'''Basic Trope''': Characters in video games heal by eating food.
* '''Straight''': Whenever Bob is injured, he eats some food and his HP goes back up.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** A potato chip fully heals Bob.
** Eating a hamburger causes Bob to [[RareCandy level up]].
** Food brings Bob [[BackFromTheDead back from the dead]].
** Bob can eat 25 whales in 5 seconds to get more health.
** Eating more food than required gives Bob even more than his maximum health.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Whenever Bob eats some food, his HP goes up... eventually.
** Bob can eat relatively cheap food outside of combat to heal, but has to rely on magical means in a fight.
** Eating food restores Bob's stamina, but he still needs medicine to treat actual injuries.
* '''Justified''':
** The food itself was designed to be a healing agent.
** The food doesn't [[PlaceboEffect actually heal]] Bob, Bob is MadeOfIron and eating food [[MagicFeather he likes]] increases his [[MoraleMechanic morale]] allowing him to [[ICanStillFight continue fighting]] [[{{Determinator}} long after anyone else]] would have collapsed.
** Bob's HealingFactor is CastFromCalories
* '''Inverted''':
** Food damages Bob.
** Bob heals himself by vomiting.
** Bob can [[CastFromHitPoints spend health]] to produce food.
* '''Subverted''': Bob attempts to eat something in the hope that this happens, but he is proved wrong.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...But seconds later the food digests and he ''does'' get more health.
* '''Parodied''':
** Adventurers spend their entire years scouring the lands for mysteriously-placed loafs of bread and milk in order to be safe for whatever adventures they go on.
** MidBattleTeaBreak
** Bob is a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]], so he regains health by eating people, whether they're enemies he's beaten or harmless innocents.
** Ambulances rush injured patients to a restaurant instead of a hospital.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''':
** Food does not have any powers. Food is just food.
** Not only is food just food, eating it is a slow process like in real life.
* '''Enforced''':
** The writer intends to spoof most RPG tropes and as such makes sure that he puts this in.
** The game is a loving pastiche of the old-school beat 'em up, chowing down on InexplicablyPreservedDungeonMeat gets a GrandfatherClause.
* '''Lampshaded''':
** "Food can heal people?!?!"
** You eat the APPLE and are refreshed for 10HP. Don't ask me how; You just are".
* '''Invoked''': Bob makes sure to eat all food because he's played many games where such logic applies.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': "Careful now, make sure the food is normal. We don't want the hero I'm fighting to be able to heal himself halfway through our fight for the kingdom".
* '''Discussed''': "I don't care what happens in your stupid games, food does not instantly heal you, Bob".
* '''Conversed''': "In my game, the food always heals people for no reason..."
* '''Deconstructed''': Food is a high-costing medicine that is only used by professionals and is inaccessible by the average man.
* '''Reconstructed''': People realize they can grow food in their back yards.
* '''Played For Laughs''': "Five bucks says Bob can't eat Jimmy's Buffet out of buisiness!" "No bet. I've seen him eat".
* '''Played For Drama''': People are starving, and die of old age at 30, because their insanely fast metabolism strip-mines their food and saves none of it as fatty tissue.
* '''Implied''': Bob gets badly scratched up during a fight, and mumbles about how he could really go for a snack.
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