Emotion Eaters in webcomics are as follows:
- 8-Bit Theater: The Hadoken is fueled by The Power of Love — literally; the divorce rate goes up every time Black Mage uses it.
- In Alice and the Nightmare, everything is powered by energy harvested from dreams of Earth people. As harmful as it might be to the minds of small children, most of the danger is on Wonderland's side; children don't have the mental control to fight their fears, which promptly manifest as hulking murder-monsters and hunt down the invading Wonderlanders.
- Aurora (2019): The storm god Tynan began life as a storm that was given strength and sapience by the fear of the humans it affected. He later learned to deliberately spread death and destruction in order to generate dread and terror to feed on and grow stronger from, and takes great pains to cultivate a terrifying image of itself in order to achieve this.
- Cucumber Quest: The Nightmare Knight is literally powered by fear; as long as the people of Dreamside are scared of him, his magic is ludicrously powerful and he’s nigh unstoppable, hence why he’s so obsessed with maintaining his reputation as The Dreaded. His minions/children, the Diaster Masters, are also technically this, as he created them using said fear-based magic. This gives him even more motivation to keep being a villain, as he’s scared that if he stops, they’ll die.
- Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures : The 'cubi feed this way, with each demon usually having a favorite "flavor" that's more filling for them. It doesn't remove the target's emotion, though, they're sustained just by being around someone who's emitting emotion. Although it's common practice for them to provoke the emotion they want through non-supernatural means. For example, one who feeds best on anxiety might take up a job in a waiting room, allowing them to feed on the patients while earning their paycheck.
- Daniel is a vampire that drinks blood to feel life, and that includes the emotions that go with it.
- Eerie Cuties: Tia is a pint-sized demoness, who uses her powers to sow discord so she can feed on the misery of others.
Though it isn't all fun 'n games for her, since displays of kindness and happiness can cause her to become physically ill. Meaning, in all likelihood, she has to spread discord in order to sustain her existence. - Ina from Eldritch Darling is said to feed on humanity's negative emotions, which is Played for Laughs when she discovers that she can sate herself with petty Twitter bickering.
- Slake from Fans! claims to be an emotion eater, but it's not clear if he really is, or just a Vampire Vannabe.
- Goblins: Outsiders feed on emotions. Evil outsiders torture people to feed on their pain and fear, while angels make people happy to feed on their positive emotions. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean you should trust an angel to always have your best interests at heart.Vorpal: But I thought angels performed miracles and made people happy because they feed off of the joy of others.
Angel: We do. I'm not hungry right now. - MAG ISA: The demons in this comic feed off of negative emotions. That is why they like to cause pain and suffering.
- After Aurora introduced light (and with it, the emotional spectrum) onto the world in the Magical Boy Creation Myth, Devoid discovered a dark-based by-product of this light born from negative emotions and that feeding on this darkness made him stronger. His minions are also able to feed on this darkness as well, growing bigger and stronger the more they feed off of humans.
- In Megatokyo, it's suggested that the magical girls gain their power from the emotions of other people and are compelled to cause said emotions. What exact emotions seems to depend on the particular girl.
- A Moment of Peace: The gods are a rare example of peaceful, useful emotion eaters that have a symbiotic relationship with the mortals they feed off of. They eat gruel made of human sorrow and baked cheer, and in return answer prayers and perform metaphysical chores that benefit humanity.
- Spirits in morphE manipulate creatures into situations that cause them to feel a certain emotion so it can drink from them. An example was given in a magic lecture of an affection spirit which would possess a cat and cause it to seek love and attention from humans. Spirits are not smart enough to know that they cannot do this non-stop without killing their charge.
- One Oglaf strip introduces a wraith-thing that feeds on fear. Notably, because it actually eats fear, its victim is left a Fearless Fool, and promptly gets himself killed screwing around with a crocodile. The wraith muses that it should feel guilty about that, but for some reason it doesn't. Cue another wraith appearing, announcing that it feeds on regret.
- Every Cubi feeds of a different emotion in Project Future, a fancomic of Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures (above).
- One of the characters in the later chapter was brought Back from the Dead as an android was Cubi who fed on Surprise
- It also mentioned that there have been Cubis who fed on Fear, Joy, Depression, etc.
- Unsounded:
- The Selver feeds of off negative emotions or memories of pain, anger, hate, fear and misery. The more negative emotions around, the more ghosts swarm to it, the more powerful it gets.
- Efheby feed on memories, indulging themselves in the powerful emotions and interesting feats of their human victims.
- Walter from Wonder Mark #548 has a nutritional deficiency with this requirement of suffering.
- The Demoness in Yosh! Stated by other characters to likely not actually need emotion to survive, but that it does fuel her powers.
- In The Greenhouse, the demon 'Red' doesn't literally feed on her host Mica's misery, but can sup on her lifeforce much more easily the more emotionally negative and drained Mica becomes, so the end result is much the same.
