History Main / CarnivorousHealingFactor

* ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior'': Downplayed as he does not actually devour them whole, but when [=ShadeMan.EXE=] absorbs data from [=FlashMan.EXE=] and [=SavageMan.EXE=] to regenerate his arms, which had been disabled by [=LaserMan.EXE=] and Regal earlier.

->''"You monster! How many people did you kill to heal those wounds?"\\
"Do you remember how many loaves of bread you've ever eaten?"''
-->--'''Johnathan Joestar''' and '''Dio Brando''', ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood''

Can overlap with CannibalismSuperpower, where new abilities are gained by consumption of things that have them. VampiricDraining is related, but does not necessarily involve food-like consumption, with actual [[OurVampiresAreDifferent blood-drinking vampires]] likely to cause an overlap of both tropes along with FantasticDietRequirement, because blood is a specific and vital substance and vampires are supernatural and they need it to live, possibly. LifeDrain, a parasitic-natured attack where life is drained from another creature and the attacker's health is increased, works on the same principle of consumption, if only figuratively. If there's a ManEatingPlant that needs healing, this is probably how they'll get it.

* ''VideoGame/PandorasTower'': Elena is suffering from a curse that is gradually turning her into a monster. If she eats beast flesh, the course of the metamorphosis can be rollbacked to a major extent, but it won't stop. The only way to get rid of the curse for good is by feeding her ''Master'' Flesh, which Aeron has to seize from the bodies of the Towers' guardians (the game's bosses). Even then , it also takes Aeron [[RelationshipValues strengthening his bond with Elena]] for the mission to succeed (without that, Elena will either become a monster anyway or need to sacrifice herself to save the land, depending on the ending).

Can overlap with CannibalismSuperpower, where new abilities are gained by consumption of things that have them. VampiricDraining is related, but does not necessarily involve food-like consumption, with actual [[OurVampiresAreDifferent blood-drinking vampires]] likely to cause an overlap of both tropes, because blood is a specific and vital substance and vampires are supernatural. LifeDrain, a parasitic-natured attack where life is drained from another creature and the attacker's health is increased, works on the same principle of consumption, if only figuratively. If there's a ManEatingPlant that needs healing, this is probably how they'll get it.

* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 5th Edition:

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': A card printed as part of a ''Literature/TheLordOftheRings'' crossover set, [[https://scryfall.com/card/ltr/230/shelob-child-of-ungoliant Shelob, Child of Ungoliant]], is capable of creating copies of creatures that are killed by it or other spiders, except they become Food tokens, artifacts that can be sacrificed to gain three life or trigger other abilities.

* ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'': From ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' onwards, a perk called "Cannibal" exists, which allows the player character to consume a corpse to restore some health at the cost of Karma.

* In ''Videogame/{{Spore}}'', you can kill other creatures during the second phase and then feast on their corpses, which regains your health. You can't be a herbivore if you want to do this, though.

* VideoGame/FarCryPrimal: Takkar eats meat from his inventory, whether it's straight up alone, or with a plant wrapping that can enhance the healing, or gives him a boost whilst also healing Takkar. The same logic applies to the predators he can travel with. Takkar can either feed them himself, or they'll start eating the dead bodies of enemies or hunted animals.

* ''VideoGame/Starcraft2'': In Co-op mode, Dehaka has the ability, "Devour", that allows him to eat enemy units. This not only heals him based on how much Health the unit has, but it also gives him a temporary bonus ability based on what kind of unit he ate. For example, Air units grant him a temporary long-range BreathWeapon attack that can hit both ground and air targets, while armored units temporarily grant him a defense buff.

* ''VideoGame/UltimateSpiderMan'': While playing as ComicBook/{{Venom}} the player can replenish his health bar by eating people; criminals and police officers will only moderately refill it while consuming civilians will refill it much faster.

* Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}: Eating will make most senet beasts ill, however if they need to regenerate parts of their body they have to eat to obtain the needed mass. There are stories of [[SnakePeople efheby]] recovering from their decapitated heads, slowly regrowing their bodies by eating bugs and working up to larger prey.

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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' anime episode 164. Espada #8 Szayelaporro Grantz modified his Fraccion (subordinate Arrancars) so he could heal himself by eating them.

* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'': DownplayedTrope. In all editions, [[NotUsingTheZWord Kindred]] regenerate by drinking blood - 5th Edition has Rouse Checks, which have a 50% chance of failing and raising a vampire's Hunger by 1, while previous Editions use a Blood Points mechanic. Hunger can be lowered and the Blood Points replenished by drinking blood and not doing so greatly increases the risk of going into a Hunger Frenzy.

* ''VideoGame/{{Ultros}}'': Killing creatures causes them to drop meat-based food items. The more skillfully you dispatch them - measured in terms of how many different moves you use - the better the rewards, ranging from near-worthless bloody pulp to pristine prime cuts that provide huge amounts of health and [[CallAHitPointASmeerp nutrition]].

* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 5th Edition, LizardFolk player characters get the "Hungry Jaws" ability, making them able to take a bite from a living enemy and gain temporary hit points equal to their constitution modifier.

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* In ''ComicBook/OrphanBlade'', the Kasha Mask makes its wearer impervious to pain and allows them to heal from almost any injury by consuming the flesh of others. The downside is that it also bestows HorrorHunger on its wearer.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Zabuza's sword "Executioner" can HealItWithBlood by harvesting BloodIron to [[SelfHealingPhlebotinum fix damage done to it]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'', The Douche has fallen out of a shopping cart in the supermarket; as shop-soiled and damaged goods he is thrown out the back of the store with the trash. With his applicator broken and a split in his casing causing his contents to spill, he staggers around in agony. Then he meets a damaged carton of fruit juice who pleads for help. His first response is to rip off the juice-box's price label to use as a band-aid on his split casing. Then an evil light glows, the Douche grins as he realises -- ''and he drinks the juice carton''. Suddenly The Douche, via this act of vampirism, is renewed -- even his broken applicator repairs itself.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': A card printed as part of a''Literature/TheLordOftheRings'' crossover set, [[https://scryfall.com/card/ltr/230/shelob-child-of-ungoliant Shelob, Child of Ungoliant]], is capable of creating copies of creatures that are killed by it or other spiders, except they become Food tokens, artifacts that can be sacrificed to gain three life or trigger other abilities.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': The Ghorgon, a minotaur-like monster in the Beastman army themed around constant, mindless hunger for meat, has a rule called Strength from Flesh that allows it to recover damage inflicted to it when it kills another model, which in-universe represents how the creature's flesh heals and knits itself closed as it devours its foes.
* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'': The cannibalistic warriors of the Seventh Circle of the Varanguard believe that they can gain the strength of their defeated opponents by eating their flesh. Whether this is true or not is unknown but their wounds do heal far quicker when they eat their foes flesh and their in-game rules allow them to heal lost wounds after destroying an enemy unit as the stop to feed on the fallen.

* ''VideoGame/CrushCrumbleAndChomp''. Each time the monster eats human beings it gets back some lost health. Civilians provide the most, military (soldiers, tank crewmen and helicopter pilots) the least.

* ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'': A key part of the setting is that people can turn into demons which are capable of devouring their enemies, and it's quickly established that your characters are not above doing this either. After winning a battle, [[AfterCombatRecovery your party recovers a small bit of their HP]] from eating the enemies off camera.

* ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}'': The Monster spends much of the game killing wildlife to eat their corpses, which replenishes armour and accumulates energy needed to get stronger. They can also eat corpses of any Hunters they kill for the same purpose (even if said Hunter was a robot), although eating the corpse is also useful to keep Lazarus from [[BackFromTheDead resurrecting them]].

* ''VideoGame/Starcraft2'': In Co-op mode, Dehaka has the ability, "Devour", that allows him to eat enemy units. This not only heals him based on how much Health the unit has, but it also gives him a temporary bonus ability based on what kind of unit he ate. For example, Air units grant him a temporary long range BreathWeapon attack that can hit both ground and air targets, while armored units temporarily grant him a defense buff.

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