History Main / MooksAteMyEquipment

* Like Likes in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' games. They started off eating your 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.
** In the original ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'', if you let one Like-Like touch you, it quickly envelops you and you can pretty much kiss your Magical Shield (if you have one) goodbye. Your only chance to escape without losing your Magical Shield is to have the Magical Sword and give it the required three stabs as quickly as possible. If you have anything less than the Magical Sword, you'd better hope you were caught by one that has already taken damage!
** There's also the [[http://zeldawiki.org/Pikit Pikit]], which only appears in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]''. It is a hopping, plantlike creature that can snatch several different items from Link, not just the shield; fortunately it never eats anything that can't be replaced. You can get back the most recently stolen item by killing it.
** Like Likes in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' can not only eat your shield, they can also yank Link's Zora or Goron Tunic off his back (very inconvenient since they are encountered in both of the dungeons that require those to be equipped). Fortunately, one-of-a-kind items like the Mirror Shield and Link's starting green Kokiri Tunic can't be stolen (losing a different tunic will switch Link back into his Kokiri clothes as if he was wearing them underneath the whole time). The game provides the page image.
** Tingle becomes 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.
** A subverted example in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''. Rock Octoroks inhale a bunch of debris, then compress it into a giant flaming boulder to spit at you. They also consume any weapons left on the ground when they inhale, and, after chewing them up a bit, hurl them back at you at high speed. However, when a Rusty weapon is inhaled, pink gas will be emitted from the Rock Octorok and it spits out your weapon, but cleaned and upgraded to either Soldier, Knight or Royal rank (though what you actually get is [[LuckBasedMission a crapshoot]]).

** Like Likes in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' can not only eat your shield, they can also yank Link's Zora or Goron Tunic off his back (very inconvenient since they are encountered in both of the dungeons that require those to be equipped). Fortunately, one-of-a-kind items like the Mirror Shield and Link's starting green Kokiri Tunic can't be stolen (losing a different tunic will switch Link back into his Kokiri clothes as if he was wearing them underneath the whole time.)

* TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering has a few creatures that can do this including [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=209290 Acid Web Spider]] which destroys an equipment card when it comes into play and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=230764 Manic Vandal]] which can destroy any artifact, equipment included.

* ''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. Forutnately nearly ever race has access to the Maintenace support ability, which will NoSell equipment destruction.

** Oozes are notorious for eating away anything they touch that isn't immune to acid.

** Disenchanters are monsters resembling blue humpless camels with trunks that can suck the magic right out of an enchanted object.

** Rust monsters are universally loathed by warrior types for their penchant for instantly destroying and eating anything metal that they strike or are struck by, such as 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]].

** Xorn and Xara are monsters that respectively eat iron and enchanted metal, and are prone to demanding adventurers supply them with metal (i.e. their weapons and armor) or face a fight -- and then they can try to eat the weapons and armor in the middle of the battle.
** The first edition ''Fiend Folio'' offered disenchanters, weird [[Creator/DrSeuss Seussian]] monsters resembling blue humpless camels with trunks that could suck the magic right out of an object with their nose.
** 4th edition added augmented rust monsters called dewomer 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.
** Many other games, such as ''Tales Of Blades And Heroes'', have similar monsters [[LawyerFriendlyCameo with different names]].
* Hoops, a type of mutant rabbit from ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld'', don't actually ''eat'' your equipment, but have the ability to turn metal to rubber. WordOfGod has it that they were intentionally given this power so that gamemasters can use them to take away high-tech equipment that turns out to be too powerful for game balance. Hence, they serve the same purpose as rust monsters, even if they don't actually chow down on the resulting rubber gear.

Compare VideoGameStealing, NinjaLooting, NoItemUseForYou. Contrast FeedItABomb.

* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', there are several types of monsters that love eating your equipment.

** Xorn and Xara are monsters that respectively eat iron and enchanted metal, and are prone to demanding adventurers supply them with metal (i.e. their weapons and armor) or face a fight - and then they can try to eat the weapons and armor in the middle of the battle.

[[quoteright:349:[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zelda_ocarina_like_like.png]]]]

** Like Likes in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' can not only eat your shield (thankfully not the MIrror Shield), they can also yank Link's Zora or Goron Tunic off his back, which somehow switches him to his default green tunic like was wearing it underneath the other tunic.

[[quoteright:350:[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zelda_ocarina_like_like.png]]]]

Compare VideoGameStealing, NinjaLooting, NoItemUseForYou.

Contrast FeedItABomb.

An enemy in a video game, or tabletop game, which finds equipment or items that the player character has to be its favorite food. If it gets its mouth (or other form of digestive organ) around you, you might suffer damage but a weapon/item/tool/piece of armor that you have is the real meal.

* ''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.

-->-- '''[[ExpositionFairy Tatl's Note]] on Like-Likes, [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majoras Mask]]'''

* The Jestabocky dream eaters in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3D'' will steal any pick-ups that are on the ground if left unattended, whether they be HP balls, munny, or items. You can't get them back by defeating them, either. On the plus side, if you have them as allies, they'll gather the items for you.

Or they might even find items laying on the ground. As long as you are going to need it, they are going to try to eat it.

* In ''VideoGame/CastleCrashers'', the Thief can eat away both the foods and golds laying on the ground.

* 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.

* ''{{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 cannot.

** There's also the [[http://zeldawiki.org/Pikit Pikit]], which only appears in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]''. 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.

** A subverted example in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''. Rock Octoroks inhale a bunch of debris, then compress it into a giant flaming boulder to spit at you. They also consume any weapons left on the ground when they inhale, and, after chewing it up a bit, hurl it back at you at high speed. However, when a Rusty weapon is inhaled, pink gas will be emitted from the Rock Octorok and it spits out your weapon, but cleaned and upgraded to either Soldier, Knight or Royal rank (what you actually get is [[LuckBasedMission a crapshoot,]] however.)

* The Devourer in ''VideoGame/AlternateReality''. Even has an in-game song about it. This creature appeared when you had too many inventory items and ate them.

* {{Magic the Gathering}} has a few creatures that can do this including [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=209290 Acid Web Spider]] which destroys an equipment card when it comes into play and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=230764 Manic Vandal]] which can destroy any artifact, equipment included.

* ''VideoGame/SonicShuffle'' features "precioustones", gems you could use for an assortment of effects. One of the precioustones you can pick up isn't a gem at all, but a fairy called "carbuncle" that ate precioustones; once it runs out of gems, it will eat itself.