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3[[folder:Comic Strips]]
4->''"'Why humans?', you ask? Well, in addition to being valuable slave labor, humans are delicious and nutritious!"''
5-->-- '''Alien Overlord''', ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''
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8[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
9->''"I expect you're wondering what you're doing soaking in Reg's eleven secret herbs and spices. Tomorrow we're having ''you'' for lunch!"''
10-->-- '''Lord Crumb''', ''Film/BadTaste''
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12->'''Captain Jamieson:''' All right, attention, everyone. For the first time in history, we may hear what a being from another world is trying to communicate to us... My God! Switch on the [[TranslatorMicrobes translating circuits]].\
13'''The Creature:''' ''[singing]'' I want to eat... your face. It could just be... so yuuuumy! I'd like to have your face... in my tummy!
14-->-- ''[[Film/TheCreatureWasntNice The Creature Wasn't Nice]]'' (1983)
15
16->''"[[PreMortemOneLiner Nom nom?]]"''
17-->-- '''King Shark''', ''Film/TheSuicideSquad''
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19->'''Eddie:''' Are you gonna, uh, eat anybody else?\
20'''[[TheSymbiote Venom]]:''' [[BluntYes Most likely.]]
21->'''Eddie:''' Oh ''God''...\
22'''Venom:''' That is why we are here.
23-->-- ''Film/Venom2018''
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26[[folder:Literature]]
27->Wolves should come\
28and slow devour them one by one\
29before the others’ eyes, and last\
30should one alone be left aghast,\
31then in a place of horror hung\
32with anguish should his limbs be wrung,\
33in the bowels of the earth be slow\
34endlessly, cruelly, put to woe\
35and torment, till he all declared.\
36Even as he threatened, so it fared.\
37From time to time in the eyeless dark\
38two eyes would grow, and they would hark\
39to frightful cries, and then a sound\
40of rending, a slavering on the ground,\
41and blood flowing they would smell.
42-->-- ''Literature/BerenAndLuthien''
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45[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
46->'''Sheppard:''' [[NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine Fruit bowl]] -- nice touch.\
47'''Todd:''' Well, we picked them up on our travels. I thought it would make our discussions more comfortable. [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor I hope they prove as delicious as the farmers who grew them...]]
48-->-- ''Series/StargateAtlantis''
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50->''"Mr. Chambers, don't get on that ship! The rest of the book, ''[[TropeNamers To Serve Man]]'', it's -- it's a cookbook!"''
51-->-- '''Patty''', ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E24ToServeMan To Serve Man]]"
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54[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
55->''"If you're considering taking [[LizardFolk a scaled one]] along on an adventure, remember this important fact: the strange, inhuman glint in its eyes as it looks you over is the same look you might give a freshly-grilled steak."''
56-->-- '''Tordek''', ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''
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58->Obviously, the first thing Earth tries to do is communicate with the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Reds]] using the universal translator developed to talk to TheGreys. The only intelligible response among [[BlackSpeech the harsh, metallic screeching]] is something that roughly translates to, "[[WhamLine Quiet, food]]."\
59[[OhCrap This is no misunderstanding]].
60-->-- "War Between Worlds -- Post-Apocalypse", ''TabletopGame/TheEndOfTheWorld: Alien Invasion''
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62->''"Humies are a bit like big pigs, they squeal like 'em too. [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Stunties]] are coarse and gritty, nasty things, best avoided, but they do scream good if yer can be bothered to keep 'em alive when you roast 'em; they'll keep yer goin' if yer can't get nuthin' else. [[OurElvesAreDifferent Elveses]] are a bit strange too, bit of an acquired taste, I like 'em but a lot doesn't. [[{{Hobbits}} Halflings]] though, not a lot of eatin' on 'em yer might think, but that big fat gut makes for great steaks."''
63-->-- '''[[OurOrcsAreDifferent Flabgask]]''', cook to Warlord Grubnash, ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay: Old World Bestiary -- A Compendium of Creatures Fair and Foul''
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65->''We iz strong an' tough. Da strong onez win, an' then eat the weak. Some of dem Gobboes is awright to keep for slaves or ter catch Humie cannonballs in the heads, but most is best fer the pot. One day we eats all of youse. One day soon.''
66-->-- '''Galnast''', Orc Boss, ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay: Old World Bestiary -- A Compendium of Creatures Fair and Foul''
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68->''Here the carnivorous banquet begins. These are giant, carnivorous organisms who trick men who wander into the forest with their innocent looks, then reveal their true motive to trap and devour their prey. As a result, I have decided to name these organisms "Traptrix."''
69-->-- '''Unnamed Biologist''', ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh Master Guide 4''
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72[[folder:Video Games]]
73->'''Psionic Civilization:''' Can there be peace between us?\
74'''[[HiveMind The Prethoryn Scourge]]:''' NO PEACE. [[HordeOfAlienLocusts WE MUST FEED.]] ONLY WHEN WE FINISH CONSUMING THIS GALAXY SHALL WE DEPART TO CONTINUE OUR LONG JOURNEY.
75-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}''
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77->'''[[SnakePeople Torque]]:''' How do you inject [[ThePollyanna such naive optimism]] into terrible situations?\
78'''Whisper:''' I'm Canadian. Or I was, [[AirstripOne when Canada was a thing]].\
79'''Torque:''' Canadian... Canadian... right, the maple-flavored kind.\
80'''Whisper:''' Did you say ''flavored?''\
81'''Torque:''' Mmm, medallions of Canadian, fresh off the griddle...\
82'''Whisper:''' Please tell me you mean Canadian ''bacon.''\
83'''Torque:''' Of a sort.
84-->-- ''VideoGame/XCOMChimeraSquad''
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87[[folder:Web Original]]
88->''Livin' in France, out in le country.\
89A little more limited menu than you see in Paris.\
90Got no filet mignon! Got no boeuf bourguignon!\
91No bouillabaisse, or crème brûlée, or charcuterie!\
92Ah, but when the pangs of hunger howlin' in the gut grow stronger,\
93fangs come out and then I long to\
94MUNCH ON THE TERRIFIED FRENCH.\
95FRENCH HEADS! (French heads!) I'M EATIN' EM NIGHTLY!\
96Bon appétit, mon frère! No need to heat, I'll eat 'em rare.\
97FRENCH HEADS! (French heads!) SEASON 'EM LIGHTLY!\
98A bordelaise for Claire, a pinch of pepper on Pierre.''
99-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb4CizX2Kj8&list=PL8rSRNukjnn6R_uKzQZ5LQIwOjvBoyN3I&index=17 The Beast of Gévaudan]]''', ''WebVideo/PuppetHistory''
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102[[folder:Western Animation]]
103->'''Ed:''' ''[wielding a Stop sign as [[HornyVikings "Lothar"]]]'' [[PreAsskickingOneLiner Earth is not your salad bar!]]\
104'''Jimmy:''' [[OhCrap Be gentle!]]
105-->-- ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', "[[Recap/EdEddNEddysBooHawHaw Ed, Edd N Eddy's Boo Haw Haw]]"
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107->''"Would you look at us two, being all generous to that kid! Yknow, when she first got here I thought we were gonna eat her. Now I only think of that like... sometimes!"''
108-->-- '''King''', about Luz, ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse''
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