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Author: Kooshmeister

Mar 19th 2017 at 7:45:09 AM

Virgil Incanto in ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "2Shy." A PickyPeopleEater who needs to eat human fat cells in order to survive, he lures overweight women off of the Internet and kills them and consumes their fatty tissues. As he becomes increasingly desperate throughout the episode, he resorts to killing his landlord, a woman of normal body build, as well as a male police detective. Neither of them provides him with much sustenance. In the end, he is arrested and shown wasting away in prison. He is presented as a CompleteMonster because he insists IDidWhatIHadToDo, even though there surely had to have been ways of obtaining human fat that didn't involve murdering people.

In another ''X-Files'' episodes, the aptly-titled "Hungry," fast food worker Rob Roberts is similar to Virgil. Like him, he is a PickyPeopleEater (brains are his poison). Unlike Virgil, though, we're given little indication Rob needs to eat human brains to survive. It's possible he can subsist on normal food. Despite this, he is more sympathetic than Virgil because even though he doesn't have to eat brains, it's a compulsive need he has difficulty fighting. He is shown to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feel intensely guilty]] about what he's done, and [[IJustWantToBeNormal expressing a desire]] to be rid of his hunger for brains, up to and including seeing a psychiatrist.  In the end, he proves unable to overcome his compulsion and commits SuicideByCop by goading Mulder into killing him by attacking him.