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9	When someone's mental instability, or at least separation from the rest of humanity, is demonstrated by their consumption of food in an unusual manner. Related to BigEater, ExtremeOmnivore, MasochistsMeal, and MadnessInducedOmnivore. Not to be confused with ConspicuousConsumption or [[VictorianNovelDisease the disease formerly known as consumption]].
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12	!!Examples:
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15	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
16	* [[{{Dracula}} Alucard]] from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''. So long as Integra orders him to kill, he'll do whatever he damn well pleases to his victims. Including tearing off their heads and letting the blood pour into his mouth. And using demon dogs to ''eat them alive''. Honestly, this guy acts more like a ''[[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]]'' than a vampire.
17	** The Nazis basically spent an entire chapter messily devouring whatever the hell they could get their hands on. Including [[EatsBabies babies]].
18	* L from ''Manga/DeathNote'' tends to stack sweets when he's pondering the case, and Mello munches on chocolate when he's angry (which is often). And of course there's Light who "[[MemeticMutation take[s] a potato chip and EAT[S] IT!]]"
19	* Anemone and her jam in ''Anime/EurekaSeven''. The way she eats it is both disturbing and alluring.
20	* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'': Hijikata Toshiro will put a big serving of mayonnaise on everything, and Yamazaki has recently become an anpan junkie.
21	** Also Kagura with her sukonbu, Gintoki with his obsessive sugar craving, Mitsuba and her love of chilly, Sacchan and natto...
22	* Yami Bakura from ''Anime/YuGiOh'' eating a steak like he's some kind of carnivorous animal. This was also covered in BigEater.
23	* Xerxes Break in ''Manga/PandoraHearts''. He'll steal your cake and [[MemeticMutation EAT IT!]].
24	* Kumagawa Misogi in ''Manga/MedakaBox'' can eat taiyaki while making it look like he's just slaughtered somebody.
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27	[[folder:Comic Books]]
28	* ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'''s Dirk Anger enjoys things like blenderized chicks (baby chickens not women) and [[DrivenToSuicide bowls of ice cream stuffed with various pills.]]
29	* Rorschach from ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' eating cold beans straight out of the can. "Fine like this."
30	** As well as straight up sugar cubes. One gets the impression he doesn't actually sit down for a decent meal and instead just goes for high energy products.
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33	[[folder:Films — Animated]]
34	* Beast in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' eats really messily to show how much of a beast he's become.
35	* Used with the Mayor in ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', who is often seen [[VillainousGlutton over-consuming]] the various falling foods, until he becomes a FatBastard. In one scene he even stuffs a hot dog that is as tall as he is into his mouth in one go, freaking out the other characters.
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38	[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
39	* The main character in the movie ''Film/{{Elf}}'' has an extreme SweetTooth, to the point where it is rather disgusting to normal people, piling on candy, syrup and sugar with joyful abandon.
40	* In ''Film/KPax'', we see Kevin Spacey as the title character eat a banana without peeling it several times throughout the movie. Less noticeable but along the same lines, strawberries, complete with the leaves.
41	* Allison, the basket case from ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', with her throwing the baloney from her sandwich on the ceiling and replacing it with Cap'n Crunc cereal and Pixy Stix powdered candy, as well as exploding her soda and licking it off the desk.
42	* In ''Film/TheFly1986'', one of the first signs that something is wrong with Brundle (and the first one his lover notices) is that he starts eating huge quantities of sugar and sweet foods. When he starts [[{{Squick}} spewing bile]] on his food before eating it, it's a sign that things have gone further downhill.
43	* In ''Film/{{Michael}}'', the titular character heaps insane amounts of sugar into his food to experience [[SenseFreak the Earthly pleasures of sweetness.]]
44	* In Film/TheThreeStooges short "A Pain in the Pullman", the Stooges eat crab ''shells'', throwing away the meat.
45	* In ''Film/{{Splash}}'', Allen takes Madison to a fancy restaurant, where she gets the lobster - and picks it up, crunching into it, shell and all.
46	--> '''Allen:''' ...she's ''really'' hungry.
47	* There's a moment in ''Film/{{Help}}'' where Music/TheBeatles are hiding in an alpine brass band - George takes a bite out of a cymbal he's holding.
48	* In ''Film/DateWithAnAngel'', the Angel has no previous experience with eating but really gets into french fries. It's adorable rather than creepy.
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51	[[folder:Literature]]
52	* Kockroach from ''Kockroach'' '''really''' likes ribs. He eats them while naked, rubbing them on his chest.
53	* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': In a mild example of the 'separation from humanity' sort, people that have been genetically modified [[{{Heavyworlder}} for higher gravity]] are noted to also be voracious eaters due to their higher metabolism.
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57	* An episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' featured a man with a compulsive eating disorder - he was permanently stuck in a state of ravenous hunger because his brain couldn't tell if he was full. He had to spend his entire life restrained and guarded by caretakers, otherwise he'd eat everything - even the inedible.
58	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
59	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]]: The Master actually starts eating PEOPLE after his ([[CameBackWrong sabotaged]]) resurrection. And even when he eats regular food, he does it so fast and so desperately it's pretty clear he is REALLY hungry.[[note]] He is given a whole chicken and starts ripping it desperately with his bare hands, while practically shoving the food in his mouth. You have to give Creator/JohnSimm some credit for the despair you feel in the Master's hunger.[[/note]]
60	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour "The Eleventh Hour"]]: The newly regenerated Doctor rejects some perfectly ordinary food before settling on fish fingers dipped in custard.
61	%%** The second Doctor and Chessene in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors The Two Doctors]]".
62	* Walter, from ''Series/{{Fringe}}''. He has a severe sweet tooth, and relies on CongruentMemory to help him recall projects he worked on long ago, triggering it by eating the same foods. This has occasionally led to him buying (or having Peter or Astrid buy) multiple brands of a single item trying to find the one that tastes the most like some discontinued brand.
63	** Also the Observers: One of them dumps an entire shaker of pepper and bowl of jalapenos onto a sandwich before eating it. They have almost no sense of taste and have to compensate by massively overspicing their food.
64	* In an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'', a character's mental problems are signposted by his habitual yet uncharacteristic eating of candy.
65	%%* Cookie Monster from ''Series/SesameStreet''.
66	* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' Dean stuffs his face every chance he gets. In at least one flashback he is shown giving up his dinner so Sammy can have something to eat. So this might be a reaction to not eating regularly as a kid.
67	* In ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'' Pete Lattimer never turns down food. He frequently will grab handfuls of cookies or other food offered by someone they are questioning as they hurry away to follow up a lead.
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71	* Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} ate Wrestling/ScottHall's contract on an episode of ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro''.
72	* [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]] was known for eating discarded pieces of food fans would leave on their seats or drop on the floor if he should be thrown out of or otherwise exit the ring and see it. Same goes for unattended drinks. He's even tried to eat the "hair" hanging off his own mask in Wrestling/RingOfHonor. In IWA Mid-South, Jim Fannin would encourage this sort of behavior and even shouted "Eat The Air! Eat It!" at Delirious, while Dave Prazak would try to discourage it "No, it's fattening!"
73	* The Wrestling/{{Boogeyman}} ate live earthworms.
74	* At ''Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} volume 46'', a fan happy to see the return of "Sweet" Saraya handed her a flower, which she proceeded to gnaw to pieces.
75	* In the middle of a Wrestling/ProWrestlingGuerilla World title defense at ''Death To All But Metal'', Wrestling/KevinOwens began to eat a paper fan because it had the word "[[Wrestling/SamiZayn Ole]]" written on it.
76	* Leading up to a Valkyrie Women's Pro event, Nyla Rose ate a picture of "Top Shelf" Troy Nelson and then started vomiting blood!
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79	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
80	* The TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}} supplement ''Van Richten's Guide to the Walking Dead'' details its authors' encounter with the Glutton of G'henna, an undead priest cursed with an insatiable appetite. He'd eat food by the wagon-load if it was available, but would gobble up whole livestock, chomp on the appendages of attackers, or even take bites out of trees, if that was all he could reach.
81	* Redcaps in ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming'' can eat ''anything'' - Wood, steel, romance novels or toxic waste, it doesn't matter - if the redcap can fit it between his upper and lower jaw he can eat it.
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84	[[folder:Web Original]]
85	* In ''Literature/ShadowUnit'', increased food consumption (to fuel accelerated brain functions) is one of the telltale signs of a gamma. This applies to betas as well.
86	* ''WebVideo/DaisyBrown'' does this. In [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CCB7d8A-Ze4 "friendship bracelet"]] she mentions that she keeps a bell pepper in her room because she forgets to eat, then, realizing that she doesn't have a knife to slice it, simply bites into it whole like an apple. Note, however, that in context Daisy is stuck in a room because of [[JerkAss Alan's]] [[AmbiguouslyEvil abuse.]]
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89	[[folder:Western Animation]]
90	* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' - during a music video, Beavis starts talking about [[TooDumbToLive 'those mints they put in the urinals'.]]
91	* WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts
92	** In ''WesternAnimation/SymphonyHour'', Pete (as Sylvester Macaroni), while watching Mickey's disastrous concert, throws a fit and bites off a piece of his chair.
93	** In ''Donald's Double Trouble'', Donald, while watching a doppelganger go on a date with Daisy at the carnival, bites off a piece of a wooden beam, swallows it and spits out a metal bolt.
94	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In "Scrap-Happy Daffy", [[AdolfHitlarious Adolf Hitler]] is so frustrated about the Americans gathering scrap for the war effort, he tears up a carpet with his teeth.
95	* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': Catching a case of "Space Madness", Ren regards a bar of soap as his 'beloved ice cream bar'.
96	* There was the [[MemeticMutation CHOOOOOOOOCOLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE]] guy from the one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''. You never see him eating any, but he was pretty crazy about it.
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