Too Spicy For Yog Sothoth / Western Animation

• Adventure Time: Gunther the penguin is so evil that Marceline's dad considered it a great honor to suck out his soul. He backed down pretty fast when it became clear that Gunther wasn't having any of that (specifically, Gunther slapped him in the face when he tried to do so). Reminder: this is the guy who stomps on ants and sucks out their souls just because it's fun. Then we find out Gunther actually is very evil. More specifically, it is an alien named Orgalorg that is bent on attaining immense power by absorbing a specific comet. When it crash-landed on the planet, its form got compressed into Gunther.
• Animaniacs:
  • In "Meatballs or Consequences", Yakko and Dot challenge The Grim Reaper at checkers after Wakko is declared to be unfit to continue living (Wakko was in an eating contest, and wasn't kidding when he said he'd die if he ate anymore meatballs). They win, but since they wanted to "be with their brother" the Reaper claims Yakko and Dot's souls as well — but after a few minutes of their wacky antics he realizes he'll have to host the three loons in the underworld for all eternity, and he lets them go.
  • In other episodes, they get Dracula and Satan to let them go for the same reason (even though Satan threatened them with an eternity of "whiny protest songs from the Sixties").
  • In an example with the Warners on the receiving end of this trope, one episode features something so horrible, even the Warner siblings can't deal with it: Baloney the Dinosaur.
  • The Warners are also on the receiving end of trope in "Survey Ladies" when the titular characters — a pair of women asking questions about beans, George Wendt movies, and George Wendt bean-eating movies — manage to not only resist their antics, but remain so utterly determined to complete their survey that they irritate them to the point of running away and begging them to stop. Keep in mind that, as noted above, the Warners were able to annoy Death himself into submission.
• In the second season of Avengers Assemble, the Avengers end up squaring off against Thanos's minions on an alien planet. One was a telepath who tried to control the Hulk, but the sheer amount of rage she found in his mind caused her to scream in pain and flee in terror.
• In Beast Wars, the Predacons infect Rhinox with a virus that turns him into a Predacon. Rhinox immediately embraces Predacon philosophy and starts plotting against Megatron (perfectly acceptable practice). However, unlike most of Megatron's underlings, Rhinox is smart. He would have defeated Megatron, if the Maximals hadn't interfered. Optimus Primal, to his credit, anticipated this outcome, knowing Rhinox.
• Megatron learned his lesson in Beast Machines. When he put Rhinox's spark into the Vehicon general Tankor, Tankor was made too dumb to plot against him. When his original personality resurfaces from outside intervention and becomes competent again, it's revealed that he added a Restraining Bolt when he placed Rhinox's spark inside Tankor. At the moment of truth, it left Rhinox/Tankor paralyzed and Megatron with complete control of the superweapon Rhinox practically handed to him on a silver platter.
• A bumper in The Beatles has a Man-Eating Plant gobbling up Ringo... and eventually spitting him out, which upsets Ringo.
  Paul: Don't be angry, Ringo. Maybe he's just not hungry.
• An interesting object case in Ben 10: Omniverse. Malware is revealed in the flashback to have been for a long time trying to absorb the Omnitrix through his Power Copying in order to upgrade himself with it. When he eventually destroys Ben's favourite alien Feedback just to hurt him, Ben, out of rage, put the Omnitrix inside him and let him try to absorb it. Its energy overloads Malware, causing him to explode and be believed dead for a while. Keep in mind that in a previous episode, Malware was shown absorbing a Tachyon Cannon, a BFG with the ability to destroy its target on a molecular level, or even destroy an entire species in one shot if used right. He could absorb something that powerful, and the Omnitrix was still too much to handle for him.
• In one episode of Code Lyoko, Aelita creates an illusory clone of herself to escape the Scyphozoa. The creature is fooled, and tries to use its memory-draining powers on the clone... And apparently, it becomes sick.
• The fate of Harm-Many the fear eater from Dead End: Paranormal Park. He underestimates just how much fear Norma, a walking talking case of anxiety disorder, is packing. She so overloads him with just how much fear she has that he explodes.
• In the DuckTales (2017) episode "The House of the Lucky Gander!", Liu Hai (a demon who feeds on a mortal's luck) is beaten this way after Scrooge tricks him into feeding off of Donald's luck instead of Gladstone Gander's. Donald's luck is so bad that it leaves the portly Liu Hai emaciated, and leads to him and his casino vanishing from the ducks' dimension entirely.
• The Fairly OddParents!:
  • Timmy's imaginary friend Gary is eaten by an imaginary monster version of Vicky. She spits him out and says "I hate cool!"
  • In a later episode, after receiving Vicky as his scary godchild, the Card-Carrying Villain Foop quickly finds out how mean and nasty she can be and begs for his life to escape from her.
• In the Fangbone! episode "The Kat of Munching", Fangbone gets addicted to a tablet game where you feed a virtual cat good food to make it grow while avoiding non-edible items so it doesn't die. Drool sees his devotion to the cat and conjures it into a living being who forces Fangbone to spend all his time stealing the town's food because it's constantly hungry. When it grows to the size of three tanker trucks and there's nothing left to eat, it chases after Bill to eat Drool's severed big toe, which Bill and Fangbone are sworn to protect so Drool can't connect it back onto his body and reach his full power. Bill and Fangbone throw mailboxes, scooters, trash cans, etc. into the cat's mouth as it chases them, and Fangbone finishes it off by skewering his sword with some sickening meatballs Bill made and leaping into the cat's jaw, and it finally explodes.
• The Flintstones: In the episode "The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes", the Hatrocks (the family in a conflict with the Flintstones, Hatfields and McCoys-style) arrive to Bedrock to tell Fred that they are calling off the feud and proceed to overstay their welcome quite a lot, turning the Flintstones' home into a redneck pigsty. In desperation, the Flintstones ask for the help of the Gruesomes (an Addams family copy-cat Fred had met in a previous episode) to try to scare off the Hatrocks, but the latter are way too rough-and-tumble (ex. the Gruesomes' pet octopus attacks the Hatrocks' grandmother and she instantly wrestles it and forces it to help with her washing and the Gruesomes' pet dragon-like monster roars in the face of the Hatrocks' patriarch and he roars back at it and into submission). The solution to make the Hatrocks leave ends up being the discovery that they have an Absurd Phobia for Beatles rip-off music.
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: In the pilot "House of Bloo's", an Extremeasaur swallows Terrence and Duchess, then spits them both out because they're "spoiled and rotten".
• Futurama:
  • In "Raging Bender", a brainslug begins feeding on Fry's brain. It dies of starvation (acknowledged by the writers as being the "Oldest. Joke. Ever.").
  • Later, in "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid", it is revealed that Fry is The Chosen One to defeat the Brains; he's immune to their stupefaction ray, because he's the only creature in the universe who doesn't have the proper brainwaves used to think. The Nibblonians comment on his "superior, yet inferior brain".
  • The next time Fry meets them in "The Why of Fry", the Nibblonians acknowledge that it's all because of him doing the nasty in the pasty leading to him being his His Own Grampa (as seen in "Roswell That Ends Well").
  • Hermes is literally too spicy for Roberto in "The Six Million Dollar Mon". His favorite food is so spicy that it hurts the Robot Devil while he's eating a bowl of fire.
• God, the Devil and Bob:
  • The Devil finds himself on the end of this trope more than once. When he hires Martha Stewart to help redecorate the fourth circle of Hell ("She's on the speed-dial"), she quickly takes over and leaves him painting pictures of sad clowns in a side-room. In another episode, he shapeshifts into a normal teenager and dates Bob's daughter to mess with him, only to realise that he's forgotten how depressing teenagers can be and abandon the scheme without any outside interference. In a later episode, it's revealed that Richard Nixon was so much of an unstable person that the Devil refused to keep him, and he ended up in Heaven.
  • God spends half an episode trying to get away from his former Prophet Sarah, whom he thinks has a crush on him. (He's right.)
• This is one of the central tropes of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. No matter how powerful or evil a Monster of the Week is, it will never stand Billy's ignorance or Mandy's ominousness.
  • In "Big Trouble in Billy's Basement", Billy is pulled through a dimensional portal by Yog-Sothoth himself, but thrown back, and Billy explains in dejected tones "They didn't want me", prompting Hoss to say "Well, I guess that makes you a total loser".
  • In "Little Rock of Horrors", a brain-eating meteor creature attempts to eat Billy's brain but finds nothing. When it later devours Mandy's brain, it screams in pain, dies, and then reforms—but with Mandy in control. She comments "I guess my brain was a little too... spicy [for him]." Mandy would later reuse the exact same gambit in "The Grim Adventures of the Kids Next Door", intentionally, to take control over a powerful assimilating demon.
  • In "Creating Chaos" Eris, goddess of Chaos, plans to use Billy as a tool in driving the world insane. He promptly drives her insane by taking forever to get ready, doing such things as dripping honey on toast and watching paint dry. By the time he's actually ready, Eris has already cracked and runs away.
  • Another episode has a Chupacabra latching onto Billy's face, which Grim claims to be an attempt to suck out his brain. Mandy laments that the poor creature would starve.
  • Subverted in "Brown Evil", where Mandy tries to take advantage of this by sending Billy out to fight the zombie horde, assuming he can do so successfully because he's brainless. Unfortunately, this doesn't work, because the zombies are not after brains at all; they're actually after the brownies that Grim has hidden in his skull; said brownies were made with evil powder, which is sort of like catnip to zombies, apparently.
  • In "Billy & Mandy vs. the Martians", Morg's zombie minions attempt to eat Billy's brain, only to be turned into husks because it's too small. Billy assumes it's because it's too big (Depending on the Writer, he's either aware that he's an idiot or is convinced he's smart).
  • An unusual example in "A Kick in the Asgard", where Billy is sent to Valhalla by mistake. He proves himself too rowdy for the Viking warriors by stealing Thor's hammer and using it to wallop them all in combat, leading to Thor and Odin begging for Grim to take Billy back.
  • Subverted in the first movie: Mandy is confident that she'll be able to shrug off the effects of Horror's Hand and claim it for herself. However, the Hand bests her just as easily as it did with Billy and Irwin, the illusion it showed her—where she's a frumpy housewife happily married to Irwin—being enough to send her screaming in fear. As it turns out, Grim is the one too spicy for the Hand—which screams and shuts down as soon as he gets close—because his enslavement to Billy and Mandy means he's already living out his worst nightmare.
• Hercules: The Animated Series: Typhon, father of all monsters, is terrorizing Athens and Zeus arrives to stop him and they have this exchange:
  Zeus: Hold it right there, Typhon! Put down those innocent Athenians!
  Typhon: Gimme a break, they're lawyers!
  Zeus: Well... Put them down anyways. Besides, you know they give you gas.
• Hilda: In the season 3 episode "The Forgotten Lake", the Spider Frog eats Hilda and Johanna, only to vomit them back out after realizing they're humans and decides that they should be friends instead.
• Invader Zim:
  • An unfinished episode would have had Zim being judged on trial by the Control Brains (the central decision makers of Irken society). After finding him unquestionably guilty, they try to upload Zim's Memory Drive in his Irken Pack (where his real personality is located) before deleting his memory, but his memories drive them completely insane. Before the end of the episode, the now-insane brains declare Zim the most incredible Irken ever and granted ten minutes to control the MASSIVE, i.e., the giant flagship of the Irken Armada.
  • The Halloween episode featured Zim and Dib becoming trapped in a twisted alternate universe populated by monster versions of the regular characters. When they escape and the monster version of Sadist Teacher Bitters follows them, she's scared off when she witnesses the destruction caused by Cloud Cuckoo Lander robot Gir attacking children out for tricks-or-treats and eating all their food.
• This is the entire point of Jimmy Two-Shoes — something much more blatant in the pilot concept than in the final product. The title character is The Pollyanna in Miseryville, which is ruled by Lucius Heinous VII, a Captain Ersatz of Satan who dedicates his life to making people miserable. Lucius wants to break Jimmy, but not only is Jimmy Too Kinky to Torture, he drives Lucius crazy to the point where most episodes usually end with Lucius being the miserable one instead.
• Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: When a giant pigeon tries to eat Dave, it just horks him back up about fifteen seconds later. According to Benson, it's not the first time a giant mute has discovered Dave "doesn't go down well."
• In the Looney Tunes cartoon "The Hole Idea", inventor Calvin Q. Calculus has created a portable hole, which he eventually uses to get rid of his nagging, overbearing wife, which drops her all the way to Hell. Then a Big Red Devil pops up to return Mrs. Calculus, protesting "Isn't it bad enough down here without her?"
• In the Metalocalypse episode "Snakes N Barrels II", Dethklok consider Los Angeles to be so brutal and messed up that they would kill themselves if they lived there.
• In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "A Dog and Pony Show", when Diamond Dogs capture Rarity to make her search for diamonds, they only end up with her constantly crying and complaining, to the point that the dogs themselves are willing to let her go. At the end of the episode, it's revealed that she acted as annoyingly as possible on purpose for this very reason.
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998):
  • In "Just Another Manic Mojo", the girls lose their ball in Mojo Jojo's observatory, and he uses this instance to allow the girls into his lair to retrieve their ball in hopes of destroying them with a Death Ray; however, the girls are too distracted by everything in the lair that they keep leaving their post and Bubbles constantly tries to touch a Priceless Ming Vase. The girls turn out to be such a nuisance to Mojo that it drives him crazy, and he even ends up getting hit by his own laser; it is that point he has had enough of them that he stops trying, gives the girls their ball, and kicks them out.
  • A more or less literal example in "Down 'n Dirty": following a succession of increasingly dirty encounters and not willing to wash, Buttercup becomes so filthy and stinky that a huge monster who tries to swallow her spits her out and refuses to fight her. That is the final straw, and she finally gives up and takes a bath.
  • In "The Headsucker's Moxy", the girls capture a brain-sucking monster... when it is desperately searching the Mayor's empty head for sustenance.
• In an episode of The Real Ghostbusters, the team has to deal with a titanic ocean god that has woken up and taken up residence in the East River. After their attempts to fight him prove completely ineffective, he swallows them. After a few seconds, he makes a face, and then spits Venkman out. (As you might expect, this proves to be his undoing, because Venkman ends up picking up the Smart Ball and invents a weapon that can hurt him, convincing him to cough up the others and leave the city.)
• Rick and Morty: In a Crossover ad for Alien: Covenant, a Facehugger attaches itself to Rick and is instantly (and fatally) poisoned by the outright insane cocktail of drugs from all over the multiverse that swims in Rick's blood.
• A certain Homer in The Simpsons, being the quintessential dumb sitcom character, is commonly a target of this trope:
  • Exaggerated (in a fashion) in the very first "Treehouse of Horror": when Homer buys a haunted house that tries to scare them off or kill each other and they catch wise, their general obnoxiousness (Homer's stupidity, Lisa's attempt to break down the house's psyche into I Just Want to Be Loved, Bart's Nightmare Fetishist like of the house and Marge's apparent immunity to the horror and trying to put her foot down, telling the house that it's their property now and they will have to learn to live with each other) makes it decide to self-destruct, Poltergeist (1982)-style, rather than having to withstand living with the Simpsons any longer.
  • A short in "Treehouse of Horror II" has Mr. Burns putting Homer's brain inside a slave robot. Unfortunately, the robot still has Homer's laziness, gluttony, etc., so Burns eventually decides to return his brain to its original body.
  • "Treehouse of Horror III" has 2/3 of this trope in play. In the first story, Homer buys a demonic Krusty doll for Bart's birthday, and when it tries to kill him, Homer eventually tries to get rid of it by dumping it in a bottomless pit. Said pit rejects a box containing nude photos of Whoopi Goldberg. Later, a zombie horde clamoring for "Braaaains" inspect Homer's head, then abandon him in disgust (he's actually offended by this turn of events).
  • Subverted in "The Joy of Sect". A cult brings all of Springfield to their compound to be brainwashed into worshipping their almighty Leader. Everybody is controlled except Homer, whose attention span isn't long enough to listen to the brainwashing. The cult leaders despair over his "powerful mind". Then one of them simply sings "Leader!" to the tune of the old Batman (1966) theme song, and he is instantly brainwashed. Double Subverted later in the same episode when Groundskeeper Willie tries to de-program Homer and winds up being brainwashed himself.
  • In the Treehouse Of Horror XVII short "Married to the Blob", this is inverted: Homer eats a Blob Monster that falls from the sky on an asteroid in front of him and the blob monster tries, twice, to escape from his body through other orifices like his nose. Homer just sucks it back in and mutates into a man-eating blob monster himself when he digests it.
  • In "Treehouse of Horror XXIII", when the Devil is about to take Maggie away, Homer tries to make a deal with him not to. The devil proposes that Homer takes part in Three-Way Sex (demon, demon, Homer), Homer obliges, and before they're about to start, they quickly use the Safe Word.
  • In "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII", when Pazuzu, demon of the southwest wind, is exorcised from Maggie and possesses Bart instead, he immediately begs to be let out because Bart's soul is the darkest he's ever seen. Bart doesn't let him.
• In the South Park episode "Trapper Keeper", the Trapper Keeper becomes sick and is destroyed when it assimilates Rosie O' Donnell.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • In "Scaredy Pants", SpongeBob is shaved down by Patrick to make him rounder for a Bedsheet Ghost outfit that he uses as a Flying Dutchman costume to try and scare everyone in the Krusty Krab for Halloween. He fails miserably, but as the entire restaurant is laughing at him, the real Flying Dutchman arrives, angered by SpongeBob's insulting costume and about to steal everyone's souls. He takes a moment before doing so to explain the concept of being scary to SpongeBob, then removes the sheet... and flies away screaming when he sees that the sponge had been shaved down to facial features, a brain, and a spinal cord.
  • Speaking of the Flying Dutchman, subverted in all three endings of "Shanghaied". In one, the Flying Dutchman gives SpongeBob and Patrick up as slave crewmen because they're incredibly bad at it, but rather than letting them go, he plans to eat them, but they escape and then take the Dutchman's dining sock (he's unwilling eat without it). Then when the Dutchman catches them and SpongeBob ends up bringing them to an impasse with the sock, the Dutchman offers them three wishes in exchange for the sock. After accidentally using up two of their wishes, the first wish used by Patrick, who says "I wish we had known that earlier", and the second wish used by SpongeBob to bring back Squidward (who ironically enough had just returned home after the Dutchman sent him down the Fly of Despair), SpongeBob uses their final wish to turn the Dutchman into a vegetarian... but then they appear in a blender, somehow transformed into fruit, with the Dutchman preparing to eat them. The other two alternative endings have Patrick and Squidward get the third wish instead of SpongeBob, but they both end with the Dutchman definitely eating them. Patrick's wish is simply stupid (sticks of gum), and Squidward's wish isn't what he had in mind (Squidward wishes that he had never meet SpongeBob and Patrick; all three are simply given amnesia).
  • In a third Flying Dutchman example, namely "Born Again Krabs", Mr. Krabs trades SpongeBob's soul for 62 cents. Just as he starts to feel bad about it, the Flying Dutchman comes back to return SpongeBob after being annoyed by his incessant chatter about his hobbies.
    Krabs: What have I done? I want another chance! I haven't learned anything! I lost me best fry cook! I don't want this foul money, I want SpongeBob back!
    Dutchman: Here, take him back!
    Krabs: You heard what I said about the money?
    Dutchman: Heard what you said? I couldn't hear myself thinkin' with this one around. I only had him for thirty seconds, and it's "jellyfishin' this" and "Mermaid Man that!" Why, not givin' him back is a fate worse than death. He's your problem now!
• In the Star vs. the Forces of Evil episode "Ludo in the Wild", Ludo gets caught in a Giant Spider's web. When the spider approaches, it tastes him first. Finding him unappetizing, it cuts him free from the web.
• In the Teen Titans (2003) episode "Transformation", a Man-Eating Plant that Starfire encounters on an alien planet tries to eat her; but it spits her out. (Ironically, this is a mixed blessing for poor Starfire. She is depressed because the transformation she is undergoing — which is sort of like puberty to Tameranians, apparently - makes her view herself as ugly, and the experience with the plant only makes her feel worse, making her think that it finds her revolting.)
• In the third season of The Transformers, Galvatron is tricked into being taken to the planet Torkulon by the Quintessons, the planet itself being able to lobotomize any patient deemed beyond conventional treatment. However, this ends up being the planet's downfall, as the new Decepticon leader is so incredibly psychotic that he ends up turning the planet itself INSANE while making it out unscathed, allowing him to leave the planet in ruins.

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