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* One of the stories in ''LightNovel/ASimpleSurvey'' revolves around this. The narrator is a professor who specializes in researching monsters that become pests to human society. By finding ways to profit off them, he can create an incentive for peasants to hunt the monsters and keep their populations in check. In the story, he and his assistant dissect a troll and discover uses for its stomach acid and liver. [[spoiler:But releasing this information doesn't have the intended effect. The peasants, instead of killing the trolls, gather the materials non-lethally (by forcing the trolls to vomit out acid, and cutting away pieces of the liver at a time). On top of that, they've even started setting out food for the trolls, increasing their population]].
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* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', it's revealed that the Qunari have captured the Ataashi, a poisonous High Dragon, for this purpose. They're extracting the venom as an ingredient in [[spoiler:gaatlok, a form of gunpowder. The Inquisitor can either kill the Ataashi themselves, or release it and let it have its revenge on its captors. Either way, the production of gaatlok is stopped]].
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** A much better example is anything related to demon blood. Powerful demons are able to corrupt mortals with their blood. Though once corrupted, they seldom come back for more, they DO often server as lackeys prior to their reward of blood and, once corrupted, typically serve their masters. There are a few instances (notably Grom Hellscream) of characters who do return for another dose.
** Kael'Thas and his Blood Elves are fond of this. They are capable of draining mana from any creature (one of the racial abilities even reflected this). Of note is their imprisonment of a Naaru to drain its energy for their paladins and of Magtheridon to drain his blood for Kael'Thas's Felsword Blood Elves. Kael'thas's master, Illidan, also used Magtheridon's blood to transform orcs and other servants.
** Kael'Thas and his Blood Elves are fond of this. They are capable of draining mana from any creature (one of the racial abilities even reflected this). Of note is their imprisonment of a Naaru to drain its energy for their paladins and of Magtheridon to drain his blood for Kael'Thas's Felsword Blood Elves. Kael'thas's master, Illidan, also used Magtheridon's blood to transform orcs and other servants.
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* Inverted in an episode of {{Grimm}}, in which [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Wesen]] are killing ordinary humans in order to dry and powder their organs, which are sold for medicinal purposes, including 'male enhancement'.
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* ''Literature/TheSookieStackhouseMysteries'', and [[TrueBlood the TV series based on them]], have vampire blood as a hot commodity. It's essentially treated like a very addictive drug.
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* ''Literature/TheSookieStackhouseMysteries'', and [[TrueBlood [[Series/TrueBlood the TV series based on them]], have vampire blood as a hot commodity. It's essentially treated like a very addictive drug.
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** In "Thin Ice", the villain arranges for people to [[spoiler: get pulled through the frozen Thames's ice to feed a giant sea monster that's chained to the riverbed. Then he has its ''poop'' dredged up as fuel for his steel mills.]]
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* One of the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' novels had a spider monster that produced a spice called glitterstim, which needs to be harvested in complete darkness. The spider uses it to make its webs, while other creatures use it for some kind of mind reading.
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* One of the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' novels had a spider monster that produced a spice called glitterstim, which needs to be harvested in complete darkness. The spider uses it to make its webs, while other creatures use it for some kind of mind reading.reading (and just to get high).
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* In NOW Comics' ''[[TheRealGhostbusters Slimer!]]'' series, a pair of unscrupulous, down-on-their-luck mechanics attempt to capture Slimer and bottle his slime upon discovering that the stuff can keep a car's radiator from overheating ''no matter what''.
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Compare MilkingTheMonster, where it's the very ''presence'' of the monster that works to someone's financial or social/political advantage. Cases where the monster is self-aware and its "gifts" are plot-enabling are SentientPhlebotinum; those in which the monster is portrayed sympathetically, suffering in its captivity, overlap with PoweredByAForsakenChild. Sometimes overlaps with ThePowerOfBlood.
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Compare MilkingTheMonster, where it's the very ''presence'' of the monster that works to someone's financial or social/political advantage. Cases where the monster is self-aware and its "gifts" are plot-enabling are SentientPhlebotinum; those in which the monster is portrayed sympathetically, suffering in its captivity, overlap with PoweredByAForsakenChild. Sometimes overlaps with ThePowerOfBlood.
ThePowerOfBlood. If it's specifically the monster's ''waste'' that's the desired substance it's SolidGoldPoop.
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* In Michael Reaves's ''The Shattered World'', dragons are hunted through the Abyss between [[FloatingContinent fragments]] by "dragoneers", who harvest their hide, flesh, bones and oil. This is dangerous yet profitable, as ''only'' dragon-derived materials can be enchanted to stay on course and maintain ArtificialGravity within the Abyss, so there's no other way to build flying ships.
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* In ''Film/PacificRim'', there's a lucrative black market selling body parts harvested from dead kaiju, and Hannibal Chau is its king. Aside from the kaiju brains (which have too much ammonia), every part of the kaiju is useful (or at least, Chau has convinced his customer base of this fact), even their feces and skin parasites. Thankfully the black market dealers are smart enough to wait until the kaiju are ''dead'' before moving in to make their money.
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* In ''Film/PacificRim'', there's a lucrative black market selling body parts harvested from dead kaiju, and Hannibal Chau is its king. Aside from the kaiju brains (which have too much ammonia), every part of the kaiju is useful (or at least, Chau has convinced his customer base of this fact), even their feces and skin parasites. Thankfully the black market dealers are smart enough to wait until the PPDC does their job and renders the kaiju are ''dead'' before moving in to make their money.
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* A character in ''{{Transmetropolitan}}'' injects molecularly [[MatterReplicator replicated]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice Hitler pee]].
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* A character in ''{{Transmetropolitan}}'' ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' injects molecularly [[MatterReplicator replicated]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice Hitler pee]].
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* The chamsfiends (essentially carnivorous lobsters the size of skyscrapers) in ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' have a massive GemHeart, which is even more valuable because gems are the only way of storing the titular {{Mana}}. While hunting adult chasmfiends is quite dangerous, they have a pupal stage in their life cycle, during which they are briefly helpless.
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* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': The chamsfiends (essentially carnivorous lobsters the size of skyscrapers) in ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' have a massive GemHeart, gemheart, which is even more valuable because gems are the only way of storing the titular {{Mana}}. While hunting adult chasmfiends is quite dangerous, they have a pupal stage in their life cycle, during which they are briefly helpless.
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* On ''Disney/PetesDragon'', [[SnakeOilSalesman Doctor Terminus]] wants to get his hands on Elliot (the titular dragon) to be made into medicines.
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* On ''Disney/PetesDragon'', ''Film/PetesDragon1977'', [[SnakeOilSalesman Doctor Terminus]] wants to get his hands on Elliot (the titular dragon) to be made into medicines.
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* In ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'', the managers of "Fazbear's Frights" are former Freddy Fazbear fans who decided to create a nostalgic horror museum based upon the now-dead Freddy Fazbear pizzeria. [[spoiler: Up to and including digging up, restoring, and redeploying one of the killer animatronics from before the ''original'' games.]]
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* In ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'', ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'', the managers of "Fazbear's Frights" Fazbear's Fright are former Freddy Fazbear fans who decided to create a nostalgic horror museum based upon the now-dead Freddy Fazbear pizzeria. [[spoiler: Up Fazbear's Pizza and the infamous stories surrounding it, up to and including digging up, restoring, up and redeploying reusing one of the killer animatronics from before the ''original'' games.game. [[spoiler:Said animatronic is also the suit originally used by [[GreaterScopeVillain the child killer who gave the pizzeria its infamy]], only now with his corpse trapped inside following a KarmicDeath.]]
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* Black Glass in ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'' is a unique narcotic that can give a high to ''any'' species, even angels and devils. It's refined from the corpses of gods.
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* ''TheTenthKingdom'' has rather literal fairy dust, as in the dead remnants of a fairy, which is recreationally snorted by trolls.
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* ''TheTenthKingdom'' ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'' has rather literal fairy dust, as in the dead remnants of a fairy, which is recreationally snorted by trolls.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has a few:
** Enterprising, foolhardy adventurers can extract daemonic spinal fluid and alchemically process it into a potent drug. If you don't mind drinking a fiendishly addictive concoction that's MadeOfEvil and the [[YourSoulIsMine digested remnants of damned souls]], it gives quite a boost.
** ''Wealthy'', foolhardy clientele can snort {{Mummy}} paste if they don't mind the risk of [[TheVirus spontaneously transforming]] into a flesh-eating undead monstrosity.
** Enterprising, foolhardy adventurers can extract daemonic spinal fluid and alchemically process it into a potent drug. If you don't mind drinking a fiendishly addictive concoction that's MadeOfEvil and the [[YourSoulIsMine digested remnants of damned souls]], it gives quite a boost.
** ''Wealthy'', foolhardy clientele can snort {{Mummy}} paste if they don't mind the risk of [[TheVirus spontaneously transforming]] into a flesh-eating undead monstrosity.
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* Honeybees were domesticated because of this trope: if not for wax and honey, no one would want to go anywhere ''near'' a hive of venomous, swarming insects.
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* Honeybees were domesticated because of this trope: if not for wax wax, honey and honey, the pollination benefits to surrounding vegetation, no one would want to go anywhere ''near'' a hive of venomous, swarming insects.
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* In the UsefulNotes/NaNoWriMo novel ''Literature/AndThenThereWereMonsters'', this is the only way the people of Grandsbriar have survived so long. In addition to collecting parts from monsters they kill for potions and weapons, they've also started trying to domesticate some of the less hostile types, like leaf dancers. It's slow going, because most of the monsters don't reproduce too close to human habitation.
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* In ''Spiders 3D'', the giant spider-alien hybrids were being bred in captivity because their silk would have industrial and military applications.
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* Marvel's original run of ''Ultimate X-Men'' has Banshee, a performance-enhancing drug for mutants that significantly increases their powers, which was created from [[spoiler: Wolverine's blood]].
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* ''WebComic/ThisIsTheWorstIdeaYouveEverHad'' has Nai'ka blood, which gives the imbiber magic power, at the cost of "burnout". Nai'ka are a race of naive cat-folk who usually don't comprehend hurting people. The practice is illegal, but since they're [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman not considered people,]] it continues relatively unchecked.
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* Honeybees were domesticated because of this trope: if not for wax and honey, no one would want to go anywhere near a venomous, swarming insect.
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* Honeybees were domesticated because of this trope: if not for wax and honey, no one would want to go anywhere near ''near'' a hive of venomous, swarming insect.insects.
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* Honeybees were domesticated because of this trope: if not for wax and honey, no one would want to go anywhere near a venomous, swarming insect.
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* ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'': The Forest Spirit has power over life and death, and his blood is believed to grant immortality. When the Forest Spirit is decapitated during his Night Walker transformation, his blood turns into a WorldWreckingWave that sucks the life out of any living thing it comes in contact with.
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* ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'': The Forest Spirit has power over life and death, and his blood is believed to grant immortality.immortality, which is why the Emperor of Japan has placed a bounty on it. When the Forest Spirit is decapitated during his Night Walker transformation, his blood turns into a WorldWreckingWave that sucks the life out of any living thing it comes in contact with. After his head is returned, his blood turns into a WorldHealingWave, kick-starting a new forest as well as healing the lepers and Ashitaka's curse.
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* ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'': The Forest Spirit has power over life and death, and his blood is believed to grant immortality. When the Forest Spirit is decapitated during his Night Walker transformation, his blood turns into a WorldWreckingWave that sucks the life out of any living thing it comes in contact with.
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* An episode of ''Series/{{Moonlight}}'' involves a new drug called Black Crystal, that makes a human feel the high of being a vampire for a few hours. Naturally, it's produced by "milking" vampires. Unfortunately, keeping vampires sedate involves poisoning them with high amounts of silver, which make its way into the drug, eventually resulting in silver poisoning in the humans who take it. The "drug farm" was maintained by a 700-year-old vampire named Lola (a former PirateGirl), who has no compunctions about using fellow vampires for this purpose.
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* In ''Literature/{{Updraft}}'', skymouths ([[InvisibleMonsters invisible flying tentacled maws]]) are highly dangerous, but also provide useful materials; in particular, sinew which allows the construction of bridges between the towers which constitute the city. Singers, who are responsible for protecting the city, maintain some of their clout thanks to the prosperity this sinew brings them. It's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:the Singers are secretly breeding a hoard of captive skymouths rather than killing them in the course of protecting the city, as they claim]].
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* ''VideoGame/DmCDevilMayCry'' has an example that is basically the same as the ''Futurama'' example below, where a popular energy drink is really just the spewings of a succubus.
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* In ''Literature/AlienInASmallTown,'' kreg is a live alien virus. The human body can fight off the infection, but the user experiences a hallucinogenic high until it does; and the user's body does not gain a lasting immunity, so subsequent use will give a longer and longer high until the user may eventually be trapped in a hallucinogenic state lasting for days.
