History Main / Autocannibalism

* During TheGreatDepression, one lynching victim named Claude Neal was forced to eat his own penis (along with all manner of other tortures) before dying.

--->'''Dr. Gideon:''' You intend me to be my own last supper?\\
'''Hannibal Lecter:''' [[BluntYes Yes.]]

'''Tim [=McManus=]:''' Inventive.

* Creator/DCComics villain Creator/VandalSavage, having lost his immortality in one story, restores it by eating a disfigured clone of himself.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}'', the command "eat self" returns the message "Autocannibalism is not the answer."

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', Javik mentions that the punishment for traitors in his time was to rip their limbs off and give them a choice between eating their own flesh or starvation. And then killing them anyway if they do eat.

* One of TheManyDeathsOfYou in the first ''VideoGame/{{Space Quest|I The Sarien Encounter}}'' involved being locked in a chamber. The death message says that you tried to resort to autocannibalism, only to find out that you weren't tasty at all.

* In ''Videogame/SunsetOverdrive'', Troop Master Bryllcream was trapped in a garbage truck for 16 days without food or water. By the time the player rescues him, he's a quadruple amputee with none of his limbs. While it's never outright stated, the game puts special emphasis on the "trapped with no food" part.

* ''VideoGame/EasternMindTheLostSoulsOfTongNou'' has the minor character Pang Xie, a crab-like creature who constantly eats his own quickly-regenerating limbs, which are apparently his favorite dish.
* Parodied in ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'', as the titular character's brother Mugman drinks the liquid from his own head through his own straw at the start of every boss battle in co-op. Presumably, it just ends up being put back into his head. Which is kind of odd because according to [[WordOfGod the game's developers]], [[https://kotaku.com/cuphead-developers-talk-cut-bosses-and-whats-in-the-cup-1820126327 what's inside Cuphead's and Mugman's cups-for-heads are their spiritual essences, or, in other words, their immortal souls]].
* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'': Shambles and his species eat their own ears, but it's painless and they grow back so it doesn't matter. [[TheDitz Fabio]] once tried to eat his own teeth, but they tasted bad.
* You can do this in ''VideoGame/EatMe'', but you'll just pop right back.

* ''[[ComicBook/ECComics The Vault of Horror]]'' story "Two of a Kind!" has a dating couple who are secretly monsters (he's a flesh-eating ghoul, she's a vampire) who each initially plan to prey upon the other, but find they really do love each other. Unfortunately, during their date (a skiing trip) they end up snowbound in a cabin without any other means of nourishment. Not wanting to hurt the other as they starve, he ends up eating himself and she drinks her own blood. They end TogetherInDeath. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Awww...]] but also ew.

* An early episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' had Dinobot dispose of a fully biological clone of himself by eating it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', Billy gets a job selling Chocolate Sailors, but ends up eating them all himself. He turns into chocolate himself and eats himself until only his head is left.

* In a ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' short, Itchy (disguised as a restaurant employee) serves Scratchy his own belly. The unknowing Scratchy's attempt at eating it only results in the bits of it he swallows popping back out of a hole cut in it.

* The ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' novels use this as an aspect of the taxxon race's HorrorHunger. Though sapient, the [[DeathWorld extreme harshness of their initial environment]] caused them to evolve a super-powerful hunger response that neither their own will, nor even infestation by a [[PuppeteerParasite yeerk]], can control it. Whenever Visser Three turn a taxxon into HalfTheManHeUsedToBe ([[BadBoss which is often]]), the half with a mouth will instinctively try to eat the other.

* ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'': The "racist whale-frog" invades Max's home, [[MesACrowd creates a clone out of its own reflection]], and then eats the clone. [[[[http://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-2-page-12 Max, PJ, and Lefty are all appropriately horrified.]]

* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Leviathans who [[YouHaveFailedMe fail]] are forced to eat themselves, a punishment called "bibbing" since all that's left in the end is a bloody bib. If they eat themselves too slowly, their HealingFactor kicks in... and they have to eat that part of themselves ''again.''
** If you ''really'' piss off the leader however, he'll just eat you himself.

* Parodied in ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'', as the titular character's brother Mugman drinks the liquid from his own head through his own straw at the start of every boss battle in co-op. Presumably it just ends up being put back into his head. Which is kind of odd because, according to [[WordOfGod the game's developers]], [[https://kotaku.com/cuphead-developers-talk-cut-bosses-and-whats-in-the-cup-1820126327 what's inside Cuphead's and Mugman's cups-for-heads are their spiritual essences, or, in other words, their immortal souls]].

* Happens in an episode of ''WebAnimation/SaladFingers''. [[MindScrew Or not.]] Its not very clear just what is going on only that Salad Fingers likes his doppelganger's {{brain|Food}}s.
* The ChristmasEpisode of ''WebAnimation/RetardedAnimalBabies'' had Puppy recieve a GagPenis for Christmas as a present from Satan Claus, and as a result he sucks on it until he explodes.
* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' has autovory, eating a brain-dead clone of oneself alive while hooked up to the clone's sensory outputs. In some polities one can buy clones of celebrities for this purpose as well. Or, for a slightly less disturbing example, the setting mentions the practice of cloning pieces of one's own body to eat being a "fad" for a while.

* PlayedForLaughs in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', where Squidward tells Spongebob a GhostStory, prompting Spongebob to [[RapidFireNailBiting bite his nails]]. Next cut is of him actually eating his arms (they grow back ridiculously fast), then going through them like a paper shredder, [[EscalatingPunchline then eating down a bucket of his own arms like popcorn]].