Line #18 CarnivoreConfusion/ComicBooks


1	* ''ComicBook/{{Chew}}'': After much mystery around the source of the in-universe Avian flu and alien messages sent to Earth, it's revealed that [[spoiler: a race of aliens evolved from chickens have been threatening Earth for decades for this very reason. They're disgusted by humans and their rampant eating of chicken, and attempt twice to cull off any who have eaten it in the past. Despite this, humanity simply refuses to stop, although partially because few people could actually translate the warnings and demands sent to Earth.]]
2	* ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' takes the "only some animals can talk" route. TheBigBadWolf, sending his children out for some hunting practice, tells them to be sure to chase the animal long enough to make sure it isn't sapient before they kill it. Not all the carnivores will do this though. There are some that have no issues with eating talking animals and Bigby himself used to be like this, so this is more an issue of personal ethics. The problems seem to come when the prey are recognized citizens of Fabletown and so protected by its laws.
3	* In ''ComicBook/{{Horndog}}'', Tommy, a rat, and Leonard, a cat, engage in a conversation about Tommy's fear of being eaten. Also, a recent storyline involves Charlene becoming romantically involved with a Jewish lesbian mouse, which gives new meaning to the phrase "[[{{Pun}} eating pussy]]".
4	* ''ComicBook/SpaceWolf'': The characters are of intelligent furry species that still have the predator/prey relationship such a Wolf species raiding a planet populated by humanoid sheep. Eventually, the sheep rebel and a long war starts that is only resolved when the sheep develop soy-curd meat substitutes which satisfy the predator species' needs. However much later, a villainous Sheep monarch decides to seize power by first demonstrating the lethality of an awesome planet destroying weapon. As terrible as that is, that is actually the lesser of his two major threats to cow the interstellar population: he also threatens to cut off the flow of soya-cord food to any resisting planet and let it fall back into murderous predator/prey chaos.
5	* The Creator/DCComics series ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' takes place on Earth-C, a parallel Earth populated solely by anthropomorphic animals. The series presents the world's populace as being vegetarian (though eggs are acceptable, and vegetarian versions of burgers, hot dogs, etc. exist), including carnivorous-in-real-life species such as felines. The comic explains that while their prehistoric, uncivilized/unevolved ancestors did eat meat, animal-kind ceased doing so once it became "civilized". A villain in one story attempts attacking the Zoo Crew with fierce prehistoric animals brought from, as he describes it, "the age of the flesh-eaters." The idea of eating another animal is viewed among Earth-C's populace as cannibalism, as seen in one story where a "[[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent wuz-wolf]]" -- a friendly wolf who, under a full moon, becomes a feral human -- attempts to eat a pig.
6	* In ''ComicBook/{{Blacksad}}'' we see a photograph of a barbeque where two polar bears and an arctic fox ([[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic]]) are grilling sausages. In this world not all animals are anthropomorphized...but the pigs are.
7	* The French comic ''ComicBook/DeCapeEtDeCrocs'', which is set in a LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy world, plays with this trope. In one book, the main characters are [[CapturedByCannibals taken prisoner by a tribe of savages]] who, at first, seem to be your average CannibalTribe: they bind them, dump them into a cauldron of boiling water and vegetables, the usual works. The heroes manage to free themselves and befriend the tribe leader, who is confused when they complain to him about the barbaric custom: his tribe, he says, have never been cannibals. That's when the characters seem to remember that they are, actually, an anthropomorphic ''fox'' and ''wolf''. And the savages, while not cannibals, definitely have no problems with eating dog meat. (That's only one way in which the comic parodies and subverts various adventure tropes.) Still the galley of the pirate ship definitely contains pork, when one member of the crew is a talking pig. More amusingly, when the pirates threaten to eat the hostages, the one marking out the "cut here" lines on the servant is...the pig. Don Lope is the one [[HypocriticalHumor calling out the pirates on eating humans while wearing an expression suggesting he's gone rabid]].
8	* ''ComicBook/DouweDabbert'' features an animal kingdom populated by {{Funny Animal}}s. Every single one of them is vegetarian, including normally predatory ones, such as the wolves. Two human villains then entered the kingdom. Not knowing that the animals were intelligent, they slaughtered and roasted the innkeeper, a chicken (the inn as empty at the time, and quite isolated from the rest of the kingdom). When the wolves arrive, they eat along, not knowing it's the innkeeper. When they realise it afterwards, they decide that they like the taste of meat, and proceed to conquer the kingdom with the human villains. [[spoiler:They go back to being vegetarians at the end of the story.]]
9	* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' doesn't really fit the "talking animal" topic, but it notably avoids the "carnivores are okay as long as they are predatory" bit. For the Wolfriders (a tribe of elves), it is normal to leave the bodies of their dead to the wolves.
10	* In ''Snarfquest'', after the gaggaleech/death leech Wished for the ability to communicate with any living thing, it discovered to its horror that a type of prey-animal it'd fed on previously was just a baby, and began screaming for its mother when the leech attacked. For the rest of the series, the gaggaleech wound up feeding on fruit (which still cried for help!) or the blood of fresh-killed monsters slain by Snarf and his friends.
11	* In ''ComicBook/TheCourageousPrincess'' both talking and mundane animals can be found. Ones that can talk are given full human rights. Mundane ones can be eaten without any trouble. It happens that a talking animal is murdered via being silenced and tricking someone else into eating them.
12	* The sentient animal society in ''ComicBook/{{Chlorophylle}}'' by Raymond Macherot has a criminal mastermind who consumes other sentient animals.
13	* In ''ComicBook/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'', while there's only a few truly anthropomorphic animals, lots of other animals are sapient and can talk. This might be deliberately dark humour to reinforce what a CrapsackWorld the setting is, though. In addition, Max is repeatedly shown eating meat, even though he's a rabbit, albeit one with [[CartoonCreature carnivorous-looking teeth]].
14	* Played with in early issues of the children's magazine ''Cricket'', where the marginal comic strip's talking insects hung around with Zoot the shrew: a mammal who, by rights, should've been eating them all. For a time, Zoot's friendship with "everybuggy" was justified by his being so nearsighted, he mistook them for bunnies and other creatures not on a shrew's menu; later, he got some glasses and learned the truth, but conveniently also turned vegetarian.
15	* Beast Boy of the ComicBook/TeenTitans has come to this conclusion: as he can [[{{Animorphism}} transform into any animal under the sun]], eating ''any'' kind of meat, feels like cannibalism, with eggs having a {{squick}}y [[EatsBabies implication]]. He tries to share his [[FutureFoodIsArtificial tofuburgers]] with the other Titans whenever possible (they rarely partake), and has been known to turn into particularly cute animals and quip that they should at least vow never to eat ''green'' meat.
16	* In the world of ''ComicBook/ToothAndClaw'' 'predator' and 'prey' characters live alongside one another. Bird-people and rodent-people for instance.
17	* In ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'' Issue #2 Applejack uses "Pork chops and applesauce!" as an exclamation of surprise.
18	* In ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'', a minor character who is half-unicorn is momentarily worried about helping someone get past a pair of dragons who may try to eat him. Thing is, not only is he currently dating a dragon (their present queen, no less), but his other "half" is, you guessed it, Dragon. Clearly, somebody played a little TOO much with their food.
19	* Played with with ComicBook/PoisonIvy. Ivy regularly kills (or at least tries to kill) people who harm plants. Ivy is herself shown to be a vegetarian. In other words, she hates it when other people harm plants but is not above doing so herself.
20	* Spider-Ham has been shown eating hot dogs and other pork related meat in the comics, much to the disgust Spider-Gwen. He justifies it by explaining that there's a difference between anthropomorphic pigs and regular pigs.
21	* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
22	** "ComicBook/TheSuperSteedOfSteel": A bald eagle is called "evil" for the mere fact of trying to catch its food.
23	** "ComicBook/SupergirlsSuperPet": You would think a stray cat would not pass judgment on another predator for trying to find food wherever it can; and still Streaky derides an eagle as a bully for trying to catch a little chick.
24	* ''ComicBook/SupermanSupergirlMaelstrom'': Subverted. As ComicBook/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} are exploring an alien jungle -where they have no powers-, they are accosted by different predatory species which tend to run off when their would-be meal proves to be too troublesome.
25	* ''ComicBook/{{Hillbilly}}'' is set in a world where most animals can [[TalkingAnimal talk]], but still prey on each other (and sometimes, on humans), and that's just the way it is. This is put front and centre in a memorable exchange between Lucille - a gigantic, ferocious bear - and a fish she catches.
26	-->'''Fish''': [[AintTooProudToBeg Please let me go back to the water]], mighty bear. I am an old fish. Let me spend my last days in peace and die in the water.\
27	'''Lucille''': I would not insult an ancient fish such as you by letting you die a decrepit thing with its scales falling off. To not eat you out of pity would be disrespectful to [[WorthyOpponent one so great]].\
28	'''Fish''': [[FaceDeathWithDignity Your points are valid]]. [[GetItOverWith Finish me quick, bear.]]

Context CarnivoreConfusion / ComicBooks