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17->'''Chairface:''' Unfortunately, the three of you aren't going to be around to witness my historic crime, because I'm going to feed you to my pit of ferocious man-eating alligators.\
18'''Arthur:''' What? ''What?'' ''[to Tick]'' WHAT?!\
19'''The Tick:''' ''*ahem*'' Standard villain procedure.
20-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheTick''
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22[[EatenAlive Feeding people]] to monsters or man-eating animals is one of the [[PrimalFear classic perils]] that villains and others subject people to.
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24Sometimes this is a HumanSacrifice to a demon, dragon, alien creature, EldritchAbomination, or some other monster or beast. These scenarios usually have some poor unfortunate ChainedToARock awaiting their doom. Maybe the local religion is a GiantAnimalWorship which demands this to be done to AppeaseTheVolcanoGod. Maybe the monster wants tribute in the form of people to eat, such as with many dragons. Maybe this is even meant as a punishment, in the case of Daniel in the lion's den from Literature/TheBible or Andromeda from Myth/ClassicalMythology.
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26Other times, the beast is a RightHandAttackDog -- a pet or other creature that the villain keeps around for some reason, which he uses to dispose of victims, and more than one villain's underling has met their end in this way, usually after they've [[YouHaveFailedMe failed him]] or [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived their usefulness]]. If a villain tries to do this to the hero, expect the hero to kill the beast or escape in some other fashion. It's also not uncommon for villains fond of feeding people to beasts to [[KarmicDeath meet their end]] by [[JustDesserts being eaten by the beast]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard in turn]], if the hero doesn't kill the beast beforehand. If the hero is particularly lucky, or the writer wants to be funny, the villain ForgotToFeedTheMonster earlier and there's nothing but an emaciated carcass in the pit.
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28Another possibility is that the villain may set up the hero to be killed by local wildlife to [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident obscure his own responsibility]] for the death.
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30Fantasy villains have all kinds of monsters to choose from, ranging from dragons to giant snakes to giant vermin to demons or something even weirder. Contemporary and pulp villains will often have their victims eaten by tigers or sharks or some other large man-eating carnivore. Sci-fi villains will often have some really freaky alien monster to feed people to.
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32The SharkPool and the SnakePit are two quite common forms of this particular trope. So is FedToPigs, although the victim is usually [[DisposingOfABody already dead]] in that case. (Usually.) Also related as AnimalAssassin, a more clandestine way of killing people using animals.
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34See also JustDesserts, EatenAlive, and EatMe. May overlap with ThrowEmToTheWolves (although in that trope metaphorical "wolves" are also allowed) and ExitPursuedByABear.
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36Subtrope of EatingTheEnemy.
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38'''A Administrivia/{{No Recent Examples|please}} rule applies to RealLife examples of this trope'''. Real life examples shouldn't be added until '''150 years''' after the death.
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40!!Examples:
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43[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
44* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'':
45** Apostles are fond of forcing their subjects to send them people to eat, such as the Baron of Koka Castle and the Count.
46** When one uses a Behelit to be reborn as a demon, TheLegionsOfHell kill the loved one(s) offered as a sacrifice, generally [[EatenAlive eating them alive]].
47* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'': The Falling Devil feeds humans to other devils, usually by having them float up into doors to hell. After she's attacked by a Public Safety team and captures the last living one, she goes to the extra effort of stitching his mouth shut, prying his eyes open, and contorting his paralyzed body to hold a soup bowl full of his partner's body parts, all of which she personally rolls up on a dolly to a giant slug-like devil wearing a bib.
48* Happens in a ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' movie, of all places. Specifically in ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheBirthOfJapan'', where the gang - sans Nobita who's lost in a blizzard - gets captured alive by the main villain, Gigazombie, who then have them thrown into a pit containing a hungry sabre-toothed tiger until Nobita arrives with his trio of pets - Pega the Pegasus, Gri the Gryphon and Dragon the Dragon - to rescue everyone. The 2016 anime remake have the pit littered with skeletons, an indication that Doraemon and gang are ''not'' the first victims Gigazombie fed to beasts.
49* In one episode of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Vegeta and Nappa visit a planet called Arlia where the tyrannical Arlian king regularly hosts tournaments between his guards. The loser, if he survives, is thrown into "the pit" and fed to Yenni, a [[GiantMook giant]] cannibalistic Arlian. While this is not tried against the Saiyans, the king ''does'' order Yenni released from his pit when Nappa kills a whole bunch of his guards. However, the Saiyans make short work of Yenni.
50* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'':
51** The Priestess is technically a VirginSacrifice for the [[TheFourGods Beast God]] she summons. It also functions as a SecretTestOfCharacter; if she uses her wishes [[GreaterNeedThanMine for the good of others over herself]] ''and'' [[PluckyGirl possesses enough strength of will]], she can escape having her soul eaten. [[spoiler: Out of the four priestesses, two (Miaka and Suzuno) escape, since both are too plucky to be devored. The third (Takiko) was dying already ''and'' [[HeroicSelfDeprecation her strong will was paired with lots of self-hate]], so Genbu started to eat her soul and her dad {{mercy kill}}ed her. The fourth (Yui) is fully devoured due to having been first broken and then manipulated by Nakago, but Miaka uses one of her wishes to bring her BackFromTheDead.]]
52** There was a snow-demon in the novel that explains Nuriko's backstory that demanded a more conventional VirginSacrifice from the village nearby. [[spoiler: Nuriko befriends the girl about to be sacrificed, Byakuren, and atempts to save her; however, she ends up being eaten in an HeroicSacrifice to protect Nuriko himself.]]
53* ''Anime/RyuTheCaveBoy'': According to the law of Ryu's tribe, babies born with white skin are ordered to be fed to Tyranno, as leaving them alive will bring a curse upon the lands. Ryu narrowly averts this because of Kitty's intervention, but it's implied many previous white-skinned babies weren't so lucky.
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57* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': In the {{cliffhanger}} to part 3 of ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho195Mistfall Mistfall]]'', Nyssa and Turlough are staked to the ground as a meal for a horde of ravening marsh spiders.
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61* In ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', when a captive Black Adam is being tortured by Doctor Sivana he threatens to pull Sivana apart and feed him to [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]]'s talking tiger friend Tawky Tawny.
62* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': Julius Caesar and other high ranking Romans are fond of sentencing underlings who failed them to the lions, or threaten them with this fate if they are uncooperative.
63* In ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'' #10, Indy is captured by Ilsa Toht and Xomec in Brazil and staked out on the river bank as a snack for the [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile local caimans]].
64* In ''ComicBook/SuperMarioAdventures'', Wendy Koopa gloats over her plans to feed Mario to the piranhas. She later drops the heroes into a Reznor dungeon via a Trap Door.
65* In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/StarfiresRevenge'', a crimelord drops both -an apparently depowered and fainted- ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} and the minion carrying her in his arms into a pit leading to a wild gorilla's dungeon.
66* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
67** ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': In issue 39 Empress Fausta ties up two of the Holliday Girls, "Bobby" Strong and Glamora Treat, in her coloseum and sets ravenous large cats on them to tear them apart. The girls are rescued by Diana, Etta and ComicBook/{{Steve|Trevor}}.
68** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Tigra Tropica tries to escape by threatening to drop Steve Trevor into a pit of tigers to be eaten. It doesn't work, as even though she drops him Diana is ''right there'' and frees him nearly instantaneously.
69** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': While there is no evidence the slave drivers on "Hope's End" throw living slaves to the scavenger worms its still a fear many of them hold, and Natasha in particular has had nightmares about being thrown to the things.
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73* In the ParodyFic ''B'Elannarella'', the Great Tyrant threatens to have the title character [[GirlOnGirlIsHot covered in honey and thrown to the lesbians]].
74* ''Captain Proton and the Planet of Lesbians'', Queen Sapphia orders that Proton be fed to the Giant Toothed Vagina of Freudian Nightmares. Fortunately it's a lesbian, and so [[DoubleEntendre doesn't eat guys]].
75* [[spoiler:Giovanni]] ends up killed and eaten by a drugged Persian in the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' fanfic ''FanFic/TheDarkSideOfInnocence''. [[spoiler:Mondo]] and Meowth planned it out specifically as revenge for him using dangerous experimental drugs on various Pokémon and humans, including James.
76* In the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Empath The Wartmonger", Princess Chamelianne threatens [[MurderTheHypotenuse to feed Smurfette to a pack of hungry baby crocodiles unless Empath gives himself entirely to her]].
77* Pein attempts to do this to Orochimaru before he joins Akatsuki in ''FanFic/AFathersWrath'' sending him down a trap into a pit where a Dragon waits. Naturally since this is around the beginning of the story it doesn't work.
78* The ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' sees a heroic example, as [[spoiler: Shining Armor leads [[ClockRoaches the Wolf]] to [[HumanoidAbomination Makarov]] and lets it devour him, triggering a CosmicRetcon to undo all the damage Makarov's done to the timeline. Also, Minuette takes out [[Series/DoctorWho The Master]] by throwing the fob watch that contains his essence at the Wolf, who eats it.]]
79* ''Fanfic/PurpleDays'' has, in one of its [[GroundhogDayLoop loops]], an insane Daenerys who feeds her enemies to her dragon Drogon. This doesn't work on Joffrey, though: not only is he not intimidated (due to all the experience he has from previous loops, including a battle with an even tougher dragon), [[spoiler:he ''actually manages to kill Drogon''.]]
80** Earlier in the same loop, furious after Aegon killed Jon, Joff chopped off his hands and tossed him to Ghost [[EatenAlive to finish him]].
81* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K]]'': In the VillainOpeningScene from Episode 21, Lord Inquisitor Tahr Whyler feeds a hapless Imperial Guard subordinate to his pet [[HumanoidAbomination daemonhost]] Jackal after Tahr is finished delivering a [[JustBetweenYouAndMe villainous monologue]] in which he explains his whole EvilPlan to said terrified subordinate.
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85* Ratigan feeds a hapless lackey to his pet cat Felicia in ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''. Weird, because the professor himself is a rodent. (Or possibly fitting, to emphasize his cruelty, and badassery -- a rat training a cat to be completely loyal is a pretty impressive thing.)
86* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', Pharaoh Seti had his guards go to the Hebrew village and take away the newborn baby boys from their mothers. Then they would drop them in the river where the crocodiles ate them. It was depicted in hieroglyphs when Moses found out the truth of his heritage.
87* ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'': Mcleach tries to feed Cody to some crocodiles.
88* In ''WesternAnimation/ReturnToNeverLand'', Captain Hook is actually revealed to have a pet octopus in which he will often feed unsuspecting pirates to if they disobey him. However, near the end of the film, said octopus eventually develops an obsession of eating Captain Hook as well, and as a result he actually starts to frighten the pirate by constanly bobbing its eyes upside down like [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile you-know-who.]]
89* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTaleOfDespereaux'' the rats throw Despereaux to a chained up cat, fortunately Roscuro manages to rescue him, by claiming he wanted to eat him himself.
90* In ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'', Kim Jong-il releases his ferocious black panthers ([[TerrifyingPetStoreRat played by adorable black kittens]]) on two Team America members. He also has a SharkPool (the sharks are, in this case, played by live-action dogfish).
91* In ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'', One-Eye feeds Zigzag to his crocodiles. Zigzag manages to tame them, which impresses One-Eye enough to accept his help. [[spoiler:Later, the crocodiles turn on him and eat him.]]
92* When Killer [[YouHaveFailedMe disappoints Carface one too many times]] in ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'', he's lowered into a pool of pirahna.
93** Earlier, Itchy overhears two thugs talking about having to feed "Carface's little monster" and assumes this trope is in effect. Actually, the "monster" is Anne-Marie, the orphan girl Carface has captive.
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97* In ''Film/AgainstAllFlags'', Hawke, Harris and Jones are tied to tidal posts to be devoured by crabs.
98* ''Film/AustinPowers'':
99** In ''Film/AustinPowersInternationalManOfMystery'', in an ShoutOut to ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'', Dr. Evil tries to feed Austin and Vanessa to ill-tempered mutant sea bass using an unnecessarily slow dipping mechanism (he really wanted Sharks with [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]] on their heads).
100** In ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'', Dr. Evil finally does get his Sharks with [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]] on their heads and Mr. Roboto is later fed to the sharks for demanding a bonus for his success. However, a deleted scene shows that everyone in the vicinity, even Dr. Evil himself, couldn't [[VomitIndiscretionShot hold their lunch]] over that scene.
101* ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'': The Black Queen can dispose of those who displease her by feeding them to the Mathmos, the EldritchAbomination that her people worship. She does this with Pygar, but it doesn't work because the Mathmos can't stomach his purity.
102* ''Film/TheBattleWizard'' has the hero and his LoveInterest being thrown into the main villain's underground dungeon, with a hungry KillerGorilla waiting to devour them. The hero needs to learn a new kung-fu skill in order to defeat said gorilla and escape.
103* In ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'', Gaston abandons Maurice in the woods to become meat for the wolves.
104* ''Film/BlackZoo'': After Joe shoots the tiger Baron, Conrad has Carl feed him to the lioness.
105* ''[[Film/TheBladeMaster Cave Dwellers]]'' totally rips off the below-mentioned scene from Conan by having Ator kill a [[SpecialEffectsFailure velour snake puppet]] ''after'' a whole bunch of girls are thrown to it.
106* ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981'' is a movie very loosely based on the myth of Perseus. In this version, Hera orders Andromeda left to the Kraken, the last surviving Titan, threatening to order it to destroy Joppa if her mother does not comply.
107* ''Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad'': The islanders offer up the heroine, Margiana, as a HumanSacrifice to one of their gods: a cycloptic, cave-dwelling centaur. In a FriendOrIdolDecision, Sinbad and his crew go into the pit after her, letting the villain escape with the [[MacGuffin magic amulet]].
108* Conan's first dungeon crawl in ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' ends with him killing a big-ass snake that was supposed to eat a girl that the snake cult was going to sacrifice.
109* Humorously averted in ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'', in which con-man knight Bowen attempts to rid himself of a nuisance rabble-rouser by suggesting to her village that dragons can be placated with virgin sacrifices. His dragon partner finds the idea ridiculous, and even expresses disgust at the idea of eating a human. Except when he must chew in self-defense [[TakeThat (but he doesn't swallow)]].
110* In ''Film/{{Dragonslayer}}'', the king feeds virgins to the title dragon every year in order to appease it so it will leave his lands alone. The plot kicks off when Elspeth, the king's daughter, ends up on the menu.
111* ''Film/Dune1984'': Baron Harkonnen is shot out a window via Alia's mind control. He is then eaten by a worm.
112* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'', the villainous High Evolutionary attempts to kill Mantis, Nebula and Drax by lowering them into a pit with three Abilisks, giant tentacled monsters with impenetrable skin. However, Mantis realizes that they only eat batteries and were serving the High Evolutionary out of fear, and so uses her empathetic powers to calm them down and show they were not a threat.
113* In ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005'', the vogons attempt to execute Trillian by feeding her to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.
114* ''Film/JamesBond'' {{villains}} like to use {{Shark Pool}}s to get rid of people. This trope is so often used by James Bond parodies it's one of the things [[DeadUnicornTrope thought to happen in Bond movies a lot more often than it actually does]].
115** ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''. Largo has one of his mooks fed to sharks after he [[YouHaveFailedMe botches]] an attempt on 007's life.
116** ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. Stromberg drops his treacherous secretary into a SharkPool to be eaten. Later when Bond turns up to visit Stromberg, he's disturbed to see her severed hand lying on the ocean floor outside the windows of his underwater lair. This may be why Bond is ready when Stromberg later tries to inflict the same fate on him. Then Bond tries to feed Jaws to the shark, only for [[RussianReversal Jaws to eat the shark]].
117** ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''. Blofeld drops a henchman [[YouHaveFailedMe who failed him]] into a [[SharkPool Piranha Pool]].
118** ''Film/LiveAndLetDie''. Kananga tries to feed Bond and Solitaire to his pet shark. His [[TheDragon dragon]] earlier tried feeding him to ''crocodiles''. Some villains just don't learn.
119** ''Film/{{Moonraker}}''. Bond falls into a pool when a man-eating anaconda slithers in. After Bond kills the snake, Drax is disappointed that he wouldn't succumb to "an amusing death".
120** ''Film/LicenceToKill''. Sanchez badly maims Felix Leiter by having him thrown into a SharkPool in revenge for his role in his capture as the rest of his men murder Della, Felix's new wife. Bond starts his RoaringRampageOfRevenge by feeding Killifer, the bribed DEA agent who helped to spring Sanchez, to the shark in turn.
121** In ''{{Film/Skyfall}}'', Bond and a mook fall into a pit of Komodo dragons. The latter gets eaten by one of the lizards.
122-->"[[BondOneLiner Circle of life]]".
123* The climax of ''Film/TheLairOfTheWhiteWorm'' invokes this trope as a woman is set up as a VirginSacrifice to an EldritchAbomination by a LesbianVampire reptilian.
124* ''Film/TheLostWorld1998'': After being drugged and captured, Summerlee is tied up at the wreck of the balloon and left to be eaten by a ''Tyrannosaurus''.
125* Shao Kahn disposes of [[TheMole Jade]] this way for failing to kill the heroes in ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'', feeding her to a monster carving in a wall (and for extra {{Narm}} points, the carving gives out a great big burp after it's done with her).
126* Following the Christian Martyrology claims (see below), many oldschool films set in AncientRome include representations of Christians condemned to this. The film version of ''Literature/QuoVadis'' has a bunch of Christian kids ''forced to put on sheep skins'' before they had a hungry lion released on them; it was such a KickTheDog moment that [[EvenEvilhasStandards the spectators were horrified]] (and mind you, these were all pagans who hated Christianity), [[spoiler: and when GentleGiant Ursui pulled a BigDamnHeroes for them, the audience pleaded with Nero to give Ursus a thumbs-up.]]
127* ''Film/Rampage2018'': Claire has the antidote for the rampaging animals shoved into her purse, and is then pushed towards George the gorilla, who promptly picks her up, tosses her into the air, and swallows her whole (including her purse).
128* ''FIlm/ShanghaiGrand'' has the DragonLady villainess who owns a boa constrictor, which she uses for disposing of her captives. It bites her back when TheLancer managed to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard make her boa devour her instead]].
129* ''Film/SpyHard'': Parodied. After capturing the hero, General Rancor tries to have Agent Dick Steele fed to... a dinosaur. He escapes, and it feeds on Rancor's right hand-man instead.
130* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
131** ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeVIReturnOfTheJedi'':
132*** Jabba the Hutt was quite fond of feeding people to a rancor, including Twi'lek slave dancer Oola in a notorious KickTheDog moment. He isn't quite so successful in his attempt to do the same to Luke.
133*** Once he's short one Rancor, Jabba tries it again with the sarlacc. This would have been a [[FateWorseThanDeath considerably worse fate than merely being eaten and killed]], as apparently sarlaccs [[AndIMustScream keep their prey alive for a thousand years while they're slowly and painfully digested]] (or at least [[GettingEatenIsHarmless that's what the locals believe]]).
134** In one ExpandedUniverse story, Jabba's father Zorba tried to throw Leia to the sarlacc, seeking revenge for his son's death; however, a fight broke out that ended with ''him'' thrown to the creature. Zorba is saved, however (though humiliated even more) when he makes the beast sick and it vomits him out.
135** ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeIIAttackOfTheClones'': The Geonosians attempt to execute Anakin, Padmé and Obi-Wan by chaining them up in an arena and setting three monsters on them: an acklay (a semi-aquatic lobster-praying mantis hybrid), a nexu (a porcupine-tiger hybrid with four eyes and two tails), and a reek (a monster like a cross between a bull and a rhino, with three horns on its head). (Although the trope doesn't really apply to the reek, which is herbivorous; the acklay and nexu, however, were most definitely ''not'' herbivorous, and try their damndest to prey on the protagonists).
136** ''Film/SoloAStarWarsStory'': This turns out to be how Han and Chewbacca met; Chewie was "the beast". Fortunately Han speaks enough of his language to convince Chewbacca that they can work together to escape.
137* ''Film/StreetFighter'': M. Bison attempts to do this, proclaiming his idea to the would-be victims in (OF COURSE!) wonderfully [[LargeHam hammy]] fashion. Blanka, the "beast" in question, has other ideas.
138* ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'': Lex Luthor keeps a pit with some vicious beasts (that are never seen) in his lair. After his plan to destroy California fails, his PerkyFemaleMinion is almost thrown to them (she being the one who helped Superman and enabled him to stop the missiles) but fortunately for her, Superman shows up in time.
139* ''Film/TowerOfDeath'' has a savage martial artist named Lewis, who owns a personal zoo filled with tigers. Fighters who answers his challenge and subsequently defeated in combat, or attempts to cheat during their fights, will be thrown to the big cats.
140* ''Film/WhatACarveUp'': The killer plans to dispose of the four remaining guests by feeding them to a pack of dogs which haven't been fed for ten days. [[spoiler:It fails because the butler Fisk has been sneaking down to vaults and feeding them.]]
141* ''Film/TigerFangs'': Dr. Lang's drugs cause the local tiger population to attack the locals, including the rubber manufacturers.
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145* Subverted in the Pocket Books novelisation of ''Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton'' (the Film/{{Flash Gordon|Serial}}-homage ShowWithinAShow on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''). Proton and his companions are sacrificed to the [[GiantSpider Trundle Spider]], but it tells them it's sick of the lousy diet and helps them escape instead.
146* Has happened to Literature/AlexRider at least once in his career.
147* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'':
148** Taxxons and their HorrorHunger are easy ways for the Yeerks to dispose of people or animals they don't like. The only merciful thing about this is that Taxxons are fast eaters.
149** Should Visser Three want someone dead in a way that isn't quick or merciful, he morphs into an alien monster and eats them alive. The Animorphs find this out when they first see him, as he only gloats for about a minute before messily devouring the alien prince who gave them their powers. Yeerk underlings who [[YouHaveFailedMe displease Visser Three one too many times]] are subject to [[MonstrousCannibalism him morphing into a natural Yeerk predator called a Vanarx, which envelopes the host's head with its mouth and sucks the Yeerk right out of the host's head]].
150* In ''Literature/DragonBones'' the villain has a [[spoiler: Basilisk]] to which he feeds a former ally who [[YouHaveFailedMe hasn't lived up to his expectations]]. Alive. Even those who were harmed by the man who is fed to the beast (and made to watch by the villain) are shocked by the cruelty.
151* In ''Literature/{{Eisenhorn}}: Xenos'', the heretical House Glaw tries to dispose of Eisenhorn and his associates by forcing them to fight to the death against two carnodons. This backfires when Eisenhorn’s team kills one of the beasts and breaks the chains restraining the other, allowing it to leap up into the stands and rampage through the audience.
152* As the HistoricalFiction book ''Fabiola'' by Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman was set in the middle of Diocletian's persecution of Christians, it happens more than once. The most noticeable victim is [[spoiler: the local NiceGuy and PrincelyYoungMan Pancratius ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancras_of_Rome aka Saint Pancras]])]], who's given a SlashedThroat by a black panther. Despite how Pancras's legend says he [[OffWithHisHead was decapitated]].
153* ''Literature/FireAndBlood'': Before dragons went extinct, the Targaryens were quite fond of feeding people who displeased them to their dragons. The most infamous example is [[TheUsurper King Aegon II]], who [[CainAndAbel had his half-sister Rhaenyra]] devoured by his dragon, but he wasn't the only one. Rhaenyra herself had one of her husband's cousins fed to her dragon after [[TooDumbToLive the man accused her]] of [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe passing off her illegitimate children from an affair as her husband's]], and during the period where she ruled King's Landing, [[ComeToGawk allowed people to pay to watch criminals being devoured]] by the dragons housed at the Dragonpit as a way to replenish the treasury. The traitorous dragon rider [[BastardBastard Ulf the White]] also fed any woman who couldn't satisfy him sexually to his dragon.
154* The first book of ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'' has the [[spoiler: planet itself]] [[QuicksandSucks killing and consuming people]] so quickly that they don't suffer. The heroes manage to piss off the [[TheSymbiote Enzeen]] enough that they carried them to the "heart" of [[spoiler: D'vouran]], where being eaten would be far slower and more painful.
155** In the second book the BigBad tells his lackey to listen carefully or be fed to his battle dogs.
156* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books, Voldemort generally feeds his victims to his snake, Nagini, although they're usually (if not always) dead first. He doesn't want them hurting his snake by struggling, after all. [[spoiler: Especially since the snake is one of his many [[SoulJar Horcruxes]].]]
157* In ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', the eponymous guide mentions that the best way to annoy a Vogon is to feed their grandmother to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. It also mentions that a Vogon won't save their grandmother unless they received an order signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.
158* ''Literature/ICthulhu'', a ParodyFic by Creator/NeilGaiman. While dictating his story to Whateley, Cthulhu keeps complaining that his shoggoth hasn't been fed. So at the end of the story he feeds Whateley to it.
159* In ''Literature/TheInheritanceCycle'', the [[ReligionOfEvil priests of Helgrind]] try to [[spoiler:feed Eragon and Arya to a pair of Ra'zac hatchlings]]. It doesn't work.
160* ''Literature/JamesBond''
161** Subverted in ''Literature/DrNo'' when the eponymous villain has Honey Ryder staked out to be eaten by a swarm of crabs. However, she knew her sea life and knew them to be harmless, so she calmly let them march over her.
162** In ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie'', Bond's friend and ally Felix Leiter is caught snooping around the villains' warehouse and partially fed to a shark (the basis for his maiming in the film ''Film/LicenceToKill'', including the [[BondOneLiner "He disagreed with something that ate him"]] note). Later, Bond and Solitaire are to be dragged through a reef until their blood attracts sharks to eat them (this was used in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'').
163** In ''Literature/{{Brokenclaw}}'', the eponymous Brokenlaw Lee literally feeds people who have disappointed him to the wolves that he keeps in his home.
164* In ''Literature/{{Pact}}'', Blake Thorburn employs this type of DeathTrap as a method of keeping his adversary Laird Behaim contained after he's captured him. Laird is placed within a set of three magic circles, with each increasing in complexity and strength, and Blake sets loose a demonic imp between the first and second. The first circle is small enough that Laird can barely sit down, and certainly cannot afford to fall asleep, as he might unconsciously break the extremely fragile circle and expose himself to the imp.
165* In the Discworld novel ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}'', being thrown to crocodiles is one of the standard methods of execution in Djelibeybi. When their gods manifest ''en masse'' and start trashing the country, the crowd of priests who gather to gawk start throwing ''each other'' to the reptiles whenever one of them says something that might be reckoned disparaging or skeptical about the rampaging deities.
166* In the short story 'Sandkings' by Creator/GeorgeRRMartin the main character gets into the habit of feeding people to his new pets, the eponymous insect-like alien monsters.
167* In Creator/RobertEHoward's "Literature/TheScarletCitadel," Tsotha imprisons Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian in the dungeons below the title citadel, with the intent of having him be eaten by Satha, another big-ass snake. The snake ends up killing a slave of Tsotha's who was planning to kill Conan in revenge for his brother's death during Conan's pirate days, when he was called Amra.
168* ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'': Twice with Magogs, without success:
169** Done with Marcia Overstrand by [=DomDaniel=].
170** Tried with Jenna Heap by [[spoiler:Simon Heap.]]
171* ''Literature/ShatterTheSky'': Emperor Rafael keeps an oubliette inside his palace which houses starved dragons who had failed the [[DragonRider rider training]], feeding people to them who displeased him.
172* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': Sigzil tells of a people who give their convicted criminals a choice: Either be executed, or be set out as bait for the local [[{{Kaiju}} greatshells]], which have valuable [[GemHeart gemhearts]]. If they choose the latter, they will be released if they survive a week. They rarely survive more than two days, but criminals always take the deal, because the hope of survival is better than the certainty of execution.
173* ''Literature/ThievesWorld'' short story "Blood Brothers" by Joe Haldeman. The barkeep One-Thumb buys a block of krrf (an expensive drug) from a man and slips him a paralyzing drug. He then cuts up the man's body while he's helpless and feeds him to his dogs. He killed him to avoid having to pay him and because the man was a relative of the magistrate who ordered One-Thumb's thumb cut off.
174* Inverted in ''{{Literature/Wulfrik}}'' (likely a reference to Raud the Strong, below) where Wulfrik [[spoiler:finally gets rid of Sveinbjorn]] by forcing a viper down his throat.
175* ''Literature/YoungSherlockHolmes'': In ''Red Leech'', Duke Balthassar has Sherlock, Virginia and Matty thrown to his Komodo dragons to be devoured.
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179* ''Series/Batman1966'' had a couple of these.
180** During the Joker's "Zodiac Crimes" 3-parter, he fed our heroes to a giant clam. The cliffhanger has Robin in the clam's mouth.
181** King Tut attempted to feed Robin to his crocodiles, but the walkway Robin was on retracted so slowly that Batman was able to arrive and save him.
182* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow The Beast Below]]", citizens who protest [[spoiler: using the star whale to keep the ship/country afloat]] and children who perform poorly in school are fed to the titular beast. It doesn't eat the children, though.
183* [[spoiler:[[BastardBastard Ramsay]] [[{{Sadist}} Bolton's]]]] [[KarmicDeath highly deserved demise]] in ''Series/GameOfThrones'' 6x09. At the teeth of '''his own''' dogs, no less!
184* ''Series/KingdomAdventure'': Pitts' favorite means of execution is feeding prisoners to Gulp, a beast who lives under his castle. [[spoiler: Gulp is actually a vegetarian with human-level intelligence, but Pitts doesn't know this.]]
185* The ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'' episode "Lancelot and Guinevere" revolves around an outlaw feeding various people to a Wilddeoren (basically, a giant naked mole rat).
186* When Hetty is captured in Vietnam in ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'', her captor threatens to feed her friend Keane to a tiger if she doesn't do what he wants. [[spoiler:When Callen and his team show up to rescue Hetty, she then feeds her former captor to his own tiger.]]
187* ''Series/ProfessorPoopsnaglesSteamZeppelin'': The [[AristocratsAreEvil Evil Count Sator]] has a habit of feeding those who [[YouHaveFailedMe have failed him]] to his unseen pet creature "[[FluffyTheTerrible Baby Julius]]". He even tries to do this to the Professor in the finale episode. Unfortunately this results in a case of him getting his JustDesserts instead when the Professor escapes and leaves the cage open.
188* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'':
189** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S1E2TheSandkingsPartTwo The Sandkings, Part Two]]", Dr. Simon Kress, whose mind has become increasingly warped since being infected with the venom of a red sandking, feeds his former supervisor Dave Stockley to the starving sandkings.
190** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S3E7TheCamp The Camp]]", the Commandant threatens to feed Prisoner 98843's daughter (later named Tali in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S4E21PromisedLand Promised Land]]") to the sharrak if she does not conduct repairs on him and the other android overseers.
191* On ''Series/{{Zoo}}'', a small Canadian town takes up this practice to placate the hostile animals, voting among themselves each month about whom to force out past the fences.
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195* ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'' does this with a ManEatingPlant.
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199* In Music/MichaelJackson's video for "Music/RememberTheTime", the Queen orders the first entertainer brought to satiate her RichBoredom to be fed to the lions when he fails to successfully entertain her with his juggling.
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203* Myth/ClassicalMythology had Andromeda ChainedToARock to be eaten by a sea-monster called a Cetus as punishment for her mother's boastfulness about Andromeda's beauty being greater than that of the Nereids (who got pissed and complained to Poseidon, one of the many JerkassGods of the pantheon). She's rescued by Perseus, who turns the Cetus to stone with the head of Medusa.
204* In the legend of [[Myth/SaintGeorge Saint George and the Dragon]], the inhabitants of a town threatened by a dragon, having already fed all their livestock to the monster, [[LotteryOfDoom cast lots]] to determine whose children are to be fed to the dragon to appease it. Fortunately and on the very day the only daughter of the local king is about to be delivered to the beast, the dragon is killed by St. George.
205* OlderThanFeudalism: ''Literature/TheBible'' has the story of Daniel, who was thrown into a lion's den due to a law that some princes had tricked King Darius, who liked Daniel, into passing because they were jealous of his success and hard work. Daniel, who had always been faithful to the Lord, was protected by one of God's angels, who shut the mouths of the lions. When the king learned that Daniel was still alive after spending the entire night in the den, he had Daniel taken out of the lion's den and the princes and their families thrown in instead, where they promptly got eaten by the lions.
206** Christians in Roman times were supposedly fed to lions in the arena as well. At least, that's the excuse one Pope used for declaring the Colosseum a monument to martyrs to protect it from commercial development. The historical truth of that claim is more murky.
207*** ''Damnatio ad bestias'' was the usual Roman punishment of particularly vicious murderers and those convicted of high treason.
208** According to legend, St. Margaret was sentenced to be fed to a dragon. Large constrictor snakes, such as the African rock python, are known to be able to smother and devour large prey -- occasionally children and youngsters. They also often were referred to as "dragons". The Romans knew the rock python, and if Margaret was a petite lady and the snake was a large specimen, the legend may well be plausible.
209* OlderThanDirt, actually: In Myth/EgyptianMythology, souls that were found unworthy of the afterlife were fed to the monster Ammit.
210* The Christianizing King of Norway, Olaf Tryggvason, is said to have executed a pagan Viking chief, Raud the Strong, by having a viper stuffed down his throat. (Or should that be labelled, [[InvertedTrope "Had the Beast Fed to Him"]]?)
211* In Myth/JapaneseMythology, the Yamata no {{Orochi}} was an eight-headed and eight-tailed monster that forced a pair of earthly deities to hand over one of their daughters to be devoured by the beast every year. Their eighth and final daughter, Princess Kushinada, was saved from this fate by the storm god Susano-o, who slew the beast by impersonating her, getting it drunk on eight large bowls of sake, and then chopping off each of its eight heads.
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215* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' module Q1 ''Queen of the Demonweb Pits''. Lolth disposes of prisoners by placing them in a small dimension where they're hunted and eaten by giant spiders.
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219* ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'': At the UndergroundCity of Freeway 42, the [[BarbarianTribe renegade tribe]] of The Outcasts drops Ann down a TrapDoor to have her be consumed by a pack of Bloodlusters as part of their observance. Ann [[ActionGirl single-handedly]] takes them all down with ease.
220* ''VideoGame/BalloonFight'': If you fly too close to the water's edge, a giant fish will leap up and [[EatenAlive eat you]]. The fish also occasionally eats any defeated enemies.
221* ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'' has the HumanSacrifice variety: Sammy attempts to feed Henry to Bendy, the resident Ink Demon. Instead, [[spoiler:Bendy kills Sammy]], and Henry escapes.
222* One of [[TheManyDeathsOfYou the numerous ways to die]] in ''VisualNovel/BoyfriendToDeath'' involves Sano and Akira sending their pet monster at you. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Then Akira takes said pet monster out for a walk]].
223* ''VideoGame/DarkForces'': Attempted in level 10. Kyle and Jan are captured and taken aboard Jabba the Hutt's star cruiser, and Kyle is thrown in a pit to be eaten by Jabba's favorite kell dragon... which he promptly punches to death, before having to face up to nine more (on the hardest difficulty setting) on his way to retrieving his gear and Nava Card, rescuing Jan from her cell and escaping the ship.
224* ''VideoGame/{{Drakensang}} 2: The River of Time'': The vile commander of Thurstone Fortress Stitus Bloomfold (think of a midget version of Dom De Luise) has a taste for rare pets, which he feeds with hapless prisoners from time to time. Said critters include war hounds, wild boars, wolves and a bear. Later he tries to feed the party to his favourite beastie, [[spoiler: a [[GiantSquid Newt Kraken]]]], but ends up suffering a KarmicDeath instead, as Forgrimm lampshades.
225* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': Players frequently build pits containing large and vile-tempered captured creatures. Sometimes these are trained, sometimes they're not. Crocodiles, zombies, wolves... people even build giant cave spider pits, and harvest the web left after a successful termination.
226* ''VideoGame/EnchantedScepters'': The punishment for violating the CopyProtection is random teleportation to an arena inhabited by a UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex.
227* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'': In the ''Wasteland Workshop'' DLC, you can capture raiders to your settlements and pit them with your pet Deathclaws.
228* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'': After he's finished using his brides, Don Corneo will drop them into the sewers where he allows his pet, Abzu, to feast on them. He does the same to Cloud, Tifa and Aerith after he reveals to them Shinra's plans for taking care of Avalanche.
229* ''VideoGame/{{Gloomwood}}'': The Slaughtered Goat tavern is currently occupied by a Goatman, an extremely [[LightningBruiser fast]], [[MadeOfIron tough]], and [[ImplacableMan persistent]] monster that has already slaughtered over a dozen huntsmen. Unfortunately for the player you'll need to pass through it in order to progress, and leaving is a lot harder than getting in -- the huntsmen lock the door behind you in hopes that the beast will do their job for them.
230* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': Ganondorf, in his crossing of the MoralEventHorizon, tries to have all the Gorons fed to the great lava dragon Volvagia as an example of what happens to those who defy him.
231* ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'': A picture in the Chozo Archives gallery unlocked upon getting all items in [[UnderTheSea Burenia]] shows Mawkin soldiers pushing Chozo prisoners into the maw of [[TentacledTerror Drogyga]].
232* ''VisualNovel/MoeNinjaGirls'': At the end of the Book of Nine-Tails, [[spoiler:the Secretary betrays the Former Owner and feeds him to the Nine-Tailed Fox]].
233* ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002'': [[FakeUltimateHero Captain Qwark]] has the titular duo lured to the pit of a Blargian Snagglebeast in the hopes it would eat them and get [[BigBad Drek's]] approval. It doesn't work out as intended; the Snagglebeast is killed, Drek berates Qwark for his failure, and [[ItsPersonal Ratchet]] seeks [[PayEvilUntoEvil murderous revenge]].
234* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'':
235** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'': An optional cutscene has the Ganados feeding a dead police officer to [[StockNessMonster Del Lago]].
236** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations'': Early on, Jill is knocked out on the Queen Zenobia by a Veltro agent and later wakes up in a bedroom, stripped of her weapons with an Ooze locked in with her.
237* ''VideoGame/TheSimsMedieval'': The Pit of Judgment is home to a giant [[CombatTentacles tentacled]] beast that eats those sentenced to death.
238* ''VideoGame/ATotalWarSagaTroy'': The Hydra's vitality levels are initially quite low, and so the player needs to restore the creature's strength to access its full potential. This can be done by feeding defeated enemies to the monster... or by sacrificing your own troops.
239* ''VideoGame/Yakuza2'' has Sengoku trying to feed Kiryu Kazuma to his two pet tigers after Kazuma [[PapaWolf tears through his men to get Haruka back]]. Kazuma, however, ends up killing both of them.
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243* Umbria/Zaedalkaah of ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'' plans to inflict an elaborate version of it on some minion who displeased her:
244-->I'll kill you, grind you up, feed you to starving children, then feed '''those''' starving kids to '''other''' starving kids to make a race of '''SUPER''' starving kids, which '''I''' will then eat.
245* Discussed in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''; BigBad Xykon has an otherwise unnamed monster he keeps perpetually in the shadows with only a pair of yellow eyes seen. The idea is that at a suitably dramatic moment, the Monster in the Dark will emerge and eat whatever hero is facing Xykon. Of course, this has never happened due to plot reasons, and the Monster shows himself to be a big kid at heart [[spoiler: and by the final story arc is actively trying to sabotage Team Evil's plans.]]
246* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': The the rebels in the Foi-Hellick Affair would feed war prisoners to Shaensigin, a gaint Senet beast.
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250* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': In "Apple Thief", a gang of thugs throw Finn, Jake, and Tree Trunks to [[FedToPigs a pig to be eaten]]. [[TalkingAnimal The pig]] is hardly vicious, though, and seems to only want to eat them [[PunchClockVillain because it's his job]].
251* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'': In the episode "The Academy", if Huntsclan recruits step out of line, they are forced into an amphitheater to battle a giant Tyrannosaurus-sized sea monster, most likely to the death, to win their place back.
252* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'':
253** The snake-obsessed Kobra organization uses a variant of this. Any member who fails their duties, or anyone else who knows too much about their operations, is dropped into a pit of venomous snakes where they are presumably bitten to death. One member actually commits suicide by leaping in to avoid capture after believing he has exposed Batman's true identity to rest of the organization, gloating to the hero about how he'll be regarded as a martyr to the organization before doing so. [[spoiler:They likely actually regarded him as a complete idiot; when he read a boy's mind using a computer to get an image of Terry's face, the kid replaced it with that of an action hero from a cartoon that he admired, because that's how he envisioned Batman.]]
254** In "Ace in the Hole", the villain tried to feed Batman to a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant dog that had been mutated by growth hormone experiments]].
255* The Joker threatens to throw people to his hyenas in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', though whether or not he actually follows through on this threat is rather unclear. In at least one case ("The Man Who Killed Batman"), he shoves a minion to the hyenas for "asking stupid questions". However, the trope is toned down; the minion shows up later with a just a few bandages.
256* ''WesternAnimation/Birdman1967''. In the episode "Hannibal the Hunter", Hannibal trapped Birdman in a net and arranged for him to be dropped into a pit with two lions in it so they could eat him.
257* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': In "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS2E5ThePredator The Predator]]", the team takes on Argos Bleak when he starts killing every shark near a coastal town. Late in the episode, Bleak ties Gi and Ma-Ti to the back of his hydrofoil after dumping chum into the water, hoping to get them both EatenAlive by the remaining sharks in the area.
258* In the ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode "Courage in the Big Stinkin' City", Bushwick is a giant, anthropomorphic roach who kills people by feeding them to... something. [[NothingIsScarier (The monster is hidden behind a door and never actually seen in the episode.)]]
259* ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'': Zordrak has a pit filled with yellow, red-eyed monsters called Frazznats that the Urpneys call "The Pit of No Return". In the opening scene of the series, he throws an Urpney named Captain Crigg in there for questioning his plan to steal the Dreamstone and promotes Sergeant Blob in his place, and he does throw Blob and Urpgor in there on at least one occasion, but they somehow came back just fine.
260* In the first "[[WhatIf Anthology of Interest]]" episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' which asks the question "What if Leela was more impulsive?" she actually murders every member of the cast (except Fry, who she seduces) starting with Farnsworth, who she throws to his man-eating anteaters.
261* [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique Used as a threat]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''... by ''Korra.'' She probably wouldn't have actually fed the judge who railroaded her father to her polar bear dog as an afternoon snack, but he sure seemed convinced that she would! (Sticking his head in the beast's mouth might have had something to do with that.)
262* ''WesternAnimation/MuzzyInGondoland'': [[EvilChancellor Corvax]] has this fate in mind for Bob when he orders the prison guard to put him in cell No. 19. He knows they are holding an alien monster in there. Fortunately for Bob, the alien is Muzzy, an intelligent and polite GentleGiant who has no intentions to hurt him.
263* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': In "The Mermen of Emor", the mermen attempt to do this to [[Characters/SupermanJimmyOlsen Jimmy Olsen]] and two other captured scuba divers as part of their annual games: first with lion sharks, and then a killer whale.
264* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
265** "The Ballad of Badbeard": Dr. Doofenshmirtz plans to feed Agent P to his new pet crocodiles, Susan and Susan. [[ShapedLikeItself He named them after each other]].
266** "Don't Even Blink": In keeping with the {{Invisibility}} theme of today's EvilPlan, Doofenshmirtz attempts to sic an invisible tiger on Agent P. [[DidntThinkThisThrough He regrets it pretty quickly.]]
267** ''[[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension Phineas & Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension]]'' begins InMediasRes with Phineas, Ferb, Candace, Doofenshmirtz, and Agent P about to be killed by a [[OurMonstersAreWeird Goozim]].
268* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesOfDarkWater'', [[BigBad Bloth]] has a vicious monster called the Constrictus he keeps in a pool of water in his ship. [[YouHaveFailedMe Failing to fulfil his tasks]] (Or being someone he doesn't like) is a good way to get dumped into it. The only survivors of this fate are Ren and Konk, and the latter lost his leg doing so.
269* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': In "Thanksploitation Spectacular", the unchosen turkeys that aren't pardoned by the president go down a elevator to the feeding chamber of spider Franklin D. Roosevelt.
270* ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotomy}}'': "[[Recap/Robotomy02BlingThing Bling Thing]]": The main form of entertainment at the Maul is the gorgon, an alien monster that's fed a steady stream of live robots. The victims seem to consider this to be something like a fair park ride, and after being devoured crawl back out the other end. One robot (who has his legs ripped off) eagerly says he's going to go back to get eaten again.
271* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'': Done a few times:
272** In the episode "A Loss of Smurf", Vanity as a Wartmonger accidentally wakes up the Creepodile in the Pussywillow Hollow swamp region, and Wartmonger legends say that it won't rest until it eats a king, so King Bullrush upon finding out who woke the creature up made Vanity king so that the beast will go after Vanity instead. The Smurflings help rescue Vanity by making the Creepodile feast on a gourd dressed up in royal clothes instead.
273** In the Season 9 episode "Gnoman Holiday", Julius Geezer has his victims be thrown into the coliseum to deal with the Felions.
274* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'': "Clutches of the Creature King". After the title villain captures Space Ghost he puts him in an arena and forces him to fight all of the Creature King's creatures without his power bands.
275* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E10LairOfGrievous , "Lair of Grievous"]]: Grievous sets loose his pet roggwart Gor to kill and presumably consume Commander Fil, Knight Vebb and Master Fisto (the only members of the group to survive the initial encounter with Grievous) while Grievous is being patched up by A4-D. He may have overestimated his pet, or underestimated Kit Fisto, as Gor only managed to kill Fil before Kit took it out in self defense.
276* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'': In "Turtles In Space: The Arena", the first event when the Turtles are sent to the Triceratons' gladiator games is fighting off a giant, fanged, tentacle monster called a Spasmazoid.
277-->'''Donatello:''' They're expecting us to fight that thing!?\
278'''Raphael:''' No, they're expecting that thing to eat us!
279* Chairface Chippendale in ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' tries to feed the heroes to his pit of man-eating alligators. According to The Tick, this is standard villain procedure.
280* The favored pass time of the Quintessons from WesternAnimation/TheTransformers is sentencing the defendants/victims of their [[KangarooCourt “trials”]] to being fed to the [[ThreateningShark Sharkticons]], regardless of whether they’re declared innocent [[MortonsFork or]] guilty.
281* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' adapts the story of Daniel and the Lion's Den from Literature/TheBible, which goes almost exactly how it went in the original tale. The princes (or wise men in this story) are jealous of Daniel's friendship with the king, they trick him into passing a law that gets Daniel thrown into the den, and he's protected by God's angel. In this version of the story, instead of the lions' mouths being shut, they befriend Daniel and share their pizza with him.
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285* In AncientRome, convicts found guilty of heinous crimes could be "sentenced to the beasts" (''[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_ad_bestias damnatio ad bestias]]''), which meant that the condemned was sent into the arena with a weapon, facing predatory animals such as lions, panthers, or bears. This was the equivalent of a death sentence, though there was a slim chance of pardon if the convict fought bravely. ''Damnatio ad bestias'' differs from ''objicere bestiis'' ("throw to the beasts"), in which the victim was unarmed and possibly fettered.
286* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedius_Pollio Vedius Pollio]], a wealthy man who governed AncientRome's Province of Asia during the first century BCE, executed slaves who offended him by throwing them into a pool full of lampreys-- bloodsucking, jawless fish. The alternative (due to translation issues) was that they were moray eels, which is possibly even worse. This ended when he tried to execute one slave while Emperor Augustus was a guest in his house simply for breaking an expensive glass. The Emperor, horrified, intervened, halted the execution when the slave begged for clemency, and had the lamprey pool filled in. He also supposedly had all the glasses smashed, demolished Pollio's enormous fancy villa upon his death, and either freed the slave or took him under his protection (one source says freed, the other source simply says that Pollio could not touch him for what Augustus had done - presumably because crossing Augustus was tantamout to suicide).
287* When the Spanish started conquering the Americas, they also used dogs to help them out. While the only domesticated dogs known in the Americas were the ancestors of the Chihuahua and hairless dogs which were no larger than their descendants. Spanish conquistadors brought over large hunting dogs, including mastiffs that weighed well over a hundred pounds, and if their size wasn't intimidating enough, the Spanish would often sic their dogs on some unlucky Natives. Once the Natives were mauled to death, the Spanish just sat back and watched their dogs feed on their prey. Accounts claim that Conquistadors weren't just content with feeding adults to their dogs and would often take infants from their mothers and feed them to their hounds.
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