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Titus: Not I; 'twas Chiron and Demetrius:
They ravish'd her, and cut away her tongue;
And they, 'twas they, that did her all this wrong.
Saturninus: Go fetch them hither to us presently.
Titus: Why, there they are both, baked in that pie;
Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,
Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.
'Tis true, 'tis true; witness my knife's sharp point.
They ravish'd her, and cut away her tongue;
And they, 'twas they, that did her all this wrong.
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"Not really," she answered. "Although I have heard it said that over there the witches are able to make the grown-ups eat their own children." [...]\\
"But how could they possibly make them eat their own children?" I asked.\\
"By turning them into hot-dogs," she said. "That wouldn't be too difficult for a clever witch."
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"Not really," she answered. "Although I have heard it said that over there the witches are able to make the grown-ups eat their own children." [...]\\
"But how could they possibly make them eat their own children?" I asked.\\
"By turning them into hot-dogs," she said. "That wouldn't be too difficult for a clever witch."
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"Not really," she answered. "Although I have heard it saidTamora: Why hast thou slain thine only daughter thus?
Titus: Not I; 'twas Chiron and Demetrius:
They ravish'd her, and cut away her tongue;
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herself hath bred.
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* In the oneshot ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'' DarkFic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/373563 Consumed]]'', Cinderella enacts revenge on her abusive step-mother and step-sisters in this manner. She orders Anastasia to be assassinated, gets her fed to her mother and sister, then frames them for murder and cannibalism.
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* ''Literature/TamCam'': The traditional version of story ends with Tam having her half-sister Cam boiled alive in revenge. Tam later serves her stepmother some of Cam's meat. When her stepmother notices Cam's skull, she dies of shock.
* ''Literature/TamCam'': The traditional version of story ends with Tam having her half-sister Cam boiled alive in revenge. Tam later serves her stepmother some of Cam's meat. When her stepmother notices Cam's skull, she dies of shock.
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** The stories of Lycaon, the king who tried to serve a child to a visiting and disguised Zeus only to be turned into a werewolf, have versions where it is said the child killed and cooked is a result of Zeus raping Lycaon's daughter, Kallisto.
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** The first example may well be Tantalus, son of Zeus, ancestor of the aforementioned Atreus and Thyestes - and arguably the true source of the curse on the whole bloodline. He wanted to prove the gods are not all-knowing so he murdered his son Pelops and cooked him for the feast he was giving the gods, that is, relatives on his father's side. The other gods instantly realized what was going on but Demeter (still crestfallen after Persephone vanished) did end up nibbling on a shoulder-blade (which got replaced with an ivory one courtesy of Hephaestus when the poor kid got brought back to the living).
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* In ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'', as revenge for the rape and mutilation of his daughter, Titus kills Chiron and Demetrius, the sons of Tamora, Queen of the Goths, bakes them into pies and then tricks her into eating them.
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** In more recent times, it is implied that [[spoiler:Lord Wyman Manderly]] served three [[spoiler:Frey's]] as pies at the wedding of [[spoiler:Ramsay Bolton.]]
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"By turning them into hot-dogs," she said. "That wouldn't be too difficult for a clever witch."
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"By turning them into hot-dogs," she said. "That wouldn't be too difficult for a clever witch."
-->--'''Creator/RoaldDahl''', ''Literature/TheWitches''
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** Creator/{{Herodotus}} claims that's how UsefulNotes/CyrusTheGreat came to rule. His grandfather, Astyages, had a vision that his grandson will take the throne from him. He decided to kill him, but the man ordered to do so, Harpagus, disobeyed. Upon learning of it years later, Astyages killed Harpagus' son and fed the body to him. Later, when Cyrus revolted against him, he put Harpagus in charge of the army.
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* Some of the oldest examples come from ''Literature/TheHistories'' of Herodotus, which contain at least two instances involving the Medes. Of these, the more famous comes from Herodotus' ([[BasedOnAGreatBigLie completely fictional]], by the way, though Herodotus probably didn't invent it himself) OriginStory for UsefulNotes/CyrusTheGreat. To summarize considerably, Cyrus' maternal grandfather, King Astyages of the Medes, had ordered one of his generals, Harpagus, to kill the newborn Cyrus (as he had had an omen that Cyrus would supplant or overthrow him). Harpagus didn't have the heart, and long story short Astyages finds out ten years later that Cyrus is still alive. This was Harpagus' punishment for his failure (from A.D. Godley's 1920 translation):
--> But when Harpagus’ son came, Astyages cut his throat and tearing him limb from limb roasted some and boiled some of the flesh, and the work being finished kept all in readiness. So when it came to the hour for dinner and Harpagus was present among the rest of the guests, dishes of sheeps’ flesh were set before Astyages and the others, but Harpagus was served with the flesh of his own son, all but the head and hands and feet, which lay apart covered up in a basket. And when Harpagus seemed to have eaten his fill, Astyages asked him, “Are you pleased with your meal, Harpagus?” “Exceeding well pleased,” Harpagus answered. Then those whose business it was brought him in the covered basket the head and hands and feet of his son, and they stood before Harpagus and bade him uncover and take of them what he would. Harpagus did so; he uncovered and saw what was left of his son: this he saw, but he mastered himself and was not dismayed. Astyages asked him, “Know you what beast’s flesh you have eaten?” “Yea,” he said, “I know, and all that the king does is pleasing to me.” With that answer he took the rest of the flesh and went to his house, purposing then, as I suppose, to collect and bury all.
--> But when Harpagus’ son came, Astyages cut his throat and tearing him limb from limb roasted some and boiled some of the flesh, and the work being finished kept all in readiness. So when it came to the hour for dinner and Harpagus was present among the rest of the guests, dishes of sheeps’ flesh were set before Astyages and the others, but Harpagus was served with the flesh of his own son, all but the head and hands and feet, which lay apart covered up in a basket. And when Harpagus seemed to have eaten his fill, Astyages asked him, “Are you pleased with your meal, Harpagus?” “Exceeding well pleased,” Harpagus answered. Then those whose business it was brought him in the covered basket the head and hands and feet of his son, and they stood before Harpagus and bade him uncover and take of them what he would. Harpagus did so; he uncovered and saw what was left of his son: this he saw, but he mastered himself and was not dismayed. Astyages asked him, “Know you what beast’s flesh you have eaten?” “Yea,” he said, “I know, and all that the king does is pleasing to me.” With that answer he took the rest of the flesh and went to his house, purposing then, as I suppose, to collect and bury all.
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* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': This maybe stretching the definition of filial, but in the "Last Supper", the murderer cuts up the VictimOfTheWeek, cooks him, and serves him to the contestants on a cooking show as a palate test. The victim had raped and murdered her sister together with his 'frat brother', who is one of the contestants. The butchering and cooking scene is an obvious tip of the hat to ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus''.
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* In ''Film/TheatreOfBlood'', Lionheart feeds Merridew his two [[MrMuffykins pet two poodles]] baked into a pie, as a revenge based on ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus''. He then finishes Merridew off by ForceFeeding him the remains of the pies very forcefully.
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* In ''Film/TheatreOfBlood'', Lionheart feeds Merridew his two [[MrMuffykins pet two poodles]] baked into a pie, as a revenge based on ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus''. He then finishes Merridew off by ForceFeeding him the remains of the pies very forcefully.
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* Professor Music/TomLehrer composed the novelty song ''The Irish Ballad'' which has a deranged Irish lassie murder her family members one by one, the last victim being her baby brother. After killing him, she cooked his flesh as a stew, and invited the neighbors to have some.
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** An inversion: Tantalus wanted to test the omniscience of the gods, so he invited them to a banquet where the main course was his own son Pelops, cut up in a stew. The gods were horrified and didn't eat any, except for Demeter, who was distracted by her daughter's recent kidnapping and didn't pay attention to what she was eating. The gods then resurrected the son, giving him an ivory shoulder to replace the one Demeter had eaten, while Tantalus was sentenced to always have food and drink just out of reach during an eternity in Tartarus.
** Similarly to Tantalus, another king named Lycaon served the meat of his own son Nyctimus to Zeus, to test his omniscience. Zeus resurrected Nyctimus and punished Lycaon by [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent turning him into a wolf]].
** Similarly to Tantalus, another king named Lycaon served the meat of his own son Nyctimus to Zeus, to test his omniscience. Zeus resurrected Nyctimus and punished Lycaon by [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent turning him into a wolf]].
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** When King Atreus of Mycenae learns that his brother Thyestes has committed adultery with Atreus' wife Aerope, he kills Thyestes' sons and has them cooked and served to their father. When Thyestes has finished his meal, Atreus reveals the truth and shows him the children's hand and feet. Then he banishes Thyestes from Mycenae for eating human flesh.
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You have bent your enemy to your will. As a show of obedience, he is now hosting you at a lavish feast in your honor. Only too late do you begin to wonder where your son is, and what exactly what is in the stew.
A SubTrope of IAteWhat and ImAHumanitarian, and usually also RevengeIsADishBestServed.
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* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'':
** PsychoForHire Barracuda recounts how an African warlord once killed his brother and had him cooked up to test his mercenaries' reactions. They all started vomiting as soon as they learned what they were eating... except Barracuda, who asked for seconds.
** A Triad leader is unimpressed with Nicky Cavella's threats (he keeps eating during the meeting), saying he has three grown sons to take over the business even if Nicky has him killed. Nicky tells him he's eating one of them, before gunning down the other two standing behind him.
* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' Fiddler's Green relates a version of Little Red Riding Hood in which the wolf carved up Granny and poured her blood into a wine bottle, then tricked Red into having a bite and a drink before killing her as well.
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* In the oneshot ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'' DarkFic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/373563 Consumed]]'', Cinderella enacts revenge on her abusive step-mother and step-sisters in this manner. She orders Anastasia to be assassinated, gets her fed to her mother and sister, then frames them for murder and cannibalism.
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* ''The Juniper Tree'', a fairy tale by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm, tells of a WickedStepmother who kills her stepson, then cuts him up and serves him as a stew to her husband / the child's father.
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* In ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' after Dr. Scott says that Eddie was his nephew Dr. Frank-N-Furter reveals that they've been eating "Eddie under glass".
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** The legendary Rat Cook is said to have served a prince to his father, over an unknown slight by the King.
** In more recent times, it is implied that [[spoiler:Lord Wyman Manderly]] served three [[spoiler:Frey's]] as pies at the wedding of [[spoiler:Ramsay Bolton.]]
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* In ''Series/GameOfThrones'' [[spoiler:Arya Stark]] kills and feeds [[spoiler:Walder Frey]]'s sons to him instead of [[spoiler:Lord Manderly]]
* In ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', Oswald Cobblepot kills [[spoiler:Elijah's]] stepchildren then feeds them to her before killing her. They were using him as a servant and had [[spoiler:poisoned his father]].
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': This maybe stretching the definition of filial, but in the "Last Supper", the murderer cuts up the VictimOfTheWeek, cooks him, and serves him to the contestants on a cooking show as a palate test. The victim had raped and murdered her sister together with his 'frat brother', who is one of the contestants. The butchering and cooking scene is an obvious tip of the hat to ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus''.
[[AC: Music]]
* Professor Tom Lehrer composed the novelty song The Irish Ballad which has a deranged Irish lassie murder her family members one by one, the last victim being her baby brother. After killing him, she cooked his flesh as a stew, and invited the neighbors to have some.
-->One day when she had nothing to do,
-->Sing rickety-tickety-tin,
-->One day when she had nothing to do,
-->She cut her baby brother in two,
-->And served him up as an irish stew,
-->And invited the neighbors in, -bors in,
-->Invited the neighbors in.
[[AC:Mythology]]
* Myth/ClassicalMythology:
** When King Atreus of Mycenae learns that his brother Thyestes has committed adultery with Atreus' wife Aerope, he kills Thyestes' sons and has them cooked and served to their father. When Thyestes has finished his meal, Atreus reveals the truth and shows him the children's hand and feet. Then he banishes Thyestes from Mycenae for eating human flesh.
** According to Greek Mythology, king Tereus raped his wife's sister, cut out her tongue, and held her captive until she managed to smuggle out a message to her sister. The sister killed their son and fed him to Tereus. ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'' borrows heavily from the story.
** Creator/{{Herodotus}} claims that's how UsefulNotes/CyrusTheGreat came to rule. His grandfather, Astyages, had a vision that his grandson will take the throne from him. He decided to kill him, but the man ordered to do so, Harpagus, disobeyed. Upon learning of it years later, Astyages killed Harpagus' son and fed the body to him. Later, when Cyrus revolted against him, he put Harpagus in charge of the army.
** An inversion: Tantalus wanted to test the omniscience of the gods, so he invited them to a banquet where the main course was his own son Pelops, cut up in a stew. The gods were horrified and didn't eat any, except for Demeter, who was distracted by her daughter's recent kidnapping and didn't pay attention to what she was eating. The gods then resurrected the son, giving him an ivory shoulder to replace the one Demeter had eaten, while Tantalus was sentenced to always have food and drink just out of reach during an eternity in Tartarus.
** Similarly to Tantalus, another king named Lycaon served the meat of his own son Nyctimus to Zeus, to test his omniscience. Zeus resurrected Nyctimus and punished Lycaon by [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent turning him into a wolf]].
** Classical Mythology inverted this when Kronos, wanting to eat his children so they couldn't overthrow him, unknowingly ate a rock disguised as the baby Zeus.
* Myth/NorseMythology: After King Atli has killed Gunnar and Hogni, the brothers of his wife Gudrun, he offers he will make it up to his wife by holding a funeral feast for the brothers. Gudrun cuts the throats of the two small sons she has with Atli and serves their roasted hearts to their father, together with wine mixed with the children's blood in drinking cups made from their skulls (Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, Volsunga Saga).
[[AC:Theatre]]
* In ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'', as revenge for the rape and mutilation of his daughter, Titus kills the sons of Tamora, Queen of the Goths, bakes them into pies and then tricks her into eating them.
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Scott Tenorman Must Die", Cartman kills Scott's parents, cooks them into chili and tricks him into eating it, mocking him in an homage of ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus''.
* A ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch has a vengeful fish killing a man's wife and serving her to him.
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Index: ImAHumanitarian
A SubTrope of IAteWhat and ImAHumanitarian, and usually also RevengeIsADishBestServed.
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!!Examples:
[[AC: Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'':
** PsychoForHire Barracuda recounts how an African warlord once killed his brother and had him cooked up to test his mercenaries' reactions. They all started vomiting as soon as they learned what they were eating... except Barracuda, who asked for seconds.
** A Triad leader is unimpressed with Nicky Cavella's threats (he keeps eating during the meeting), saying he has three grown sons to take over the business even if Nicky has him killed. Nicky tells him he's eating one of them, before gunning down the other two standing behind him.
* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' Fiddler's Green relates a version of Little Red Riding Hood in which the wolf carved up Granny and poured her blood into a wine bottle, then tricked Red into having a bite and a drink before killing her as well.
[[AC: Fan Works]]
* In the oneshot ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'' DarkFic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/373563 Consumed]]'', Cinderella enacts revenge on her abusive step-mother and step-sisters in this manner. She orders Anastasia to be assassinated, gets her fed to her mother and sister, then frames them for murder and cannibalism.
[[AC:Folklore]]
* ''The Juniper Tree'', a fairy tale by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm, tells of a WickedStepmother who kills her stepson, then cuts him up and serves him as a stew to her husband / the child's father.
[[AC: Film]]
* In ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' after Dr. Scott says that Eddie was his nephew Dr. Frank-N-Furter reveals that they've been eating "Eddie under glass".
[[AC:Literature]]
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''
** The legendary Rat Cook is said to have served a prince to his father, over an unknown slight by the King.
** In more recent times, it is implied that [[spoiler:Lord Wyman Manderly]] served three [[spoiler:Frey's]] as pies at the wedding of [[spoiler:Ramsay Bolton.]]
[[AC: Live Action TV]]
* In ''Series/GameOfThrones'' [[spoiler:Arya Stark]] kills and feeds [[spoiler:Walder Frey]]'s sons to him instead of [[spoiler:Lord Manderly]]
* In ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', Oswald Cobblepot kills [[spoiler:Elijah's]] stepchildren then feeds them to her before killing her. They were using him as a servant and had [[spoiler:poisoned his father]].
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': This maybe stretching the definition of filial, but in the "Last Supper", the murderer cuts up the VictimOfTheWeek, cooks him, and serves him to the contestants on a cooking show as a palate test. The victim had raped and murdered her sister together with his 'frat brother', who is one of the contestants. The butchering and cooking scene is an obvious tip of the hat to ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus''.
[[AC: Music]]
* Professor Tom Lehrer composed the novelty song The Irish Ballad which has a deranged Irish lassie murder her family members one by one, the last victim being her baby brother. After killing him, she cooked his flesh as a stew, and invited the neighbors to have some.
-->One day when she had nothing to do,
-->Sing rickety-tickety-tin,
-->One day when she had nothing to do,
-->She cut her baby brother in two,
-->And served him up as an irish stew,
-->And invited the neighbors in, -bors in,
-->Invited the neighbors in.
[[AC:Mythology]]
* Myth/ClassicalMythology:
** When King Atreus of Mycenae learns that his brother Thyestes has committed adultery with Atreus' wife Aerope, he kills Thyestes' sons and has them cooked and served to their father. When Thyestes has finished his meal, Atreus reveals the truth and shows him the children's hand and feet. Then he banishes Thyestes from Mycenae for eating human flesh.
** According to Greek Mythology, king Tereus raped his wife's sister, cut out her tongue, and held her captive until she managed to smuggle out a message to her sister. The sister killed their son and fed him to Tereus. ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'' borrows heavily from the story.
** Creator/{{Herodotus}} claims that's how UsefulNotes/CyrusTheGreat came to rule. His grandfather, Astyages, had a vision that his grandson will take the throne from him. He decided to kill him, but the man ordered to do so, Harpagus, disobeyed. Upon learning of it years later, Astyages killed Harpagus' son and fed the body to him. Later, when Cyrus revolted against him, he put Harpagus in charge of the army.
** An inversion: Tantalus wanted to test the omniscience of the gods, so he invited them to a banquet where the main course was his own son Pelops, cut up in a stew. The gods were horrified and didn't eat any, except for Demeter, who was distracted by her daughter's recent kidnapping and didn't pay attention to what she was eating. The gods then resurrected the son, giving him an ivory shoulder to replace the one Demeter had eaten, while Tantalus was sentenced to always have food and drink just out of reach during an eternity in Tartarus.
** Similarly to Tantalus, another king named Lycaon served the meat of his own son Nyctimus to Zeus, to test his omniscience. Zeus resurrected Nyctimus and punished Lycaon by [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent turning him into a wolf]].
** Classical Mythology inverted this when Kronos, wanting to eat his children so they couldn't overthrow him, unknowingly ate a rock disguised as the baby Zeus.
* Myth/NorseMythology: After King Atli has killed Gunnar and Hogni, the brothers of his wife Gudrun, he offers he will make it up to his wife by holding a funeral feast for the brothers. Gudrun cuts the throats of the two small sons she has with Atli and serves their roasted hearts to their father, together with wine mixed with the children's blood in drinking cups made from their skulls (Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, Volsunga Saga).
[[AC:Theatre]]
* In ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'', as revenge for the rape and mutilation of his daughter, Titus kills the sons of Tamora, Queen of the Goths, bakes them into pies and then tricks her into eating them.
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Scott Tenorman Must Die", Cartman kills Scott's parents, cooks them into chili and tricks him into eating it, mocking him in an homage of ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus''.
* A ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch has a vengeful fish killing a man's wife and serving her to him.
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Index: ImAHumanitarian
