History Main / Autocannibalism

Your body will also actually do this automatically in the later stages of starvation; breaking down redundant organs and muscle to keep the more vital parts running.

* ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons'' features a synhtetic virus that turns the afflicted into crazy cannibals who will chew on their own legs just to pass time or quell their ravenous hunger if no other meat is available.

* In ''Series/{{Angel}}'' "To Shanshu In L.A.", Holland Manners warns Linsey that the Senior Partners are watching the situation closely. Lilah suddenly comments that the last person who let them down was forced to eat his own liver.
-->"[[WithFriendsLikeThese I don't know why I thought of that just now]]."

* One user on Reddit allegedly made taco meat out of his ''own'' amputated leg, and even invited some friends to share in the tasting!

* The Japanese horror film ''Film/SplatterNakedBlood'' depicts a gluttonous woman eating herself after being given an experimental drug.

** In an ''[[WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow Itchy & Scratchy Show]]'' 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.

* ''Literature/EndersGame'' has Ender munching on his own hand while sleeping--a slightly uncommon example in that it's not out of starvation but a manifestation of stress and guilt [[spoiler: after [[BreakTheCutie riding Petra until she cracks up]]]].

-->--'''Creator/StephenKing''', "[[Literature/SkeletonCrew Survivor Type]]"

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'': [[TheDragon Vanilla Ice's]] Stand, Cream, is able to devour itself and its user to become a void that soars rapidly through the air and [[PowerOfTheVoid consumes everything it comes in contact with.]]

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** A drug called Glucagon is used to induce this in unresponsive hypoglycemic diabetics, and converts the glycogen stored in the liver and other parts of the bosy to glucose that the body can use. People who have had it used report feeling exhausted for days after.

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* In Season 8 episode 22 of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', Happy S. is hit by Huo Haha's magic and turns into a candy cracker as a result. When the King sees him like this, he asks if Happy S. is actually secretly enjoying being a cracker when he notices him trying to taste his hands. Happy S. admits that he can't help it since he's so delicious.
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** Similarly a Norwegian artist [[https://metro.co.uk/2014/05/26/artist-eats-his-own-deformed-hip-after-its-removed-by-doctors-4740347/ ate meat off his deformed hip bone after having it replaced]]. It should be noted that doing so wasn't his original plan, when he'd talked his doctors into letting him keep it his intention was to clean it up and display it, but he later realised that he a rare opportunity and seized it.

* Reiju Vinsmoke in ''Fanfic/ASLInRed'' makes the big, huge mistake of attacking Trafalgar Law with a modified strain of Amber Lead poison while taunting him that it was developed by desecrating the stolen corpses of his countrymen. He promptly feeds her own kidney.

* The Franchise/EvilliousChronicles song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkrwKCRJH-s Evil Food Eater Conchita]]" by Music/{{mothy}} depicts a deranged aristocrat who got tired of gourmet cuisine and grew an appetite for only the most disgusting, borderline lethal dishes; she eventually ran out of new things to try, so she ate her servants, and when the mansion was empty, she ate herself. Even the [[LightNovel/EvilFoodEaterConchita tie-in novel]] doesn't elaborate on how the heck she pulled this off.

* Rammstein's Song "Mein Teil" is about the case of Bernd Jürgen Brandes (see Real Life section).

* The Nachtzehrer, a German folkloric [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] that chews its shroud, fingers and toes before preying on humans.

* In ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'' episode "Taking Stock", smuggler Mikaele Salesa sells his ship's cook a mysterious antique meat grinder that [[TheyCallHimBarkeep Cook]] has become obsessed with. Shortly afterward, Salesa notices there seems to be far too much fresh meat on the menu for a ship that's been at sea for weeks. Salesa finally breaks down the door to the galley and discovers that Cook has been cutting off his left arm with a cleaver and replacing it with a new one that comes out of the meat grinder.

* There was a story about a Chinese general named Xiahou Dun. During battle, he took an arrow to the eye. When he went to remove the arrow, his entire eye came off on the tip. According to the tale, he declared, "Essence of my father, blood of my mother, I cannot throw this away!" and promptly swallowed the remains of his eye on the arrow whole.

* There was a story about a Chinese general named Xiahou Dun. During battle, he took an arrow to the eye. When he went to remove the arrow, his entire eye came off on the tip. According to the tale, he decided to swallow his eye whole.

* When he isn't collecting it in a box, Goldmember from ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'' enjoys eating pieces of his own skin.
** Slightly less horrifying than the other examples on this page, since his skin simply peels off in thin layers, similar to a sunburn.

* The Creator/StephenKing short story "Survivor Type" centered around a surgeon and drug runner who becomes shipwrecked, and is ultimately forced to eat himself by cutting off bits because there's so little on the island that he could eat otherwise.

** [[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-891 SCP-891]] does this in a roundabout way. Eating fruit grown from it has the effect of taking bites out of your internal organs. Even worse, those who start eating it are unable to stop, eventually dying from massive internal injuries.

* In the [[Creator/SimonRGreen Hawk & Fisher]] story ''Guard Against Dishonor'', a teenager doped out of her mind on [[PsychoSerum super-chacal]] has her belly ripped open by her equally-berserk boyfriend. When Hawk and Fisher find her, she's nibbling on her own exposed guts.
** In another incident, Hawk cuts the umbilicus that connects a small parasitic demon to its host. Denied its source of nourishment, the demon attacks Hawk, jabbing at his throat with the severed cord's end in an attempt to make him its new host. Hawk grabs the cord and jams its end into the demon's own belly, and it sucks itself bodily into its own umbilicus and disappears.

* The Franchise/EvilliousChronicles song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkrwKCRJH-s Evil Food Eater Conchita]]" by Music/{{mothy}} depicts a deranged aristocrat who devours everything she can get hold of, including her servants, before finally turning on herself. Even the [[LightNovel/EvilFoodEaterConchita tie-in novel]] doesn't elaborate on how the heck she pulled this off.