History Main / PickyPeopleEater

* ''Literature/SecretOfTheSixthMagic'', by Creator/LyndonHardy, has the skyskirr subsist on bone marrow, which they can somehow drain from living creatures' limbs without necessarily killing them.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' features plenty of monsters that prefer specific bits and pieces of people. One character even invokes this trope in the AfterTheEnd sequel when talking about intelligence gathering. It boils down to "if a monster's been eating spleens, you better know the whole situation, or you'll be minus one spleen."

* In ''Videogame/{{Xenosaga}}'', [[ArtificialHuman Realian]] nerve tissue contains compounds that act as an addictive drug.

* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' the flavor of human blood to a vampyre is affected by what emotion the human it came from is feeling. The in-game book "A Taste of Hope" reveals how each of the vampyre clans harvests blood to get their prefered flavor. This is a clue for solving puzzles in Castle Drakan involving locks that can only be opened by the correct flavor of blood by assigning the person feeling the correct emotion to give blood to each lock.

* ''WesternAnimation/StrokerAndHoop'': One episode has the eponymous characters' organs stolen by a "friendly" cannibalistic cult that only eats the non-vital organs of its victims.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', a monster called the Creepodile lived in the Pussywillow Hollow swamp, usually in a deep slumber; if it ever woke up, it would not return to sleep until it found and devoured a king. Naturally, King Bullrush of the wartmongers -- whose kingdom ''was'' the swamp -- was terrified of what might happen if it awoke, and when Vanity actually did so, Bullrush made him king so it would go after Vanity instead. (The Smurflings were able to save Vanity by fooling the beast into eating a gourd dressed up in royal clothes.)
* ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'': In the opening of "The Inanimate Syndrome", Kay and Jay save a girl being preyed upon by a [[LiteralManEater shapeshifting alien who eats hearts]].

* ''Manga/MermaidSaga'': Natsume CameBackWrong after being brought back from the dead using a mermaid's liver. As a result, she now exclusively eats livers, be it those of animals or humans.
* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'': The Youma and Awakened Beings prefer to eat entrails.
* In ''Manga/InuYasha'' while demons tend to feed on people, many of them have specific preferences, including a Mantis monster that'll feed on innards, Juromaru (one of Naraku's creations) who was fond of livers and a giant, skinned Salamander demoness who needs to eat the skins of male people or demons in order to regain her form. There's also the Zushi Rat, who leaves the flesh to his countless rat children and takes the bones for himself.
* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'': The Chimera Ant King prefers the brains of Nen-users. To make things worse, he absorbs his victims' Nen to make his own aura even stronger.

* ''Comicbook/TheSandman'': The Corinthian likes to eat the eyes of his victims -- with the little mouths that he has in place of his own eyes. In doing so, he is able to see the [[EyeRemember last thing they saw before they died]].
* In ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'' there was a monster that fed on humans. A demon offers it a human she has befriended. [[spoiler: It turns out the monster feeds on corruption and the only example of that in the man is cancer which it extracts harmlessly]].

* In ''ComicBook/{{Grendel}}'', Tujiro was an Asian vampire who consumed eyeballs as well as blood.

* ''FanFic/ArrowRebirth'': The Huntsman is a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]] SerialKiller and PsychoForHire. While his targets are always women, he prefers the taste of physically fit ones. He even outright tells [[spoiler:Felicity]] that he finds killing her to be "[[LiteralMetaphor distatesful]]", as she isn't fit enough. Also, his favorite piece is the drumstick.

* ''Film/IslandOfTerror'' had the bone-eating Silicates. They used their tentacles to inject a bone-dissolving enzyme into a victim, then suck the liquefied skeleton out, leaving behind misshapen, boneless bodies.

* ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'': Hannibal Lecter, but only as an extension of his gourmet tendencies when it comes to all his food. For example, he'll often take delicacies such as sweetbreads, kidneys, the liver or oyster meat -- a tendency which first clues Will Graham in to the notion that his suspect is a cannibal, and ultimately leads to Lecter's capture. He's also picky as to ''which'' [[AssholeVictim people he'll eat]].

* ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'': The [[TheFairFolk "tooth fairies"]] eat the whole person, but go for the teeth first.
* ''Film/FiendWithoutAFace'': The title critters puncture people's skulls and slurp out their brains and spinal cords "like an egg," leaving behind the empty-headed corpses.

* ''Film/AutoshopOfHorrors'' is about a psychotic who, inspired by literature about the ancient Aztecs, begins killing people so that he can eat their eyes, convinced that doing so would eventually imbue him with precognition.
* ''Film/LaPeauBlanche'': The succubus-like vampires prefer to feed on black people, because apparently more melanin = tastier.
* ''Film/MeatTheJones'': Instead of a rural white family, the CannibalClan is an urban black one that only eats white people, because along with being crazy they are also racist (though, amusingly, not to the point of being unwilling to sell their meals to the Caucasian members of the underground cannibal network that they are apart of).

* Creator/OrsonScottCard's short story "Kingsmeat", collected in ''Literature/MapsInAMirror''. The alien king and queen would kill a person and only use a small part for their meals, so the "shepherd" convinces them to let him merely remove what they want and let the people keep living. When the people are liberated, they reward the shepherd with many gifts, and also remove those body parts he doesn't strictly need to survive (though they leave him his eyes).
* Creator/PaulJennings and Morris Gleitzman's children's book ''Wicked!'' ([[Literature/{{Wicked}} no connection]]) featured the Slobberers, slug-like nasties that sucked the bones right out of their victims' bodies. ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath While still alive]]''.
* ''Literature/EllaEnchanted'' contains a scene in which the heroine is captured by a family of ogres, who argue over how to divide up her parts. (The neck is the best part, apparently.)
%%* Creator/RayBradbury's short story "Skeleton".

* ''Literature/SecretOfTheSixthMagic'', by Creator/LyndonHardy, has the skyskirr subsist on bone marrow, which they can somehow drain from living creatures' limbs without necessarily killing them.
* ''Literature/SantaStepsOut'': The Tooth Fairy lived on teeth and bones, although [[ILoveTheDead she had a few other uses for the rest of the body]]. You [[{{Squick}} really]] don't want to know where that dime under your pillow came from -- she [[spoiler:eats the tooth and then shits out the dime]].

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** The ''Literature/NightLords'' series has Uzas, who shows a great fondness for eating geneseed, preferably from the still living flesh of loyalist marines. One could take it solely as a sign of his status as the resident AxCrazy, but even the hero Talos makes mention of the practice, and later eats the heart of a Blood Angel he killed in act of revenge.
** A ''Literature/BastionWars'' novel shows a rebel insurgency of Chaos cultists trying to liberate their planet, and they have a tendency to cut out and eat the livers of their Imperial counterparts.
* ''Literature/TheRelic'' featured a creature that could only survive by consuming a specific protein found in a certain Amazon plant and human hypothalami.

* ''Literature/TheBFG'': Some giants like specific kinds of human meat. Only the Bloodbottler explicitly prefers a specific body part (take a wild guess what it is), but some other giants have names that likely indicate their favorite body parts to eat (Bonecruncher, Gizzardgulper) or their favorite types of people to eat (Manhugger, Maidmasher, Childchewer). The Bonecruncher is also considered a picky eater because he likes Turkish people, who apparently ([[{{Pun}} ha ha]]) taste like turkey. The giants will also go out of their way to avoid Greeks due to them tasting like grease.
* ''LightNovel/TheWeaknessOfBeatriceTheLevelCapHolySwordswoman'': Kallikantzaros is a vampire who only feeds on the blood of Iberian Orcs (and hence will only make new vampires out of them). This is because she hates the taste of any other kind of blood. Unfortunately, at the time of the series there's [[SoleSurvivor only one Iberian Orc because the others were all killed]], but fortunately Kallikantzaros is willing to wait until the population builds back up (Iberian Orcs can interbreed with other races and the offspring are still Iberian Orcs).

* ''Series/TheXFiles'':
** Eugene Victor Tooms fed on human livers.
** The "fat-sucking vampire" from "2Shy" that fed on overweight women. There's a business model right there.
** A monster from "Leonard Betts" that replenished itself by eating ''tumors''.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': One demon ate only the hearts of heroes. This gave Angel a bout of low self-esteem when it didn't want his, though a couple of people pointed out that maybe it just didn't want to eat a heart that had technically been dead for over two hundred years.
* ''Series/{{Sliders}}'': Among the Kromaggs human eyes are a delicacy. The series' first recurring BigBad, Colonel Rickman, suffered from a degenerative nerve disease that required him to regularly steal brain fluid and inject it into himself to survive. His victims were left in comas.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': There was the girl who ate bones. And Scorpy's girlfriend who liked to eat eyes. Especially blue ones.
* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': "Midnight" has a woman who's been turned by mad scientists into a cerebrospinal fluid sucking vampire.

The horror quotient can really be ramped up if the part the monster is interested in can be extracted without immediately killing the victim. The victim can then suffer a slow, screaming death in front of their companions and the audience as the monster painfully extracts its chosen food. Also a partially consumed corpse can be stumbled over announcing to the audience and the characters that [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} something is rotten in Denmark]].

* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' the flavor of human blood to a vampyre is affected by what emotion the human it is feeling came from. The in-game book "A Taste of Hope" reveals how each of the vampyre clans harvests blood to get their prefered flavor. This is a clue for solving puzzles in Castle Drakan involving locks that can only be opened by the correct flavor of blood by assigning the person feeling the correct emotion to give blood to each lock.

* ''Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'': {{Discussed|Trope}} by Vladislav the vampire, who isn't particularly picky himself:

* In ''Fanfic/LostInCamelot'', a ''Series/LostGirl Series/Merlin2008'' crossover, Kilgharrah contemplates eating Kenzi because her attitude annoys him when she comes to talk to him on her own, but decides against it because she is so thin that he would be picking bits of her out of his teeth for ages afterwards.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': One demon ate only the hearts of heroes. This gave Angel a bout of low self-esteem when it didn't want his, though a couple of people pointed out that maybe it just didn't want to eat a heart dead for two hundred years.

** In ''Discworld/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents'' the sentient rats don't object to eating each other, but they always spit out the "green wobbly bit".
** One footnote in ''Discworld/MenAtArms'' describes a creature called the Shadowy Lemma which only eats mathematicians.

* The mushi in ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'' were often fond of eating strange things. People could have their eyes consumed, their memories consumed, their dreams consumed, their "life force" consumed, etc. One particularly strange example involved a mushi that could take a recently dead human corpse, eat the "lifespan" of that corpse and revert them into an embryonic form that could be implanted into a pregnant woman. (Of course, most of these examples aren't nearly as {{squick}}y as the usual examples of this trope, and some people were even able to benefit, at least ''temporarily'', from the mushi taking over and/or consuming some part of their body.)
* Natsume from the ''Manga/MermaidSaga'' CameBackWrong after being brought back from the dead using a mermaid's liver. As a result, she now exclusively eats livers, be it those of animals or humans.
* The Youma and Awakened Beings from ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' prefer the entrails.

* The Chimera Ant King from ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' prefers the brains of Nen-users. To make things worse, he absorbs his victims' Nen to make his own aura even stronger.
* Shuu Tsukiyama from ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' is so picky about his victims that he earns the alias [[RedBaron The Gourmet]]. Unlike other Ghouls, he primarily focuses on victims with some unique or exceptional trait (a marathon runner's thighs, or beautiful sepia-toned eyes) and tends to ''only'' take those excellent parts. He considers consuming the finest, rarest ingredients to be a higher calling and wraps up all the brutality in a veneer of high-class dining.

* The Corinthian in ''Comicbook/TheSandman'' comics likes to eat the eyes of his victims -- with the little mouths that he has in place of his own eyes. In doing so, he is able to see the [[EyeRemember last thing they saw before they died]].

* Emplate of the [[ComicBook/XMen X-Titles]] feeds on mutant bone marrow.
* The Libra Killer in Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/TopTen'' fed on human pineal glands.

* In the UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks, ComicBook/{{Venom}} was given the trait that he needed to regularly consume dopamines, meaning he could either become a huge chocoholic, or else gorge himself on [[BrainFood human brains]].

* In the ''Series/LostGirl Series/Merlin2008'' crossover ''Fanfic/LostInCamelot'', Kilgharrah contemplates eating Kenzi because her attitude annoys him when she comes to talk to him on her own, but decides against it because she is so thin that he would be picking bits of her out of his teeth for ages afterwards.

* The modus operandi of The Creeper from ''Film/JeepersCreepers'' was that he'd frighten his victims, causing them to release pheromones which he'd sniff to detect whether or not they had the... pieces he wanted (or needed to replace lost bits). He'd proceed to remove body parts from his chosen victims, consuming the smaller parts like eyes. Whether or not the victim was still alive at the time of "extraction" didn't seem to matter to The Creeper.
* As above, [[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal Lecter]] in his series of books and movies, but only as an extension of his gourmet tendencies when it comes to all his food. For example, he'll often take delicacies such as sweetbreads, kidneys, or oyster meat -- a tendency which first clues Will Graham in to the notion that his suspect is a cannibal, and ultimately leads to Lecter's capture. He's also picky as to ''which'' [[AssholeVictim people he'll eat]].
* Imhotep in ''[[Film/TheMummy1999 The Mummy]]'' is probably one of the pickiest people eaters around. He took body parts only from the people who had basically stolen his.
* The [[TheFairFolk "tooth fairies"]] from ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'' eat the whole person, but go for the teeth first.
* The title critters in ''Film/FiendWithoutAFace'' puncture people's skulls and slurp out their brains and spinal cords "like an egg," leaving behind the empty-headed corpses.

* ''Autoshop of Horrors'' is about a psychotic who, inspired by literature about the ancient Aztecs, begins killing people so that he can eat their eyes, convinced that doing so would eventually imbue him with precognition.
* The succubus-like vampires in ''La peau blanche'' prefer to feed on black people, because apparently more melanin = tastier.
* Instead of a rural white family, the CannibalClan from ''Meat the Jones'' is an urban black one that only eats white people, because along with being crazy they are also racist (though, amusingly, not to the point of being unwilling to sell their meals to the Caucasian members of the underground cannibal network that they are apart of).

* Creator/OrsonScottCard's short story "Kingsmeat", collected in ''Literature/MapsInAMirror''. The alien king and queen would kill a person and only use a small part for their meals, so the 'shepherd' convinces them to let him merely remove what they want and let the people keep living. When the people are liberated, the people reward the shepherd with many gifts, and also remove those body parts he doesn't strictly need to survive (though they leave him his eyes).
* Creator/PaulJennings & Morris Gleitzman's children's book ''Wicked!'' ([[Literature/{{Wicked}} no connection]]) featured the Slobberers, slug-like nasties that sucked the bones right out of their victims' bodies. ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath While still alive]]''.

* Creator/RayBradbury's short story "Skeleton".
* Some Franchise/CthulhuMythos monstrosities have weird dietary preferences for blood, brains, marrow, etc.

* The skyskirr from ''Secret of the Sixth Magic'' by Creator/LyndonHardy subsist on bone marrow, which they can somehow drain from living creatures' limbs without necessarily killing them.
* ''Santa Steps Out'': The Tooth Fairy lived on teeth and bones, although [[ILoveTheDead she had a few other uses for the rest of the body]]. You [[{{Squick}} really]] don't want to know where that dime under your pillow came from.
** The [[Music/TheDecemberists dimes upon]] [[MurderBallad your eyes]]?
** No, she [[spoiler:eats the tooth and then shits out the dime.]]
* In ''Discworld/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents'' the sentient rats don't object to eating each other, but they always spit out the "green wobbly bit".

* The ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' Literature/NightLords series has Uzas, who shows a great fondness for eating geneseed, preferably from the still living flesh of loyalist marines. One could take it solely as a sign of his status as the resident AxCrazy, but even the hero Talos makes mention of the practice, and later eats the heart of a Blood Angel he killed in act of revenge.
** A Bastion Wars novel once shows a rebel insurgency of Chaos cultists trying to liberate their planet, and they had a tendency to cut out and eat the livers of their Imperial counterparts.

* Some giants in ''Literature/TheBFG'' like specific kinds of human meat. Only the Bloodbottler explicitly prefers a specific body part (take a wild guess what it is), but some other giants have names that likely indicate their favorite body parts to eat (Bonecruncher, Gizzardgulper) or their favorite types of people to eat (Manhugger, Maidmasher, Childchewer). The Bonecruncher is also considered a picky eater because he likes Turkish people, who apparently ([[{{Pun}} ha ha]]) taste like turkey. The giants will also go out of their way to avoid Greeks due to them tasting like grease.
* Kallikantzaros in ''LightNovel/TheWeaknessOfBeatriceTheLevelCapHolySwordswoman'' is a vampire who only feeds on the blood of Iberian Orcs (and hence will only make new vampires out of them). This is because she hates the taste of any other kind of blood. Unfortunately, at the time of the series there's [[SoleSurvivor only one Iberian Orc because the others were all killed]], but fortunately Kallikantzaros is willing to wait until the population builds back up (Iberian Orcs can interbreed with other races and the offspring are still Iberian Orcs).

* ''{{Series/Sliders}}'': Among the Kromaggs human eyes are a delicacy. The series' first recurring BigBad, Colonel Rickman, suffered from a degenerative nerve disease that required him to regularly steal brain fluid and inject it into himself to survive. His victims were left in comas.

* The ''{{Series/Fringe}}'' episode "Midnight" has a woman who's been turned by mad scientists into a cerebrospinal fluid sucking vampire.
* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': [[VillainOfTheWeek Eddie Mays]] from "Blood Hungry" ate a body part believed to contain the soul. Of course, so many religions believed the soul existed in a body part and they were all different, so Eddie just wound harvesting a different one from each victim (liver, stomach, and heart).

* One perpetrator on ''Series/{{CSI}}'' would have her attack dogs kill people, then convert the most blood-rich of their internal organs into a milkshake-like slurry. She suffered from porphyria, a metabolic disorder that'd caused insanity in her case, and was convinced that consuming such organs was the only way to self-medicate.
* In the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' episode "Static", the alien Aldar tears people apart and eats their bones, leaving the rest to rot.
* [[AllMythsAreTrue Monsters and (Pagan) Gods]] alike in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' tend to be humanitarians with picky tastes. Aside from vampires, there's South American pishtacos that only eat fat, kitsune that only subsist on a single gland from the brain and Greek Goddesses of truth and moral purity that only eat tongues and livers respectively. Werewolves in this continuity are known for never leaving the heart behind when they feed.

* The eponymous monster of Sheb Wooley's "The Purple People Eater" only eats [[AmbiguousSyntax purple people]].

* The Each-uisge in myths of the British isles would take the form of a horse and lure children on to its back, where it would eat their insides -- except for their kidneys or livers, which would float to the surface.
** The same is true of the {{Kelpie}} of Scotland.

** The kappa of Myth/JapaneseMythology would pull children (and sometimes adults) underwater and suck their intestines (or blood, or liver, or ki/lifeforce -- the mythology is inconsistent on just what they ate) out through their anus. (This part is pretty consistent.) You could only protect yourself from this fate by carving your name on an even tastier treat and tossing it into the water. The one food they preferred over human innards? Cucumbers.
*** Well, that, or trick the kappa into bowing, causing the water to be poured out of its head and rendering it powerless. Obviously, if the kappa is in a body of water at the time, this technique is useless.

* The [[Myth/AztecMythology Aztec]] ahuizotl ate human flesh, but was said to be especially fond of teeth, eyes, toenails, and fingernails.
* It is common among cannibalistic peoples not only to be picky about what parts to eat, but about which people to eat. As eating is often held to absorb someone's moral characteristics as well as their physical ones, they go out of their way to be sure to eat a WorthyOpponent. In other words, if you ever get eaten, just [[FridgeLogic consider it a compliment]]!

* The Malaysian Penanggalan is said to only feed on the blood of pregnant women and/or children, or on the heart/blood/flesh of unborn babies, depending on which region you hear it from.
** The Manananggal is often similarly picky in its choice of victims, with its traditional favorite food being the blood of pregnant women and the hearts of unborn babies.

* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting, there is Tiyet, the Darklord of Sebua. Technically a mummy, even though she doesn't look like one or any sort of undead being (resembling [[EvilIsSexy a beautiful Egyptian queen]]), Tiyet is compelled to kill victims to eat their hearts (preferably fresh and still beating); this is very much an addiction connected to the curse that [[IronicHell earned her the position of a Darklord.]] This addiction is also connected to the one way she can be killed; she can regenerate FromASingleCell if defeated, but she can be slain permanently by tricking her into eating her own heart, which is still in the temple where the mummification ritual was done that transformed her into an undead. If it were ever offered to her, it would start to beat, and she would be unable to resist it, [[KarmicDeath even though it would mean her doom.]]

* [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Dimitri Maximoff]] will only drink the blood of beautiful women. Fortunately for him, he has a power named Midnight Bliss, which makes women beautiful and [[GenderBender turns men into women]].

* Subverted with ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'''s zombies, who don't have a preference for any parts. DoubleSubverted by Jane, who figured out that her own parts would be maintained by the parts she eats, and selected BrainFood. Triple Subverted by the zombies she misled while they still had the intelligence to catch on to it, so she could keep them dumb and controllable.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/StrokerAndHoop'' had the eponymous characters' organs stolen by a "friendly" cannibalistic cult that only ate the non-vital organs of its victims.

* In the opening of the ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'' cartoon "The Inanimate Syndrome", Kay and Jay save a girl being preyed upon by a [[LiteralManEater shapeshifting alien who eats hearts.]]

* In the "Spanish Fry" episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', it's revealed that human ''noses'' are in high demand among aliens as an edible aphrodisiac. Once it's explained to him that "human horn" is ''not'' actually a part of Earthling males' genitalia, Lrr immediately adjusts his plans for a romantic dinner with his wife, intending to consume Fry's ... "lower horn" instead.

* One Feghoot concerns a man named Steve searching for his friend Bob, who went to DarkestAfrica to market a soda called Fresca. As he travels through Africa, Steve encounters all manner of locals, missionaries, explorers, etc., drinking Fresca with any food they gather or catch. They all learned from Bob that "[whatever they're eating] tastes good with Fresca". Eventually, Steve runs across a CannibalTribe who ate Bob after buying a bunch of Fresca from him. As the leader explains, "Bob tastes good with Fresca." Horrified, Steve inquires about what exactly the cannibals ate from Bob's body: "You mean you ate his eyes? His legs? His heart?" And so on. The leader explains that yes, all those body parts taste good with Fresca too. Finally:

* Subverted with ''Webcomics/SluggyFreelance'''s zombies, who don't have a preference for any parts. DoubleSubverted by Jane, who figured out that her own parts would be maintained by the parts she eats, and selected BrainFood. Triple Subverted by the zombies she misled while they still had the intelligence to catch on to it, so she could keep them dumb and controllable.

ImAHumanitarian is the supertrope ''if'' the feeder is also a human. If he's not then see ToServeMan for human-eaters, or MonstrousCannibalism for own-nonhuman-species-eaters. BrainFood is a subtrope, as is {{vampir|eTropes}}ism (blood drinking) in most cases. Those who are unfit for eating are usually TooSpicyForYogSothoth. Only distantly related to PickyEater, which is rejecting normal foods out of immaturity.

ImAHumanitarian is the supertrope ''if'' the feeder is also a human (although, technically, this also works for other species that eat their own kind). If he's not then see ToServeMan. BrainFood is a subtrope, as is {{vampir|eTropes}}ism (blood drinking) in most cases. Those who are unfit for eating are usually TooSpicyForYogSothoth. Only distantly related to PickyEater, which is rejecting normal foods out of immaturity.

** Eyebrow mites only eat the sebum (oils) secreted from sebaecious pores around our [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin eyebrows]].

* In the "Spanish Fry" episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', it's revealed that human ''noses'' are in high demand among aliens as an edible aphrodisiac. Once it's explained to them that "human horn" is ''not'' actually part of humans' genitalia, Lrr immediately adjusts his plans for a romantic dinner with his wife, intending to consume Fry's ... "lower horn" instead.

* In the "Spanish Fry" episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', it's revealed that human ''noses'' are in high demand among aliens as an erdible aphrodisiac. Once it's explained to them that "human horn" is ''not'' actually part of humans' genitalia, Lrr immediately adjusts his plans for a romantic dinner with his wife, intending to consume Fry's ... "lower horn" instead.

* In Siberia, the Pel's Fishing Owl, as with other fishing owls, preys on fish it captures in rivers and streams. The Pel's preferentially starts with the head of the fish, and in times of plenty, an owl may eat only the head and abandon the rest of its meal.

The horror quotient can really be ramped up if the part the monster is interested in can be extracted without immediately killing the victim. The victim can then suffer a slow, screaming death in front of their companions and the audience as the monster painfully extracts its chosen food. Also a partially consumed corpse can be stumbled over announcing to the audience and the characters that something is rotten in Denmark.

* [[AllMythsAreTrue Monsters and (Pagan) Gods]] alike in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' tend to be humanitarians with picky tastes. Aside from vampires, there's South American pishtacos that only eat fat, kitsune that only subsist on a single gland from the brain and Greek Goddesses of truth and moral purity that only eat tongues and livers respectively.

* In ''Videogame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'', [[spoiler:[[Literature/CthulhuMythos Shub-Niggurath]]]] subsists on a diet of dark meat and cannot stomach white meat, meaning that it only eats black people and white people will make it violently ill. Its boss fight consists of you forcing its worshipers [[spoiler:(the South Park Police Department)]] into its feeding range. Inversely however, if it eats [[TokenMinority Token]] or the New Kid if they're black, it gains back it's health.