History Main / ObsessedWithFood

* In most franchise installments based off the ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}'' virtual pets, Kuchipatchi is depicted as loving food and eating it often. In the ''Yume Kira Dream'' StoryArc of [[Anime/{{Tamagotchi}} the TV show]], the cooking class at Dream School appeals to him for this reason.

* In WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw, Vinnie Dakota is more interested in what him and Cavendish are having for lunch rather than their task.

-> '''Mario:''' Hurry up Toad, I’m starving!\\'''Princess Toadstool:''' Don't you ''ever'' think about anything but food?\\

->'''Princess Toadstool:''' Don't you ''ever'' think about anything but food?\\

-->-- ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''

* Jones in ''VideoGame/CriminalCase''. He's asked by at least two other characters whether he ever thinks about anything besides eating.

* Akane in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' is a BigEater who seemingly only cares about food [[ActionGirl and fighting]] to the point where [[InappropriateHunger food is still the only thing on her mind even as her friends argue over murder suspects]]. [[spoiler: Near the end of the game when Makoto lists off the different atrocities they committed as [[ApocalypseCult Ultimate Despair]], it's heavily implied that Akane was the one who starved herself [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad as part of their commitment to despair]].]] [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the fact that she grew up poor and is likely trying to compensate for her previous lack of food security, as well as using it as a [[PostStressOvereating coping mechanism]] for the trauma of losing friends left and right.

* ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur V]]'' has Xiba, a character who is shown eating in his promo art and is so concerned about getting his next meal that his opening battle lines include, "If food is on the line, I'd better win this!" and "So if I beat you, you'll give me some food?" He will even yell "Food!" when knocked out.
* Bud from ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce'' is obsessed with food to the point that him entering an eating contest is a plot point. Obviously, PlayedForLaughs.
* Taokaka from ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'''s always looking for food (this seems to be a trait of [[CatGirl Kaka]] in general, but Tao's definitely the most obsessive). She even nicknames Ragna the Bloodedge "Good Guy" (even though she was supposed to capture him for a bounty) because he fed her. Similarly to Xiba (from ''Soul Calibur'', mentioned above) he battle quotes often reference food (up to and including the possibility of eating her opponent).

* The Gaping Dragon of ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' was originally a normal stone dragon that became so obsessed with eating its rib cage turned into a giant maw.

* The ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' [[BigEater Munchlax]]. According to its Pokédex entry, it is so desperate to eat that it often forgets it has food stashed away in its fur. This also applies to its evolved form Snorlax, who is stated in a Pokedex entry that it has no interest in anything other than eating.

* Jones in ''VideoGame/CriminalCase''. He's asked by at least two other characters whether he ever thinks about anything besides eating.
* [[VideoGame/AviaryAttorney Jayjay Falcon]] accuses his assistant Sparrowson of this, since food and [[PungeonMaster puns]] are the two things he talks about incessantly.

* {{Downplayed}} with Zaalbar in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic.'' His EstablishingCharacterMoment is complaining about helping his best friend fend off a couple thugs because ''"Mission, they just brought my food!"'' And he is the first to notice when someone other than him is raiding the emergency rations. {{Justified}} as he is a ''very'' large Wookiee adolescent, so not just TheBigGuy, but a Big Guy even by the standards of a whole species of Big Guys and ''still growing.''

* The Nakarkos of ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' is a cuttlefish-like Elder Dragon that's responsible for ''[[PersonOfMassDestruction entire ecosystems]]'' disappearing into its beaked maw. However, unlike other HungryMenace cases such as the Deviljho, whose metabolism is so intense that it's constantly starving, the Nakarkos is different. It ''does'' use a few bones from its prey to cover its arms with, giving it the initial appearance of a MultipleHeadCase Elder Dragon, but mostly, it just [[ForTheEvulz doesn't have anything better to do]] than eat everything.

* [[AmazonianBeauty Akane]] in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' is a BigEater who seemingly only cares about food [[ActionGirl and fighting]] to the point where [[InappropriateHunger food is still the only thing on her mind even as her friends argue over murder suspects]]. [[spoiler: Near the end of the game when Makoto lists off the different atrocities they committed as [[ApocalypseCult Ultimate Despair]], it's heavily implied that Akane was the one who starved herself [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad as part of their commitment to despair]].]] [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the fact that she grew up poor and is likely trying to compensate for her previous lack of food security, as well as using it as a [[PostStressOvereating coping mechanism]] for the trauma of losing friends left and right.

* ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1942}}'': While Etta has a clear and vocal preference for sweets anytime she encounters a new culture, many of which are extraterrestrial she will go out of her way to try their cuisine and has even been distracted from an obvious villainous plot by being offered a new alien food.

* ''TabletopGame/InNomine''. Not surprisingly, this is true of Haagenti the Demon Prince of Gluttony.

* Saber from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. Food is just ''very'' important to her. Not just any food, mind you. She likes ''good'' food. Remembering the highly inadequate skills of the chefs of her era has her briefly lets off a ''killing aura''.

* ''Manga/SangatsuNoLion'': All Akari's cats can think about most of the time is food, who's going to give it to them, and when it's going to come.

* The Laughing Hyenas from ''WesternAnimation/The Lion King'' and ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' are perpetually on the edge of starvation and will go to any length for a square meal.

* In ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' and the animated series thereof, Jughead Jones would often become distracted if the subject of food came up in the middle of him talking about something else.

* In [[UsefulNotes/Singapore Singaporean culture]], talking about food is a national pastime and "Have you eaten yet?" is a common greeting. Put two Singaporeans in a room together and they'll inevitably get into a heated argument over which hawker centre produces the best chili crab.

* The senior wizards in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' sometimes come across like this. In ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'', they become involved in football to fulfil the conditions of a bequest, since the alternative would be to reduce the cheeseboard ("Three cheeses isn't a choice, it's a penance!"), and Ponder institutes the concept of half-time to allow for the inability of the faculty to go more than an hour without a meal.