History Main / MooksAteMyEquipment

* DokaponKingdom has the Big Black Bug which can be forced onto you. As long as you have it, it randomly eats an item in your inventory. You can either wait for it to eventually disappear, eat the last item from your pack, or defeat another player and force them to pick it up.

* The mummies in ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}} can eat the Miis' weapons, severely reducing the offensive powers of the poor despoiled things. Thankfully, they spit the weapons out when defeated (the Miis comment that their weapon is all slimy, though).

Now even though the item eaten can vary, it's almost never something that would make the game {{Unwinnable}}, or even have the item be LostForever, just something that makes you really hate this enemy.

* The objective in ''VideoGame/DefenseGridTheAwakening'' is to prevent the aliens from stealing your power cores. If any leave the map, which occurs most easily with flying enemies, they are LostForever for that level.

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity'', if an enemy Pokemon successfully damages you with Bug Bite or Pluck, they'll use a random edible item in your inventory, which can be extremely detrimental if they happen target your Reviver Seeds. Not surprisingly, the toughest dungeons tend to have stretches that are swarming with Pokemon that know those moves for the sake of exhausting your supplies.

** The first edition ''Fiend Folio'' offered disenchanters, weird [[Creator/DrSeuss Seussian]] monsters that could suck the magic right out of an object with their nose.
** 4th edition augmented rust monsters to dwenmor eaters which decay magic items (even ranged weapons or implements), although there still no long term risk as the magic item can still be reconstructed from residuum from the monster's stomach.

** The first edition ''Fiend Folio'' offered disenchanters, weird [[Creator/DoctorSeuss Seussian]] monsters that could suck the magic right out of an object with their nose.

** Many other games, such as ''TabletopGame/TalesOfBladesAndHeroes'', have similar monsters [[LawyerFriendlyCameo with different names]].

** 4th edition augmented rust monsters to dwenmor eaters which decay magic items (even ranged weapons or implements), although there still no long term risk as the magic item can still be reconstructed from residuum from the monster's stomach.

* The objective in ''DefenseGridTheAwakening'' is to prevent the aliens from stealing your power cores. If any leave the map, which occurs most easily with flying enemies, they are LostForever for that level.
* Iron Grazers in ''LandsOfLore: The Throne of Chaos'' can dissolve your armor if you don't kill them quickly enough. There are a few other enemies in the game that do the same thing, but the Iron Grazers are the only ones you get warned about.

** [[TheScrappy Tingle]] gives the [[AmericansHateTingle American audience]] even ''more'' reason to hate him by becoming this in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwordsAdventures Four Swords Adventures]]''. If you leave force gems (what you need to beat the game) on the ground for too long, he'll show up and try to steal them.

Now even though the item eaten can vary, it's almost never something that would make the game {{Unwinnable}}, or even have the item be LostForever, just something that makes you [[GoddamnedBats really hate this enemy]].

* ''{{VideoGame/NetHack}}'' has acidic monsters whose slime/blood erodes your weapons, rust monsters and rust traps to rust iron, gelatinous cubes that eat organic materials and disenchanters who eat your items' magic. Some can be negated by enchanting your gear to make it rust/fire/rot-proof, but disenchanters are GoddamnBats for a reason.

* In ''SuperSmashBrosBrawl'', [[{{Franchise/Pokemon}} Munchlax]] eats items on the ground.

* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' has acid. The Gaping Dragon boss and the pyromancy Acid Surge reduce the condition of your gear dramatically, hope you weren't using unrepairable crystal weapons.

* Like-Likes in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' games. They started off eating your shield (and in the first game, only your upgraded Magical Shield), but in later games they can eat other equipment or even rupees. Depending on the game you can save your equipment if you kill/escape them quickly enough.
** There's also the [[http://zeldawiki.org/Pikit Pikit]], which only appears in ''ALinkToThePast''. It is a hopping, plantlike creature that can snatch items from Link, not just the shield but fortunately it never eats anything that can't be replaced. You can get back the most recently stolen item by killing it.
** [[TheScrappy Tingle]] gives the [[AmericansHateTingle American audience]] even ''more'' reason to hate him by becoming this in ''FourSwordsAdventures''. If you leave force gems (what you need to beat the game) on the ground for too long, he'll show up and try to steal them.

* ''RagnarokOnline'' has the various species of Poring, that by and large like to munch on whatever items are on the floor. It's possible to kill them to retrieve whatever you lost, but if you somehow manage to drop something valuable, have that thing eaten, and are then killed by a high-tier Poring, those items are up for grabs to whomever takes the offending jelly-bulb down.

* VideoGame/{{Gradius}} has enemies that grab your [[AttackDrone options]] and run off with them.

* DokaponKingdom has the Big Black Bug which can be forced onto you. As long as you have it, it randomly eats an item in your inventory. YOu can either wait for it to eventually disappear, eat the last item from your pack, or defeat another player and force them to pick it up.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' features Bladebiters, who will eat your weapons if given the opportunity. Also, the Sniper class has several skills that can destroy pieces of armor.Luckily they're not that accurate, but you really don't want to take the chance of your [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity Plus One equipment]] vanishing completely...

** The Pluton returns in ''KidIcarusUprising'', where it'll steal weapons and powers you've collected in the level. Thankfully, now you can kill them to claim your items back, but beware -- if you don't do it quickly, they will disappear with your re-appropriated loot.

** Rust monsters are universally loathed by warrior types for their penchant for instantly destroying and eating anything metal that they struck or were struck by, such as their prized magical swords and armor. Some crafty players have tried cutting off a rust monster's antennae so they could [[InvokedTrope inflict this trope upon their foes]].