History Main / EatsBabies

* One notorious Chinese ''Franchise/TouhoiProject'' yukkuri doujin has Yuyuko raising [[WaddlingHead yukkuris]] so she can eat their young as snacks.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'': Out of fear of rebellion, Pharaoh Seti had his soldiers steal Jewish babies from their families and feed them to crocodiles; the scene is later depicted in Moses' [[NightmareSequence nightmare]] and on a wall painting.

* Justified and deconstructed in Marti Steussy's ''Forest of the Night''. [[spoiler:Tree Walker didn't want ''scavengers'' eating her dead son, after all; that would be an insult to his memory (and possibly give said scavengers a ''taste'' for Lodgeless babies). And [[IntelligentGerbil her species]] wasn't portrayed as evil, just [[BlueAndOrangeMorality very alien]] (although she was able to accept cremation as an equally valid death rite).]]

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''

** Used for BlackComedy with Olaf the [[AllTrollsareDifferent Troll]] in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E11Triangle Triangle]]" who constantly demands mead to drink and babies to eat. [[TokenEvilTeammate Spike]] suggests he try the hospital.

* In the early UsefulNotes/{{Christian|ity}} church, eating babies was something that both 1) Roman persecutors [[AbominationAccusationAttack accused]] Christians of practicing, and 2) Christians [[AbominationAccusationAttack accused]] rival churches of practicing. Ancient apologist Minucius Felix describes and retorts these accusations in his book ''[[https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0410.htm Octavius]]'' - he describes how the Romans accused them of cannibalizing children as an initiation rite, while pointing out how utterly incompatable this is with actual Christian teaching. Centuries later Christianity was legalized in Rome, and many of the same accusations were made against the [[UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}} Gnostics]] and Montanists by apologists like Epiphanius and Cyril of Jerusalem respectively. Cyril even went as far as to say the Montanists were the reason the earlier accusation existed[[note]](He does so in [[https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310116.htm Catechesis 16.8]])[[/note]].

** In the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting, hags steal human babies to eat, and also consume any male babies they give birth to. If a hag gives birth to a daughter, the infant will be safe from her mom's appetite, but not from other hags' appetites, grandmothers and aunts included. This has been/become general traits of hags in all other TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons settings, even TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}. In Dungeons and Dragons fifth edition, eating a baby is actually [[BizarreAlienReproduction part of their reproductive cycle]].

* The ''TabletopGame/{{In Nomine}}'' supplement 'Superiors 2' includes a demon who is said to love kids so much that she tries her best to 'only' eat one a year. Naturally, she serves the Demon Prince of Gluttony.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', [[CrapsackWorld naturally]]. Although Dark Eldar generally avoid it (as babies make terrible torture victims), Chaos knows that the effectiveness of sacrifices is proportional to the innocence of the victims. And ''[[MadnessMantra KHORNE CARES NOT FROM WHENCE THE BLOOD FLOWS, ONLY THAT IT FLOWS]]''. Although [[WarGod Khorne]] generally prefers that you kill something that has a ''chance'' of fighting back, he appreciates any bloodflow, but don't try to ''impress'' him with the infant skulls. He's put guy's heads on his ''own throne'' for making that mistake.

--->'''Handsome Jack:''' ''(to Vault Hunters)'' Oh come ON! What's wrong with that statue? I'm holding the Vault Key and a BABY. You know what babies are, right? Those little soft pink things your kind eats after you're done rolling around in your own feces? Ring a bell?

* One of the things that was cut from ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'' was giving Benny the option to try and satiate his intense hunger by eating babies out of her cribs.

* ''Stars in Shadow'': The Gremak, one of the major races and factions in the game, are known for eating their own young; this is in fact one of the reasons why many Gremak do not live to reach adulthood.
* ''Videogame/TeamFortress2'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YWPwpEwxq Some enterprising gamer skinned the Heavy's Sandvich to look like a baby.]] 8 (A baby '''doll''' ripped from ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', to be exact.)

* ''VideoGame/ChickenPolice'': One of the worst crimes to come out of the insect Hive neighborhood involves mothers selling their infant larvae on the black market to be eaten as illegal cuisine for particularly macabre clientele.

-->'''Sebastien:''' We feed the cow with nothing but cream cheese, sour cream, heavy whipping cream, and rich creamery fresh butter. Then we feed the steaks to 14 month old babies... and a day later drink the baby's blood. It is so decadent. ({{Beat}}) The babies ''hate'' the steaks.

* Webcomic/AxeCop and his mother [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_33/ ate babies]]. Supposedly, however, these were [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acblog/read/happy_mothers_day/ food babies]], not normal babies, although the six-year-old author declined to clarify this point. (At ''a restaurant'', no less, implying that's actually ''normal'' in the ''Axe Cop'' universe.)

* ''BackwardsCompatible'': [[http://www.crispygamer.com/comics/backward/Backward-2009-01-19.aspx Nom!]]

---->'''Kid in Trash Can:''' Hello? Mommy?

* In episode 14 of ''WebVideo/CodeMENT'':
-->'''Lelouch:''' My Franchise/{{Tamagotchi}} died from eating its own babies. THAT'S NOT FOOD, TAMAGOTCHI! THAT'S JUST NOT FOOD!

* "HE ATE A BABY" has become a standard response to [[DracoInLeatherPants HABIT fangirls]] in ''WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID'' fandom.

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick was rather creeped out by the Witches in ''Film/HocusPocus'':
-->'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick:''' Please don't refer to the child as an ''hors d'oeuvre'', I'm pretty sure that's illegal in most states.
* In ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' commercial special "Battle of the Commercials", The Critic is freaked out by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erh2ngRZxs0 the infamous Little Baby's Ice Cream commercial.]] He replays it again but cuts out the mentioning of ice cream.
-->'''Narrator:''' I eat little babies. It keeps me young. It keeps me light on my feet. When you eat little babies, you'll wink and nod. This is a special time. Little babies is a feeling.
-->'''NC:''' [[Film/SoylentGreen LITTLE BABY'S ICE CREAM IS PEOPLE!!!!!!]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDWMIwjfTHk This (NSFW)]] episode of ''WebAnimation/RatsOnCocaine''.

* Played for DeliberateValuesDissonance in ''Literature/ThreeWorldsCollide'', to highlight the potential challenges of encountering StarfishAliens with BlueAndOrangeMorality.

* In [[https://m.youtube.com/user/rangugamer RanguGamer's vidsos]], it has become a RunningGag to talk about how eating children is "super mega cool" and is "an irreplaceable part of our lives" after he turned "EATING CHILDREN" into the most recent trend in [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Dewford Town]], thus causing everybody to start talking about how awesome it is.

* On WebVideo/CriticalRole, Nott is a goblin who ran away from the rest of her clan. She confirms to the rest of the party that her tribe actually did abduct children to eat them, but while she has eaten human flesh she hasn't ''knowingly'' eaten a baby.

* One ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' panel had a couple of parents learning that their babysitter had cooked and eaten their kids, the joke being that the parents had [[FailedASpotCheck not noticed]] that their babysitter is literally an undisguised WickedWitch -- warts, pointy hat and all -- and are simply ''indignant'' about what a lousy job she's done.

-->'''Blunder''': I simply adore milk-fed meat!\\
'''Pox''': What are ya, some kind of animal?

-->'''[[spoiler: [[Creator/ChrisEvans Curtis]]]]''': [[TheAtoner You know what I hate about myself?]] I know what people taste like. I know babies taste best.

'''Answer:''' [[spoiler: Use a blender.]]\\

'''Answer:''' [[spoiler: Tortilla chips!]]

* ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'' (by Creator/CharlesStross): ''The Fuller Memorandum'' has Bob giving a long internal monologue about the enduring nature of the Blood Libel - how every culture seems to have some outlying group that it defames with rumors of how they're so evil, they're willing to kill babies to provide blood for their holy rituals. Bob finally realizes to his horror that this legend has a basis in fact when [[spoiler: the Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh, who currently have him captive, slaughter a newborn to start the ritual to bind an EldritchAbomination]].

--->'''Handsome Jack (to Vault Hunters)''': Oh come ON! What's wrong with that statue? I'm holding the Vault Key and a BABY. You know what babies are, right? Those little soft pink things your kind eats after you're done rolling around in your own feces? Ring a bell?

---->'''Kid in Trash Can''': Hello? Mommy?

-->'''Lelouch''': My Franchise/{{Tamagotchi}} died from eating its own babies. THAT'S NOT FOOD, TAMAGOTCHI! THAT'S JUST NOT FOOD!

-->'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''': Please don't refer to the child as an ''hors d'oeuvre'', I'm pretty sure that's illegal in most states.

--->'''Scorpion Monster''': My babies!\\
'''Dracula''': Well, maybe if you didn't make your babies so delicious, Dracula wouldn't have to eat them!

-->'''Unnamed Social Worker''': What happened to yo baby Precious?\\
'''Precious''': I ATE MY BABY. [[UnstoppableRage I ATE ALL MY BABIES!]]

* The [[spoiler: punchline]] of Don Hertzfelt's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXBV-Ifscn0 Wisdom Teeth]] is that the main character somehow has a baby come out of his mouth after his stitches from removing his wisdom teeth are undone, afterwards he gets attacked when a woman sees him trying to get the baby back in and assumes he's trying to eat the baby.

* ''Manga/{{Beastars}}'': Subverted in one chapter of the manga when [[spoiler:Bill]] discovers a live fetus inside of [[spoiler:an egg he cracked open while making a meal]] and wonders if it would be ok to eat it since it will probably die anyway. He ultimately isn't able to do it and ends keeping it alive with the help of [[spoiler:Pina and Aoba]] before handing it over to the police.

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Cutter says that in his perfect world there'd be a baby in every crock-pot. The Silver later messes with him by creating a "fruit" for him to eat that breaks open to reveal that its innards are shaped like an infant Inak in its shell.

* ''Manga/{{Beastars}}'': Subverted in one chapter of the manga when [[spoiler:Bill]] discovers a live fetus inside of [[spoiler:an egg he cracked open while making a meal]] and wonders if it would be ok to eat it since it will probably die anyway. He ultimately isn't able to do it and ends keeping it alive with help of [[spoiler:Pina and Aoba]] before handing it over to the police.

* Villainess Baba Yaga from ''Comicbook/{{Fables}}'' mentions that she enjoys eating mundy (real world) babies.

** A ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' (v2 #6, "What If... The Comicbook/XMen had lost Inferno?") had a demon-corrupted Wolverine get handed a squalling infant by N'astirh, followed by a claw-popping ''snikt!'' and a barely DiscretionShot of Wolverine bending over the child's body. Immensely disturbing.

* One notorious Chinese ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' yukkuri doujin has Yuyuko raising [[WaddlingHead yukkuris]] so she can eat their young as snacks.

* Played for horror with Creator/LairdBarron's recurring villains of his {{Cosmic Horror Stor|y}}ies, [[HumanoidAbomination the Children of the Old Leech]], who appears in ''Literature/TheCroning'', as well as the short stories ''The Broadsword'', ''The Men From Porlock'', and ''Mysterium Tremendum''. The Children treats human babies and children as a delicacy, less because of their flesh, but more because they are {{Emotion Eater}}s and they classify the sheer, uncomprehending terror a infant or a child feels upon being violently consumed by them as absolutely delicious.

* In ''VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo'' Rokushiki didn't actually eat the aborted fetus himself. Oh no. He tricked the mother into eating it out of a twisted sense of justice.

* In the ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' DLC Undead Nightmare, There is a sidequest involving Sasquatches who are said to eat babies. [[spoiler:They don't and are creatures which try to be harmless, [[YouBastard which you don't realize until after you kill all but one of them.]]]]

-->'''Zexion:''' You're not leaving until you finish it, you know.\\

* WebComic/AxeCop and his mother [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_33/ ate babies]]. Supposedly, however, these were [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acblog/read/happy_mothers_day/ food babies]], not normal babies, although the six-year-old author declined to clarify this point. (At ''a restaurant'', no less, implying that's actually ''normal'' in the ''Axe Cop'' universe.)

--->'''Kid in Trash Can''': Hello? Mommy?

* ''WebComic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal''

* In the Blog/DasSporking review of ''Breaking Dawn'', Mervin points out that this is essential what the practice of creating the Immortal Children entailed: since vampires couldn't voluntarily stop drinking blood until they were full, [[FridgeHorror the vampires who made Immortal Children must have kidnapped and killed untold numbers of children before managing to stop draining the blood of one]].

This is a subtrope of ImAHumanitarian as well as of WouldHurtAChild. Also compare ExoticEntree. If the villain specifically ''targets'' babies, rather than just being repugnant enough to eat one if the chance comes up, then they're a ChildEater as well. If the villain, especially an animal villain, eats a baby that is inside an egg, then it's EvilEggEater.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' skit "Preciouszilla" the title character is apparently questioned by a social service and reveals this secret... [[MakeMyMonsterGrow among other things]].

* Played for horror with Laird Barron's recurring villains of his {{Cosmic Horror Stor|y}}ies, [[HumanoidAbomination the Children of the Old Leech]], who appears in ''Literature/TheCroning'', as well as the short stories ''The Broadsword'', ''The Men From Porlock'', and ''Mysterium Tremendum''. The Children treats human babies and children as a delicacy, less because of their flesh, but more because they are {{Emotion Eater}}s and they classify the sheer, uncomprehending terror a infant or a child feels upon being violently consumed by them as absolutely delicious.

* In the ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' setting, the [[OurMinotursAreDifferent minotaurs]] have made bitter enemies of the [[BirdPeople kyrie]] both by stealing the sacred Northstone, an artifact they used to navigate long distances, and by deciding that a "revolting" (as the {{sourcebook}} describes it) soup made of kyrie eggyolks and mutton fat is a delicacy.
* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting, hags steal human babies to eat, and also consume any male babies they give birth to. If a hag gives birth to a daughter, the infant will be safe from her mom's appetite, but not from other hags' appetites, grandmothers and aunts included. This has been/become general traits of hags in all other TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons settings, even TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}. In Dungeons and Dragons fifth edition, eating a baby is actually [[BizarreAlienReproduction part of their reproductive cycle]].

* In ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'', the tembo is a HeinousHyena-like mutant monster that deliberately prefers to eat the children of sapient races for the grief that the act inflicts; there's a theory they may be some kind of LivingWeapon left over from Athas' apocalyptic past. It truly says something that despite Athas being full of cannibals, raiders and slavers, all of Athas' humanoid residents, even deadly enemies, [[EvenEvilHasStandards will team up without hesitation to kill a tembo when one is sighted]].
* A ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' article used this scenario as an example of a sort of WhamLine to introduce the fact that you're working for a secretly DecadentCourt: you've accomplished the task set out before you, driving away brigands or retrieving a lost heirloom or whatnot, and are invited to a feast by the local baroness. It's a night of extravagance and merriment, then the main course is served, a barbequed [[HalfHumanHybrid dragonborn]] infant. Which she and the court [[WickedCultured carve, serve, and daintily consume like it was a Thanksgiving turkey]]. Suggested bonus points go to any party members that join in, [[RefugeInAudacity especially if there's a dragonborn in your party]]!

* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting, hags steal human babies to eat, and also consume any male babies they give birth to. If a hag gives birth to a daughter, the infant will be safe from her mom's appetite, but not from other hags' appetites, grandmothers and aunts included.
** This has been/become general traits of hags in all other TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons settings, even TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}. In Dungeons and Dragons fifth edition, eating a baby is actually [[BizarreAlienReproduction part of their reproductive cycle]].
** The description of Tepestani goblins in one of the Ravenloft Gazetteers mentions that they very much enjoy eating both [[MonstrousCannibalism human]] ''[[MonstrousCannibalism and]]'' [[MonstrousCannibalism goblin]] babies. This could be because the darklords who dominate Tepest are a trio of hags.

* In ''Literature/DreamsOfJoy'', Joy catches her husband Tao waiting for their baby to die so he and his family can eat her. Probably one of the more justifiable examples of this because they are living on a commune in China during the Great Leap Forward. TruthInTelevision as well.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', Megatron has become such a bogeyman figure that he is said to eat protoforms - Transformer babies - by young Autobots. He's actually more AffablyEvil than that, though dangerous enough that his status as TheDreaded is still well deserved.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood'': A woman begs vampiric villain Dio to do whatever he wants to her but to spare her baby. Dio obliges and turns ''her'' into a vampire. [[ExactWords She proceeds to eat her own baby]].
* ''Anime/BattleGirlsTimeParadox'': Mitsuhide was supposed to spread the rumor that Nobunaga was a friend to all children, but thanks to gossip evolution, the only thing that made it through was that Mitsuhide was responsible for eating children.

* Desdemona Deathangel from the 2056 juncture in ''TabletopGame/FengShui'' is an abomination (a supernatural creature modified with arcanowave technology) disguised as a drop-dead-gorgeous woman, and the public at large adores her. However, the CDCA has some nasty little secrets about her that they'd like to keep hidden, such as the fact that [[DeathBySex she kills virtually any man she sleeps with]], or that she likes to eat people, especially babies, which are her favorite.

-->People are worked up, sir, because they are so poor that they are forced to have children as a cheap alternative to turkey at Christmas.
* House of Cthon head Charlotte in ''Series/{{Blade}}'' is shown partaking in baby-eating in the episode "Sacrifice". "You're so cute. I could just eat you up, yes I could." To the baby handed to her in a duffel bag by a minion. Thankfully, the scene cuts away before we actually see her doing it.

* It's mentioned briefly in the ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "Lucky" that the [=UnSub=] was institutionalized at the age of seven, after he tried eating his baby sister.

--->'''The Doctor:''' [[CatchPhrase Would you like a jelly baby?]]\\

* In ''Series/IClaudius'' [[TheCaligula Caligula]] chains up his sister, Drusilla, [[BrotherSisterIncest during a sex game]], [[CrossesTheLineTwice cuts out the foetus (of which he is the father) and eats it]]. Claudius hears screaming, knocks on the door and is met by a terrified Caligula in a bloodsoaked fake Zeus beard who tells him...
-->'''Caligula''': Don't go in that room...

* ''LightNovel/EvilFoodEaterConchita'': The titular VillainousGlutton attempts to eat her own baby. This example is ultimately subverted, however--it turns out she isn't [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes quite that evil.]]