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* [[TheSimpsons "He eats like a pig!" "Nah, I'd say he eats more like a duck. Pigs tend to chew."]]

* The Tamaraneans from ''TeenTitans'' have meals that involves fighting for food. It didn't help the Earthling Titans that you can't tell if the food is meat or not.

** In his case it's almost a subversion, because rather than being wasteful/greedy it shows him as a loner who doesn't know (or, more likely, simply doesn't care) about the kinds of things normal people care about, such as table manners. It also helps convey that he's a pretty spartan kind of guy: The beans are just as nutritious cold. It's faster. It's easier. Why bother heating them up?

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[[caption-width-right:350:[-Do you know how many pictures there are of Jabba eating stuff? [[{{Understatement}} Lots]].-] ]]

* ''{{Thirty Days of Night}}'': Given that there's only a certain amount of blood in a human body, and only a certain number of human bodies left in Barrow, should the vamps have been dribbling so much down the fronts of their shirts? In some scenes, they actually look like they have blood beards, of the ZZ Top variety.

->''We all know he [William Howard Taft] kept a bowl of live frogs by his resting slab in the Oval Office that he would occasionally snack on during meetings. We all know the Oval Office was originally ''round''. The bloggers of the day would never let him forget it.''

* Melvin Underbelly from ''{{Overlord}}'', the hero who fell to [[SevenDeadlySins Gluttony]]. His eating habits [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgust even your minions]], and they're pretty gross themselves.

** Actually, there was one instance where it is shown, with that noble in episode 2 who [[MoralEventHorizon hunts his citizens with his tank for sport]]. He throws a tantrum because his steak was prepared differently from his usual and throws it to the floor. Then he hears his maids' stomachs growling (rather audibly), [[KickTheDog so he tosses the rest of the onto the floor while remarking that he should feed his dogs]]. Yeah, [[CompleteMonster he's an asshole]].
* Chihiro's parent's are seriously greedy pigs in ''SpiritedAway'', even before they are turned into actual pigs for touching the food of gods. At one point her dad seems to stuff an entire fried chicken down his throat!

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* ''Mrs. Piggle Wiggle's Magic'' (I believe) - A boy with positively dreadful table manners is taught how to eat properly by a very intelligent pig.

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* One episode of {{Yeralash}} is about a king who orders his first minister to make his daughter laugh. No clowns can do it... until a trope fitting boy is invited.

* One episode of {{Yeralash}} is about a king ho orders his first minister to make his daughter laugh. No clowns can do it... until a trope fitting boy is invited.

* In the ''{{Discworld}}'' book ''Discworld/MakingMoney'', Lord Vetinari recounts with horror watching merchant banker Crispin Horsefry eat a dish where "the sauce went everywhere". Reacher Gilt later winces to see fine brandy drunk the way Horsefry drinks it. And then there was [[CompleteMonster Lord Winder]].

* John Belushi did it again in ''TheBluesBrothers'', when Jake and Elwood deliberately invoke this trope to drag Mr. Fabulous away from his ritzy maître d' job and back into their band.

* ''DoctorWho'': When the Master [[CameBackWrong returns]] in "The End of Time", he spends the majority of the first part howling [[LargeHam "I am SOOO HUNGRY"]] and eating anything in sight. [[ToServeMan Including people]].

** Actually, there was one instance where it is shown, with that noble in episode 2 who [[MoralEventHorizon hunts his citizens with his tank for sport]]. He throws a tantrum because his steak was prepared differently from his usual and throws it to the floor. Then he hears his maids' stomachs growling (rather audibly), [[KickTheDog so he tosses the rest of the onto the floor while remarking that he should feed his dogs]]. Yeah, [[CompleteMonster he's an asshole]].

* Even ''puppets'' are guilty of this, as the Skesis dining scene in TheDarkCrystal illustrates.

** YMMV. There's more than a few viewers who just got a craving for nachos out of the scene.

* The Macellarius bloodline in ''VampireTheRequiem'' are vampiric gluttons. Their "feasting parties" generally consist of several dozen different varieties of blood, which they drink so sloppily it tends to ruin their (often fine) clothing. They'll even eat normal food at these things - which, being vampires, they then vomit up, not that they care. And then there's the special Discipline of the clan, which lets them turn raw flesh into Vitae (and thus keep it down). In the sourcebook depicting them, there's a memo from a vampire who had to negotiate with a group of Macellarius, noting that dinner with them took ''seven hours'' and got downright horrific when the human leg was brought in... Needless to say, the memo's subject line was "You So Owe Me".

* Mandragora slurping down oysters from the ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' episode "Double Date." Bonus points for leering at Black Canary as he says, "I like my oysters nice and juicy." Ew. And then you remember that oysters are supposedly an [[ParentalBonus aphro]][[{{Squick}} disiac]].

* The animal characters of ''The FantasticMrFox'' like to think of themselves as urbane and sophisticated, but they go wild at mealtimes.

---> '''Robin:''' So...I'm guessing you picked up your table manners on Earth?
---> '''Starfire:''' HURRY OR YOU WILL NOT GET ANY!

* ''DoctorWho'': When the Master returns in "The End of Time", he spends the majority of the first part howling [[LargeHam "I'm SO HUNGRY"]] and eating anything in sight. Including people and the occasional turkey.

->''We all know he [William Howard Taft] kept a bowl of live frogs by his resting slab in the Oval Office that he would occasionally snack on during meetings. We all know the Oval Office was originally ''round''. The bloggers of the day would never let him forget it.''
-->-- ''MoreInformationThanYouRequire'', "Humanizing Detail on William Howard Taft"

[[StarWars http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/delicacy.jpg]]
[[caption-width:350: Do you know how many pictures there are of Jabba eating stuff? [[{{Understatement}} Lots]].]]

-->''"We all know he [William Howard Taft] kept a bowl of live frogs by his resting slab in the Oval Office that he would occasionally snack on during meetings. We all know the Oval Office was originally'' round''. The bloggers of the day would never let him forget it."''
--->-'''Humanizing Detail on William Howard Taft''', ''MoreInformationThanYouRequire''

It is an unspoken agreement in polite society that the proverb ''"You are what you eat"'' not only applies literally to what you are eating, but also ''how'' you actually consume the food. What better way, then, to show that a powerful [[AcceptableTargets (usually]] [[FatBastard fat)]] and important person is a corrupt villain by having him wastefully wolf down food with loud slurps-burps-slobbering, in a manner more befitting of a pig than a gentleman of his status?

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* While feeling more sadistic (than usual), [[CompleteMonster Souther]] in ''FistOfTheNorthStar'' sets up a banquet of a dozen courses ''just to watch the attending slave children shake in hunger at the sight of it.'' After eating '''less than half a plate''', he smashes the entire table, ordering all the scraps to be thrown into the trash, just so he can take joy in watching a child being beaten by his men for trying to eat a single drumstick.
* The manner in which Majin-Buu, the evil genie, slurps and gobbles down the candy into which he turns his victims in ''DragonBallZ''. The fact that they are ''still alive and conscious'' makes his eating scenes [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel all the more nightmarishly evil]].

* Bob Poundmax in ''{{Gungrave}}'', who barely chews the fried chicken that he practically ''inhales'' by the '''bucketful'''. It's eventually revealed [[EmergencyTransformation being turned]] into a [[PlayingWithSyringes nonhuman]] was the only thing that saved him from a heart attack.
-->'''Harry''': Ugh! Bob, how many times have we told you to stop eating like that?!\\
'''Bob''': *with food still in his mouth* I'm sorry Harry, I promise I won't do it again! *while crumbs are spilling everywhere*

** Actually, there was one instance where it is shown, with that noble in episode 2 who [[MoralEventHorizon hunts his citizens with his tank for sport]]. He throws a tantrum because his steak was prepared differently from his usual and throws it to the floor. Then he hears his maids' stomachs growling (rather audibly), [[KickTheDog so he tosses the rest of the onto the floor while remarking that he should feed his dogs]]. Yeah, [[CompleteMonster he's an asshole]].

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* One of our big clues that Rorschach is more than a bit socially maladjusted in ''{{Watchmen}}'' is the way he wolfs down cold baked beans straight from the can. The [[{{Squick}} sound effects]] don't help matters.

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* Jabba the Hutt of ''StarWars'', who shovels in gourmet food by the handful, is the TropeNamer. A fair amount of it is alive when he eats it. He can [[JustEatHim even swallow humans whole]].
** in {{Spaceballs}}, Pizza the Hut is a parody of Jabba. He's hilarious.
** Jabba's father Zorba from the ''Jedi Prince'' series of novels is just as disgusting as his son. His hosts at a feast are [[{{Squick}} squicked out]] by his eating habits and are aghast when he ruins their super expensive carpet. Oddly enough, Zorba gorging himself in that situation is somewhat understandable since he had been wandering Tatooine for days with hardly anything to eat.

* In the ''"Death Proof"'' segment of ''{{Grindhouse}},'' a stuntman's loud and messy introduction with a plate of cheese-soaked nachos is enough to tell you that he is a creep.

** Similarly, Budd's messily made margarita in ''KillBill Volume 2'' further drives to the audience the point that he is a burnt-out slob.
**I'd call him a subversion, since not only is he the only one who not only feels any kind of guilt or responsibility besides Bill, but also is the only one who put the Bride down...with rock-salt shot, no less!
* The Sha-Her Triad of Jet Li's {{Wuxia}} film ''OnceUponATimeInChina'' guzzle down pork and wine after forming a alliance of with the American sex-slave traders who invaded China.
* In Peter Jackson's version of ''TheLordOfTheRings'' the Steward of Gondor does this as we see shots of his son being sent (by him) on what's likely to be a pointless suicidal mission.
* Mr. Creosote in ''MontyPython's The Meaning of Life'' "Part VI The Autumn Years". On [=YouTube=] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Bs1ZZ-7b8 starting at 0:50]].
** Then again, he also vomits everything right back up.

** John Belushi did it again in ''TheBluesBrothers'', when Jake and Elwood deliberately invoke this trope to drag Mr. Fabulous away from his ritzy maître d' job and back into their band.

* The overweight Assistant Warden and the Warden of ''TheStoryOfRicky'' wolf down banquets while their prisoners starve. Heck, even their ''dogs'' get steak for dinner!!
* [[NoNameGiven The Bandit]] in DynamiteWarrior is a deranged cannibal who gains super strength when he's hungry. He probably wouldn't be so hungry all the time if he didn't eat like Cookie Monster and, you know, actually swallowed his food.
* Given that there's only a certain amount of blood in a human body, and only a certain number of human bodies left in [[ThirtyDaysOfNight Barrow]], should the vamps have been dribbling so much down the fronts of their shirts? In some scenes, they actually look like they have blood beards, of the ZZ Top variety.
* A porn industry farce ''Live Virgin'' featured a more subtle [[strike: virgin]] version of the trope when a porn executive mentions how much he used to hate caviar before spooning it into his mouth from a bowl while lounging on a couch. It wasn't all that terrible but the film gives plenty of other examples of his general piggery.

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* In the {{Discworld}} book ''MakingMoney'', Lord Vetinari recounts with horror watching merchant banker Crispin Horsefry eat a dish where 'the sauce went everywhere'. Reacher Gilt later winces to see fine brandy drunk the way Horsefry drinks it. And then there was [[CompleteMonster Lord Winder]].
* Izak Grottle, a particularly fat and obnoxious skaven warlord from GotrekAndFelix novels, likes to gulp down live rats.
* In the fifth DeltoraQuest book, Gellick the Great Toad devours flies by the massive bowlful. His slaves have to keep special rooms full of maggots and rotting food to ensure a sufficient supply of flies. He even kills a slave with his poisonous saliva for having to tell him that the supplies are lower than normal due to him slowly eating larger quantities each meal.

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* The Klingons of the ''StarTrek'' universe universally gulp down food like slobs. In their case, though, it is to show how tough and free of pretentious "good manners" their straightforward and honest society is, rather than showing how "evil" they supposedly are.
** Also, it's hard to be dainty when the food is constantly trying to escape off the plate.
* ''Invoked,'' of all things, on ''NewsRadio.'' Jimmy James actively cultivated this as an intimidation tactic ("you have no idea how many millions I've made eating baked beans with my hands") and has to shake himself from it when invited to eat dinner with the President.
* Although [[SesameStreet Cookie Monster]] definitely eats this way, he's harmless. His eating habits are intended as mildly objectionable in and of themselves and seem to be connected to the fact he's generally uncivilized, though. And in one early appearance, he attempted to eat Kermit.
* In one episode of {{Stargate Atlantis}}, the nobles that Sheppard associates with, eat like this. Made all the more disgusting in that the group's first contact on that world are the farmers the nobles get their food from, who are all but starving.
* When [[DoctorWho The Master]] returns in 'The End Of Time,' he spends the majority of the first part howling [[LargeHam "I'm SO HUNGRY"]] and eating anything in sight. Including people and the occasional turkey.

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* [[{{Tsukihime}} Nero Chaos']] idea of fine dining is unleashing a horde of ravenous beasts inside a crowded hotel. All that's left the next morning are bloodstains that are ''everywhere'' and the occasional shark bite mark on the walls for when he apparently got a little too excited.

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*[=BigMastadon's=] self-imposed challenge to eat 40 pizza rolls. {{Retsupurae}}'s {{MST}} and reaction [[http://www.viddler.com/explore/retsu/videos/108/ here]]
* [[http://zarla.deviantart.com/art/i-hear-a-hunter-149706969 This Flash movie on deviantART.]]
** Be warned, there is some audible swearing.

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* Mandragora slurping down oysters from the ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' episode "Double Date." Bonus points for leering at Black Canary as he says, "I like my oysters nice and juicy." Ew.
** And then you remember that oysters are supposedly an [[ParentalBonus aphro]][[{{Squick}} disiac]].

* The Tamaraneans from {{Teen Titans}} have meals that involves fighting for food. It didn't help the Earthling Titans that you can't tell if the food is meat or not.

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