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| 17 | [[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/Rio2 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/just_desserts.jpg]]]] |
| 18 | [[caption-width-right:350:Guess the snake wasn't interested in eating the lollipop.]] |
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| 20 | -> '''Eda:''' Oh no, Tibbles, that's not how entertainment works. The bad guy always gets their just desserts.\ |
| 21 | ''[Eda pours caramel crabapples onto Tibbles.]''\ |
| 22 | '''Tibbles:''' Oh no, not desserts! |
| 23 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS1E14ReallySmallProblems Really Small Problems]]" |
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| 25 | A villain ultimately finds their evil deeds [[LaserGuidedKarma come back to bite them]]. ''Literally'' -- they end up getting [[ImAHumanitarian eaten]]. |
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| 27 | This does ''not'' include a HeroicSacrifice. But may be subverted with a minor character being killed and eaten in [[{{Foreshadowing}} obvious foreshadowing]] of what is going to happen to one of the bads at some point. While {{Mooks}} may be recipients of the Just Desserts, a true Just Dessert is reserved for those higher up the ladder. If the beast doing the eating was unleashed by the guy who gets eaten, he's been HoistByHisOwnPetard, making him a SelfDisposingVillain. Bonus points if he made a practice of [[FedToTheBeast feeding people to said beast beforehand]]. |
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| 29 | The trope name is a play on the phrase "just deserts" (which means the consequences that one rightly ''deserves'', hence the single 'S'). And as you know, a dessert gets eaten at the end. |
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| 31 | Compare KarmicDeath, TheDogBitesBack, DevourTheDragon, LaserGuidedKarma. Also, see ExitPursuedByABear where this trope is frequently implied. |
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| 33 | !!WARNING: This is a {{Death Trope|s}}. Here Be Spoilers. |
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| 35 | !!Examples: |
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| 37 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 38 | |
| 39 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 40 | * The Immortals of ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' can consume each other and gain each other's experience by laying their hand on the other immortal's forehead. This is how Firo defeats Szilard. |
| 41 | * ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' has chief minion Demidevimon get devoured by his master Venom Myotismon after he decides coming back from the dead has made him hungry. |
| 42 | * In ''Anime/DigimonFusion'', [[spoiler:Chuuchuumon, a rat puppet Digimon, grew large after seeing Taiki, Mervamon, Wisemon, and Knightmon who were coming to rescue Yuu. Taiki summoned Bastemon, a cat-like Digimon, who then gained a SlasherSmile after seeing the mouse]]. This is a rare case where the one who devours is very, very small compared to the "dessert". |
| 43 | * In ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'', [[BigBad Dante]] gets eaten by her minion [[ExtremeOmnivore Gluttony]] at the end of the series. For bonus points, she's the one who rendered him crazed and mindless in the first place, meaning that he was willing to eat her because he could no longer understand her commands, nor remember her. |
| 44 | * In ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'', [[spoiler:Cornelius Alba gets eaten alive by one of Touko's creations.]] |
| 45 | * Mother Carmel in ''Manga/OnePiece'' is heavily implied to have been eaten by Linlin, one of the orphans she was raising with the intent of selling them off as soldiers. This example wasn't intentional on Linlin's part: she was treated to a feast for her birthday and lost herself in her hunger, eventually regaining consciousness only to find [[GoryDiscretionShot everyone missing]]. |
| 46 | * In ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'', has two notable examples: in the Ice Hell arc, near the end, Bishokukai members [[TheBrute Barry Gammon]] and [[BodyHorror Bogey Woods]] try to run away from the final confrontation, leaving their superior [[PestController Tommyrod]] alone against Toriko and are promptly devoured by the [[SealedEvilInACan Hellbroth]] awakened by Teppei [[spoiler: though they're later saved by another member of the Bishokukai]]. Played more straight with [[spoiler: [[TheMole Shigematsu]]]], who's sent flying by Toriko's Infinite Spiked Punch and is ultimately tore apart and devoured alive by some monstrous flying birds, though his last thoughts are that he's actually grateful that at least his body could feed the Nature as a way to make amend. |
| 47 | * This happens to Aki's EvilMentor Divine in ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds''. His sadistic career comes to an end when Earthbound God Ccarayhua swallowed him. (WordOfGod says that he recovered along with the rest of the Earthbound Gods' victim's later, but he was also arrested by Sector Security). |
| 48 | [[/folder]] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 51 | * ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': After Haazheel Thorn's defeat [[SoulEating his soul is devoured]] by his father Lucifer for failing to deliver the Earth to him. Especially karmic because Haazheel planned to have the rest of humanity harvested by the Legions of Hell so that he could become a god. |
| 52 | * ''ComicBook/NewMutants'': Wolfsbane had an abusive bigot of a father by the name of [[SinisterMinister Reverend Craig]], whose sadistic career came to an end when the brainwashing that ''he inflicted upon her'' kicks in, and she mistakes him for the Angel, whom he had ordered her to kill; she lunges at him in her wolf-form, in a bestial state, killing and devouring him. She doesn't remember a thing when she recovers, and her teammates wisely decide to keep it a secret. |
| 53 | * ''ComicBook/TheUltimates2015:'' [[spoiler:Rostdvow, a "thing" serving the BigBad, is eaten by Galactus so the big guy can learn what it knows. Given Rostdvow had just played party to corrupting Galactus, driving his previous hunger to such levels Galactus was near mindless, it also counts as LaserGuidedKarma.]] |
| 54 | * ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': |
| 55 | ** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Some of the Sangtee Empire slavers on Hope's End get knocked into the scavenger worm's sandpits, where they're devoured by the monsters they've been tossing dead slaves to. |
| 56 | ** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': Alkyone gets eaten by one of the ''Megalodon'' off the coast of Themyscira. In a subversion of the usual outcome of this trope, she actually ends up surviving and cutting her way out of the giant shark to continue to wreak havoc on the Amazons. |
| 57 | [[/folder]] |
| 58 | |
| 59 | [[folder:Fairy Tales]] |
| 60 | * In Creator/JosephJacobs' version of "Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs", the third pig does not stop at boiling the wolf to death, but also eats him ("for supper"). As the wolf wanted to eat the pigs, this is also a KarmicDeath. |
| 61 | [[/folder]] |
| 62 | |
| 63 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 64 | * In one of the side-stories of ''Fanfic/DanseMacabre'', a Lethifold eats [[spoiler: Peter Pettigrew]]. |
| 65 | * ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': As a result of several events, Ami ''drinks'' her enemy, a Lesser Aspect of Crowned Death. |
| 66 | * Andraya, one of the two main villains of ''[[Fanfic/TheHeartTrilogy Heart of Ashes]]'', is {{swallowed whole}} by [[VillainProtagonist Smaug]] after the witch crosses the dragon one too many times. As soon as Andraya is sucked into Smaug's stomach, she's [[CruelAndUnusualDeath incinerated by his natural fire]]. |
| 67 | * The main antagonist of ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost'', Jewelius, is finished off this way by the Changelings [[spoiler:he used and double-crossed to steal Equestria's throne]]. Normally the Changelings [[EmotionEater feed on love]], but Queen Chrysalis decides that since the heart of [[TheSociopath Jewelius]] holds no love, everything else will have to do. |
| 68 | * Alexia's final fate in ''Fanfic/TheReturn'', devoured by Darkstar. |
| 69 | * In ''Fanfic/TheRiseOfDarthVulcan'', the protagonist defeats a dragon, and feeds it to his new RedShirtArmy. [[JustEatHim Said dragon had been eating them]] [[YouHaveFailedMe as punishment for insubordination]]. |
| 70 | * ''Fanfic/ThreeSlytherinMarauders'': This happens to a Death Eater who [[BullyingADragon attacks a dragon]] that had befriended Harry Potter, though the dragon later claimed that the Death Eater gave her indigestion. |
| 71 | [[/folder]] |
| 72 | |
| 73 | [[folder:Film -- Animated]] |
| 74 | * In ''WesternAnimation/AsterixConquersAmerica'', secondary antagonist [[FatBastard Lucullus]] is SwallowedWhole offscreen by a black panther that somehow got loose in the shenanigans that end the movie. Caesar, [[KnowWhenToFoldEm being more pragmatic]] and [[LeanAndMean considerably less obese]], is faster on his feet and wisely makes a subdued but hasty exit amid all the commotion. |
| 75 | * ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'': Hopper is fed to a bird's chicks. This happens to be the same bird that attacked the heroes earlier. |
| 76 | * Chester V gets gobbled up by a cheespider in ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2''. |
| 77 | * ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift'': While his precise fate is left ambiguous, Captain Gutt is implied to end up being eaten by predatory lungfish. |
| 78 | * Scar survives his DisneyVillainDeath in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', only to find himself cornered by the hyenas he just threw under the bus, who promptly [[EatenAlive eat him alive]]. |
| 79 | * Subverted in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'': Captain Hook falls into the crocodile's mouth and gets swallowed, but (unlike in the original play) runs out relatively unharmed, and is last seen [[ExitPursuedByABear swimming away from the predator who's trying to eat him a second time]]. [[WesternAnimation/ReturnToNeverLand The sequel]] explicitly shows him alive. |
| 80 | * Indicated to be Madame Medusa's final fate in ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers''. They don't show her being eaten, but the very last we see of her is her struggling to hold onto a half-sunken mast with her [[TheDogBitesBack abused crocodiles]], Bruto and Nero, hungrily snapping at her heels. |
| 81 | * Big Boss from ''WesternAnimation/Rio2'' gets swallowed by a boa constrictor. Who then [[SpitOutAShoe burps up the lollipop]] [[ComicallySmallBribe he offered him]]. |
| 82 | * ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' movies: |
| 83 | ** In [[WesternAnimation/Shrek1 the first film]], Lord Farquaad gets [[SwallowedWhole eaten]] by Dragon. |
| 84 | ** This is stated to be what the ogres intend for Rumpelstiltskin in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'' just before the ResetButton is hit, and thus it never actually happens. |
| 85 | * Happens to the monstrous frogfish in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarepantsMovie'', who is swallowed whole by an even bigger trench monster. |
| 86 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'': Zigzag is eaten by crocodiles and his own pet vulture, Fido. |
| 87 | * In TheStinger of ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'', Chef and Creek are both eaten by a monster. |
| 88 | [[/folder]] |
| 89 | |
| 90 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 91 | * ''Anaconda'' |
| 92 | ** ''Film/{{Anaconda}}'': Paul Sarone gets eaten by the same Anaconda that he was hunting for most of the movie, and to make it even more karmic this is right after a failed attempt to feed two of the heroes to the giant snake. |
| 93 | ** ''Film/AnacondasTheHuntForTheBloodOrchid'': Jack eventually becomes a villain when he considers the lives of his colleagues worth sacrificing to get the Blood Orchid. He gets bitten by the paralyzing spider that he had previously used on somebody else and falls into the Anaconda mating ball, becoming snake chow. |
| 94 | * Subverted in ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}''. The title character is swallowed by a SandWorm near the end of the movie but turns up later in the afterlife office none the worse for wear. |
| 95 | * ''Film/TheBlob1988'': Dr. Meddows, who is responsible for creating the Blob and is also willing to sacrifice an entire town full of innocent people to test the Blob's potential and capture it, ends up becoming one of his own creation's meal. |
| 96 | * ''Film/BurningBright'': John buys the tiger [[spoiler: and tries to use it to kill his stepchildren]]. He ends up getting attacked and EatenAlive by the same tiger when he comes back to the house. |
| 97 | * During the climax of ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'', [[spoiler:the System Purge releases all of the monsters that proceed to slaughter the Organization members. During the rampage, an Organization member is tossed into the air and devoured by a giant cobra. Some guards are mobbed by zombies that pour ''en masse'' out of an elevator. And Steve Hadley, one of the film's pair of bad guys, is killed and partially eaten by the merman, [[DeathByIrony the very monster he wanted to see in action]].]] |
| 98 | * ''Film/CastADeadlySpell'': The BigBad who summons Cthulhu is [[EvilIsNotAToy grabbed and eaten by him]]. |
| 99 | * In ''Film/CityOfEmber'', Mayor Cole gets eaten by a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant star-nosed mole]]. |
| 100 | * ''Film/DayOfTheDead1985'': Captain Rhodes, after being a [[ArmiesAreEvil deranged tyrant]] for most of the movie, [[DevouredByTheHorde meets his end at the hands of a zombie horde]] that messily rips apart and devours him. |
| 101 | * ''Film/{{Daybreakers}}'': [[spoiler:Bromley]] is ripped limb from limb and devoured by his own vampire minions after he is turned back into a human against his will. |
| 102 | * [[PsychoForHire Koobus]] in ''Film/District9'' is ripped apart and eaten by a gang of aliens near the end of the film. |
| 103 | * In the climax of ''Film/DudeWheresMyCar'', JerkJock and minor antagonist Tommy cat calls the [[GiantWoman alien giantess]], the movie's BigBad, so she devours him right in front of his friends and girlfriend. |
| 104 | -->'''Tommy:''' "So do you spit or swallow? Hey, what are you doing?!" |
| 105 | * In ''Film/Dune1984'', Baron Harkonnen meets his end when swallowed by a titanic sandworm. |
| 106 | * In the film ''Film/EatenAlive1976'', Judd gets eaten by his pet crocodile, Rocky, that he fed people to. |
| 107 | * In ''Film/{{Hook}}'', at some point after the events of ''Literature/PeterPan'', Captain Hook had somehow successfully killed the crocodile that always chased him around, and had it stuffed and turned into a time piece. During the movie's climax however, the croc was knocked over during the fight between Hook and Peter, and it landed in a way that its mouth engulfed Hook. All was silent until [[BurpOfFinality the croc seemingly belched.]] |
| 108 | * In ''Film/IWasATeenageFrankenstein'', Professor Frankenstein tries to put his creation back into pieces for some easy overseas smuggling, but the teenage monster fights back and drops him into the alligator pit that Professor had previously used to get rid of excessive body parts and a witness. |
| 109 | * ''Franchise/IndianaJones'': |
| 110 | ** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'': Mola Ram and most of his Thuggee cult followers are eaten alive by crocodiles. |
| 111 | ** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'': TheDragon gets eaten by [[MisplacedWildlife siafu ants]]. |
| 112 | * ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' is a film series about dinosaurs, so it’s no surprise that this is how they deal with evil characters: |
| 113 | ** ''Film/JurassicPark1993'': Sysadmin Dennis Nedry sets off the chain of events that releases the animals, and then is eaten by one. This is actually a bad thing for the protagonists, because he was supposed to return after smuggling the embryos and turn the security system back on, but you can't return from death... |
| 114 | ** Also in the first movie, they're [[ObliviouslyEvil not truly villains]], but the raptors themselves become prey for the T-Rex at the climax. |
| 115 | ** ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'': Dieter Stark is devoured by a group of ''Compsognathus'', and Ludlow gets eaten by a ''T. rex'' baby in a satisfying death. |
| 116 | ** ''Film/JurassicWorld'': Hoskins gets ripped to shreds by one of the raptors he sought to breed as a weapon and becomes her dinner. [[spoiler: Later, the ''Indominus Rex'' is dragged to her doom by the ''Mosasaurus'']]. |
| 117 | ** ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'': [[spoiler: Wheatley gets eaten by ''Indoraptor'', after ripping his arm and eating it in front of him, as are several mercenaries and buyers for the dinosaur auction. Rexy, on the other hand, gets to feast on Mills]]. |
| 118 | ** ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' [[spoiler:Dodgson is killed by a pack of ''Dilophosaurus'' after being cornered in the train tunnel- extra karma points come from this being the exact same species that killed Nedry. The lead dinosaur trafficker Delacourt also has his face ripped off by a juvenile ''Baryonyx'']]. |
| 119 | * In ''Film/KickAss2'', the main villain has a shark tank as part of his personal supervillain lair. However, the shark does nothing but lie at the bottom of the pool, causing people to think it's dead... [[spoiler:until he falls into it at the end of the climactic battle.]] |
| 120 | * The BigBad of ''Film/TheLegendOfTarzan'' gets eaten by crocodiles. |
| 121 | * The BigBad and his mooks in ''Film/LoveAndMonsters'' [[spoiler:are eaten by the very same GiantEnemyCrab they'd enslaved once Joel frees it]]. |
| 122 | * ''Film/Meg2TheTrench'': [[spoiler: Jess and Monte both turn out to be villains and both meet their respective demise in the jaws of a Meg. Jess betrayed her team and displayed no remorse over the ensuing deaths, and in a smug display of TemptingFate, she declares the underwater rig chamber she's in to be completely Meg-Proof. One breaks through behind her and she is SwallowedWhole. Monte winds up punched into the mouth of the Meg by Jonas during their fight, and gets crunched up instead. It's hard to say who got it worse, but both deaths were very well-deserved.]] |
| 123 | * ''Film/MenInBlack'': Spousal abuser Edgar is skinned and eaten by the Bug. |
| 124 | * ''Film/MenInBlackII'' |
| 125 | ** Serleena [[MuggingTheMonster eats a mugger.]] |
| 126 | ** This appears to be the case at the end, when Serleena is eaten by Jeff, only for her to kill him from inside and morph his body. |
| 127 | * ''Film/PeterPan2003'': Naturally, Captain Hook is eaten by the crocodile in the end, though he goes out on his own terms and willingly falls into its jaws after he realizes he’s lost. |
| 128 | * In ''Film/PitchBlack'', mercenary Johns let a man die an agonizing death by stealing all the morphine for himself and was ready to murder Jack to distract the bioraptors. Riddick ultimately leaves him alone in the dark and Johns is killed and eaten by the monsters. |
| 129 | * ''Film/Rampage2018'': [[BigBad Claire Wyden]] gets eaten by [[KillerGorilla George]] after Kate smuggles the antidote that will cure George in her bag. A fitting fate for the woman who is responsible for George's rampage in the first place. |
| 130 | * ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'': |
| 131 | ** In ''Film/ResidentEvil2002'', the [[spoiler:male security operative]] who released the T-virus inside the facility is killed and partially eaten by the Licker monster. |
| 132 | ** ''Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse'': The BigBad of the film gets devoured alive by a bunch of zombies. |
| 133 | ** ''Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife'': Bennet is eaten by [[spoiler: Wesker]]. |
| 134 | ** ''Film/ResidentEvilRetribution'': Alice feeds [[spoiler:Bad!Rain]] to the zombies during the climax. |
| 135 | * ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. Boba Fett (who captured Han Solo in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'') is swallowed by the Sarlacc, where (according to Jabba the Hutt) he will find a new definition of pain and suffering as he's slowly digested over 1,000 years. But he's Boba Fett so he's [[FirstLawOfResurrection too cool to die]]. |
| 136 | * In ''Film/RomancingTheStone'' Zolo's hand is bitten off by a crocodile, and then he drops into a pit of them. |
| 137 | * Madam Yiu, the DragonLady villainess of ''Film/ShanghaiGrand'' who starves her pet boa into making it savage and releasing it to devour her captors, was killed when trying to feed Ding-Lik to the boa, when Ding-Lik shoves an exposed bulb down the boa's throat causing it to twitch violently, breaking free from the chains Yiu is using to control the animal. The boa then lunges at Madam Yiu, to her horror, before swallowing her face. |
| 138 | * ''Shark Attack'' |
| 139 | ** ''Film/SharkAttack'': The bad guy ends up getting eaten alive by the same sharks that he had sicced on the town to drive down real estate prices. |
| 140 | ** ''Film/SharkAttack3Megalodon'': The human villain leaves the passengers on a boat behind to die when the Megalodon shows up, but he crashes his jetski into the shark's open mouth. |
| 141 | * The villains of ''Film/SharkNight'' feed people to sharks to make internet videos of them to make money, that and they're AxCrazy. So it's pretty karmic when one of the CoDragons falls into the SharkPool he was attempting to lower the main character into, and later when the BigBad himself gets eaten by a Great White. |
| 142 | * ''Film/SpidersIIBreedingGround'': Dr. Grbac, the captain, and the rest of the crew who cooperated with Grbac's plans all end up eaten by the giant spiders he created. |
| 143 | * ''Film/Tremors5Bloodlines'': The villain is eaten alive by an African Graboid after he tried to capture one to sell it on the black market. |
| 144 | * ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'': Hans, TheDragon to BigBad Blofeld, is devoured after Bond knocks him into the [[SharkPool piranha pool]] Blofeld keeps for disposing of traitors and failures. |
| 145 | [[/folder]] |
| 146 | |
| 147 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 148 | * In the Literature/AlexRider book ''Crocodile Tears'', TheDragon falls into, fittingly enough, a pit of crocodiles, which [[CruelAndUnusualDeath proceed to pull her apart in several different directions and eat her]], leaving only a foot with a severed shoe. |
| 149 | * ''The Case of the Six Watsons'' by Robert Ryan. After the supposed death of Franchise/SherlockHolmes, a member of Moriarty's criminal organization tries to dispose of Dr. Watson as well, by locking him in a cage with a 'Brazilian cat' (presumably a black panther) that he's raised as a pet. Watson is able to survive--albeit at the cost of a nasty leg wound--by ducking into the panther's holding cage. The owner sees this and goes to open the cage. However the panther had never tasted human blood before until it injured Watson; having taken a liking to it, the panther goes straight for its owner instead. |
| 150 | * The old couple who killed cats for fun in Creator/HPLovecraft's short story "Literature/TheCatsOfUlthar" ends up, fittingly, eaten by all the town's cats. |
| 151 | * In ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', the Oompa-Loompas claim that this will be the gluttonous Augustus Gloop's fate, as the pipe he's stuck in leads to a room where fudge is prepared. In a subversion, he's rescued before that can happen... in most versions. It's strongly implied that he ''will'' become a tasty treat in [[Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory the 2013 stage musical]]! |
| 152 | * [[RecycledPremise Three]] Creator/ArthurConanDoyle stories (''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'', ''The Adventure of the Speckled Band'', and ''The Brazilian Cat'') involve an InheritanceMurder involving an AnimalAssassin which ends up killing the would-be murderer instead. |
| 153 | * [[BigBad Malice X]] from ''Fat White Vampire Blues'' meets his end when he falls in bat-form into a pack of angry [[RaisingTheSteaks vampire wolf-dogs.]] |
| 154 | * ''Literature/InCryptid'': Francesco Russo and his gang, the villains of the short story "Sweet Poison Wine", end up getting eaten by the [[FrogMen river hags]] they tried to feed their enemies to, when Frances, Jonathan, and the gorgons leave them tied to chairs surrounded by raw liver, right next to the waterfront. |
| 155 | * In ''[[Literature/KittyNorville Kitty and the Silver Bullet]]'' Carl, the abusive leader of the Denver werewolves, is torn apart by his own pack. |
| 156 | * In ''Literature/TheLastBattle'', [[spoiler: [[TheAntichrist Sh]][[ManipulativeBastard ift]] gets thrown in the stable of his ScamReligion by King Tiriam and gets eaten by [[GodOfEvil Tash]]]]. |
| 157 | * James Bond novel ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie'' has the Big Bad get eaten by sharks and barracudas. |
| 158 | * In ''Literature/TheLostWorld1995'', BigBad Lewis Dodgson gets devoured by a bunch of baby ''T. rexes'' after an adult drops him into the nest and breaks his leg so that he can't escape. It's especially [[KarmicDeath karmic]], since [[spoiler:not only did he antagonize the group in this book, but he also helped cause the events of the first novel]]. |
| 159 | * Creator/WilhelmBusch's picture story ''Literature/MaxAndMoritz'' ends with the titular bad boys getting ground up in a mill and eaten by geese. |
| 160 | * Captain Hook's hand in ''Literature/PeterPan'' had been lost in a duel with Pan and eaten by a giant crocodile which becomes his AnimalNemesis as a result. At the climax, the croc returns to finish the meal. |
| 161 | * Famously done in the ''[[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Silence Of The Lambs]]'' books. If they are a Bad, it is a good bet that Hannibal Lecter will eat them. |
| 162 | ** Or, in ''[=Hannibal=]'', he (in this case, Mason) gets eaten by the wild boars that he ''thought'' would eat Hannibal. |
| 163 | * Subverted -- seeing as he survives -- with Zorba the Hutt, Jabba's father, who appears in a few ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' sources. In ''Literature/TheGloveOfDarthVader'', he seeks revenge on Han and Leia for his son's death, but his plan to deal Leia a KarmicDeath by throwing her to the sarlacc ends with him humiliated, not only because ''he'' is thrown into it by Trioculus (a would-be successor to Palpatine with a weird crush on Leia -- long story), but the beast vomits him out, clearly getting sick trying to eat him. (This is the first of many embarrassments for Zorba, who is clearly [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain a sorry excuse for a Hutt]].) |
| 164 | ** Played straight with Feltipern Trevagg, who is introduced cheating a widow with children out of her home, and proceeds to seduce a space bimbo [[spoiler:not realizing that among her people the bride traditionally eats the groom's insides on the wedding night]]. |
| 165 | * Short story "[[http://nickelkid.net/docs/greats/refute_beelzy.html Thus I Refute Beelzy]]". A mentally abusive father is eaten by the [[LouisCypher title character]], his son's NotSoImaginaryFriend. |
| 166 | * In ''Sideways Stories from Literature/WaysideSchool'', Mrs. Gorf is tricked into turning herself into an apple. Louis finds the apple and eats it. |
| 167 | ** This happens to Mrs. Gorf again in a later book. She materializes in a plate of potato salad, and John and Joe quickly eat her before she can turn them into apples. |
| 168 | * ''Literature/YoungBond'' |
| 169 | ** In the first novel, ''Literature/SilverFin'', the BigBad falls into the lake surrounding his Scottish castle and gets torn apart and devoured by the very eels that he had practiced his titular superserum on. |
| 170 | ** In the fourth book, ''Literature/HurricaneGold'', TheDragon winds up getting paralyzed and [[AndIMustScream eaten alive by a swarm of army ants while he can't do anything but watch]]. |
| 171 | [[/folder]] |
| 172 | |
| 173 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 174 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 175 | ** In the episode "The Pack", Xander and four gang members are taken over by a hyena spirit. As part of their rampage they kill and eat the school mascot pig, and then -- when called into the principal's office for questioning -- [[PsychologistTeacher Principal Flutie]]. At the end of the episode, the zoo warden who caused the whole thing (he wanted the hyena spirit for himself) gets tossed into a hyena holding pit where he gets eaten. |
| 176 | ** The episode "Go Fish" has the evil coach who was turning his team into ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon''-type monsters fall into a pit of them at the conclusion. "Those boys sure love their coach." |
| 177 | ** "Graduation Day." Principal Snyder gets eaten by The Mayor, who has just transformed himself into a [[BuffySpeak giant demon snake thingy]]. |
| 178 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': In season 6 [[spoiler:Ramsay Bolton]] is eaten alive by his own hounds after spending many seasons engaging in torture, warfare, and rape. This is [[HoistByHisOwnPetard especially karmic]] because he had trained his hounds to eat various people he [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunted down]] or otherwise wanted to dispose of, and even more so due to [[spoiler:him starving the hounds in preparation for eating Jon Snow and the others on the Stark side following the Battle of the Bastards, meaning that they're too hungry to recognize their master when Sansa Stark, his final victim, has him thrown into the kennels with them]]. |
| 179 | * The tennis-playing giant alien blancmange in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' gets eaten by Mr. and Mrs. Brainsample. On the planet they're from, they're used to blancmanges being that size. |
| 180 | * Being a show about dinosaurs and other creatures that come through time portals, ''Series/{{Primeval}}'' has this quite often. A prime example would be that of Season 2 BigBad Oliver Leek, who gets ripped apart, shredded, and eaten by a bunch of Future Predators after Nick Cutter cuts the power to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the devices he was using to control them]]. |
| 181 | * In ''[[Series/{{V 1983}} V: The Final Battle]]'', [[LesCollaborateurs Daniel Bernstein]] is framed for the kidnapping of the [[LizardFolk Visitor]] Brian. Daniel is then captured, tortured, and taken away to be [[ToServeMan served to the aliens]] |
| 182 | * ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'': |
| 183 | ** The ''Liopleurodon'' gets eaten by a group of ''Eustreptospondylus'' at the end of "Cruel Sea". It wasn't evil, just a predator, but it was nevertheless the episode's "villain". |
| 184 | ** The ''Postosuchus'' is similarly eaten alive by a pack of ''Coelophysis'' at the end of "New Blood". |
| 185 | [[/folder]] |
| 186 | |
| 187 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 188 | * Religious art of the Christian [[TheMiddleAges Middle Ages]], especially in illustrations of the Last Judgement, often depicts the entrance to {{Hell}} as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellmouth open mouth of a large monster]] which swallows the damned. [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Pictures of Hell]] from the same era also frequently show the damned being [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coppo_di_Marcovaldo,_Hell.JPG swallowed, eaten or gnawed on by devils or demons]]. |
| 189 | * In Myth/EgyptianMythology to enter the afterlife you had to be weighed against the Feather of Truth after denying you'd done a long list of sins (the "Negative Confession"). If you were lying and therefore committed too many of the sins, you would be fed to Ammut the Devourer, a hippo with a crocodile's head. |
| 190 | * ''Myth/ClassicalMyth'': Inverted towards the end of the Trojan war- the priest Laocoon warned his fellow Trojans about bringing the Greek's wooden horse into the city. A bunch of snakes sprang out of the sea to devour him and his sons. He was right, of course, but because onlookers interpreted it as this trope, they hurried to bring the horse into the city. |
| 191 | * In the Literature/BookOfDaniel from Literature/TheBible, after having to consign Daniel to a lion's den because of a law that some princes had tricked him into passing because they were jealous of him, King Darius, overjoyed that (as he himself had predicted) the Lord protected Daniel for the night by sending one of His angels to shut the lions' mouths so they could not hurt him, has Daniel taken out of the lions' den. The princes responsible for the law (and their families, in a bit of DisproportionateRetribution) are thrown in instead, where they promptly get eaten by the lions. |
| 192 | [[/folder]] |
| 193 | |
| 194 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 195 | * The opera ''Theatre/{{Hansel and Gretel1893}}'' adds a new element to the familiar tale by the Brothers Grimm: The witch owns a magical oven which bakes children into gingerbread. Of course, the witch ends up getting pushed into it, and not only does this [[NoOntologicalInertia restore all the gingerbread children to life]], an impressive piece of witch-shaped gingerbread is brought out at the finale. |
| 196 | * The fate of Captain Hook in the original ''Theatre/{{Peter Pan|1904}}''. Adaptations often spare him, though. |
| 197 | * Chiron and Demetrius get butchered and baked into a pie for raping and mutilating Lavinia in ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus''. |
| 198 | [[/folder]] |
| 199 | |
| 200 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 201 | * Victor and Moritz in ''VideoGame/CrashTwinsanity'' [[spoiler:manage to escape their FinalBoss fight unscathed and attempt to hide away in a hut. They quickly discover that it's Evil Crash's hut and the monstrous bandicoot's hungry.]] |
| 202 | * ''VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade'': In "Genroku Legends: The Fishy Tales of the Nekomata", the first DLC for ''[[UpdatedRerelease Muramasa Rebirth]]'', [[BigBad Netsuzo Wakamiya]] -- an ambitious and unscrupulous nobleman -- arranges the downfall of the Inukai clan, who he is the chamberlain of. When the family's only daughter, Okoi, shows up seeking advice and shelter, Wakamiya decides to make her his concubine. Unfortunately for him, "Okoi" is actually Miike, the now-deceased real Okoi's pet cat who became a nekomata to avenge her, and just as Wakamiya is undressing her, "Okoi" transforms into a monstrous two-tailed cat monster and eats him. |
| 203 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Drakensang}} 2: The River of Time'', the corrupted commander Stitus Bloomfold (who often fed his prisoners to wild animals of sorts) tries to feed the party to his pet Newt Kraken, but when the monster is defeated and starts waving his tentacles in pain, he loses balance and fall in the kraken's open maws. |
| 204 | * In ''VideoGame/FamilyGuyBackToTheMultiverse'', BigBad Betram gets swallowed by his own UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex. |
| 205 | * A possible way to kill targets in a few levels of ''{{VideoGame/Hitman}}''. |
| 206 | * At the end of Delphi's campaign in the single-player mode of ''VideoGame/GiantsCitizenKabuto'', the evil [[SorcerousOverlord witch-queen]] of the Sea Reapers, Sappho, is eaten by the {{kaiju}} Kabuto after Delphi destroys the magical Kabuto Stone that Delphi [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters was using to control Kabuto]]. |
| 207 | ** ''[[VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney Blood Money]]'' has two. The "Till Death Do Us Part" level allows any bodies (alive or dead) that are pushed into the swamp to be eaten by alligators. One of the targets in that level is even a FatBastard who likes to feed chum to the reptiles... The other level is "A Dance With the Devil", set in a Las Vegas nightclub with a massive shark tank in the Hell-themed basement area. People can be pushed in to the water from the feeding area, but rigging the pyrotechnics show will fry one of your targets and cause her to jump into the water, where the sharks eat her. |
| 208 | ** In ''[[VideoGame/HitmanAbsolution Absolution]]'', this can be done in the "Death Factory" level where a pig-hating scientist can be [[FedToPigs dropped into a pit full of them]]. However, unlike ''Blood Money'', where the bodies are actually eaten (and can make the sharks quite fat), looking down into said pit will reveal the body lying above where the pigs are milling about as crunching and eating noises are heard, so its best to just listen and leave it to your imagination. |
| 209 | * In ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheEmperorsTomb'', the BigBad gets eaten by a dragon that was summoned from the underworld. |
| 210 | * In ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame'', [[spoiler:Dr. Sorkin gets eaten by the ''Mosasaurus'' she freed after turning on the group and becoming essentially an [[WellIntentionedExtremist eco-terrorist]]. Later, Yoder does a FaceHeelTurn and ascends to BigBad status by betraying the group and leaving them to die. When they later catch up to him and fight him, the UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex appears and he gets devoured by it while trying to get the Barbasol container back. If Nima chooses to get the canister back instead of helping Jess, she too will take a trip to the T. rex's stomach.]] |
| 211 | * In ''VideoGame/OverlordII'', the villain's dragon, Marius, is praising his boss after a OneWingedAngel turns him into an all-devouring EldritchAbomination, his praise is interrupted by the devourer eating him. |
| 212 | * This happens ''a lot'' in both ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Prototype 2}}'', most notably to [[spoiler: Alex Mercer]] in the sequel. Suffice to say, in both games only six bad guys ''escaped'' this fate: [[spoiler: Dr. [=McMullen=] by suicide, Supreme Hunter by decapitation, three scientists by helicopter crash and Col. Rooks by being more [[PunchClockVillain pragmatical than evil]] and thus ''surviving''.]] |
| 213 | * A commercial in ''VideoGame/StarCraftII: Wings of Liberty'' shows that terrans turn some [[HordeOfAlienLocusts zerg]] (specifically Mutalisks but there may be others), into truckstop food. |
| 214 | * In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'', after the Bundt cake is beaten down to its last Raspberry layer, it gets swallowed by Booster in one mighty gulp, though it takes two flunkies just to lift it and throw it into his mouth. Of course, this cake was supposed to be just a dessert in the first place, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext but instead it came alive and started attacking]]. |
| 215 | * Many villains in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': |
| 216 | ** One Alliance quest you can take involves using a disguise to infiltrate the Blacktooth Hovel and, among other things, eliminate three of their leaders. One of them is Worgmistress Othana, a cruel woman who beats and tortures the worgs she is in charge of. After you strike her with the weapon provided by the quest giver, she's paralyzed, and the abused worgs waste no time closing in to finish her off. [[KarmicDeath (It's rather enjoyable to watch.)]] |
| 217 | ** In Isle of the Giants, Dohaman the Beast Lord is a troll "dinomancer" who has altered a giant devilsaur named Oondasta into a gigantic living siege engine. Before the Raid actually starts, he orders Oondasta to crush the Raid members, but Oondasta decides to devour him before doing so. |
| 218 | ** In the Suramar storyline, one quest requires you to free menagerie animals held with Slave Collars, including another devilsaur named Su'esh. Again, her trainer orders her to attack you, but she does not, and devours him. But that's only the start. You then have to ''ride Su'esh'' and go all kaiju on Suramar, crushing and devouring the Legion soldiers. |
| 219 | ** In the Highmountain instance, a Shaman tries to summon Naraxas, a giant worm-like abomination, to sic on your party. It complies, but eats him first. |
| 220 | [[/folder]] |
| 221 | |
| 222 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 223 | * In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', the Lumberjack's companion is defeated, only to be turned into [[spoiler: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p6/ Blue Steaks.]] ]] |
| 224 | * ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': One of the Knights of Jove members who is hunting down Agatha and Violetta in the Refuge of Storms ends up eaten by a giant monster after yelling indignantly at it when it interrupts his chase. |
| 225 | * In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', this is the ultimate fate of [[spoiler:Tsukiko. By her own wights, no less.]] |
| 226 | * In ''Webcomic/UserFriendly'', the Crud Puppy gets knocked into the coffee grinder, and is drunk by Pitr. Unfortunately, its hands survive inside his chest, and the surgeons who operate on him aren't too careful. |
| 227 | [[/folder]] |
| 228 | |
| 229 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 230 | * Roman Torchwick from ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' meets his end at the jaws of a griffon. |
| 231 | [[/folder]] |
| 232 | |
| 233 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 234 | * In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged,'' Guru is EatenAlive by the Namekians after he reveals he was the cause of the Great Drought (how else would someone who lives solely on water become [[FatBastard morbidly obese?]]), which he then [[FinalSolution blamed on the Albino Namekians and sentenced them all to death.]] |
| 235 | [[/folder]] |
| 236 | |
| 237 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 238 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': In ''Moby or Not Moby'' Captain Ahab spends the episode being a {{jerkass}} and sadistically trying to kill Literature/MobyDick. When his attempts to harpoon Moby fail, the enraged whale [[ExitPursuedByABear chases after Ahab]] and swallows him whole. |
| 239 | * Happens in the finale movie of ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'', where the three Greaser Dogs who enjoy picking on the titular duo any chance they get are swallowed by a sea monster. |
| 240 | * ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'': At the end of "Statues," Baron Greenback comes to what sounds like his demise as the statue of chef Monsieur Smaquing Lipps has designs on making frog's legs out of him (The Baron would obviously return in ensuing episodes thanks to JokerImmunity.) |
| 241 | * Dr. Ashida in ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' is eaten by his own Ashida dragons. |
| 242 | ** In "Treasure of the Temple" the archeological thief Perkins and his men are eaten by crocodiles. |
| 243 | * In the second season of ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous'', two trophy hunters posing as Eco-tourists named Mitch and Tiffany end up meeting their ends at the jaws of dinosaurs. Mitch gets caught in one of his own traps and is eaten by the T. Rex (who he electrocuted with a cattle prod) and Tiffany gets eaten by a pair of Baryonyx (whose sibling she shot). |
| 244 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short ''"WesternAnimation/ADayAtTheZoo"'', a lion exhibit is repeatedly shown where we see Egghead [[BullyingADragon poking the lion with a stick]] between the bars of it's cage and [[InteractiveNarrator The Narrator]] keeps shooing him away while warning him against it. At the very end of the cartoon, we see the lion alone with a content look; just as The Narrator thinks Egghead finally learned his lesson and went home, the lion shakes it's head, opens it's mouth and we see [[ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes a pair of eyes in the darkness]] of down it's throat. |
| 245 | -->'''Egghead:''' I'm a bad boy. |
| 246 | * ''WesternAnimation/SmilingFriends'': At the end of "Mr. Frog", Rex, the producer of the eponymous show and a truly disgusting individual, interrupts a heartfelt apology from Mr. Frog proclaiming that no one cares about him anymore, stupidly not realizing how violent Mr. Frog has been recently. Mr. Frog naturally wastes no time in gobbling him up live on air, which actually causes his career to get back on track. |
| 247 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' episode "Transformation", an alien predator called a Cironeilian Chrysalis Eater lures Starfire to a secluded grove so it can devour her once her cocoon (part of the Transformation process she is undergoing) is complete, [[EvilGloating cruelly mocking her]] as it happens. When the other Titans intervene, Starfire completes the process and emerges, then blasts the creature outside the grove, where it becomes prey to a ManEatingPlant she encountered earlier. |
| 248 | * At the end of WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit's ''WesternAnimation/AMatterOfLoafAndDeath'', SerialKiller Piella Bakewell tries to escape in a hot air balloon. However, since she's a [[FatBastard Fat Bitch]], her weight causes her to descend into the local zoo...and straight down into the crocodile exhibit. [[GoryDiscretionShot You can guess what happens next]]. |
| 249 | * Happens to BigBad Phobos near the end of season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' when he's betrayed by [[TheDragon Cedric]]. However after Cedric's defeat we see that [[UnexplainedRecovery he did manage to survive]]. |
| 250 | [[/folder]] |
| 251 | |
| 252 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 253 | * In 2020, a group of poachers broke into a game reserve in South Africa to hunt some endangered rhinos and were eaten by lions. |
| 254 | [[/folder]] |
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