Line #71 Main/SupernaturallyDeliciousAndNutritious


1	->''"He was irresistible, actually. He was like catnip to enormous, murderous reptiles. One whiff of him drove them into a frenzy, drawing their attention completely. People tended to be quite impressed by this knack. Or, at least, impressed that Skip had survived as long as he had while possessing it."''
2	-->-- '''TheNarrator of ''Literature/IHateDragons'', [[https://brandonsanderson.com/i-hate-dragons-extended-version/ by]] Creator/BrandonSanderson'''
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4	A subtrope of WeirdnessMagnet and HorrorHunger; it turns out that someone is ''literally'' delicious. Either their blood is, or their LifeEnergy is far more appealing than most people. [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampires]] be lining up the block, [[TheLegionsOfHell demons]] give the boutique two clawed thumbs up, and TheHeartless are going to come out of the woodwork. Needless to say, this is going to complicate someone's life considerably. It can also be a danger to everyone else if this acts as a RareCandy and [[SuperEmpowering powers the monster up.]]
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6	Occasionally, it's the very act of having powers to combat these forces that [[MagneticMedium attracts them]], because [[MageHuntingMonster the local monstrous predators think that power-havers are mighty tasty]]. If this person doesn't have any powers to speak of, anyone who has them as their {{Protectorate}} had better be prepared for a ''lot'' of protecting.
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8	A variant of this is simply that supernatural beings find it literally pleasant to be around. They're not so much wanting to ''eat'' them as... er... "[[DoubleEntendre eat]]" them. Or at least bask in the scent or energies and make their life complicated. Often it's a little of column A and a little of column B.
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10	Do not confuse with MagicallyDelicious, which is about commercial advertisements.
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12	Compare EvilTastesGood. It may be inverted by TooSpicyForYogSothoth. Also compare with CannibalismSuperpower, ToServeMan, SpikedBlood, and SuperPersistentPredator. The prey in question might try to convince their hunter that YouWontLikeHowITaste, or if that fails, hope the monster will RegretEatingMe. In some cases this may lead to GodEating. It can also overlap with PickyPeopleEater.
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14	!!Examples:
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19	* ''Manga/XxxHolic'': Watanuki's subconscious angst made him especially tasty to spirits, causing more angst, in some sort of demonically delicious loop.
20	* Suzu of ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' is a spirit medium, someone born with a huge amount of LifeEnergy that some [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent ayakashi]] want to take by eating her. However, most ayakashi drawn to Suzu [[FriendToAllLivingThings mean no harm]], and are [[TheBeastmaster often loyal to her]]. In a more benign note, this also make her hand-made food taste amazing to ayakashi.
21	* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': The Brand of Sacrifice makes its bearer closer to the supernatural than normal, and is placed on people sacrificed to the Godhand so that the bearer of a Behelit can become a demon. In the unlikely event that a branded person escapes this fate, spirits will be drawn to them every night and try to eat them. As a side effect the bearer can sense the presence of spirits and ignores anti-{{Muggle}} wards.
22	* Helpless heroine Misao from ''Manga/BlackBird2006'': “If a demon drinks her blood, he is granted a long life. If he eats her flesh, he gains eternal youth. And if he makes her his bride, his clan will prosper...” So she's constantly at risk from demons who want a bite. Or a marriage contract. Or both.
23	* Ciel of ''Manga/BlackButler''. The events that shaped his life have left his soul in such a state that it is considered the most suculent thing on Earth to demons. Much of Sebastian's loyalty to Ciel comes from the promise of feasting on Ciel's soul when the time comes.
24	* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', the more powerful you are, the more tasty you are to Hollows. This is more of a concern for people who have just enough power to [[ISeeDeadPeople perceive them]], but not actually ''fight'' them.
25	* Aisa Himegami from ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' at least ''smells'' delicious to vampires...however, they are destroyed by actually trying to drink her blood.
26	* In ''Manga/DarkGathering'', Ai carries the brand of a god which marks her as his future sacrificial bride. The brand constantly leaks the god's energy which ghosts find irresistible. The only reason she's alive is that the brand also protects her from hostile gods [[WalkingDisasterArea by forcing them to attack anyone nearby]].
27	* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', some people have "marechi" blood, which makes them supernaturally appealing to demons and grants them ten times the power than if they ate a normal person. Shinazugawa Sanemi, one of the elite hashira, has exceptionally strong marechi, and takes advantage of this by cutting himself in combat and letting the smell of his blood distract the demon he's fighting.
28	* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'': Hayate has delicious supernatural blood. It's part of the His Life Sucks package. In fact, his blood when he's half-dying is one of the most mystically infused substances in the world; and can completely power up [[spoiler:Isumi or her great-grandmother]]. The latter has no problem with snacking on him, while the former tends to abstain, but once when Nagi was in danger, [[spoiler: she tasted just a little and that gave her enough power to both break a PowerLimiter curse that was on her and use her magic powers to teleport Hayate onto a spaceship in freaking Outer Space.]]
29	* ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'' ended up with a RedRightHand because his latent spiritual powers caused him to be a target for demons (who wanted to eat him) and ghosts (who wanted help from someone who could interact with them).
30	* Flea-demon Myoga from ''Manga/InuYasha'' once mentioned that Inu-Yasha's father's blood was "especially delicious", and that Inu-Yasha had inherited that from him. Different from the other examples in that Myoga is a demon, but not a villain; in fact, he is quite loyal to Inu-Yasha. The fact that Myoga is only slightly larger than a mundane flea may have something to do with it, of course -- as it is, he drains harmlessly small amounts of blood from his "victims", who are annoyed more than anything else.
31	* Kouta from ''Literature/{{Kanokon}}'' is the supernatural ChickMagnet version. He smells particularly pleasing to spirits... but rather than putting his life in jeopardy, it results in him acquiring an Unwanted Harem consisting of a powerful fox-spirit, and a slightly-less-powerful wolf-spirit. (As well as drawing 'attention' from a number of other, more-or-less superpowered spirits.) Of course, their warring for his attention DOES occasionally put him in a bad place...
32	* In ''Manga/{{Karin}}'', all vampires have humans with particular qualities that they find especially tasty. Karin's father loves arrogant people, her mother favors the blood of liars, her brother goes for stressed people, and Karin herself is attracted to despair. [[spoiler:When Karin's little sister awakens, she is drawn to the blood of lonely people.]]
33	* The Karasumori site of ''Manga/{{Kekkaishi}}'' has a [[CherryBlossoms Cherry tree]] that blooms out of season, said to excite the feelings of all around. This makes it a powerful [[{{Youkai}} Ayakashi]] magnet.
34	* ''Webcomic/{{Kubera}}'': Unlike other sura, the Chaos Clan instinctively attack strong prey while they are weakened. Taraka claims that [[spoiler:this is the real reason Yuta is interested in Leez; he subconsciously understands she's going to be an unspeakably powerful FutureBadass, and wants to eat her NOW, before she gets strong.]]
35	* In ''Anime/{{Mnemosyne}}'', the longer an immortal lives and the more painful memories she has, the tastier her time spore is to [[spoiler: Eipos]].
36	* Ginko of ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'' is constantly attracting mushi which threaten to devour him if he stays in a particular place for too long. It's outright stated in the show that, eventually, they will catch up with him and eat him alive.
37	* ''Manga/MusukoGaKawaikuteShikataganaiMazokuNoHahaoya'': The human Chiharu is to eight year-old vampire Lizette. For her part, Lizette has demonstrated incredible willpower and has not drank Chiharu's blood... just adored the scent from afar. She has much more trouble than normal in one chapter, when she runs out of the blood she's normally supplied with and needs every ounce of that incredible willpower not to attack Chiharu. She resolves afterward to ''never'' run out of blood like that again.
38	* The man-eating {{youkai}} of ''Manga/NatsumesBookOfFriends'' often comment on how delicious Natsume smells because of the strength of his power.
39	* Evangeline in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' indicates at first that Negi's blood, being the son of the Mage who imprisoned her, would grant her the power to escape her bonds. She started off apparently as the homicidal version of this trope, but after her DefeatMeansFriendship, started training him with BlackMagic. Her price for the training is some regular KissOfTheVampire, and she's getting away with it.
40	* Tsukune from ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'', due to being a human in a school for monsters, almost all of which would love the chance to eat a human. Moka frequently says his blood is "very sweet".
41	* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', Kaneki is apparently incredibly delicious as a result of his [[HalfHumanHybrid hybrid]] nature. This results in PickyPeopleEater Tsukiyama becoming absolutely obsessed with him, considering him the ultimate culinary experience. Just the scent of his blood has members of the Gourmet Club moaning in excitement, and eager to sample this rare and delicious meat. Another example is the ghoul investigator Suzuya, who is noted by Kaneki and some other no-name ghouls to smell absolutely delicious -- it's because he used to work as a "scrapper" for a ghoul restaurant since he was a little boy, killing dozens of people for their meat before he was finally rescued and reintegrated into humanity.
42	* From ''Manga/TsukuyomiMoonPhase'' we have Kouhei: [[spoiler:He is the so-called "Vampire's Lover". What this means is his blood, besides being literally delicious for vampires, has the power to undo the psychic oaths of obedience they have towards their masters. That's how Hazuki was able to leave the castle prison she was in at the beginning, and how Elfriede is able to deceive and betray Count Kinkel, her master.]]
43	* TheVirus in ''Manga/VenusVersusVirus'' especially wanted to eat people who could sense them, such as the MainCharacters. This put a lot of stress on the new girl; which would shift her into her Anti-Virus SuperPoweredEvilSide; who would usually easily trounce this. But then ''she'' would find her partner "smells absolutely irresistible" and try to ...taste her until her normal personality kicked back in. It is ''not'' played for laughs.
44	* in ''Manga/WildArms Twilight Venom'', Mirabelle (a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Crimson Noble]]) gets a small taste of Sheyenne's blood and flips out, wanting some more.
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48	* Darklings from ''ComicBook/TheDarkness'' give this reason for following Jackie.
49	* Point-One-Percenter sparks in ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' are so-called because of their rarity--just .1% of the Cybertronian forged population (which is itself fairly small) are Point One Percenters, possessed of powerful and special green Sparks compared to the usual pale blue ones. Apparently the sheer brightness of their Sparks make them appealing to things that feed on Sparks, such as [[ShapedLikeItself Sparkeaters]].
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53	* In ''Ghosts of the Past'', sequel of ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', it is heavily implied that [[spoiler: SuperSoldier blood is particularly attractive to vampires. Specifically, it can make the likes of Dracula, who's been after it for some time, into a DayWalkingVampire. And no one but Steve, or one of his descendants, will do...]]
54	* An amusing Literature/HarryPotter story called ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/11126195/1/ No Competition]]'' ''Fanfic/NoCompetition'' has Harry being this as a result of [[YinYangBomb Voldemort's killing curse and his mother's spell.]] It gives him a powerful dark aura that is like catnip to dark creatures, to the point where some of the most powerful dark beings in the world have congregated to be in his presence from the high they get off of his aura. [[DarkIsNotEvil This does not make him evil at all, however.]] It just attracts these dark beings who want to enjoy the curious mix of his innocence and dark aura. This makes wizards on the light side fear him, but aggravates Voldemort to no end, as he can't seem to recruit the very beings that are congregating around his enemy.
55	* ''Fanfic/SuperwomenOfEvaTreacherousWeb'': As a result of [[spoiler:killing Gendo Ikari and eating ADAM]], Ritsuko Akagi/Spider-Woman ends up with the ''very bad'' side-effect that every time she transforms into her superpower alter-ego, any Angels in the vicinity end up attracted to her and will stop at ''nothing'' to absorb her into them.
56	* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6051043/1/Survival_of_the_Fallen Survival of the Fallen]]'', an X-Men (films)/True Blood/POTC/Van Helsing and whatever else crossover, Logan's (Wolverine) blood tastes very strong to Vampires and heals them at an absolutely ridiculous rate. This is because [[spoiler: he is among other things one of the nephilim and the son of Gabriel Van Helsing, i.e. the Archangel Gabriel.]]
57	* In ''Fanfic/TalesOfTheCanterlotDeportationAgency'', pony blood suppresses Frenzy in [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Kindred]]. The problem is that not only are ponies sentient, but the (recently discovered and closely held) [[BloodMagic Tremere ritual]] requires three human sacrifices to get to Equestria ''and'' a pony sacrifice to get back.
58	* In the ''Supernatural/Twilight'' crossover ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6721038/1/The-Wedding-Crashers The Wedding Crashers]]'', Leah takes Sam and Dean to Renesmee and [[TookALevelInJerkAss Jacob's]] [[WifeHusbandry wedding]], where about eighty percent of the guests are [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]]. A lot of them then go out of their way to tell Dean that he smells really, really good, including the ones who don't eat humans. [[spoiler: Castiel theorises that this is due to Dean being [[ArchangelMichael Michael's]] True Vessel, the "most unique and powerful vessel on the planet".]] Dean's not exactly thrilled.
59	** The vampires also target Sam for this reason; in addition, one of them claims that he has the potential to become one of the most powerful vampires ever seen. Like Dean, Sam isn't exactly thrilled...especially when their choice of words to describe him brings up bad memories.
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63	* In Creator/AmeliaAtwaterRhodes' vampire novels, witches' blood is especially delicious.
64	* ''Literature/AnitaBlake'': Blood from people who have supernatural abilities is especially desirable to vampires, although drinking too much of it in a short period can affect them like alcohol. This is revealed when Jean-Claude refuses an offer of blood from a man with Fae ancestry because he had just drunk from both Anita and from a werewolf and anymore would have made him too intoxicated for a meeting he was about to have.
65	* ''Literature/IHateDragons'': Skip has the supernatural power of smelling so delicious to dragons that they go crazy with the desire to eat him.
66	* ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'': [[TheLoad Xuanzang]] is this because his virgin flesh is supposed to grant immortality to demons as it is the flesh of a holy man. This is a TropeCodifier in regard to Eastern literatures.
67	* ''Literature/PeterPan'': While no supernatural reason is given for it, Captain Hook is apparently pretty tasty. After Peter chops his hand off, it's tossed into the mouth of a nearby crocodile who finds it so delicious it now follows Hook wherever he goes, licking his lips for the rest of him.
68	* ''Literature/TheSookieStackhouseMysteries'': Faeries are practically [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Scooby Snacks]] to vampires, to the point they act like dogs in a butcher shop when in the presence of one. (Sookie herself is less than pleased when she finds out her own fairy heritage is the reason she's so attractive to supernaturals.) It doesn't seem to work the same way for her relatives, though.
69	* ''Literature/{{Stardust}}'': The fallen star, Yvaine, is endangered thanks to her heart being the key to longevity and magical powers, and attracting the attention of the Lilim. Whether heart-of-star is particularly tasty is clarified in neither film nor book.
70	* ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'': Bella evidently smells particularly appealing to vampires, and her love interest in particular. This is a bit of a problem, because VampireBitesSuck in this series and said love interest is ''very'' serious about being a VegetarianVampire as a result. [[ButtMonkey It really does suck to be Edward Cullen, doesn't it?]]
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74	* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
75	** Marcus Hamilton [[NiceJobFixingItVillain makes the mistake of telling Angel that great power flows through his veins]] while making a BadassBoast. Angel promptly decides to see if he's being literal.
76	--->'''Angel:''' Wow! You really are full of it.
77	** Also, otters' blood is delicious. Virgin blood also has a unique taste, as one vampire requests it specifically.
78	--->'''Spike:''' Oh, God, it's bloody ambrosia! Is this otter?
79	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
80	** Slayer blood is often implied to be better tasting to vampires than normal humans, as well as being both empowering and an aphrodisiac. It was Slayer blood that allowed TheMaster to break his [[SealedEvilInACan seal]] at the end of the first season. In season three, Slayer blood was the only cure for a poisoned Angel. It's most likely the [[spoiler: infusion of demonic energy that slayer powers come from.]]
81	** Glory, a GodInHumanForm, needs to drain the sanity of others to maintain hers. After inflicting this on Tara, Glory is noticeably giddy and mentions how great "that witch's mind" tasted.
82	* ''Series/DirkGentlysHolisticDetectiveAgency'',:Dirk is noted by the emotional vampire-like "Three" to have energy that tastes really, really good.
83	* ''Series/GhostWhisperer'': [[ISeeDeadPeople Melinda]] is usually chased by ghosts in need of help (whether they want it or not), but there is the occasional guy who [[OurSoulsAreDifferent collects souls to gain power]], and they tend to target her. Her occultist teacher friend told her that "If a dark spirit collects the soul of a light spirit, it's like a hundred points!"
84	* ''Series/MyBabysittersAVampire'': Ethan has a rare blood type that vampires consider a delicacy.
85	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''':
86	** Season 7 had the year's BigBad's followers creating food additives that would make any human eating them become tastier, bulkier, more complacent and lethal to any anthropophagous beasties other than his own kind.
87	** [[TheChosenOne Dean]] seems to make every vampire he interacts with, even the ones who stick to animals, get a little ...hungry. It's been stated several times by angels and demons alike that he's the 'perfect vessel' probably due to him being [[spoiler:the human host of ArchangelMichael.]]
88	* ''Series/TheStrainTVSeries'': In the final season, [[spoiler:after they have taken over,]] the Stigoi set up a facility to breed humans with type B blood, which they find particularly tasty.
89	* ''Series/TrueBlood'': Fairy blood is unusually tasty for vampires, as well as allowing them to walk in the sun for limited periods.
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93	* The basis for what makes vampires so scary is drinking blood by [[VampireBitesSuck biting into a human's neck with sharp fangs,]] or at least [[NewerThanTheyThink it is nowadays.]] In most vampiric lore from the 20th century, human blood is treated as absolutely delicious to vampires. How delicious depends on the work, as well as the attitude a vampire has towards the act itself. A good vampire might try to resist drinking human blood, treating it as a HorrorHunger. An evil vampire will liken chasing and feeding on a human as playing with their food.
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97	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
98	** In an April Fools ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine article about Flaws for Commoners (an NPC character class), this is one of them. Any carnivorous monster will attack the character to the exclusion of everyone else, even if they wouldn't have otherwise attacked the party at all.
99	** All dragon types have something that they consider to be the most delicious thing ever. For red dragons, this happens to be humans. Green dragons have a similar fondness for elves.
100	* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' has the Abyssal Exalted who, as creatures of death, have difficulties recovering [[{{Mana}} Essence]] while outside of the Underworld. One way around this is to [[OurVampiresAreDifferent pop fangs and drain the Essence out of people in the form of blood]]. Needless to say, enlightened Essence users (such as other Exalted) yield much more return than plain old mortals.
101	* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has the Ghoran, a plant species that was originally created by druids as a food source but has since been uplifted and become a race of PlantPeople. One of their racial traits is called "Delicious" -- because they were originally meant to be food, anything (regardless of its usual diet) that grabs them with a bite gets bonuses to hold on because they just taste that good.
102	* ''Franchise/TheWorldOfDarkness'':
103	** In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' and ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' it's stated that ''other'' vampire blood is tastier to vampires than even human blood. But it's a ForbiddenFruit with its own dangers.
104	** ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'':
105	*** In ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming'', [[TheFairFolk changelings]] especially enjoy artistic people. This comes in both "Wants to be around them" and "Wants to MindRape them" forms. And changelings taste especially good to vampires, as well as providing a drug high.
106	*** ''TabletopGame/HunterTheReckoning'' has a rule about mortals with more powerful blood than usual. The obvious disadvantage isn't worth the points you get.
107	** ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'':
108	*** In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'', werewolf blood is especially nutritious to vampires, effectively delivering twice as much juice as human blood... but a) it stirs up [[EnemyWithin the Beast]] and b) you have to deal with a ''werewolf'' to get it.
109	*** The ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'' has Merits and Minor Templates (think almost, but not quite, supernatural) for mortals that are essentially {{Weirdness Magnet}}s. Any merit that allows the mortal to see ghosts or spirits usually has the downside that, even if they aren't immediately drawn to you, both such creatures will notice being noticed and at the least pester you and at worst try to [[DemonicPossession possess you]].
110	*** Mortals with the "Residual Spirit Energy" Merit have [[{{Mana}} spirit Essence]] in their blood. In theory, this is a powerful negotiating tool with [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent Spirits]], who subsist on Essence. In practice, most Spirits are more interested in a quick meal than in protecting the renewable resource, so they're BlessedWithSuck.
111	*** ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'' allows the Uratha to regain [[{{Mana}} Essence]] by eating the flesh of humans, wolves, or werewolves. However, as all three are extremely akin to them, [[ImAHumanitarian that counts as cannibalism]], meaning they need to make a [[KarmaMeter Harmony]] check.
112	*** ''TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated:'' Pandorans (essentially misborn and mutant Prometheans) require Pyros to survive, which they can only get by eating the Pyros-rich flesh of Prometheans.
113	*** ''TabletopGame/PrincessTheHopeful:'' The body of a dead Princess is stated to be extremely delicious and nourishing to creatures of Darkness.
114	*** ''TabletopGame/LeviathanTheTempest'': has Atolls, otherwise normal humans whose presence suppresses a Leviathan's [[GodOfEvil divine]] and [[{{Kaiju}} bestial]] natures. The respite from being constantly torn between these two WarringNatures is quite literally addictive, so much so that many Leviathans will do just about anything (including things like kidnapping and starting wars) to stay in the company of an Atoll once they find one.
115	* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': Dragon blood is so filling that any vampire that manages to drink a dragon dry will never feel their thirst again. Naturally, the fact that this requires them to drain a ''dragon'' rather complicates things, to the point that only two vampires in history, the legendary warrior Abhorash the Great and the necromancer Zacharias, ever managed this feat. This led to Abhorash's bloodline, the Blood Dragons, becoming a {{Proud Warrior Race\|Guy}} in order to be powerful enough to emulate him. Many Blood Dragons trying to work their way up to dragons have found that other monsters can also satiate them for an extended period of time, with one famously being able to slake his thirst for a century with each giant he consumes.
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119	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': The voidsent Orcus sets his sights on devouring the Warrior of Light's "bounteous" soul for being as "blinding as the sun, pure as the snow", which is "[as] delectable as a boar slathered in grease" to a creature like him.
120	* ''Franchise/LeagueOfLegends'': Because of his layers of immense trauma and guilt, [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsYasuo Yasuo]] is a magnet for the supernatural. Demons, who in Runeterra [[EmotionEater feed on negative emotions]], are naturally drawn to him, and Ahri, who is drawn to strong emotions for feeding, tries to keep her distance from him so she doesn't accidentally kill him.
121	* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'': As a rule of thumb, be ''very'' distrustful of anyone handling any variant of this. There are many such elixirs, all with one thing in common: [[spoiler:the basic recipe involves either sacrificing bits of your mind and soul, or ripping them out from someone]].
122	* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'': If your species embraces both the genetic engineering ascension path and the [[ToServeMan consumption of other sapient species as food]], then you can do this to species that you enslave by giving them the "Delicious" trait, meaning that they produce extra food when they are used as livestock.
123	* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Hermits act as [[RareCandy free level-ups]] for youkai that eat them, at least according to [[AllThereInTheManual Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]].
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127	* ''VisualNovel/AkaiIto'': The main character comes from an ancient lineage of these people. Since the other characters are {{Lesbian Vampire}}s in one way or another, this trait of hers really drives the story.
128	* ''VisualNovel/OokamiKakushi'': Certain humans, called Temptations, [[SmellsSexy emit a nigh-irresistible scent]] that drives the [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Kamibito]] into a feral lust-crazed frenzy. Main character Hiroshi turns out to be a Temptation with a particularly potent scent, which causes no end of trouble for his Kamibito classmates.
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132	* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'': [[SuccubiAndIncubi Succubi]] regularly mention that tantric energy from super-powered humans is ''delicious'', almost to the point of being irresistible. And a vampire [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1209-exigil-pl-with-a-dash-of-nutmeg/ almost goes nuts]] just knowing a member of the exigil species is in town.
133	* ''Webcomic/{{Untouchable}}'': Modern vampires have learned to discreetly feed off humans' energy simply by touching them. Protagonist Sia finds her new neighbor Jiho has the most scrumptious energy she has ever tasted, but he HatesBeingTouched.
134	* ''Webcomic/{{Transfusions}}'': The main character, Dylan, seems to be an example of this, with blood that tastes better and lasts longer for the vampire Joa.
135	* ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl'': Zandra, who the body of a demon but a human soul, is able to get vampires on her side because drinking her blood allows Vampires to actually sleep during the day, which is a big deal for them because vampires in this setting become powerless ghost-like beings during the day. Sam Sprinkles, who is a cartoon rabbit person from another dimension, has blood that causes vampires to become overwhelmed with sexual arousal.
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139	* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': There are a few [=SCPs=] that have the effect of making the flesh of certain humans irresistibly delicious to other humans. One of them is a chocolate-like substance that make any human that eats it smell so good that other people will be compelled to try to eat them. Another is a phenomenon that makes people want to literally EatTheRich, which has affected Jeff Bezos is starting to spread to other rich people.
140	* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Josie Gillman was turned into a girl to protect her from a family curse which grants some males of the Gillman line savant Level abilities in non-Euclidian geometry and "exceptional tastiness" to a CosmicHorror, inevitably leading them to dabble in things humankind was not meant to know, fall through the cracks in our reality, and wander the dark interstices underlying the universe until they arrive at their inevitable, hideous doom. In short, male Gillmans are the EldritchAbomination equivalent of delivery pizza.
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144	* ''WesternAnimation/AllStarSuperman'': [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent's]] enormous power allows the villain Parasite to absorb enough ambient energy to escape his cell. Clark spends the next several minutes being chased through the prison, while having to keep ComicBook/LexLuthor from realizing that he is really Superman and find a way to defeat Parasite.
145	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Crashbox}}'': The ''Eddie Bull'' segment is an edutainment sketch series to teach about animals, with the same framing device for each episode; The titular Eddie works at a zoo, and is considered so delicious that every episode a new animal manages to swallow him, up to and including herbivores and animals much smaller than himself. He describes the animal to the viewer to help him figure out which did it this time.
146	* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'': Glow toads are considered the best-tasting thing in the ocean to most aquatic creatures. Even giant sea serpents will go out of their way to eat a tiny glow toad because of how good they are. [[MeaningfulName This is why the party's glow toad]] is [[APigNamedPorkchop named "Bait"]].
147	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E11MoltDown Molt Down]]" reveals that young dragons becomes this during their molt, as Spike finds out the hard way. The smell they excrete, while repugnant to most other creatures, attract giant predators such as hydras, tatzlwurms or {{roc\|Birds}}s. Thus Spike nearly gets eaten by a very persistent giant bird in the Everfree Forest.
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