1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character willingly eats things not meant to be eaten. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Bob eats a brick or some other inedible object. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** Bob can eat anything, whether it's immeasurably large, poisonous, still living, or even [[AbstractEater a nonphysical thing, like time, gravity, or thoughts]]. |
5 | ** Bob ''only'' eats nonedible things, and normal foods don't agree with his system. |
6 | * '''Downplayed''': |
7 | ** Bob doesn't eat bricks. He ''does'' regularly eat things that may have once been edible, but likely aren't anymore, such as spoiled foods. |
8 | ** Bob enjoys a variety of exotic foods or concoctions made of edible foods, which the other characters find disgusting. |
9 | * '''Justified''': |
10 | ** Bob has a superhuman digestive system and finds most things to taste at least tolerable. |
11 | ** He has pica, and wants to eat non-food all the time, even if he can’t digest it. |
12 | * '''Inverted''': |
13 | ** Bob gets eaten [[AnimateInanimateObject by a brick]]. |
14 | ** Bob is incapable of eating. |
15 | ** Bob doesn't need to eat and therefore doesn't. |
16 | ** Bob gets eaten by almost everything, even the wall. |
17 | ** PickyEater |
18 | ** Bob will pretty much drink anything. |
19 | * '''Subverted''': Bob eats something he shouldn't, and promptly gets a nasty stomachache... |
20 | * '''Double Subverted''': Which was only caused by the hot sauce he put on the object. |
21 | * '''Parodied''': [[TastesLikePurple Bob also can taste everything,]] [[LogicBomb even nothingness.]] |
22 | * '''Zig Zagged''': It turns out that Bob can only eat ''very specific'' inedible things. |
23 | * '''Averted''': Nobody eats anything other than food. |
24 | * '''Enforced''': "How funny would it be if we have someone eating something like a lightbulb?" |
25 | * '''Lampshaded''': "What does 'inedible' mean, guys?" |
26 | * '''Invoked''': |
27 | ** Bob wonders what a brick would taste like, and decides to eat one. |
28 | ** Someone makes a bet with Bob to see if he can eat something he shouldn't. |
29 | * '''Exploited''': Alice feeds Bob her trash. |
30 | * '''Defied''': Bob is sensible and realizes that, as tasty as that folding chair looks, it wouldn't make a healthy meal. |
31 | * '''Discussed''': "No, Alice, I'm not going to eat your garbage. I may be greedy, but like all normal people, I only eat food." |
32 | * '''Conversed''': "Bob eats bricks? That can't be healthy!" |
33 | * '''Implied''': Bob licks his lips when he sees a lawn chair in Alice's front yard. |
34 | * '''Deconstructed''': Bob eats something that wreaks havoc on his digestive tract, resulting in hospitalization and possibly death. |
35 | * '''Reconstructed''': He gets better, and proceeds to stick with more edible objects, occasionally sneaking a wood screw or a paper clip. |
36 | * '''Played For Laughs''': |
37 | ** Seeing what new "cuisine" Bob tries this episode is one of the main running gags of the series. |
38 | ** Bob states that he needs a snack and then eats a tool that someone else was using. |
39 | * '''Played For Drama''': |
40 | ** Bob has a disorder causing him to subconsciously eat things, which he tries to get over as best he can during the course of the show. |
41 | ** Bob dies due to his strange diet, and Alice becomes DarkerAndEdgier [[CynicismCatalyst because she thinks he was murdered]]. |
42 | * '''Played For Horror''': Bob eats radioactive waste. He spends the next couple of days dying in a BodyHorror-laden way exactly similar to Series/{{Chernobyl}} victims. |
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44 | I was going to return you to ExtremeOmnivore, but I was kinda hungry, and the link looked kinda tasty... |
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