clamoring for "Braaaains" [[YourBrainWontBeMuchOfAMeal inspect Homer's head, then abandon him in disgust]] (he's actually [[TooDumbToLive offended by this turn of events]]).

** In "Meatballs or Consequences", Yakko and Dot challenge TheGrimReaper [[ChessWithDeath at checkers]] after Wakko is declared to be unfit to continue living (Wakko was in an eating contest, and [[NotHyperbole wasn't kidding]] when he said he'd die if he ate anymore meatballs). They win, but since [[ExactWords they wanted to "be with their brother"]] the Reaper claims Yakko and Dot's souls as well -- but after a few minutes of their wacky antics he realizes he'll have to host the three loons in the underworld for ''all eternity'', and he lets them go.

** The Warners were also on the receiving end of trope in "Survey Ladies," when the titular characters--a pair of women asking questions about [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs beans, George Wendt movies, and George Wendt bean-eating movies]]--manage to not only resist their antics, but remain [[TheDeterminator so utterly determined]] to complete their survey that they irritate ''them'' to the point of running away and begging them to stop. Keep in mind that, as noted above, the Warners were able to annoy Death himself into submission.

* A bumper on ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' has a man-eating plant gobbling up Ringo...and eventually spitting him out which upsets Ringo.

* In ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' episode "House of Lucky Gander", Liu Hai (a demon that feeds on a mortal's luck) is beaten this way after Scrooge [[BatmanGambit tricks him]] into feeding off of [[BornUnlucky Donald's luck]] instead of [[BornLucky Gladstone Gander's]]. Donald's luck is so bad, it leaves the portly Liu Hai emaciated, and leads to him and his casino vanishing from the ducks' dimension entirely.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangbone}}'' episode "The Kat of Munching," Fangbone gets addicted to a tablet game where you feed a virtual cat good food to make it grow while avoiding non-edible items so it doesn't die. [[BigBad Drool]] sees his devotion to the cat and conjures it into a living being who forces Fangbone to spend all his time stealing the town's food because it's [[HungryMenace constantly hungry]]. When it grows to the size of three tanker trucks and there's nothing left to eat, it chases after Bill to eat [[ArtifactOfDoom Drool's severed big toe,]] which Bill and Fangbone are sworn to protect so Drool can't connect it back onto his body and reach his full power. Bill and Fangbone throw mailboxes, scooters, trash cans, etc. into the cat's mouth as it chases them, and Fangbone finishes it off by skewering his sword with some sickening meatballs Bill made and leaping into the cat's jaw, and it finally explodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': In the episode "The Hatstones and the Gruesomes", the Hatstones (the family that was in a conflict with the Flintstones, [[FeudingFamilies Hatfields and McCoys-style]]) arrives to Bedrock to tell Fred that they are calling off the feud [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave and proceed to overstay their welcome quite a lot]], turning the Flintstones' home into a redneck pigsty. In desperation, the Flintstones ask for the help of the Gruesomes (an Addams family copy-cat Fred had met in a previous episode) to try to scare off the Hatrocks, but the latter are way too rough-and-tumble (ex. the Gruesomes' pet octopus attacks the Hatstones' grandmother [[NeverMessWithGranny and she instantly wrestles it and forces it to help with her washing]] and the Gruesomes' pet dragon-like monster roars in the face of the Hatrocks' patriarch and [[HorrifyingTheHorror he roars back at it and into submission]]). The solution to make the Hatstones leave ends up being the discovery that they have an AbsurdPhobia for Beatles rip-off music.

** In "Raging Bender," a brainslug begins feeding on Fry's brain. It dies of starvation (acknowledged by the writers as being the "Oldest. Joke. Ever.").
** Later, in "The Day The Earth Stood Stupid," it is revealed that Fry is TheChosenOne to defeat the Brains; he's immune to their stupefaction ray, because he's the only creature in the universe who doesn't have the proper brain-waves used to think. The Nibblonians comment on his "superior, yet inferior brain".
** The next time Fry meets them in "The Why of Fry", the Nibblonians acknowledge that it's all because of him doing the nasty in the pasty leading to him being his [[MyOwnGrampa His Own Grampa]] (as seen in "Roswell That Ends Well").
** Hermes is ''literally'' too spicy for Roberto in "The Six Million Dollar Mon." His favorite food is so spicy that it hurts The Robot Devil while he's eating ''a bowl of fire.''
* ''WesternAnimation/GodTheDevilAndBob'': The Devil finds himself on the end of this trope more than once. When he hires Martha Stewart to help redecorate the fourth circle of Hell ("She's on the speed-dial"), she quickly takes over and leaves him painting pictures of sad clowns in a side-room. In another episode, he shapeshifts into a normal teenager and dates Bob's daughter to mess with him, only to realise he's forgotten how depressing teenagers can be and abandon the scheme without any outside interference. And in a later episode, it's revealed Nixon was so much of an unstandable person that the Devil refused to keep him and he ended up in Heaven.
** God spends half an episode trying to get away from his former Prophet Sarah, whom he thinks has a crush on him. (He's right).

** An unfinished episode would have had Zim being judged on trial by the Control Brains (the central decision makers of Irken society). After finding him unquestionably guilty, they try to upload Zim's Memory Drive in his Irken Pack (where his real personality is located) before deleting his memory, but his memories drive them completely insane. Before the end of the episode, the now-insane brains declare Zim the most incredible Irken ever and granted ten minutes to control the MASSIVE, AKA the ''giant flagship of the Irken Armada''.

* This is the entire point of ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' - something much more blatant in the pilot concept than in the final product. The title character is ThePollyanna in [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Misery]][[CrapsackWorld ville]], which is ruled by Lucius Heinous VII, a CaptainErsatz of {{Satan}} who dedicates his life to making people miserable. Lucius wants to break Jimmy, but not only is Jimmy TooKinkyToTorture, he drives Lucius crazy to the point where most episodes usually end with Lucius being the miserable one instead.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', when Diamond Dogs capture Rarity to make her search for diamonds, they only end up with her constantly crying and complaining, to the point that the dogs themselves are willing to let her go. At the end of the episode it's revealed that she acted as annoyingly as possible on purpose for this very reason.

** A literal example in "Down 'N Dirty": following a succession of increasingly dirty encounters and not willing to wash, Buttercup became so filthy and stinky that a huge monster who tried to swallow her spat her out and refused to fight her. That was the final straw and she finally gave up and took a bath.
** In "Just Another Manic Mojo", the girls lose their ball in Mojo Jojo's observatory and he uses this instance to allow the girls into his lair to retrieve their ball in hopes of destroying them with a DeathRay; however, the girls are too distracted by everything in the lair that they keep leaving their post and Bubbles constantly tries to touch a PricelessMingVase. The girls turn out to be such a nuisance to Mojo that it drives him crazy, and he even ends up getting hit by his own laser; it is that point he has had enough of them that he stops trying, gives the girls their ball, and kicks them out.
** In "The Headsucker's Moxy", the girls capture a brain-sucking monster...when it is desperately searching the Mayor's empty head for sustenance.

** A short in "Treehouse of Horror II" had Mr. Burns putting Homer's brain inside a slave robot. Unfortunately, the robot still had Homer's laziness, gluttony, etc., so Burns eventually decides to return his brain to its original body.
** Another "Treehouse of Horror III" special had 2/3 of this trope in play. The first time, it had Homer buy a demonic Krusty doll for Bart's birthday and when it tries to kill him, Homer eventually tries to get rid of it by dumping it in a bottomless pit. Said pit rejected a box containing nude photos of Whoopi Goldberg. Later, a zombie horde clamoring for "Braaaains" inspect Homer's head, then abandon him in disgust... He's actually [[TooDumbToLive offended by that turn of events]].
** In "Treehouse of Horror XXIII", when the Devil is about to take Maggie away Homer tries to make a deal with him not to. The devil proposes that Homer takes part in a three way (demon, demon, Homer), Homer obliges and before they were about to start they quickly used the safeword.
** Exaggerated (in a fashion) on the very first "Treehouse Of Horror": when Homer buys a haunted house that tries to scare them off or kill each other and they catch wise, their general obnoxiousness (Homer's stupidity, Lisa's attempt to break down the house's psyche into IJustWantToBeLoved, Bart's NightmareFetishist like of the house and Marge's apparent immunity to the horror and trying to put her foot down, telling the house that it's their property now and they will have to learn to live with each other) makes it ''decide to self-destruct, Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}-style, rather than having to withstand living with the Simpsons any longer''.
** Subverted in the episode "The Joy of Sect". A cult brings all of Springfield to their compound to be brainwashed into worshipping their almighty Leader. Everybody is controlled except Homer, whose attention span [[TooDumbToFool isn't long enough to listen to the brainwashing]]. The cult leaders despair over his "powerful mind." Then one of them simply sings "Leader!" to the tune of the old ''Series/Batman1966'' theme song, and he is instantly brainwashed. {{Double Subver|sion}}ted later in the same episode, when Groundskeeper Willie tries to de-program Homer and winds up being brainwashed himself.
** In "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII", when Pazuzu, demon of the southwest wind, is exorcised from Maggie and possesses Bart instead, he immediately begs to be let out because Bart's soul is ''the darkest he's ever seen''. Bart doesn't let him.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Trapper Keeper", the Trapper Keeper becomes sick and is destroyed when it assimilates Rosie O' Donnell.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', the Flying Dutchman gave [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick up as slave crewmen in "Shanghaied" because they were incredibly bad at it. In a subversion, rather than letting them go, he planned to eat them, but they escaped and then took the Dutchman's dining sock (he's unwilling eat without it). Then when the Dutchman catches them and [=SpongeBob=] ends up bringing them to an impasse with the sock, The Dutchman offers them three wishes in exchange for the sock. After accidentally using up two of their wishes, the first wish used by Patrick who says "I wish we had known that earlier", and the second wish used by [=SpongeBob=] to bring back Squidward (who ironically enough had just returned home after the Dutchman sent him down the Fly Of Despair), [=SpongeBob=] uses their final wish to turn the Dutchman into a vegetarian. But ''then'' they appear in a blender, somehow transformed into ''fruit'', with the Dutchman preparing to eat them.
** That was one of three endings, by the way, which were also subverted. The other two alternatives had Patrick and Squidward get the third wish instead of [=SpongeBob=], but they both end with the Dutchman definitely eating them. Patrick's wish was simply stupid (sticks of gum), and Squidward's wish wasn't [[LiteralGenie what he had in mind]] (Squidward wished that he had never meet [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick; all three were simply given amnesia).
** Speaking of the Flying Dutchman, in "Born Again Krabs" Mr. Krabs trades [=SpongeBob=]'s soul for 62 cents. Just as he starts to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feel bad about it,]] the Flying Dutchman comes back to return [=SpongeBob=] after being annoyed by his incessant chatter about his hobbies.

** In a third Flying Dutchman example, namely "Scaredy Pants" (The Flying Dutchman's first full appearance on the show), [=SpongeBob=] is shaved down by Patrick to make him rounder for a BedsheetGhost outfit that he uses as a Flying Dutchman costume to try and scare everyone in the Krusty Krab for Halloween. He fails miserably, but as the entire restaurant is laughing at him, the ''real'' Flying Dutchman arrives, angered by [=SpongeBob=]'s insulting costume and about to steal everyone's souls. He takes a moment before doing so to explain the concept of being scary to [=SpongeBob=], then removes the sheet... and flies away screaming when he sees that the sponge had been shaved down to facial features, a brain, and a ''spinal cord''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' episode "Ludo in the Wild", Ludo gets caught in a GiantSpider's web. When the spider approaches, it tastes him first. Finding him unappetizing, it cuts him free from the web.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' episode "Transformation'', a ManEatingPlant that Starfire encounters on an alien planet tries to eat her; but it spits her out. (Ironically, this is a mixed blessing for poor Starfire. She is depressed because the transformation she is undergoing - which is sort of like puberty to Tameranians, apparently - makes her view herself as ugly, and the experience with the plant only makes her feel worse, making her think that it finds her revolting.)
* In the third season of ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersGeneration1 The Transformers]]'', [[AxCrazy Galvatron]] is tricked into being taken to the planet Torkulon by the [[WarForFunAndProfit Quintessons]], the planet itself being able to lobotomize any patient deemed beyond conventional treatment. However, this ends up being the planet's downfall, as the new Decepticon leader is ''so incredibly psychotic'' that he ends up ''turning the planet itself '''INSANE''''' while making it out ''unscathed'', allowing him to leave the planet in ruins.

* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': In the pilot "House of Bloos", an Extremeasaur swallows Terrence and Duchess, then spits them both out because they're "[[EntitledBastard spoiled]] and [[BigBrotherBully rotten]]".

** In another episode, the girls capture a brain-sucking monster...when it is desperately searching the Mayor's empty head for sustenance.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': [[KillerRabbit Gunther the penguin]] is so evil that Marceline's [[{{Satan}} dad]] considered it a great honor to suck out his soul. He backed down pretty fast when it became clear that Gunther wasn't having any of that (specifically, Gunther slapped him in the face when he tried to do so). Reminder: this is the guy who stomps on ants and sucks out their souls ''just because it's fun.'' Then we find out [[spoiler:Gunther actually is very evil. More specifically, it is an alien named Orgalorg that is bend on attaining immense power by absorbing a specific comet. When it crash-landed on the planet, its form got compressed into Gunther]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': In the episode "The Hatstones and the Gruesomes", the Hatstones (the family that was in a conflict with the Flintstones, [[FeudingFamilies Hatfields and McCoys-style]]) arrives to Bedrock to tell Fred that they are calling off the feud [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave and proceed to overstay their welcome quite a lot]], turning the Flintstones' home into a redneck pigsty. In desperation, the Flintstones ask for the help of the Gruesomes (an Addams family copy-cat Fred had met in a previous episode) to try to scare off the Hatrocks, but the latter are way too rough-and-tumble (ex. the Gruesomes' pet octopus attacks the Hatstones' grandmother [[NeverMessWithGranny and she instantly wrestles it and forces it to help with her washing]] and the Gruesomes' pet dragon-like monster roars in the face of the Hatrocks' patriarch and [[HorrifyingTheHorror he roars back at it and into submission]]). The solution to make the Hatstones leave ends up being the discovery that that have an AbsurdPhobia for Beatles rip-off music.

** A literal example in "Down 'N Dirty": following a succession of increasingly dirty encounters and not willing to wash Buttercup once became so filthy and stinky that a huge monster who tried to swallow her spat her out and refused to fight her until she cleaned herself. That was the only thing that actually persuaded her to wash.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', when Diamond Dogs capture Rarity to make her search for diamonds, they only end up with her constantly crying and complaining, to the point that the dogs themselves are willing to let her go.

* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': In the pilot "House of Bloos", an Extremeasaur swallows Terrence and Duchess, then spits them both out because they're "spoiled and rotten".

** Taken UpToEleven (in a fashion) on the very first "Treehouse Of Horror": when Homer buys a haunted house that tries to scare them off or kill each other and they catch wise, their general obnoxiousness (Homer's stupidity, Lisa's attempt to break down the house's psyche into IJustWantToBeLoved, Bart's NightmareFetishist like of the house and Marge's apparent immunity to the horror and trying to put her foot down, telling the house that it's their property now and they will have to learn to live with each other) makes it ''decide to self-destruct, Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}-style, rather than having to withstand living with the Simpsons any longer''.

** Speaking of the Flying Dutchman, in "Born Again Krabs" Mr. Krabs trades [=SpongeBob=] 's soul for 62 cents. Just as he starts to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feel bad about it,]] the Flying Dutchman comes back to return [=SpongeBob=] after being annoyed by his incessant chatter about his hobbies.

** In an example with the Warners on the receiving end of this trope, one episode features something [[TastesLikeDiabetes so horrible]], even the Warner siblings can't deal with it: [[CaptainErsatz "Baloney"]] the Dinosaur.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode "Transformation'', a ManEatingPlant that Starfire encounters on an alien planet tries to eat her; but it spits her out. (Ironically, this is a mixed blessing for poor Starfire. She is depressed because the Transformation she is undergoing - which is sort of like puberty to Tameranians, apparently - makes her view herself as ugly, and the experience with the plant only makes her feel worse, making her think that it finds her revolting.)

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':
** A literal example in "Down 'N Dirty": following a succession of increasingly dirty encounters and not willing to wash Buttercup once became so filthy and stinky that a huge monster who tried to swallow her spat her out and refused to fight her until she cleans herself. That was the only thing that actually persuaded her to wash.

* An interesting object case in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse''. [[BigBad Malware]] is revealed in the flashback to have been for a long time trying to absorb the Omnitrix through his PowerCopying in order to upgrade himself with it. When he eventually [[KickTheDog destroys Ben's favourite alien Feedback just to hurt him]], Ben, out of rage, put the Omnitrix inside him and let him try to absorb it. Its energy overloads Malware, causing him to explode and be believed dead for a while. Keep in mind that in a previous episode, Malware was shown absorbing a Tachyon Cannon, a {{BFG}} with the ability to destroy its target on a molecular level, or even destroy an entire species in one shot if used right. He could absorb something ''that'' powerful, and the Omnitrix was ''still'' too much to handle for him.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangbone}}'' episode "The Kat of Munching," Fangbone gets addicted to a tablet game where you feed a virtual cat good food to make it grow while avoiding non-edible items so it doesn't die. [[BigBad Drool]] sees his devotion to the cat and conjures it into a living being who forces Fangbone to spend all his time stealing the town's food because it's [[HungryMenace constantly hungry]]. When it grows to the size of three tanker trucks and there's nothing left to eat, it chases after Bill to eat [[ArtifactOfDoom Drool's severed big toe,]] which Bill and Fangbone are sworn to protect so Drool can't connect it back onto his body and reach his full power. Bill and Fangbone throw mailboxes, scooters, trash cans, etc. into the cat's mouth as it chases them, and Fangbone finishes it off by skewering his sword with some sickening meatballs Bill made and leaping into the cat's jaw, and it finally explodes.

** An unusual example in ""A Kick in the Asgard", where Billy is sent to Valhalla by mistake. He proves himself too rowdy for the Viking warriors by stealing Thor's hammer and using it to wallop them all in combat, leading to Thor and Odin begging for Grim to take Billy back.
** Subverted in the first movie: Mandy is confident that she'll be able to shrug off [[IKnowWhatYouFear the effects]] of the Hand of Horror and claim it for herself. However, the Hand bests her just as easily as it did with Billy and Irwin, the illusion it showed her--where she's a frumpy housewife happily married to Irwin--being enough to send her screaming in fear. As it turns out, Grim is the one too spicy for the Hand--which screams and shuts down as soon as he gets close--because his enslavement to Billy and Mandy means he's already living out his worst nightmare.

'''Typhon:''' [[{{YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe}} Gimme a break]], [[EveryoneHasStandards they're]] ''[[{{EvilLawyerJoke}} lawyers]]''!\\
'''Zeus:''' [[{{VillainHasAPoint}} Well...]] Put them down anyways. Besides, you know they give you gas.

** Subverted in "Brown Evil", where Mandy tries to take advantage of this by sending Billy out to fight the zombie horde, assuming he can do so successfully because he's brainless. Unfortunately, this doesn't work, because the zombies are ''not'' after brains at all; they're actually after the brownies that Grim has hidden in his skull, that were made with evil powder, which is sort of like catnip to zombies, apparently.
** Played straight in "Billy & Mandy vs. the Martians" when Morg's zombie minions attempt to eat Billy's brain, only to be turned into husks because it's too small. Billy assumes it's because it's too big (DependingOnTheWriter he's either aware that he's an idiot or is convinced he's smart).

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime's'' [[KillerRabbit Gunther the penguin]] is so evil that Marceline's [[{{Satan}} dad]] considered it a great honor to suck out his soul. He backed down pretty fast when it became clear that Gunther wasn't having any of that (specifically, Gunther slapped him in the face when he tried to do so). Reminder: this is the guy who stomps on ants and sucks out their souls ''just because it's fun.'' Then we find out [[spoiler:Gunther actually is very evil. More specifically, it is an alien named Orgalorg that is bend on attaining immense power by absorbing a specific comet. When it crash-landed on the planet, its form got compressed into Gunther]].

* This is one of the central tropes of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''. No matter how powerful or evil a MonsterOfTheWeek is, it will never stand Billy's ignorance/annoying personality or Mandy's rage/general level of darkness.
** The page quite comes from "Big Trouble in Billy's Basement". Billy is pulled through a dimensional portal by Yog-Sothoth himself, but thrown back, and Billy explains in dejected tones "They didn't want me", prompting Hoss to say "Well, I guess that makes you a total loser".

* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': In the pilot, an Extremeasaurus eats Terence and Duchess, then spits them both out because they're "spoiled and rotten".