History ImAHumanitarian / ComicBooks

** In ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'', Magneto is also implied to eat humans, seeing them as lesser animals than him. While he ''may'' have been speaking metaphorically, Ultimate Magneto once called baseline humans the mutants' "larder", among other unflattering terms.

** There's also Morlun and his family, the Inheritors. They're a race of vampires who enjoy eating human flesh. In ''''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManJMichaelStraczynski The Other]]'' storyline, Morlun ate Spider-Man's eye during their final battle.

* ''ComicBook/{{Chew}} stars Anthony Chu, a Cibopath. This means that he learns the history of anything he eats, and since he investigates his fair share of homicides, that means a ''lot'' of eating people, usually with legal backing. Since eating is such a heavy theme of the comic, he ocassionally encounters less legal cannibalism, such as a soup kitchen full of man-eaters.

** The Blob turns out to be a cannibal in ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}''. How is this shown? [[spoiler:''[[Website/WomenInRefrigerators He eats the Wasp]].'']]. He was also implied to be a cannibal during the first couple of arcs penned by Mark Millar.

* ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' had Everyman, [[spoiler: a shapeshifter than could transform into anything that he had ingested. If you did the math, then congratulations on figuring out how he can impersonate someone. [[ShoutOut His real name's even]] Franchise/{{Hannibal|Lecter}}.]]

* In ''ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative'', ComicBook/TheHood kills and apparently eats a lackey who has displeased him. He tells his horrified followers, "I know a lot of you have... appetites. So do I. But you will learn to control them. To be smart about how you indulge them. Or your appetites will feed my appetites."
** It gets better - the guy he ate was Vampiro. He was mad at him for, ahem, snacking without cleaning up after himself.

* Willy Pete from ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}''. He doesn't ''need'' to eat, he just likes doing it. And since he's a man of living fire, he can only eat superheroes and supervillains, as anything else would turn to ashes before he can get it into his mouth.
** Also, [[spoiler: almost everyone at the Caped Justice Awards.]]

* One issue of ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'' had a story with a very weird take on it. A Buxom Wench is crossing the medieval countryside when three rapists attack her. A large man drives them off, and the BW comes with him to the abandoned castle he lives in. He tells her that his strength comes at a terrible price; he's a werewolf. Tonight is a full moon, and as always, he locks himself in a dungeon cell, and tells her not to let him out. Unfortunately, once night falls the rapists come back for revenge, but in a twist, instead of letting the werewolf out, [[spoiler: the BW kills them all herself. Then in an even more bizarre twist, when the sun rises and the werewolf is human again, the BW tells him that he broke out, killed the rapists and ate them. The narrator notices, however, that the remains show that they had been roasted over a fire. Werewolves don't cook their victims, do they?]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Providence}}'' by Creator/AlanMoore tackles the ethics of this in Issue 7. [[spoiler:Robert Black accuses the ghouls of cannibalism, King George doesn't deny but he says that he and his kind eat the already dead, the ones which are no use to society. The last scene suggests that Pitman is in essence a SerialKiller who has murdered people and then fed their bodies to the ghouls, and then used those photographs as reference. The special references to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood the Great Molasses Flood]] and a gas leak in Boylston Street which Officer O'Brien recognizes hints that Pitman was behind those disasters and that he killed O'Brien because HeKnowsTooMuch]].

* While the amount of attention paid to it varies from writer to writer, ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} has been well-established as having cannibalistic tendencies. He has a fondness for the flesh of children, at one point breaking into a kindergarten for a... "quick snack".
* Kevin [[spoiler: and Cardinal Roark]] in ''ComicBook/SinCity''.
** Lucille is horrified into near-catatonic insanity by what she sees.
---> '''Lucille:''' He made me '''''WAAAAAAATCH!''''' [[note]]To be fair, he made her watch as he ate ''her hand''[[/note]].

** At one point of ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', the titular ComicBook/{{Bizarro}} character threatens to eat ComicBook/JimmyOlsen, though she may not understand the implications of the threat.

* ''ComicBook/TalesFromTheCrypt'' had many stories based around cannibalism. The TV adaptation changed "What's Cookin'?" (a story that, despite the title, was not previously about cannibalism) to fit this trope: a Shrimp Grill owner and his wife resort to murder to protect their failing business from foreclosure. The body? They cook it as steaks and quickly become the city's most popular Steak House.
* The Scavengers - Krok, Misfire, Crankcase, Flywheels, and Spinister - in ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' go around to old, abandoned battlefields and harvest parts and fuel from the bodies. They're not too hung up on whether or not the bodies are completely ''dead'', either, as witnessed when they start to snack on Fulcrum only for him to wake up with Misfire still holding his fuel tank.
* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' has a popular restaurant chain called Long Pig, which serves vat-grown human meat.

---> They say they like politicians but couldn't eat a whole one. Political canvassers apparently keep better and mature nicely under the floorboards.
* ''Twisted Tales'' had an infamous story called "Banjo Lessons." A man is on trial for the murder of his three best friends. His defence in court is that he had a psychotic break caused by rage over an incident where they killed and ate their dog (Banjo) while trapped during a snowstorm on a hunting trip. However, the defendant's story breaks down and he has to admit he was lying - Banjo was not a dog, but their hunting guide. [[spoiler: To make it extra icky/{{Anvilicious}}, Banjo was a black man and the hunters were white.]]
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel:
** The Blob turns out to be a cannibal in ''Ultimatum''. How is this shown? [[spoiler: ''[[Website/WomenInRefrigerators He eats the Wasp]]'']], though he was also implied to be a cannibal during the first couple of arcs penned by Mark Millar.
-->"Tastes like chicken."
** Magneto is also implied to eat humans, seeing them as lesser animals than him. While he ''may'' have been speaking metaphorically, Ultimate Magneto once called baseline humans the mutants' "larder", among other unflattering terms.
** The Hulk has been known to eat whole people. Apparently he tries to break the habit. The manager tells Hulk to leave because [[MagicPants Hulk doesn't have any pants on.]] TooDumbToLive, maybe, but denying Hulk his pancakes must take balls of adamantium.
*** The Hulk's taste for human is explained by Banner being a vegetarian, and the Hulk being the embodiment of the side of Banner's mind that wants to break all the rules set by Banner's core persona. So in other words, eating people is the ultimate rebellion against Banner's "meat is murder" mindset.
* In ''[[ComicBook/EarthX Universe X]]'', Jamie Madrox is turned into a Wendigo after eating one of his own duplicates to survive in a frozen wasteland. (Disturbingly, in the previous issue Madrox is shown complaining about the lack of meat, despite the fact that all the animals in the area [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman have been transformed into sentient beings.]])

* The Hunters from'' ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'' had taken to cannibalism due to being terrible hunters, and people making easier prey. [[spoiler:They'd started by eating their own children, and said after that it was easy to eat others... At least, until they made the mistake of hunting [[BadassCrew Rick's Group]], who proceeded to wipe them out with a vengeance.]]
** Subverted elsewhere in ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'': The Governor briefly mentions trying human flesh but apparently he doesn't like it.

* Also in Marvel Comics, the {{Wendigo}} is not one monster, but a human that falls under a curse that strikes anyone who resorts to cannibalism in the Canadian wilderness. (Probably; the creature has only been encountered there.)[[note]]This is a case of ShownTheirWork, since some versions of the historical wendigo myth also have this element.[[/note]] There have been several over the years.
** In an issue of ''ComicBook/SpiderWoman'', while in a Canadian ski lodge, Jessica Drew discovered that a murderous chef was serving human flesh to unknowing diners for the express purpose of turning them into Wendigos. She manages to stop most of them from eating anything and succumbing to the curse by playing StrawVegetarian, knocking bits of food out of people's mouths and shouting "MEAT IS MURDER!"
* Sakhmet, Egyptian cat goddess of sex, war, and death in ''ComicBook/TheWickedAndTheDivine'', cheerfully reminds her fellow Pantheon members that she can and will eat any enemies they need out of the way. [[spoiler:As it turns out, [[TheAlcoholic she once got sober]] and ate her father, so it's a threat worth taking seriously]].
-->''I am Sakhmet. I just want to eat some people.''
** [[spoiler:And in issue 28, she slaughtered and was implied to have partially eaten a room full of worshipers at an orgy in a rage after finding out the Pantheon had been keeping the truth about Persephone's murder of Ananke from her]].

* In ''[[Comicbook/AvengersTheInitiative Avengers: The Initiative]]'', ComicBook/TheHood kills and apparently eats a lackey who has displeased him. He tells his horrified followers, "I know a lot of you have... appetites. So do I. But you will learn to control them. To be smart about how you indulge them. Or your appetites will feed my appetites."

* Willy Pete from ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}''. He doesn't ''need'' to eat, he just likes doing it. And since he's a man of living fire, he can only eat superheroes and supervillains, as anything else would turn to ashes before he can get it into his mouth.

* ''Comicbook/ThePunisherMAX'' villain Nicky Cavella earned his reputation in TheMafia as follows: during a sit-down in an Asian restaurant with a [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triad]] boss, said boss is eating a dish and arrogantly telling Cavella they won't back down in the face of the local Mafia, claiming he has three strong sons backing him up. Cavella tells him, "Two strong sons," and informs him that he and his two henchmen had arrived early and replaced the kitchen staff, and that the boss' youngest son "never made it home from school." It's then revealed what happened to that son's body, as the boss stares at his food in horror.

* Franchise/SpiderMan villain Vermin is a human rat who lives in AbsurdlySpaciousSewer and eats unlucky bypassers. He can also command rats and often invites them to join in.
** There's also Morlun and his family, the Inheritors. They're a race of vampires who enjoy eating human flesh. In ''The Other'' storyline, Morlun ate Spider-Man's eye during their final battle.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* Sakhmet, Egyptian cat goddess of sex, war, and death in ''Comicbook/TheWickedAndTheDivine'', cheerfully reminds her fellow Pantheon members that she can and will eat any enemies they need out of the way. [[spoiler:As it turns out, [[TheAlcoholic she once got sober]] and ate her father, so it's a threat worth taking seriously]].

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':

* Franchise/TheDCU's ComicBook/VandalSavage. "Recent archaeological evidence suggests that he may actually have invented cannibalism."
** Semi-kinda-not-really justified in that he'll eventually die if he doesn't eat parts of his descendants. In one case Savage lost his immortality and restored it by [[spoiler: eating a clone of himself]].
** In one issue of the ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' mini, he punishes the immortal [[spoiler: Solomon Grundy]] by serving slices of him at a dinner party. Dr. Psycho and Cheshire are in attendance. She throws up. He asks for more.
** Cheshire's disgust seems more about the fact that he's a rotting zombie than any opposition to cannibalism, since she gleefully takes bites out of the faces of several mercenaries in a later volume.