History ImAHumanitarian / LiveActionTV

* In ''Series/{{Highlander}}'', an ancient immortal named Caspian, who turns out to be the historical basis for Famine, one of the [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Four Horsemen]] [[BloodKnight of the]] [[RapePillageAndBurn Apocalypse]], practiced cannibalism for thousands of years, [[SerialKiller became known as an infamous serial killer in the modern day]], and ended up [[AxCrazy in an insane asylum in Eastern Europe by the time of the series]]. When we're introduced to him, he's being broken out of the asylum by [[BloodBrothers the other horsemen]], and takes the time to ''gnaw his doctor's face off'' before escaping. [[TheAtoner Death's]] response to this?

* Played with in ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' when [[FatBastard Newman]] gets the strange temptation to eat Kramer after the latter used butter for his body. All this culminating in Newman trying to eat Kramer in a comedy show.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones''.

* Discussed, but averted in ''Series/TheStand''. Lloyd considers eating the dead guy in the next cell and drags his leg close enough to do so, but then Flagg breaks him out. This deviates from the book, where this trope is not at all averted.

** The title character is a SerialKiller and cannibal who prepares his victims in a FoodPorn like fashion. Even more disturbingly, he served human flesh to those at his dinner party in "Sorbet", and it's implied that almost everything he serves is made of people.

** The villain of a series II episode is the Bishop of Bath and Wells, who drowns babies at christenings and eats them afterward.
** In "Potato," Captain Rum rushes ashore on a tropical island and is eaten by offscreen HollywoodNatives.

** The [=UnSub=] in the episode "Lucky" turns out to be a psychotic [[HollywoodSatanism Satanist]] cannibal. [[spoiler:Like many of the serial killers on the show, he injected himself into the investigation. Unlike the others, he brought lunch.]]

** The earlier episode "Blood Hungry" had another cannibal villain, one who took and ate body parts with special significance in different religions.
** The killer in "The Performer" would drink the victims' blood.
** The one in "Exit Wounds" ate an organ from at least one victim so as to keep the victim with him (he had severe abandonment issues).
* ''Series/{{CSI}}''

--->'''Greg''': Oh my God, I think I got some in my mouth!\\
'''Sara''': You know, Greg... technically that makes you a cannibal.
** And there was another one with a dietitian with a rare blood disorder called porphyria who kept herself young and beautiful by drinking protein shakes made of ground up human livers. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyria Porphyria]] does not work that way. She offered of the shakes to Grissom at the end of the episode. Grissom called the [[UnreliableNarrator perpetrator]] out on how untreated porphyria also causes psychological disorders, implying she only ''thought'' it was her diet that kept her beautiful.
** In another episode, a cheerleader doped up on PCP murders and partially eats someone.

** In "Consumed," the CSI team track a cannibalistic serial killer who is preying on the vore fetish community.
* An odd variant in the ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' episode "Point of No Return." Marty, a former employee of the ME's office, hits upon the idea of removing organs from the corpses of drug addicts and [[HumanResources processing out the unmetabolized drugs]]. When he gets fired (not for that), he resorts to obtaining his own supply of dead druggies.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E2ParadiseTowers "Paradise Towers"]], some of the elderly Rezzies (residents) of the eponymous towers have resorted to cannibalism and attempt to eat the Doctor's companion Mel.
** The Futurekind in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia "Utopia"]] have fallen into cannibalism.
* In ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'', "The Attic," Echo and [[spoiler:Dominic]] go into The Attic, [[spoiler:a literal land of horror that includes a Japanese man forced to eat his own legs. As sushi.]] And the only way for Echo and [[spoiler:Dominic]] to escape is for them to [[spoiler:"enjoy ourselves." {{Squick}}.]]

* On ''Series/ThePretender'', it's revealed during the last season that [[spoiler:Mr. Lyle]] is one of these.

* In the first episode of ''Series/RedDwarf VII'' ("Tikka To Ride"), Lister and The Cat eat "barbecued person," assuming it to be chicken. Kryten's guilt chip had been removed, and they'd ''asked'' him to get them something to eat, and the corpse was ''right there''...
** In "Lemons", the Cat steals some pork that Lister had found and cooked up from deep freeze storage near Kryten's quarters on B-deck. Later they learn that the "pork" was actually Lister's organs that Kryten had secretly surgically removed (due to medical necessity, but without Lister's knowledge) and stored in the freezer near his quarters.

* The ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "Countrycide" is ''[[Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977 The Hills Have Eyes]]'' [-[[SettingUpdate WITH FAT WELSHMEN!]]-].
** Made even creepier near the end when the team, and the viewer, realize that, unlike normal ''Torchwood'' episodes, there is [[spoiler:nothing science-fictiony going on at all. They're just perfectly normal humans. ...for a given value of "perfectly normal", in any case.]]

** In the episode "What's Cookin'?" the owners of a failing steakhouse encounter a stranger who promises he can turn their business around. He does this by (unknown to them) serving up human meat on the menu. [[spoiler:They fail to keep the local police chief from finding out, but since he and they have now developed a taste for human flesh, they simply kill and eat the drifter.]]
** Another episode, "The Assassin", revolves around three CIA agents bursting into the home of a woman whose husband is believed to be a renegade assassin. [[spoiler:She reveals that ''she'' is the assassin, and has gone to [[{{GenderBender}} rather more drastic lengths to disguise herself than they thought.]] The episode ends with her revealing herself, killing the agents,]] and [[EatTheEvidence serving the remains to her husband.]]

* Invoked in an episode of ''Series/ScareTactics''. The victim and her friend were sent dinner invitations, and arrived in a fancy mansion with over a dozen other, beautiful, girls. Their male host greeted them, introduced a nude woman to the group and informed them dinner would be ready shortly. Several minutes later, said nude woman is wheeled out, appearing to have had her stomach slit and her organs arranged on dinner plates -- which the other woman eat. But, this being ''Scare Tactics'', it's all an elaborate prank, the woman was only pretending to be dead, and the organs aren't really human organs at all...

* A sketch in the German nonsense series ''Klimbim'' has the familiar setting of a plane crashing in the middle of nowhere and the survivors having to feed on the corpses of the unlucky, until they finally get saved. When a reporter comes to interview them about their predicament, they immediately begin to tell horror stories about the [[StockShticks inedible airplane food.]] When that is on the verge of OverlyLongGag, the reporter, becoming impatient, bluntly ask about the cannibalism. "Oh. The people. [[CrossingTheLineTwice We ate them first, of course.]]"

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': [[spoiler:The inhabitants of Terminus turn out to be cannibals, luring people with the false promise of sanctuary in order to kill and eat them]].

* ''Series/MastersOfHorror'', "Cigarette Burns": When the ArtifactOfDeath film-within-a-film 'La Fin Absolue du Monde' is presented in a private theater at the end, Annie, Kirby's dead girlfriend, emerges out of the theater screen. Her father comforts her, but she's "hungry", and takes a bite out of his neck. [[spoiler:It's a hallucination.]]
** Also Season 2's episode ''The Washingtonians'; see its entry in ImAHumanitarian/{{Literature}} above.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "Lion's Den", the Lewisborough High School wrestling team, who have become CatFolk, eat the retired coach Terni and later their own coach Peter Shotwell when they try to stop them from taking Neuroflex 500. One of the members of the team is Peter's son Morris so it doubles as {{Patricide}} in his case.

* In ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Our Town", Mulder and Scully investigate a cannibal cult that has developed the disease Kuru from eating human brains.

* The Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells in ''Series/{{Blackadder}} II''.
* In Season 3 of ''Series/{{Bones}}'', a recurring story arc is the hunt for a cannibalistic serial killer called the Gormogon, who in addition to eating his victims, will make a skeleton out of their bones using a ironic bone from each victim (knees of a bishop, jaw of a lobbyist, finger of a musician, etc.). Oh yeah, one of the members of the team [[spoiler: is his apprentice]].

'''Caleb:''' Nope! I did all my stuff - and more! There's tons they can't even trace to me. [[BlackComedyCannibalism The secret is eating the evidence.]]

* In ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'', "The Attic," Echo and [[spoiler: Dominic]] go into The Attic, [[spoiler: a literal land of horror that includes a Japanese man forced to eat his own legs. As sushi.]] And the only way for Echo and [[spoiler:Dominic]] to escape is for them to [[spoiler:"enjoy ourselves." {{Squick}}.]]

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' featured a cannibalistic villain by the name of Kaarvok who duplicates his prey and eats "the clone". This happens from the Moya crew to at least Chiana, D'Argo and Crichton. Chiana, after witnessing her double being eaten, tries to convince herself [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman it was just a clone]] and she couldn't do anything about it. It is later revealed, [[spoiler: as Kaarvok says it himself, and as the two Crichtons survive, that they are not "cloned", but ''doubled'', with no differences, no decay on any of them. Ever.]]

** Subverted in "Mhysa". Ramsay Snow has [[spoiler:Theon]]'s [[GroinAttack cock severed]] in the previous episode and sits down before his terrified prisoner to calmly eat a long piece of roasted meat. The character has already proven himself so psychopathic that few would doubt that he'd actually devour a man's penis in front of him, but Ramsay confirms that he was just messing with him and it's really pork. [[spoiler: He actually [[FingerInTheMail sent it to Theon's father]].]]

** Garret Jacob Hobbes, an ethical hunter who believed in using up every part of his kills, snapped when he realised his beloved daughter would soon leave for college. He began to kidnap, kill and eat girls who resembled his daughter to cope with her impending absence. And yes, eating them was ''absolutely'' necessary in his mind - it was to love, respect and honor them (otherwise it would just be murder). One victim's corpse was returned to her bed as "an apology" due to her cancerous liver, which rendered her flesh inedible.

** And was finally {{Lampshaded}} and debunked on in season three, when it's shown what he really does with the brain. "Eat your brain? [[spoiler: Claire, that's disgusting."]]

* In one ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'' skit, a man is on trial for cannibalism, ''Alive'' style. It turns out that he [[spoiler: is the only survivor of a 30 minute delay, haven taken a bite out of each passenger. "Your honor, I am not an experienced cannibal. I simply took a bite out of each one hoping that the next one tasted better. I'm sure your honor has done the same thing with a box of chocolates."]]

* In ''Series/MrBrain'', Creator/{{Gackt}}'s [[LargeHam ham]]-tastic character Takegami Teijirou is a canniballistic serial killer who considers eating human flesh to be the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6dwJaSDcYI equivalent of eating beef or pork]].

* On ''Series/ThePretender'', it's revealed during the last season that [[spoiler: Mr. Lyle]] is one of these.

* On ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', it's mentioned by the Klingons that [[spoiler: they ate Captain Georgiou's body.]] Given that they were marooned in a disabled starship for six months and had run out of supplies and starving to death, it's possible it's not something they'd normally do but had no issue with it in a survival situation.

** Another episode, "The Assassin", revolves around three CIA agents bursting into the home of a woman whose husband is believed to be a renegade assassin. [[spoiler: She reveals that ''she'' is the assassin, and has gone to [[{{GenderBender}} rather more drastic lengths to disguise herself than they thought.]] The episode ends with her revealing herself, killing the agents,]] and [[EatTheEvidence serving the remains to her husband.]]

** Made even creepier near the end when the team, and the viewer, realize that, unlike normal ''Torchwood'' episodes, there is [[spoiler: nothing science-fictiony going on at all. They're just perfectly normal humans. ...for a given value of "perfectly normal", in any case.]]

[[ImAHumanitarian Cannibalism]] in live-action TV.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]]: The Master [[spoiler:[[CameBackWrong comes back wrong]] and]] suffers extreme hunger. He eats several people, but is also shown scarfing down burgers and entire turkeys in seconds, and doesn't show any particular preference for human meat.
** Madame Vastra, a Silurian living in 1880s London, introduces herself this way in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]]:
--->'''Vastra:''' UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper has killed his last victim.\\
'''Jenny:''' How did you find him?\\
'''Vastra:''' [[MathematiciansAnswer Stringy, but tasty all the same.]] I won't be needing dinner.
*** The most disturbing aspect of the exchange is that it appears Jenny (the maid) may have asked the question in the sense it was answered.
*** Later on in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath "Deep Breath"]], Jenny tells Clara that Vastra is having the Camberwell Child Poisoner over for dinner. "Best stay out of the larder."
** In the ExpandedUniverse book ''Venusian Lullaby'', the Venusians do this to their dead. It has the added purpose of allowing the eater to share in the eaten's memories.