History ImAHumanitarian / ComicBooks

* ''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.

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

*** There there was a brief cameo he made in a ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' story where he makes an offhand reference to eating a tongue sandwich...

* 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 the Ultimate universe, [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk 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.

** The Hulk has also threatened to eat people and [[spoiler:ate the Chitauri leader.]]

** There there was a brief cameo he made in a ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' story where he makes an offhand reference to eating a tongue sandwich...

* Creator/MarvelComics' ComicBook/SkrullKillKrew have the ability to detect the shape-shifting aliens called Skrulls no matter what form they take. They gained this ability by... eating Skrull meat. And offer Skrull-burgers to those who want to join them. Downplayed in that the Skrulls they originally ate were hypnotized into believing they were cows by Reed Richards, and then [[NiceJobBreakingItHero accidentally ended up in the US meat supply...]]

** 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.

** In both an issue of ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsJLA'' shortly after the start of Hal Jordan's tenure as the Spectre's host and during ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'', the Joker has shown a taste for human flesh, the former seeing the Joker dismiss the presence of a bunch of heroes walking around in his mind to eating a man's tongue raw and the latter has the godlike Joker decide to have Chinese for lunch... all ''billion+'' of them.

** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Because Barbara was not a virgin when she went through the ceremony to become Urzkartaga's bride and gain the power to become ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} she was cursed with the need to eat human flesh and unsatiable bloodlust.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'': To suit his twisted fancy Urzkartaga gives his "bride," ComicBook/{{Cheetah}}, incredible superpowers, and an overwhelming urge to consume human flesh which he claims is a side effect of the powers but is just him being cruel.

* ''[[{{ComicBook/FiftyTwo}} 52]]'' had Everyman, [[spoiler: a shapeshifter than could transform into anything that he had congested. If you did the math, then congratulations on figuring out how he can impersonate someone. [[ShoutOut His real name's even]] [[{{Franchise/HannibalLecter}} Hannibal]].]]

* Franchise/{{Batman}}:

--> '''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.

** In both an issue of ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsJLA'' shortly after the start of Hal Jordan's tenure as the Spectre's host and during ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'', the Joker has shown a taste for human flesh, the former seeing the Joker dismiss the presence of a bunch of heroes walking around in his mind to eating a man's tongue raw and the latter was the godlike Joker decide to have Chinese for lunch... all ''billion+'' of them.

** In both an issue of ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsJLA'' shortly after the start of Hal Jordan's tenure as the Spectre's host and during ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'', ComicBook/TheJoker has shown a taste for human flesh.

* During the ComicBook/EmperorJoker arc in the Franchise/{{Superman}} books, the godlike Joker decides to have Chinese for lunch...all ''billion+'' of them.

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

** And then [[spoiler: ''[[LaserGuidedKarma Hank Pym bites the Blob's head off]]'']].

* ''{{ComicBook/Violine}}'': When arriving in Zongo, Violine hides away in someone's bag to avoid the customs official. After being told the bag contains food, Violine is discovered and the customs official accuses the man of cannibalism. After some bribes, he lets them go, telling him to have a nice dinner. Violine reads his mind and sees he was not joking about the cannibal part.
* In the very rare [[http://elcondorvuelve.tumblr.com/tagged/especial-macabro Macabre Special]] of ''ComicBook/{{Condorito}}'', he eats people. In one comic, he is a surgeon that eats the body of his patients. In another one, he eats his own father.
** Comics about [[CannibalTribe cannibal tribes]] are also frequent in ''Condorito''.
* ''[[{{ComicBook/FiftyTwo}} 52]]'' had Everyman, [[spoiler: a shapeshifter than could transform into anything that he had congested. If you did the math, then congratulations on figuring out how he can impersonate someone. [[ShoutOut His real name's even]] [[{{Franchise/HannibalLecter}} Hannibal]].]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'' had mysterious Hollywood producer Beatrice Gorgonzola (née somewhere-on-an-alien-planet) who learnt the hard way that Vampirella is inedible. (To add insult to injury, Vampirella nibbles a bit at HER shoulder. And then calls the police, who find tons of body remains in the cellar and ask no further questions.)
* ''ComicBook/WarlordOfMars'': The polar races are prone to cannibalism: the White Martians subsist in Red Martian flesh, and in turn, the Black Martians subsist on White Martian flesh.
* ''ComicBook/WynonnaEarp'': Boone Helm is an immortal, psycho cannibal. Such is his reputation that he even scares Doc Holliday.
* Rumors and superstition surround the revivers of ''ComicBook/{{Revival}}'', including the idea that eating the flesh of a reviver allows the eater to become one. A society of IdleRich even pay a reviver to allow them to eat him. In at least one case this actually works.
* The bog people of ''ComicBook/RedSonja'': ''The Art of Blood and Fire'' eat outsiders who wander in their domain as a delicacy.
* Subverted in ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'': The Governor briefly mentions trying human flesh but apparently he doesn't like it.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman''
** Villain Doctor Psycho enjoys human flesh on occasion, in addition to his even less appealing habits. In ''ComicBook/SecretSix'', when they find out they're eating Solomon Grundy. Cheshire throws up. Psycho asks for more.
** Circe eats people on the regular, however rather than cooking up a human she transforms them into pigs, chickens or whatever other kind of meat suits her fancy before slaughtering them.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Because Barbara was not a virgin when she went through the ceremony to become Urzkartaga's bride and gain the power to become ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} she was cursed with the need to eat human flesh and unsatiable bloodlust.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'': To suit his twisted fancy Urzkartaga gives his "bride," ComicBook/{{Cheetah}}, incredible superpowers, and an overwhelming urge to consume human flesh which he claims is a side effect of the powers but is just him being cruel.

* ''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.
* In a famous ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}'' miniseries from Creator/MarvelComics, the symbiote develops a sort of vitamin deficiency, and starts compelling Eddie Brock to help it [[BrainFood eat human brains]]. When Eddie is too repulsed to continue, the symbiote leaves him temporarily.
** Conveniently, whatever chemical it is the symbiote gets from brains can also be received from ''chocolate'', a way of turning what was supposed to be something dark and edgy into a RunningGag...
** The new Venom (formerly the Scorpion) has even less scruples, and thus doesn't have a problem with the whole "eating people" thing.
** The ''[[ComicBook/SpiderManNoir Noir]]'' and ''[[ComicBook/Marvel2099 2099]]'' incarnations of the Vulture have also shown a taste for human flesh.
** Interestingly, there is a chemical that chocolate and the human brain have in common: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenethylamine phenethylamine]].
* [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Ragamuffin]] from ''ComicBook/LenoreTheCuteLittleDeadGirl'' doesn't drink human blood. [[HorrorHunger He massacres and eats people instead]].

* Similarly, Hulk and his entire, very large family in ''ComicBook/OldManLogan''. Somewhat less justified, more [[CrankyLandlord just the worst landlords ever.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' has a popular restaurant chain called Long Pig, which serves vat-grown human meat.
** There are also implied to be communities of cannibals throughout the city who'll eat anyone who bothers them.
---> They say they like politicians but couldn't eat a whole one. Political canvassers apparently keep better and mature nicely under the floorboards.
* 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.

* Creator/MarvelComics' Skrull Kill Krew have the ability to detect the shape-shifting aliens called Skrulls no matter what form they take. They gained this ability by... eating Skrull meat. And offer Skrull-burgers to those who want to join them. Downplayed in that the Skrulls they originally ate were hypnotized into believing they were cows by Reed Richards, and then [[NiceJobBreakingItHero accidentally ended up in the US meat supply...]]
* 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!"
* 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."
** And then [[spoiler: ''[[LaserGuidedKarma Hank Pym bites the Blob's head off]]'']].
** 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 also threatened to eat people and [[spoiler:ate the Chitauri leader.]]
* 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.]])
* At one point, while [[DemonicPossession possessed by an]] EldritchAbomination, [[Creator/DCComics Giganta]] seduces the Atom, then when she gets the chance, swallows him whole in a rather kinky panel.
* 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."
** It gets better - the guy he ate was Vampiro. He was mad at him for, ahem, snacking without cleaning up after himself.

* 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]].

* 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.]]
* Franchise/{{Batman}}:
** Corelius Stirk, who operates under the delusion that he needs the nutrients and hormones from people's hearts in order to stay alive, and these are best prepared with norepinephrine by inducing fear in the victim prior to death.
** Killer Croc started out as a gangster with a skin condition, but as time has gone by, his humanity and sanity have slipped away. He does currently eat people.
** The Flamingo is a psychotic hitman. Despite his name, as well as his pink uniform and vehicles, he is a sociopathic, mindless, killing machine, nicknamed "the eater of faces", a title he has lived up to.
** DependingOnTheWriter, [[PlantPerson Poison Ivy]] may be hinted at doing this. She definitely has a thing for feeding people to {{Man Eating Plant}}s for kicks, to the point she once went underground for a year, but racked up so many victims that [[CreateYourOwnVillain the plant absorbed the minds of its victims and turned into a monster that wanted to eat her for revenge]].
** In both an issue of ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsJLA'' shortly after the start of Hal Jordan's tenure as the Spectre's host and during ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'', ComicBook/TheJoker has shown a taste for human flesh.

* Nanaue/King Shark started out as a serial killer in ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'' that eats his victims. Notably in the DCU it had already been long established that leaving a body uneaten is the highest form of disrespect a shark can show the dead which may have something to do with it. His father is an AnimalisticAbomination which explains his [[BlueAndOrangeMorality odd morality]], such as him eating his mother's arm even though he seems to care for her.
* The mountain trolls in ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' are strongly implied to be elf-eaters (and, less strongly, troll-eaters). Their Go-Back elf enemies retaliated: In one scene after returning to her tribe, Kahvi took a troll hand off someone who had his mouth full and said "Troll meat!?! I thought we gave that up".
* One scene from ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'' shows the BigBad, Mister Rictus, sitting at a dinner table dining on the innards of a man who has been hogtied and placed on a large serving plate. This is how we know that he's the really bad one, as opposed to the protagonists, who are just mass murderers, rapists, and secret dictators.
* At one point of ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', the titular SelfDemonstrating/{{Bizarro}} character threatens to eat ComicBook/JimmyOlsen, though she may not understand the implications of the threat.
* During the ComicBook/EmperorJoker arc in the Franchise/{{Superman}} books, the godlike Joker decides to have Chinese for lunch...all ''billion+'' of them.
** There there was a brief cameo he made in a ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' story where he makes an offhand reference to eating a tongue sandwich...

* 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?]]
* "Casket Canyon" in ''ComicBook/JonahHex'' #66 features an isolated town forced into a NoPartyLikeADonnerParty situation. However, some of the townsfolk seem to have become quite fond of the taste of human flesh and will cheerfully kill and eat any strangers who wander into town.
* ''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.
* A witch and her evil husband in a story by Creator/WilhelmBusch (though she turns the boy into a pig before; does that count?)
* An issue of the revamped [[Magazine/CreepyMagazine CREEPY comics]] had a story about a homosexual couple, one of which was a cannibal, the other one wanted to be his victim.

* 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.]]

* The [[{{Cult}} Eye Focus]] in ''ComicBook/KingCity'' chow down on human flesh, among other "weird and cruel" dishes, in their restaurant across the street from the protagonists' hideout.
* [[AdaptationalBadass Zilla]], [[GiantFlyer Rodan]] and possibly [[TentacledTerror Gezora]] from the ongoing IDW ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' comics.
* The Maneater from ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}''. They don't call him that for any reason other than the obvious. Later, after he pisses off Nico Minoru, [[spoiler:she magically turns him into a vegan]].
* 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.

** In both an issue of ''JLA'' shortly after the start of Hal Jordan's tenure as the Spectre's host and during ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'', ComicBook/TheJoker has shown a taste for human flesh.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' villain Doctor Psycho enjoys human flesh on occasion, in addition to his even less appealing habits. In ''ComicBook/SecretSix'', when they find out they're eating Solomon Grundy. Cheshire throws up. Psycho asks for more.

* Similarly, Hulk and his entire, very large family in ''ComicBook/OldManLogan''. Somewhat less justified, more [[EvilOverlord just the worst landlords ever.]]

* [[AdaptationalBadass Zilla]], [[GiantFlyer Rodan]] and possibly [[EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods Gezora]] from the ongoing IDW ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' comics.

* In the Ultimate universe, TheHulk 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.

* In both an issue of ''JLA'' shortly after the start of Hal Jordan's tenure as the Spectre's host and during ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'', ComicBook/TheJoker has shown a taste of human flesh.