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** [[Characters/GameOfThronesRamsayBolton Lord Ramsay Bolton]] inflicted feeding people to his rabbit dogs on other people and eventually and deservedly became a victim of this from one of his victims Who fed him to his own dogs that he starved so they would feed on more victims.

** [[Characters/GameOfThronesRamsayBolton Lord Ramsay Bolton]]] inflicted feeding people to his rabbit dogs on other people and eventually and deservedly became a victim of this from one of his victims Who fed him to his own dogs that he starved so they would feed on more victims.

** In Season Six "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS6E2Home Home]]", after Ramsay kills his father when they learn that his wife, Walda, gave birth to a baby boy, [[InheritanceMurder not wanting to lose his claim]], he lured Walda and his baby brother to the kennels to have his dogs devour them.
** In Season Six "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS6E9BattleOfTheBastards Battle of the Bastards]]", before their battle, Ramsay brags that he didn't feed his dogs for a week so he can have them devour Jon and his men after they lose, but in the end it was Ramsay that lost. After losing the battle, Ramsay is tied to a chair in the same room where his dogs are and Sansa reveals that the cages of his dogs are open. Ramsay is confident that his dogs won't hurt him because they are loyal, but Sansa notes that [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he starved them in anticipation of feeding them Jon and his men]] so the dogs are more hungry than loyal. Ramsay orders his dogs to stand down but they don't listen and they start devouring him, [[KarmicDeath while he screams in agony]].

'''Warning: This is a DeathTrope. Expect ''lots'' of unmarked spoilers.'''

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* ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy''
** In ''Film/TheMummy1999'', Hamunaptra is guarded by swarms of scarab beetles that appear out of nowhere to devour intruders. One of the diggers are eaten by a swarm after Imhotep is first awakened. Later, [[spoiler:Beni Gabor]] is eaten alive by scarab beetles, which swarm over and inside of him.

* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', when a ton of [[AntAssault man-eating ants]] appears, they take out several Russian soldiers but Dovchenko suffers the most when several of those ants goes inside his mouth and then they drag him into an anthill.

** ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' has a scene taken from the original ''Literature/JurassicPark1990'' novel, where a small child is attacked and nearly eaten by a pack of ''Compsognathus''. Also, Dieter Stark gets killed by a compy swarm later on. Another character, Peter Ludlow, is eaten by a family of ''T. rex''; the father breaks his leg, and the juvenile finishes him off.

** In ''Film/TheMummy1999'', Beni Gabor is eaten alive by scarab beetles, which swarm over and inside of him. An earlier foreshadowing of this happened when some of the diggers were running from the scarabs, one tripped and was instantly swarmed and devoured alive.
** In the sequel, ''Film/TheMummyReturns'', several {{Mooks}} suffer this fate when they uncover Imhotep's Book of the Dead. So does Anok Su Namun, Imhotep's lover, near the end when she trips and falls into a pit [[{{Pun}} crawling]] with these and about as many scorpions.

** ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' has a scene taken from the original ''Literature/JurassicPark'' novel, where a small child is attacked and nearly eaten by a pack of ''Compsognathus''. Also, Dieter Stark gets killed by a compy swarm later on. Another character, Peter Ludlow, is eaten by a family of ''T. rex''; the father breaks his leg, and the juvenile finishes him off.

* ''Literature/JurassicPark'':
** Dr. Henry Wu is eaten by a pack of ''Velociraptor'', and John Hammond is devoured by a swarm of ''Procompsognathus'' after he falls and injures his leg.

** The second film, ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' had a scene taken from the original ''Literature/JurassicPark'' novel, where a small child is attacked and nearly eaten by a pack of ''Compsognathus''. The same film had Dieter Stark killed by a compy swarm later on. Another character, Peter Ludlow, is eaten by a family of ''T. rex''. The father breaks his leg, and the juvenile finishes him off.

* ''Anime/CrossAnge'': In the third episode, Miranda, one of the rookie pilots deployed along with Ange, gets forcibly ejected from her Para-mail, and while she's falling three [=DRAGONs=] fly at her and gruesomely tear her apart.

%%(ZCE)* ''Anime/CrossAnge'':

* In the arcade version of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong 3'', losing a life results in Stanley falling to the floor and being eaten alive by a swarm of bugs, leaving behind nothing other than his spray bottle. Home console ports tone this down by removing the devouring part, having only the fall kill him.

* In ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'', it takes place during a ZombieApocalypse and it's based on ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'', so it's bound to happen. Some deaths will vary on who you choose to save.
** Season One:

** 400 Days:
*** In Vince's Story, when a chained Vince, Justin, and Danny need to escape the prison bus, Vince has to choose between Justin and Danny on who's ankle he needs to shoot because then the chain could slip out and they'll all be free. Depending on who you choose, the other will be left behind and get devoured by the walkers.
** Season Two:
*** In Episode One,"All That Remains", if Clementine chooses to save Nick instead of Pete, he'll be surrounded by walkers and get devoured while Nick and Clementine watch helplessly.

** Michonne:
*** In Episode Three, after an exchange of prisoners goes horribly awry between Michonne's group and Norma's, a horde of walkers arrives, drawn by the gunfire and Norma's flare. Norma, enraged by the death of her brother, orders her gang to kill Michonne's group, breaking into the compound, closely followed by the walker horde. After engaging in brutal close combat exchange with Norma that results in Michonne cutting off Norma's arm, Norma finds herself surrounded and grabbed by several walkers. Michonne then has the option of either [[MercyKill shooting Norma in the head to spare her the pain of being torn apart]] or leaving her to endure her horrifyingly painful, grisly death.

*** If the survivors you're trying to rescue takes enough damage from zombies, [[PlotlineDeath a cutscene will appear where the zombies are eating the survivors]]. Some of the cutscenes includes the zombies devouring and pulling out the survivor's guts, the zombie dog-piling on the survivor and devouring them, and four zombies pulling on the survivor's limbs.

'''Smitty Werbenjägermanjensen:''' [[DefiedTrope That's disgusting!]] We just want the hat back.

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in ''Anime/JuniTaisenZodiacWar''. Boar, after becoming a zombie, is devoured by a horde of crows.

* ''VideoGame/AnnieLastHope'' have numerous scenes of {{gorn}} where innocent civilains gets ripped to shreds by the zombie hordes. Though there's an AssholeVictim example with the Unhinged Shooter, a psychopath who tries shooting at Annie via machine-gun only to be bested in a boss fight. After the battle, the mortally-injured shooter actually had the gall to ask Annie to help him escape [[EntitledBastard despite trying to kill her earlier]], only for Annie to rightfully leave the Shooter to his (gory) fate.

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* In ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': This is expected in a show that takes place during a ZombieApocalypse.

* In the ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' Webisodes: "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadWebisodesTornApart Torn Apart]]", after Hannah gets bit by a walker and fires a gun at it that attracts more walkers, she tells her children to go on without her as several walkers approach her and [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe tear apart the lower half of her body]]. Some time later, she becomes zombified and slowly decays, and it turns out she's the [[DoomedByCanon "bicycle girl walker" that Rick Grimes will eventually meet in the park in season one of the TV show.]]

* Subaru of ''LightNovel/ReZero'' gets eaten alive by a swarm of {{Killer Rabbit}}s in one of the most horrifying ways he's died so far.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'', after Simba defeats Scar in the final battle for Pride Rock, Scar [[TheDogBitesBack gets surrounded by his former hyena henchmen]] and he gets eaten alive by them after they find out how little he thought of betraying them.

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* Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}:
** ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In "The Wish", Cordelia wished that Buffy had never come to Sunnydale, so it becomes overrun with vampires. Cordelia is bitten, drained, and killed by vampire versions of Xander and Willow.

* In ''Series/GameOfThrones'':

* ''Series/MacGyver1985'': In "Trumbo's World", Trumbo's native assistant is devoured by the swarm of army ants that overwhelm the plantation.

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* In the roleplays of ''WebComic/WhiteDarkLife'', the DeathByOriginStory of Annie Belnades's parents was like this -- they were eaten by coyotes while Annie watched in horror from the safety of tree branches. Then the coyotes turned their attention to Annie and chased her relentlessly for ''[[SuperPersistentPredator six years]]''. Annie has developed [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes a severe phobia]] of both coyotes and being EatenAlive as a result.
* ''WebComic/SchlockMercenary'': Given a choice between being torn apart and eaten by a mob of enraged amorphs, or a lengthy court proceeding, Schlock's human 'grandmother' [[EvilLawyerJoke chose being eaten]].

* A frequent fate for Hector and Troy of ''VideoGame/{{Struggling}}'' is being eaten alive by the hundreds of thousands of rats that infest the laboratory they were created in.